George Carr Round  George Carr Round (September 14, 1839 – November 5, 1918) was a Union soldier (and later officer) who settled in Prince William County, Virginia after the American Civil War, where he became a lawyer, superintendent of public instruction in Manassas, Virginia and served a term in the Virginia General Assembly. Although Round donated the land for a more-accessible courthouse, organized the first public schools in the area and secured funding for the county's first public library, he became known nationally in his lifetime for organizing the Manassas Peace Jubilee in 1911, alongside fellow one-term delegate Edmund Berkeley (a former Confederate officer) and for contributing to the creation of Manassas National Battlefield Park decades after his death. Born at Kingston, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania to former schoolteacher Sarah Ann Carr (1805–1892) and her husband, Methodist minister William Round (1803–1881). His grandfather, Bartram Round, has served as a lieutenant of Connecticut troops in the American Revolutionary War known as the "Scituate Hunters", and Round could trace his ancestry to colonists emigrating on the "Mayflower." His birth family included an elder half-sister, Sarah Mehetabel Round (1834–1872), brother Rev. John E. Round (1835– and a sister Lydia Adelia Round Pine (1842–1926). The senior Rev. Round accepted positions at several churches in Pennsylvania and New York, but George Round grew up in Windsor, New York (on the Pennsylvania border), and attended the Windsor Academy, a collegiate preparatory school. In 1858 he began studies at Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut, but interrupted them in his junior year in order to enlist in the First Connecticut Volunteers. Round resumed them after the war, became a member of Alpha Delta Phi and Phi Beta Kappa, and graduated in 1865. Round then enrolled at Columbia Law School, and was admitted to the New York bar in 1868. He spent about a year with a New York firm before moving southward (expecting to visit relatives in North Carolina) and settling in Virginia as discussed below. He married Emily Bennett (1859–1952) in Manassas in 1877. Although she was born in London, Ontario and likewise moved to Manassas (with her parents Charles and Cathering Maitland Bennett) in 1869, Emily Round became respected for helping found the town's Bethlehem Club, serving as president of its Woman's Christian Temperance Union chapter, work with Trinity Episcopal Church, and would become the town's oldest citizen by the time of her death.