The Biographical cyclopedia of representative men of Maryland and District of Columbia Pt. 1, Part 18

Author: National Biographical Publishing Co. 4n
Publication date: 1879
Publisher: Baltimore : National Biographical Pub. Co.
Number of Pages: 844

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Thomas Stone, Charles Carroll, of Carrollton, and Robert Alexander. Mr. Carroll took his seat in Congress, July 18, 1776, and on August 2, 1776, signed to the Declaration of Independence his name, Charles Carroll, of Carrollton, that being his usual signature, and the name he had been known by since his entrance into public life, to distinguish hun hom his elder kinsmen, Charles Carroll, Barrister. He was made a member of the Board of War, and served in Congress with ability until November 10, of the same year, when his successor was elected. In December, 1776, he was chosen a member of the first Senate of the State of Maryland; in 1777, was returned to Congress ; in 1781, w.is re-elected to the Senate of Maryland; and in 1788, was elected United States Senator in Congress. In 1791, he was returned to the Senate of Maryland, and again re-elected in 1796. . In 1797, he was appointed one of the Commissioners to settle the boundary line between Mary- land and Virginia. Ile continued in the Senate of Mary- land until the year 1804, when he retired from political life. On April 23, 1827, he was elected a member of the first Board of Directors of the Baltimore and Ohio Rail- road Company, and on July 4, 1828, laid the foundation stone of that railroad. Ile continued to take a deep and lively interest in the progress and welfare of Maryland until his death. He died November 10, 1832, in the ninety-sixth year of his age, the last surviving signer of the Declaration of Independence. In person, Mr. Carroll was slight and below the middle size ; his face was strongly marked; his eye quick and piercing, and his countenance expressive of energy and determination. His manners were easy, affable and graceful ; and in all the elegancies and observances of polite society, few men were his superior. Ile married in June, 1768, Mary Darnall, daughter of Henry Darnall, Jr., and left three children, Charles Carroll, who married in 1799, Harriet Chew, daughter of IIon. Benjamin Chew, of Pennsylvania ; Eliz- abeth Carroll, who married Richard Caton, and Catharine Carroll, who married General Robert Goodloe Harper. Charles Carroll, the eldest son of Charles and Harriet (Chew) Carroll, married, in October, 1825, Mary Diggs Lee, and was the father of Hon. John Lee Carroll, the present Governor of the State of Maryland.

CARROLL, REVEREND JOHN, D.D., was born in. 1735, in Upper Marlborough, Maryland, Ile was a kinsman of Charles Carroll, Barrister, and Charles Carroll, of Carrollton. He was educated for the priesthood at the College of St. Omer, in France, and at Licge, in Belgium. At the latter place, he was ordained in 1769. On the suppression of the Jesuits, in France, he took refuge in England, and was employed by Lord Houston as the tutor of his son. In 1773, he was a

professor at Bruges, but returned to England and resided with the family of the Earl of Arundel, until the eve of the Revolution, when he returned to Maryland to share the fortunes of his native State, and settled in Balitmore, where he spent the remainder of his life. His reputation for piety, learning, eloquence, and patriotism, was so widely extended that it was believed he could exercise great influence over the Roman Catholic population of Canada; and, therefore, at the request of Congress, he ac- companied Dr. Benjamin Franklin, Judge Samuel Chase, and Charles Carroll, of Carrollton, on their mission to solicit the co-operation of the people of Canada in our struggle for independence. In 1786, he was created Vicar-General of the Roman Catholic Church in the United States of America. IIc was consecrated, on August 15, 1790, at Ludworth Castle, England, Bishop of the See of Balti- more. Ilis diocese embraced the whole of the thirteen - States and all the Territories belonging to the Union; and for several years he was the only Roman Catholic Bishop in this country. In the year 1803, he was elevated to the dignity of Archbishop. On July 7, 1806, he laid the corner-stone of the Cathedral in Baltimore, and discharged with fidelity and rare success his arduous and constantly increasing duties, until December 3, 1815, when he died, in the eighty-first year of his age.

