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578 THE SOUTH CAROLINA COLLEGE.
He is a man of eminent scientific attainments and has published
many valuable papers on such subjects. He has been a careful collector of specimens in natural history etc., and has a cabinet of rare
and valuable paintings. He published three volumes of documentary
history of South Carolina, which were previously referred to in our
pages, which have shed much light upon the history of the State.
Dr. Lewis R. Gibbes is our esteemed personal friend and was our
guide and preceptor in days long past at the college of Charleston.
We have taken pride in his growing fame. He was born in Charleston, in 1810, and was educated in Pennsylvania, and in Pendleton
district, South Carolina, and in the South Carolina College, where
he graduated in 1827 with the highest honor. For a little while he
was at the head of the Pendleton Academy. In 1831 he was elected tutor of the South Carolina College, and afterward acting professor. Graduated in medicine in 1836. Went soon after to France
and pursued the medical natural sciences under the greatest masters
and with the highest success. Was elected professor of mathematics
in the Charleston College in 1839, and still retains that post. His
course embraces most of the physical sciences. He recently declined
a professorship at Columbia. His scientific contributions have been
frequent and valuable, and his labors in every field are truly herculean. There is no more valuable man in South Carolina, and he is
greatly beloved by all of the alumni of the college of which he is the
ornament.
Dr. Capers was connected with the college, but for a short time,
and we will refer to him no further here than to call attention to our
notice of him and his labors, in the REVIEW for February, 1859.
Henry J. Nott was son of Judge Nott, of South Carolina. He
graduated at the South Carolina College and was classmate with Legar6. Was admitted to the bar in 1818, and attained high rank.
In connection with Col. McCord he published Nott & McCord's Reports. His tastes were, however, literary, and in order to cultivate
them he spent several years in Europe. In 1824, he became professor in the college. His career was brilliant. His studies covered
the whole field of letters, ancient and modern. He worked up admirably all the materials of his extensive travels. His memory was
remarkable, his humor rich, and wit ready. The style of his writilings was faultless, as exhibited in the Sou?therin Review, and in his
remarkable work, Odds arid Ends, from the Kfnapsack of Thomas
Singularity. He was drowned, in 1837, on the ill-fated steamer
Home, and was greatly lamented.
Stephen Elliott was born in Beaufort, S. C., 1806, and is a son
of the world-famed Stephen Elliott, of that State. He entered
Harvard, but graduated at the South Carolina College, in 1825.
Was admitted to the bar in 1827. In 1835, he was admitted to the
Episcopal ministry, but soon after became professor of Christianity in
the South Carolina College. Was elected bishop of Georgia in 1840.
"An ornament of the church of which he is a member, illustrating in his life
all those virtues which ennoble human nature, well may the State which gave