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and served at Manassas and elsewhere, later
joining the Amelia cavalry, but shortly
afterward resigned, owing to defective hear-
ing. He then resumed his former duties.
In iSgi he was elected to represent the
counties of Amelia, Prince Edward and
Cumberland, in the Virginia state senate,
holding the office for eight years by reelec-
tions, and in 1898 was elected state super-
intendent of public instruction, serving from
that date until 1906. He was formerly a
Whig, later transferred his allegiance to the
Democratic party, and his religious belief
was that of the Protestant Episcopal church.
He was a member of the state medical ex-
amining board, and of Phi Beta Kappa Soci-
ety, at William and Mary College. He mar-
ried, February 27, 1866, Rosa Hatchet.
Harvey, James Madison, born in Monroe county, Virginia, September 21, 1833; at- tended the public schools of Indiana, Iowa and Illinois, and acquired an excellent edu- cation, and later pursued a course in sur- veying and civil engineering, which lines of v.ork he followed until 1859, in which year he removed to Kansas, where he devoted his attention to agricultural pursuits ; he served as captain in the Fourth and Tenth regi- ments of Kansas Infantry for three years, from 1861 to 1864; was a member of the lower house of the legislature in 1865-66. and of the state senate in 1867-68; was gov- ernor of Kansas from 1869 to 1871, and from 1874 to 1877 was a United States senator, having been chosen as a Republican to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Alexander Caldwell.
Boyd, David French, born at Wytheville, A'irginia, October 5. 1834. He was edu- cated at private schools and at the Univer-
sity of Virginia, from which he received the
degree of Master of Arts in 1856. For three
years he taught school in V'irginia and in
North Louisiana. In 1859, when the Louisi-
ana State Seminary was opened at Alex-
andria, under the presidency of William
Tecumseh Sherman (afterwards General),
Boyd was elected professor of ancient lan-
guages. \\'hen the war between the states
began, he enlisted as a private, and rose to
the rank of major in three arms of the serv-
ice — infantry, engineers and cavalry — his
first service being with the Ninth Louisi-
ana Regiment, under General "Stonewall"
Jackson. In 1863 he resigned, to return to
Louisiana and reopen the State Seminary ;
but finding forbidding war conditions, he
entered the engineer service under Gen.
Richard Taylor, and built Fort De Russey,
on the Red river. Early in 1864 he was
captured by marauders, and sold to the Fed-
erals for a hundred dollars, but through the
friendship of Sherman he was exchanged,
and then became major and assistant adju-
tant-general of Brent's cavalry brigade. In
1865 he became superintendent of the
Louisiana State Seminary (later the Louisi-
ana State University), and for nearly thirty
years was closely connected with it as presi-
dent, 1865-80 and 1884-87, and as professor
at intervals. In reorganizing it after the
war, he kept it from falling under radical
control during the carpet-bag negro domi-
nation ; in 1877 secured the union of the
Agricultural and Mechanical College with
the university, and procured from the
United States government the donation of
the grounds and buildings of the historic
military post at Baton Rouge. He was a
pioneer of public education in the South,
especially of industrial and technical educa-
