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1817. He was educated at Hampden-Sidney
College, from which he graduated in June,
1835. He studied for the Presbyterian min-
istry three years at Union Seminary and
two years at Princeton. Sixteen years fol-
lowed, spent in active ministerial duty — two
in Texas, seven in Warrenton, Virginia, and
seven in Georgetown, D. C. He was elected
president of Hampden-Sidney in 1857, and
did much to keep the college up to its
ancient traditions. At the beginning of the
war for Southern independence he organ-
ized the students into a company and
marched to the front, but a week later they
were captured at Rich Mountain by Gen.
McClellan, who sent them all home under
parole — a characteristic act of that noble
Federal general. Dr. Atkinson met the diffi-
culties of reestablishing the college after the
war with courage and fidelity. Beginning
with four professors and one tutor, he
brought the student roll from thirty-eight in
1865 to ninety-two in 1873. He was greatly
beloved by his scholars. He died in 1883.
He married (first) Elizabeth, daughter of
Rev. Peyton Hawke ; (second) Mary B.
Baldwin ; (third) Fanny, daughter of Hon.
Alexander H. H. Stuart.
Hoge, Moses Drury, born near Hampden- Sidney College, Virginia, September 17, 1819, a son of Samuel Davies Hoge. He was graduated from Hampden-Sidney Col- lege in the class of 1839, then pursued his studies at the Union Theological Seminary and was licensed to preach in 1844. He at once received a call to Richmond as assist- ant pastor of the First Presbyterian Church, and under his charge a colony soon went from that church, and organized as the Sec- ond Presbyterian Church in January, 1845.
For a period of forty years this was his only
charge. He ran the blockade to England
during the civil war in order to obtain Bibles
and other religious works for the Confed-
erate army. Among those who cordially fav-
ored his application to the British and
Foreign Bible Society, was the Earl of
Shaftesbury, who was the leading spirit in
obtaining for him a grant of four thousand
pounds worth of Bibles and testaments. Dr.
Hoge traveled extensively throughout
Europe and the east, was a delegate to the
Evangelical Alliance that met in Philadel-
phia in 1873, and to the Pan-Presbyterian
Council in Edinburgh in 1877. In 1875
hs delivered the oration at the unveil-
ing of the statue of "Stonewall" Jack-
son, that was presented by English gentle-
men to the state of Virginia. He received
tlie degree of Doctor of Divinity from Union
Theological Seminary, Virginia, and de-
clined the presidency of Hampden-Sidney
College. He was associated with Rev.
Thomas Moore, D. D., in the editorship
of the "Central Presbyterian," 1862-67.
Ihroughout his ministry he made numerous
addresses before literary and scientific soci-
eties, and was regarded as the most eloquent
pulpit orator in the Southern Presbyterian
church.
Fairfax, Donald McNeill, born in Vir- ginia, August 10, 1822, became a midship- man, August 12, 1837, and served under Du- pont on the west coast of Mexico and Cali- fonia. during the Mexican war, participating actively in the capture of a number of towns. He was promoted to a lieutenancy, Febru- ary 26, 185T ; made commander, July 16, 1862 ; and served on the Cayuga, of the West Gulf squadron, from June, 1862, until Feb-
