NECROLOGY.

GEORGE BROWN Goode, was born in New Albany, Indiana, on the thirteenth of February, 1851, and died at “Whitby," his home on Lanier Heights, in Washington City, on the sixth of September, 1896.

He graduated from Wesleyan University at Middletown, Connecticut, in 1870, and later studied at Harvard under Louis Agassiz, whose influence, no doubt, was felt throughout his future work in the field of science, and which perhaps helped to make him one of the foremost zoologists of America, and indeed of the world.

He was intimately associated with those eminent scientific men, the physicist Joseph Henry, the naturalist Spencer F. Baird, and the astronomer and physicist S. P. Langley, the present secretary of the Smithsonian Institution.

His great life work was the organization and development of the United States National Museum, of which he was placed in charge by Professor Baird in 1877, and in 1887 he was made Assistant Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, in charge of the National Museum.

In 1880 he was Commissioner of the United States to the International Fisheries Exibition at Berlin, and in 1883 he served in a similar capacity at the London Fisheries Exibition.

In August, 1887, upon the death of Professor Baird, Doctor Goode was appointed to succeed him as United States Commissioner of Fish and Fisheries, but after serving a short time he resigned in order to devote his energies to his labors in the National Museum.

As author of "Virginia Cousins," a history of the Goode family, he has left a valuable memorial of his eminent skill in genealogical research.

J. TEMPLE DOSWELL was the eldest son of Paul T. and Fannie Doswell (nee Gwathmey), and was born in Hanover county, Virginia, November 14, 1817. He removed to Texas in the early days of the republic and soon located in Galveston. With Colonel Michel B. Menard, the founder of the city, he formed a co-partnership there under the firm name of J. T. Doswell & Co., and built up a large and profitable cotton factorage commission business. The warm relations existing between the two partners is evidenced by the fact that Colonel Menard's only son was named Doswell Menard, in honor of Mr. Doswell, and that one of Mr. Doswell's sons was named Menard Doswell, in honor of Colonel Menard.

Later Mr. Doswell removed to New Orleans, and there carried on a cotton business until the beginning of the late war. His excellent business qualities were then called into requisition by the Confede

rate Government, which sent him abroad in its fiscal service. His private interests were sacrificed in his devotion to the Southern cause, and the close of hostilities found him nearly penniless.

Though burdened with the care of a large and dependent family, he gathered fresh energy and re-entered the cotton brokerage business in New Orleans, where, as before, he took place in the front rank of busi

ness men.

His keen intelligence, his steady industry and thorough honesty gained him the confidence and patronage of large and wealthy correspondents in the east and abroad; his business became lucrative, and in the course of ten or twelve years he accumulated a comfortable fortune.

Signs of failing health induced him to withdraw from active business; his summer residence in Fredericksburg was made his permanant home, and there the last years of his life were spent in quiet retirement.

He was married in Houston, Texas, January 22, 1842, by Rev. Benjamin Eaton, to Miss Evelina Stone Gray, sister of Judge Peter W. Gray and Mrs. Henry Sampson, whose names are household words both in Galveston and in Houston. Of nine children born of this marriage, only two-Mr. Menard Doswell, of New Orleans, and Mr. Richard M. Doswell, of Fredericksburg-survive.

Mr. Doswell never sought prominence or celebrity, but among all his acquaintances and in all his relations he was held in singular esteem and admiration for his quick and clear perceptions and the unflinching courage of his convictions, as well as for excellence of heart and judgment and sterling integrity in all the practical affairs of his life.

CHARLES H. COCKE was born in Powhatan county Virginia, March 12, 1851. Died in Columbus, Mississippi, June 12, 1896. Was the fourth son of General Philip St. George Cocke, who became prominent in the history of the Old Dominion. He was educated at the University of Virginia, taking a thorough and extensive literary and scientific course, completing his term in 1874, with certificates and diplomas in six schools. The same year he moved to Columbus, Mississippi, where he taught school in 1874-5. He then followed the calling of a planter until 1883, when he had temporary charge of the Franklin Academy.

In 1888 he was elected president of the State Industrial Institute and College, but resigned in 1890. He was at the time of his death, director of the Columbus Insurance and Banking Co.; President of the Columbus Compress Co., and a stockholder in the Tombigbee Cotton Mills.

He was married in 1876 to Miss Rowena L. Hudson, a native of Georgia, by whom he had three children: Fontaine Adger, Charles Hartwell, and Rowena Lockhart. Mr. Cocke was Senior Warden of St. Paul's Church (Columbus), at the time of his death. His widow and three children survive him.

ROBERT GARRETT, second son of the late John Garrett, who was, as is well known, for many years President of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Company, was born in Baltimore, Md., April 9, 1847. After receiving his preliminary education in the best schools of his native city, he entered Princeton College. After leaving college he went to Europe, where he spent considerable time in travel, returning, however, to the United States in 1871, at which time he entered the Baltimore & Ohio service as assistant to the president. A little later he was elected President of the Valley Division of the Baltimore & Ohio, extending from Harper's Ferry, W. Va., to Lexington, Va.; and during his administration, which continued until February, 1875, the road was brought to a high state of efficiency, and developed into one of the most valuable feeders of the Baltimore & Ohio system. Retiring from the management of the Valley road in 1875, he again devoted several years to travel in various parts of the world and in recreation, and on October 8, 1879, he was elected third vice-president of the Baltimore & Ohio. He was advanced to the position of first vice-president July 13, 1881, and remained such until the death of his father October, 1884, when the directors of the company elected him acting president, and a month later president. His first step of importance after assuming control of the great system was to endeavor to secure control of the P. W. & B. R. R., in which he was thwarted by the Pennsylvania Company when apparently upon the eve of success. Then followed the building of a parallel line to Philadelphia in face of legal and physical obstacles which seemed insurmountable. Soon after this he sold the Baltimore & Ohio telegraph system to the Western Union Company.

