Berkeley County, West Virginia      Biographical Sketches

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Source:  The South in the Building of the Nation, Volume XI.  
Richmond, Va.: The Southern Historical Publication Society, 1909.
Volume XI, page 443

HARDINGE, Mrs. Belle Boyd: b. Martinsburg, Va. (now W. Va.), about 1835. 
Her father was Dr. Boyd of Martinsburg.  During the war she was imprisoned for
some time as a Confederate spy, and her account of her exploits made her famous. 
At the end of the war she married a Federal officer, from whom she was divorced
in 1868.  After visiting Europe she became an actress in New York in 1868.  Her 
well-known book is: Belle Boyd in Camp and Prison (1865).

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Source:  The South in the Building of the Nation, Volume XI.  
Richmond, Va.: The Southern Historical Publication Society, 1909.
Volume XII, page 331

RANDOLPH, Lingan Strother, engineer: b. Martinsburg, W. Va., May 13, 1859. He 
was educated at the Shenandoah Valley Academy, Winchester, Va., 1873-76, and 
the Virginia Military Institute, Lexington, Va., 1876; he graduated from the 
Stevens Institute of Technology 1833 [probably 1883] with the degree of mechanical
engineer, and was in the employ of various railroads as engineer of tests, 
superintendent of motive power and electrical engineer from 1883-93.  He has 
been professor of mechanical engineering in the Virginia Polytechnic Institute
since 1893.  He is the author of Economic Element in Technical Education; 
Virginia Anthracite Coal Fields; Cost of Lubricating Car Journals, etc.

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