VARROLL, CHARLES, Barrister, was born March 22, 1723, in Annapolis, Maryland. He was descended from the elder branch of the distinguished family of Ely O'Carroll, of Ireland. Ilis parents were Dr. Charles and Dorothy ( Blake) Carroll, who had three children, Charles Carroll, the subject of this sketch; Mary Clare Carroll, the ancestress of General John Car- roll, of " The Caves," and John Henry Carroll, who died without issue. At an early age, Charles Carroll was placed at the college at Lisbon, Portugal, under the imme- diate tuition of Rev. Edward Jones. When about sixteen years of age, he was removed to the celebrated school of Eton, in England. In 1741, he matriculated in the Uni- versity of Cambridge. After finishing his scholastic edu- cation at that seminary of learning, he studied law in the Middle Temple, London, and returned to Maryland in the year 1746. Being thoroughly conversant with affairs at home and abroad, he was early called into public life, and became one of the most trusted guides and leaders of the people before and during the stormy period of the Revo- lution. He was an elegant, fluent, and terse writer, and was placed in the Conventions of Maryland on every im- portant committee, which required wisdom in council and ability to embody, in forcible language, the results of de- liberation. To his facile pen our revolutionary ancestor, were indebted for many of their ablest state documents

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and public papers. " The Declaration of Rights," adopted by the Convention of Maryland, November 3, 1776, emanated from him. This is the, also, in a large measure, of the first Constitution and form of Government of the State of Maryland. In December, 1774, he was appointed by the Convention of Maryland, one of the Committee of Correspondence for the province. In August, 1775, he was made one of the Council of Safety. Ile was a mem- ber of the Convention which assembled at Annapolis, December 7, 1775, and served on the committee which prepared the instructions, January 12, 1776, for the depu- ties representing Maryland in Congress. Ile was elected President of the Maryland Convention, held in Annapolis from May 8 to 25, 1776, and by it was again elected one of the Council of Safety. It was this convention that boldly and decisively relieved Governor Robert Eden of his office, and signified to him " that the public quiet and safety, in the judgment of this convention, require that he leave this province," Ile was an active member of the convention which met at Annapolis, June 21, 1776, voted for " declaring the United Colonies free and independent States," and, on July 5, 1776, was a third time elected one of the Council of Safety. Ile was a leading member of the convention convened at Annapolis, August 14, 1776, and on August 17, was chosen one of the committee "to prepare a declaration and charter of rights and a form of government " for the State of Maryland. On November 10, 1776, he was elected to Congress in the place of his younger kinsman, Charles Carroll, of Carrollton, and served with distinguished ability. When the government of the State was organized, he was appointed, in February, 1777, Chief Judge of the General Court of Maryland, but declined the position. He was elected to the first Senate of Maryland. He married, June 3, 1763, Margaret Tilgh- man, daughter of Ilon. Matthew Tilghman, and had two children, twins, who died in infancy. He died, March 23, 1783, at his residence, Mount Clare, near Baltimore, Maryland.

ALVERT, HION. LEONARD, the first Proprietary Governor of Maryland, was born in 1605-6. He was the second son of Sir George Calvert, the first Lord Baltimore. Ile was Keeper of the Rolls at Connaught, from 1621 to 1626. In 1629, under a letter of marque, he sailed in the ship St. Claude to New- foundland for the protection of that colony from the French. On October 29, 1633, bearing a commission as Governor of Maryland, from his brother, Cecilius Calvert, the second Lord Baltimore, he sailed with the Ark and Dove for America, having on board one hundred and twenty-eight passengers, all of whom took the oath of al- legiance prescribed by law, which contained the follow- ing : " And I do further swear, that I do, from my heart,

abhor, detest, and abjure, as impious and heretical, this damnable doctrine and position : that princes, which be excommunicated of deprived by the Pope, may be deposed or murthered by their subjects, or any other whatsoever ?" The ships then proceeded to the Isle of Wight, where the Jesuits, Father White and other Roman Catholics, who had avoided taking the oath, came aboard. On November 22, 1633, the ships, " with a gentle cast wind blowing," set sail from Cowes, Nothing of import- ance transpired during the voyage except that at Christ- mas, " in order that that day might be better kept, wine was given out; and those who drank of it too freely, were seized the next day with a fever; and of these, not long afterwards, about twelve died, among whom were two Catholics." These figures, recorded by Father White, ap- proximate to the comparative number of the Protestants and Roman Catholics who formed the first colony sent out to settle Maryland, by Lord Baltimore. The colonists ar- rived at Point Comfort, in Virginia, February 24, 1634, and on March 25, following, landed in Maryland, on Blackiston's Island. A settlement was made, March 27, 1634, at St. Mary's. The Governor followed the humane example of William Claiborne, and purchased the site of the town from the " kings of that country," and sedulously cultivated amicable relations with the natives. His admin- istration of public affairs was very acceptable to the colo- nists, and would have been without a disturbing element, if he had not been compelled, by the, instructions of Lord Baltimore, to seek occasion to seize and detain William Claiborne close prisoner at St. Mary's, if Claiborne woukl not acknowledge Baltimore's patent, and, if possible, " take possession of his plantation on the Isle of Kent." Governor Calvert faithfully endeavored to obey the com- mands of his brother, and in the conflict, which unavoid- ably ensued with Claiborne for supremacy, blood was un- justifiably shed, to the sore displeasure of the King of England. Finally, through an intrigue with George Eve- lyn, a relative, he obtained possession of the coveted island ; and, on December 30, 1637, he appointed Eve- lyn the first "Commander of the Isle of Kent." This George Evelyn, before he received his price, had been ac- customed to speak in the most disparaging terms of Gov- ernor Calvert, and sneeringly said, " Who was his grand- father, but a grazier? what was his father? what was Leonard Calvert himself, at school, but a dunce and a blockhead ?" The complaisant General Assembly of Maryland, of 1637, passed an act, chapter 30, entitled " A Bill of Attainder of William Cleyborne," and, though it never became a law, the zealous Governor proceeded to seize and confiscate the property of Claiborne and of his faithful settlers, and to break up the Protestant settlement on Kent Island. The inhabitants did not willingly sub- mit to the Proprietary, and in 1638, the Governor pro- ceeded to reduce them to obedience by martial law and by " death (if need be), correct mutinous and seditious

