The Burke and Herbert families

On August 14, 1852 the twenty-seven-year-old John W. Burke and the twenty-three-year-old Arthur Herbert Person Arthur Herbert b. 1829 · d. 1919 Co-founder of Burke & Herbert Bank (1852), Confederate officer in the 17th Virginia Infantry, and longtime master of "Muckross" on Seminary Hill. Born at Carlyle House; died on the … opened Burke & Herbert Banking & Exchange Office on the corner of Prince and Lee Streets. The partnership outlived both founders and became 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 bank in Virginia and the oldest continuously operating bank in the Washington area. ^[1] Source 1 The Zebra, 'Brief Glimpse: Burke & Herbert Bank,' 2015 Website

Through the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries the bank remained under the combined control of the two founding families — an unusual continuity that persisted until the bank’s twenty-first-century public listing. Genealogy of the Herbert side is partly traced via Arthur Herbert Person Arthur Herbert b. 1829 · d. 1919 Co-founder of Burke & Herbert Bank (1852), Confederate officer in the 17th Virginia Infantry, and longtime master of "Muckross" on Seminary Hill. Born at Carlyle House; died on the … (himself the grandson of John Carlyle through Sarah Carlyle Herbert Person Sarah Carlyle Herbert Daughter of ; her marriage to William Herbert transferred into the Herbert family, where her grandson was born in 1829. ); the Burke-side genealogy remains a research target.