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EYNOLDS, JOSEPH, was born in Baltimore, Mary- land, in 1815. The pioneers of his family to this country were two brothers, of Welsh birth, who settled in Pennsylvania abont 1600, the imme- diate ancestor of the subject of this sketch locating in Maryland, in the early part of the seventeenth century. Hle purchased lands in Anne Arundel County, of that State, and became an extensive farmer, Joseph's grand. Luther removed to Martin burg, Virginia, where the kamer's Luther, Isase Reynolds, was lonn. The latter removed to Baltimore in 1800, where he established himself in mer- cantile business, dealing originally in flour and grain, and subsequently engaging in the provision trade on a very ex- tensive scale, with wide Western connections. In 1845 he associated with him his two sons, Joseph and John Reynolds, under the firm name of Isaac Reynolds & Sons. Isaac Reynolds died in 1848, and his son John did not long survive him. Joseph continued to conduct the busi- ness under the above firm name, transferring shortly after his father's demise an interest therein to Augustus C. Pracht, who retained the same until the business was closed up in 1803. After an interval of five years Joseph Rey- holds established in connection with his former partner,
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Augustus C. Pracht, an extensive manufactory of fertilizers for the cotton States, and prosecuted the same until 1875, when he retired from active business and has since devoted himself to the management of his own and his family's property. To Mr. Joseph Reynolds is the city and county of Baltimore mainly indebted for that magnificent avenne that stretches from its northern boundary towards Tow- sontown, known as Charles Street Avenue. He was the principal person in its opening, laying out, grading, paving, and completion. He purchased extensive lands along the site thereof, upon portions of which he erected handsome and valuable improvements, and disposed of the remainder to gentlemen of wealth and taste, which led to the rapid development of the section of country traversed by the avenue. Mr. Reynolds also advocated the location of Lake Roland in connection with the Charles Street Ave- nue improvement. In addition to that enterprise he has built several handsome private structures in Baltimore city. In 1843 he married Miss Lucy Harrison Este, daughter of the late Judge David K. Este, a prominent and wealthy citizen of Cincinnati, Ohio, and granddaughter of General William Henry Harrison, the ninth President of the United States. Mr. Reynolds's mother was Miss Mary Hoffinan, daughter of a wealthy German gentleman, who settled in Maryland during the latter part of the eighteenth century. Ile has had seven children, six of whom are living, four sons and two daughters. Mr. Reynolds has always led a quiet, retired life, holding himself aloof from all political strifes or positions. He is remarkably domestic in his habits and inclination, devoting his time and attention mainly to his family. He possesses a fine art and literary taste, and is an easy and polished writer. His personal integrity has never been brought into question, and his charities have been of the most liberal character. For many years he has been a member of the Protestant Episcopal Church, hold- ing the office of vestryman therein, and contributing muniti- cently to its support. One of his sons, the Rev. Joseph Reynolds, is a clergyman in that Church, and is officiating in Baltimore.
POLE, MARCUS, was born December 21, 1779, in the village of Apinrod, County of Hochenburg, Duchy of Nassau, Germany, His parents, Lewis and Lehna Wolf, lived in a modest way. In order to avoid being conscripted into the army, to secure greater political freedom, and to better his finan- cial condition, he decided to emigrate to America. On August 31, 1818, he left his native land, and in company with about twenty others from the same locality, went to Amsterdam, whence, in about ten days, he sailed in the ship Superb for Baltimore, which place he reached after a safe voyage of fifty-three days, He landed with two
dollars and fifty cents in his pocket, and not understand- ing a word of the English language, he felt very much embarrassed. Finding some Germans, he made inquiry after an undle, a step brother of his mother, who had for a monber of years lived in Baltimore, and who had repeat- edly written home glow ing accounts of his adopted country and his own wealth. Ascertaining that his residence was at Owing's Mills, in Baltimore County, he went there and was greeted with a hearty welcome. Soon afterward, however, he discovered that his unele was morose and tyrannical in his disposition, and his treatment of him be- came so intolerant that he left the place to look after a situation in the city. Ilis stay with this relative was not without some good fruit, as