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WARNER, ANDREW ELLICOTT, was born May 15, 1813, at Baltimore, Maryland. His great grand. father, Joseph Warner, came over from England with the followers of William Penn, and settled in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, where he married Ruth Hayhurst, a native of that county. Not liking that neighborhood, he came into Maryland and settled in Har- ford County. Mr. Warner's grandfather, Cuthbert War- ner, an astronomer and very ingenious mechanician, mar- ried Ann Smith on the day of Braddock's defeat. She had three brothers, Colonel Andrew, John, and Ralph Smith. During the Revolutionary war, General Wash- ington having heard of the sterling soldier worth of Colo- nel Andrew Smith, appointed him one of his principal aids. Ile also had charge of Fort Moultrie, and com- mand of the Carolinas. lle continued in the army until the close of the war. A portion of his descendants were scattered through the Southern country. Andrew Ellicott Warner, the father of the subject of this sketch, was born in llaiford County, Maryland, November 27, 1786. At the early age of fourteen he came to Baltimore and en- gaged in the manufacture of silver-ware, in all its branches, On reaching manhood, he entered into copartnership with his brother, Thomas Warner, and conducted the same busi- ness until the war with England, in 1812-15, after which he continued it on his own account. In 1812, he married Dorothy Litsinger, of Baltimore County. At the time of the formation of the volunteer infantry company, " Inde- pendent Blues," Fifth Regiment, commanded by Captain Levering, he joined it, and was promoted to a lieutenancy. At the breaking out of the war the Governor of the State called for officers from the various uniformed companies to command the companies of the new regiments formed. Mr. Warner was given command of one in the Thirty- ninth regiment, which marched to the battle of North Point, and was in the engagement at the time the com- mander of the British troops, General Ross, was killed. A short time afterward he was honorably discharged from the service, when he rejoined the " Independent Blues," be- came captain, and continued with the company for a num- ber of years. Ile also took an active part in the formation of the charitable organization. of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and in a few years attained to the high position of Past Grand Master of the State. Subsequently he was elected Grand Treasurer of the Right Worthy Grand Lodge of the United States. In politics he was an old-line Whig. Ile was elected from the Ninth and Tenth wards of the city to the Second Branch of the Coun- cils, of which he was a valued member on account of his business qualities. He was also attached to the City Fire Department. About ten years before his death he was elected president of the organization of " Old Defenders" of the city, and continued as such until his demise, Jan- uary 16, 1870, in hi's eighty fourth year. Andrew Ellicott Warner attended the Baltimore city schools until the age
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. of sixteen, when he entered the jewelry store of his father, and in connection with him continued in it until the death of his father in 1870. He then assumed the management of the whole business, and has ever since carried it on. It embraces the manufacture of silver ware, as well as the general jewelry business. Ilis establishment is at present located at No. 135 West Baltimore Street. In 1860 he married Barbara, daughter of William II. Will, of Balti- more. Ile has seven children living, four sons and three daughters. His oldest son, Andrew L., a graduate of Stewart Hall, helps his father in the store. Mr. Warner is a Past Master Mason, and a member of the Grand Lodge of the State of Maryland of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. Ile is a member of the Baptist congregation. At the breaking out of the civil war he was in favor of a united country. Mr. Warner is the hon- .
ored representative of one of the oldest jewelry houses in Baltimore, the house having been established by his father nearly a century ago. During that long period, embracing so many changes in currency, financial storms, distress and ruin, it has maintained its credit unimpaired. It has never had a note protested or a draft dishonored. Surrounded by wrecks of old houses, it has unflinchingly fulfilled its engagements. It is one of Baltimore's honored landmarks of times, both past and present. Its courteous head, in- genious in mechanism, clear in thought, careful in conclu- sions, and persevering in aim, is well fitted to keep un- dimmed its high repute. Among his compeers Mr. Warner is known as a man far-seeing, free-spirited, and high-souled; a man in whom blend honor and reliability.
