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1S55, and was graduated with the degree of whom has been conferred the high Alasonic
Master of Arts, in the class of 1858. He
taught for one year in the Dinwiddie school,
Albemarle county, Virginia, and one year in
Powell's Female School in Richmond, Vir-
ginia. The following session he was ap-
pointed assistant professor of Latin in the
l/niversity of Virginia. Then came the
great civil war, and in 1861 he enlisted as a
private in the army of Northern Virginia,
but was soon afterwards promoted to the
rank of captain and later to major. He re-
mained in service until the close of the war,
and then became a law student in Middle-
burg, Virginia, with John Randolph Tucker,
as his preceptor. For six months he contin-
ued his reading, but abandoned the law for
the ministry; and in January, 1866, entered
honor of the thirty-third degree of the Scot-
tish rite. He was married three times —
(first) Miss Fannie Berkeley Cochran, of
Loudoun county, Virginia, by whom he had
four children; (second) Miss Virginia
Fisher Rowland, of Norfolk, Virginia, by
whom he had three children, and (third)
Miss Mary Elizabeth Aldrich, of New York
City, by whom he had two children.
Walke, Henry, naval officer, was born in Princess Anne county, Virginia, December ^4, 1808 ; son of Anthony Walke, and a de- scendant of Thomas Walke, who emigrated from England in the seventeenth century. His parents removed to Chillicothe, Ohio, in 181 1, and his father served in the Ohio
the Protestant Episcopal Theological Semi- house of representatives, 1827-31, and in the
nary of Virginia, at Alexandria. Ordained to senate, 1831-35. On February i, 1827,
the ministry, he served for one year as rector Henry was appointed midshipman on the
of the Episcopal church at Harrisonburg, .-llcrt and in July, 1833, was advanced to
Virginia, which was erected by his efforts, jiassed midshipman. He was commissioned
and in January, 1869, was appointed rector lieutenant in February, 1839; was with the
o! Christ Church, Baltimore, Maryland, Inited States fleet in the war with Mexico,
where he officiated until January, 1875. ^^ '"^^ Vera Cruz, Tabasco, Tuspan and Alva-
was then made assistant bishop of Ken- rndo. He was promoted commander in
tucky, and upon the death of Bishop Smith, 1855 ^"d commanded the store-ship Supply,
ten years later, succeeded as bishop of that 1858-61. Being stationed in Pensacola har-
diocese. He is widely known through his bor, after Lieut. Slemmer and his troops
published volumes of lectures and sermons, had evacuated Fort Barrancas and taken
One of the great works that he has accom- refuge in Fort Pickens, he took the officers'
j)lished has been in promoting the welfare families on board the Supply, and with the
of the LTniversity of the South at Sewanee, paroled prisoners, transported them to New
Tennessee. Bishop Dudley was president \'ork, although he had been ordered to Vera
of the Virginia University Alumni Associa- Cruz. He was court-martialed for disobey-
tion of Louisville, a member of the Coun- ing orders and was reprimanded by the sec-
try Club of New York, the Delta Kappa retary of the navy, but the country ap-
Epsilon Club of New York, the Pendennis plauded his patriotism in rescuing one hun-
Club of Louisville, and was a Mason, having dred and six sick soldiers and noncombatants
■attained the knight templar degree, and upon i)cnned up in Fort Pickens. On September
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