he there acquired such a knowl- edge of the English language as to be able to speak it with considerable fluency. Desiring to get work in the butchering business, to which he had been trained, he went to Baltimore, at the Lexington Market, where he found a man who agreed to take him on trial. lle soon found that the manner of performing the work in this country was so different from that at home that he could do but little more than look on. But being determined to succeed, he soon became a very good workman, and his employer, who had taken him on trial, engaged him to re- main. At the end of the first month he had been so dili- gent, and had become so proficient in his business, that he was engaged by another butcher. Before a month expired, however, he had so ingratiated himself with his employer that he was engaged for a period of two years, and a part of the time was allowed him for study. After serving several other employers with continued success, he formed the acquaintance of an honest young man of about his own age, and a journeyman in the same business as that in which he was engaged, with whom he determined to enter into partnership. Mr. Wolf had seventeen dollars and his partner twenty-four. But Mr. Wolf succeeded in borrow - ing thirty dollars from a friend, making his capital forty- seven dollars, which, together with that of his partner made the capital of the firm seventy-one dollars. With this amount they went to the stock yards and bought four steers for fifty dollars. On these they made a very good profit, and continued to do a successful business together for about four years, during which time they had purchased a stall for each, with all the necessary appurtenances of the business, and had a surplus for division besides. About this time, April 29, 1824, Mr. Wolf married Miss Sarah legare, of Baltimore. His partner, having also married, and both being well established in business, it was thought best for the interest of both parties the part- nership should be dissolved, and each party act independ- ently. This was accordingly done, and the friendship of the two continued unbroken until death. Mr. Wolf con- tinued to largely prosper in business, although having met with some pretty heavy losses from depositing money in banks and personal securities, which induced him to
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purchase real estate, in which his capital was almost entirely invested at the time of his death. He con- tinned in active business until June 1, 1857, when he gave it up to his oldest son, Alonso, who continued it in the same successful way as his father. At the age of fifty-seven, the senior retired with a very handsome com- petence. In a few months thereafter he sailed for Eu- rope, and visited England, Belgium, Germany, Switzer- land, and France, and after a delightful tour returned to Baltimore. He had eight children, several of whom died after reaching maturity, and four of whom survived him. ITis death occurred suddenly-ahost without a moment's warning. He did not give evidence of a rapid decline, but was on the contrary still very active for his age, and was able to look after all his personal affairs without as- sistance. He was firm in his political views, and always upheld Democratie doctrines, which were frequently an- nounced from the hustings, owing to his ability and readi- ness to express his opinions with argument and force; he was quite a leader m his party. He was considered the ablest and most fluent debater of the Jefferson Debating Society of Baltimore, which was composed mainly of the very best and most intellectual citizens. He was twice nominated for the City Council, and once for the Legis- lature ; but he strenuously declined all political honors, whether public or private. He was an active mem- ber of the Murray Institute, to which he gave con- siderable attention, and often debated questions with some members who have lived to be favored citizens of Baltimore in all the professions and branches of busi- ness. His love of metaphysics induced him to publish a small pamphlet entitled, Mind nor Ideas Innate, This work declared very fully his ideas of religion, which were very liberal, and to many persons unpopular, as they were contraty to general belief on that subject, and did not harmonize with all church going people. He was, never theless, greatly beloved and respected by all who knew him. He died, August 21, 1875, after having attained a mature old age, and having seen his two sons, Alonzo Lewis and Marcus Wilton, successfully engaged in busi. ness for themselves. Mr. Wolf was, in the strictest sense, a self-made man. In youth, few had to struggle, with greater obstacles-few under such difficulties so persist- ently cultivated the best qualities of head and heart. Re- spected and loved by all who knew him, he left behind him an undying reverence for his many good qualities.
