Hampden Sydney College - Kaleidoscope Yearbook (Hampden Sydney, VA)

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Er. IHEILIILIE .APII1Pl.i1I5 Jlruing IXQHE Hllllllfll of 15114 was deilicated fu lir. Hoiton Holladav. the first pliysician to the C'olleg'e otficially so desigiiated. and it seenis l,'IlllllL'llflV ni? 11 1 ' jet? 35+ appropriate that the volunic for the 1resent year should ill like 1111111111-1' ,, . lx l carry tl1e nanie of Dr. Paulus lrving. now acting' in like capacity: for 1fv,Q?. while i11 length ol' service tl1e fornier L'l'lUllfS. with but a brief interval. the whole period of l1is professioiial life a11d the latteris tenure of office l1as as yet conipassed barely a twelvt-111o11tl1: illlll while the contrast i11 the state of Olll' co1111t1'y during these two periods is even greater. the iirst one of unbroken peace. save for the brief tiurry of tl1e war with Spain. the second. however short. IIIOIIIUIITIOHS i11 its whirlwind of far-reacliing' cliangesz nevertlieless their association with Hainpden-Sidney is i11 niany ways niarkedly siniilar. both being aluxnni, though not classniates. both of families represented i11 its history for the niajor part of a century. their fathers like theniselves being Zllllllllll. one also long a 111e111ber of its Faculty. the other of the Board of Trustees. lndeed. it would not. be easy to find two llOllSE'S more intiniately connected with the lllSflUlflUll. for Uaptain Irving's first wife was a daughter of President Cttsliing. and the Rev. Albert Holladay was President elect i11 1856. Even as early as 18051 we find on the roll of students the name of Paulus Aenielius lrving. a lloctor of Physic. too. like his descendaiit of to-day. Sprung front ancestry proininent ill the social and political life of the Coin- nionwealth. the subject of this sketch was born at the Deanery. the faniily seat of his branch of the Irvings. sit11ate in Cuiiiberlaiid Ctlllllty, near Cartersville. a village on the south bank of the Janies. lvllt-11 tl1e boy was tive or six years old. his father. Captain Francis Deane lrving. was serving 1l11llL'1' Stonewall Jackson in the fanious Valley f'a111paign. if not witl1 l'r11ssian etficiency i11 drill and illtf goose step. yet with all the ardor of a tr11e Yirgiiiian. fighting tl1e iight for self- deterniination as it is the fashion to call it now. Coining the surrender of Apponiattox. the war with bayonet and b11llet over. the Confederate officer returned to civil life. taking' up again the practice of the law, as arduous a calling as the country dot-tor's. with jouriieys i11 the saddle from court to court in all weathers, tl1e county assizes of those days holding every inonth. It -was in tl1e unhappy time of Recoitstruction. when another contlict was waged. especially bitter. in what is k11ow11 tl1e Black Belt. where carpet-baggers from tl1e North. the second horde of hostile invaders. thronged a11d tl1e votes of the newly enfranchised negroes were a nienace to social order and the decent ad111i11is- tration of the laws. The problein had not bee11 solved when the fillllllry' at the 'Deaneryl' removed to Farniville. There on election days tl1e town presented a Scene of rare excitenient. even the Presbyterian Divine is said to have gone arnied. and the casting and counting of ballots was a ganie known only to tl1e i11itiate. Among the proniinent citizens of the place were Captain Irving and Captain Page Elmer: