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UpdatedMon, Mar 1, 2021 at 8:02 am ET Replies(2) By Barbara Glakas HERNDON, VA Harvey Earlton Hanes, who went by his middle name and was commonly referred to as H. Earlton Hanes, was a prominent resident of Herndon, who eventually became a lawyer and a delegate to the Virginia General Assembly, representing Fairfax County. Hanes was born in Ashburn in 1871 and had several siblings. He was the son of George Washington and Gertrude Hanes. His father was a blacksmith and wheelwright, as well as a former Confederate soldier. Subscribe Hanes went to public school in Ashburn up to the seventh grade. He initially worked in his father s blacksmith shop. In the meantime, he also taught himself telegraphy, which helped him earn money. During the years from 1888 to 1890, Hanes worked as a telegraph operator for the Southern Railway in the summer while he taught school in the winter in an unincorporated area of Culpeper, called Brandy (later Brandy Station). He con ....