AYLOR, DAVID BAYLEY, third son of David C. and Margaret S. (Dalby) Taylor, was born in Accomac County, Virginia, February 8, 1840. His father was of Scotch birth, and was brought to this country when an infant by his parents, who settled in Virginia. His mother was of Irish descent, and was born soon after the arrival of her parents in this country. David C. Taylor was a man of noble, generous disposition, which his abundant means permitted him freely to indulge. He was a successful merchant and speculator, owning several vessels in the West India trade, and prospered in all that he undertook. He died of pneumonia, in 1855, and his estate was largely dissipated. His wife followed him in 1863. Their son, David B., was educated a Old Margaret Academy, in Accomac County, and was greatly favored in having for his preceptor an Irishman of remarkable ability in his vocation and of superior education. Leaving school at the age of fifteen, Mr. Taylor was engaged as a clerk in Norfolk, Virginia, till the commencement of the war. He then enlisted in
Company I, of the Chesapeake Cavalry, under Captain Simpson, and during the whole four years' struggle was engaged in constant, active duty with the Army of North- ern Virginia, coming out without a wound, but with health badly shattered, and with an empty pocket. He has never fully recovered his health. On leaving the army he entered the wholesale house of John W. Bruff & Company, Baltimore, remaining with them twelve months, after which he entered a hardware store, in which he had the promise of an interest, but at the end of two years his health completely gave way, and he went to the Valley of Virginia to receive medical treatment, and for the benefit of the mineral waters. Receiving great benefit he remained and opened a store for general mercantile business, which he successfully conducted for seven years. On the 2d of October, 1872, he was united in marriage with Agnes H., daughter of William Wallace and E. C. Montgomery, of Deerfield, Augusta County, Virginia. They have one child, a daughter, Mazie Glendy. In April, 1875, Mr. Taylor brought his family to Baltimore, and bought out the old-established house of A. II. Reiss, wholesale tin- ware dealer, 335 West Baltimore Street, forming a copart- nership with Mr. James C. Chadwick, under the firm name of Taylor, Chadwick & Co., manufacturers and dealers in tinware, stoves, and hollow-ware. They removed, in 1876, to No. 14 South Howard Street, where they continued to prosper. The following year Mr. Taylor bought out his partner, and the business has since been conducted under the firm name of David B. Taylor & Co., and enjoys, not- withstanding the hard times, a largely increasing trade. Mr. Taylor is a thorough gentleman, a man everywhere liked and esteemed. Ilis wife, a lady of strong and decided Christian principle, and his daughter, are also favorites among all their acquaintances. Mr. Taylor has three brothers living, viz., Dr. William C. Taylor, with Canby, Gilpin & Co., Baltimore, wholesale druggists; Cor- nelius T. Taylor, of Sneeringer, Taylor & Co., wholesale tobacco ; and Edgar D. Taylor, of R. W. Powers & Co., Richmond, Va. These are all who are now living out of a family of nine children.
HILTON, HARRIS J., Lawyer, of Baltimore, was born in Centreville, Queen Anne's County, Mary- land, May 20, 1841. His father was Robert P. Chilton, who was a merchant of that place, and his grandfather was Reverend Theophilus Harris, an eminent divine. Ile is a great-grandson of Reverend Dr. Samuel Jones, who was a chaplain in the Revolutionary Army. , lle was one of the earliest doctors of divinity in the Baptist Church, and among the first and most distin. guished graduates of the University of Pennsylvania.
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Harris J. Chilton received his principal education at Dr. Saunders's West Philadelphia College, and entered upon the study of law in the office of Honorable William M. Meredith, of Philadelphia, who was Secretary of the United States Treasury, under President Millard Fillmore, and the acknowledged head, at that time, of the Philadel- phia bar. After receiving the degree of Bachelor of Laws from the University of Pennsylvania, young Chilton was admitted to practice in the Courts of that State, and, in December, 1871, was admitted to the bar of Baltimore, soon after which he formed a law partnership with Oliver F. Hack, one of the most talented members of the legal profession in Baltimore, under the firm name of Ilack & Chilton. The copartnership continued for three years, at the expiration of which time Mr. Chilton established himself in the practice of his profession on his own ac- count, at the corner of Lexington and Courtland Streets, where he is at present located. Three years of legal prac- tice with Mr. Hack, and four by himself, have given to Mr. Chilton great experience, and few young members of the Baltimore bar have achieved a higher professional reputation than he. He stands aloof from political life, and devotes his entire time and energies to his profession, in which he has been eminently successful. Mr. Chilton married the daughter of his law partner, Oliver F. Hack.
