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named was born January 12, 1737, in Lex- ington, Massachusetts, and died October 8, 1793. He married, August 28, 1775, in Fair- field. Connecticut, Dorothy, daughter of Ed- mund Quincy, of Boston, Alassachusetts. They had a son. John George Washington Hancock, who died at the age of nine years. The only other child was Lydia, born in 1776, who became the wife of Albert J. Gar- ber, as above noted. Beside the subject of this sketch, William H. and Margaret (Gar- ber) Harman had children: Arthur C., born at Staunton, now in the railroad business in South America, married Rose Cochrane, of Staunton ; Albert G.. born at Staunton, a contractor in South America, married Hat- tie Bell, of Rockbridge county, \^irginia ; Ellen, born 1858, at Staunton, now the wife of Edwin F. Surber, of Staunton; Augusta, born in i860, at Staunton, unmarried.

Edward V. Harman was educated in pri- vate schools at Staunton, and began his business career as a clerk in the office of the James River Packet Company. He was subsequently a clerk in the office of the Richmond & Allegheny Railroad Company (now Cheseapeake & Ohio) from 1883 to 1888. Removing to Minneapolis, Minne- sota, he engaged in the banking business, and was deputy city controller for a period of three years. In 1894 he removed to St. Louis. Missouri, where he was engaged in banking eleven years. He went to New York City in 1905. where he established the firm of E. V. Harman & Company, private bankers and loan brokers, with offices on Broadway, and this firm has continued to the present time. Mr. Harman is possessed of that genial nature and upright character which make men popular in the social circle, and he is a member of the Manhattan Club of New York, "The Virginian's, " the South- ern Society of New York, and the Sons of Confederate Veterans. With a keen interest in the principles of the Democratic party, he is independent in political action ; is lib- eral in religious views, and a regular at- tendant of the Episcopal church. He mar- ried, at Staunton, October 29, 1889, Marie, daughter of John Marshall and Mary (Beirne) Kinney, born April 12, 1863, at Staunton. They have one child : Mary Beirne Harman, born January 15, 1891, at Staunton.

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Everett Waddey. Few members of the printing fraternity are better known to the craft at large than Everett Waddey, of Richmond, Virginia. The story of his rise by the sheer force of his own efforts from a telegraph messenger to the responsible head of a great printing concern reads like a romance. Everett Waddey was born on the 25th day of March. 1853, at Thomasville, Georgia. Died January 14, 1908, at Rich- mond, Virginia. His father was a physi- cian and a native of Virginia, his mother be- ing a native of the Old Dominion also. Upon the death of his father, in 1857, the subject of this sketch was brought to Virginia by relatives, and lived in the city of Richmond up to the time of his death. He grew up in and was familiar with the exciting times in Richmond from the beginning to the close of the war. Before he was twelve years of age he was a courier for General William H. Stevens, chief engineer of the fortifica- tions around Richmond, and, therefore, a soldier in the provisional army of the Con- federate States of America during the stren- uous days when Grant was trying to get into the capital of the Confederacy. Mr. W'ad- dey started early in life, having been em- ployed as a telegraph messenger at the age of eleven years. He went to school for one session after the war, and in 1868 entered the printing office of Vannerson, Shepperson & Graves, as an apprentice, learning to feed job and cylinder presses and set type, indis- criminately, as the necessities of the work required. Job-printing being to his taste, he developed that line more than any other and finished apprenticeshij) in that department. Mr. Waddey worked for awhile in Balti- more, then in Norfolk, and afterward on one of the country newspapers in Essex county, Virginia. Returning to Richmond, he ran the usual gamut of a journeyman printer, in and out of luck, until, finally, in 1876, he de- cided to take up the stationery line, and entered the employ of George W. Gary, where he acquired a detailed knowledge of the blank book and stationery business. In 1877 he became connected with the firm of J. T. Ellyson & Company, as a salesman, with which firm and its successors he con- tinued until 1882, when he purchased the interest of his retiring partners and under- took the business on his own account. It was in this latter year that the firm bought