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WILLIAM LYNE, the great-grandfather of Wickliffe C. Lyne, represented the county of King and Queen in the House of Burgesses composed of the most eminent men in Virginia. He was a member of the Virginia convention in 1775, made memorable by the first resolution planning the organization and defense of the American Colonies when Patrick Henry made his famous plea for "Liberty or Death". His services as a Revolutionary patriot were of distinct value as a mem- ber of the Committee of Safety in 1775 and as colonel of the King and Queen county troops in 1776. He served at the close of the Revolution as a member of the Williamsburg convention in 1788 with Madison, Jefferson, Henry and Ran-
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dolph, when these Virginia patriots ratified the Federal Constitution, and the career of the American Republic virtually began.
WILLIAM LYNE, grandfather of Wickliffe C. Lyne, married Elizabeth, daugh- ter of Colonel John and Lucy (Walker) Baylor. Colonel Baylor, the great- grandfather of Wickliffe C. Lyne, was a member of the House of Burgesses for twenty years (1740 to 1760), the longest continuous legislative service known in the history of colonial Virginia. Bishop Meade in his history brings out the interesting fact that Colonel Baylor enjoyed such remarkable popularity that only one vote in Caroline county, which he represented, was cast against him. During the War of the Revolution, Colonel Baylor served on Washington's staff at Win- chester, by whom he was held in high personal esteem. Washington makes note in his diary, April 30, 1785, of spending the night at Baylor's home and the fol- lowing night at the home of Patrick Henry. He was not only an earnest patriot and soldier, but an ardent churchman, as shown by the fact mentioned by Bishop Meade that he built the Episcopal church at Bowling Green, Virginia.
Captain George Baylor, son of Colonel Baylor, enjoyed Washington's greatest confidence, was given command of Washington's life-guard, and was sent by his commander on an expedition of great importance to Canada. Campbell in his "History of Virginia" records the fact that he was with Washington when he crossed the Delaware in the dead of winter and captured one thousand Hessians. This memorable event is familiar to all through the picture of "Washington Cross- ing the Delaware". General Washington delegated to Baylor the honor of pre- senting to the Congress at Philadelphia the colors taken from the British at the battle of Trenton. History also tells that in Baylor's arms the brilliant Revolution- ary soldier, General Mercer, expired after receiving his fatal wound at Princeton, when rallying his men against three British regiments. "The Death of Mercer" as well as the "Crossing of the Delaware" are both widely known as works of art, the former being held as one of the most precious canvases on the walls of Princeton University. Captain Baylor married Lucy Mann Page, descendant of Colonel Mann Page, of "His Majesty's Council" and of "King Carter", the presi- dent of the Colonial Council of Virginia and ancestor of Carter Braxton, signer of the Declaration of Independence.
DR. ROBERT BAYLOR LYNE, of Richmond, Virginia, father of Wickliffe C. Lyne, was a graduate of Transylvania University (now Kentucky University), and a physician of great public spirit and wide philanthropy. During the Civil War he maintained at his own private expense hospitals for wounded soldiers, and was unlimited in his hospitality at all times to the needy. Mary Ambrose Edwards, wife of Dr. Robert Baylor Lyne, was the granddaughter of Rev. Hancock Dunbar, Episcopalian minister, and descendant of the Dunbar family who claimed the Earl of Dunbar as its forbear. Colonel Thomas Dunbar, member of this fam- ily and kinsman of Mrs. Lyne, was made commander-in-chief of the British forces in America in the French and Indian War after the defeat and death of General Braddock. She was a descendant also of Ambrose Edwards, wealthy tobacco planter, who brought with him when he emigrated from England a royal grant of a large landed estate in King William, Virginia. Walthean Butler, wife of Am- brose Edwards, is said to have been a member of the famous Butler family, into which George Washington married, and which traced its origin to the Earl of Or- mond and early Saxon Kings. The history of the descendants of Ambrose Ed-
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wards fills the larger part of the volume known as "Old Families of King Wil- liam", one of the most reliable, painstaking works on family genealogy, and from which much of the data of this article is supplied. Ann Butler, who married Charles Carter, of Shirley, the grandparents of General Robert Lee, belongs to this branch of the Butler family.
The Hon. William Lyne Wilson, the great tariff leader in Congress, author of the famous "Wilson Bill" and later on Postmaster General in Cleveland's Cab- inet, was the nephew of Dr. Robert Baylor Lyne. Another well-known member of the Lyne stock, whose claims in the Colonial Dames of America are based upon the descent from Colonel William Lyne, is Elizabeth Lyne Montague, wife of Governor Andrew Jackson Montague, recent chief magistrate of Virginia.
