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duty in 1856. He was transferred to the 1st cavalry, March 3, 1855, and was promoted major of the 9th infantry, March 37, 1855. He was afterward on frontier and garrison duty until 1858, when he went to Europe on leave of absence. He was married in 1857 to Mariana, daughter of George S. Nelson, Esq., of New York city. On April 30, 18G1, he resigned his commission and returning to the United States, joined the Con- federate armj^ as adjutant-general of the Virginia forces with the rank of colonel. He organized the Virginia troops and on June G, 1861, was commissioned brigadier -general and was sent to command the Confederate forces opposing McClellan in western Virginia. After the defeat of a portion of his force at Rich Mountain, he was killed in the combat of Carrick's P'ord, Va., while bravely covering the retreat of his sniall force of 3000 men from Laurel Hill across Cheat River in the face of McClellan's army of about 20,000 men. He was the first genei'al officer to fall in the war and before an opportunity was presented of fulfilling the promise of his military tniiniiig. The date <>( his di-ath is July 13, 1861.

QARRARD, James, governor of Kentucky, was born in Stafford county, Va., Jan. 14, 1749. He served as an officer in the militia of Virginia iu the war of the American Revolution and while in the field was elected a representative in the state legislature, where he advocated the religious liberty bill. In 1783 he settled in Ken- tucky near Paris, and was a delegate to the con- vention that framed the constitution of the state in 1791. He was a representative in the early state legislature and was governor of the state, 1796-1804. He was an eminent Baptist minister and with Ambrose Dudley and Augvistine Eustin of the Elkhorn association, he joined in a remon- strance to the delegates to the constitutional convention of 1791 in favor of excluding slavery from the state. He died at his home in Bourbon county, Ky., Jan. 9. 1832.

QARRARD, Kenner, soldier, was born in Cincinnati, (Jhio, in 1830; great-grandson of Gov. James Garrard of Kentucky. Kenner was grad- uated at the U.S. military academy in 1851, was appointed to the dragoons and reached the grade of captain in 1855. He was serving in Texas in 1861 and was captured by the Confederate forces and paroled, but not exchanged till Aug. 37, 1862. While on parole he was instructor and commandant at the military academy. He joined the volunteer army in 1863 as colonel of the 146th N.Y. regiment, served through the Rappahannock and Pennsylvania campaigns, and was promoted brigadier-general, July 23, 1863. He was transferred to the Army of the Cumber- land as commander of a cavalr}' division and operated in Tennessee and Georgia. He was

brevetted colonel in the U.S. army for leading an expedition to Covington, Ga., and in Decem- ber, 1894, was assigned to the command of the 3d division of the 16th army corps and after the battle of Nashville was brevetted for his action major-general of volunteers and brigadier gen- eral in the regular anny. He led in the capture of Blakeley, Ala., and commanded the district of Mobile until Aug. 34, 1865, when he was mustered out of the volunteer service. He was brevetted major-general U.S.A. for services during the war and resigned from the service, Nov. 9, 1866. He died in Cincinnati, Ohio, May 15, 1879.

QARRETSON, Freeborn, pioneer Methodist, was born iu Maryland, Aug. 15, 1753. He be- came a convert to Methodism and in 1775 became an itinerant preacher for that denomination. He was eminently successful in his labor's and in 1784 was elected by the general conference a presiding elder and was a vohmtaiy missionary in Nova Scotia for four years. He then selected twelve young ministei"s and organized an evangel- ical work in eastern New York and western New England. In 1791 he was married to Catharine, daughter of Robert L. Livingston and thereafter resided in New York city, making Rhinebeck-on- the-Hudson his summer home. His itinerary extended from Nova Scotia to the Gulf of Mexico in the tier of Atlantic states. His daughter, Mary Rutherford Garretson, born in 1783, inher- ited his property as well as his missionary spirit. Her home on the Hudson was the mecca of Methodism during her lifetime and hundreds of j'oung men, afterward prominent as missionaries and preachers, received their first encouragement and financial help from her. She died at Rhine- beck, N.Y., March 7, 1879. Freeborn Garretson died in New York cit.y. Sept. 36, 1837.

QARRETT, Alexander Charles, first bishop of Dallas, Texas, and 108th in succession in tlie American eijiscopate, was born in Ballymote, county Sligo, Ireland, Nov. 4, 1833. His father, grandfather and great-grandfather were clergy- men and his mother gave five sous to the ministry of the church. He was educated in Ireland, graduating at Trinity college, Dublin, in 1855, and taking the Divinity Testimonium in 1856; was ordained deacon July 6, 1856, and priest, .Inly 5, 1857, by the Lord Bishop of Winchester in Farnham Castle, Surrey, England. He was curate at East Worldham, Hampshire, England, 1857-59; missionary to British Columbia, 1859-69; rector of St. James's church, San Francisco, Cal. , 1869-73, and dean and rector of Trinity cathedral, Omaha, Neb., 1873-74. He was elected bishop of the missionary jurisdiction of Northern Texas by the general convention in 1874, and was con- secrated Dec. 20, 1874, by Bishojis Johns. Atkin- son, Lay, Pinkney and Lyman. The missionary