He continued as president until October 12, 1887, when he resigned, after which time he lived a quiet life; during that period traveling a great deal both in this and foreign countries.

During Mr. Garrett's incumbency of the office of President of the Baltimore & Ohio, the head of the company was confronted with the solution of financial problems, which proved too much for Mr. Garrett's health, and for more than nine years he was an invalid. Mr. Garrett was married about fifteen years ago to Miss Mary Frick, daughter of William F. Frick, a leading capitalist of Baltimore, who survives.

HISTORICAL NOTES AND QUERIES.

COLONEL ARCHIBALD WOODS-THE YOUNGEST MEMBER OF THE CONVENTION OF 1788, AND ITS LAST SURVIVOR.

The records of history must be made by patient gathering of facts from various sources, and each gleaner gives from his best knowledge at the time, and desires accuracy before all things. It is with full recognition of this spirit in the authors of two valuable papers, that two corrections are suggested.

Mr. R. S. Thomas, in this Magazine, Vol. III, No. 2, page 198, mentions James Johnson, captain in the Revolution, who died August 16, 1845, as the last survivor of the Virginia Convention to ratify the Constitution, 1788.

Colonel Archibald Woods, a member of that body, lived a year and a half longer, until October 26, 1846, and it is stated by his grandson, the Rev. Edgar Woods, of Charlottesville, Va., that he always believed himself to be the youngest member.

A monograph upon Judge Archibald Stuart, of Staunton, in the University of Virginia Alumni Bulletin, mentions that Judge Stuart was the youngest member. But he was born in 1757, and Colonel Woods not until November 14, 1764; the latter was therefore seven years younger, and not yet twenty-four when he took his seat.

Archibald Woods was born in Albemarle county, Va., and his parents moved to Botetourt in 1766. Andrew Woods, his father, had been educated for the ministry, but ill-health prevented his preaching. He was an elder in the Presbyterian church, and on the formation of Botetourt county, was, with certain kinsmen, made one of the first "Gentlemen Justices of the King's Peace” (Hening, George III), his older brother, Colonel Richard Woods, being High Sheriff. He married Martha Poage (Poague), daughter of Robert Poage, one of the first "Gentlemen Justices of the King's Peace" (George II), when Augusta county was formed, 1738. Martha Woods was a woman of great ability, noble piety and unusual culture for a woman of her day. Many of her letters, in clear, legible writing and actually good spelling (!), have been preserved. Andrew Woods was the son of Michael Woods and Mary Campbell, his wife, who first crossed the Blue Ridge in 1734, and settled near Woods' Gap, named for him, where he soon after owned 2,000 acres. With their children they founded the first Presbyterian church in that region, and one of the first in Virginia, ten years before the Presbytery of Hanover began. They were exiles "for faith and freedom," first from Scotland and then from Ulster.

Archibald was only eleven years old when the war began, and his

brave Scottish blood was impatient to go, as scores of his kinsmen volunteered-Woods', Poages, McDowells, Lapsleys, Shepherds, Lamberts, Reids, Wallaces. But his good mother refused till January, 1781, when he was sixteen at last. Then in that terrible winter, when Washington declared that if all else should fail, his last hope lay in the staunch and strenuous race to which Archie Woods belonged, his mother commended her youngest born son to the God of his fathers, and let him go. He was made sergeant in the company of Captain John Cartwell, to his great delight.

They marched away, their horses floundering through snow and mire, to North Carolina, where, under Colonel Otho H. Williams, they were matched against the trained troops of Tarleton and Cornwallis, and saw hard service. Then, transferred to General Wayne's command in Virginia, under Lafayette, they were present at the curious engagement at Jamestown in July. Later they were under General William Campbell.

The same fatal illness, bred of miasma, which took away General Campbell, nearly cut off the young sergeant. Nearly dead, he was carried home to his mother, who “long despaired of his life.” In this way, though suffering for his country, he missed the surrender at Yorktown, a life-long regret.

After a journey on horseback to Kentucky for his health, he removed to Ohio county, Va., and in 1787, when only twenty-two, was sent to the House of Delegates. The next year he was the youngest of the great Convention.

A magistrate from 1782, for long years he was the presiding justice of the court, until his death in 1846. December 5, 1809, he received commission as colonel of the 4th Virginia Regiment, 10th Brigade, 3d Division. In 1815 he led his regiment under orders to report at Norfolk, but after reaching Cheat River, received tidings that the danger was past, and they were discharged.

His activity in all public affairs was great. One of the founders of the Northwestern Bank of Virginia, famous in the panic of 1837 as one of the few banks in the country which did not suspend specie payment, "saved by his ability and care;" he was its President until his death.

He had a voluminous correspondence with the chief men of the day, and left hundreds of letters from them, and careful copies of his own answers; now a valuable store. By patent and purchase he acquired a large landed estate, and is said to have owned 60,000 acres. A group of gentlemen on the street in Wheeling one day were discussing the moon and whether it was inhabited. One was very positive. "I am sure it is not, or Colonel Archie here would havé a quarter section!”

Like the men of his race, he was very tall and of a spare, commanding figure. One who knew him said: "His face was strong and calm, his eyes dark and bright; his hair brown, worn in quaint fashion, brushed straight back from his face, and tied with a ribbon behind. His portrait,