Elias de Rice M.D.

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offenders." Again, in 1644, to the great joy of its people, Claiborne took forcible possession of the island ; and, with the assistance of Captain Richard Ingle, he drove Governor Calvert out of the Province of Maryland. In 1646, being supported and reinforced by the authorities of Virginia, Governor Calvert returned and resumed the fume- tions of his office. He died, sine prole, June 9, 1646. 11is commission as Governor, dated September 18, 1644, de- scribed him as possessing " such wisdom, fidelity, industry, and other virtues, as render him capable and worthy of the trust hereby by us intended to be reposed." About six hours before he expired, while lying upon his death- bed, "in perfect memory," he appointed, by word of mouth, Thomas Greene, Esq., one of the council, to be his successor as Governor, and constituted an unmarried woman, Mistress Margaret Brent, his sole executrix.

RICE, ELIAS C., Physician and Surgeon, was born in Baltimore County, Maryland, April 16, 1826. Ilis ancestors emigrated from Wales, in the carly history of the country, long anterior to the Revo- lutionary War, and settled at West River, Mary- land. There is a family tradition that three brothers came over together, one settling in New York, one in Pennsyl- vania, and the other at West River. Mordecai Price, a descendant of the last named, and the great-grandfather of the subject of this sketch, took up his residence in Bal- timore County, about seventeen miles north of Baltimore, while that country was still a wilderness, his nearest neigh- bor being seven miles distant. Dr. Price received his edu- cation at the common schools. He commenced reading medicine with his second cousin, Dr. Mahlon C. Price, in the autumn of 1844, teaching school during the year 1845. lle graduated from the Medical Department of the Uni- versity of Maryland, in 1848, and entered into partnership with his cousin and preceptor. This partnership con- tinned for five years and six months, After practicing al- lopathy for three years, his attention was incidentally directed to homoeopathy, the principles of which he at once determined to investigate. Surprised at the results, he still carefully studied and experimented for several months, till he was thoroughly convinced that the true principle of medicine was in the new practice. On com- ing to this conclusion, he severed his connection with his partner, and announced himself as a homeopathic physi- cian, being the only one in the county. It was a pleasant circumstance, but one that he considered somewhat re- markable, that he still enjoyed the respect and confidence of his allopathic brethren. One only exhibited a bitter spirit toward him. Not long after, this one was on his dying bed with typhoid fever, and Dr. Price was called in consultation with the allopathic physicians attending him.

He continued to practice in Baltimore County until 1865, when he removed to the city of Baltimore, where he has steadily grown in favor, and secured a large and lucrative practice. Among bis medical brethren in the city, he was soon recognized as a safe and competent adviser ; his judg- ment was appealed to, and his counsel and assistance sought, both in obstetrics and the general practice of medi- cine. On the organization of the Baltimore Homeopathic Medical Society, September 2, 1874, Dr. Price was elected its first President ; and also of the State Homeopathic Medical Society, which was organized December 16, 1875. Of the former socicty, he was again elected Presi- dent in October, 1877, having declined the honor two years previously, on the expiration of his first term of office. He worked hard for the success of the " Homco- pathic Free Dispensary of Baltimore City," and is one of the incorporators. For over two years he has been the obstetrical editor of the American Observer, a homoco- pathic medical journal, published at Detroit, by Dr. E. A. Lodge, general editor and proprietor. Dr. Price is a man of fine presence and pleasing manners; he is a close and persistent student, and holds a deservedly high rank in his profession, both for his scholarly attainments, and eminent success as a practitioner. He married, November 18, 1852, Martha A., daughter of the late John P. Cowman, of Alexandria, Virginia. Their only child, Eldridge C. Price, M.D., is engaged in the medical practice in partner- ship with his father. Dr. Price is a member of the Society of Friends, to which his family and his wife's family have belonged as far back as they can be traced by record or tradition.

