The National cyclopædia of American biography : being the history of the United States as illustrated in the lives of the founders, builders, and defenders of the republic, and of the men and women who are doing the work and moulding the thought of the present time, edited by distinguished biographers, selected from each state, revised and approved by the most eminent historians, scholars, and statesmen of the day . ign. From 1885to 1888 he managed the Washington Critic, anevening journal of popular local repute; but uponthe transfer of the Post to its piesent owners,whereupon it ceased to be
The National cyclopædia of American biography : being the history of the United States as illustrated in the lives of the founders, builders, and defenders of the republic, and of the men and women who are doing the work and moulding the thought of the present time, edited by distinguished biographers, selected from each state, revised and approved by the most eminent historians, scholars, and statesmen of the day . ign. From 1885to 1888 he managed the Washington Critic, anevening journal of popular local repute; but uponthe transfer of the Post to its piesent owners,whereupon it ceased to be a party newspaper andbecame thoroughly independent and non-partisan,with broad, progressive views, he accepted and nowoccupies the position of its associate editor and lead-ing editorial writer. Mr. Sylvester is married andhas a family. His wife was the daughter of W. Woods, a prominent Presbyterian clergymanof, Iowa, who, as a chaplain in the army, died at , Ky., during the war. He is of strong do-mestic attachments, a great reader and an indefati-gable worker. DUVAL, Henry Rieman, railroad president,was born in Baltimore, Md., Oct. 17, 1842. He is de-scended from Mars Marin Duval, a French Hugue-not, who fled to England from France, and came toMaryland in 1643; received a large grant of land inwhat are now Prince George and Arundel counties,Md. Much of this property is still in the hands of. 326 THE NATIONAL CYCLOPEDIA his descendants. Mr. Duval was educated in privateschools, and St. Timothys Hall Military School,near Baltimore. He entered the Confederate armyin 1861, served under Gens. Lee, Stonewall Jackson,Early and other commanders; was a prisoner of warat Johnsons Island (U. S. prison) from June, 1864,to June, 1865, and was released upon the termina-tion of the war. He entered the service of the Bal-timore & Ohio R. R. Co. in 1872, and has since con-tinued in the railway service; was receiver of theFlorida Railway Navigation Co. from Nov. 1, 1885,to May
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