IL.LEK, CHARLES W., M. D., was born in Lovetts- ville, Loudon County, Virginia, October 6, 1852. Hle is the second son and second child of Colonel A. T. M. and Lydia M. (Stuck) Filler. His father is a man of great wealth and business capacity ; he was born in Ohio in 1821. The paternal grandfather of Dr. Filler was sheriff of Perry County in that State, and
Philip 11. Sheridan, Sr., father of General Philip HI. Sheridan, was in his employ, driving a cart on the high- way. The sheriff had a high-spirited horse, so wild and numanageable that no one dared to ride him. Young Philip said he would ride him without saddle or bridle, and he accomplished the feat. He looked so finely on horseback that it was generally remarked that he would make a splendid cavalry officer, and a petition was numer- ously signed to get him admitted to West Point. During the war, when Colonel A. T. M. Filler was exposed to the incursions and ravages of the Union army, he was so thoroughly protected while Sheridan was in his vicinity that he lost nothing. Afterwards when Sheridan was on his " burning raid," down the Shenandoah Valley, he did lose a great deal of property both from Northern soldiers and Confederates, There has always been a warm friend- ship between General Sheridan and the Filler family. Colonel Filler owns a great deal of land, and has been for many years engaged in the cattle business. He used before the war to ship great numbers of cattle to all the great markets, East and West. He has also made a great deal of money in the fertilizer business. He has now just entered on his second term of five years as Treasurer of Loudon County, an office that requires a bond of three hundred thousand dollars. He is a prominent politician, and was a delegate to the State Convention at Richmond in 1877, which nominated Governor Holliday. Dr. Filler attended the Lovettsville Classical Institute, from which he graduated when he was twenty years of age. After this he went to Alexandria, Virginia, for nine months, where he acted in his father's interest as agent for the Patapsco Guano Company of Baltimore. In 1873 he entered the Marylund University of Medicine at Baltimore, from which he graduated M.D. in 1876. During the last twelve months of his course he was honored by the appointment as ('lin. ical Assistant in the Baltimore Infirmary, and received a certificate of hospital practice from the faculty. On the conclusion of bis studies he settled in Baltimore, where he has a good practice. He makes a specialty of diseases of the throat and lings, As a mark of the esteem and conti- dence in which he is held, it may be mentioned that he is a medical examiner for three first class Life Insurance Companies, the Berkshire Life Insurance Company of the State of Massachusetts, the Royal Beneficial Associa- tion of Baltimore City, and the United States Mutual Aid Society, also of Baltimore, and of which H. G. Stewart is President. In this last-named Company Dr. Filler is also a Director,
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B ENSON, CHARLES WESLEY, M. D., was born at Black Rock, Baltimore County, Maryland, June 1, 1837. His parents were Reuben and Margaret ( Adron) Benson, the latter of French parentage, and is still living in her seventy-fifth year. His father 'died in November, 1868, at the age of seventy-four, Both
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were devoted Methodists from early life. His great- grandfather, Benjamin Benson, was born and brought up in Chester County, Pennsylvania, and was in sight of the battle of Brandywine at the time it was progressing. His son James settled in Baltimore County, Maryland, where he spent the remainder of his life. When Charles Wesley Benson was one year old his father emigrated to Fairfax County, Virginia. Brought up to the labors of the farm, he could attend school only in the winter season, and then was obliged to walk four miles each way, going and com- ing. His early tastes and habits were studious and thought- fil. In his fourteenth year he united with the church of his parents, to which he still adheres. At the age of fifteen he was sent to Baltimore to further pursue his studies, but was not permitted to take the full college course. Ile early manifested a strong desire to study medicine, and at the age of nineteen his tastes were gratified in this respect. In 1858 he attended his first course of medical lectures in the University of Maryland. After his graduation in March, 1860, he received from his instructors the highest commen- dations, both in regard to character and ability. Ile com- menced practice at once in the city of Baltimore, but in the fall of the same year removed to Woodsboro, Frederick Connty, where he was more popular, and his services were in great demand. In September, 1861, he married Miss Emily Bennett, of a family of high social standing, and residing with her widowed mother in Carroll County. During the war the family were greatly annoyed by raid- ing parties from Virginia, and to be free from these incur- sions, Dr. Benson decided, in 1865, to remove to Littlestown, . Pennsylvania; but the war closed a few days after he had disposed of his property in Woodsboro. However, he soon secured a very extensive practice in his new location. His wife died November 8, 1867, at the birth of her second child, Emma. Their eldest daughter, Fannie, is now in her fifteenth year, and has just entered the High School. In Jannary, 1869, Dr. Benson married Miss Mary J. Barker, of Chester County, Pennsylvania, the daughter of a highly respectable farmer, who for many years was President of the Board of Commissioners for the county. In the autumn of the same year he removed to the city of Baltimore, hay- ing his office at 106 North Eutaw Street, where he still con- tinues. Soon after this removal, in the course of his prac- tice, his attention was particularly directed to skin diseases, of which, in connection with nervous disorders, he has from that time made a specialty. Gradually giving up all other practice he now devotes himself entirely to this department of medicine. As early as 1867 he had begun to experi- ment with his celery and chamomile pills in the treatment of nervous diseases, using them only privately among his patients, but in March, 1873, the Baltimore Episcopal Methodist published an editorial account of them, which caused a general demand for them. Dr. Benson is a gen tleman of excellent character, pleasant manners, and supe- rior professional skill. By his second marriage he has
four sons. He has always been a Democrat in politics. Since 1868 he has been a member of the order of Free- masons, miting with them in that year at Hanover, Penn- sylvania. Also about the same time he joined the order of Odd Fellows, at Gettysburg, but withdrew from that order after attaining the third degree.
