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that his merits are most apparent, and it is those who 

 will grieve for him most sincerely. He had a charm of 

 personality and a freedom from the intellectual arrogance 

 that mars so many men of learning, that made contact 

 with him a source of exquisite delight, and the one who 

 writes these lines feels that he has lost a friend such as 

 rarely enters into a man's life, and one who will leave a 

 gap that will never be filled. 



By Charles Minor Blackford, M.D., 



Staunton, Va. 