i OUIME, GUSTAVUS CHRISTIAN, M.D., was born in Ilessia, Germany, March 17, 1837. Ilis father, Charles Dohme, was the owner of the celebrated White Sand Stone Quarry, of Ilessia, but through misfortune in business, in 1848, he decided to emi- grate to America, selecting Baltimore, Maryland, as his future home. Ilis family consisted of seven children, six sons and one daughter. Gustavus was eleven years of age when the family landed in Baltimore. Here his father be- caume manager of a marble-working establishment. But ill luck attended his efforts, and his children were, to a great extent, thrown upon their own resources, Gustavus was educated in the primary schools of Baltimore, his studies being chiefly the common branches of an English educa- tion. Being kept under strict surveillance by his parents, and being diligent in his studies, he made rapid progress. But circumstances foreing him to leave his studies, and to seek employment, at the age of fifteen, selecting the drug business, he entered as apprentice with Mr. A. P. Sharp, a pharmaceutist of note, on the corner of Pratt and Iloward Streets, Baltimore, His choice proved a fortunate one, for though it entailed constant work for many consecutive hours, it accorded with his taste; constrained industry in.
. duced habits of careful observation, and gave him a knowl- edge of drugs, and an ability in compounding them, which have been of great service to him in his profession. Under the well known Charles Bickel he was, for two years, as- sistant State Chemist. In 1860 he was Demonstrator of Botany to the Baltimore Botanical Club. He, with I. C. Benzinger, M. D., is the discoverer and compounder of the medicine known as the " Sulphide of Arsenicum," which has proven so efficient in skin diseases. Ile pursued his medical studies under the instruction of Dr. Frederick E. B. Ilintze, and in March, 1865, graduated from the Medical Department of the University of Maryland. Soon after graduation, he was appointed Assistant Surgeon in the United States army, and was assigned to duty in the United States General Hospital located at Frederick City, Mary- land. Ile joined the Masonic fraternity October, 1870. IIe passed through the official stages of the Order, having the thirty-second degree conferred upon him in April, 1878. In October, 1867, he married Miss Laura Doscher, of Bre- men, Germany. She died, January 6, 1873. On January 18, 1876, he married Mrs. Martha Cooper, of Baltimore. Ile has three children.
3 ENRY, SAMURI. HIANDY, M. D., was born at the family residence on the Pocomoke River, in Somerset County, Maryland, August 30, 1818. Ile is descended from the Rev. John Henry, an eminently pious and distinguished Presbyterian , minister, who settled at or near Rehoboth, in Somerset County, about the year 1700. Finding himself in declin- ing health, and his two sons, Robert Jenkins and John, yet too young to receive or remember his counsel, he wrote for their instruction, and left in manuscript a volume of one hundred and forty-nine closely written pages, on reli- gion and ethics, which has been sacredly cherished by his descendants. In 1755 Robert Jenkins, finding that the original had faded and been much defaced by time, copied it into an octavo, bound in leather, in which form it has been carefully preserved, and is now in possession of Dr. Samuel II. Henry. John Henry had numerous descend- ants in Dorchester County. Robert Jenkins was the grandfather of Dr. Henry. He had two children, the youngest of whom, Henry S., never married. The other, Robert Jenkins, the father of Dr. Henry, was born in Somerset County in 1781. In early life he was a mer- chant, and was a colonel during the war of 1812. Having taken an active and efficient part, he was made a Brigadier- General, and had command of the two divisions of militia of the Eastern Shore. After his marriage, on Febru- ary 19, 1816, he resided on the plantation, " Hampton,"
