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Hobbs, Alexander Raleigh, born at Dis- f.utanta. Prince George county, Virginia, April 5, 1852, son of Raleigh W. Hobbs and Caroline Virginia Robinson, his wife, daughter of Creath Robinson, of Greensville county, Virginia. He attended the common schools, and took a course of study at the Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical Col- lege, at Blacksburg, Virginia. He was for twenty years a member of the board of supervisors of his county, from 1897 to 1898 a member of the house of delegates ; was elected state senator in 1901, re-elected in 1903 and 1907. For four years he was cap- tain of the Prince George troop of cavalry ; he is a member of the Masonic order. On December 16, 1875, he married Emma Ger- trude, daughter of Dr. George E. Rives, of Prince George county, Virginia.

Fitzhugh, Thomas, Iwrn at "Longwood," Goochland county, Virginia, October 12, 1832. son of William Henry Fitzhugh, of Fredericksburg, Vriginia, and Mary Anne Harrison, his wife, the latter a member of the distinguished Harrison family. He went to school in Fredericksburg, and was there prepared for the classical department of the University of Virginia, from which he grad- uated in 1880 with the degree of Bachelor of Arts, and received that of Master of Arts in 1883. He was an instructor in Bingham's school at Hillsboro, North Carolina, in 1881- 82, and in 1883 was appointed professor of Latin in Central University, at Richmond. Kentucky. Shortly afterward he became first assistant at the Bellevue high school, Bedford county, Virginia, filling this posi- tion until 1889, when he accepted the chair of Latin in the University of Texas, which he filled ably until 1899. He was then

elected professor of Latin at the University of Virginia to succeed Col. William E. Peters, and was granted three years leave of absence to prepare himself for this work. He studied abroad and traveled in Greece and the Orient until September, 1902, when he returned to America and assumed the duties of his chair at the University of Vir- ginia. He is a member of the Modern Lan- guage Association of America ; the Ameri- can Philological Association of the Archeo- iogical Institute of America; the American Dialect Society ; and the Classical Associa- l.on of England and Wales. From the pen of Mr. Fitzhugh have come valuable con- tributions to philological and educational literature, and in addition to these treatises 1 e published, in 1897, "The Philosophy of the Humanities," and in 1900, "Outlines of a System of Classical Pedagogy." He mar- lied (first), June 23. 1892, Katharine Le- fevre, who died at the LTniversity of Vir- ginia, February 7, 1901, a daughter of Rev. LV. ]. A. Lefevre, a distinguished divine of the Presbyterian church in America. He married (second) at The Hague, in Hol- i.ind, .\ugust 24, 1905, Gertrude (iold- stuecker, of Berlin, Prussia

Gardener, Helen Hamilton, born neai \\"inchester, Virginia, January 21, 1853, daughter of Rev. Alfred Griffith Chenowith and Katherine A. Peel, his wife ; she was a descendant 01 Oliver Cromwell and Lord Baltimore. In her childhood she associated hiTgely with persons older than herself, and took up books usually beyond those of her ?ge. She was educated in the best schools, and early developed a taste for biological and sociological studies. -She first became known to the reading public through a ser-