OORE, JACOB FARIS, M.D., PH.D., was born in Port Penn, New Castle County, Delaware, Feb- ruary 20, 1826. His boyhood years were spent in Elkton, Maryland, where he received a first. class academic education. He removed to Balti- more in 1842, where he entered the pharmaceutical estab- lishment of the late Dr. George W. Andrews, who has been the preceptor of many of the most celebrated pharma- ceutists of Baltimore. He remained with Dr. Andrews for some six years, making himself thoroughly conversant with all manner of therapeutical agents, and graduating from the Maryland College of Pharmacy in 1847. After receiving his diploma, he continued to remain with Dr. Andrews for about two years, and then removed to Wil- mington, Delaware, where he established himself in the drug business, in which he continued for about three years. Whilst conducting that business, he entered upon a course of medical studies, and graduated with honor, as Doctor of Medicine, at the Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, in the spring of 1849. At the expiration of the period above mentioned, he returned to Baltimore and established himself in the drug business, at the corner of Madison and Howard streets, in connection with J. K. B. Emory, under the firm style of Moore & Emory. In 1858, he dis- solved his partnership with Mr. Emory, since which time he has been conducting the dag business on his own ac- count. On the reorganization of the Maryland College of Pharmacy, in 1856, Dr. Moore was one of its corporators, and was elected as its first secretary. In March 21, 1861, he was elected Professor of Pharmacy in that institution, which position he has held from that year to the present time. On the resignation of the late Dr. George W. Andrews as President of the College, January 11, 1872, Dr. Moore was elected to that position, occupying it for three years, Under his administration the College flourished, and the standard of attainments was materially elevated, He has long been an active member of the American Pharmaceu- tical Association, and served as its President in 1863 and 1864. He brought before that scientific body many im- portant and valuable papers, among which was a " Report of the Progress of Pharmacy," which elicited the praise of the Association. He served twice on the Committee for the Revision of the National Pharmacopwia. Dr. Moore's father was Dr. Jacob Moore, who was a native of New Castle County, Delaware, where he successfully' prac.
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ticed his profession for many years. His grandfather, William Moore, was also a native of the same county. He married Rachel Boulden, sister of Levi, James, Jesse, and Nathan Bonklen, well known farmers of New Castle County. The doctor's great grandfather emi grated from Derry, Ireland, and settled in that county. His mother was Sarah Sharp Faris, daughter of Jacob Faris, of Pencaddy Hundred, New Castle County, and granddaughter of William Faris, who came to America from England, and was the first English settler on what is known as the " Welsh Tract " in New Castle County. In December, 1853, Dr. Moore married Miss Mary Eliza- beth Rice, daughter of William Rice, a farmer of New Castle County, and granddaughter of Washington Rice, a highly respected merchant of Wilmington. The issue of that marriage was three children, of whom two are living, Estelle Rice and Clarence Faris Moore. Mrs. Moore died in 1866. Dr. Moore's brother, Rev. William E. Moore, D.D., is a prominent minister of the Presbyterian Church, in Columbus, Ohio. He was a delegate to the Pan Pres- byterian Council, which assembled in Edinburgh in 1877. From his carliest manhood, Dr. Moore has taken an active interest in public affairs. In 1865 he was elected to rep- resent the Eleventh and Twelfth wards of Baltimore in the Second Branch of the City Council, in which capacity he served with great satisfaction for two years. Whilst a member of the City Council he was Chairman of the Com- mittees of Health, and Ways and Means. Under the ad- ministration of Mayor Chapman, he was appointed as one of the visitors at the city jait, and subsequently visitor to the Bay View Asylum, he being selected as the Chairman of the Board of Visitors to the latter Institution. . He has been frequently solicited by the citizens of the Eleventh and Twelfth Wards, irrespective of party, to again consent to the use of his name as a candidate for the City Council, but he has invariably declined. Ilis name was prominently associated with the Postmastership of Baltimore, under the present National Administration, for which position he was very strongly recommended by leading citizens of Maryland and this, of all parties, the latter including many personal friends and neighbors of President Hayes, Hle is a member of the Presbyterian Church, of which he has been, for several years, an elder. He has represented the Presbyterian Church in four Annual Sessions of the General Assembly.
