SLAUGHTER, William Bank, lawyer, born in Culpeper county, Virginia, 10 April, 1798 ; died in Madison, Wisconsin, 21 July, 1879. He was educated at William and Mary, admitted to the bar, practised first in Bardstown, Kentucky, and then in Bedford, Indiana, and in 1832 was elected to the legislature of the latter state. While in that body he introduced a set of resolutions strongly sustaining President Andrew Jackson's proclamation to the South Carolina nullifiers. He was appointed register of the land-office at Indianapolis in 1833, and at Green Bay in 1835, and in the latter year was elected a member of the legislative council of Michigan, and introduced a memorial to congress asking that the territory to the west of Lake Michigan be organized into a new territory to be named Wisconsin. After residing in Wisconsin and in his native place, he returned in 1861 to Middleton, Wisconsin, and in 1862 was appointed commissary of subsistence and quartermaster. He wrote for periodicals and encyclopaedias, and published "Reminiscences of Distinguished Men I have Met" (Milwaukee, 1878). --His cousin, Philip, clergyman, born in Springfield, Culpeper county, Virginia, 26 October, 1808. He is a son of Captain Philip Slaughter, of the 11th continental regiment in the army of the Revolution. His education was obtained partly at home and partly in a classical academy at Winchester, Virginia He entered the University of Virginia in 1825, and, after studying law, was admitted to the bar in 1828. Five years later, having resolved to enter the ministry, he went to the Episcopal theological seminary, Alexandria, Virginia He was ordained deacon in Trinity church, Staunton, 25 May, 1834, by Bishop Meade, and priest in St. Paul's church, Alexandria, in July, 1835, by Bishop Richard C. Moore. His first charge was in Dettingen parish, Virginia In 1836 he accepted a call to Christ church, Georgetown, D. C., in 1840 he assumed charge of Meade and Johns parishes, and in 1843 he became rector of St. Paul's church, Petersburg, Virginia Health failing, he spent 1848-'9 in Europe. On returning home he established in 1850, and edited, "The Virginia Colonizationist" at Richmond, Virginia Six years later he built a church on his farm in Culpeper county, and officiated gratuitously for his neighbors and servants until his church was destroyed by the National army in 1862. He then edited in Petersburg "The Army and Navy Messenger," a religious paper for soldiers, and also preached and visited in camp and hospitals. When peace returned in 1865 he was for a time associate editor of the" Southern Churchman." Then he went back to his old home, where, as the churches were destroyed, he fitted up a recess-chancel in his own house for church services. Emmanuel church in Slaughter parish having been rebuilt, he accepted charge of it, and served there while health and strength sufficed. He received the degree of D. D. from William and Mary in 1874. Of late years he has held the office of historiographer of the diocese of Virginia, which was tendered to him by the convention. Dr. Slaughter has made large contributions to religious and general literature, not only in publishing special sermons, orations, addresses, tractates, and magazine articles, but also in bringing out various volumes from his pen during the last forty years. Among these are " St. George's Parish History" (Richmond, 1847); "Man and Woman" (1860); "Life of Randolph Fairfax" (1862) ; "Life of Colonel Joshua Fry, Sometime Professor in William and Mary College, Virginia, and Washington's Senior in Command of Virginia Forces, in 1754" (New York, 1880); "Historic Churches of Virginia," in Bishop Perry's "Centennial History" (1882); "Life of Hon. William Green. , Jurist and Scholar" (Richmond, 1883); " Views from Cedar Mountains, in Fiftieth Year of Ministry and Marriage " (New York, 1884) ; "The Colonial Church of Virginia" (1885) ; "Christianity the Key to the Character and Career of Washington," a discourse before the ladies of Mount Vernon association, in Pohick church (1886); and "Address to the Minute-Men of Culpeper" (1887).