Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-02-19


drops OF fruits and vegetables. He has
dug his own irrigation ditohes and Is .
hustling citizen OF tho great west.
Other colonies Of Washington heirs live
IN westmoreland county. Va. where Rob
ert J. Washington is prominent CITIZEN
and IN Kankakee. Ill. where dwels tns
Yankee branch OF the family. including
William Augustine, who, with his
father and brother. fought In the Union
army under Gen. Logan He 10 now an
attorney.
Logan offered q commission 20 his
brother. Bushrod D. Washington, who
some time ago retired.
Among the generals surviving great
great grandnieces Is Mrs. Beverley y.
Tucker, wife OF tho Episcopal bishop
coadjutor Of southern Virginia, who Is a
daughter OF John Augustine Washington
OF Mount Vernon. And another Is Mrs.
III. Irvine kayser, wife OF Il Baltimore
capitalist.
Two of tho heirs who are seeking their
fortunes IN the north are George s.
Washington. a commission merchant Of
Philadelphia. and William Laniad Wash
inston. who is a New York broker.
The latter Is the hereditary representa-
tive OF Gen. Washington in the Society OF
the Cincinnati. In which an officer OF the
revolution can be represented by only
under the English law of primogeniture.
following the eldest sons OF the closest
male line.
This means that IL those admirers OF
Washington who wished to make him
king Of America had had their way
and the dynasty had been maintained
William Lanier Washington would now
be our regning sovereign. But instead OF
the more useful callings OF railway
official. manufa cturer. capitalist and
broker. He Is forty-six years old. hav-
ing been born the last year Of the civil
war; In Alabama, while his father. Maj.
James Barroll Washington. was serving
as an aid-de-camp on the stan OF Gen.
Joseph E. Johnston. Tie family afterward
moved to Baltimore, and thence to Pitts
burg. Then the son was sent to I..e
University Of Pennsylvania. He is an
independ Mt republiean-being one of the
few Washington heirs Of today who are
not of the democ. ate faith After serv-
ing as general passengsr agent of ~.
collateral hranche~ of the Ba n7o e aud
Ohio railway. he became president Ir
s'eel oilcloth and and CON Il @-#
vice president of a repro oan =ss4..
His hobby is the breedina OF bio Il
settlers and he is a cluhman in -@Aa *s.
where he has lived for the a
years. Five years a. o he
May B. Brennan of Louisville
Numerous descendants Of to -..EsE-...
half brother Au"ustine form -
Wakefield, Va, about 100 niles ! ii.
Potomac, below Mount Vernon t..
occupy six or seven farms covering I
original plantation on wnicn George
Washington was born.
venerable patriarch who for some
years past enjoyed the distinction or
being the generals nearest Of kin.
passed away only three months ago. at
the age OF eighty-seven. mis- was Richard
Blackburn Washn tor. a planter and
landowner Of Charles Town. w. Va. He
was the great-grandson of George Wash
ington'S brother. John Augustine. and
was the last of his generation. Moreover,
he was thrice coIlaterally descended from
the first President-twice through the Balls.
the family Of the general mother, ana
once through the Washinetons. And
fnasmuch as he married a descendant OF
the immortal Georges brother. Samuel,
his children are now the nearest of kin
to the sage OF Mount Vernon.
The lands along the little Miami are
but n small fraction OF the total area
which those now striving to settle
up the generals estate md 10 have been
in some uraccountah'e manner lost to IL.
He left in his viii thirty or forty thou
sand acres on the kanawha river. IN West
mia nrr zoe a res in Kentucky,
near Louisville 1t was upon this Kanaw-
ha tract that Washington is said to have
discovered the first natural gas well
known to America. He described it az a
burning spring.
Copyright. 1911. by John Elfreth watkins)