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VIRGINIA BIOGRAPHY
Mines, Flavel Scott, horn in Leesburg,
\'irginia, December 31, 1811, son of John
Mines, D. D., a Presbyterian clergyman of
\'irginia. He graduated at Princeton Theo-
logical Seminary in 1830, and became pastor
o' Laight Street Presbyterian Church, New
York City, but resigned his charge in 1841,
and in 1842 took orders in the Protestant
Episcopal church. In 1849 he organized at
San Francisco, California, the first Protes-
tant Episcopal congregation on the Pacific
coast, and built Trinity Church, under the
chancel of which he was buried. He was
the author of a "Presbyterian Clergyman
Looking for the Church." He died in 1S52
at San Francisco. California.
Mutter, Thomas Dent, born in Richmond, \'irginia, March q. 181 1; graduated at Hampden-Sidney College, and at the med- ical department of the University of Penn- sylvania in 183 1, then went to Paris. On his return he settled in Philadelphia. In 1841-56 he was professor of surgery in Jef- ferson Medical College. He wrote an ac- count of the salt sulphur springs of Vir- ginia, an essay on "Club-Foot," contributed various professional papers to periodicals, and published an edition of Robert Liston's "Lectures on the Operations of Surgery," with additions (Philadelphia, 1846). He died at Charleston, South Carolina.
Jenkins, Thornton Alexander, born in Orange county, Virginia, December 11, 1811. He entered the United States navy as a mid- •shipman, November i. 1828; in 1829 saw service on the Natchez in breaking up pirates in Cuba, and in 1831 assisted in suppressing Nat Turner's negro insurrection in Virginia. He was commissioned lieutenant, December 9. 1839, and until 1842 was engaged on the
coast survey. In 1845 he was sent to Europe
to c.Kamine lighthouse systems, and in 1846
presented a report on the lighthouse service
in England, France, and other European
countries. During the Mexican war he was
executive ofificer of the sloop-of-war Gcr-
umiitown : commander of the store ship Re-
lief, and of the supply and hospital station
on Salmadena Island, and commanded land-
ing parties in the capture of Tuxpan and
Tabasco. From 1848 to 1851 he was in com-
mand of the steamers Jefferson and Corunn,
in meteorological and hydrographic obser-
vations and taking deep sea temperatures.
The Conein was built from his own plans
and under his supervision. In October,
1852, he was appointed naval secretary to
the lighthouse board; September 14, 1855,
he was promoted to commander, and placed
in command of the Preble in the Paraguay
ex]3edition, 1855-59. On his return he was
ordered to the Caribbean in search of
^^'alkcr. the filibusterer : then to Vera Cruz,
\\hcre he aided in the capture of the Mira-
nioii and the Marquis of Havana, which he
convoyed to New Orleans. Before the war
between the stages was begun he and Cap-
tain William F. Smith saved the forts at
Key West and Dry Tortugas from falling
iiito the hands of an expedition sent from
New Orleans. In February, 1861, he was
again appointed secretary of the lighthouse
board, and during the year performed secret
service at the request of President Lincoln,
until stricken with illness in November. On
July 16, 1862, ho was ])romoted captain, and
as senior officer repulsed the attack of the
Confederates at Coggin's Point, James
river, and the attack on City Point in .Au-
gust. 1862. Later that year he was engaged
ill blockading Mobile and its approaches, in
