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VIRGINIA BIOGRAPHY
dren of first marriage: i. Indiana, died De-
cember 19, 1910. 2. Virginia. 3. Edward
Livingston, died December 22, 1859. 4.
Anna Maria, died August 6, 1838. Children
of second marriage : 5. Arthur Richardson,
died of yellow fever in New Orleans, Sep-
tember, 1867. 6. Herbert Livingston, ot
whom further. 7. Robert Worthington, died
August 17, 1895; married Lucretia Johnson
and left children : i. Bessie, married Howell
Lewis ; five children : Matilda Warner,
Harold C., Mary Elizabeth, Katharine Lena-
han, Lucretia Worthington. ii. Mae, married
Commodore R. O. Bitler, United States
Navy ; two children : Worthington Smith
and Mary Lucretia. iii. Robert Worthing-
ton Jr. 8. Elizabeth Boughan, died Decem-
ber II, 1846. 9. James Edward, died of
yellow fever at New Orleans, September,
1867. 10. Jack Ouarles Hewlett, died No-
vember 22, 1910; married Anna Scott and
left four children : i. Mae Bruce, married
Joseph Mason ; children : Jack Frederick,
and Catharine Bruce, deceased, ii. Arthur
Herbert, married Ada Bromley; children:
Grace, Eugenia, Arthur Herbert, Ann
Bruce, deceased, iii. Jack Quarles, now an
attorney-at-law in Baltimore ; married Isabel
Opie ; children : Harriet and Jack Ouarles.
iv. Eugenia, married Dr. E. H. H. Old, sur-
geon in United States Navy; children: E.
H. H. Jr. and Bruce Scott. 11. Annie Eu-
genia, residing in Norfolk with her brother.
Herbert L. 12. Charles Richardson, died
March 14, 1855.
Herbert Livingston Smith, son of Dr. Arthur Richardson and Jane Ellen (Her- bert) Smith, was born at Deep Creek, Nor- folk county, Virginia, March 4, 1842. He was educated in private school and Webster Collegiate Institute at Portsmouth, Virginia. At the age of nineteen he enlisted in the Old Dominion Guard, which was mustered into the Confederate service as Company K, Ninth Regiment Virginia Infantry, Cap- tain Edward Kerans commanding. He served one year with the Ninth Regiment and was then transferred to the Fifteenth Virginia Cavalry, his term of service ending with the surrender at Appomattox, April 9, 1865. After the war he engaged in business as a merchandise broker, in partnership with J. Spence Reid, at Norfolk, being the first broker of that kind to transact business in the state. He continued in business until 1869, and from then until 1872 resided on his
farm at Deep Creek consisting of two hun-
dred and fifty acres. In the latter named
year he returned to Norfolk as superintend-
ent of the city water works, a position he
filled for twenty years, although not con-
tinuously. He later engaged in lumbering,
purchasing the standing timber and dispos-
ing of it the same way. Subsequently he
erected saw mills and now converts his
timber into lumber, and has an extensive
business in rough and manufactured lumber,
having prospered greatly. He is a member
of Christ Episcopal Church, and in politics
is a Democrat.
Mr. Smith married, m December, 1868, Henriette K. Vermillion. Children: i. Arthur Richardson, married Edna Robin- son. 2. Blanche L., married William Camp; children : Ellen Castleman, Mary Bonsai, deceased. 3. Herbert Livingston Jr., mar- ried Alia Ransome. 4. H. Garrett, married Donna Carter Reid.
William Elmore Seal, head of the Pub- licity Bureau of America, a man of fine at- tainments and varied experiences, is de- scended from one of the leading Virginia families. His grandfather, William Seal, was married to Mary Knox, a representative of a leading Virginia family. His father, Dr. Joseph Gardner Seal, son of William Seal, was born at Norfolk, Virginia, May, 1850, died in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in January, 1896. He was a physician and analytical chemist, and served in that capa- city for the Federal government, in charge of making high explosives in Richmond, Virginia, and was also at one time member of the faculty of the University of Pennsyl- vania. He was educated at Washington and Lee College. Williamsburg. Virginia, and the Old Dominion Medical College of Rich- mond, Virginia. He married Martha Walker Taylor, of Buckingham county, Virginia, in 1868. She was the daughter of Rev. Wil- liam Harris Tavlor, and died in Philadelphia in 1888.
William Elmore Seal, son of Dr. Joseph Gardner Seal, was born November 26, 1870, at "Woodlands," the family home, Bucking- ham county, Virginia. He received his pri- mary education in the school adjacent to his home, and subsequently pursued an electrical course at the University of Pennsylvania, after which he turned his attention to newspaper work, in which
