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ter of John Webster, of New Market, Dorchester County. Six children by his last marriage survived him, four of whom still reside with their mother at Pleasant Hill, in the last named county.
BOULTON, ROBERT ALFORD, son of James and Su- san A. (Kelly) Poulton, was born in Baltimore, Maryland, December 13, 1838. Ilis father was a native of Anne Arundel County, and came to Balti- more when twenty-one years of age and engaged in the grocery business. A> was the custom at that time, ar- dent spirits were kept and sold as part of the stock in trade, but in 1841 Mr. Poulton being converted, came home, and emptied all his liquors into the street. Ile lived a consist- ent Christian life. His wife also was a most pious and exemplary woman. Their son Robert attended the public school No. 8, and at twelve years of age passed the best examination of any who entered the Central High School. The advantages of this institution he enjoyed but one year ; his mother died and he had to leave school to earn his own support. Ile began as clerk, and worked his way up until now he is in partnership with his brother in a flourishing grocery business. In 1876 Governor Carroll appointed him a member of the Board of Assessors for Baltimore, in which position he has given great satisfaction. In 1877 he was elected to a seat in the City Council from the Six- teenth Ward. Ile is on several important committees, and is a useful member of the Council. He is a member of the Knights of Pythias, and is Past Sachem in the Order of Red Men. Ile has always been a Democrat ; is much attached to the Methodist Episcopal Church, in which he grew up, but has never united with any church. He was married, December 31, 1867, to Miss Mary A. Dielinhover, of Baltimore, and has three children.
AVILLE, JOHN W., was born in Baltimore, May 28, 18.13. Ile was the second son of John and Caro- line Saville, who were also natives of Baltimore. Ile was educated in the public schools of the city, until he was fifteen years of age, when he was sent to Bardstown, Kentucky, to complete his studies. He had always been particularly fond of mathematics, and also of drawing, and had made them each a specialty. Upon re- turning to Baltimore he found it necessary to decide upon his future course in life, and being so well prepared in the above-named studies, he concluded that the United States Navy offered him his appropriate field. He passed through his examination with great credit in 1862, but being still too young to fill any position, he was not admitted until Octo.
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ber 28, in the same year, when he was appointed a third assistant engineer in the United States Navy by Ilon. Gideon Welles. He was immediately ordered to the gun- boat Miami, then attached to the North Atlantic Block . ading Squachon, and was engaged in several battles in North Carolina. During the engagement with the rebel ram Albemarle, he was wounded, but was able to remain on board the vessel. On his recovery, he was appointed Acting Chief Engineer of the Miami. He was then the youngest officer in the squadron holding such a position, which was one of great responsibility. He continued to fill this office until June, 1864, when he was ordered to the Philadelphia Navy Yard for examination, which proved highly satisfactory, and he was promoted to the rank of Second Assistant Engineer. He was then ordered to the frigate Colorado, at Portsmouth, New Hampshire, which sailed at once for Fortress Monroe. At his own request, he was detached from that vessel, and ordered to the monitor Canonicus, then on the James River. After some very severe fighting before Richmond his vessel was or- dered with the fleet of Admiral Porter to the coast of North Carolina, and took a very prominent part in both the attacks on Fort Fisher, and the batteries adjoining it. During the second attack on these forts he was again wounded. He was struck by a grape-shot, which cut off a piece of his left leg, and slightly injured the right leg. By this wound he was incapacitated for duty for seven weeks, and never fully recovered from it. Ile was present at the capture of Charleston, and after its surrender the Canonicus was ordered to the island of Cuba. It was the first monitor that had left the United States; it remained some time at Havana. Returning to Philadelphia in June, 1865, he was placed on waiting orders. In 1866 he was ordered to superintend the building of the gunboat Monoc- acy at Baltimore. On its completion he was ordered to sea-duty on that vessel, which joined the East India squad- ron. While in China his health began to fail, and he was ordered to return to the United States on sick leave. Taking passage from Japan in the mail steamer, he arrived at San Francisco just as the Pacific Railroad was com- pleted, and crossed the continent on one of the first through trains. In 1870, finding no improvement in his health, and consequently being incapacitated for active duty, he was ordered before the Naval Retiring Board, and upon their recommendation President Grant ordered him to be placed upon the retired list of the navy. In the year 1874 Mr. Saville married Mamie A. Ilerker, youngest daughter of Andrew Herker, since deceased, who for many years was engaged in the manufacture of iron railing. Mr. Saville has always been a Conservative Republican. He is a mem- ber of the Mount Vernon Methodist Episcopal Church. His travels have been very extensive and varied, he having visited Europe, Africa, Asia, China, Japan, Siam, Malacca, Borneo, Brazil, the West Indies, portions of South Amer- ica and Canada, and each of the States of the Union. On
account of the delicate state of his health, he passes the winter months of each year on his Florida plantation. Ilis brother, W. O. Saville, is United States Inspector of steam- boats at Baltimore. His youngest brother, Rev. Walter A. Saville, is a member of the Kansas Methodist Episcopal Conference.