CONNELLY, DANIEL, was born in Hagerstown, Washington County, Maryland, in April, 1827. lle remained in the county of his nativity until he was eighteen years of age, attending the best schools of the neighborhood. After spending some three years in Washington, D. C., Cumberland, and other places, he went to Baltimore in 1848, where he remained for a
you and a half, when he went to Culitomia. He te. mained there four years, engaged in mining, trading, and house building. After the expiration of that period he, in September of 1853, returned to Baltimore, where he en paged, the ensuing year, in the brick manufacturing busi ness in South Baltimore, pursuing the same in that locality until iSos, when he removed to his present establishment at Greenwood on the Bel Air Road. He manufactures every kind of brick, except fire-brick. His yards are among the most extensive in Baltimore, embracing over ten acres of ground. He has filled many important con- tracts for furnishing brick to public structures, such as the Gas Works in South Baltimore, the Gas Works at Can- ton, House of Correction, Mount Hope Hospital, Caroline Street Nunnery, the building of the " Little Sisters of the Poor," Division Street, and various Catholic churches. Ilis father was Patrick Donnelly, a native of County Ty- rone, Ireland, where his mother was also born. His par- ents came to America in 1817, and settled in Maryland in 1819. Mr. Donnelly married, in 1856, Miss Milholland, daughter of Arthur Milholland, a prominent citizen of Bal- timore. She is a sister of Dr. Edward F. Mitholland, a talented physician of that city. Mr. Donnelly has four children living, two sons and two daughters. lle is a modest, retiring gentleman, and remarkably urbane and pleasant in his manners.
AYWARD, JONAS HUTCHINSON, was born June 23, 1815, at Milford, New Hampshire. He was the fifth of seven children. His father was Ne- hannah Hayward, formerly of St. John's, New Brunswick, an Englishman, who settled at Wilton, New Hampshire, where he was for many years engaged in farming and merchandising. His mother was a Hutchinson, a native of Milford, New Hampshire, and a descendant of Ann Hutchinson, one of the " Pilgrim Mothers," whose history is associated with the early settlement of Rhode Island. Jonas's life during his minority was spent almost wholly upon his father's farm in New Hampshire, and it was here that he earned his first dollar, a silver one, which has been retained in the family as a useful souvenir, all of his children having cut their teeth upon it. His early educational advantages were limited almost entirely to his parents, who were both highly educated persons, and to them he is indebted for the proficiency which enabled him to teach in the district school of the neighboring town, which was the first profession he engaged in after leaving home. His natural determination and strength of charac- ter were strikingly illustrated in this, his first undertaking. As was customary in those days, many of the pupils being more advanced in years than their teacher, at an early day undertook to demonstrate to the young school master that the school was to be conducted as they and not as he de-
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sired. The conflict was brief and decisive, and resulted in his having during the remainder of the year most thorough discipline and a more satisfactory school than had been known in that township for years. Being convinced that there were other callings in life more congenial to his na. ture than teaching, upon the completion of his school year he left New Hampshire, and in the year 1837 arrived in Baltimore. He had a brother, George N., in that city, who, with Alfred N. Friend, were engaged in a small way in the stove business. In fact, they were so little known that he had great difficulty in finding them, they being situated in the second story of a building corner of Gay and Front streets, and, although he inquired of the person occupying the first story of that building, he was ignorant of their existence, and but for accidentally overhearing his brother's voice he would have abandoned the search. HIe commenced work in that city for the firm referred to for a consideration of fifty cents per day. The follow- ing year Mr. Samuel Blanchard became associated with them, the firm then being Hayward, Friend & Co. Ilis brother George N.'s health failing, he left Baltimore in May, 1839, and died the following April. Jonas succeeded him in the business, and subsequently associated with him another brother, Nehannah, in 1840. Soon after the ar- rival of the subject of this sketch in that city, the firm removed to the southeast corner of Light and Mercer streets, the third story of which building was occupied at that time by A. S. Abell, in the publication of the Sun newspaper. The firm underwent subsequently the follow- ing changes : From Hayward & Co. to Hayward, Fox & Co., and Hayward, Fox & Co. to Hayward, Robbins & Co., Jonas, by his diligent attention to business, having succeeded step by step to the position of senior partner. About the year 1844 David L. Bartlett became a partner of the firm, and the name of the firm was changed to Hay- ward, Bartlett & Co., under which style it was known until his decease and the expiration of the partnership in 1865. It was during this copartnership that rapid strides were made and the business extended, necessitating first the erection of a large foundry on Leadenhall Street, and sub- sequently, in 1851, there was commenced the present im- mense foundry and machine shops, corner of Pratt and Scott streets, and the adjacent squares. Before their first foundry was built in Baltimore, they manufactured all of their iron at Bel Air, Maryland, and transported the same to Baltimore in wagons. Branching out from their original basis they added to their business the manufacture of all descriptions of ornamental and architectural iron work, and special departments for galvanized iron work, boiler shops, machine shops, and the various classes of heating apparatus. Jonas Hayward personally did more towards developing and bringing into general use the best, most modern, and most satisfactory method of heating all classes of buildings than any other person in this country, that is, by hot water, and this firm by this method have heated
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