Through these various lines of patriotic descent, Wickliffe C. Lyne is eligible to membership in the Sons of Colonial Wars, the Society of Cincinnati, and the Sons of American Revolution, in which he is a prominent member, having served on the Board of Managers and also delegate and state chairman in the Congress of the Sons of American Revolution held in Pittsburgh some years ago.
Children of Dr. Robert Baylor and Mary A. (Edwards) Lyne: I. William H. Lyne, deceased, married Cassie Alexandria, daughter of Senator William Augus- tus Moncure, auditor of Virginia and descendant of Colonel William Byrd, of Westover, the founder of Richmond, Virginia. Oliver Lyne, oldest son of Will- iam H., is a prosperous farmer at Orange county, Virginia. Dr. William H. Lyne, Jr., deceased, was a member of the Richmond Medical College faculty. Cassie Moncure Lyne is a well known magazine writer and authoress. Peachie Gascoigne Lyne is the wife of Attorney Shackleford, great-grandson of Thomas Jefferson.
2. Robert Baylor Lyne, Jr., deceased, was engaged in the real estate business with his brother, William H., and for many years, until their death, the firm was the leading one in Richmond, Virginia. He married Maggie Rebecca, daughter of Henry Shawan, banker of Cynthiana, Kentucky, and granddaughter of Hon. Joseph Shawan, senator of Kentucky. Minnie Shawan, their eldest daughter, married William Johnston Cocke, banker and mayor of Asheville, North Caro- lina. Margaret Lyne, married -, a prosperous farmer of Kentucky. Robert Baylor Lyne, Jr., is a prosperous farmer in Kentucky.
3. Bettie Coleman Lyne, deceased.
4. Ella Lyne, deceased.
5. Mollie Cary Lyne, married Dr. Daniel W. Moseley, of Richmond, Virginia, member of one of the best known old Virginia families, and has been for many years the president of numerous charitable and religious associations.
6. Wickliffe Campbell Lyne, see forward.
WICKLIFFE CAMPBELL LYNE, son of Dr. Robert Baylor and Mary (Ambrose) Lyne, was born near Richmond, Virginia, September 22, 1850. He graduated in the class of 1870, Bethany College, West Virginia, an honored old institution of learning and Alma Mater of many well known public men such as Governor Odell, of New York, Senator Oliver, of Pennsylvania, Hon. Champ Clark, Speaker of the House, and Judge Lamar of the United States Supreme Court. Mr. Lyne, though the youngest in his class, took first rank in both the sciences and the class- ics. His Alma Mater conferred upon him the honorary degree of Master of Arts and offered him the Chair of Latin and Greek upon the resignation of Vice-Presi- dent Charles Loos, who was called to the presidency of Kentucky University.
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Declining this offer, as well as a call to the presidency of two Normal Colleges, after a successful experience as principal of the Claysville Normal School, Burgettstown Academy and Washington High School, and educational work in Pittsburgh as principal of the Normal School and University, Lecturer on Litera- ture and History, he accepted the position of manager of one of the old New Eng- land insurance companies, and later on of the Union Central Life of Cincinnati, one of the ten largest insurance companies, which position he now holds. In this field of labor, he has been very successful. He was one of the organizers of the Pittsburgh Life Underwriters ; serving several terms as chairman of the executive committee, and is the senior president of this association. He was one of the com- mittee of three Pennsylvania Underwriters appointed by the Pittsburgh Association to secure favorable "Anti-rebate Legislation," and their successful efforts in secur- ing the passage of these anti-rebate laws in Pennsylvania were followed by similar legislation in forty-two other states and blazed the way for the Anti-rebate legis- lation directed against industrials and railroads. His addresses and writings on insurance have attracted wide attention by their clear, forceful presentation. The Finance Chronicle of London, one of the most conservative English journals, reproduced his address on "The Evolution and Ethics of Insurance Contracts" delivered before a national insurance convention. Aside from his activity in insur- ance and real estate operations, he has served on the directorate of a National Bank, Trust Company, an Accident Insurance Company, president of Natural Gas Company, and other positions of business trust. He has been actively identified also with institutions of learning and societies for promotion of arts and science and civic improvements, serving as a director of Bethany College, trustee of the Pittsburgh Art Society, director of the Mozart Musical Society, trustee of a Car- negie Library, member of the Pittsburgh Academy of Science and Arts, and also the American Academy of Political and Social Science of Philadelphia. At one period in his life he edited one of the oldest political journals in Western Penn- sylvania, the Review and Examiner of Washington, Pennsylvania, and also suc- cessfully managed, as chairman of the congressional committee, the campaign of his kinsman, William Lyne Wilson, in West Virginia. He has always been deeply interested as a churchman in activities of that nature, serving ten years as president of the Board of church trustees and superintendent for over twenty years of Bible school and vice-president of the Pennsylvania Board of Home Mis- sions. The library known as the Lyne Library at Bethany College was donated by him to that institution and named in his honor by the trustees. The handsome soldiers' monument, which stands upon the brow of the hill at the eastern end of Penn Avenue, in Woodlawn, was erected by him in memory of the soldiers of the Mexican, Civil and Spanish wars, and in recognition of this patriotic act he was made an honorary member of the Grand Army of the Republic. Mr. Lyne is a member of the Duquesne and Union clubs of Pittsburgh, and actively identified with other well known social and business organizations.
