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2 unusual facts about John Tyler Linton


John Tyler Linton

John Tyler Linton (1796–1821) was a Virginia landowner and philanthropist whose landholdings were donated by his daughter, Sarah Elliott Graham Linton (1822–1901) for the establishment of schools for poor boys and girls in Bristow, Virginia.

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Linton's Ford was part of the land owned by a family of English "Cavaliers" (followers of King Charles I of England) who came to Virginia from Scotland just after the English Civil War and settled in Prince William County, Virginia.



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