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William Gordon McCabe was born in Richmond, Virginia. He was the son of the Rev. John Collins McCabe and Eliza Sophia Gordon Taylor.
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William Gordon McCabe was born in Richmond, Virginia. He was the son of the Rev. John Collins McCabe and Eliza Sophia Gordon Taylor.
After graduating (1858) with highest honors from Hampton Academy, he was for a time tutor in the Selden family of "Westover" before entering the University of Virginia in the autumn of 1860. Here his time was short, for on the day that Virginia seceded he left the University for Harpers Ferry with a student company, and until Johnston's surrender, after Appomattox, remained a soldier of the Confederacy, rising, throughout a succession of major campaigns, from private to captain of artillery, and by his courage, gallantry, and determination winning the admiring affection of his men and of his battalion commander Pegram.
In October 1865 he opened the University School at Petersburg, Va. , and continued it there for thirty years before removing it to Richmond. When in 1901 he closed the school and retired, it was with a fame as a teacher second to none in America; he had previously declined professorships in several leading colleges or universities, and when the movement for an executive head for the University of Virginia was inaugurated, which was not put into effect until several years later, a majority of the Board of Visitors favored his election as its first president. During his school period he continued the writing career which he had begun while in his teens with contributions to the Southern Literary Messenger, and achieved enviable distinction as editor and author.
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From the founding of the University School at Petersburg, Va. , it maintained a reputation for the highest standards of scholarship; and there were few who ever left its doors without having gained from association with the bright-eyed, fiery-souled little headmaster a love of truth and a noble code of living. An inspiring leader and a gifted administrator, McCabe was also known, partly through the textbooks which he edited, as a brilliant Latinist.
His poems, mostly written in war time, have found a place in various anthologies; the foremost English and American magazines published his essays on literary and military topics; he edited sundry works; he composed historical and biographical papers, including many for the publications of the Virginia Historical Society, of which he was long president; and he was an eloquent and charming orator, his frequent occasional addresses many of them championing the cause of his beloved Confederacy compounding the same wit and solid information and sureness of touch that lent grace and point to his writings. Over and above the offices which he held, however, above his honorary degrees, his illustrious friendships, and above his scholastic achievements, it was the personal human side of McCabe "that was his most meaning and attractive possession".
He had a genius for friendship, and wherever he went, into whatever company, he was a welcome guest. His extensive travels and wide experience, his knowledge of what was best in books and in people, his gift as a story-teller, combined with his courtesy, sincerity, and generous sympathy, his warm heart and intellectual independence, to make him a typical example of the cultured old-school Virginian.
McCabe married, April 12, 1867, Jane Pleasants Harrison Osborne; she died in 1912, and he married, second, Mar. 16, 1915, the daughter of his boyhood schoolmaster, Gillie Armistead Cary.