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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 27. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Judge William Brockenbrough. (search)
and head of his own law school at Lexington, and afterwards as Professor in the Law School of Washington and Lee University. He followed the example of his father by publishing a volume of Federal Decisions. He was also a member of the Confederate Congress. A sketch (with portrait) of Judge John W. Brockenbrough, by Professor Charles A. Graves, will be found in 2 Virginia Law Register, 157. One of their daughters, Mary, married Hon. Willoughby Newton, and was mother of Bishop John Brockenbrough Newton. Another, Judith White, married the Rev. John P. McGuire, so long and so favorably known as an Episcopal clergyman, so highly esteemed for his faitful ministrations, and so beloved by the people of Essex. She was a noble woman, and wrote that admirable book about the Confederate war times, The Diary of a Southern Refugee. It was she who presented to our Supreme Court of Appeals that portrait of her beloved and honored father which they have materially aided in having copied f