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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 26. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Hon. James Mercer Garnett . (search)
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 27. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Address of Hon. T. S. Garnett (search)
Address of Hon. T. S. Garnett
On the Presentation to the circuit Court of Essex county, Va. (Honorable T. R. B. Wright, presiding), of the portrait of the Honorable M. R. H. Garnett, at Tappahannock, Va., July 20, 1898.
Muscoe Russell Hunter Garnett was the son of James Mercer Garnett, Jr., who was the son of James Mercer Garnett, of Elmwood, and Maria Hunter, sister of Honorable R. M. T. Hunter.
His father was educated at Princeton College and devoted himself to the law, but died at too early an age to be remembered by any but his immediate family, by whom he was esteemed as a man of great intellectual force.
His son, Muscoe, was born July 25, 1821, and was educated at the Elmwood School, established there by his grandfather.
He entered the University of Virginia at the opening of the session of 1838-39, and graduated that session in Latin, Greek, French, German and Mathematics.
After a year's intermission he returned to the University to pursue the study of law, and g