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James W. Cooper, New York City; Wil- liam M. Frazier, Philadelphia, Pennsyl- vania ; Frank W. Darling, Hampton, Vir- ginia ; Samuel G. Mitchell, Newark, Dela- ware ; Robert Bacon, New York City. To- day Hampton is known as the headquarters of an army of uplift, with nearly eleven hun- dred acres of land, one hundred and forty buildings, and an able and enthusiastic corps of teachers. The number of students in 1913-14 was 1309, of which thirty-eight were Indians, and four hundred and sixty- five colored children in the Whittier Train- ing School. The eight hundred and forty- four boarding pupils provide their own board and clothing, partly in cash and partly in labor at the school. Many Sunday school associations and friends of the red and black races have provided scholarships. More than eight thousand young people have had the benefit of Hampton's ideals and train- ing. The South and ^^'est are open fields for tradesmen trained at Plampton, and many are busy in filling this demand. The literature issued from the printing office of the institution is highly creditable to the efficiency of that department. President Frissell is the author of some pamphlets is- sued in its behalf, among the most valuable of which may be mentioned that entitled "Our responsibility to undeveloped races."

Dr. Frissell is a member of various col- lege fraternities, of the Century Club of New York, Yale Club, City Club, Barnard Club, and Cosmos Club of Washington. He is one of the founders and a member of the Southern Educational Board, South Carolina, member of the General Education Board, the Jeanes Fund, president of the Board of Trustees of the Calhoun School. Alabama, and a trustee of Penn School, and other institutions. From Yale University he received the degree of LL. D., from Har- vard L'niversity S. T. D., and from Rich- mond University D. D. He is a constant contributor to various periodicals, especially on subjects relating to education and the welfare of the Negro.

He married Julia Frame Dodd, daughter of Amzi Dodd, of Newark, New Jersey, one of the most distinguished citizens of that state, who endeared himself to the citizens of New Jersey by his devotion to duty as a public man and by his many kind acts in • private life. He served the state of New Jersey as vice-chancellor on two occasions.

for ten years was a special justice of the court of errors and appeals, and in 1882 be- came the president of the Mutual Benefit Life Insurance Company of Newark. In 1852 he married Jane, daughter of William Frame, formerly of Newark, later of Bloom- field. They were the parents of nine chil- dren, of whom three sons and three daugh- ters were living in 1912. Dr. Frissell and wife have one son, Sydney Dodd Frissell, born March 7, 1885, at Bloomfield, New Jer- sey, studied at the Montclair Academy, Philips' Andover Academy, and graduated from Yale A. B. He is now field secretary of Hampton Institute, and author of articles pertaining to the work of the school, pub- lished in the Survey and Southern Work- man magazines.

George Woodford Brown. As superin- tendent of the Eastern State Hospital for the Insane, at Williamsburg, Virginia. Dr. Brown displays not the skillful knowledge required of a man in that position, but a capacity for hard work that is wonderful. Every patient is known personally to Dr. Brown, and the details of each case come, under his supervision. Not that he person- ally treats every patient daily, but that he understands and observes every case. Such devotion to duty is greatly to be commend- ed, particularly when the class of patients is considered, the insane being perhaps the most difficult for a physician to loyally treat.

Dr. Brown traces through a long line of Virginia ancestors to early colonial days, his ancestors being prominent in the war for in- dependence, and later wars with England and Mexico; his father a veteran of the Con- federacy, yet surviving, a resident of Cul- peper county. Dr. Brown's father, James Richard Brown, is a son of John Forshee Brown, born 1783, died 1859, and Susan De- laney Brown, daughter of Dr. Delaney, of Culpeper county, grandson of Thomas Brown, and great-grandson of Thomas Brown. The family seat for many genera- tions has been Culpeper county, Virginia. James Richard Brown, born May 5, 1833. is yet a resident of Culpeper county. He was engaged in farming in that county when the war between the states broke out, and lit- erally leaving the plow in the furrow he joined the Confederate army, enlisting in Company F, Twenty-first Regiment Vir- ginia Infantry. He served until the final