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Rh corresponding secretary of the Virginia Bible Society; the secretary of the Virginia African Colonization Society, of which the Governor was president; one of the founders of the Richmond Library Company, and of the Male Orphan Asylum; the chief revivor of the Virginia Historical Society, and a life member of it; the originator, through that society, of the movement which led to the erection of the Washington Monument; one of the directors of the Richmond Anthenæum, and lieutenant-colonel of the Nineteenth Regiment of Virginia Militia, one of the city regiments.

In the summer of 1860, he was elected president of the University of the State of Missouri, which made him also professor of moral and political science, and was installed October 2d of that year. He completed the session of 1860-'1, and began that of 1861-'2 continuing even while the University buildings and grounds were occupied by Federal soldiers. It was the unanimous decision of the faculty that such continuance was their duty, that "the seed corn might not be destroyed." But the curators who had elected President Minor were removed by the provisional State authority, then in power, and new ones of the "loyal" stripe appointed, who, in March, 1862, closed the institution, "discontinued" the faculty, and stopped their salaries. President