Show asa I waw wa T WASHINGTON A T HIS LIFE STORY IN PICTURES COMMEMORATING Il 2 U TM 1 ty ly Ll T if C e f w VV J 1 V IN THE TIDE ANNIVERSARY Al T 1 r OF HIS BIRTH wa 1 J n O J Jf Y ar arV f r if rJ J a ar 3 T till US J J V At 20 he became h heir r to a and nd nd man m manager nt n- n I a ago ager of tilt Ml his h half lf- lf r brother Lawrence died dwi Y I f He Nc was eves elected to j loj e c x 6 f e 2 21 N Ile e 1 m out rt- rt Smallpox contracted on a trip t lp to 10 the t of Bu ics Vir rr ino nn Ic sla L. L door from from wrestling wres Indians fired feed r on nr Washington as i- i at te 15 paw pace when he WM was on l d of Barbados abad M lei h his face bee p p pitted five body in in 1158 a tz rr fling to hose horse breaking I me mn c art trio into the Ie T IL n Union nu By NEA Service I After the death at 1 of ot his ft father when J George was 11 he nc went wen to live lve wan wun his half brother Lawrence at Hunting Hunt Hunt- Hunting ing Creek now called Mount l Vernon on the Potomac Lawrence was a gentleman of or fashion fashion fash fash- ion married to the daughter of the I wealthy and socially prominent William Wil I ILiam liam Fairfax j Turning to surveying ing as a profession profession sion George made many trips taps into I Ithe the western wilderness which taught I I him resourcefulness and endurance and toughened his character I He shared log los cabins with pioneers I ate atc bear meat and corn mush swam I rivers followed deer trails and encountered encountered en en- countered Indians who fired upon him at 15 paces but missed I He contracted smallpox while on a trip to the island of ot Barbados with Lawrence and md this left his face ace permanently per permanently pitted I When Lawrence died in 1752 I George Georgc became heir to and manager I of Mount Vernon Life there formed I the background of his existence for forthe forthe I Ithe the next two decades I He was known as os a hail fellow I well met and excelled in all outdoor I pursuits from wrestling to horse horse- I I breaking His routine was interrupted for sev several oral cral weeks every year by attendance to the Virginia house of ot burgesses a I legislative body to which he was elected in 1758 I Tomorrow Tomorrow Washington Washington the man brought by the thc estate of Edward H H. Haskell of Boston against the state of or orMa I Ma Maine ne the collection of Inheritance I taxes nom from nonresidents was held il lJ legal Utah Is b concerned because it has bas Union been Deen collecting on union Pacific I stock held by nonresidents' nonresidents descend descend- ants |