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CABELL, Edward Carrington, statesman, was born in Richmond, Va., Feb. 5, 1816; third son of Judge William H. and Agnes Sarah Bell (Gamble) Cabell. He studied at "Washington college, 1832- '33; Reynolds' classical academy, 1833-'34, and the University of Virginia, 1834-'36. He was

first engaged as a civil engineer in sur- veying and locating the James river and Kanawha canal. In the fall of 1836 he removed to Florida. He was a delegate to the convention which framed the state constitution in 1838, wliich was rati- fied by the people, and the state was admitted into the

1839 he returned to Virginia, where he studied law and was licensed to practise in 1840. He then settled at Talla- hassee, and was the Florida representative in the 29th, 80th, 31st, and 32d congresses, serving from 1845 to 1853. He removed to St. Louis, Mo., in 1859. He served in the Confederate army as aid to Gen. John Letcher of Virginia, with the rank of Ueutenant-colonel, and was at the battles of Seven Pines, Gaines' Mill, Malvern Hill, and Frasier's farm, serving subsequently on the staffs of Generals Price and Kirby Smith, until the close of the war. He practised law in New York city from 1868 to 18T2, and subsequently in St. Lovus, Mo., and from 1878 to 1882 he occupied a seat in the Missouri senate, retiring from public life on the expiration of his term. He was mar- ried Nov. 5, 1850, to Anna Maria, davighter of Dr. Daniel Pinchbeck and Elizabeth (Moss) Wilcox. He died at St. Loi;is. Mo., Feb. 28, 1896.

CABELL, George Craighead, lawyer, was born at Danville, Va., Jan. 25, 1836; son of Benjamin W. S. and Sarah Epes (Doswell) Cabell. He was educated at the Danville academy, and at the University of Virginia, and in 1858 began to prac- tice law in his native town. In 1858 he was made commonwealtli's attorney, and served until April 23, 1861, when he volunteered as a private soldier in the Confederate army. He was commissioned major, in June, 1861, and served throughout the ■war, attaining the rank of colonel. At the close of the war he resumed his law practice, and in 1874 he was elected to represent the fifth Virginia district in the 44th Congress, and remained in that body until 1887.

CABELL, James Laurence, physician, was born in Nelson county, Va., Aug. 26, 1813 ; son of Dr. George and Susanna (Wyatt) Cabell. He was graduated from the L'niversity of Virginia in 1833, where he studied medicine, and the following year received his M. D. degree from the University of Maryland. He continued liis studies at the Balti- more almshouse, in the Philadelphia hospitals, and at Paris, France, being summoned home in 1837 to become professor of anatomy, surgery and physiology in the medical department of the Uni- versity of Virginia. He was chairman of the faculty during 1846-47. He had charge of the Confederate militia hospitals during the civil war, was chairman of the national sanitary con- ference at Washington during the prevalence of yellow fever at Memphis, and was president of the national board of health from 1879 to 1884. The degree of LL. D. was conferred upon him by the Hampden-Sidney college in 1873. He wrote for the medical journals, and published T)\e Testimony of Modern Science to the Unity of Mankind (1858). He died Aug. 13, 1889. CABELL, Joseph, surgeon, was born near Dover, on Licking-Hole Creek, Goochland county, Va., Sept. 19, 1732; the second son of Dr. William and Elizabeth (Burks) Cabell. He received a thorough medical education from his father, and established a wide reputation as a skilful physician and sur- geon. At the age of twenty he married Mary, daughter of Dr. Arthur Hopkins. On Sept. 20, 1751, he became a deputy sheriff, was a jus- tice of Albemarle county probably as early as 1755, and held the oflice for many years. He was appointed to the house of burgesses about 1764, and in this position he represented Bucking- ham county until 1771, signing the non-importa- tion articles of 1769 and of June 22, 1770. In 1771, he removed to Amherst county, and in Decem- ber of that year was elected a representative from there to the house of burgesses, where he remained until the body was finally dissolved in 1775. Immediately after this began the revo- lutionary conventions, to all of which he was elected, and was one of the most prominent and active delegates. In 1776 he acted as paymaster to the troops commanded by Gen. Andrew Lewis. From 1776 to 1779 he was a member of the house of delegates from Andover, and in 1778 was made coixnty lieutenant or cliief commander of Amherst county. In 1779 he removed to his es- tate in Buckingham, representing that county in the house of delegates during 1780 and 1781. He commanded a regiment at the siege of Yorktown, and was present at the surrender of Cornwallis. A company of students of William and Mary college were attached to his regiment. Through-