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court of appeals. He was a physician, and during the civil war was surgeon of the I'ortieth Virginia Infantry Regiment, and later, with the rank of major, was in charge of Confederate hospitals. In 1871 he en- tered the ministry of the Protestant Epis- copal church, and on May 16, 1894, was consecrated bishop coadjutor of the diocese of Virginia. He married Reberta, daughter of Joseph A. and Mary Mann Page Wil- liamson.

Page, Richard Charming Moore, born in Albemarle county, \'irginia, Januarj- 2, 1841, son of Dr. Mann Page, of that county, and his wife, Jane Frances, eldest child of Hon. Francis Walker. As a boy he went to school at Hanover Academy, taught by Lewis Minor Coleman, and was a student in the University of Virginia when the war began. He enlisted as a private in the Rockbridge Artillery, of which the Rev. William N. Pendleton was captain. Upon the reorgani- zation of the army he was elected captain of a battery formed in Hanover county, over the head of his old teacher, Capt. Coleman. He was promoted to major, and his com- mand was well known as one of the best artillery commands in the Confederate ser- vice. He was wounded in battle and cap- tured, but made his escape. After the war he returned to the University of Virginia, and graduated in 1868 with the degree of Doctor of Medicine. He entered the New York University Medical School, and was at various times on the staff of the Bellevue Hospital and the Women's Hospital of that city. He was assistant professor in the New York Polyclinic, and in 1889 was elected professor of general medicine, a position which he held at the time of his

aeath. He had been first vice-president of the New York Medical Academy, and was offered the chair of the practice of medicine in the University of Virginia, but declined it. He wrote much for the medical journals, and his work on the "Practice of Medicine" is most highly regarded and is a text-book in many medical colleges and universities. He married Mary Fitch Winslow, of West- port, Connecticut.

Peterkin, George W., born in Washington county, Maryland, Alarch 21, 1841, son of Rev. Joshua Peterkin and Elizabeth Han- son, his wife. He was educated at the Epis- copal High School of Virginia, and the Uni- versity of Virginia. He served in the Con- federate army, and rose from the ranks to a first lieutenancy. He graduated at the Theological Seminary of Virginia in 1888. He was ordained in the Protestant Epis- copal ministry ; was assistant to his father at St. James Church, Richmond, 1868-69; rector of St. Stephen's, Culpeper, 1869-73, and of Memorial Church, Baltimore, Maryland, 1873-78. He was made the first bishop of West Virginia in 1878, and in 1893 was given charge of the Protestant Episcopal mission in Brazil. He edited "Records of the Protestant Episcopal Church in Virginia and West Virginia" in 1902. He married Constance Gardner, daughter of Cassias F. Lee, of Alexandria, Virginia.

Robinson, Conway, born at Richmond, \irginia, September 15, 1805, son of John Robinson and Agnes Conway Moncure, his wife. He was liberally educated, and gave his life to the law and to literary work, in which he displayed marked ability. He wrote and published, in 1826 and 1841,