Lawrence Augustine Washington Jr.
(1814-1882)
BIRTH
December 5, 1814
PLACE
DEATH
August 10, 1882
PLACE
Harewood Plantation, Berkeley County, Virginia (now Jefferson County, West Virginia)
FAMILY
SISTER
Mary Ball Washington
(1709-1789)
HOMES
RELIGIOUS VIEWS
RELIGION NOT DOCUMENTED
DENOMINATION NOT DOCUMENTED
MEMBERSHIPS
AWARDS
Lawrence Augustine Washington (1814–1882) was a grandson of Samuel Washington, George Washington’s brother. He inherited books from the first president’s library through his father, also Lawrence Augustine. After displaying them at Philadelphia’s 1876 Centennial Exhibition, he offered nearly three hundred volumes at auction that November. The sale scattered evidence of Washington’s reading. The Washington Papers project documents his sale, distinguishing him from his father.
EARLY LIFE
Lawrence Augustine Washington was born on Dec 5, 1814. The surviving biographical summary provides only limited evidence about childhood, schooling, and the daily circumstances of the household, so those details are not reconstructed here without documentation. What can be stated securely is that this person belonged to the interconnected family world from which HistoryGPS traces participants, relatives, and later descendants of the Revolutionary generation.
No distinct public profession or office for Lawrence Augustine Washington is established by the source summary used for this entry. The surviving record is primarily genealogical and documents family identity rather than an independent public career. Lawrence Augustine Washington died on Aug 10, 1882. Additional claims about employment, public service, or accomplishments have been omitted where the consulted source did not support them.
CAREER
DEATH
Lawrence Augustine Washington died on Aug 10, 1882, in Harewood Plantation, Berkeley County, Virginia (now Jefferson County, West Virginia). Lawrence Augustine Washington was a grandson of Samuel Washington, George Washington’s brother. He inherited books from the first president’s library through his father, also Lawrence Augustine. After displaying them at Philadelphia’s 1876 Centennial Exhibition, he offered nearly three hundred volumes at auction that November. The sale scattered evidence of Washington’s reading. The Washington Papers project documents his sale, distinguishing him from his father. The available account does not establish a medical cause or a dependable sequence of final symptoms and care.
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