By his marriage to Mary Vowel Winters, daughter of Addison Winters, Esq., of Washington, Pennsylvania, there are four children :- Wickliffe Bull, Sarah Harman, Robert Addison and Virginia Brown. Of these Wickliffe B., a graduate of Princeton, 1901, is Electric Engineer with Westinghouse Electric Company; Robert A. is vice-president and secretary of Sullon Real Estate Company, the two daughters reside at home.
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Mary Vowel (Winters) Lyne, wife of Wickliffe C. Lyne, born December 25, 1854, in Canonsburg, Pennsylvania, died December 19, 1906, in Pittsburgh, came of a long and distinguished Puritan ancestry. In her line of descent arc four Colonial governors one president of a colony, one chief justice, one attor- ney general, and the founders of the social capital of America, Newport, Rhode Island.
She was the great-granddaughter of Stewart Brown, and Sarah Harman of Philadelphia, whose marriage is the one social event of Colonial Pennsylvania recorded in Burkes Peerage. The brother of Stewart Brown was Alexander Brown, founder of the International Banking House of Brown Brothers, New York, Philadelphia and Liverpool, and uncle of Sir William Brown who was created Baronet by Queen Victoria in recognition of his princely philanthropy to Liverpool.
Sarah Harman was the daughter of Jacob Harman, of Philadelphia, and Sarah Stevens, of Newport, a direct descendant of the Coggeshalls, Bulls and Hutchisons, who were the foremost men of colonial Rhode Island. The distinguished services of these colonial ancestors in the lineal ancestry of Mrs. Lyne gave her ten separate claims allowed by the Society of the Colonial Dames of Pennsylvania, the highest number admitted in the membership of Western Pennsylvania.
Some of those in her direct line of descent are: John Coggeshall, founder of Newport and first president of the colony. Governor Coggeshall was the son of Lady Anne Coggeshall, of Hedrington Castle, England, where he was born. Inheriting a strong love for civil and religious liberty, he emigrated with his family to Massachusetts, where he helped to found Boston. His fine social po- sition united with executive ability and strong common sense, caused him to be most useful in laying the foundation of civil and religious liberty in New England. He seems to have filled almost every position of honor and trust in the gift of the colonists. The oldest historical record of Boston extant "1634, monthe 7, daye I" mentions the fact that he with Winthrop Hutchison, Un- derhill, and five others, were the first "select men appointed to manage the af- faires of ye towne of Boston". He served seven different times as Boston's representative in the parliament of Massachusetts known as the general court of Massachusetts, a legislative body whose organization was the accepted model of many a colony and state. He was one of the committee appointed to estab- lish and support a system of public instruction, and as Harvard University was founded during his term, he probably lent a hand in shaping the course of that institution. Aside from his other duties, he was a strong churchman, serving as deacon in Boston's first church of which Rev. John Cotton, who had left Bos- ton, England, because of Archbishop Laud's opposition, was the pastor. He was also associated in work with the famous Indian Apostle, John Eliot, the author of the famous Indian Bible.
John Coggeshall, like Sir Henry Vane, Coddington, Brenton, Bull, Clark, and other choice spirits of Boston, sympathized with the religious views of Anne Hutchinson, and when she was exiled, they settled with the Hutchison family in Rhode Island, where they became original proprietors and founders of Historic Charter Colonies, and Bull, Hutchison and Coggeshall each served as gover- nors.
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The Coggeshall family dates its origin from the Norman Conquest and came of some of the best and purest blood in Europe. The "King's Book of Inquisi- tion" says: "The Coggeshalls in the feudal ages were powerful and very rich- one of them furnishing feudal retainers from ten manors in the wars with Scotland." Weaver's London Monument tells that "King Edward III-the Black Prince knighted John de Coggeshall the same day he made his eldest son earl and duke." This knighthood was based upon bravery upon the battlefield of Poitiers. Another member of this family-Ralph Coggeshall-was a Cru- sader and his history of "The Siege of Jerusalem" written in Latin, is still a classic in many old libraries.
