The Biographical cyclopedia of representative men of Maryland and District of Columbia Pt. 1, Part 19

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

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15, 1864, in a cavalry charge at the battle of the Wilder- ness, he was wounded in the arm, while his brother, Robert, who was riding beside him, and who was always considered one of the bravest and most fearless young men in the regiment, was shot through the heart, and fell dead from his horse. Dr. Browne was taken prisoner in the latter part of May, 1864, and confined in the old Capitol Prison, at Washington, until February, 1865, when he was sent to Richmond for exchange. Returning to Baltimore, after the close of the war, he commenced the study of medicine and surgery, in August, 1865, under the instruc- tion of the late Professor Nathan R. Smith, M.D., LL.D., and took his degree as Doctor of Medicine from the Uni- versity of Maryland, in 1867. He then spent some time at Bayview Asylum and turned his attention chiefly to the study of surgical diseases of women and obstetrics. He is a member of the Medical and Chirurgical Faculty of Mary- land and the Clinical Society of Baltimore City. Of his contributions to medical literature the following have been published : a paper on " Fibroid Tumors of the Uterus," in the American Journal of Obstetrics, New York, January, 1877; a paper on "Subinvolution of the Uterus," in the Richmond and Louisville Medical Journal, June, 1877; a paper on " The Viburnum Prunifolium . as a Uterine Sedative," in the Maryland Medical Journal, February, 1878; a paper on " Diseases of the Bladder and Rectum caused by Displacement of the Uterus," in Transactions of the Medical and Chirurgical Faculty of Maryland, April, 1877. In this paper the attention of the profession was called to the beneficial action of the water of the spring in Druid Ilill Park, Baltimore, known as Crise's Spring, in certain affections of the kidneys and bladder. He was married, October 15, 1872, to Miss Jennie Nicholson, daughter of J. J. Nicholson, banker.

URREY, JAMES HAMILTON, M.D., was born in Uniontown, Frederick County, Maryland, Decem- ber 7, 1832. His parents were Jeremiah and Sarah Simpson (Williams) Currey. The subject of this sketch was the youngest of five children. His mother, being left a widow with all these children to pro- vide for, found it necessary to obtain homes for them as rapidly as possible. Accordingly, at the age of nine years, James was placed on a farm, with the agreement that he should have such educational facilities as the com- mon country school afforded. In hist sixteenth year he was converted and united with the Methodist Episcopal Church, of which he has since been a member. By home study and economy in living, he was enabled to spend eighteen months at Calvery College, New Windsor, Mary- land. After leaving college he spent about six years in a drug store in Baltimore city, first as an apprentice, and

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then as a clerk. Ile then entered upon the study of med- ivine, and in the spring of 1859 graduated at the Medical School of the University of Maryland. In May of that year, he commenced the practice of his profession in Bal- timore. The civil war commencing in 1861, he entered the service of the Government as assistant surgeon of the Third Regiment Maryland Volunteer Infantry, and con- tinued in that position until the summer of 1862, when he resigned his commission. Ile then served for several months in the United States Army hospitals, as assistant surgeon, after which, March, 27, 1863, he entered the United States Volunteer Corps of Surgeons as an assistant. Ile was promoted to the position of surgeon, with the rank of Major, September 2, 1863, and, October 6, 1865, was breveted Lieutenant Colonel " for faithful and meritorious services." The war having closed, he was honorably dis- charged from the service, when he returned to Baltimore, and resumed the practice of medicine, in which he has since been successfully engaged. Active in the organiza- tion of the Baltimore Medical Association, he has been honored with almost every office in its gift, from commit- tee-man to the presidency; and has been several times elected delegate to the American Medical Association. Dr. Currey is also an active member of the State Medical So- ciety, and the Baltimore Academy of Medicine. He is also a member of the Masonic fraternity, which he joined in the fall of 1863. In 1853, Dr. Currey married Louisa, daughter of Thomas Disney, Esq., of Anne Arundel County. She died in 1857. In 1861, he married Martha, daughter of Thomas Warfield, a merchant of Baltimore. Ile has three children living. ,

