Lee County AlArchives Biographies.....Lane, James H. 1833 - 
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Author: Smith & De Land, publishers

    JAMES H. LANE, was born in 1833, in Matthews County, Va., and his parents
were Walter G. and Mary A. H. (Harkwell) Lane, of that State. The elder Mr. Lane
was a merchant at Matthews Court House, where he died in 1868.

    James H. Lane was educated at the Virginia Military Institute, and at the
University of Virginia. He graduated with honors at the former in 1854, and in
the scientific course at the latter in 1857. His first appointment was on the
hydro-graphic survey of York River. He was then appointed assistant professor in
the Virginia Military Institute, where he remained one year. From there, he went
to Florida as professor of Mathematics and Instructor of Tactics in the State
Seminary at Tallahasse. and after one year's connection with that institution,
was elected Professor of Natural Philosophy and Instructor of Tactics in the
North Carolina Military Institute, at Charlotte.

    Professor Lane remained at the North Carolina Military Institute until 1801,
when he entered the Confederate service as Adjutant of the first Camp of
Instruction at Raleigh. From major, he was promoted lieutenant-colonel of the
First North Carolina Volunteers, and later, colonel of the Twenty-eighth North
Carolina Troops. In 1862 he was promoted to the rank of brigadier-general.

    General Lane saw service at the front in the Army of Northern Virginia
through the entire war, and won that distinction which is only accorded to the
brave, chivalrous, intrepid, sagacious and heroic. He was, in the best
acceptation of the word, a martial spirit, and all over the South there are many
who will hear testimony to his faithful record as a soldier and officer. He was
not one who ordered his men where he himself was not willing to go; and those
that served under him, place him among the "truest of the true," and the
"bravest of the brave." He, therefore, is one of the soldiers who retired to the
peaceful walks of life with a military record upon which there is no stigma and
whose escutcheon is untarnished. In peace he has proved himself as worthy as he
did in war.

    After the surrender General Lane taught private schools in North Carolina
and Richmond, Va., a short time, and for eight years thereafter acted in the
dual capacity of Professor of Natural Philosophy and Commandant of Cadets at the
Agricultural and Mechanical College at Blacksburg, Va. In 1880 taught a private
school in Wilmington, N. C.; in the following year was called to the chair of
Mathematics in the School of Mines and Metallurgy of the State University of
Missouri; in the succeeding year was called to Richmond, Va., to take charge of
the Virginia Mining and Manufacturing Company, where, their property being
destroyed by fire before their works were put in operation, he had no
opportunity of showing his fitness for that department of active industrial
life. He was too well known, however, to be left long without offers, and it was
reserved for the Agricultural and Mechanical College of this State to exhibit
its knowledge of the fitness of men by selecting him to fill the chair of
Engineering and Drawing, and to discharge the duties of Commandant of the Corps
of Cadets of that institution. He still fills the position of professor of Civil
Engineering and Drawing and the board of trustees have had no occasion to regret
their choice. He has cast in his lot with the people of Alabama, and has shown
his determination to identify himself with this State by purchasing property in
the town of Auburn.

    General Lane was married in 1869 to Miss Charlotte, daughter of Benjamin L.
and Jane E. Meade, of Virginia, and to them four daughters have been born, viz.:
Lidie H., Mary B., Kate M., and Lottie E.

    The family are communicants of the Episcopal Church.


Additional Comments:
Extracted from:

Northern Alabama: Historical and Biographical
Birmingham, Ala.: Smith and De Land
1888

PART III.
HISTORICAL RESUME OF THE VARIOUS COUNTIES IN THE STATE.
MINERAL BELT.


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