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had a son, Hunter Holmes, born October 22, 1895, in Richmond, Virginia, was edu- cated at the McGuire University School, at Richmond, \'irginia. the Episcopal High School, near Alexandria, Virginia, and the University of \'irginia.

Dr. Hunter Holmes McGuire, father of Alary Stuart (McGuire) McGuire, was born in 1835. son of Dr. Hugh Holmes McGuire, of Winchester, Virginia, and Ann Eliza (Moss) McGuire. He also was a physician and surgeon in Philadelphia, and was con- nected with the Jefferson Medical College ])rior to 1 86 1. When the civil war began, he, together with other southern students, went South, and he enlisted as a private in the Confederate^rmy. Was appointed sur- geon in the Second Virginia Regiment, Confederate States Army, afterward sur- geon of the ""Stonewall Brigade," and then medical director of Stonewall Jackson's corps, until Jackson's death. Later he was medical director of Ewell's and of Early's corps. After the war he went to Richmond, Virginia, where he practiced his profession. Was professor of surgery in the Aledical College of Virginia, and founder of St. Luke's Hospital, of Richmond, also of the University College of Medicine there. He was president of the Aledical Society of \'irginia, the Southern Surgical Society, and of the American Medical Association.

Dr. Hunter Holmes McGuire married Mary Stuart, daughter of Hon. Alexander H. H. Stuart, who was the son of Judge Archibald Stuart, of Staunton, Virginia. They had children, namely : Alexander Stuart. Hugh Holmes, Hunter Holmes, Francis B., Anne Moss, Margaretta, 'Sla.r- garet Cameron, Augusta Stuart, ]\lary Stuart, who married Dr. William Edward McGuire. as heretofore mentioned.

John Peyton McGuire. Dating in Vir- ginia prior to the year 1747, this branch of the ]\IcGuire family traces to the ancient family in Fermanagh, Ireland, McGuire's county. In the latter part of the thirteenth century Don Carragh AIcGuire overcame the neighboring chieftains and made him- self master of the whole country, he and his descendants holding it independent of the English for centuries. The descent is traced in direct male line back from John Peyton McGuire, of Richmond, to Edward, the American ancestor, who settled in Fred-

erick county, Virginia, prior to 1747, and from him to James, whose parents quitted Fermanagh county, Ireland, during the troublous times of 1641, and settled in county Kerry, near Tralee, in McElligott parish. James McGuire was married to Cecelia McXamara Reagh and had male issue ; one of his sons, John Sigismund Mc- Guire, went abroad in early life and entered the Austrian army, having a number of kins- men in that service, through whose in- fluence he obtained a commission. He rose to high rank, was military governor of Dresden in 1760, and was at that time colo- nel of a regiment of four battalions ; was a count of the Holy Roman Empire, and a lieutenant-general of their Majesties' Imper- ial Armies. Another son of James McGuire was Constantine ]\IcGuire, who married, in Kerr}-, Julia McElligott, and they were the parents of Edward McGuire, the \^irginia founder of the family.

Edward McGuire was born in county Kerry, Ireland, in 1720, and came to Vir- ginia, prior to 1747, his first patent to land in Frederick county bearing that year date. He married Elizabeth Wheeler, of Prince George county, Maryland.

Judge W illiam AIcGuire, son of Edward ^McGuire, the founder, was born in Fred- erick county, Virginia, in 1765, and died at Harpers Ferry, Virginia, in 1820. He en- tered the Continental army in 1778 as a cadet, being then in his fourteenth year, was promoted ensign in 1780, and was later lieutenant of the First V^irginia Artillery. Fie received a severe wound at the battle of Eutaw Springs, that troubled him ever afterward and finally caused his death. After independence was gained, he entered William and Mary College, studied law, became a member of the Virginia legisla- ture, serving from 1797-99, was appointed first chief justice of the ]\Iississippi Terri- tory, a position he resigned in 1801, and practiced his profession in Winchester, A'irginia, until 1816. In that year he was appointed superintendent of the United States armory at Harpers Ferry, and there he died in 1820, from the efifects of his old wound. He married Mary, daughter of William Little, of Frederick county. Vir- ginia, now Jefferson covmty, W^est \"irginia.

John Peyton McGuire, son of Judge Wil- liam and Mary (Little) McGuire, was born in Winchester, \'irginia, September 4, iSoc.