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William Waugh Smith temporarily ahan-
(loned his studies and became associated
with his father, reporting the sessions of
the Confederate senate for the "Enquirer"
and one other periodical. Exempt from
military service because of his youth and
his reportorial duties, he waived such free-
dom from service and enlisted in the Con-
federate States army, being twice wounded
in action. He was left wounded on the
hattlefield of Gettysburg and was cared for
in the West Building Hospital in Balti-
more, being exchanged among the last pris-
oners before the practice was discontinued
by Gen. Grant. After the war he and his
father continued in the newspaper business
a.^ R. M. Smith & Son until 1867, when
William W. entered the University of Vir-
ginia and his father returned to educational
work. In the University of Virginia Dr.
Smith graduated in Latin with high honors,
then entered Randolph-Macon College, in
which his father was professor of natural
sciences. He left college to become an in-
structor in the Richmond school of Gen. J.
II. Lane, and at this time married his first
wife. Returning to college in the following
vear he was graduated .\. M. in June of
1871. and in the fall of that year formed a
coniiectinn with his uncle, Maj. Albert G.
Smith, in the conduct of Bethel Military
Academy in Fauquier county. In the year
1878 Dr. Smith became professor of moral
und mental i)liilosophy in Randolph-Macon
College, afterv^'ard occui)ied the chair of
Greek, finally that of Latin, in which he had
specialized. In 1886 he was elevated to the
] residency of the college, the fruits of his
devoted application to its welfare being the
addition of more than one hundred and
twentv-five thousand dollars to the endow-
ment fund (in addition to forty thousand
he had gained for this fund while still a
professor), and the establishment of two
academies, one at Front Royal, the other
at Bedford City, each at a cost of one hun-
dred thousand dollars and both under the
direction of the college authorities. In 1893
Dr. Smith founded the Randolph-Macon
Woman's College at Lynchburg, and from
a small beginning built up an institution
v.orthy of a great educator. In addition to
his duties as president of this college. Dr.
Smith retained the chancellorship of the
Randolph-Macon educational system. Dr.
Smith was a leading layman of the Metho-
dist Episcopal church and was a member of
the general conference that created the
church board of education, of which he was
the first secretary, with the powers of ex-
ecutive office. He was honored in 1889 with
the degree of Doctor of Laws from Wes-
levan University, of Middletown, Connecti-
cut. .Among his published works are
"Outlines of Psychology" and "A Compara-
tive Syntax Chart of Latin, Greek, German,
I'rench and English." He married (first)
Ella Junes, of Richmond : (second) Marion
Love Howison. of .Alexandria. \'irginia.
Jordan, Cornelia Jane Matthews, born in Lynchburg, \'irgini;i. January 11, 1830, daughter of Edwin Matthews, at one time mayor of Lynchburg. She was educated at the -Academy of the X'isitation in George- town, D. C. and in 1851 married Francis H. Jordan, of Page county. Virginia. In 1863 she visited Corinth, Mississippi, where her husband was a staff officer under Gen. I'.eau- regard. and where she wrote her poem, 'Corinth." This was seized on its publica- tion in 1865 as "objectionable and incendi-
