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living in Columbia, Tyrrell county, he was elected to the medical staff of the Eastern Lunatic Asylum, remaining in charge of the male department of that institution until May, 1887. While in Manchester, Virginia, he engaged in the banking and drug business, was a member of the city council, and for nearly ten years he was president of the board of health. He was married, October 4, 1853, to a daughter of John S. Cocke, of Albemarle county, Virginia

Minor, Charles Landon Carter, born December 3. 1835. at Edgewood, Hanover county, Virginia, son of Lucius H. Minor, Esq., and Catherine Frances Berkeley, his wife. His paternal grandfather was Gen. John Minor, of Fredericksburg, Virginia, who married Lucy Landon Carter, of Cleve. and his mother's father was Dr. Carter Berkeley, of Hanover county, who married Miss Frances Page, daughter of Gov. John Page of Rosewell. He was taught at home by his father and later attended a private school in Lynchburg, Virginia, where one of the teachers was Professor Peters, afterwards of the University of Virginia. He entered the University of Virginia, and graduated in 1858 with the degree of Master of Arts. Just before taking his degree he had made an engagement to teach with Professor Lewis Minor Coleman at Hanover Academy, which was pre- vented by Professor Coleman's appointment to the chair of Latin in the University of Virginia. He then became assistant respectively of Mr. William Dinwiddie in Albemarle county, the Rev. Dr. Philips at the Diocesan School, the Virginia Female Institute in Staunton, Virginia, and with Col. Leroy Broun in Albemarle county, Virginia. When the civil war began, he entered the Confederate army as a private in Munford's Second Virginia Cavalry Regiment, and saw active service at Manassas, in the valley campaign under Stonewall Jackson, and in the battles around Richmond. In 1862, by competitive examination, he was appointed lieutenant and then captain of ordnance, and was assigned to Gen. Sam Jones, then commanding the department of Southwest Virginia. He followed Gen. Jones to Charleston, South Carolina, when he took command of that department in June, 1864, and some months later was assigned to duty as executive officer at the Richmond Arsenal under Gen. Gorgas, where he remained until the close of the war. After the war he opened a private school at his old home in Hanover county, but soon accepted the presidency of the Maryland Agricultural College. He subsequently opened a school in Lynchburg, from which he was elected to a chair in the University of the South at Sewanee, Tennessee, whence he returned to Virginia to accept the presidency of the Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College just opened at Blacksburg. Here he remained for eight years, doing much to establish that institution upon the firm basis which it has since occupied. In 1880 he purchased the Shenandoah Valley Academy at Winchester, Virginia, where he did a fine work for years, but an epidemic of scarlet fever and the loss of his wife caused him to leave Virginia to accept the charge of St. Paul's School, in Baltimore, in 1888. He afterwards became associate principal with his old friend and kinsman, L. M. Blackford, at the Episcopal High School, near Alexandria, Virginia. In Baltimore, during the latter years of his life, he devoted much