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below; Herbert Stanley, August 15, 1873, now living in Brooklyn, New York.

Walter Baker Livezey, second son of Theodore and Elizabeth M. (Baker) Live- zey, was born July i, 1869, in Yardleyville, Bucks county, Pennsylvania, and was twelve years of age when he went with his parents to Newport News. He was educated in the public shools of Pennsylvania and then in the Central School under the Society of Friends in Philadelphia. He grew up in Newport News and became identified with many of the most important business affairs of the young city. Beginning in a subordi- nate capacity with the Old Dominion Land Company, he advanced to the position of president, and is alsO' president of the New- port News Light & Water Company, and a director of the First National Bank, and International Tool Company. He is a Dem- ocrat in politics, member of city council and chairman of the finance committee. He is a member of Blue Lodge. Free and Accept- ed Masons, and Westmoreland Club of Rich- mond, Virginia.

He married (first) November 8, 1893, Kate Walker Poe, daughter of George W. and Hattie Poe. She died in Newport News, July 7, 1895, '^"d ^'^^^ Livezey married (sec- ond) February 7. 1899, Ellen Allard John- son, daughter of Samuel W. and Rebecca T. Johnson. There is one child of the first marriage : Elizabeth Baker Livezey, born June 27, 1895.

George Moflett Cochran. The first of this family to settle in .\ugusta county, Virginia, was John Cochran, who came from Ireland in 1735, settling in Pennsylvania, thence to Virginia in 1745. He was a man of great spirit and enterprise, and though his life was a comparatively short one, he left a handsome inheritance to his children. He was a merchant of Staunton, a planter, and was a worshipper at the old Stone Church. He and his wife, Susanna Donnelly, were both of Covenanter blood, their progenitors going from Scotland to the North of Ire- land. John Cochran died on his estate near the old Stone Church.

James Cochran, the elder son of John and Susanna (Donnelly) Cochran, was distin- guished for the soundness of his judgment, the acuteness of his intellect, and the per- sistency with which he pursued his plans. He accumulated a large estate, was long- a

magistrate of Augusta county, and died be- loved and respected by all. He died in Staunton, where he had long lived, in 1836. He married Magdalen, a daughter of Colo- nel George Mofl:'ett, of Revolutionary fame, son of John Moffett, one of the first settlers of .Augusta county, and Mary Christian, his wife. Colonel George was not only promi- nent in the Indian wars and in the Revolu- tion, but also in civil affairs. He was one of the first trustees of Washington College, Lexington, Virginia, a justice of the peace, and an elder in the Presbyterian church. He was a man of commanding presence and deeply religious in nature. He died in 181 1 and was buried in Augusta Churchyard. Colonel George Moffett, married Sarah Mc- Dowell, daughter of John McDowell and Magdalene V\'oods, his wife, and sister of Colonel Samuel McDowell, of Scotch-Irish descent, the American ancestor settling in Virginia between 1735 and 1740. John Mc- Dowell, his son, married in Pennsylvania, where the family first settled, Magdalene Woods, and came to Virginia, first living in the home of his relative, John Lewis, the founder.

George Moffett Cochran, son of James and Magdalene (Moffett) Cochran, was a man of generous means, a large landowner in Augusta county, and a general business man. He held several public offices and was noted for his strict integrity and up- right character. He married Maria T. Boys, daughter of Dr. William Boys, an eminent physician. Educated in Paris and Edin- burgh, son of Major Elias Boys, a merchant of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, extensively engaged in foreign trade, the first member of the Pennsylvania legislature from Phila- delphia after the Revolution. Dr. William Bovs located in Staunton, Virginia, about the year 1880, was the first physician of the Western Lunatic Asylum and a man of high social as well as professional eminence. He married a daughter of Alexander St. Clair, one of the men of official prominence in early Augusta history.

George Mofifett Cochran, son of George Moffett and Maria T. (Boys) Cochran, was born in Augusta county, Virginia. He mar- ried Margaret Lynn Peyton, born in 1835, daughter of Hon. John Howe Peyton by his second wife, Ann Alontgomery Lewis, born March 2, 1802. died July 15, 1850, daugh- ter of Major John and Mary (Preston)