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near Rehoboth, until his death, which occurred November 39, 1843, in the sixty-third year of his age. Of his seven children, only two are now living, the subject of this sketch, and john H., who until recently has been engaged in agriculture. Colonel Samuel Handy, the maternal grandfather of Dr. Henry, was one of the most prominent men of his day. He was a wealthy merchant, and lived at Snow Hill, Worcester County. Several of his vessels were captured and burned by the British during the war of IS12, for which he never received indemnity. He married Mary Gore, November 27, 1767. Their seventh and youngest child, Mary Dennis Handy, the mother of Dr. Henry, was born December 20, 1787. Dr. Henry received his classical education at Washington College, on the Eastern Shore, from which institution he graduated in 1835. He studied medicine in Philadelphia, in the office of Pro- fessor Thomas D. Mutter, and received his degree of Doc- tor of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, April 5, 1839. He returned to Somerset County, Maryland, where, having obtained a large practice, he remained until 1844, when, on account of failing health, caused by the climate and excessive labor, he was obliged to remove to a healthier locality. Ile married, November 14, 1844, Frances A., only daughter of John Ellicott, of Elkridge Landing, Howard County. Her mother, whose maiden name was Mary Langston, of Talbot County, Maryland, was a woman of rare personal beauty. He has three children, Robert Jenkins Henry, M.D., born August 16, 1845, who was assistant surgeon in charge of the hospital at Tallahassee, Florida, afterward quarantine surgeon at that post, and who is married, and now a druggist in Balti- more ; Mary Langston Ellicott, now Mrs. William Rogers Sturgeon ; and Edward Ellicott, who is now in his cigh- teenth year. Dr. Henry established himself at Elkridge Landing, where he has built up a very large practice in the three counties of Howard, Baltimore and Anne Arundel. Ilis labors were arduous, but the change of location was most favorable to his health, which he entirely recovered, and for more than twenty years was free from every symptom of sickness. The year 1863 he spent travelling in Europe. He remained at Elkridge Landing thirty-one years, and his high standing in his profession became generally known throughout that section of the country. On removing to Baltimore, in 1875, he found numerous friends in that city, and his reputation having preceded him, he at once entered upon a large and lucra- tive practice. He has no specialties ; his long experience gives weight to his counsels and inspires confidence in his skill. He is a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and belonged to a Masonic lodge in Howard County for twenty years. He has been faithful in the dis- charge of the duties required of him in the varied relations of life, and true to the highest interests of humanity. In his public and private life he has "ever lived in the great Taskmaster's eye."
FRINDALL, JOHN T., Capitalist, was born. December 12, ISto, in Harford County, Maryland. Ilis father, John G. Grindall, went to Ohio in 1813, bought a part of the Pickaway Plains, and began the business of raising cattle, he remaining in that busi- ness there until he died. Mr. Grindall did not go with his father to Ohio, but remained in Maryland, being appren- ticed to a carpenter. After getting through with his ap- prenticeship, he worked as a journeyman for about two years. Being induced by a lucrative offer, he then became manager of the Maryland Chemical and Iron Works of P. T. Ellicott, in South Baltimore. He remained the sole and efficient manager of these works for about fifteen years. At the end of this time, in 1850, an entire change came over the life of Mr. Grindall. He withdrew from the Chemical and Iron Works, and began to give his whole attention to the buying of land within the city limits, and the leasing of the same for building purposes. When money was needed by the lessee, Mr. Grindall would ad- vance the amount desired at a small interest. As property continued to rise in valne for a number of years, every one owing him paid both principal and interest of the money advanced. In this way Mr. Grindall opened up a number of the streets of South Baltimore, one of which is called by his name. He now owns a large amount of property in all parts of the city, but chiefly in South Balti- more. He has found every real estate speculation in which he has engaged profitable. All his business transactions have been characterized by promptness. Any promise made he has looked upon as sacred. Every note drawn by him has been met at maturity. In this way he has made an inde- pendent fortune. Ile is a member of the Cathedral Cath- olic Church of Baltimore. In 1840 he married Eliza C., daughter of the late Thomas Armstrong, of Baltimore. At the time of her marriage she owned much real estate in South Baltimore and in the Western States. He has had ten children, of whom five are living.
