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authority. Gen. George H. Thomas issued an order suspending him, and which was revoked by President Johnson. He pub- lished : "The Recent Past from a Southern Standpoint ;" "Reminiscences of a Grand- father," and "Guide Books for Young Churchmen,' and many sermons and ad- dresses. He married Margaret Brown, of Kelson county. Virginia. He died in 1902.

Gary, John B., born at Hampton, Virginia, in 1819, son of Col. Gill A. Cary and Sarah E. Baytop, his wife. He attended Hamp- ton Academy, and William and Mary Col- lege, where he graduated on July 4, 1839. He taught a common school five years, and was principal of Hampton Academy (com- bining the ancient schools of Benjamin Syms and Thomas Eaton) for seventeen years, ending with its closing in April, 1861, on account of the war. He entered the army as major of Virginia volunteers, and was promoted to lieutenant-colonel after the battle of Bethel, and assigned to the Thirty-second Virginia Regiment. Later he became assistant adjutant-general and inspector-general on the staff of Gen. John E. Magruder, with whom he served in the Peninsular campaign and the Seven Days' battle near Richmond. After Gen. Magru- der's transfer to the west, he was put on duty in the pay department in Richmond, and where he served till the close of the war. He was paroled April 24, 1865, and after farming for a year he engaged in the commission business. He was also made genera! agent for the Virginia penitentiary, from which position he was removed in December, 1868, by the military command- ant. In January, 1869, he became general agent of the Piedmont Life Insurance Com-

jiany, and a few months later went to New 'N'ork, and was soon appointed general agent of the Piedmont and Arlington Life Insur- ance Company, serving as such nearly two years. He was then for several years with Gen. Harry Heth as general agent and man- ager for the Life Association of America, later becoming sole manager, and resigning late in 1887. In January of the following year he was made general agent for Virginia cf the Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Company of Alilwaukee, Wisconsin ; and in 1883 he and his son, T. A. Cary, were ap- jiointed general agents for the company in Virginia and North Carolina. Col. Cary strved as treasurer and superintendent of the Democratic city committee of Rich- mond for six years, to July, 1886, when he was appointed superintendent of the city schools. He was a man of polished man- ners, and very successful in all his under- takings. He married Columbia H. Hudgins.

Beale, Richard Lee Turberville, son of Robert Beale and Martha Felicia Turber- ville, his wife, daughter of Major George Lee Turberville, born at Hickory Hill, West- moreland county, Virginia, May 22, 1819. He was educated at Northumberland Acad- emy and Dickinson College, Pennsylvania, th.en, taking up the study of law, he gradu- ated at the law department of the Univer- sity of Virginia in 1838. Subsequently he was engaged in the practice of his profes- sion and attained prominence in the political field. From 1847 until 1849 he represented his district in congress, to which he declined reelection. He was a delegate to the State reform convention in 1850, and was elected to the state senate in 1857. Upon the seces- sion of Virginia he enlisted in the cavalry