Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1919-02-24
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Retired Banker and Gallant Copfede
rate Soldier Answers Last Sum
mens-Funeral at O'clock Tomor
row From Seminary Chapel.
Col. Arthur Herbert, eighty-nin
years old, a gallant Confederate sold.
ier, and a retired banker. died at 81
o'clock last night at his residence
"Muckross," Seminary Hill
His funeral will take place at
o'clock tomorrow afternoon from the
chapel of the Episcopal Theological
Seminary. Services vii! be conduct
ed by Rev. DR.. p. P. Phillips, rector OF
st. Pauls P. E. Church, this city
and Rev. DR.. S. A. Wallis, of the
Episcopal Theological Seminary. Blu.
rial will be in Ivy Hill cemetery
and the interment will be private.
Members Of R. E. Lee Camp, Con-
federate Veterans, of which organiza-
ton the deceased was a member, will
attend.
Honorary pallbearers will be II.
Rozier Dulany, Guy F. Whiting, H.
R. Burke, H. Harrington Mills, Ed
ward L. Daingerfeld, Robert E. Lee,
Judge J. X. NJ. Norton, r. Walton
Moore, Gardner L. Boothe, Dr.. Louis
S. Greene, Willoughby Reade, S. R.
Donohoe and Winslow H. Randolph
Active pallbearers will DE Taylor
Burke, Julian T. Burke. Arthur H.
Bryant, A. H. Hoxton, George Stuart
and Philip Dawson.
Col. Herbert was son of the late
William Herbert, of Alexandria, and
Maria Dulany, his wife being
daughter Of the late Daniel Dulany
of Shooters Hill, west of this city.
The deceased bore the distinc
tion Of being the last child born in
the historic Carlyle House July 81,
1929.
After, the death of his mother Col,
Herbert! then child, was taken to
Welbour' me, Loudoun county, Va. and
brought up by his uncle. John P. Du-
Iany. AS a young man he travelled
in the west, then wild Port of the
country which was but sparsely set
tied.
Upon his return he took up his resi-
dence near the Seminary.
In 1852 Col Herbert entered the
banking business in partnership with
the late John w. Burke and they es-
sablished the well known banking
house Of Burke and Herbert, now To-
atnd at the southeast corner of Fair
fax and King street, which institution
has had prosperous and honored posi-
lion among the other banking lnsti-
tutionS of the city. He retired from
the banking business in 1899.
At the outbreak of the civil war he
at once joined the Confederate army
and left Alexhndria May "a. 1861. as
70 ptain of the Old Dominion Rifles
known afterward as the Seventeenth
Virginia regiment.
When COL Morton Marye was
wounded at the second battle of
Manassas Col. Herbert was promoted
to the rank Of colonel. lie served gall
iantly throughout the conflict, parti-
cipaiting in many battles.
At the close pf the war he return
ed to this city and resumed the bank
ing business.
Col. Herbert manifested a deep and
active interest in the affairs of his
church and also of the Episcopal
Theological Seminary. For ffty-two
years, up TO the time Of his death, he
was a member Of the board of trus-
tees of that institution, which also is
the governing body of the Episcopal
High School, which institution is
contiguous to the Seminary and for
number of years he was treasurer of
this board, being succeeded in this
office by the late Julian T. Burke,
which is now held by his nephew,
Arthur Herbert. Jr For at least,
sixty years he was member of the
standing committee of the Episcopal
Diocese of Virginia.
He was also member OF the board
Of the Protestant Episcopal Educa-
ton Society of Virginia and also
member of its executive committee.
Col Herbert was descended
from family and connection
which occupied d high position
in the life of his native state
reaching bacl: to colonial days. He
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