John W. Burke

John W. Burke came to Alexandria in 1848 from Mount Ivy in Caroline County, Virginia, his birthplace and family seat. On August 14, 1852, at age 27, he and the 23-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 a banking and exchange office at the corner of Prince and Lee Streets — the partnership that 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 … . ^[1] Source 1 The Zebra, 'Brief Glimpse: Burke & Herbert Bank,' 2015 Website

During the Federal occupation of Alexandria (1861-1865) Burke was held in jail or under house arrest, and rather than risk Federal confiscation he closed the bank’s operations. The Alexandria Gazette later reported that depositors lost no money during the occupation — Burke had personally safeguarded their accounts. After the war he reopened the bank with Herbert and brought his son Julian Thompson Burke into the firm in 1877, beginning the long Burke-family succession that continues today. ^[2] Source 2 The Zebra, 'Burke & Herbert at 166,' 2018 Website