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Lee Randolph. He graduated at William and Mary College in 1855, and from the Virginia Theological Seminary in 1858. He entered the Protestant Episcopal ministry in i860, chaplain in Confederate army, 1862-65; rector at Alexandria, 1865-67, and at Emmanuel Church, Baltimore, Mary- land, 1867-73. He was made co-adjutor bishop of Virginia in 1883, and bishop of southern Virginia in 1892. He was Pad- dock lecturer at the General Theological Seminary in New York in 1902. He re- ceived degrees : Doctor of Divinity from William and Mary College. 1876; Doctor of Laws from Washington and Lee Univer- sity, 1SS7; Doctor of Civil Law from Uni- versity of the South, 1902. He wrote "Rea- son, Faith and Authority in Christianity." He married Sallie Griffith Hoxton.

Glennan, Michael, born at Maynooth, county Kildare, Ireland. He came to Vir- ginia in childhood with his father, and at- tended school in Norfolk, Virginia, and Brooklyn, New York. He was mailing clerk in the office of the "Southern Argus," at Norfolk, Virginia, from 1857 until the out- break of the civil war. For a time he served as orderly to Gen. W. P. Taliaferro, at Norfolk. He volunteered for army serv- ice, but was rejected on account of lameness and youth, but entered the quartermaster's department at Wilmington, North Carolina, and with the Thirty-sixth North Carolina Regiment, which was stationed at Cape Fear and Fort Fisher. After the surrender of the last-named post, in January, 1865, he was imprisoned at Governor's Island. New York harbor, was paroled in March follow- ing, and was under Gen. Joseph E. Johnston at the surrender at Greensboro, North Caro-

lina, in April. After the war, he taught school in Portsmouth, Virginia, until Janu- ary, 1867, when he became business man- ager of the Norfolk "Virginian," and after- wards its owner and editor. He was for several years a member of the Democratic state central committee and chairman of the district committee, and was a delegate-at- large in the Democratic national convention o; 1880. In 1875 he led the movement which resulted in the erection at Yorktown of the monument commemorating the sur- render of Lord Cornwallis, and in recogni- tion of this service. Governor HoUiday made him the commissioner to represent Virginia ai the centennial observances. He married Mary Elizabeth Kevill.

Fayne, Alexander Dixon, born at "Clif- ton," Fauquier county, Virginia, September 30, 1837. son of Richards Payne, of "Gran- ville," Fauquier county, lawyer, jurist and legislator, and Alice Fitzhugh Dixon, his wife, daughter of Turner Dixon. He grad- uated at William and Mary College with the Master of Arts degree in 1856, studied law in Winchester and at the University of Virginia, and began practice in Winchester. Early in April, 1861, he entered the army as lieutenant in the "Black Horse" cavalry, a part of the Fourth Virginia Cavalry Regi- ment, was promoted to captain in 1863, and as senior officer was in command of the regiment at the surrender in April. 1865. He was engaged in all of the many engage- ments of his division, under command of Gen. Fitzhugh Lee. After the war, he re- turned to law practice in Warrenton ; was a member of the legislature, 1885-87 ; a dele- gate to the Democratic national convention that nominated Gen. Hancock for the presi-