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ROBERT FRAZER, A. M , LL. D.
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IRobeit jfraser, H. riD., %%, S). ROBERT FRAZER was born in Orange County, Va., fifty-eight years ago. Fony- three years have been spent in school — seven- teen as student and twenty-six as teacher. At the age of five, he was put in school at home and before reaching ten he was sent, with an older brother, to a boarding-school. In 1856 he entered the Brook- land Academy, established that year by William Dinwiddle, to prepare boys for the University of Virginia. After three sessions here, he went to the University. During his second session there the war between the States came on, and, in company with a number of fellow-students, he enlisted as private soldier in the Rockbridge Artillery, Stone- wall Brigade. A ruder transition could hardly have come into a boy ' s life than this exchange of the quiet routine of student work for the ordeal of privation, conflict and exposure through which this command passed in the famous campaign, 1861-62. In the campaign of ' 62, young Frazer received five Avounds, two at Kernstown, in March ; one at Sharpsburg, in September, and two at Fredericks- burg, in December. Permanentl) ' disabled by one of these last, he returned to the University in the fall of ' 63, and be- gun the study of law, — during the course of this session he was offered a professorship in the Mil- itary Institute of Florida, at Tallahassee, but de- clined it. This offer being renewed in the autumn of ' 64, it was accepted. The surrender of our armies led to the closing of the Institute, and Mr. Frazer returned to Virginia and opened a school for boys in his native county. In 1870, upon the organization of the present public school system of Virginia, he was appointed County Superintendent of Orange. At the end of
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