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l)orn Novem])er 12. 1838; a famous sculptor: married (first) November 12. 1872. Alice Churchill Robinson; (second) January 5. 1891, Catherine (Friend) Mayo.

(IV) Mann Satterwhite (2) Valentine, chlest son of Mann Satterwhite (i) and Elizabeth (Mosby) \'alentine, was born in Richmond, Virginia, April 22, 1824. He was lucated in the schools of Rev. Adam Em- l>ie and Mr. Nelson, the Richmond Academy \r. Richmond, at Midway Academy, Char- lottesville, \'irginia, and later was a student at William and Mary College, Williams- burg, Virginia. Ill health, however, pre- vented his completing the course at the lat- ter institution. As a student he was par- ticularly interested in science and when at William and Mary spent much time with Ur. Millington, the professor of chemistry there. Although he entered upon a business career early in life, being associated with his father in the conduct of a large mercantile enterprise, he kept up his scientific studies, made extensive mineralogical and entomo- logical collections, interested himself in medicine, and at night was tutored in medi- cine by several professors in the Medical College of Virginia. He contributed politi- cal and other articles to the "Richmond Ex- aminer." "Richmond Dispatch,"" and other journals, and wrote two romances, "Arma- deus'" and "Desultoria," as well as a satire in verse entitled "The Mock Auction."

During the civil war he served in Com- pany I, Virginia State Reserves. After the war he conducted a large m-ercantile busi- ness, but at that time, as throughout his career, his leisure time was largely devoted to scientific reading. In 1871 he produced \^alentine's meat juice, a delicate food for the sick, a preparation which has been em- ployed and endorsed by leading physicians and surgeons and has a worldwide reputa- tion, h'or a number of years he devoted his efit'orts to the manufacture of his product, the extension of his business abroad, and to corresponding with scientists interested in his work. During this period he also in- vented an "automatic bottle corker." lie was deeply interested in preserving to \'ir- ginia objects of historical and scientific in- terest and promoting among her people a love for science, literature and art. The lat- ter years of his life were largely spent in studying ethnology and corresponding with institutions and scientific men in regard to

the archaeology of Virginia. He was the founder of the Valentine Museum, a well known institution of Richmond, which con- tains one of the most complete collections of local archaeology in America.

He died October 22, 1892. leaving a con- siderable portion of his estate for the foun- dation of the Valentine Museum. His love for Virginia and his patriotic wish to extend culture among her people is shown in the following quotation from his will: "Many years of the life of my father and my broth- ers and my sons and myself have been de- voted to securing and accumulating objects of Archaeology, Anthropology and other kindred arts, with a view and purpose of making them valuable to my state and city : and in order to preserve these and to effect the publication of certain manuscripts and papers of scientific and literary value, and make them all interesting, instructive and profital)le to those of my community and state, I desire to establish in the city of Richmond, Virginia, an institute to be called The Valentine Museum, for the purpose of preserving and accumulating objects of Archaeology, Anthropology and other kin- ilred arts, etc., for publishing literary, his- torical and scientific papers, compatible with the ability and amount of endowment of the said institute." The original gift included the donor's home, together with a library of several thousand rare works, manu- scripts, autographs, engravings (from Dur- er"s time to the middle of the eighteenth century), pictures, curios, china, antique furniture, etc.. and also the sum of fifty thousand dollars, which latter was to be invested and the income used in taking care of the collection.

Other additions have been presented to the museum by Edward \'. \'alentine; rare tapestries, casts of the recumbent figure of General Robert E. Lee, outline sketches, the death mask of Stonewall Jackson, and a col- lection of busts. By Granville G. Valentine, procured from the British Museum, the ^^'^tican. and elsewhere, casts from original marbles, bronzes, tablets, masks, etc.. of .\ssyrian, Egyptian. Greek, Roman, Ren- aissance and modern times. By Granville G., lienjamin B. and lulward P. \'alentine, a "department of Archaeology'" containing the human remains of many of the mound l)uilders, and the weapons, implements, etc., of the prehistoric people of America. More

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