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GEORGIA AND GEORGIANS 3137Foreman and wife, still living at' Washington. Mrs. Barksdale died March27, 1894, leaving two children: Mrs. Helen Herwell of Washington, who hasa son P. G. Herwell, Jr.; and R. 0. Barksdale, Jr., now living at Atlanta. OnJuly 21, 1897, at GainesVille, Georgia, Mr. Barksdale married Miss LorenaWhelchel, daughter of Aaron Whelchel and wife of Gainesville. By the secondmarriage there are three daughters, Catherine, Mary Elizabeth and Hermion,all of whom were born at Washington and are attending the high school inthat city.I,CAPT. ARCHIBALD W. BUTT, the gallant southern gentleman and one ofthe heroes of the Titanic, -who went down in tne icy waters of the Northwith a smile and the gentle words '.'Women and children first," was Georgiaborn,a native of Augusta. His birthday was September 26, 1866. A graduate of the University of the South, in January, 1900, he was appointed captain and assistant quartermaster of volunteers, and, in the following March,quartermaster, for service in the Philippines. In June, 1901, he was appointedcaptain in the regular army, having previously been assigned as quartermaster. He thus served until June, 1903; was depot quartermaster atWashington during the following three years; stationed at Havana in 1906-08, and from April, 1908, until the Titanic disaster of April 12, 1912, waspersonal aide to both Presidents Roosevelt and Taft. His commission asmajor in the United States army dated from December, 1911. Major Buttwas a man of grace in bearing and character and was returning from somedelicate mission abroad when he met his fate, with characteristic braveryand modesty, on the maiden trip of death sailed by the great ocean palace.DR. WILLIAM H. DOUGHTY, who was one of the notable surgeons producedby the Civil war, made his native City of Augusta his home until his deathin 1905. He was born February 5, 1836, graduated from the Medical Collegeof Georgia in 1855, practiced in Augusta until the Civil war period, and in1862-63 was almost constantly engaged in the hospital service of the Confederacy. For a number of years afterward he held the chair of materia medicaand therapeutics in the medical department of the University of Georgia.LUCTUS QUINTUS CINCINNATUS L/AMAR. In the death of Justice L. Q. C.Lamar, during 1893, the South lost one of its greatest men. He was born inPutnam County, Georgia, in 1825, and graduated from Emory College whentwenty years of age. He studied law at Macon in the office of A. H. Chappell,was admitted to the bar in 1847, and in 1849 moved to Oxford, Mississippi.After serving as adjunct professor of mathematics at the University of 4Slississippifrom 1850 to 1852, he returned to Georgia and located at Covington,and while a practicing lawyer of that place was sent to the Legislature. Heserved during the sessions of 1853-55, when he again located in Mississippi,with which he was henceforth identified.Justice Lamar was,in two congresses before the war, was a member ofboth the South Carolina and the Mississippi conventions which voted secession, and during hostilities was judge advocate and special Confederate commissioner. He held the rank of colonel. Soon after the war he held the chairof ethics in the University of Mississippi, in the '70s served two more termsin Congress and commenced his eight years of service in the United StatesSenate. With the cessation of hostilities, he bent all his energies and eloquence to 'healing the sears of war borne by both the North and the South.President Cleveland appointed him secretary of the interior, in 1885, andin 1888 associate justice of the United States Supreme Court. Justice Lamaroccupied the highest Federal bench at the time of his death, and none of itsmembers were more honored for their eloquence or learning.