William Storrow Lovell (1829-1900)

He was born at Washington D.C. in the house now known as the Blair House. He was educated at Lee and spent a term at Williams College before becoming a Midshipman in the U.S. Navy (1849) and graduated from the U.S. Naval College in 1855. He patrolled the coasts of North and South America and made two expeditions to the Arctic: the first in 1850 to search for Sir John Franklin, and again in 1855 to search for Dr Kane. He reached the rank of Lieutenant and commanded three steamers.

In 1858, he married Antonia, daughter of General John A. Quitman, of Natchez, and resigning his Naval commission went into business with his brother, Joseph, as a cotton planter there. On the outbreak of Civil War, he sided with the Confederates and served as a Captain of Artillery before being promoted to Lieutenant-Colonel with the Ordinance Corps at New Orleans under another brother, Mansfield. Before evacuating New Orleans in 1864, he was Assistant Inspector-General of Pemberton's Army. In the fall, he went to England and ran the blockade from Wilmington, North Carolina. At the conclusion of the war, he returned to Mississippi and resumed cotton and planting both there and in Louisiana. He was survived by three sons and two daughters.