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 An attempt to correlate the marine with the non-marine formations of the 

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-1/ EMOIR OF HENR Y MC C ALLEY 

 BY EUGENE A. SMITH 



Henry McCalley, who died of pneumonia in Huntsville, Alabama, on 

 November 21, 1904, was born in that city February 11, 1852 He was 

 the son of Thomas Sanford McCalley, of Spottsvlvania county, Virginia 

 and Caroline, daughter of Robert Landford, who built the second house' 

 in Huntsville. 



Mr McCalley was one of a family of nine children who reached adult 

 age. He lived at his home, 2 miles west of the court-house in Huntsville 

 from his birth to manhood. His school career was begun under the care' 

 of Mrs McKay, then considered the most excellent teacher for youn- 

 children. From Mrs McKay he went to Dr J. M. Bannister, rector of the 

 Church of the Nativity, and afterward to the noted Mr Charles Shepard 

 who is still living and engaged in teaching. At the well known school 

 ot Dr Carlos G. Smith he was prepared for college, soon after the end of 

 the civil war. As the University of Alabama was at that time in the 

 hands of the "carpet-baggers" and without students, he went to the 

 University of Virginia, from which institution he was graduated in 1876 

 witn the degrees of Civil Engineer and Mechanical Engineer. At the 

 university he applied himself very closely to his studies, gaining the 

 highest esteem of both professors and students, but sacrificing his health. 

 On his return home after graduation he spent one year on the farm with 

 a view to restoring his health. 



With the strong recommendation of the faculty of the University of 

 Virginia he took charge of a school at Demopolis, Alabama, where he 

 remained one year and part of another. In the summer nation of 

 Z!l T? t 1 h : i Geol °S 10al Survey of Alabama as a volunteer assistant 

 and traveled with the writer through a part of the Warrior coal field and 

 the valley of tne Tennessee. The following year, 1 878, Mr McCalley gave 

 up his school and came to the University of Alabama as assistant in the 

 department of chemistry, then in charge of the writer of these lines. 

 This position he held until 1883, at the same time also serving as volun- 

 teer assistant on the Geological Survey, for during the first ten years of 

 the existence of this second survey the annual appropriation was only 

 »ouu, none of which went for salaries. 



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