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William Syphax (c. 1825 — June 15, 1891) was born into slavery but manumitted when he was about one year old, along with his mother Maria Carter Syphax and sister. As a young man, he became a U.S. government civil servant in Republican administrations, and built a network in the capital city.
Charles and Maria Syphax had ten children, including William Syphax, born in 1825. Hammond says Custis sold Maria and her first two children to a Quaker apothecary shop owner in Alexandria ...
WILLIAM SYPHAX, A PIONEER 457. tively 20 years.32 He was appointed copyist in the In- terior Department in 1851 at $720 a year, promoted July 14, 1874, to $900 a year and appointed to a clerkship at. $1.,000 a year October 31, 1885.33 He served under nine.
28 de ago. de 2022 · A man of strong character and integrity, William Syphax strove to create equality between the races and relentlessly challenged policies that he felt were unjust. He was a vocal advocate for the desegregation of public schools, for example, and promoted the integration of residential communities.
The Syphax story illustrates the resilience of many Black families in Northern Virginia, who escaped enslavement and seized the opportunity to acquire land, find jobs, start businesses, and create a better future for their children.
descendant of William is Mary Gibson Huntley, his granddaughter, a former teacher of French in the former Dunbar High School of Washington, D.C. (demolished June, 1977) It is reasonable to assume that the saddest time in the life of William Syphax was the death of his mother, Maria, in 1886 at the age of eighty-three.
Their son William Syphax served as Chief Messenger for the U.S. Department of the Interior. Through William’s efforts, his mother was able to retain the rights to her Arlington property when the U.S. government confiscated Custis’s estate after the Civil War.