BRICE, ELDRIDGE COWMAN, Physician and Sur- geon, was born in Baltimore County, February 21, 1854, in the old ancestral mansion, where his father was born twenty-eight years before. It is situated near the York Road, eighteen miles from Baltimore city. Ile was the only child of Dr. Elias C. Price, a sketch of whose life will be found above with the family history, from an early date. He received his carly education at the public schools of his native county, and also at the public schools of Baltimore, after the removal of the family to that city, in 1865. At the Elementary and High School of Eli M. Lamb, of the Friends' Society, he took a full course, and studied for his profession in the Medical Department of the University of Maryland, from which he graduated M. D., in 1874. This being an allopathic institution, his father carefully in- structed him at the same time, and the following winter he attended a full course of lectures at the Homeopathic Medical College, in Philadelphia. In the spring of 1875, he received a diploma from that institution also. He soon

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after entered into partnership with his father, with whom he has since continued to practice. From his boyhood, the profession of medicine alone had attracted him, and receiving from his father every encouragement and oppor- tunity to indulge the natural tendency of his mind, he started in life with a superior advantage over most young physicians. He has given special attention to diseases of the throat and lungs, in which department he has thor- oughly prepared himself, and already achieved some re- markable success. For fourteen months after his return from Philadelphia, he was one of the attending physicians at the Baltimore Homeopathic Free Dispensary. He is the Secretary and a member of the Baltimore Homco- pathic Medical Society. In 1877, he was appointed Censor of the State Homeopathie Medical Society, and was reappointed in 1878. He was also elected Secretary of that society at its last meeting. He is a member of the Rossini Musical Association of Baltimore. Dr. Price was married, October 10, 1877, to Mary II., daughter of Wil- liam Ferris, of the firm of Ferris & Garrett, Wilmington, Delaware. Mrs. Price and her family are also members of the Society of Friends.

ARNOLD, ABRAHAM B., Physician, President of the Medical and Chirurgical Faculty of Maryland, and Professor of Clinical Medicine and the Dis- eases of the Nervous System, in the University of Maryland, was born in Jebenhausen, in the King- dom of Wurtemburg, Germany, February 4, 1820, of Jewish parentage. When fourteen years of age, in com- pany with an uncle, he visited the United States, where they remained, and five years later were joined by his par- ents, all having concluded to make this country their per- manent home. Dr. Arnold entered college at Mercers- burg, Pennsylvania, where he graduated with honor four years later, and began the study of medicine under Dr. R. Lehwess, of New York. After having attended courses of lectures in the Medical Department of the University of Pennsylvania, and of the Washington University of Balti- more, he received from the last-named institution his de- gree of Doctor of Medicine in 1848. He married, in 1847, Ellen, daughter of Adam Dennis, Esq., of Easton, Penn- sylvania, and after receiving his degree settled in the city of Baltimore, where he soon secured a very extensive practice. In 1872 he was elected to the chair of the Theory and Practice of Medicine in the Medical Department of the Washington University of Baltimore; and when this school was consolidated with the College of Physicians and Surgeons in the same city, he occupied the chair of Clini- cal Medicine and of the Diseases of the Nervous System. In 1877 he was elected President of the Medical and Chirurgieal Faculty of Maryland, and was one of the dele-

gates chosen to represent this State at the Medical Congress held in Philadelphia during the Centennial Exhibition, iu that city. He is a consulting physician at the " Jewish Hospital," and at " The Home," both of which are among the cleemosynary institutions of Baltimore, He is a mem- ber of the American Medical Association, and an active member of the local medical societies of Baltimore, in which he takes great interest. As a clinical lecturer in the medical school to which he is attached, he enjoys much popularity, and is favorably known for his keen diagnostic acumen, which secures him a large consultation practice. Of late he has paid particular attention to the diseases of the nervous system ; and his papers published in the Trans- actions of the Medical and Chirurgical Faculty of Mary- land, on psychological questions, and on various forms of mental diseases, have attracted much attention, and have. been favorably noticed by the medical press. He is a writer of much force and ability ; among his professional publications may be mentioned " Seleroderma," " Poison- ing by Cyanide of Potassium," in the American Journal of the Medical Sciences ; " Cholera Infantum," " The Cir- cumcision among the Jews," in the New York Medical Journal, and " Vaccination," in the Baltimore Medical Journal.

