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ii; practice in Portsmouth, and at different
times served on the health and quarantine
boards, and on the state board of medical
examiners. He held membership in the
State Medical Society and the American
Medical Association. He married Alice
A'irginia, daughter of James E. Toomer, of
Portsmouth.
Keane, John Joseph, born at Ballyshan- iion. Ireland, September 12, 1839, son of Uughand and Fanny Kean. He came to the United States with his parents at the age of seven years. He was educated at St. Mary's Seminary, Baltimore, Maryland, (A. B., 1864, A. M., 1865, S. T. B., 1866). He received the degree of D. D. from Laval College in 1889, and from Manhattan Col- lege in 1892; and that of LL. D. from Har- vard University in 1893. In 1866 he was ordained to the Roman Catholic priesthood, and was assistant pastor of St. Patricks Church, Washington City, 1866-78. He was consecrated bishop of Richmond, Virginia, in 1878, and transferred to the titular see of Jasso, August 12, 1888. He was rector of the Catholic University of America, 1886- 97. On January 9, 1897, he was, elevated to archiepiscopal dignity with title of Arch- bishop of Damascus; and on July 24, 1900, was transferred to the see of Dubuque, Iowa. He is the author of "Onward and Upward."
Trevilian, John Guerrant, born in Gooch- hmd county, Virginia, April i. 1840, son of Col. John Mayo Trevilian and Mary Argyle, his wife. His paternal ancestry is English, and has been connected with Virginia from the early part of the seventeenth century down to the present time. Dr. Trevilian j)ursued his early education imder private
tutors, and then entered Hampden-Sidncy
College, after which he completed his liter-
ary course in the University of Virginia,
where he was a student in 1858-59. He
prepared for his chosen profession in the
IMedical College of Virginia, and graduated
with the degree of Doctor of Medicine in
1861. The civil war was then in progress,
and immediately following his graduation
he was commissioned assistant surgeon in
the Confederate hospital service in Rich-
mond, where he remained for twelve
months. He was then commissioned sur-
geon-in-charge of the hospitals at Warren-
tcn and Winchester, Virginia, and afterward
was chief surgeon in Gen. Lewis Armi-
stead's brigade of Pickett's division. Army ■
o! Northern Virginia, remaining with that ■
command in all of the engagements until the death of the intrepid leader at Gettys- burg. Dr. Trevilian then remained with his successor until the close of the war, and was paroled at Appomattox Court House by Gen. Grant. Following his military ser- vice. Dr. Trevilian took up his abode in Richmond, where he engaged in the prac- tice of medicine and surgery, and was sur- geon to the Richmond (Virginia) City Ho.s- pital. He belonged to the Virginia State Medical Association, Richmond Academy of Medicine, and the American Medical .Asso- ciation. He wrote various articles for the medical press. In politics he was a Demo- crat. He married, June 6, 1866, Virginia C. Parrish, of Richmond, Virginia.
Newton, John Brockenbrough, b«rn Feb- mary 7. 1840, son of Willoughby Newton, legislator and congressman, and Mary Ste- venson, his wife, daughter of Judge William r.rockenhrough, of the \'irginia supreme
