Almon George Richmond and Mary W. Grayson

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Husband Almon George Richmond ¹

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            AKA: Almond George Richmond 2
           Born: 14 Aug 1848 - Meadville, Crawford Co, PA 2
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         Father: Hon. Hiram Lawton Richmond (1810-1885) 3 4 5
         Mother: Maria Power Shryock (1819-1902) 2 6

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       Marriage: 19 Oct 1882 - Meadville, Crawford Co, PA 7

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Wife Mary W. Grayson ^{1 8}

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           Born:  - Washington, Washington Co, PA
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         Father: Thomas W. Grayson, Esq. (Abt 1817-1876) 1 7 9
         Mother: Mary Elizabeth Green (      -1892) 7 8

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Children

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1 F Gail Richmond ⁷

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           Born: 3 Jul 1886 7
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General Notes: Husband - Almon George Richmond

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After acquiring an excellent preparatory education, he entered Allegheny College from which he was graduated in the class of 1870. Deciding upon a legal career, he studied law and was admitted to the bar on August 6, 1873. In the year 1884 he was elected district attorney, and served from 1885 to 1887. In 1898 he was appointed by the United States court as referee in bankruptcy and continued in this office over fifteen years. Mr. Richmond ranked high as an attorney and had the reputation of being one of the soundest and most able advisers in legal matters in the state; he was well known as dissuading his clients against going to law unless it was absolutely necessary. His influence in business and commercial circles was also very strongly felt, and he was a member of the Chamber of Commerce. He was also a leading man in religious as well as in secular matters, and was an attendant of the Park Avenue Congregational Church in Meadville. He was a Republican in politics.
Mr. Richmond was well known as an artist of remarkable talent and achievement, having produced many very fine works in oils and in black and white; among the latter is his noted cartoon, “The Wondering Court.” Among his leading masterpieces in oil are “Working Out the Road Tax,” “The Dissemination of Political Information,” “Willie Scott,” “The Hemlocks,” and many beautiful woodland scenes. By far the most note-worthy of his paintings, however, is the celebrated, “Farnsworth's Charge and Death,” hanging in Allegheny County's Soldiers' Memorial Hall at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. It is a very large and finely executed canvas, six feet by three, and depicts an incident of the third day of the battle of Gettysburg during the Civil War. On the afternoon of this day, July 3, 1863, after Pickett had made his desperate charge and the situation of the Confederate army was precarious, two gallant attempts were made by the First West Virginia Regiment to surmount the Confederate works, but failed. Whereupon General Kilpatrick, who was in command of the Union forces, ordered General Farnsworth, who had just been promoted for gallantry, to make a third charge. The sacrifice of his soldiers seemed so certain that Farnsworth hesitated to obey, but placing the responsibility of their slaughter upon the superior officer, he dashed with his troops over rocks and through brush and timber to the Confederate front. In the charge Farnsworth's horse was killed, but he remounted and continued with his men until he fell pierced by five bullets. Sixty-five of his three hundred men also went down in this reckless charge. The painting depicts General Farnsworth as he falls from his horse, and commemorates his gallant death. [GPHWP, 368]

See further: "Farnsworth's Charge and Death" painting by A. G. Richmond

1 —, The History of Crawford County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Warner Beers & Co., 1885), Pg 765.

2 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Western Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1915), Pg 368.

3 —, The History of Crawford County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Warner Beers & Co., 1885), Pg 761.

4 Samuel P. Bates, LL.D., Our County and Its People, A Historical and Memorial Record of Crawford County, Pennsylvania (W. A. Fergusson & Co., 1899), Pg 203.

5 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Western Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1915), Pg 367.

6 —, The History of Crawford County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Warner Beers & Co., 1885), Pg 763.

7 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Western Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1915), Pg 369.

8 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1893), Pg 102.

9 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1893), Pg 101.