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VIRGINIA BIOGRAPHY
ginia formed by intelligent travelers, lirit-
ish, French, German and Italian; "Travels
in the United States during four years and
a half, 1-98-180J, by John Davis of Salis-
bur\ ," nuich of the material bearing on Vir-
ginia (Xew York, Henry Holt & Company,
1909) ; a re-edition of this very interesting
book of impressions, equipped with intro-
duction and a great many notes ; "Travels in
the Confederation, 1783-1784," from the
(icrnian of Dr, Johann David Schoepf, sur-
geon to the Ansbach troops in the British
army (Philadelphia, William J. Campbell,
iqiii, two volumes, volume two dealing
with \'irginia and the south; "The College
of Hampden Sidney: Calendar of Board
Minutes, 1776-1876," a documentary history
(Richmond: The Hermitage Press, 1912) ;
Secondary Education in \'irginia, 1776-
1860," manuscript now in the hands of the
United States Commissioner of Education ;
"Virginia Agriculture: 1607-1860," a series
of articles running in the "Southern
Planter," Richmond, 1914; miscellaneous
articles in the A'irginia Historical Society's
Magazine" and the "William and Mary Col-
lege Quarterly," about thirty articles in a
local newspaper on the "History of Prince
Edward County," etc., etc.
Stanard, William Glover, born in Rich- mond, \"irginia, October 2, 1858, son of Robert C. Stanard, captain in the Confed- erate States army, and Virginia M. Cowan, his wife, was a student at William and Mary and Richmond colleges (1876-1880). He began soon after to take great interest in the early history of Virginia, and prose- cuted his inquiries by a personal investiga- tion of the county records. He contributed many articles on Virginia families to the
Richmond "Critic" and other periodicals
and became known as an authority. In
October, 1898, on the resignation of Philip
Alexander Bruce, he was elected correspond-
ing secretary of the Virginia Historical So-
ciety, and editor of the "\'irginia Magazine
of History and Biography." In addition to
numerous articles contributed to this maga-
zine, he has published "Colonial Virginia
Register" 1902, and "Some Emigrants to
Virginia," 191 1. He is a member of the
Phi Beta Kappa society, as well as of var-
ious other societies, antiquarian and histor-
ical, and in 1915 William and Mary College
conferred upon him the degree of LL. D.
He married, in 1900, Mary Mann Page
Newton, of Richmond, daughter of Rt. Rev.
John Brockenbrough Newton. His address
is 707 East Franklin street.
Stanard, Mary Mann Page Newton, born in Westmoreland county, \'irginia, daughter of Rt. Rev. John Brockenbrough Newton and Roberta Page Williamson, his wife; gradu- ated at the Leach- Wood School in Nor- folk, Virginia; married William Glover Stanard, secretary of the \'irginia Historical Society (q. v.), April 17, 1900. She is the historian of the board of managers of the Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antif|uities. and a member of the Colonial Dames Society of .America. She is the author of "The Story of Bacon's Rebellion," 1907, "The Dreamer, a Romantic Render- ing of the Life Story of Edgar .Allan Poe." i<}0(). and of other works.
Mahan, Dennis Hart, born in New York City, .\])ril 2, 1S02. He spent his boyhtwd in Norfolk, \'irginia, and was appointed from that state to the United States Mili- tary Academy, where he graduated in 1S24,
