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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Wythe scholar W. Edwin Hemphill contributed to a special issue of ''The William and Mary Quarterly'', dedicated to the murder of [[George Wythe]], in October, 1955. The issue was published in accordance with the Marshall-Wythe celebration at the [http://law.wm.edu/ College of William &amp; Mary Law School] on September 25, 1954, for the bicentennial of [[John Marshall|John Marshall's]] birth. The journal pairs Hemphill's essay on "[[Media:HemphillExaminationsOfGeorgeWytheSwinneyOctober1955.pdf|Examinations of George Wythe Swinney for Forgery and Murder]],"<ref>W. Edwin Hemphill, "Examinations of George Wythe Swinney for Forgery and Murder: A Documentary Essay," ''William and Mary Quarterly'' 3rd ser., 12, no. 4 (October 1955), 543-574.</ref> with another by [[wikipedia:Julian P. Boyd|Julian P. Boyd]], "[[Murder of George Wythe]]."<ref>Julian P. Boyd, "[[Media:BoydMurderOfGeorgeWytheOctober1955.pdf|The Murder of George Wythe]]," ''William and Mary Quarterly'' 3rd ser., 12, no. 4 (October 1955), 513-542.</ref> Hemphill had rediscovered witness testimony given for [[Death of George Wythe#Sweeney's Trial|Sweeney's murder trial]] in 1806, and both authors made use of this new information.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Wythe scholar <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[[</ins>W. Edwin Hemphill<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">]] </ins>contributed to a special issue of ''The William and Mary Quarterly'', dedicated to the murder of [[George Wythe]], in October, 1955. The issue was published in accordance with the Marshall-Wythe celebration at the [http://law.wm.edu/ College of William &amp; Mary Law School] on September 25, 1954, for the bicentennial of [[John Marshall|John Marshall's]] birth. The journal pairs Hemphill's essay on "[[Media:HemphillExaminationsOfGeorgeWytheSwinneyOctober1955.pdf|Examinations of George Wythe Swinney for Forgery and Murder]],"<ref>W. Edwin Hemphill, "Examinations of George Wythe Swinney for Forgery and Murder: A Documentary Essay," ''William and Mary Quarterly'' 3rd ser., 12, no. 4 (October 1955), 543-574.</ref> with another by [[wikipedia:Julian P. Boyd|Julian P. Boyd]], "[[Murder of George Wythe]]."<ref>Julian P. Boyd, "[[Media:BoydMurderOfGeorgeWytheOctober1955.pdf|The Murder of George Wythe]]," ''William and Mary Quarterly'' 3rd ser., 12, no. 4 (October 1955), 513-542.</ref> Hemphill had rediscovered witness testimony given for [[Death of George Wythe#Sweeney's Trial|Sweeney's murder trial]] in 1806, and both authors made use of this new information.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><sup>49</sup> Under the reorganization of the College of William and Mary instigated by Thomas Jefferson in 1779, James McClurg (1746-1823), Edinburgh-trained physician, had been one of Wythe's four colleagues in the faculty. For three years Dr. McClurg held the newly created chair of the professor of anatomy and medicine. Like Wythe, McClurg went to Philadelphia in 1787 to attend the convention from which emerged the Federal Constitution. McClurg was chosen to be Richmond's mayor in 1797, 1800, and 1803. For a quarter of a century he was one of the community's out-standing physicians. When the Medical Society of Virginia was organized in 1820, he was elected its first president. Although he was too infirm to take an active part in its affairs, he was re-elected in the next year. Blanton, ''Medicine in Virginia in the Nineteenth Century'', 13, 75-76; Christian, ''Richmond'', 545.  </div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><sup>49</sup> Under the reorganization of the College of William and Mary instigated by Thomas Jefferson in 1779, James McClurg (1746-1823), Edinburgh-trained physician, had been one of Wythe's four colleagues in the faculty. For three years Dr. McClurg held the newly created chair of the professor of anatomy and medicine. Like Wythe, McClurg went to Philadelphia in 1787 to attend the convention from which emerged the Federal Constitution. McClurg was chosen to be Richmond's mayor in 1797, 1800, and 1803. For a quarter of a century he was one of the community's out-standing physicians. When the Medical Society of Virginia was organized in 1820, he was elected its first president. Although he was too infirm to take an active part in its affairs, he was re-elected in the next year. Blanton, ''Medicine in Virginia in the Nineteenth Century'', 13, 75-76; Christian, ''Richmond'', 545.  </div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><sup>4</sup> William H. Cabell to Mrs. William Wirt (undated), quoted in John Pendleton Kennedy, ''[[Life of William Wirt#Page 151|Memoirs of the Life of William Wirt, Attorney General of the United States]]'' (Philadelphia, 1849), I, 151-152. Hereafter cited as Kennedy, ''William Wirt''.<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline"><ref></del>This letter <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">is corrected to have been </del>written by <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Mrs. Agnes </del>Cabell, <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">wife of the judge</del>, <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">in the "New and Revised" edition of Kennedy's biography in 1850</del>, <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">and is corrected in all later editions</del>.<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline"></ref></del></div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><sup>4</sup> William H. Cabell to Mrs. William Wirt (undated), quoted in John Pendleton Kennedy, ''[[Life of William Wirt#Page 151|Memoirs of the Life of William Wirt, Attorney General of the United States]]'' (Philadelphia, 1849), I, 151-152. Hereafter cited as Kennedy, ''William Wirt''. <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[Ed. note: </ins>This letter <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">was more likely </ins>written by <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Judge </ins>Cabell<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">'s wife</ins>, <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Agnes</ins>, <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">to her sister</ins>, <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Mrs. Elizabeth Gable Wirt</ins>.<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">]</ins></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><sup>5</sup> Ambitious for wealth, Wirt found his position as judge of the Superior Court of Chancery for the Eastern District irksome, its salary barely adequate in view of his second marriage, which took place in September, 1802. It "is possible," he observed wryly, "that I may, like Mr. Wythe, grow old in judicial honors and Roman poverty. I may die beloved, reverenced almost to canonization by my country, and my wife and children, as they beg for bread, may have to boast that they were mine." [[Life of William Wirt|William Wirt to Dabney Carr]], Feb. 13, 1803, ''ibid.'', 95. In May, 1803, Wirt returned to the practice of law as an attorney, with his residence and headquarters in Norfolk. ''Ibid.'', 87-101.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><sup>5</sup> Ambitious for wealth, Wirt found his position as judge of the Superior Court of Chancery for the Eastern District irksome, its salary barely adequate in view of his second marriage, which took place in September, 1802. It "is possible," he observed wryly, "that I may, like Mr. Wythe, grow old in judicial honors and Roman poverty. I may die beloved, reverenced almost to canonization by my country, and my wife and children, as they beg for bread, may have to boast that they were mine." [[Life of William Wirt|William Wirt to Dabney Carr]], Feb. 13, 1803, ''ibid.'', 95. In May, 1803, Wirt returned to the practice of law as an attorney, with his residence and headquarters in Norfolk. ''Ibid.'', 87-101.</div></td></tr>
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