Cullum

George Washington, an American military officer; b. in New York city, Feb. 25, 1809; graduated from West Point, and was ens gaged in instructing at West Point on practical military engineering. He a isted in the construction of Fort Adams R. I., and during the Civil War, was chief engineer at the siege of Corinth. He was superintendent of the United States Military Academy 1864-66. From that time he was a member of the Board of Engineers for Fortifications, until he was placed on the retired list in 1874. He died in New York city, Feb. 28, 1892, bequeathing $250,000 for the erection of a Memorial Hall near the Military. Academy, and $40,000 for furnishing it with military busts, paintings and other appropriate objects, Cume, a very ancient city of Italy, in Camp an i a, the oldest colony of the Greeks in Italy, founded about 1030 B. C. by colonists from Chalcis, in Eue hea, and from Cyme in Asia Minor. It was destroyed A. p. 1207, and a few ruins only now exist.