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residin,^- in Cincinnati. Ohio. 4. Herbert Bragg.' 15. A.. B. L., born April 30, 1887; an attorney of Petersburg; member of Phi Kappa Sigma fraternity. 5. Mary Love, wife of William R. Young, of Greenville, ]\Iississippi. 6. Charlotte, a graduate, A. B., of Randolph-iMacon Woman's College, un- married.

Robert Washington Gwathmey, a leading grain broker of New York City, is named for his ancestor, Robert Washington, the immigrant to Virginia. The family of Washington has been traced back many generations in England. Mr. Gwathmey is descended from Betty Washington, daugh- ter of Augustine W'ashington and his sec- ond wife. Mary Ball, and sister of the im- mortal George W^ashington, Father of his Country. Betty Washington was born June 22. 1733, at ' Wakefield. Westmoreland county, Virginia, and married Colonel Field- ing Lewis. Their son. Howell Lewis, born September 12, 1770. in Woodlawn, Cul- peper county. Virginia, was a favorite nephew of General George AVashington, from whom he inherited thirteen hundred acres of land on the Kanawha river in ]\Iason county. After living some years in Richmond, he settled on this land in 1812, with twelve male and six female slaves and their children. There he died December 26. 1822. He married, in Richmond, Sep- tember 26. 1795. Ellen Hackley Pollard, daughter of Robert Pollard, born December 7. 1776. died January 15. 1859, at the home of her daughter, in ^Marietta. Ohio. Their third daughter. Frances Fielding Lewis, born February 11, 1805, in Richmond, mar- ried, June 2"], 1822, Humphrey Brooke Gwathmey. Humphrey Brooke Gwathmey, son of Temple and Ann Gwathmey. was born 1793, and resided in Richmond, Vir- ginia, where he died October 22. 1852. He was a cotton merchant at New Orleans, Louisiana, and Savannah. Georgia. Chil- dren: William Gaston, born April 2. 1823, in Savannah, died 1852; Ellen Jael, Sep- tember 26, 1824. at Richmond, died 1870; Humphrey Brooke. June 5, 1826, died in November following ; Matilda Cuming, January 6. 1828. in New York; Virginia, December 21, 1830, in New York, married Adam Empie. and now resides at Wilming- ton, North Carolina ; Theodore Francis, May 21, 1832, in Norfolk, served as a private sol-

dier in the civil war in Dreux battalion of the Confederate army, enlisting from New Orleans. Louisiana, he saw service on the peninsula below Richmond, at Port Hudson, Louisiana, at Wilmington. North Carolina, and died February 23, 1883; Temple, born 1834 in Norfolk, died 1840; Fanny Brooke, September 8, 1835, in Norfolk, became the wife of Andrew Ried, of Baltimore, Mary- land ; Caroline Heth. 1837. in Mobile, Ala- bama, died 1842, in Richmond ; Mary Ann. 1841, in Richmond, died 1849; Emily Carter, 1843. i" Richmond, died 1849; Robert Wash- ington, mentioned below.

Robert Washington Gwathmey was born June 22, 1846, in Richmond, and was edu- cated in private schools of his native city. From October. 1862, to June, 1863, he served as a clerk in the treasury depart- ment of the Confederate States of America, at Richmond. At the age of seventeen years, September i. 1863, he enlisted as a soldier of the Confederate army. He was a private in the Otey battery and served until the close of the war, his first campaign being at East Tennessee under General Longstreet, in 1863-64. From January. 1864. he was in the Army of Northern Virginia, in the vicinity of Richmond and Petersburg. After the close of the war, in 1865. he became a clerk in a mercantile house at Baltimore, and was subsequently in business there on his own account till December. 1884. when he re- moved to New York City. Since that time he has been continuously engaged in the grain business in New York. Avith office in the Produce Exchange. ^Ir. Gwathmey enjoys the esteem of a wide circle of ac- quaintances. From 1910 to 1912 he was commander of the camp of Confederate veterans in New York City. He possesses those personal qualities which win and hold friends, and is naturally allied with social and other societies of New York City, in- cluding the New York Club, the Southern Society, and the Confederate Veterans Camp. His theological views are of liberal character, and he is not allied with any re- ligious organization. Politically he does not give allegiance to any organization, and acts upon his own best judgment.

George Pinckney Geoghegan. Dr. John Andrew Geoghegan. who prior to 1859 was a prosperous physician, tobacco manufac- turer and merchant, of Clarksville, Meek-