Henry Bull, founder of Portsmouth ( 1638) and Newport (1639), served the colonists three times as governor of Rhode Island (1685-86-90). It was Henry Bull that at the most critical hour for colonial liberty had the spirit and courage to accept the leadership of Popular Rights against the tyrant Andross who was seeking to annul the Royal Charter of Massachusetts, Connecticut and Rhode Island. "All eyes", said Bancroft the Historian, "turned to the old Antinomnian exile, the more than octogenarian Henry Bull, and in February, 1690, that feerless Quaker, true to the light within, employed the last glimmer- ing of life to restore the democratic charter to Rhode Island." This charter was the ark of liberty and, as another historian says, "Established civil govern- ment for the first time in the world on the doctrine of liberty of conscience, making it the highest Court of Appeal and Cornerstone of Popular Rights." It remained in existence until it became the oldest constitutional charter in the world and was the first formal separation of church from state known. Gov- ernor Henry Bull, by restoring this priceless legacy to civilization, crowned his career covering a long, useful life.
Captain Jireh Bull, son of Governor Henry Bull, did gallant service in King Phillip's war, and when his house or the garrison which stood on the crest of a hill, called Tower Hill, was attacked in December, 1675, and set on fire and two men and five women and children killed, the news of the outrage so inflamed the army at Warwick they started in hot haste for vengeance and the dreadful slaughter of "The Great Swamp Fight" followed. This historic house had been used freely as a place of religious assembly, and history tells us that there came here to worship at times George Fox, the saintly apostle of the Inner Life, the famous John Cartwright, and others.
History also tells that when the Tyrant, Sir Edmond Andross, arrived as gov- ernor of New York, Captain Bull commanded a fort at Saybrook and was or- dered to surrender the fort to the new official. The order was disregarded.
The great-great-grandson of Governor Henry Bull was Henry Bull, of New- port, attorney general of Rhode Island, 1721, speaker of the House of Repre- sentatives, 1728, deputy governor, 1729, and chief justice, 1749. He mar- ried Phoebe Coggeshall, granddaughter of John Coggeshall, president of Rhode Island Colony.
William Hutchison, of Newport, Rhode Island, belonged to a distinguished family in England which had furnished two mayors to Lincoln, England, and was foremost in the civil and military affairs of Massachusetts for one hundred and fifty years. He arrived in Boston, with his wife Anne Hutchison, the famous religious reformer, September 18, 1636, on board the "Griffin." They
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brought with them a family of fifteen children, the descendants of whom, as well as themselves, left a strong impress upon Massachusetts. Elisha Hutchi- son, descendant, became chief justice, and his grandson, Thomas Hutchison, was the famous Royalist governor of Massachusetts and historian. He was a man of brilliant intellect ; the Lord Chancellor of England, Lord Longborough, said of him: "He is the admiration of half of England and of all of Continental Eu- rope." John Adams said of him; "He understood the subject of coin and com- merce better than any man I ever knew in this country". He was one of the most famous sons of Harvard and his "History of Massachusetts" is regarded still as a classic.
William Hutchison, emigrant, after leaving Massachusetts with his family, founded Portsmouth, Rhode Island, and later became its chief magistrate. He was appointed by Charles II, one of the trustees of the famous Royal Charter of 1663, and served as the judge of Newport and Portsmouth and deputy gov- ernor of Rhode Island. The famous Old Book Store in Boston marks the loca- tion of the residence of himself and Anne Hutchison, his wife. Her father was Rev. Francis Marbury, an English clergyman. Her mother was Bridget Dryden, the great-aunt of John Dryden, the English dramatist and Poet Laureate, who lies interred in Westminster Abbey. She was also a relative of Dean Jonathan Swith, and thus by heredity was strongly favored. She was the foremost wo- man of New England-the "Pioneer of Woman's Rights", who antagonized the clergy by her advanced religious views and claim to the right of public speaking. Because of her strong opinions she was exiled from Massachusetts though many of the ablest men of her time shared her opinion and were exiled with her. Sir Harry Vane, the former governor of Massachusetts and later champion of pop- ular rights with Oliver Cromwell sided with her, as did all of the Boston Church membership of three hundred and seventy-two members, save five. Speaking of this gifted woman, Bancroft declares "She was the founder of one of the two parts in Massachusetts colony and that even her enemies could never speak of her without acknowledging her eloquence and ability". Woodrow Wilson in his "History of American People," says: "Her engaging earnestness and eloquence gave her noticeable pre-eminence among her sex. Great and small alike felt the woman's charm and power".
