The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-02-19
ROBERT f. LEE, JR.,
administrator WASHINGTON I;.Yntc.

az State ol ONO 10 StraiShten GU
conflicting claims arising out of OLE
land warrants. and while engaged il
this task had come across the con
hict on tho Washington case. So II,
has been retaiqned by the estate .
the Father Of His Country to prosecut,
its claim before Congress.
If Congress pays the full amount o
the Washington claim. 100000. In,
greatest extent TO which any individual
heir would profit would be. It is csti
mated, from $4,000 to $1,000, which
would fall to a young lady who. Will
true Virginia chivalry. the heirs vii
not mention because OF the publicit,
which might thus be given to her pri
degree only by virtue of the fact tina
she is the only child of q father who
was an only child. The individual
shares Of The other heirs would be in
significant, even on this maximum ba
sis OF settlement, since the Wash.
ingtons have never been prone 10 VIC.
late certain domestic doctrines which
q now living successor of the frs
President has been recently e%spousing
United States senator One of Heirs.
An heir Of the generation now near
est Of Kin to the immortal George 1!
United States senator John Randolph
Thornton. of Louisiana. who only TIL
ether day took his seat in the uppe
House of Congress. Georges owl
lrofhay T. SIG 81 &C HH. had III "a = son (Ia0rP,
Auustine, whose daughter, Anna Maria
married a Thornton, whose son was tn
father Of the new Senator.
The largest group OF heirs now gath
cred in one locality live at Chariestown
". Va, where the generals brother
Colonel Samuel, built Hardwood. tn
mansion that was the refuge of LOU
Philippe, afterward King of France
during his exile in America.
Among the other living grand
nephcws OF w or three greats ar
Bushwick Washington, who was a Con
federatc lieutenant of cavalry; j. y
Washington, planter and landowner
ana Samuel Walter Washington, al.
torney. Another heir OF the West Wiz
ginia branch as Robert Washington
who some time ago retired as q Hnmp
shire county farmer, to spend his re
naming days in the National Capital
and still another is Bushrod G. Wash.
ington, who four years ~ago-aesnit'
his three-score years and twelve--de
cided to leave home and go 10 pioneer.
ing.
He crossed tho continent and III
Lincoln county. State of Washington
look up u tract OF senlt-arid govern
ment land, upon which he Is nov rails
ing flourishing crops OF fruits an'
Vegetables. lie has dug his own irri
cation bitches and is a hustliEg cltlzc,
of the great west. Being settled urol
his own land, he is in no danger o
sharing the fate of his distinguished
ancestor at the hands OF the Ian,
grafters and their jackals, the dummy
entrymen."
The "Yankce" Heirs.
Other colonies OF Washington heir!
live in Westmorcland county, Va, wncr,
Robert j.. Washington is a promincn
citizen. and In Ilankakee, H., wher'
dwells the Yankee branch of iht
family, including William Augustine
who, With his IA Their and brother
fought In the Union army under Gen
eral Logan. lie Is now an attorney.
Logan offered a commission to hi:
brother. Buahrod D. Washington, VIII,
some time S retired.
Among the generals surviving great
sreat-grandnieces is Mrs. Beverley -
Tucker, wife Of the Episcopal hishol
coadlutor of Southern Virginia. who /!
1 daughter of John Augustine Wash,
!ngton of Moumt Vernon. n another
IS Mrs II. Irvine ifayser, wife Of d Eal.
timore capitalist.
Two OF the heirs who arc seekin.
:heir fortunes in the north arc George
!. Washington, a commission merchun
OF Philadelphia. and William i.anic,
Washington, who is a New York broker
The latter is the hereditary represcn,
tative of General Washington in the
Society of the Cincinnati, in which al
officer OF the Revolution can be repre-.
scented BY only one person-tho mos
direct descendant under the Hnglisi
law of primogoniture, %folliwing tn,
eldest sous Of the closest male line.
Would Have Succeeded Washington n.
king.
This means that If those admirer:
OF Washington who wished to make
him King of America had had thei,
way and the dynasty had been main.
tanned william I.anier Washington
would now be u reigning sovereign
But instead OF holding a sceptrc over
us he has pursued the more useful call
ings Of railway official, manufactures
capitalist and broker. He Is ~forty-sis
years old, having been born the las,
year OF the Civil War. in Alabama
while his father. Major James Barrol'
Washington. was serving as an abide
camp on the stat Of General Joseph T.
Johnston. The family afterward NOV
cd to Baltimore, and thence to Pitts
burg. Then the son was SEM Ia the
University of PENNSYLVANIA IIn IL an
independent Notwithstanding one oil
the few Washington f.eirs of lo-da,
who are not OF the Democratic faitn
After serVinS az general passenger
agent OF the collateral branches Of tht
Baltimore and Ohio Railway, he became
president OF steel, oilcloth and Land
companies ana vicc-presidcnt OF \ IRE.
uroofnS company. His hobby is the