GrOUD ADDEN, CHARLES WILLIAM, Physician and Sur- geon, was born in Jefferson County, Virginia, March 11, 1830. Ilis parents were Rev. R. and Mar- .. garet ( McCord) Cadden, both of Scotch Irish de- scent. Ilis father, when quite a youth, emigrated to this country, accompanied by his widowed mother and two sisters. He became an esteemed minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church in the Baltimore Conference. In 1850, at the age of twenty years, Charles William Cad- den graduated in medicine from the old Washington Uni- versity in Baltimore, and commenced practice in Harford and Baltimore counties. Here he was constantly engaged until the beginning of the war, when impelled by a sense of duty he left a good practice, entered the United States service as an Assistant Surgeon of the Maryland Volun- teers, early in the summer of 1861, and was attached to Purnell's Legion. In September of the same year he was sent to Eastville, Northampton County, Virginia, where he had charge of the sick and wounded on the Peninsula. In the spring of 1862 he was ordered to Baltimore, and placed on duty at the Patterson Park Hospital, with Doctors

Pease of Syracuse, New York, and James 11. Currey, of Baltimore. In the summer of that year he was again sent to the front, and was on duty with Siegel's corps at Boli- var Heights, and in the valley of Virginia, iu regaining the ground lost by Banks, About this time the Maryland troops were sent with General Pope, and Dr. Cadden was detached to assist in caring for the wounded at Culpepper, after the fight at Cedar Mountain. From this point he was sent to Alexandria with a train of the wounded, and from thence, by order of Surgeon-General Hammond, he proceeded to Baltimore, to report to Josiah Simpson, Med- ical Director of the Middle Department, for duty. Dr. Simpson, having knowledge of his experience and ability, placed him in charge of West's Buildings, out of which he constructed a hospital which was considered one of the best in the United States. While here he was promoted to full rank as a surgeon. In about six months it became necessary to use this hospital for the sick prisoners of war, it being convenient for their transfer to boats to be sent to Old Point, or to their homes. In the spring of 1863, Dr. Cadden was again sent to the front, and was assigned to duty on the operating staff of the Twelfth Corps, where he was engaged till the following autumn. After this he was again with the Maryland troops, First Corps, in command of General Newton, until the First Corps was merged into the Fifth, under General Warren, when he was assigned to duty on the operating staff of the Second Division, with which he remained during all the experience of that famous corps, until the surrender of Lee at Appomattox, when, with his brave comrades, he was mustered out of ser- vice and returned to his home. Resuming at once the practice of his profession, he settled in the city of Balti- more, where he has ever since remained. Engrossed in the duties of his calling, in which he has been eminently successful, he has shunned public position, but urged by his friends he became, in 1873, a member of the Board of Surgeons for the examination of pensioners, which posi- tion he still holds. He was married, in 1877, to Mary Ilartman, of Baltimore, sister of Prof. Alford Ilartman, of Stewart Ilall. Dr. Cadden is a safe, well-read, and ex- perienced physician, a gentleman of fine bearing and genial disposition. To his natural abilities, which are of a high order, he has added the culture resulting from as- siduous study, and habitual association with scholars and scientific men. Ile is highly regarded by his brethren in the profession, and is a member of the Medical and Chi- rurgical Faculty of Maryland.

