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born February 2, 1901 ; Martha Judson, November 20, 1905 : John Hughes, February 4. 1909.

John Newton Moore. John Newton Moore, member of an old Virginia fam- ily, is a native of that state, born in Albe- marle county, October 27, 1881, son of Frank Dean and Lydia Lewis (Brown) Moore. The father, in early life a clergy- man, became an attorney, and resided in New York City. He was born in Richmond, Virginia, in 1848, died in 1S83. While attending school in Richmond he was one of the students called upon to help protect the townspeople and served in one battle in the Civil war. His wife was a daughter of Andrew Brown and was descended from several old Virginia families who held hon- orable places in the Old Dominion. The line of one of these, the Lewis family, is given in succeeding paragraphs.

General Robert Lewis, a lawyer by pro- fession, was a resident of Becon, Wales, and removed thence to London. He and his wife Elizabeth came to Virginia before 1645, locating in Gloucester county. In 1666 his son John (who was born in England), mar- ried Isabella, daughter of Captain Augustine Warner, also a W'elshman, and member of the house of burgesses from York county in 1652 and from Gloucester county in 1^58-59. He was member of the royal council in 1659-60. Captain Augustine and Mary ^Varner had a son, Augustine, who was also a member of the house of burgesses and of the King's council, and the latter was called Speaker A\'arner, to distinguish him from his father. He married Mildred, daughter of George and Elizabeth (Martian) Reade. George Reade married a daughter of Nicho- las Martian, a French Huguenot, who was born about 1591, came to Virginia in 1620, served in the house of burgesses and other offices, and left no male issue. Augustine and Mildred (Reade) Warner had a daugh- ter Elizabeth, who married her cousin, John (2) Lewis, son of John (i) and Isabella (Warner) Lewis. John and Elizabeth (Warner) Lewis had three sons, one of whom was known as Robert, of Belvoir.

Robert Lewis, son of John and Elizabeth (W^arner) Lewis, was born in W'arner Hall, in 1704. He later became known as Robert Lewis, of Belvoir. He married Jane, daugh- ter of Nicholas and Elizabeth (Crawford) Meriwether, in 1725, and their second son.

Nicholas Lewis, was born in 1728. The latter married Mary, daughter of Thomas and Mildred (Thornton) W'alker, of Castle Hill, Albemarle county, Virginia. In 1776 he served in an expedition against the Cher- okee Indians. His son, Thomas Walker Lewis, was born in 1763, died in 1807. He married Elizabeth Meriwether, of Clover Fields, daughter of Nicholas and Margaret (Douglas) Aleriwether, and their third daughter was Lydia Laurie Lewis, born February 15, 1795. She married Samuel Overton Minor and had eleven children. She died at Charlottesville, August 8, 1833, and he died in 1838. The Minors were prominent in early Virginia history. The youngest daughter of Samuel O. Minor and wife, Elizabeth Lewis Minor, was born Sep- tember 12, 1825, and on July 18, 1843, mar- ried Andrew J. Brown. They had the fol- lowing children: Betty O., Susan T., Lydia Lewis, James H., Louis M., Margaret D., Andrew A., Charles A. W., Annie Cornelia and William T. Their third daughter, Lydia Lewis Brown, married Rev. Frank D. Moore, and their children were : Eliza- beth Minor, born in Nashville, Tennessee, March 26, 1878; Frank Dean, born in Cov- ington, Kentucky, in December, 1879, un- married ; John Newton, whose name heads this sketch. The mother of these children resides in New York City. The daughter, who is the wife of Cassius Marshall Sand- ford, resides in New York City.

John Newton Moore studied under private tutors and in Horace Jones' private school at Charlottesville, where he prepared for college. In 1897 he entered William and Mary College, at Williamsburg, Virginia, remaining there two years. He then decided to embark in business life and for a year was connected with the Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad Company. In the fall of 1900 he entered the employ of Patterson, Sargent & Company, at New York. This firm is one of the largest manufacturers of paints, oils, varnishes, colors, and similar goods, in the country, and their factory is located at Cleveland, Ohio. Mr. Moore has developed great business acumen and foresight and has risen rapidly in the estimation and con- fidence of his employers. He now holds the position of general sales manager of the marine department for the company, having jurisdiction over this department for their entire American business. His able efforts