Anne Hutchison, after the death of her husband, William Hutchison, left Rhode Island and settled in New York, where she was massacred by the In- dians with all her family excepting a young daughter, who was ransomed from Indian captivity and four years later married John Cole, of Newport.
The Hutchison family, as also the Coggeshalls, the Wallers, the Browns and the Lynes, each has its coat-of-arms and crest which has been honored both in Court and Field.
DUANE FAMILY
The Duane family is composed of two branches, distantly related, of which one became established at an early date in New York and the other in Phila- delphia.
JAMES DUANE, the first mayor of New York City after its evacuation by the British army in 1783, was a member of the New York branch of the family. The earliest member of the Philadelphia branch to attain distinction was Wil- liam Duane, who was born near Lake Champlain, in the Province of New York in 1760. After the death of his father, John Duane, in 1765, his mother removed to Philadelphia, thence to Baltimore, and afterwards to Ireland, where the family were the owners of a large estate near Queenstown. Here William Duane was liberally educated. Soon after his marriage, at the age of nine- teen, he went with his wife Catharine to England, and in 1784 to India, where shortly afterwards he established a newspaper in Calcutta, called The World devoted both to local and international news and interests. It became a great commercial success. Duane during his whole life was engaged in fighting the battles of the weak against the strong, and in the columns of his paper he pub- lished from time to time grievances of the soldiers under the command of the Governor-general, Sir John Shore, and also other criticisms of the British East India Company. These articles were deemed by the Governor-general to be prejudicial to his administration, and one night Duane was, by order of the Governor-general seized by a band of Sepoys and placed on board a vessel just sailing for England, and his property, amounting to $50,000 and including a considerable library, was confiscated. On arriving in England he vainly sought redress from both the British Parliament and the East India Company for his losses and for the injustice of his peremptory deportation. He became a parliamentary reporter for the General Advertiser, afterwards called the London Times, and continued in that employment until 1796, when he removed to Philadelphia where he had spent a portion of his boyhood days.
In Philadelphia, Mr. Duane resumed his literary labors, both as a newspa- per correspondent and in the line of general literary work, assisting in the prep- aration of a book on the French Revolution, and becoming connected with the Aurora, a Philadelphia newspaper, then published by Benjamin Franklin Bache, grandson of the great philosopher and journalist, Benjamin Franklin. Upon the death of Mr. Bache from yellow fever in the epidemic of 1798, William Duane became editor-in-chief of the Aurora, which under his able management soon developed into the leading organ of the Jeffersonian party. Jefferson himself, the father of the Democratic party, attributed his election to the presidency largely to its influence. William Duane took a most active part in the political issues of his time, and was noted for his fearless disregard of danger in fight- ing for the public issues which he espoused. In 1799 he was placed on trial for complicity in inciting the sedition riots in Philadelphia, being, with several others, charged with printing and posting notices at the Roman Cathr 1ic
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churches requesting the members to meet there and sign petitions and protests against the alien and sediton laws. All the defendants were however ac- quitted.
William Duane continued to be the editor of the Aurora until 1822, when he sold his interest in it and went to South America as a representative of the American creditors of certain of the republics of that continent. He took up the cause of the revolutionists who were struggling for the independence of the United States of Columbia, and after independence had been achieved he received a vote of thanks from the congress of that country for his exertions in their behalf. Upon his return to Philadelphia he published in 1826 a volume entitled "A Visit to Columbia, 1822-3". William Duane was shortly afterwards ap- pointed prothonotary of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, and held that position until his death in 1835. He was also an alderman of Philadelphia, and prior to the War of 1812 with Great Britain he had command of the Philadel- phia Legion, a volunteer corps, distinguished among local organizations for its superior discipline and military tactics. He was also adjutant-general of the district in which he resided during the War of 1812, and aide to the commander- in-chief of state militia with the rank of colonel. As such he had command of one of the forts on the Delaware a short distance below Philadelphia, where a company of soldiers were stationed to ward off any attack by the enemy upon the city, but happily no such attack was attempted. In addition to numerous papers on political and miscellaneous subjects, Mr. Duane was the author of a "Military Dictionary," published in 1810, and of a "Handbook for Riflemen," published in 1813. He was the Democratic candidate for Congress in 1824 from one of the Philadelphia districts, but was defeated by Joseph Hemphill.
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