VOLE, WILLIAM II., M.D., Journalist, son of Colonel William HI. and Eleanore Margaretta ( llayes) Cole, was born in the city of Baltimore, January II, 1837. Ilis parents were natives of Maryland. Ilis father was a leading Democratic politician for many years, and was Surveyor of the Port of Baltimore

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during the administration of President Polk. He was a member of the City Council several terms, and filled a number of official positions during his life. He died in Baltimore in 1807. Dr. Cole's grandfather, William Ilyn- son Cole, served at the battle of North Point, and his old- est son, H. H. Cole, now living, uncle of Dr. Cole, served at Fort Melleury as one of its defenders. William Ilyn- wolt Cole removed from Queen Anne's County and settled in Baltimore in early life, and was also a prominent Dem- ocratic politician, being a member of the first Democratic club ever formed in the city of Baltimore. He filled many pubhe positions. Dr. Cole's grandfather on his mother's side, Captain Walter Cooney Ilayes, was a native of Ire- land, and was a captain in the English Navy. Being con- cerned in the Irish troubles of 1797, he resigned his com- mission and came to America, and was married to Miss Margaretta Wonderly, of Carroll County, Maryland, whom Captain Hayes first met at the Assembly Rooms, next door to the oldl Holliday Street Theatre, in Baltimore, which was then the centre of fashionable society of that city, and their marriage was solemnized by Archbishop Carroll, of the Catholic Church, the first Archbishop of the United States. Captain Hayes was the owner of several vessels and a large landed estate, all of which were confiscated during the war of 1812, on the ground of his being an alien enemy. After receiving a liberal education, Dr. Cole was admitted to the bar in the year 1857, and immediately . emigrated to Kansas, where he took an active part in pol- itics on the Democratic side, and four months after his ar- rival in Leavenworth, was elected to the Legislature of Kansas. Among the opposing candidates was the Ilon. Thomas Ewing, member of Congress from Ohio. During the Kansas troubles of 1857 and 1858, he was captured, and carried to Lawrence, where after three days confine- ment, he made his escape over the Kansas River. Dr. Cole and other leading pro-slaverymen, were soon after driven from the Territory. He then went South, aban- doned the law, studied medicine, graduated at the Univer- sity of Louisiana in the year 1860, and in 1861, entered the Confederate Army as private of Company E, First Virginia Regiment. After passing through the battles of Bull Run and Manassas, he was appointed hospital stew- ard, and shortly afterward assistant surgeon. He was as- signed as surgeon in charge of the renowned Eighth Georgia Regiment, better known as " Bartow's Regiment," and remained with it during all the campaigns of the war until the battle of Gettysburg, when he was left in charge of the wounded of Longstreet's Corps. After suffering six months' imprisonment in Fort Mcllenry, he returned South and acted as surgeon on the staff of General Brad- ley T. Johnson, of Maryland, until the close of the war, when he returned to Maryland and entered on the staff of the Baltimore Evening Commercial, which concern he purchased in 1871, changed the name to the Evening Journal, and retired from it in a few months thereafter.

Prior to this time, in 1870, he was appointed Deputy Reg- ister of the city of Baltimore, which position he resigned on being elected Chief Clerk of the first branch of the City Council. During his official career, Dr. Cole kept up his connection with the Baltimore Press. On retiring from the Evening Journal, he joined the staff of the Bal- timore Gasette, with which paper he is still connected. In 1873, the College of Physicians and Surgeons conferred upon him the degree of Doctor of Medicine ad eundem. In 1874 he was elected Reading Clerk of the House of Delegates, and-re-elected in 1876 and 1878. He has al- ways taken a warm interest in the militia of Baltimore, and served a long time as surgeon of the First Maryland Regiment. He was married early in life to Miss Florence Browne, who died in April, 1872, leaving one daughter, still living, who bears her mother's name. In November, 1873, he married Miss Catharine J. Cassidy, a daughter of the late Patrick Cassidy, a prominent merchant of Balti- more. He is a member of the Roman Catholic Church, and is connected with all the leading Catholic societies of Baltimore. He has travelled all over the United States, and is a man of very extensive acquaintance.

