writer has many times profited by his learning and judgment, and, now that he is gone, feels the loss of a wise counsellor and friend, who was capable of good advice and gave it freely. As a companion he was sociable and friendly. Free from envy and malice, simple and gentle in his manners, sympathetic and magnanimous, his love of truth, his fidelity and frankness, were as elevated as the antique examples of the chevaliers.

Though Mr. Berkeley died before attaining that length of years naturally coveted by most men, and probably without · reaching the goal of his early ambition, yet he was conscious of and appreciated the high opinion of his contemporaries. He had lived to reflect honor upon an honorable profession, had followed a straight path and a spotless life, and left to his children a character "honorable to admire and virtuous to imitate."

A. M. AIKEN.

CALLOWAY BROWN.

The subject of this brief memorial, the Honorable Calloway Brown, the last Judge of Bedford county, under the late judicial system, senator-elect from the Twenty-second Senatorial District, composed of Bedford and Rockbridge counties and the city of Buena Vista, passed away at his home in Bedford City, after a brief illness, on November 5, 1903, in his forty-fifth year, leaving a widow, Mrs. Fannie O. Brown (nee Horsley), and a young son about eleven years of age, and a host of friends to grieve over the loss of a husband, a father, a friend and a citizen, taken away in the maturity of his usefulness and powers, and to the irremediable loss of those dear to and dependent upon him.

The son of the late Dr. Granville L. Brown, a distinguished physician of Bedford county, and of his wife, Elizabeth Calland Brown, who was of the well known and influential Calloway family, Judge Brown in his earliest youth gave strong evidence of his birthright in the ability, zeal, industry and ambition with which he pursued his studies through youth and early manhood to his entry upon the practical duties of life.

A zealous student, even in his earliest years, he received his academic education in his native county, at Bellevue High School, so well known for its high standard of scholarship, and at New London Academy-the Alma Mater of such distinguished men as Hon. John Goode, Col. W. E. Peters of the University of Virginia, and the late Judge E. C. Burks. Completing his academic course at seventeen years of age, he determined to follow the profession of his father, then dead, and in 1878, he went to Louisville, Kentucky, and entered the Hospital College of Medicine of Central University, where he displayed such industry and talent that he graduated in 1880 with the highest honors, and was at once appointed resident physician in the college hospital. Remaining there one year, he returned to Bedford county to practice his profession, but at the end of a year found the hardships and exposure of a country practice too severe for his health, never strong, and then especially weakened by heart trouble. Thus forced to abandon his chosen profession, in which he had made so brilliant a beginning, undismayed by his physical trouble, he, with, unabated energy and cheerfulness,

turned to the law as making less physical claims upon his strength, and in 1882 studied law at the University of Virginia, remaining a year, and then returning to Bedford county. He at once formed a partnership with his friend and cousin, that talented young advocate and lawyer, the late Picton L. Saunders. The firm of Saunders & Brown soon gained a successful and profitable practice, and in a few years took into the partnership the late Hon. Graham Claytor, but the strain of an active practice began to tell so severely upon his health by 1890 that he again was compelled to relinquish his hopes and ambitions, and give up active work in his profession. In 1891 he was elected county judge and abandoned the practice of law entirely for a number of years. Entering upon his new duties at January term, 1892, he continued to perform them, under re-election, to the day of his death.

Both at the bar and on the bench he attached to himself a large and constantly increasing number of friends and supporters, as a result of his invariable kindness and courtesy, and of the active interest he took in all things relating to the welfare of his county. When, therefore, he announced his candidacy for the State Senate in the late spring of 1903, he was assured of the overwhelming support of his native county, which must ensure his election in the Senatorial district. Never content, however, to take anything for granted, when by his own labor and activity he could "make assurance doubly sure," he undertook an active canvass of Rockbridge county some weeks prior to the election, and there he is supposed to have contracted typhoid fever, which developed immediately on his return home, and terminated fatally about a week later on November 5, 1903 -two days after his election by large majorities in both counties. Born on April 7, 1859, he died in his forty-fifth year, having exemplified on the bench his abilities as one of the ablest judges of Virginia on the county court bench, and in his practice at the bar a high order of ability, unswerving integrity, and a faithful devotion to the interests of his clients. A warm friend, a devoted husband and father, and an invaluable citizen, his loss will long be deplored by the people of his county who knew and loved him, and who will ever cherish his memory in green remeinbrance.

J. LAWRENCE CAMPBELL.