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Jones, John William, born at Louisa Court House, in 1836, and graduated from the Uni- versity of Virginia in 1858. He afterwards entered the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, was ordained in the Baptist min- istry in i860, and soon appointed a mission- ary to China, but the political disturbances of i860 delayed him, and finally prevented his departure. When Virginia seceded, he enlisted as a private in Col. A. P. Hill's Thirteenth Virginia Regiment, within a year became chaplain, and in November, 1863, was made missionary chaplain to Hill's corps. He was with the troops from 1861, at Harper's Ferry, to Appomattox, in 1865, sharing the hardships of the men in the ranks and ministering to them on the field and in hospital. He was a leading figure in the great revivals in the army, received the religious professions of thousands of Lee's soldiers, and baptized more than four hun- dred soldiers. After the war, he was for several years pastor at Lexington, Virginia, and one of the chaplains of Washington Col- lege, under the superintendency of Gen. Lee, also laboring in the Virginia Military Insti- tute. He was afterwards agent for the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, and occupied other positions involving constant teaching and preaching. He made much reputation as a writer. As secretary of the Southern Historical Society (1876-1887) he edited many valuable papers and procured a great mass of historical data. He pub- lished "Personal Reminiscences of Gen. R. E. Lee," "Christ in the Camp." "Morale of the Confederate Army," "Army of Northern Virginia Memorial Volume," "Memorial Volume of Jefferson Davis," and "School History of the United States." Washington

and Lee University conferred upon him the degree of Doctor of Divinity.

Garrett, Van Franklin, born in Williams- burg. Virginia, July 31, 1846,- son of Dr. Robert Major Garrett, former mayor of Wil- liamsburg and superintendent of the East- ern State Hospital, and Susan Comfort Winder, his wife. He attended a private school and academy in his native place, and then entered the Virginia Military Institute, and with the cadets of that institution took part in the battle of Newmarket, and after- v/ards serving in Thompson's flying artil- lery until the end of the war. When peace was restored, he became a medical student at the University of Virginia, and after- wards at Bellevue Hospital College, New York, where he graduated in 1868. He passed the following year as a teacher in Pu- laski, Tennessee, then returned home, and practiced his profession and cultivated his farm until 1888. In that year, at the re- organization of William and Mary College, ht was elected professor of natural science. Later his chair was divided and he now fills the chair of chemistry. He received the honorary degree of Master of Arts from William and Mary College in 1872. He was for several terms a member of the Williams- burg council, and a vestryman and warden of Bruton Episcopal church. He married, ir. 1896. Harriet Guion Nicholls, daughter of Governor Francis T. Nicholls, of Louisiana.

Hall, John Leslie, born in Richmond, Vir- ginia, Alarch 2, 1856, son of Jacob Hall, Jr., and Emily Glentworth Moore, his wife. His ])aternal ancestor, Jacob Hall, came from England about 1690 and settled in Pennsyl- vania, holding lands under William Penn. His maternal ancestor, John Moore, came