UNTHER, LUDOLPH WILHELM, Merchant, was born in the city of Nienburg, in the then Kingdom of llanover, February 6, 1821. His father, George John Gunther, a native of Hanover, was Chief-Surgeon in the " King's German Legion," Fourth Battalion. He served throughout the Peninsular war, and finally, at the battle of Waterloo, under Wellington, where, in the discharge of his duties, he had three horses shot under him, escaping himself with a severe wound in the leg. A special medal, which is now in the possession of the subject of this sketch, was awarded him by King George, as a token of the appreciation in which his meri- torious services were held. He afterwards settled in Nien- burg, where he married Caroline Mensching, daughter of a prominent physician of that place, a lady remarkable for her good qualities and personal beauty. Ludolph Wil- helm was the third child, and second son, of this union. The Gunthers are of the family of Schwartzburg-Sonders- hausen, who trace their descent back to the dark ages of the first German Emperors. The early education of Mr. Gunther was received in his native town; and, when com- pleted, he was placed in a commercial house, in Bremen, as a " volunteer." Here he continued hi study of the languages. Ile remained in Bremen until the fall of 1839, when a tempting offer from a large German importing house, of Baltimore, brought the young German to this country. He landed in America, November 10, 1839, full of hope and energy; but, to his disappointment, he found that the then existing commercial crisis served as an ex-

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cuse to the gentlemen at whose solicitation he had come abroad, to annul this engagement. Nothing daunted by this unexpected turn in his fortunes, he sought for, and readily obtained, employment. His skill as a penman and talents is an accountant rendered his services valuable to various prominent merchants of Baltimore, notably the Easters, with whom he remained until 1844, when, his health being much impaired by constant work, he accepted the position as travelling agent in the large, and at that time, prosper- ons house of Pendleton, Riley & Company. Some of his trips were prolonged to eight or ten months, and in- cluded the far West, at that time wild and almost inacces- sible, the whole journey west of Cumberland being made in stage-coaches. Although made with much personal risk, these trips repaid the toil and trouble to his house in their business, and to him in the large knowledge and ex- perience acquired. Mr. Gunther spent some time with the Indians in their settlements, and was present at the exodus.of the Mormons from Nauvoo, where he and some fellow Baltimoreans were hospitably entertained by the widow of their prophet, Mrs. Joseph Smith. A taste for Western life induced Mr. Gunther to settle for a few years on the banks of the Ohio, in Kentucky. Here he was engaged in getting out ship-timbers and staves for the English and French markets. The high waters of 1849 and 1850 washed away all of the earnings of several years, and forced him to return to his adopted city, where he has since remained. Mr. Gunther has been twice married. Ilis first wife, who survived her marriage but three years, was Miss Catharine Upshaw, a daughter of Colonel Edwin Upshaw, of King and Queen County, Virginia, Of this marriage two sons were born, who are now prominent merchants, one in Louisville, Kentucky, and the other in New Orleans, Louisiana. He was again married in Jan- uary, 1855, to Miss Martha Ann Cecil, of King William County, Virginia, a direct descendant of the Cecils who settled in Maryland, and after whom Cecil County is named. By this marriage he has now living four sous, the oldest of whom is a member of the Baltimore bar. Mr. Gunther is one of Baltimore's most respected and promi- nent citizens and successful merchants. He has fully iden- titied himself with the interests of Baltimore for nearly forty years. For several years past he has devoted his time, money, and energy to the development of real estate in Baltimore, and in so doing has made many beautiful and valuable improvements, prominent among which are his residence, on Eutaw Place, and the warehouses known as the Gunther Buildings, on South Gay Street. Mr. Gun- ther has filled many positions of honor and trust, and is, at present, a Director in the Merchants' National Bank, and of several insurance companies, of Baltimore. He is also a member of the Board of Trustees for the Maryland Hospital for the Insane. In politics, he has been through- out consistent. Until the disorganization of the old Whig party, he was an advocate of its principles. When that

party degenerated into Knownothingism, he joined the ranks of the Democrats, and is, at present, a believer in their doctrines and principles, Although he has never sought political preferment, he has always taken an active interest in the success of the party. Being a German by birth, his early religious faith was that of the Lutheran Church, but he has been for many years connected with the Baptist Church, of which he is a worthy member. Mr. Gunther is a man of fine physique and robust health; an honor to Baltimore, and an example of the success that attends energy and perseverance, directed in the proper channels.

