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that busy place, and did valuable work in the building up and development of its in- dustries. He sent all his sons to Fordham College for their education, where they re- ceived the training, religious and secular, for which that institution is so justly fam- ous. I^dward Hughes was a man of great influence in his adopted city. He was there married and had a family of children, one of whom, John Hughes, was the father of Mrs. Hahen. John Hughes was born in Paterson, New Jersey, November i, 1844, where his father had made his fortune. About 1875 he removed from the northern city and made his home in Richmond, Vir- ginia, w'here he engaged in the shoe busi- ness, prospering greatly therein, and finally retiring, a man of large wealth. His death occurred March 31, 1913. He married Ellen Mehegan, a descendant of Commodore Barry, of the British navy. She was born in county Cork, Ireland, and passed her girl- hood there, teaching for a time in a convent of county Cork, Ireland. To her and Mr. Hughes were born nine children, six of whom are now living. They are: Kate, now Mrs. James Bahen ; Mary, Edward, Harry, Margaret, John and Joseph, all of whom are residents of Richmond. To Mr. and Mrs. James Bahen were born two children, as follows: George Edward, born August '7' 1903; James, the third of that name, August 3, 1905.

Mrs. James Bahen is very prominent in the social life of the Virginian capital, and she plays a conspicuous part in many im- portant functions. She has twice been ap- pointed sponsor to the Confederate reunion, the first time when it was held in Mobile, Alabama, in 1910, when she led the grand march at the opening ball. The second ap- pointment was the following year, when the reunion was at Little Rock, Arkansas, and here her sister Margaret acted as maid of honor. Another important function at which Mrs. Bahen figured was the opening ball of the FJenedictine Military College of Rich- mond, at which she led the german. Mrs. Bahen attends St. Peter's Cathedral, as she always had, and fittingly carries on her hus- band's benefactions and charities, and is rearing her two children in the faith of her forbears.

Harry Lee Denoon. The Denoons trace their ancestry along both paternal and ma- ternal lines to the early days in Virginia.

Through intermarriage the present family is in direct descent from the (Juarles, Pem- bertons and Kings, early families, the line tracing to Roger Quarles, of England and Virginia ; Wilson Pemberton, of England and Virginia, and Miles King, first mayor of Norfolk, whose wife, Lady Mary, was a daughter of Lord Bailey, of England.

Roger Quarles, an English gentleman, came first to Virginia on a mission for the English government, accompanied by his brother, James (Juarles, an officer of the English army. Both later returned to Eng- land, but Roger (Juarles was so pleased with Virginia that he came again, bringing bricks and fine timber for the erection of a house. He purchased four hundred acres of land from the Indians and erected the mansion "Woodbury," in which Bettie Carver (King) Denoon, mother of Harry Lee Denoon, was born. Roger Quarles mar- ried Elizabeth Sutherland, and had issue: Isaac, of whom further; Elizaljeth, married Armistead Coleman; Sally, married Thomas Littlepage and lived to be ninety years of age; Lizzie, married Harden Littlepage; Mary, married (first) Miles King, son of the first Miles King, her second husband be- ing James Turner, of King William county, X'irginia. Two of these daughters married into the Littlepage family, the brothers of John Littlepage, high in official rank in the English government and governor of Trini- dad.

Isaac Quarles, son of Roger and Eliza- beth (Sutherland) Quarles, married Dicey Pemberton, daughter of Major Thomas and Dicey (King) Pemberton, and granddaugh- ter of Wilson Pemberton, of England. Major Thomas Pemberton was a brave pa- triot in the revolution, anfl during the war raised and equipped a company at his own expense. He married Dicey King, daugh- ter of Miles King, first mayor of Norfolk, and his wife. Lady Mary Bailey, daughter of Lord Bailey, of England.

Isetta Dicey Quarles, daughter of Isaac and Dicey (Pemberton) Quarles, married John King. Their daughter. Bettie Carver King, married Daniel Denoon, an official of the state treasury department at Rich- mond, Virginia, most of his business life, son of Samuel D. Denoon, and grandson of Lieutenant James J. Denoon. a gallant offi- cer of the war of 1812, who led his men at Lundy's Lane, Chippewa and Fort Erie.

Bettie Carver (King) Denoon was born