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ert, alone, of the brothers survived, and after about a year was released and returned to the army. After the war he married Eliza- beth Douglass, in Orange county, and en- gaged in the manufacture of wooden heels for boots and shoes. He had two sons, Ellis and James, born in Orange county. About the year 1790 he moved to Harpers- field in Delaware county, New York, near the head waters of the Delaware river, where he died about 1826, aged seventy-six years. There his children, Elizabeth, Polly, Robert (2), John and Joseph, were born. Three of Ins sons, James, Robert and John served in the second war with Great Britain, 1812-14.

(HI) Joseph Wool, son of Robert and Elizabeth (Douglass) Wool, was born at Harpersfield, Delaware county. New York, in 1798, died at Tenafiy, Bergen county, New Jersey, in 1882. He married, in 1827. and lived on the old homestead farm in Delaware county until 1839. then moved to the town of Harpersfield, thence to Davenport, until 1846 engaging in farming. In the latter year he removed to Rensselav^r county, New York, where he farmed for one year, then removed to Rockland county, New York, near Spring Valley. In 1852 he re- moved to Nyack, New York, but after a year returned to Spring Valley, which vv'as his home until 1880. The last twenty years of his life he resided at Tenafiy, where i:e died in 1882. He married, in 1827, in the town of Cartright, Elizabeth Craig, bo'Mi in the north of Ireland, near Ballybay, Monoghan county. Children : James Craig, of whom further ; Robert Given, born Octo- ber 2, 1832; Jane, born March 9, 1835; Elizabeth Anne, born December 14, 1839; Mary Ellen, born January 14, 1841.

(IV) James Craig Wool, eldest son of Joseph and Elizabeth (Craig) Wo(^l, vvas born in Delaware county. New York, Sep- tember 22, 1828, died in 1895. He married, in 1855, and settled in Nyack, New York, which was his home until 1876. In that year he came to Virginia, settling in Peters- burg. In 1886 he moved with his family 10 Briery, Prince Edward county ; thence after three years to Charlotte county, near Keys- ville, engaging in farming until his death. James Craig Wool married, December 25, 1855, Elmira Demarest, born August 15, 1828, died 1906, daughter of Abraham and Elizabeth (Brower) Demarest. From this

marriage descent is traced to the Dutch families of New Amsterdam, previously noted. The Demarests were of French Huguenot blood, the Browers of Holland ancestry. Children of James Craig Wool : I. Franklin, born October 19, 1856, died in childhood. 2. John Ellis, born August 15, 1858, in Nyack, New York, educated :n public and private schools and at the Union Theological Seminary at Hampden-Sidney, class of 1886, took holy orders and was ordained a minister of the Presbyterian church the year of his graduation ; preached his first sermon at Hampden-Sidney on the "Wisdom of Solomon ;" his first pastorate was the old Briery church in Prince Ed- ward county, where he remained until 1894; he then became an evangelist for the synod of Virginia, working in the mountains of Virginia until 1904; he then resumed regular ministerial duties ; has served three churches and is now pastor of the church at Cornel- ius, North Carolina ; he married, June 27, 1900, Katherine Rachella Kelley, who died May 17, 1901 ; her son, James Craig (2), was born May 11, 1901. 3. Abraham Dema- rest, born February 16, 1861, died Novem- ber 9, 1886; he married, June 3, 1884, Annie Neville Mays. 4. Theodore Jackson, of whom further. 5. James Harvey, of whom further. 6. Joseph Warren, born May 26, 1869, died 1896; was educated for the law and was practicing his profession in Char- lotte county, Virginia, at the time of his death. Of the five sons of James Craig Wool, who arrived at mature years, four chose professional careers, two becoming lawyers, one a minister, and the fourth a dental surgeon.

(V) Theodore Jackson Wool, son of James Craig and Elmira (Demarest) Wool, was born in Nyack, New York, June 17, 1865. He attended public school there until ten years of age ; his parents then brought him to Virginia, where he completed his education at McCabe University School, and Hampden-Sidney College, obtaining his de- gree of Bachelor of Arts from the latter in- stitution, class of 1887. After graduation he taught for two years in Charlotte county, Virginia, being principal in the schools at Keysville and Smithville, when he was elected principal of the Portsmouth, Vir- ginia, school, a position he satisfactorily filled for three years. He decided upon the profession of law and after private courses