He died Aug. 4, 1818.
Cabell, WILLIAM, statesman; born in
Licking Hole, Va., March 13, 1730; was a
commissioner to arrange military claims
in 1758. During the trouble between the
American colonies and Great Britain,
prior to the Revolutionary War, he was
a delegate to all the conventions for secur-
ing independence; was also a member of
the committee which drew up the famous
Cabell, JAMES LAURENCE, sanitarian; of the proposed national Constitution.
born in Nelson county, Va., Aug. 26,
1813; graduated at the University of Vir-
ginia in 1833; studied medicine in Balti
more, Philadelphia, and Paris; and became
Professor of Anatomy and Surgery in the
University of Virginia. He was in charge
of the Confederate military hospitals dur-
ing the Civil War. When yellow fever
broke out at Memphis he was appointed
chairman of the National Sanitary Con-
ference, and devised the plan which “declaration of rights." On Jan. 7, 1789,
checked the spread of the epidemic. From
1879 till the time of his death, which oc-
curred in Overton, Va., Aug. 13, 1889,
he was president of the National Board of
Health.
he was one of the Presidential electors
who voted for Washington as the first
President of the United States. He died
in Union Hill, March 23, 1798.
Cabet, ETIENNE, communist; born in
Dijon, France, in 1788; studied law, but
applied himself to literature and politics.
In 1840 he attracted much attention
through his social romance, Voyage en
Icarie, in which he described a communis-
tic Utopia. In 1848 he sent an Icarian
colony to the Red River in Texas, but the
colony did not thrive; and in 1850, as the
leader of another colony, he settled in
Nauvoo, Ill., whence the Mormons had
been expelled. This colony likewise failed
to prosper, and was abandoned in 1857.
Cabell, SAMUEL JORDAN, military offi-
cer; born in Amherst county, Va., Dec.
15, 1756; was educated at William and
Mary College. In 1775 he recruited a com-
pany of riflemen for the American service,
which is said to have opened the action
at Saratoga. During the siege of Charles-
ton he was captured, and not being able
to procure an exchange remained inactive
till peace was concluded. He was a Repre-
sentative in Congress in 1785-1803, and
in 1788, as a member of the constitutional
convention, voted against the adoption He died in St. Louis, Mo., Nov. 9, 1856.
CABEZA DE VACA, ALVAR NUÑEZ
Cabeza de Vaca, ALVAR NUÑEZ, Span-
ish official and author; born in Jerez de
la Frontera, Spain, probably in 1490. In
1528 he accompanied the expedition of Nar-
vaez to Florida in the capacity of comp-
troller and royal treasurer, and he and