Job Hawxhurst (March 30, 1823 – March 7, 1906) was a nineteenth-century American Quaker from New York who moved to Fairfax County, where he and his elder brother John Hawxhurst farmed and operated a grist mill beginning in 1846. As Union men, they fled Virginia temporarily as the American Civil War began in 1861, but returned to Fairfax in early 1862 and led their communities for decades. Job Hawxhurst operated a general store in Fairfax City and was postmaster for three decades, as well as Fairfax County's delegate in the Virginia General Assembly for one term, and at various times Clerk of Court, Mayor of Fairfax City and member of the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors. John Hawxhurst and his wife Jane lived in Alexandria, Virginia after the war. Early and family life Job Hawxhurst was born near Long Island's Hempstead Harbor in Roslyn, Queens County, New York on March 30, 1823 to Townsend Hawxhurst (1779–1829) and his wife Rebecca. Townsend Hawxhurst was a Quaker minister who traveled extensively, including to Virginia. Job was their fourth child, with elder brothers John and Samuel and elder sister Anna. His mother later bore his brother Leonard and sister Esther, as well as the twins Elizabeth and Maria. Because their small farm could not support the family (particularly after Townsend died when Job was six), an uncle adopted Leonard. Job was adopted and raised by his widowed aunt Anna Allen and her sister Phila Hawxhurst at what had been his grandfather's home on the shore of Cow Bay on Great Neck, Long Island, New York. He attended a school run by James Motts, then an academy at Manhasset with James Close as teacher. Job married Maria Whelan Leeds (1823–1856) on March 30, 1843, and they had seven children before her death shortly after the death of their daughter Ella: Edward W. Hawxhurst (1844–1860), Anna Maria Hawxhurst Watkins (1846–1946), George White Hawxhurst (1848–1932), Esther P. Hawxhurst (1850–1863), Jacob L. Hawxhurst (1852–1863), Jane K. Hawxhurst (b. 1854 and adopted by John and Jane Hawxhurst), and Ella Hawxhurst Betts (1856–1883; adopted by Elizabeth Hawxhurst). He remarried on June 16, 1860, to Margaret Davies Bordon (1843–1904), who had also been born in New York. She bore another five children, although only two survived her: Elmer Haxhurst (1862–1894), Wilbur Hawxhurst (1865–1906), Henry Hawxhurst (1868–1947), Roscoe Hawxhurst (1872–1897), Irene Hwxhurst (1876–1878), Agnex Hawxhurst (1878–1882). They also adopted Mamie Hawxhurst