454:(who also once represented Prince William as delegate in the Virginia General Assembly of 1891–1892) as well as Dr. Henry M. Clarkson and bankers Westwood Hutchison and G. Raymond Ratcliffe. Round spent years trying to create a national park around the monuments being erected on the Manassas battlefield, while maintaining much of the farmland (for productive agricultural use also increased historical accuracy). Round helped secure U.S. Army maneuvers in the area amid the efforts of local boosters in September 1904, and also worked to re-enact both the First Battle of Manassas and Second Battle of Manassas, although both were Union defeats. Congressman
486:, she likewise moved to Manassas (with her parents Charles and Cathering Maitland Bennett) in 1869. Emily Round became respected for helping found the town's Bethlehem Club, serving as president of its Woman's Christian Temperance Union chapter, work with Trinity Episcopal Church, and would become the town's oldest citizen by the time of her death. Three daughters and two sons would survive infancy—Norma Round Davies (1878–1981), Ruth Althea Round Hoof, Lt. Roswell Emory Round, Emily Round Lewis, and George Charles Round. Their son and William Maitland Round died as infants in the 1880s.
365:(a.k.a. Second Manassas) the following year, but its population had shrunk by half by the time Round arrived. Round settled in Manassas, then married a Canadian woman who had also arrived with her parents, and they ultimately raised their own family as discussed below. His parents and sister all moved to either to Manassas (where they were buried) or to Washington, D.C. (a short train ride away and from whose public schools the new Manassas public school discussed below bought some furnishings).
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381:(who had served in both houses of the Virginia General Assembly and would become a judge). Round also served on Manassas' first town council (1873), as the town clerk (from 1873 until 1873, when he was replaced by Robert C. Weir, who had been the town's first mayor and would serve intermittently for decades in various offices), and on the school board (1870–1912). Round also held federal positions, first as postmaster, then as federal tax commissioner (1875–1881).
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Church (with Miss
Estelle Green as teacher). It expanded to a second room the following year as the new school board (with Round as one of 3 members) also hired George Bennett as principal and teacher. In 1872, the new school board built the Ruffner building (named after Virginia's first superintendent of public instruction), which allowed the white school to leave the church. $ 300 of the money needed to construct a new building would come from the
394:, with the remaining $ 694.24 from local subscriptions as well as donations from other northerners; Quakers established the Brown school, a.k.a. Manassas Village Colored School in 1870. By 1900 the village had six schools for white children and four for black children. As the town continued to grow, Round helped secure financing (including from Andrew Carnegie) for the Bennett building in 1909.
274:, to former schoolteacher Sarah Ann Carr and her husband, Methodist minister William Round. His grandfather, Bartram Round, has served as a lieutenant of Connecticut troops in the American Revolutionary War known as the "Scituate Hunters", and Round could trace his ancestry to colonists emigrating on the
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Nonetheless, Round stayed in the area, and became a booster—planting shade trees along
Manassas' streets, donating land to build the county courthouse in Manassas (after considerable controversy it moved for the fourth time westward, from centrally-located Brentsville, which lacked railroad access)
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Round opened a law and real estate office in
Manassas on New Year's Day, 1869. The military government soon named him as Prince William County's commonwealth's attorney (prosecutor). Following Virginia's adoption of a new constitution forbidding slavery and readmission to the union, that position
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The new
Virginia constitution (adopted in mid-1869) established the state's first public school system, although funding would become a recurrent issue. By the year's close, Round established the county's first public school (for white children) in the rear room of the Asbury Methodist Episcopal
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Following admission to the New York bar in 1868, Round practiced law for about a year with a New York firm before moving southward, expecting to visit relatives in North
Carolina. He appreciated the Southern hospitality he had received despite being a Northern soldier, and wanted to help rebuild
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As the Civil War began, Round interrupted his studies (which had included voluntary military drills) to enlist in the First
Connecticut Artillery, although he later noted that the favorite uncle (after whom he had been named) had long been a teacher in Georgia and the Carolinas, and his boys had
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Confederate service much as George Round and his brother had volunteered for the Union Army. His elder brother, Rev. John Emory Round, enlisted as a captain in Company K of the 43rd Massachusetts Infantry and served nearly a year before being mustered out on July 30, 1863.
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George C. Round, The Last Signal
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to establish a signal station (that had caused local consternation when he used black flags to note
President Lincoln's assassination). Round used colorful signal rockets to transmit the message "On earth peace, good will toward men" upon hearing confirmation of the war's end.
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proposed a document, which was controversial because of its provisions which excluded former
Confederates. Even Union authorities delayed the vote until mid-1869, and those controversial provisions were voted on separately and did not pass, unlike the document as a whole.
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was built and named after the early teachers. Round also served as president of the Virginia School Trustee Association in 1906, and helped establish an agricultural extension service for Prince William county. He also helped establish the local Manasseh Lodge of
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but single-term Delegate) Benjamin F. Lewis (1816–1878), son of William Montgomery Lewis (1793–1867). Although (or because) Round proposed legislation to establish teacher training colleges across Virginia, he was not re-elected. Confederate veteran and farmer
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His birth family included an elder half-sister, Sarah Mehetabel Round, brother Rev. John E. Round and a sister Lydia Adelia Round Pine. The senior Rev. Round accepted positions at several churches in Pennsylvania and New York, but George Round grew up in
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two decades earlier (on whose board Round also sat, and served as its legal advisor). The "Ruffner School and Manassas High School" Building would close in 1926, when overcrowding threatened its state accreditation so a new brick
262:. Round also held several local offices, donated the land for a more-accessible courthouse, organized the first public schools in the area and secured funding for the county's first public library.
474:(son of a Confederate veteran) secured passage of the battlefield park investigative commission bill in 1912, but by the time the three commissioners recommended purchase, World War I had begun.
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The Carr Family Records: Embacing [sic] the Record of the First Families who Settled in America and Their Descendants, with Many Branches who Came to this Country at a Later Date
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and was promoted to officer, accepting a commission as lieutenant. Round later described how he sent the last signal of the war, climbing the dome of the North Carolina state capital at
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again became elective. However, in 1870, Round lost the election to become the county's prosecutor to James F. Clark, who resigned circa 1872, and was succeeded by
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