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Baltimore; member of the Virginia State
Convention of 1861. He was elected to the
thirty-seventh congress from Virginia as a
Unionist (March 4, 1861-March 3, 1863),
and elected to the thirty-eighth congress
from West Virginia ; took his seat Decem-
ber 7, 1863, and served until March 3, 1865.
He died at Kingwood, West Virginia, April
19, 1884.
Browne, Thomas Henry Bayly, born at Acconiac, Virginia, February 8, 1844; at- tended Hanover and Bloomtield academies in Virginia, leaving the latter in May, 1861 : volunteered as a private in Company F, Thirty-ninth Regiment Virginia Infftutry; -nfterwards served as a private in Chew's battery of the Stuart horse artillery ; was surrendered with the Army of Northern ^'^irginia in April, 1865 ; was graduated from the law department of the University of Virginia in 1867; '" ^^73 elected attorney for Accomac county, presidential elector on the Blaine ticket in 1884, and elected as a Republican to the fiftieth and fifty-first con- gresses (March 4, 1887-March 3, 1891) ; died at Accomac, Virginia. August 27, 1892. He was a son of Peter F. Browne and Sally Cropper Bayly, and was descended from William Browne, of James City county, who died in 1773-1776.
Buchanan, John Alexander, (q. v.;.
Cabell, George Craighead, born in Dan- ville, Virginia. January 25, 1836, son of Joseph Cabell and his second wife, Anne Everard Boiling attended the Danville Academy, and the law school of the Univer- sity of Virginia in 1857; was admitted to the bar, and commenced practice in Dan- ville in 1858; edited the Republican, and
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later the Democratic "Appeal" in Danville ;
elected, in September, 1858, commonwealth
attorney for Danville, and served until April
23. 1861, when he volunteered as a private
soldier in the Confederate army ; commis-
sioned major in June, 1861, and assigned
tc the Eighteenth Virginia Infantry ; at the
close of the war held the rank of colonel ;
after the war resumed the practice of law ;
elected as a Democrat to the forty-fourth,
forty-fifth, forty-sixth, forty-seventh, forty-
eighth and forty-ninth congresses (March
4. 1875-March 3, 18S7) ; resumed the prac-
tice of law in Danville, Virginia. His father
was the son of Col. Joseph Cabell and Mary
Hopkins, his wife, and grandson of the im-
migrant Dr. William Cabell and Elizabeth
llurks. his wife.
Carlile, John S., ( q. v.).
Carlin, Charles Creighton, born in Alex- andria, Virginia, April 8, 1866; attended the public schools and was graduated from the National Law University; served for years as postmaster : presidential elector on the Democratic ticket in 1904 ; elected as a Democrat to the sixtieth congress, Novem- ber 5, 1907, to fill vacancy caused by the death of John F. Rixey ; was re-elected to the sixty-first congress, and served from December 2, 1907, to March 3, 191 1 ; re- elected to the sixty-second, sixty-third and sixty-fourth congresses.
Critcher, John, born in Westmoreland ccunty. Virginia, March 11, 1820; was grad- uated from the University of Virginia in 1839 : studied at the University of France for three years ; studied law and practiced ; elected to the state senate and to the state convention of 1861 ; lieutenant-colonel of
