History of Charlottesville, (Charlottesville (city) County) Virginia United States of America

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Mosby Monroe Parsons, soldier, was born in Charlottesville, Va., May 21, 1822. He removed to Cooper county, Mo., with his parents, in 1835, and subsequently settled in Jefferson City. He completed his education in St. Charles college, and was admitted to the Missouri bar in 1846. He practised in Jefferson City, and at the outbreak of the Mexican war raised a company; joined the regiment of General Doniphan, and served under General Kearny in New Mexico, receiving honorable mention for his conduct at Sacramento. He was attorney-general of Missouri, 1853-57, represented Cole county in the state legislature in 1857, and was a state senator in 1859. He joined the Confederate army at the outbreak of the civil war, and was appointed by Governor Claiborne F. Jackson brigadier-general in the Missouri state guards, commanding a brigade in Sterling Price's state guards in the action at Carthage, July 5, 1861, battle of Wilson's Creek, Aug. 10, 1861, the siege of Lexington, Sept. 18-20, 1861, and the action at Springfield, Oct. 25, 1861. After the engagement at Helena, July 4, 1863, he was promoted major-general, and commanded a division in the detachment engaged in the Red River campaign, and the Missouri division in General Price's army in Arkansas after April 20, 1864. He took part in Price's raid in 1864; surrendered with the trans-Mississippi army May 26, 1865, and went to Mexico intending with other Confederate officers to found a colony there, but while camping at China near the San Juan river, and on the neutral ground between the French and Liberal forces, they were attacked by Mexicans and killed, and their bodies thrown into the river, Aug. 14, 1865.

From: Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans, Johnson, Rossiter, editor

Thomas Addis Emmet, physician, was born in Charlottesville, Va., May 29, 1828; son of Prof. John Patten and Mary Byrd (Tucker) Emmet; and grandson of Thomas Addis and Jane (Patten) Emmet. He took a partial course in the University of Virginia and was graduated in medicine at the Jefferson medical college, Philadelphia, in 1850. He was appointed in the autumn of 1850 a resident physician in the Emigrant refuge hospital, Ward's Island, N.Y., and after fifteen months became a visiting physician, serving in this position until the autumn of 1855. He began the practice of medicine in New York city in 1852. He was married in 1853 to Catherine Rebecca Duncan of Montgomery, Ala. After his service at Ward's Island, New York, he was assistant surgeon to the Women's hospital, 1855-62, and surgeon-in-chief, 1862-72. On enlarging the Women's hospital and increasing the staff, Dr. Emmet became visiting surgeon in 1872. After 1859 he made a specialty of the diseases of women and contributed numerous papers relating to that specialty to various American and foreign medical journals. Upon the inception of the Irish national federation in Ireland for gaining Home Rule by constitutional measures, Dr. Emmet was chosen the president of that organization in America. He is the author of a number of papers on medical subjects. He published: Vesico-Vaginal Fistulae (1868); and The Principles and Practice of Gynecol-ogy (1879, 3d ed., .1884), which later was translated into German and French. In 1898 he privately printed an extensive work? The Emmet Family with Some Incidents Relating to Irish History, etc. He is also the author of The Indictment of 1898; or why Ireland has never Prospered under English Rule.

From: Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans, Johnson, Rossiter, editor

Sarah Nicholas Randolph, author, was born at Edge Hill, Charlottesville, Va., Oct. 12, 1839; daughter of Thomas Jefferson and Jane Hollins (Nicholas) Randolph. She established a school for young ladies at Edge Hill, which became celebrated, and she was afterward principal of Patapsco institute, which was transferred to Baltimore, and became the Sarah Randolph school. She is the author of: Domestic Life of Thomas Jefferson (1871); The Lord Will Provide (1872); Life of Stonewall Jackson (1876); Martha Jefferson Randolph, in Wister's "Famous Women of the Revolution" (1870); The Kentucky Resolutions in a New Light (Nation, May 5, 1887), and other articles. She died in Baltimore, Md., April 25, 1892.

From: Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans, Johnson, Rossiter, editor

Thomas Howard McQueary, theologian and educator, was born near Charlottesville, Va., May 27, 1861; son of Thomas Howard and Sarah Jane (Harland) MacQueary; grandson of William and Mary (Hall) MacQueary and of Clifton and Diana (Kinsolving) Garland, and a descendant of Scotch ancestors, who migrated to the north of Ireland and came to America before 1776. His maternal grandparents were descended from prominent early Virginia families. He was educated in the parish school, engaged in farming, 1874-79, and in 1879 entered mercantile business in Washington, D.C. He was a student at Norwood college, Nelson county, Va., 1880-81, and was graduated at the Virginia P. E. Theological seminary, June, 1886. He was ordered deacon, July 19, 1885, by Bishop Peterkin of West Virginia, and was given charge of Christ church parish, Fairmount, W. Va. He was ordained priest in 1887; and was rector of St. Paul's church, Canton, Ohio, 1887-91. A declaration of his belief as embodied in his book "The Evolution of Man and Christianity" (1890), in which he especially denied the virgin birth and bodily resurrection of Jesus though asserting his divinity and spiritual resurrection, brought the attention of theologians to his departure from orthodoxy. He was invited by the Episcopal church congress to deliver an address on Biblical criticism before that body in Philadelphia in November, 1890, and this hastened his trial and conviction in January, 1891. He served out the six months' suspension required by the sentence of the ecclesiastical court and then asked the bishop to restore him to the ministry. The bishop availed himself of a canonical technicality which enabled him to change the sentence to an indefinite suspension and Mr. MacQueary thereupon renounced the ministry of the Protestant Episcopal church and was formally deposed by Bishop Leonard in Cleveland, Ohio, Sept. 25, 1891. He entered the Universalist ministry and became pastor of the First Universalist church, Saginaw, Mich., in 1891, and of the Second Universalist church, Minneapolis, Minn. Jan. 1, 1896. While here he attended the University of Minnesota, receiving the degrees of A.B., 1897, and A.M., 1898. He finally resigned from the Universalist ministry and engaged in sociological and educational work. He founded "Unity House Social Settlement," the first social settlement in Minneapolis in 1897, and presided over it as head resident for two years. In 1899 he taught in the boys' academy in Minneapolis; in 1900 he was elected vice-president and professor of history and Latin in the Northwestern Military academy, Highland Park, Ill., and on July 1, 1900, he was elected superintendent of the Chicago Parental school, Chicago, Ill., an institution for the education and reformation of habitual truants, established by the Chicago board of education under a special law passed for this purpose. He was married, Jan. 14, 1892, to Emma Clarkson, daughter of the Hon. John I. Harris of Harrisonburgh, Va. He is the author of The Evolution of Man and Christianity (1890); Topics of the Times (1891); The History of the Penal and Reformatory Institutions of Illinois, and contributions to magazines.

From: Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans, Johnson, Rossiter, editor