FOSS, JOHN N., was born January 16, 1838, at Wes- selburen, Germany. His father, John N. Foss, was a government contractor. As such he sup- plied horses and war material to the King of Den- mark, and was greatly esteemed for his eonscien- tiousness and careful fulfilment of contracts. In order to promote the future financial prosperity of his son, who was called by his own name, he laid aside afl selfish con- siderations arising from paternal affection and intrusted him to the care of some friends coming to America. About eight years ago he came to this country on a visit and found his hopes and longings more than fulfilled in his son's sur- roundings and wealth. He still lives honored and loved in his native Jand. John, when but thirteen years of age,
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reached New York, in the care of the friends to whom he had been committed, and being even at that early age of an independent spirit, began looking about for something to do. In a manner unaccountable to himself, he became separated from his friends, and soon afterward found him- self engaged as a driver on the Hudson Canal. This was a hard place for so young a boy. The past careful disci- pline of his German home, and the natural strength of his moral nature, helped to shield him from the temptations which beset him. Though during his canal service he had no regular hours for sleep, nor any particular place in which to secure it, sometimes snatching a few hours in the boat, a hay-loft, hay-stack, or while riding the horse, his youth and excellent constitution brought him through phys- ically unimpaired. In his six months of canal experience the deepest and most lasting impression made on his mind was that of the picturesque and lovely scenery on the Hud- son between Albany and New York. Having left the canal, without exactly knowing how, he gradually wandered toward Baltimore, arriving there in 1851. On the day after his arrival, strolling through the Broadway market, he fell in with John Snyder, a butcher, who wanted to em- ploy a boy. Mr. Snyder engaged him at four dollars per month. Ilis hours of work were now both hard and long. He had to begin work at one o'clock in the morning, every day in the week, including the Sabbath. But he shrank from neither hard work nor long hours. With a gradual increase of wages, he remained with Mr. Snyder for sev- eral years. Hle afterward engaged in the service of a num- ber of other men until he was nineteen years of age, when he set up in the butcher business for himself. In this he has continued for twenty-two years. At first beginning in a small way, he has gradually increased his business, add- ing to it the packing and summer curing business, until it is now one of the largest in Baltimore. On December 1, 1873, he formed a partnership with Charles C. Homer. The firm name then became Foss & Homer. The pack- ing-house of this firm is about two hundred and four by sixty feet in size. They provide their own ice, using in one season about thirty-five hundred loads, or nearly three thousand tons, In 1859 Mr. Foss married Amelia, dangh ter of George Vieweg, of Baltimore. She died in 1863. In 1864 he married Amelia, daughter of Voluntine Men- ger, of Baltimore. Ile has two children living. Mr. Foss is an example of what may be done by persistent industry and indomitable energy, combined with moral integrity. In his early youth, in a foreign land among strangers, speaking an unknown language, without money, friendless and alone, and subjected to debasing influences, he bravely passed through the ordeal, and has risen to an honored manhood and a handsome competence, whilst many a man starting out in life with surroundings eminently advan- tageous and helpful, but with less self reliance and strength of purpose, has yielded to temptation, and brought himself to an untimely end.
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BARTIN, JOSEPH LLOYD, M. D., was born in Mon- mouth County, New Jersey, May 1, 1820. His grandfather, Isaac Martin, was for many years
a highly esteemed minister in the Society of Friends. His father was an eminent allopathic 3 physician, and for many years practiced in the vicinity of Monmouth. His parents were members of the Society of Friends. His father died when Joseph was quite young. Soon afterward he was placed under the guardianship of his uncle, William C. White, in New York city. There he received a good education, and commenced his busi- ness career as clerk in his uncle's wholesale drygoods es- tablishment. The business proved exceedingly distasteful to him, and he determined to gratify the ambition of his boyhood by preparing for the profession of medicine. His predilections for this profession grew as he approached maturity, and on his arrival at that period he abandoned his desk and commenced a course of medical studies, en- tering the Medical Department of the University of New York, where he graduated. Being an independent thinker, and averse to ultraism in anything, he was induced to in- vestigate the claims of the homeopathie system of medical practice, as it promised a much more certain method for the selection and administration of medicines. The system had so rapidly received public favor, engaging the attention of the most intelligent persons, including the medical pro- fession, that his investigations led him to commence a full and thorough course of study under its most able rep- resentatives and pioneers, Doctors John F. Gray and A. Gerald Hull, of New York, and finally resulted in his adopting it in practice up to the present time. In the fall of 1847 he located in Boston, Massachusetts. There he received a diploma from the Massachusetts Medical So- ciety, and remained in active practice in that city for three years. In 1849 he was instrumental in charly demon- strating, to the satisfaction of many, the superiority of ho- moopathy, in the great success which attended his treat- ment of cholera. That terrible epidemie, which ravaged the city of Boston in that year, was held in check by the homeopathie treatment, and Dr. Martin gained, by his disinterestedness, bravery, and noble conduct among all classes, the merited love and listing gratitude of hundreds of those who were saved through his zealous care. A pro- fessional reputation was then acquired commensurate with the great good he was enabled to accomplish. In 1847 he married a lady from Georgia, and, in 1861, her health being so impaired by the rigorous climate of Boston, he was obliged to seek a milder and more genial one, and re- moved to the city of Baltimore, where, with slight inter- ruptions, he has since been engaged in the active duties of his profession, always enjoying an extensive practice among the higher classes of society. He has one child, a daughter, who married 11. C. Longnecker, Esq., a highly esteemed citizen of Towsontown, Baltimore County, proprietor and editor of the Baltimore County U'nion. When the civil
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