The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1907-04-22
STORIES
By FREDERIC J. HASKIN.

|srhere is but one representative OF
Iii great Washington family now III the
|qnyy or navy of the United States
Sptain Meryyn C. Buckley, of the ar
Kerry. now on duty as an artillery
srincer in the Puget Sound district.
ptain Buckley is the great-great-
ndson of Colonel Samuel Washing
ki. brother of George Washington,
Il a colonel on his staff Captain
| ckey's family has been always rep
|hented in the American wars. his
ndfather Buckley having fought In
War of 1912. an uncle in the war
|Hh Mexico, and his father, Thomas
S Buckley, now of Washington. was
the Confederate service Captain
|hekey went to West Point In 1873 by
ointment of President Harrison. DE
! graduated in 1897, being second IN
s.lass of sixtyrseven- He served IN
"a and Porto Rico during the Spanish
and later In the Philippines. In
10 he was sent by Secretary Root
|examine the tropical battery sys-
LIS in use in the armies of European
ntries. He later introduced
| ,intain battery of new type into the
| lippines. and was captain OF a dy-
| |s,nite battery in the field on the Is
I'd of Luzon.
s,irpinians trace their Lineage to
aestown. New Englanders to Ply
|, lth. and those of the blood are proud
1t. But in South Carolina the real
rst family" is much more exclusive,
South Carolina was settled not by
| olony, but by one lone man, GOV
ssor Duncan Clinch Hayward. who
red from the Office of governor OF
| th Carolina in January, and who is
! = devoting himself TO the work of
A Southern State immigration asso-
' ion, of which he is president, Is
of the most prominent living de
| ldants of Doctor Henry Woodward,
first English settler of South Caro-
:. The young ''chirurgeao set
Efrom Cape Fear, the original North
olina settlement, on June IA, 1866,
a trip of exploration to the South;
| tor Woodward told Captain Sanford
he would remain in the southern
utry with the Indians if the place
at all hospitable. He was left at
{ Royal with the natives and 1t is
lt,rded that they became great friends
l him. He learned their language
studied their habits closely. y
" of Spanish raiders, ever Jealous
| English cncroachments in America,
e TO Port Royal, captured DR.. Wood
d and carried him to st. Augustine
put him In prison. He was rescued
the buccaueer, Captain Robert
lie, and soon afterwards he shipped
- surgeon on a privateer from the
ward Islands. He was cast away
ii ;he island of Nevis, where he was
4 i'd by Captain Saylc and taken back
+u?ort Royal, where he was an old
|n;en at the time Of the settlement
/ 4arch, 1910.
-le marriage of Dr.. Woodward with
~ Mary Browne, widow of Robert
LIME and daughter of Colonel John
f..frey, was the foundation OF a great
ELY in South Carolina. Besides Gov
E.r Hayward there have been two
E.r governors of the State in the
LIT line, John Mathews, 1898, and
fasrt Y. Hayne, 1921. Four United
..--es Senators have sprung from that
settler. These were Robert Y.
'ne, the great debater who met Web
in the Senate in the most brilliant
nsic battle of our national history,
1ur P. Hayne, Robert Woodward
.-iwell, and Robert Barnwell Rhett.
six members Of the national House
Representatives from South Caro-
y -Four judges, John Mathews and
fIcard Hutson, of South Carolina; r.
|Tayne. of California, and Henry S.
tt. of Washington; four bishops,
hen Elliott, OF Georgia, Robert W.
Er.lliott, Of Western Texas, William