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In 187c he was elected ])rofessor of law in Pichmond College, but declined the posi- tion on account of his health. His library contained a splendid collection of rare nnd ancient books, many of them in black letter. He died July _'g. 1880. Although Mr. Green left behind him copious notes of inten^led compilations, legal and historical, ncthing that might be called a "work" was ever completed by him. Among his known ]nil)- lished results were: "An Essay on Lapse, Joint Tenants and Tenants in Common,"' "Articles in Res Judicata," "Power of a Partner," a paper on "The Editions of the Code," published in the "Virgini.i Law Journal ;" another paper on "Stare Decisis," published in the ".American Law Journal," of September, 1880. A manuscript on the "Genesis" of the old counties of V'ir^'inia. presented by Mr. Green to Rev. Pliilip Slaughter, was jniblished in 1883 by the lat- ter in connection with a "Memoir" of .^Ir. Green. This disquisition gives a gocd idea of the closeness of Mr. Green's historical researches. On his death, and burial in Hol- lywood Cemetery, tributes of high praise were rendered by the bars of Culpeper and Richmond and by the Virginia Historical Society, of which he was vice-president Mr. Green married, April 6, 1837, Colum")ia E., daughter of Samuel Slaughter, of \\'estern View, Culpeper county, lie had two chil- dren: John Williams Green, born March 13, 1838, who was in the Confederate cavalry, and was killed September 22, 1863, and Eliz- abeth Travers Green, who married James Haj-es, a merchant of Fredericksl)urg.

Lee, Cassius Francis, born at /Mexandria, \'irginia, .May 22. 1808, son of Edmund Jen- nings Lee and Sarah Lee, his wife. Mis e.i-

tire lite was passed in the town of his "-irth. After receiving a liberal education, he served for a time as clerk of the United States courts, meantime studying law. He was admitted to the bar, but never prac- ticed. He was long a member of the mer- cantile firm of Cazenove & Company, of Alexandria. He was from early days a tommunicant of Christ Church, of Alexan- c'ria ; for years he was a member of the an- nual councils of the church; a lay delegate to general conventions ; and for more than a third of a century a member of the stand- ing committee of the diocese. For many years he served as treasurer of the Theo- logical Seminary and of the Virginia Edu- cational Society, and without compensation. He married (first) Hannah Philippa Lud- well Hopkins, daughter of John and Cor- nelia (Lee) Hopkins; and (second) Anne Eliza, daughter of William Collins and Eliza Frances (Cazenove) Gardner. Mr. Lee died at his residence in Alexandria, January 23, 1890.

Cabell, James Alston, born in Richmond, \'irginia, son of Col. Henry Coalter Cabell and Jane Alston, his wife. The father was a lawyer when the war of 1861 broke out, and, entering the Confederate army, became chief of artillery of the Army of the Penin- sula, and afterwards chief of artillery in McLaw's division of the Army of Northern Virginia. His wife belonged to the dis- tinguished Alston family of South Carolina. James Alston Cabell attended the best pri- %ate schools of Richmond, and the Norwood school of Nelson county; entered Richmond College; then the I'nivcrsity of \'irginia, the College de I-'rance. and the Sorbonne. Thus fully equipped and bearing the degrees