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del Rey, and the storming of Chapultepec, where he was brevetted major for gallant and merit- orious conduct. He served on the Rio Grande expedition, where he captured Caravajal and his gang of desperadoes in April, 1832, was in garrison, and in Texas and Missouri, 1852-58. He particip- ated in the Utah expeditions of 1858-60, captur- ing a band of hostile Indians oii Spanish Fork, was promoted major and transferred to the 8th infantry, April 22, 1861 ; was acting inspector- general of the department of New Mexico, July to December, 1861 ; was appointed colonel, 4th New Mexico volunteers, Dec. 9, 1861 ; and commanded Fort Union and the Southern military district of New Mexico respectively, 1862, participating in the skirmish at Peralta, New Mexico, April 15,1862. He was promoted lieutenant-colonel, April 25, 1862 ; served as brigadiei'-general of volunteei's, Sept. 5, 1862, to March 22, 1863, and in the Rappahannock campaign with the Army of the Potomac, being engaged in the battles of Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville. He was appointed brigadier- general of volunteers, April 18, 1863 ; was severely wounded at Gettysburg by a rifle ball, which deprived him of the sight of both eyes, and was promoted colonel and transferred to the 14th infantry, Sept. 14, 1863. He was retired from active service Feb. 16, 1865, was deputy governor of the Soldiers' Home, near Washing- ton, D.C., February to June, 1865, and conducted the Military asylum at Harrodsburg, Ky. . from June, 1865. to December, 1866. He wasbrevetted brigadier-general U.S.A., Feb. 23, 1865, for gallant and meritorious services at Gettysburg and was mustered out of the volunteer service, Sept. 1, 1866. In recognition of his services in Mexico the citizens of St. Louis, Mo., presented him with a sword in November, 1863 ; the 29th New Jersey volunteers gave him a jeweled sword for his services in the battle of Gettysburg ; and on Dec. 10, 1886, a monument was erected over his grave in the cemetery at Arlington, Va., by his com- rades of the Grand Army. He was married March 24, 1S35, to Mary Anne, daughter of Col. William Whistler, U.S.A., and secondly to Louise, daugh- ter of John and Elizabeth (Neland) Doxon, and widow of Alfred H. Rogers of Cincinnati, Ohio. He died in Washington, D.C., May 5, 1886.

PAUL, Henry Martyn, astronomer and civil engineer, was born in Dedham, Mass., June 25, 1851 ; son of Ebenezer and Susan (Dresser) Paul; grandson of Samuel and Martha (Crane) Paul, and of David and Hannah (Farnsworth) Dresser, and a descendant of Richard and Margery (Tur- ner) Paul. Richard Paul emigrated from Eng- land to Boston, Mass., in 1635 ; was a soldier in the fort in Boston, in 1636, and one of the original proprietors of Cohannet (now Taunton), Mass., in 1637. Henry Martyn Paul was graduated at

Dartmouth A.B., 1873, A.M., 1878, and at the Thayer School of Civil Engineering in 1875. He was principal assistant to Professor Quimby in the triangulation of New Hampshire, 1872-75: assistant astronomei in the na\al observatoiy at AVd&hington, D.C., 1875-80; ob&ei\ed the ti an sit

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of Mercury at Dartmouth college in May, 1878, and the total solar eclipse at West LasAninias, Col., in tlse following July. He was married Aug. 27, 1878, to Augusta Anna, daughter of the Rev. Dr. Edgar Harkness and Mary Jane ( Rice) Gray, of Washington, D.C. He was professor of astron- omy in tlie Imperial university, Tokyo, Japan, 1880-83 ; assistant astronomer at the U.S. Naval observatory, Washington, 1883-97, and in 1897 was made professor of mathematics in the navy. He became a fellow in the American Association for the Advancement of Science ; one of the council of the Philosophical Society of Washing- ton ; a member of the Washington Academy of Sciences, and of the Cosmos club, and president of the Choral Society of Wasliington, 1896-98. He made researches in the phenomena of variable stars, and is the author of astronomical papers, published as appendices to the volumes of the Washington Observations. After 1899 he was in the bureau of yards and docks, navy department.

PAUL, John. See Webb, Charles Henry.

PAUL, John, jurist, was born in Rockingham county, Va., June 30, 1839; son of Peter and Maria (Whitmore) Paul ; grandson of Nicholas Paul, who came to America early in the eight- eenth century, and a descendant of a Huguenot family who removed from France to Holland. He attended Roanoke college, Salem, Va., and upon the breaking out of the civil war enlisted in the Confederate army as a lieutenant in the 1st Virginia cavalry. He was graduated from the law department of the University of Virginia in 1867 ; was attorney for the commonwealth of Virginia, 1870-77 ; a member of the state senate, 1877-81 ; a Democratic representative in the 47th congress, 1881-83 ; and judge of the U.S. court for the western district of Virginia, 1883-1901. He married, Nov. 19, 1874, Katharine Seymour, daughter of Charles Green, of Warren county, Va. He died at Harrisonburg, Va., Nov. 1, 1901.