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Terry, William Richard

soldier, state senator, was born March 12, 1827, in Liberty, Va. At the beginning of the civil war he entered the confederate service as captain of Virginia cavalry, and was soon promoted and given command of the twenty-fourth Virginia regiment. In 1864 he was made brigadier-general. After the war he served as a member of the Virginia senate for eight years, and for some time was superintendent of the penitentiary in Richmond. He then became superintendent of the Lee Camp Soldiers' home in Richmond.

TESCHEMACHER, JAMES ENGLE- BERT, merchant, scientist, author, was born June 11, 1790, in England. Besides several addresses, he published Concise Application of the Principles of Structural Botany to Horticulture; Essay on Guano (1845); and a translation of Julius A. Stockhardt's Chemical Field Lectures.

He died Nov. 9, 1853, in Boston, Mass.