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a miniber of successful privateers. After tlie war, he remained in Europe on business of his own until 1868, when he returned home. Among the enterprises with which he became associated was, in connection with his sons, the mining of pyrites, and its u^~e for the manufacture of sulphuric acid, fi)r wJiich he erected in Richmond the first furnace in this country for that purpose, liis jirocess revolutionizing the manufacture o! sulphuric acid in the United States. He married Fanny Elizabeth Graves, of Orange county. He died May 24, 1897, about four- teen months after the death of his wife.

Goode, Thomas F., l)orn in Roanoke county. Virginia, in 1827, son of Dr. Thomas Goode. He was educated in the old field schools, and the Episcopal high school at Alexandria; studied law under Judge Ed- ward R. Chambers, of Boydton, and was admitted to the bar in 1848. Previous to the civil war he was commonwealth's attor- ney. He was a member of the convention of 1861, and when \'irginia seceded, he or- ganized a cavalry company, of which he was made captain, and which became a part of the Third Virginia Cavalry Regiment, in which lie rose through the various grades to the colonelcy. In 1862 he was under Stuart, who awarded him high praise for his sol- dierly qualities. After the battle of Seven Pines, he was recommended for promotion to brigadier-general, but was obliged to leave the service on account of enfeebled health. He served in the legislature in 1863- t>4 for a short time. After the war, he re- sumed his law practice, but discontinued it in 1875. and took a leading part in the de- velopment of the BufTalo lithia springs. He married Rosa C. Chambers, daughter of Edward R. Chambers.

Smith, Francis Henry, born in Leesburg, Virginia, October 14, 1829, son of Daniel Throve Smith, Esq., a merchant of Leesburg, who subsequently moved to Albemarle county, and Eleanor Pjuckey, of Frederick, Maryland, his wife. C>n both sides he is descended from early colonial settlers, his grandfather, Henry Smith, of Frederick, Maryland, having served in the war of 1812. He was educated in private schools at Lees- burg, \'irginia. and at the Leesburg Acad- emy. He was sent to the college at the W'esleyan College of Middletown, Connec- ticut, but at the time of his entering the senior class political disturbances prevented his return. In 1849 he entered the Univer- sity of Virginia, and in 185 1 graduated with the degree of Master of Arts. He was im- mediately appointed assistant instructor in luathcmatics, which position he held for two years. In 1853 he was elected professor ot natural philosophy, to succeed Professor VV illiam B. Rogers, who had resigned and removed to Boston, and this position Pro- fessor Smith held continuously until 1909. when he was made professor emeritus, and placed on the Carnegie foundation. To him. as much as to any of the remarkal)le men who have taught in the University of Vir- ginia, is due its great reputation for thor- oughness and scholarship. .Added to this, his charming personality, his genial manners and his eloquence as a lecturer, have done much to perpetuate the old regime in the university. -Vt the outbreak of the civil war he was elected by the Confederate congress commissioner of weights and measures, in association with Commodore Maury. He has contributed frc(iurntl_\- to tin- ni;igazines niid journals of the country, and has writ- ten "The Outlines of Physics," "Christ and