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war Parker. Ordered to report to Admiral Buchanan at Mobile ; he was surgeon on the Scliita, and participated in the battle of Mo- bile Bay, in which after a fierce fight, against great odds, the Confederate fleet was de- feated, and Dr. Booth, with Admiral Bu- chanan and other officers, taken prisoners. They were taken to Pensacola and treated very kindly. Dr. Booth was released on parole. He was exchanged and reported to Commodore Farrand, and not long after this the war came to a conclusion. After the war he paid a visit to Europe, and on his return resided at his old home, "Shenstone," in Nottoway county, removing about 1886 to "Carter's Grove," James City county. Dr. r>ooth's youngest brother, A. J. Booth, was killed at Mount Jackson, while a member o: the Third Virginia Cavalry. Dr. Booth married, in 1870, Clara H. Thomson, of Jef- ferson county, West Virginia, whose brother, the young and gallant Major James W. Thomson, of Stuart's Lighthorse Ar- tillery, was killed near Farmville, Virginia, the day before the surrender at Appomattox.

Stanton, Richard Henry, born in Alex- andria. Virginia, September 9, 1812. He re- ceived an academic education, studied law, was admitted to the bar, and practiced in Maysville, Kentucky. Elected to congress a'; a Democrat, he served from December 3, 1849, till March 3, 1855 ; was presidential elector on the Buchanan ticket in 1856; state attorney for his judicial district in 1858; a delegate to the national Democratic con- vention in 1868; and district judge in 1868 74. He edited the "Maysville Monitor" and the "Maysville Express," and published a "Code of Practice" in civil and criminal cases in Kentuckv, "Practical Treatises for

Justices of the Peace, etc., of Kentucky," and a "Practical Manual for Executors, etc., ill Kentucky."

Lamb, James Christian, son of Lycurgus Anthony Lamb, of "Rural Shades," Charles City county, Virginia, and Anne Elizabeth Christian, daughter of Rev. James Hend- ricks Christian, was born at his father's resi- dence, November 18, 1853. He was educated al the county schools, and after an experi- ence in business, studied law at the Univer- sity of Virginia in 1876-77, and practiced in Richmond with great success. He was editor of the "Law Journal" and after the death of Judge Fitzhugh was elected judge of the chancery court of the city of Rich- mond. He was well read in English litera- ture and wrote beautiful verse and possessed all the character of an able and discriminat- ing judge. He died in office, cut oiif in the prime of his life. He was a younger brother of Hon. John Lamb (q. v.).

Shackelford, George Scott, born at War- renton, Fauquier county, Virginia, Decem- ber 12, 1856, son of Benjamin Howard Shackelford, a lawyer at the Warrenton bar, and during the war between the states cap- tain of the "Warrenton Rifles." Among the earlv instructors of Mr. Shackelford were William R. Abbott, Chapman Maupin and Horace W. Jones. From his fifteenth to his nineteenth year he was employed in a Iji.nk, and while thus engaged he pursued a course of extended reading. From 1876 to 1878 he was a student in the law school of the L^niversity of Virginia, conducted by John B. Minor. Fully prepared for profes- sional work, in 1881 he began the practice of law at Orange Court House, Virginia. An important part of his practice was his