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dren of first marriage: i. Indiana, died De- cember 19, 1910. 2. Virginia. 3. Edward Livingston, died December 22, 1859. 4. Anna Maria, died August 6, 1838. Children of second marriage : 5. Arthur Richardson, died of yellow fever in New Orleans, Sep- tember, 1867. 6. Herbert Livingston, ot whom further. 7. Robert Worthington, died August 17, 1895; married Lucretia Johnson and left children : i. Bessie, married Howell Lewis ; five children : Matilda Warner, Harold C., Mary Elizabeth, Katharine Lena- han, Lucretia Worthington. ii. Mae, married Commodore R. O. Bitler, United States Navy ; two children : Worthington Smith and Mary Lucretia. iii. Robert Worthing- ton Jr. 8. Elizabeth Boughan, died Decem- ber II, 1846. 9. James Edward, died of yellow fever at New Orleans, September, 1867. 10. Jack Ouarles Hewlett, died No- vember 22, 1910; married Anna Scott and left four children : i. Mae Bruce, married Joseph Mason ; children : Jack Frederick, and Catharine Bruce, deceased, ii. Arthur Herbert, married Ada Bromley; children: Grace, Eugenia, Arthur Herbert, Ann Bruce, deceased, iii. Jack Quarles, now an attorney-at-law in Baltimore ; married Isabel Opie ; children : Harriet and Jack Ouarles. iv. Eugenia, married Dr. E. H. H. Old, sur- geon in United States Navy; children: E. H. H. Jr. and Bruce Scott. 11. Annie Eu- genia, residing in Norfolk with her brother. Herbert L. 12. Charles Richardson, died March 14, 1855.

Herbert Livingston Smith, son of Dr. Arthur Richardson and Jane Ellen (Her- bert) Smith, was born at Deep Creek, Nor- folk county, Virginia, March 4, 1842. He was educated in private school and Webster Collegiate Institute at Portsmouth, Virginia. At the age of nineteen he enlisted in the Old Dominion Guard, which was mustered into the Confederate service as Company K, Ninth Regiment Virginia Infantry, Cap- tain Edward Kerans commanding. He served one year with the Ninth Regiment and was then transferred to the Fifteenth Virginia Cavalry, his term of service ending with the surrender at Appomattox, April 9, 1865. After the war he engaged in business as a merchandise broker, in partnership with J. Spence Reid, at Norfolk, being the first broker of that kind to transact business in the state. He continued in business until 1869, and from then until 1872 resided on his

farm at Deep Creek consisting of two hun- dred and fifty acres. In the latter named year he returned to Norfolk as superintend- ent of the city water works, a position he filled for twenty years, although not con- tinuously. He later engaged in lumbering, purchasing the standing timber and dispos- ing of it the same way. Subsequently he erected saw mills and now converts his timber into lumber, and has an extensive business in rough and manufactured lumber, having prospered greatly. He is a member of Christ Episcopal Church, and in politics is a Democrat.

Mr. Smith married, m December, 1868, Henriette K. Vermillion. Children: i. Arthur Richardson, married Edna Robin- son. 2. Blanche L., married William Camp; children : Ellen Castleman, Mary Bonsai, deceased. 3. Herbert Livingston Jr., mar- ried Alia Ransome. 4. H. Garrett, married Donna Carter Reid.

William Elmore Seal, head of the Pub- licity Bureau of America, a man of fine at- tainments and varied experiences, is de- scended from one of the leading Virginia families. His grandfather, William Seal, was married to Mary Knox, a representative of a leading Virginia family. His father, Dr. Joseph Gardner Seal, son of William Seal, was born at Norfolk, Virginia, May, 1850, died in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in January, 1896. He was a physician and analytical chemist, and served in that capa- city for the Federal government, in charge of making high explosives in Richmond, Virginia, and was also at one time member of the faculty of the University of Pennsyl- vania. He was educated at Washington and Lee College. Williamsburg. Virginia, and the Old Dominion Medical College of Rich- mond, Virginia. He married Martha Walker Taylor, of Buckingham county, Virginia, in 1868. She was the daughter of Rev. Wil- liam Harris Tavlor, and died in Philadelphia in 1888.

William Elmore Seal, son of Dr. Joseph Gardner Seal, was born November 26, 1870, at "Woodlands," the family home, Bucking- ham county, Virginia. He received his pri- mary education in the school adjacent to his home, and subsequently pursued an electrical course at the University of Pennsylvania, after which he turned his attention to newspaper work, in which