AMMOND, HONORABLE ORMOND, was born in Frederick County, Maryland, November 9, 1825. His ancestors were a noble family of England, who having received distinguished favors from Charles the First, refused to submit to the rule of Cromwell, and gathering up their wealth, sought a home in America. Their descendants are numerous in the counties of Frederick and Anne Arundel. Ilis father, Eden Ham- mond, was a farmer of the first-named county. Ile married Charlotte Worthington, daughter of Nathan Hammond, of the same county. Ormond was their second child. He lost his father when only nine years of age. He was sent first to a private school, and afterwards for three years to the Academy of Seaford, Sussex County, Delaware. He then still further pursued his English studies at Baltimore, fol- lowed by a classical course at Georgetown, District of Columbia, and completed a liberal education at Philadel- phia, intending, in accordance with the wishes of his mother, to enter one of the learned professions. This pur- pose, however, was finally abandoned, and in his twentieth year he engaged as a clerk in a drygoods house in Baltimore, in which he continued for three years, when he removed to his present residence in St. Michael's District. The es- tate is called " Solitude," and is situated on a branch of the Choptank River. Here since 1847 he has devoted him- self to agriculture, and has been for twenty years an active and leading member of St. Michael's Agricultural Society, of which he is now the Secretary. Ile is an energetic, in- telligent, and practical farmer. He was elected in 1867 to the Constitutional Convention of the State from Talbot County, and was recognized as one of its most able mem- bers. Clearheaded and hardworking, he took a large share in the business brought before that convention, and served efficiently on its committees. In 1868 he was elected by the Democratic party to the State Senate, in which he was also prominent. In 1870 he was a member of the House of Delegates, and as Chairman of the Com- mittee on Education reported the present school system of the State. In all that relates to the public . good, whether agriculture, education, or politics, Mr. Hammond still con- tinnes to take a large interest, and the Christian Church finds in him a conscientious and liberal member. He was married, in 1847, to Mary M., daughter of Rev. Luther J. and Maria S. ( Keener) Cox, of Baltimore, and sister of Lieutenant-Governor Cox, of Maryland. They have had
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eleven children, eight boys and three girls, The ellest son, named for his father, is in the show business in Baltimore. The eldest daughter graduated from college with great distinction, and is now a professional teacher. Mr. Ham. mond is a Mason. He is President of the Workingmen's Building and Loan Association of St. Michael's, and is a general insurance agent. He is held in the highest estima- tion by all his associates,
4 ARTER, RICHARD JOHN, was born near Whitelys- burg, Kent County, Delaware, November 21, 1820. llis father, John Carter, a farmer and consistent member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, lived only until his thirty-fifth year, his death occurring in April, 1828. About the year 1817 he had been united in marriage with Rebecca (Cabbage) Edwards, widow of Abner Edwards, an excellent Christian woman, who also died in 1828, a few months after the death of her husband. Their son, Richard John, was sent to school in his sixth year, but left an orphan at the age of eight, he went to live with his uncle, Richard Carter, for whom he had been named, and from that time attended school but two months in the year in the winter season, working the rest of the time according to his strength upon the farm. Of course much that he gained in the two months was lost during the following ten. Ile remained with his uncle until he was twenty-one years of age. Though he had been treated with kindness he received at that time no other compensation for his years of labor but a freedom suit and a horse. He worked on the same farm afterwards as the leading hand for two years, when he went to live with his married sister, and worked three years as a farm hand for his brother-in-law. In 1847 he, with another young man, took charge of a farm near Ruthsburg, which they culti- vated jointly for one year, after which he rented a farm by himself five miles from Centreville, and the same year was married to Mary Elizabeth, daughter of William S. Price, of Union Farm, Queen Anne's County, to which he re- moved six years later. Here he has since continued to reside, purchasing the property, which includes one hun- dred and eighty acres of land, from his father-in-law, in 1862, and adding to it thirty-six acres of woodland. In 1865 he purchased the Wye farm, one hundred and ten acres, in 1872 the Denbigh farm, one hundred and fifty- seven acres, and in 1878 the Newmarket farm, of one hun- dred and nine acres, lying near Queenstown. Ilis prop- erty now consists of five hundred and ninety.two acres of excellent land, divided into four farms, and a dwelling and storehouse in Queenstown, which he purchased in October, 1878, Mr. Carter united with the Methodist Episcopal Church in 1837, in which he has been an office- bearer most of the time since. He is now Superinten-
clent of the Sunday-school at Queenstown. His wife has been a member of that church from her childhood. IIe `attrilnites his success in life as much to her careful economy and wise management as to his own industry. They have five children, one son and four daughters.
