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of B. Sc, C. E., and M. E., he accepted a chair in the Central University of Ken- tucky, where he taught for several years, until 1880, when he removed to Richmond, Virginia, and engaged in the practice of law. In 1885 he was elected to the Rich- mond city council, and in 1893 to the house of delegates, to represent the city of Rich- mond. During his four years service in the legislature, he proved himself an earnest and faithful representative, serving as chair- man of the committees on library, on gen- eral laws, and propositions and grievances. In politics he is a Democrat. He was for seven years president of the Sons of the Revolution, and is a member of the Society of the Cincinnati, and the reorganizer and first president of the Virginia society, a member of the Westmoreland Club, a Mason and a Knight Templar. He is at this time commander of the Military Order of For- eign Wars. He is deeply interested in athletics, and is president of the Richmond Athletic Club. He is a leading member of the American, the Southern and the Virginia Historical associations, and scientific and literary societies in this country and abroad. June 12, 1895, Mr. Cabell married Ethel Koyt Scott, of New York, and had five chil- dren. They reside at 410 East Grace street, Richmond, Virginia.

Stanton, Frederick Perry, born in Alex- andria, Virginia, December 22, 1814. He pursued classical studies and was graduated from Columbian College, Washington, D. C, in 1833; taught school; studied law, ad- mitted to the bar, and began practice in Memphis, Tennessee; elected to the twenty- ninth and to the succeeding four congresses (March 4, 1845-March 3, 1855) ; governor

of Kansas territory, 1858-61 ; moved to Vir- ginia and subsequently settled in Florida. He died near Ocala. Florida, June 4, 1894.

Humphreys, Milton Wylie, born in Green- brier, Virginia, September 15, 1844; was a pupil at Washington College, now Wash- ington and Lee University, but left at the army ; was a gunner in Bryan's battery ; after the war re-entered Washington Col- lege, was made tutor of Latin, assistant pro- fessor of Greek and Latin, and adjunct pro- fessor of ancient languages, and received the degrees of M. A. in 1869 from Washington ?nd Lee University, and Ph. D. in 1874 from Leipsic University ; was called to the chair of Greek in Vanderbilt University at its opening in iS/'s, and to that of ancient lan- guages in the University of Texas at its opening in 1883 : in 1887 was made professor of Greek in the LIniversity of Virginia, a position which he held till his retirement in 1912; Vanderbilt University gave him the degree of LL. D. in 1883; published numerous papers in the "Transactions of the American Philological Associations," of which he was president in 1882, and editions ci the "Clouds" of Aristophanes, the "Anti- gone" and "Oedipus Tyrannus," of Sopho- cles, and the second book of Thucydides ; he was editor for the United States and Canada of the "Revue de Revues," and cor- respondent of the "Philologische Wochen- schrift."
 * ige of seventeen to enlist in the Confederate

O'Donovan, William Rudolf, born in Pres- ton county, Virginia, March 28, 1844. After serving in the Confederate army during the civil war, he went to New York, where he opened a studio. He was elected an asso- ciate of the National Academy in 1878. He