CLAIBORNE
CLAIBORNE
vice-president of the Association of collegiate
alumnfe, 1895-98, and in 1898 was elected general
secretary-treasurer of the Association of colle-
giate alumnie. She is the author of College
Training for Wor)ien (1897); and of numerous
magazine articles including "Ethics of Copy-
right," Yale Eeviev\,'Fehr\xsirj 1896; "Burke: A
Centenary Perspective," Atlantic Monthly, July,
1897; "The Problem of Occupation for College
Women," Educational Beview, March, 1898.
CLAIBORNE, Ferdinand Leigh, soldier, was born in Sussex county, Va., in 1772; son of Wil- liam and Mary (Leigh) Claiborne of Manchester, Va. ; grandson of Nathaniel (of " Sweet Hall ") and Jane (Dole) Claiborne; great-grandson of Captain Thomas and Ann (Fox) Clebornc ; great^ grandson of Lieutenant-Colonel Thomas and (Dandridge) Cleborne, and great^ grand- son of Secretary William and Elizabeth (Boteler) Clayborne. He was appointed ensign of infantry, U.S. army, 1793, and was promoted captain in 1799. He resigned his commission in the army in 1803, and was chosen brigadier-general of the Mississippi militia in 1811, and when the Creek Indians began hostiliticc, he recruited a regiment of volunteers and was made its colonel. He was promoted brigadier - general of volunteers and commanded in the engagement at the " Holy Ground," December, 1813. He was elected to the Mississippi legislative council of 1815 and pre- sided over that body. He was married in 1802 to Magdalene, daughter of Col. Anthony Hutchins, an officer in the English army. He died in Natchez, Miss., in 1815.
CLAIBORNE, John, reiDresentative, was born at Brunswick, Va., in 1777; son of Thomas and
(Scott) Claiborne ; and brother of Thomas
Claiborne, who represented Tennessee in the 15th congress, 1817-19. John was well educated and became a physician. He was a representative in the 9th and 10th congresses, serving from Dec. 2, 1805, till his death, which occurred at Brunswick, Va., Oct. 9, 1808.
CLAIBORNE, John Francis Hamtramck, his- torian and representative, was born in Natchez, Miss., April 24, 1809; son of Gen. Ferdinand Leigh and Magdalene (Hutchins) Claiborne; and grandson of Col. AVilliam and Mary (Leigh) Clai- borne of Manchester, Va. He was admitted to the Virginia bar in 1825, but did not practise. In 1838 he became editor of a paper published in Natchez by Col. Andrew Marschalk. He was elected to the state legislature before he had at- tained his majority and was re-elected to the two ensuing terms, at the close of which he re- moved to Madisonville, Miss. The first state Democratic convention ever held in Mississippi nominated him for representative in congress by
acclamation, and a^'ter a bitter political canvass
he was elected to the 24th congress. He was
given a certificate of election to the 25th con-
gress Oct. 3, 1837, but the seat boing declared
vacant Jan. 31, 1838, and a new election held,
he was succeeded by Sergeant S. Prentiss of
Vicksburg, May 30, 1838. He edited the Natchez
Fait Trader until 1844, when he removed to New
Orleans and became editor of the Jeffersonian, of
the Statesman, and later of the Louisiana Courier.
He was a staunch Democrat, a fearless, brilliant
and independent writer, and well known in the
literary and political world. In 1853 he was ap-
pointed U.S. timber agent for Louisiana and
Mississippi by President Pierce; but the latter
part of his life was spent upon his beautiful planta-
tion '■ Dunbarton, " near Natchez, Adams county,
Miss., where he devoted himself to literary pur-
suits. There he accumulated a large library and
an invaluable collection of historico-genealogical
docviments and manuscripts, which were nearly
all consumed (with two volumes of his history in
MSS.) at the destruction of " Dunbarton " in 1884.
He was elected a member of the Royal Histori-
cal Society of Great Britain and other learned
associations, and the University of Mississippi
conferred upon him the degree of LL.D. in 1882.
In 1882 he presented to the university and state
of Mississippi his valuable collection of state his-
torical papers, the private correspondence and
journals of Governor Claiborne, Sir William Dun-
bar, General Claiborne of the Creek war, George
Poindexter, Col. Anthony Hutchins, Livingstone
and other eminent men. He was married in 1828
to Martha Dunbar, the heiress to " Dunbarton,"
by whom he had one son and two daughters. His
only sister mai'ried the Hon. John H. B. La Trobe,
and was the mother of Ferdinand Claiborne La
Trobe, elected five times Mayor of Baltimore,
Md. Colonel Claiborne served the Confederacy
during the civil war. His published writings
include: Life and Correspondence of CtCU. John A.
Quitman (1860); A Life oj Daniel Boone ; Life and
Times of (ien. Samtiel Dale (1860) ; and History of
Mississippi as a Province, a Territory and a State
(1880). He died at Natchez, Miss., May 17, 1884.
CLAIBORNE, Johi: Herbert, physician, was
born in Brunswick county, Va., March 16, 1828;
son of the Rev. John Gregory and Mary Eliza-
beth (Weldon) Claiborne of " Roslin Castle";
grandson of John Herbert and Mary (Gregory)
Claiborne ; and great-grandson of Col. Augustine
and Mary (Herbert) Claiborne, who was third in
descent from Secretary William Clayborne of
Virginia, 1589-1676. He was graduated from the
University of Virginia in 1849 and from the
Jefferson medical college of Philadelphia in 1850,
and practised in Petersburg, Va. , until the break-
ing out of the war. In 1857 he was elected to the
