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The Octagon House, also known as the Colonel John Tayloe III House, is a house located at 1799 New York Avenue, Northwest in the Foggy Bottom neighborhood of Washington, D.C. It was built in 1799 for John Tayloe III, the wealthiest planter in the country, at the behest of his new family member, George Washington. In September 1814, after British forces burnt the White House during the War of ...
Tayloe's father was Colonel John Tayloe III, one of the richest people in Virginia. Colonel Tayloe had built The Octagon House in 1800, and his great-grandfather. John Tayloe II , built the great country estate house of Mount Airy in Richmond County, Virginia , in 1762 on an estate his father, John Tayloe I inherited from his father William Tayloe (the nephew) previously known as "Tayloe's ...
In the 1810 U.S. Federal Census, John Tayloe III was reported to have owned 225 enslaved persons. Lomax benefitted greatly from his uncle’s wealth as John Tayloe III paid for Lomax’s education at St. John’s College, Maryland. As the first professor of law at the University of Virginia, Lomax did not possess a formal law degree.
Col. William Tayloe (the nephew) (1645–1710), of Richmond and Lancaster Counties, Virginia. Col. John Tayloe I (1688–1747), plantation owner, councillor and businessman in Virginia. Col. John Tayloe II (1721–1779), plantation owner, councillor and horse breeder in Virginia. Col. John Tayloe III (1770-1828), military officer, Virginia ...
5 de fev. de 2014 · John Cotten Tayloe, Jr., 83, passed away on Wednesday, February 5, 2014. He was born on June 23, 1930, in Washington, NC to the late Dr. John C. Tayloe, Sr., of Washington, NC and the late Nell Holt Tayloe. John attended Staunton Military School for two years and graduated from Washington High School in 1948. He was a member of the 690th Field ...
15 de out. de 2012 · John Tayloe III was a good friend of George Washington and Washington eventually encouraged him to build a house in Washington, D.C., which became known as The Octagon House. When the White House was burned down during the War of 1812, The Octagon House served as the temporary White House for President James Madison and was where the Treaty of Ghent was signed.
2 de set. de 2019 · In an April 1826 letter recently acquired by the UVA Law Library, Jefferson wrote to members of the University’s Board of Visitors that John Tayloe Lomax had accepted the professorship of law and would commence law classes in July 1826. Early this summer, the Law Library was alerted to the letter’s upcoming auction at Sotheby’s.
