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school of Professor Charles I. Kemper in Louisa county, Virginia. In 1871 he enter- ed the department of engineers in the Uni- versity of Virginia. Determining while there to enter the ministry, after two years riore in the university he entered in 1875 the Theological Seminary of the Protestant Episcopal Church near Alexandria, Virginia.

ous articles on the history of the state. In 1882, he married Mary Sidney Caldwell Scott, of Lenoir, North Carolina.

Ryan, John Franklin, born at the village of Loudoun, county of Loudoun, Virginia, November q, 1848, son of William T. Ryan, a native of Ireland, a teacher, also engaged There he graduated, and was ordained dea- in mercantile affairs, and Margaret A. Mc- con in June, 1878, by the Right Rev. F. M. Farland, his wife, who was a daughter of Whittle, D. D., bishop of Virginia, and en- James McFarland, a descendant of a Scotch tered upon the work of the ministry. Since ancestry. He acquired an excellent educa- that time he has been actively engaged in tion in private schools in the vicinity of his the ministry, and has had the following home, and later in boarding schools, his charges: July, 1878-July, 1881, Lynnhaven studies covering the period of the war be- parish, Princess Anne county, Virginia; tween the states and the years immediately

July, 1881-April, 1891, Christ Church. Mill- wood, Clarke county, Virginia; April, 1891- November, 1893, Epiphany Church, Dan- ville, Virginia; and St. John's Church,

following its close. He devoted his atten- tion to farming and grazing, upon arriving at suitable age, and was highly successful. He represented Loudoun in the house of

Hampton, Virginia. He is now rector of delegates during eleven terms, and was one Grace Church, Petersburg. Mr. Bryan is of the leading members, serving for several fond of literature and is the author of vari- terms as speaker of the house.

Note by the Editor. — On page 47 is given a sketch of John Yates Beale. Daniel B. Lucas vigorously defended him from the charge of being a spy, and much indignation was felt and expressed in the South at his execution. There is a story that John Wilkes Booth killed Lincoln because the latter failed to carry out a promise to pardon Beale, who was Booth's intimate friend.