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iial department of the university of the city of New York in March, 1867, and until Oc- tober was an interne in the Charity Hos- pital on Blackwell's Island, and was then assistant physician at the hospital for nerv- ous diseases at Lake Mahopac, New York. He engaged in practice in 1868 at Lynch- burg, Virginia, and two years later was active in establishing the Medical Society of Virginia, and was made recording secre- tary. He was a member of the state board of health in 1872, and the same year re- moved to Richmond. He established the "Virginia Medical Monthly" in April, 1874; was appointed lecturer on anatomy in the Virginia Medical College; lecturer on ma- teria medica and therapeutics, 1875 ; and on medico-legal jurisprudence, in 1880. He was a member of many professional societies, and has been a frequent contributor to med- ical journals.

Glazebrook, Otis Allan, born at Rich- mond. Virginia, October 13, 1845. His father went to Richmond, Virginia, when a mere lad, and entering into business, be- came a useful and influential citizen. He was a student at Randolph-Macon College when Virginia seceded from the Union, and v.as at once sent to the Virginia Military Institute, to be educated as an oflicer in the regular Confederate army. He had large war experience, serving under Lee, Jackson battle of New Market he was complimented for distinguishing gallantry on the field. He was at Appomattox, and after the war he returned to Lexington, graduating from the Virginia Military Institute the following vear with the first honors of his class. He first inclined to law; but upon the death of
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his father, he matriculated in the middle class of the Episcopal Theological Seminary of Virginia, in September, 1867, and was graduated two years after, being ordained to the priesthood at the early age of twenty- three. His first parish was in South Side, Virginia, where in addition to his regu- lar work, he organized gratuitously one of the first colored congregations in Virginia after the war, to which he ministered, in ad- dition to his regular parish, for six years. He was called to Baltiinore. Maryland, in 1875, and built the Church of the Holy Trin- ity. While there he was made chaplain of the famous Fifth Maryland Regiment, and was complimented for his cool bravery in the labor troubles of 1877. In 1878 he was called to the rectorship of Christ Church, Macon, Georgia, and became the dean of that convocation. Being severely injured in a railroad accident he was compelled to resign his charge, and spent months in Europe. Upon his return he was elected to the chaplaincy of the University of Virginia, where his work was eminently success- ful. In 1885 he was called to St. John's Church, Elizabeth, New Jersey, the largest and most influential parish in New Jersey. He was the founder of a leading southern college Greek letter society, the Alpha Tau Omega, and was editor of the magazine of that fraternity for years. The degrees of Doctor of Divinity and Master of Arts were conferred upon him, and the diocese of New jersey sent him as a delegate to two general c(-nventions of the Protestant Episcopal church. He married, in 1866, Virginia Cal- vert Key, the second daughter of Francis H. Smith, superintendent of the Virginia Mili- tary Institute from its founding.