AMERIK, PROFESSOR ASGER, Composer and Mu- sical Director at the Peabody Institute, Balti- more, was born April 8, 1843, in Copenhagen, Denmark. His ancestors first emigrated to Den- mark, from Germany, during the Thirty Years' War. His father, also a native of Copenhagen, was a professor of theology in the university, and a member of the Da- nish Parliament. Among his many literary works stands, first, the History of the Christian Church, in three vol- umes. He died in 1877. Professor Hamerik's mother's maiden name was Julie Scheuermann. She, too, was a native of Copenhagen, but of German descent. Her father was a wealthy merchant. of that city, and at his home met regularly every week, for musical practice, the most refined and cultivated society of the city. The musical composers, Hartmann and Hornemann, are his cousins, on his mother's side. Mr. Hamerik has a brother and sister residing in Copenhagen, both of whom possess rare musi- cal ability. All the members of the family were, more or less, distinguished as musicians. Professor Iamerik was educated at the Latin college, of his native city, at that time in charge of his father's brother. He acquired great perfection in the Latin language. Having decided to de- vote his life to music, and having no time to pursue a full collegiate course, he left school in his sixteenth year. A biographical sketch of Professor Hamerik recently ap- peared in Brainard's Musicat World, published at Cleve- land, Ohio, in which his musical career is spoken of as follows: " The great revival of musical art in Copenha- gen, was not without influence upon the boy. He studied music without any teacher, and when but fifteen years old, wrote a cantata for solo, chorus, and orchestra, without having any learning, except what he had picked up by himself. This cantata was executed in thet parlors of his parents, and won the praise of such musical authorities as Gade and Hartmann. The boy had, however, to continue his classical studies in the college, according to the desire of his father, and it was not until 1859 that he yielded, and engaged a music teacher for his son. The boy evi. dently inherited his talent from his mother, whose whole

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family was exceedingly musical, numbering among them several distinguished musicians. She, herself, was a fine pianist. Hamerik now studied night and day. At five o'clock, on cold winter morings, he would rise and play scales till nine, then he would write, and then play again. Thus, day after day, and year after year, he studied with such energy and industry, that his friends were surprised at his ambition. While yet young, he composed works for orchestra, cantatas, and chamber music. Of course, these were the labors of a beginner, but then, they helped to impress the community more and more with the fact 'that there was a talent which wanted to be taken notice of. He had several teachers : Matthison Hansen, Gade, and Haberbier, who then lived in Copenhagen. In 1862, he was sent abroad, first, to London, in order to see the Exhibition, and then to Berlin, where he was to study the piano with Hans Von Bulow. But the teacher soon dis- covered the corde sensible of his pupil, and often, instead of playing, the two would go over scores together, and converse about musical compositions. Von Bulow once wrote : 'IIamerik unlearned the piano under my care.' ' But,' said Hamerik, ' he forgot to add, that I learned the philosophy and science of art of him.'" In the spring of 1864, Hamerik left Berlin for Paris, with the first act of his opera Tovelille. The text he wrote in Berlin. There was then a war between the Berlioz and the Wagner schools; and Bulow, who then belonged to the last-named school, could not give Hamerik any letter of introduction to Berlioz. Knowing very little French at that time, Hamerik knocked courageously at the door of the great French composer, and stated, in a few words, "that he wanted to study under his care." Berlioz was, fortunately, in a good mood when Ilamerik called. Ile received him in a very kind and friendly way, and from that day he was his pupil, and the only one he ever had. Ile composed his operas, Tovelille, Hjalmar and Ingeborg, and his Jew- ish Trilogy for Orchestra, which was played at the late Baltimore Festival, with a number of smaller works. Ile gave concerts which invariably would contain Norse music. His Tovelille was performed, but only in fragments. During his stay in the French capital, Hamerik visited Stockholm, where he composed a cantata in honor of the new Swedish Constitution, which was received with im- mense enthusiasm. Aside from this, he wrote several songs for the great Swedish songstress, Michaëli. He re- turned to Paris in June, 1866, on special invitation of Ber- lioz, and composed then his Hjalmar and Ingeborg. This being done, he left for Vienna, together with Berlioz, where they remained during the winter. The next year, 1867, the year of the Exhibition in Paris, is one long to be remembered by Hlamerik. Thanks to his master, he was, despite his youth, elected a member of the jury, which, under the presidency of Rossini and Auber, adjudged the prizes for musical compositions and instruments. Still more than that, he was then and there decorated with a

