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 CLAIBORNE

CLAIBORNE

vice-president of the Association of collegiate alumnfe, 1895-98, and in 1898 was elected general secretary-treasurer of the Association of colle- giate alumnie. She is the author of College Training for Wor)ien (1897); and of numerous magazine articles including "Ethics of Copy- right," Yale Eeviev\,'Fehr\xsirj 1896; "Burke: A Centenary Perspective," Atlantic Monthly, July, 1897; "The Problem of Occupation for College Women," Educational Beview, March, 1898.

CLAIBORNE, Ferdinand Leigh, soldier, was born in Sussex county, Va., in 1772; son of Wil- liam and Mary (Leigh) Claiborne of Manchester, Va. ; grandson of Nathaniel (of " Sweet Hall ") and Jane (Dole) Claiborne; great-grandson of Captain Thomas and Ann (Fox) Clebornc ; great^ grandson of Lieutenant-Colonel Thomas and (Dandridge) Cleborne, and great^ grand- son of Secretary William and Elizabeth (Boteler) Clayborne. He was appointed ensign of infantry, U.S. army, 1793, and was promoted captain in 1799. He resigned his commission in the army in 1803, and was chosen brigadier-general of the Mississippi militia in 1811, and when the Creek Indians began hostiliticc, he recruited a regiment of volunteers and was made its colonel. He was promoted brigadier - general of volunteers and commanded in the engagement at the " Holy Ground," December, 1813. He was elected to the Mississippi legislative council of 1815 and pre- sided over that body. He was married in 1802 to Magdalene, daughter of Col. Anthony Hutchins, an officer in the English army. He died in Natchez, Miss., in 1815.

CLAIBORNE, John, reiDresentative, was born at Brunswick, Va., in 1777; son of Thomas and

(Scott) Claiborne ; and brother of Thomas

Claiborne, who represented Tennessee in the 15th congress, 1817-19. John was well educated and became a physician. He was a representative in the 9th and 10th congresses, serving from Dec. 2, 1805, till his death, which occurred at Brunswick, Va., Oct. 9, 1808.

CLAIBORNE, John Francis Hamtramck, his- torian and representative, was born in Natchez, Miss., April 24, 1809; son of Gen. Ferdinand Leigh and Magdalene (Hutchins) Claiborne; and grandson of Col. AVilliam and Mary (Leigh) Clai- borne of Manchester, Va. He was admitted to the Virginia bar in 1825, but did not practise. In 1838 he became editor of a paper published in Natchez by Col. Andrew Marschalk. He was elected to the state legislature before he had at- tained his majority and was re-elected to the two ensuing terms, at the close of which he re- moved to Madisonville, Miss. The first state Democratic convention ever held in Mississippi nominated him for representative in congress by

acclamation, and a^'ter a bitter political canvass he was elected to the 24th congress. He was given a certificate of election to the 25th con- gress Oct. 3, 1837, but the seat boing declared vacant Jan. 31, 1838, and a new election held, he was succeeded by Sergeant S. Prentiss of Vicksburg, May 30, 1838. He edited the Natchez Fait Trader until 1844, when he removed to New Orleans and became editor of the Jeffersonian, of the Statesman, and later of the Louisiana Courier. He was a staunch Democrat, a fearless, brilliant and independent writer, and well known in the literary and political world. In 1853 he was ap- pointed U.S. timber agent for Louisiana and Mississippi by President Pierce; but the latter part of his life was spent upon his beautiful planta- tion '■ Dunbarton, " near Natchez, Adams county, Miss., where he devoted himself to literary pur- suits. There he accumulated a large library and an invaluable collection of historico-genealogical docviments and manuscripts, which were nearly all consumed (with two volumes of his history in MSS.) at the destruction of " Dunbarton " in 1884. He was elected a member of the Royal Histori- cal Society of Great Britain and other learned associations, and the University of Mississippi conferred upon him the degree of LL.D. in 1882. In 1882 he presented to the university and state of Mississippi his valuable collection of state his- torical papers, the private correspondence and journals of Governor Claiborne, Sir William Dun- bar, General Claiborne of the Creek war, George Poindexter, Col. Anthony Hutchins, Livingstone and other eminent men. He was married in 1828 to Martha Dunbar, the heiress to " Dunbarton," by whom he had one son and two daughters. His only sister mai'ried the Hon. John H. B. La Trobe, and was the mother of Ferdinand Claiborne La Trobe, elected five times Mayor of Baltimore, Md. Colonel Claiborne served the Confederacy during the civil war. His published writings include: Life and Correspondence of CtCU. John A. Quitman (1860); A Life oj Daniel Boone ; Life and Times of (ien. Samtiel Dale (1860) ; and History of Mississippi as a Province, a Territory and a State (1880). He died at Natchez, Miss., May 17, 1884. CLAIBORNE, Johi: Herbert, physician, was born in Brunswick county, Va., March 16, 1828; son of the Rev. John Gregory and Mary Eliza- beth (Weldon) Claiborne of " Roslin Castle"; grandson of John Herbert and Mary (Gregory) Claiborne ; and great-grandson of Col. Augustine and Mary (Herbert) Claiborne, who was third in descent from Secretary William Clayborne of Virginia, 1589-1676. He was graduated from the University of Virginia in 1849 and from the Jefferson medical college of Philadelphia in 1850, and practised in Petersburg, Va., until the break- ing out of the war. In 1857 he was elected to the