Arthur Herbert

Arthur Herbert was born July 27, 1829 at 121 North Fairfax Street Place 121 North Fairfax Street Stone Georgian mansion built in 1753 by Scottish merchant John Carlyle; headquarters in April 1755 for General Edward Braddock's Congress of five royal governors planning the … in Alexandria to William Herbert (Jr.) and Henrietta Maria Dulany ^[1] Source 1 DAC, 'Arthur Herbert — Muckross,' 2020 Website . Through his paternal grandparents William Herbert (Sr.) Person William Herbert (Sr.) Anglo-Irish merchant of Alexandria; husband of and father of the children who carried and the Carlyle name into the Herbert, Norris, Fairfax-of-Ashgrove, and … and Sarah Carlyle Herbert Person Sarah Carlyle Herbert Eldest daughter of and ; her marriage to carried into the Herbert family. Mother of (held the house 1781-1827) and (m. Thomas 9th Lord Fairfax 1800); great-grandmother of . , Arthur was a great-great-grandson of John Carlyle Person John Carlyle b. 1720 · d. 1780 Scottish-descent merchant born in Carlisle, England, in 1720; one of the eleven founding trustees of Alexandria in 1749, and builder of the stone Carlyle House at the head of what … and a member of the The Carlyle family Family The Carlyle family Scottish-descended merchant family that came to Virginia through in 1741, built in 1753, and seeded three Alexandria branches: the Carlyle-Herbert line at the house itself, the … . His mother died when he was a child; he was raised by his uncle John Peyton in Loudoun County. In 1852, at twenty-three, he joined the older merchant John W. Burke Person John W. Burke b. 1825 Senior partner who at age 27 joined the twenty-three-year-old on August 14, 1852 to open the Burke & Herbert Banking & Exchange Office at the corner of Prince and Lee Streets … to form Burke & Herbert, a stock-and-real-estate commission firm that grew into Burke & Herbert Bank Business Burke & Herbert Bank founded 1852 Alexandria-based bank founded in 1852 by John Burke and Arthur Herbert as a stock-and-real-estate commission firm. The oldest continuously operating bank in Virginia and one of the … , the oldest continuously operating bank in Virginia.

In September 1856 Herbert bought a 57¼-acre tract previously called “Stump Hill” south of Old Leesburg Road from Elizabeth and Catherine Thompson, and renamed the estate “Muckross” after the Herberts’ ancestral seat in County Kerry, Ireland.

Enslaver, 1860

The 1860 U.S. Census Slave Schedule (Fairfax County, Falls Church District) records Arthur Herbert as the enslaver of four people in his Muckross household: a thirty-seven-year-old man, a forty-year-old man, a nineteen-year-old woman, and a nine-year-old girl ^[1] Source 1 DAC, 'Arthur Herbert — Muckross,' 2020 Website . The Schedule’s convention was to record the enslaver and the ages of the enslaved without their names; their identities are not preserved in the document. Reconstructing the names, families, and post-emancipation lives of the four people Herbert held in bondage at Muckross is a research target for a future deepening pass against U.S. Census records, Freedmen’s Bureau records, and the Black-church and burial-ground records of post-war Black Alexandria.

Civil War service

In December 1860 Herbert helped organize the Old Dominion Rifles, an Alexandria militia company; he was elected First Lieutenant in January 1861. After Virginia’s May 1861 secession the company merged into the 17th Virginia Infantry, where Herbert was elected Captain of Company H on June 10, 1861. He fought from First Manassas through the Petersburg siege, and was wounded at Seven Pines and Drury’s Bluff. He reenlisted in 1864 “for the duration of the war.” From June 18, 1864 through March 1865 he commanded the position at the Howlett House, defending the eastern approaches to Richmond.

By April 1865 Herbert had been promoted to Colonel. After General Montgomery Corse was captured at Sailor’s Creek on April 6, Herbert assumed brigade command. Three days later, on April 9, 1865 at Appomattox Court House, he surrendered the remnant of Corse’s Brigade — 294 officers and men — to U.S. Grant’s army.

Postwar

Herbert married Alice Gregory (age twenty), daughter of William A. and Ann M. Gregory, on July 5, 1865 in Petersburg, Virginia. Their first daughter Marion was born in December 1865; four more daughters followed. The family lived at Seminary Hill (off Seminary Road, near St. Stephens Road) Place Seminary Hill (off Seminary Road, near St. Stephens Road) Layered Seminary Hill site that was the country estate "Muckross" of Burke & Herbert Bank co-founder Arthur Herbert, the Civil War earthwork Fort Worth (1861-1865), and finally the … , which Herbert rebuilt 1866–67 directly atop Seminary Hill (off Seminary Road, near St. Stephens Road) Place Seminary Hill (off Seminary Road, near St. Stephens Road) Layered Seminary Hill site that was the country estate "Muckross" of Burke & Herbert Bank co-founder Arthur Herbert, the Civil War earthwork Fort Worth (1861-1865), and finally the … ’s powder magazine — the masonry casemates served as cellars for the new house, a quiet record of the war preserved in the foundations.

Herbert was a long-time trustee of 3737 Seminary Road Place 3737 Seminary Road Episcopal theological seminary founded in Alexandria in 1823 and relocated to its present hilltop campus in 1827. Occupied by Union forces during the Civil War and used as a … and a founding member of the R. E. Lee Camp (Confederate Veterans). He retired from Burke & Herbert in 1899. He died at Muckross on February 23, 1919, age eighty-nine. He is buried with Alice at 2823 King Street Place 2823 King Street Twenty-two-acre garden cemetery in Alexandria's Rosemont district, chartered 1856 by thirty Alexandrians on land sold from the estate of Hugh C. Smith. A representative entry in … ^[2] Source 2 Find A Grave — Arthur Herbert (memorial 18797271) Website .