ROBERT GARLICK HILL KEAN.
The paternal ancestry of Mr. Kean is thus traced. About 1790,
David Kean, of County Armagh, Ireland, came to Virginia, and settled
in Monroe county. With him came his son, Andrew Kean, who became
a physician of Louisa county, and whose son, John Vaughn Kean, married
Caroline M. Hill. They were the parents of the subject of this sketch,
who was born in Caroline county, Virginia, October 7, 1828. His first
wife was Jane Nicholas, daughter of Col. T. Jefferson Randolph, of
Edge Hill, Albemarle county, Virginia, born November 3, 1831, died
August 28, 1868. The children of this marriage were: Lancelot Minor,
born January 11, 1856, now practicing law at Sioux City, Iowa; Pattie
Cary, born April 11, 1858, now the wife of J. S. Morris, of Campbell
county, Jefferson Randolph, born June 28, 1860, now surgeon, U. S. A.,
and Robert G. H. At the residence of Col. Nicholas Long, near Weldon,
North Carolina, Rev. Mr. Norwood officiating, Mr. Kean married, on
January 14, 1874, Adelaide Navarro de M. Prescott. She was born in St.
Landry parish, Louisiana, November 5, 1844, the daughter of William
Marshall Prescott, who was born in South Carolina, and who married
Evelina, daughter of Judge Moore, of Louisiana. The children of Mr.
Kean's second marriage are four, born. Evelina Moore, June 28, 1875;
William Marshall Prescott, July 6, 1876, Caroline H., September 1,
1877, Otho Vaughn, April 5, 1881.
Mr. Kean entered the Confederate States Army as a private of Company
G, 11th Virginia regiment, on April 23, 1861. In February, 1862,
he was commissioned captain, and appointed A. A. G. assigned to Gen.
G. W. Randolph's brigade. On April 1, 1862, he was ordered to Richmond,
and commissioned by President Davis as chief of the Bureau of
War, which position he filled until the close of the war. He was graduated
in law from the University of Virginia in 1853, and holds the
degrees of Master of Arts and Bachelor of Law from that University.
From the time of his graduation to the present he has been in practice,
in Lynchburg, except for the years given to military duty.
