I45390: ISOLD BRISKO (ABT 1348

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ISOLD BRISKO, of the Manor of Crofton, which came to him through his wife, m. Margaret CROFTON, dau. and heir of Sir John CROFTON, of Crofton, who m. Margaret WHINNO, dau. and heir of Sir Gilbert WHINNO, Knt., as appeareth by a deed in the reign of King Richard II.

"Their son Isold married Margaret Crofton, daughter and heiress of Sir John Crofton. From her the family attained the present English estate of the Briscoes---Crofton Hall, Cumberland County, England."

19th. Generation)
Isold BRISKO, s/o Robert and Matilda, m. Margaret WHINNO, CROFTON, daughter of Sir John CROFTON by his wife Margaret, daughter and heiress of Sir Gilbert WHINNO, Kt. A deed of the reign of Richard II shows how Margaret wife of Isold brought the manors of Crofton, Whinno, and Dundrawin in Cumberland to her husband's family. Parents of Christopher.

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CONRAD SYME. Conrad Hunt Syme was born in Lewisburg, W. Va., January 13, 1868. He attended school at the old Lewisburg Academy and at the Lewisburg graded school until the family moved to Washington, D.C., in 1883. He graduated from the Washington High School in 1887 and immediately entered for the law course at Georgetown University. In 1888 he was appointed private secretary to United States Senator Charles J. Faulkner, occupying this position until 1897. He was admitted to the bar in West Virginia in 1893 and in the District of Columbia in 1894. During the time he was private secretary to Senator Faulkner he took an active part in West Virginia politics. He was assistant secretary to the State Democratic Committee in 1892, and also to the Democratic Congressional Committee in 1896. He spoke frequently on the stump in West Virginia and elsewhere in political campaigns from 1890 to 1896. He was appointed delegate from the District of Columbia to the Atlanta Exposition in 1895 and was a delegate to the West Virginia State Convention in 1896.

In the campaign of 1912 he was active in behalf of the candidacy of Woodrow Wilson for President, and in 1916 he made a speaking tour, at the request of the Democratic National Committee, in West Virginia, Maryland and Delaware in behalf of his re-election to the Presidency.

In 1897 he entered actively into the practice of law in Washington, D. C., and secured a lucrative practice. He has been a member of the bar of the Supreme Court of the United States since 1900. In 1900 he, together with Senator Faulkner, was employed in the contest over the will of Baroness Amoss, and in 1901 he went to Europe and took testimony in this case at Rome, Luzerne, Heidelberg, Hamburg and Berlin, and afterwards visited Paris and London. In 1902 he was employed as one of the counsel for the defendants in the celebrated post office fraud cases. In 1905 he was employed to defend the will of Ellen M. Colton, widow of General Colton, of California, one of the builders of the Union Pacific railroad, and this employment carried him to California.

In 1913, at the solicitation of the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, he became Corporation Counsel of the District of Columbia and Ceneral Counsel of the Public Utilities Commission of the District of Columbia, which position he now occupies and where he has represented the District of Columbia in the most important litigation in all of the courts with much success. This position corresponds with that of the attorney general in the States and carries with it the responsibility for all legal matters pertaining to the capital of the Nation. He is a charter member of the University Club, of Washington, D. C., and a member of the National Press Club, and of the City Club, of New York.

In 1896 he was married, at Harrodsburg, Ky., to Lavinia B. Forsythe, daughter of Dr. and Mrs. M. L. Forsythe. 'Miss Forsythe, at the time of her marriage, was one of the belles of the blue grass region and her family was among the first settlers of Kentucky, her ancestors having gone there from Virginia many years before the Revolutionary war. Two sons were born to them-Leander Dunbar Syme, born on January 8, 1898, and Samuel Augustus Syme, born on February 5, 1900. The elder son, having graduated at the Central High School in Washington, D. C., received an appointment to the United States Military Academy at West Point, on November 10, 1916, and entered this institution on June 14, 1917, as a cadet. The younger son, having attended three years at the Central High School in Washington, D. C., entered the Virginia Military Institute, at Lexington, Va., as a cadet, on September 5, 1917, both boys preparing themselves as rapidly as possible to take part in the existing war with Germany."
http://www.electricscotland.com/history/world/bios/syme_conrad.ht m
History of Greenbrier County by J. R. Cole
Lewisburg, WV 1917 p. 166-171

My Southern Family

ISOLD BRISKO

ABT 1348 - ____

ID Number: I45390

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Thomas COMMANDER

ABT 1650 - ____

ID Number: I70594

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Princess BLANCHE de FRANCE of France

1253 - 1320

ID Number: I83198

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Rahl GUERRANT

Zacharias MCCALLUM

ABT 1752 - AFT 1787

ID Number: I98736

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Susannah PEAK

ABT 1740 - ____

ID Number: I43020

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Sarah PENN

ABT 1760 - AFT 1777

ID Number: I89453

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Conrad Hunt SYME

13 Jan 1868 - AFT 1913

ID Number: I102468

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Edward Kavanaugh TALIAFERRO

ABT 1830 - ____

ID Number: I20245

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Louise Hurlbut YOUNG

ABT 1870 - ____

ID Number: I52303

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