ENDRE, JAMES RIDGWAY, M.D., the subject of this sketch, was born near the town of Seaford, Sussex County, Delaware. His father, Edward Andre, and his grandfather were extensive farmers of that county. The Andres are of French descent, -9 and were among the earliest settlers of that nationality, in the lower part of Delaware. Dr. Andre's mother was Miss Sarah Watkins, daughter of Thomas Watkins, who emi- grated from Wales, and settled in Maryland. Young Andre received his early schooling in his native county of Sussex, and at the age of ten years, removed with his parents to Dorchester County, Maryland, where he was placed at an academy, then standing in high repute, known as the Federalsburgh Academy. Here he diligently con- tinued his studies until he attained the age of seventeen years. The death of his mother occurring at this period, he went to Philadelphia, where, for about two years, he was engaged in a clerical capacity, still, however, pursuing his literary studies, for which, from his earliest youth, he had always displayed an unwonted fondness, directing his mind particularly to the classics. After leaving Philadelphia, he entered the office of Dr. John R. Sudler, a prominent and highly respectable physician of Bridgeville, Delaware, where he commenced the study of medicine, continuing therein until 1848, when he removed to Baltimore, and be- came a private student of the late Professor Samuel C. Chew, father of the present Professor Samuel C. Chew. Ile

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matriculated at the Maryland University in the fall of the ) above year, and graduated therefrom with honor in the spring of 1850. The graduating class of that year was one of the most distinguished that ever went forth from that time-honored institution, many of its alumni, who then obtained their diplomas, having attained great distinction in the paths of medical science or literature. After grad- mating, the doctor established himself in the practice of huis profession, near Easton, Talbot County, Maryland, in which he was eminently successful. In October, 1858, he returned to Baltimore, and located in the eastern section of that city, where, through his acknowledged professional at- tainments and the conscientious discharge of his duties as a physician, he has built up a very extensive and lucrative practice, especially in the treatment of the diseases of women and children ; to which he particularly devotes his attention. Though repeatedly tendered public offices, Dr. Andre has invariably eschewed them, preferring to attend exclusively to his profession. He married, December 29, 1857, Miss Maggie McCrone, daughter of John McCrone, an extensive farmer, near Wilmington, Delaware, by whom he has had five children; two of these only are living, a daughter, Lolo Matrona, and a son, Delaware Clayton Andre. Dr. Andre is a prominent member of all the medi- cal societies of Baltimore, and has been a member of the Medico-Chirurgical Faculty of Maryland, from 1852 to the present time. 'He is also a member of the Delaware State Medical Faculty, and is Physician to the Ancient Order of Foresters, as, also, to the Knights of Honor. Quiet and unostentatious, yet skilful and accomplished, he enjoys the esteem of his professional brethren, the confi- dence and regard of his patients and the public generally.

2 CROWNE, B. BERNARD, M.D., was born June 16, 1842, at Wheatlands (the old family residence), in Queen Anne's County, Maryland. His par- ents were Charles C. Browne and Mary E., dangh- ter of Doctor Thomas Willson, of Kent County, Maryland. While he was quite young his parents removed to Howard County, which continued to be his residence until 1861. He received his collegiate education at Loyola College, Baltimore. After leaving college, he entered the Confederate service with a company of cavalry organized in Howard County, Maryland, under Captain George R. Gaither, and was attached to General Turner Ashby's command at Winchester, Virginia. Upon the reorganiza- tion of the cavalry service, he was attached to the Seventh Virginia Cavalry, successively commanded by Generals Ashby, Jones, and Rosser, doing service principally in the valley of Virginia under "Stonewall" Jackson. During the battles of Gettysburg and the Wilderness, he was at- tached to General J. E. B. Stewart's Cavalry. On May

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The Biographical cyclopedia of representative men of Maryland and District of Columbia Pt. 1, Part 18

Author: National Biographical Publishing Co. 4n Publication date: 1879 Publisher: Baltimore : National Biographical Pub. Co. Number of Pages: 844

Author: National Biographical Publishing Co. 4n
Publication date: 1879
Publisher: Baltimore : National Biographical Pub. Co.
Number of Pages: 844