POSEY
POST
Hill College and Theological Seminary in Mobile.
He introduced tlie Nuns of the Visitation in 1832,
built for tlu'ui a convent and academy at Sum-
merville, Ala., in 18;J3, and the cathedral of the
Immaculate Conception, 1835-50. He welcomed
mt'mb.Ts of tiie Society of Jesus ; founded an
asylum for tiiose made orphans by the epidemics
of yellow fever, and introduced a colony of Sisters
of Ciiarity to care for them. He also introduced
tiie Brothers of Christian Instruction ; established
labt.r and parish schools, and a girls' school at
St. Augustine, Fla. He visited Europe a second
time in 1849, and after his return was prominent
in tiie deliberations of the councils of his church,
being for sometime previous to his death senior
bishop of the American hierarchy. He died at the
Providence Infirmary. Mobile, Ala., May 14, 1859.
POSEY, Thomas, senator and soldier, was
born in Fairfax county, Va., July 9, 1750. He
removed to tiie western frontier of Virginia in
1769 ; served in Lord Dunmore's Shawnee expedi-
tion in 1774, as quartermaster of General Andrew
LewLs's division, and fought in the battle at Point
Pleasant, Oct. 10, 1774. He was appointed a
member of the committee of correspondence of
Virginia in 1775 ; and raised and commanded a
company which became a part of the 7th Vir-
ginia regiment, March 20, 1776. He fought at
Gwynn's island, July 8, 1776 ; joined Washing-
ton's army at Middlebrook, N.J., in 1777, where
his company was transferred to Morgan's rifle-
men, and took part in the engagement at Piscat-
away, N.J. He was sent to re-inforce General
Gates in northern New York and fought at
Bemis's Heights, Sept. 19, and Stillwater, Oct.
7, 1777. He was promoted major April 30, 1778 ;
commanded the 2d Virginia regiment at Mon-
mouth, June 28, 1778 ; was transferred to the 7th
Virginia regiment, Sept. 14, and in October,
1778. led an expedition against tlie Indians after
the m.-Lssacre of Wyoming, July 5, 1778. He
joined Washington's army at Middlebrook, N.J.,
in the spring of 1779, and commanded the 11th
Virginia infantry, and shortly afterward a batta-
lion of Colonel Febiger's regiment. In the assault
on Stony Point, July 15, 1779, he received the
arms of the British officers. General Wayne being
severely wounded. He was sent south to rein-
force General Greene, who had succeeded General
Gates, and was present at the surrender of Corn-
wallis at Yorktown. Oct. 19, 1781. He wa.s pro-
moted lieutenant-colonel Sept. 11, 1782; organized
a new regiment, which he commanded in Georgia
under General Wayne until the evacuation of
Savannah by the British. July 11, 1782. and was
retired March 10. 1783. He was married first
in 1773. to Martha, daughter of Gen. Sampson
Matthews of Augusta county. Va.: and .secondly,
Jan 22, 1784, to Mary, daughter of John and Lucy
(Thornton) Alexander, and widow of Maj. George
Thornton. He served in the army as brigadier-
general from Feb. 14, 1793, to Feb. 28, 1794, and
commanded a brigade under General Wayne in
tj,ie Northwest. He removed to Kentucky in 1794;
was state senator for several years and speaker
of the senate, 1805-06. In 1809, when war was
threatened, he was commissioned major-general
and organized the Kentucky volunteers, and after
the danger from war had ended, removed to
Attakapas, La. In 1812 he raised and com-
manded a volunteer company'. When Louisiana
was admitted as a state, John Noel Destrehan
and A. B. Magruder were elected U.S. senators,
but Destrehan resigned before taking his seat,
and General Posey was appointed to the vacancy,
serving from Dec. 7, 1812, to Feb. 5, 1813, when
James Brown was elected to complete the term.
He was governor of Indiana Territory, 1813-16 ;
the defeated candidate for governor of the new
state in 1816. and U.S. Indian agent at Shawnee-
town. 111., 181G-18, where he died March 19, 1818.
POST, Alfred Charles, surgeon, was born in
New Y\)rk city, Jan. 13, 1806 ; son of Joel and
Elizabeth (Browne) Post ; grandson of Jotham
and Winifred (Wright) Post, and a descendant
of Richard Post, who emigrated from Holland to
Massacliusetts with a party of Pilgrims, and
settled on Long Island, about 1640, where he
founded the town of Southampton, and became
a New York merchant. Alfred Charles Post was
graduated at Columbia, A.B., 1822 ; studied med-
icine under his uncle Dr. Wright Post (q.v.), and
was graduated at the College of Physicians and
Surgeons, New York city, in 1827. He continued
his medical studies in the schools and hospitals of
Paris, Berlin and Edinburgh, 1827-29, and in the
latter year settled in practice in New York city,
giving most of his attention to surgery. He was
luarried, in 1832, to Harriet, daughter of Cyre-
nius Beers of New York. He was a demonstrator
of anatomy at the College of Physicians and Sur-
geons, 1831-35 ; surgeon of the New York hospi-
tal, 1836-86 ; professor of opthalmic anatomy and
surgery and of the principles and practice of
surgery, in Castleton Medical college, Vermont,
1842-44 ; was influential in the establishment of
the medical department of the University of the
City of New York, in 1851 : professor of surgery
there, 1851-75, and emeritus professor, 1875-86.
He was consulting surgeon of the Women's,
St. Luke's and the Presbyterian hospitals ; vice-
president of the New York Academy of Medicine,
1861-60, and president, 1867-68. He was presi-
dent of the Pathological society : the New York
Medical Missionary association ; a director of the
Union Theological seminary, 18.56-86 ; and a
member of the Gyna?cological Society of Boston,
and of the county and state medical societies of
