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lottesville at two o'clock in the morning, and been in his life. I remember only a short after a laborious journey of fifteen hours time prior to his death, with what pleasure arrived at Wilmington in Fluvanna. The he re-read Irving's ' Life of Washington' and third day we left Wilmington at twelve Middleton's 'Cicero,' and when his last o'clock at night and arrived at Richmond an sickness came upon him, he was writing a hour or two after dark. According to my sketch of his father for the Virginia Historical best recollection, the stage fare was eleven Society, which he had almost completed." Mr. Randolph Tucker says : " Mr. Stuart's or twelve dollars, and the cost of eight meals and two nights' lodgings, at fifty cents each, fame as a lawyer is second to his reputation

was five dollars, mak as a statesman, but ing the aggregate in both departments cost of the trip, six he was eminent. As teen or seventeen dol a representative in lars! Now we go Congress, a leader in from Staunton to both Houses of the Richmond in a com General Assembly, fortable car, in less and as secretary of than five hours, at a the interior in Presi dent Fillmore's ad cost of four dollars and twenty cents, and ministration, he won yet there are people merited distinction." who think the chief Mr. Stuart died Feb object of railroads is ruary 13, 1891, in the eighty-fourth year of to rob the public." his age. Mr. Stuart was elect ed to Congress by the John Barbee Mi Whigs in i 8 4 I . nor, LL. D., for fifty President Fillmore years professor of law appointed him secre at the University of tary of the interior Virginia, was born in in 1850. In 1861 he Louisa county, Va., was appointed with June 2, 181 3. When JOHN W. BROCKENUROUGH. William Ballard Pres sixteen years old Mr. ton and George W. Minor walked from Randolph a committee to go to Washington his home in Virginia to attend school at to ask the President of the United States "to Kenyon College, Ohio, On returning, he communicate to the Virginia State Conven visited New York City, Albany and Niagara, tion, the policy which the federal government walking the entire distance. He studied intends to pursue in regard to the confeder three years at the University of Virginia, receiving in 1834, the degree of Bachelor ate states." of Law, and then taught in the family of Mr. Robertson says of his last days : "De spite his extreme age, Mr. Stuart's mental Prof. John A. G. Davis, who was at the time powers were unimpaired, and his sight was professor of law at the University. He as good as it had been for the past twenty practiced law for a few years at Buchanan, It is said : " He found years. He found an unfailing resource in Botetourt county. the practice very lax there and completely books, papers and magazines. He was per haps as great a reader now as he had ever reformed it."