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Dominion, Richard Herbert having been sworn as a vestryman of Bristol Parish, No- vember 10, 1726. William Herbert, of a family located at Muchross Abbey on Lake Kilarnej^ Ireland, came to America in an early day, and located at Alexandria, Vir- ginia, where he was president of a bank and served as mayor. He married a daughter of John and Sarah (Fairfax) Carlyle, and had children: John Carlyle, William, IMargaret, who married Thomas, ninth Lord Fairfax ; Sarah, married Rev. Oliver Norris ; Ann, died unmarried; Eliza P., died unmarried; Lucinda, died in childhood.

William (2) Herbert, second son of Wil- liam Herbert, resided at Shooter's Hill, in Fairfax Parish of Alexandria, and was a vestryman of the parish, whose book of rec- ords begins 1765. He was an attorney and an active Episcopalian. He married a sister of John P. Delaney, of Loudoun county, Virginia.

William W. Herbert, son of William (2) Herbert, was born 1823 at Shooter's Hill, and died November 3, 1901, at Alexandria. He was a wholesale grain dealer in Alex- andria, and served as postmaster of the city during President Cleveland's first adminis- tration, after which he retired from active business. He was a member of St. Paul's Protestant Episcopal Church of Alexandria, and an ardent supporter of Democratic principles. He married Susan Munson Scott, a native of Warrenton, Virginia, who survived him, and is now living in Alexan- dria. Children : Ann Morson, Fanny Scott, Ellen Whiting, Sue Scott, wife of George Brook, a division engineer of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad ; William C, mentioned below ; Arthur, employed in a bank at Alexandria.

William Carlyle Herbert was educated in private schools and Blackburn's Academy. He graduated at George Washington Uni- versity (now called Columbian), in Wash- ington, D. C, with the degree of Bachelor of Laws, in 1900. Desiring to enter a field where opportunities were wide, he removed to New York City, and entered the ofrice of Alexander & Colby, later joining the firm of Rollins & Rollins, leading attorneys of New 'N'ork City, where he continued until 1909. In that year he was emploved in a very im- portant diplomatic mission, being sent by the Windsor Trust Company and certain bankers of New York to negotiate a loan to the government of Guatemala, Central America. He had power of attorney, and

after remaining two and one-half years in the Central American republic, completed his mission successfully and returned to New York. He then established a general brokerage business in that city, which has continued to the present time under the style of Herbert, Robertson & Company, which now occupies handsome and spacious offices on Forty-sixth street. In August, 191 3, Mr. Herbert visited London, England, in the interests of large undertakings, and returned to New York in March, 1914, hav- ing successfully accomplished his purpose. These excursions establish clearly the con- fidence in which he is held by many inves- tors and his ability as a business man. He is a memljer of the \'irginia Society of New York, and of the City Club. He is an at- tendant of St. Thomas' Protestant Episco- pal Church, New York, presided over -by Dr. Ernest Stires, and is a constant Repub- lican in political action. Mr. Herbert is un- married.

F. Graham Cootes. F. Graham Cootes, the well kn^nvn artist, is one of those men whose works will live in the memories of their fellow men. His busy life is full of achieve- ments, and has awakened genuine admira- tion. While an artist to his very finger tips, Mr. Cootes has not neglected the business opportunities which have come to him, and may be considered a very successful man in every phase of life. He is of Scotch-Irish descent. The family from which he is de- scended settled in Rockingham county, Vir- ginia many years ago. His grandfather Samuel Cootes. was a well known politician and member of the state legislature, and his grandfather, Graham, descended from the Grahams of Scotland, of which the Earl of Montrose was the head — played a leading part in the social life of his day.

Benjamin Franklin, son of Samuel and Margaret (Graham) Cootes, was born at "Cootes' Store," Rockingham county, Vir- ginia, in 1830, and died in 18S0. He read law in Virginia, and in Cumberland, ^^laryland, and was in active practice as an attorney prior to the outbreak of the Civil war. He enlisted in the Second Regiment, Virginia \'olunteer Infantry, was advanced to the r.-'.nk of adjutant, and then to that of captain. He was wounded at the battle of Mondcacy River, Maryland. After the war had been concluded he accepted a position with Hodges Brothers, a wholesale dry goods