gold medal, as recognition of merit for his Hymne à la Paix, which was executed by a large orchestra and chorus, and two organs, thirteen harps, and four church bells. After the exhibition, Hamerik visited Haly, where he wrote his opera, La Vendetta, which was performed in Milan, in 1870. It was in Vienna, while writing his opera, The Traveller, that Hamerik made up his mind to go to Balti- more, as Director of the Peabody Conservatory. Not- withstanding the opposition of his parents, he left Europe, August 7, for America, where he has lived ever since. Ilamerik composed, in Baltimore, his first, second, third, fourth, and fifth Norse Suites, and is now writing the sixth one. The Peabody Institute is endowed with a large fund for the maintenance of its musical department. There is a flourishing conservatory of about one hundred and twen- ty students, while every year, eight symphony concerts are given, in which ITamerik is endeavoring to interpret the best works of the masters, in a superior manner. His or- chestra supported Hans Von Bulow in his Baltimore con- certs, and the great pianist was so well pleased with Ham- erik's conducting, that he wrote, in a London paper : " Baltimore was the only place in America where I had proper support." Asger Hamerik is a decided Norse com- poser. ITis musical subjects are noble and pure, flavored with that peculiar charm which belongs to all Scandina- vian composers; and, as a newspaper remarks: " It is well that there should be some one in this country able to produce the creations of Scandinavian genius. The opera season brings enough of Italian music. German music has scores of representatives, even the Sclavonic genius of Chopin and Rubinstein finds ready interpreters; while the Norse genius suffers unmerited neglect, and yet it has a voice of such broad humor and such poetic expression, that no true lover of music can afford to keep it in the background." Hamerik's Norse concert nights at the Pea- body Institute draw audiences even from the surrounding cities, like Richmond, Washington, and Philadelphia. The following is a list of Hamerik's compositions : Op. I, Roland, a song poem ; op. 2, An Orchestra Fantasia ; op. 3, Symphony, in C minor ; op. 4, Songs ; op. 5, Can- tata, written in honor of the silver wedding of his parents, for solo voices, chorus, and orchestra ; op. 6, Quintet, in C minor, for piano, two violins, viola, and violoncello; op. 7, Gurre, an overture, in D minor ; op. 8, A Fantasia, for barytone and orchestra; op. 9, Fantasia, for violon- cello and piano; op. 10, Le Voile, song poem ; op. 11, Christmas Cantata ; op. 12, Tovelille, opera, in five acts ; op. 13, a number of Songs ; op. 14, Ave Maria ; op. 15, March, for orchestra; op. 16, Ilymn to Liberty, solos, chorus, and orchestra ; op. 17, Ilymn à la Paix, a prize composition, for solos, chorus and orchestra; op. 18, Hjalmar and Ingeborg, opera, in five acts; op. 19, Few- ish Trilogy, C minor, for orchestra; op. 20, La Ven- detta, opera ; op. 21, The Traveller, opera; op. 22, First Norse Suite, C major ; op. 23, Second Norse Suite, ( Ii.

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The Biographical cyclopedia of representative men of Maryland and District of Columbia Pt. 1, Part 19

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