EMPLE, WILLIAM E., Register of Wills for Queen Anne's County, is a native of Templeville, in the eastern part of that county, and was born in 1836. His father, James Temple, a well-known and re- spected citizen of the same county, served as a mem- ber of the State Legislature in 1850. He married Annie, daughter of William Day, of Delaware. Their son Wil- liam was brought up to a practical acquaintance with agri- cultural life, and enjoyed only such educational advantages as the common schools afforded. On reaching manhood he established a general country store in Templeville, which, however, he failed to make a success. In 1869 he was elected Sheriff of Queen Anne's County, on the Demo- cratic ticket, and served during the years 1870-71, greatly to the satisfaction of all parties. In November, 1875, he was elected one of the Commissioners of the county on the same ticket, and served in this position with much credit for two years. In November, 1877, he was nominated and elected Register of Wills. This office he fills with efficiency and fidelity, and has earned by his integrity and reliability the confidence of the community irrespective of political creeds. Ile was brought up in the principles of the old Whig party. Since 1866 he has been associated with the Democracy. Mr. Temple was married in 1857 to Kachel Emily, daughter of Charles Schulley, a farmer, all of the same county. He has had eight children, of whom only three, two sons and a daughter, survive. The family attend the Methodist Episcopal Church, of which Mr. Temple is a prominent and liberal member, and in which he has held official positions for a number of years. Ile joined the Order of Odd Fellows in 1867. He is a man of great industry and recognized business talent; of unquestioned standing and integrity.
MANAIIAN, THOMAS M., Lawyer, was born in Rock- ingham County, Virginia, in 1828.' His ancestors came from Ireland to America in 1770, at the re- quest of an English uncle, surnamed Daniel, a gen- theman of prominence, who many years before had settled in the then colony of Virginia, and who, being en feebled by age and possessed of estates, desired the presence of lineal heirs. He died at the advanced age of
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eighty-five. The family settled at Harrisonburg, Rocking- ham County, Virginia. Mr. Lanahan's father was Thomas Lanahan, an architect by profession ; and his mother's maiden name was Margaret Conkling. They had nine children-six daughters and three sous-six of whom are at present living. Of the three sons, John chose the min- istry, and has attained to eminence as a clergyman of the Methodist Episcopal Church. William entered into mer- cantile pursuits and conducted business with success for a long time in Baltimore city. He died in 1869. T The sub- ject of this sketch came to Baltimore in 1840, being then twelve years of age. After prosecuting his studies there for some time, he entered Dickinson College, at Carlisle, Pennsylvania, in 1842. From that institution he went to St. Mary's College, Baltimore, where he graduated with distinction in 1847, at the early age of nineteen. Entering the office of Charles H1. Pitts, a very distinguished lawyer of that time, he pursued the study of law with such suc- cess that in 1849, two years after his graduation at St. Mary's College, he was admitted to practice in the Mary- land courts as an attorney-at-law. Ile immediately began the practice of his profession, and at once attained great prominence, being retained in cases of magnitude and importance. The results of his professional life up to this time have been tersely summed up by an old and distinguished lawyer of the Maryland bar, in an article entitled " Biographical Sketches of the most distinguished Lawyers of the State," published in the Baltimore Gasette, December 22, 1877, in which he says : "One of the most successful lawyers of my day has been Thomas M. Lana- han. Ile commenced life without the advantages of for- tune, though favored with an elaborate education he had received at St. Mary's College. By industry and a diligent attention to the interests of his clients, his practice has yearly increased, and for twenty years past has equalled that of any other member of the bar." Mr. Lanahan from the commencement of his career in 1849, has studi- ously avoided politics, and made his profession his sole occupation. The only departure he has ever made from a settled purpose to avoid political life was in 1860, when from a mere personal friendship for the late Stephen A. Douglas, he consented, on urgent solicitation, to enter into the Presidential campaign of that eventful period, and went as a delegate from Baltimore to the Charleston Con- vention, when from first to last he adhered with his ac- customed firmness to that distinguished statesman. In 1849 he married Matilda Passano, daughter of Joseph Passano. They have one child. Mr. Lanahan's life has been pre-eminently a busy aud useful one. His career and the large fortune he has amassed by personal effort and worth teach a lesson to be remembered by youth, and illustrate the fact, that there is no profession in this coun- try that does not offer distinguished honor and great re- ward to those who seek them with a steady purpose and determined energy, such as he has always manifested.
CHAPMAN OALE, COLONEL SAMUEL, was born in Maryland, 100 1771. Ilis grandfather, John Moale, was a wealthy English merchant, and one of the earliest settlers in the Province of Maryland. In 1723 he became the purchaser of a large and valuable tract of land, now included within the limits of Baltimore city. Ile was applied to for land for the pur- pose of laying out a town, and not only withheld his assent, but hastened to take his seat in the Provincial As- sembly, where he defeated the project. Ile married the daughter of Captain Robert North, who commanded the ship Content, and visited the Patapsco as early as 1723. The latter was one of the original purchasers of lot No. 10, at the northwest corner of Long, now Baltimore Street, and Calvert Street, not then named. The lots, which em- braced an acre each, were sixty in number, and were bought from Charles and David Carroll, the sons of Charles Carroll, who was one of the land agents of the Proprietary from 1691 to 1726. In 1732 Captam North built a house on lot No. 2, Jone Street. He was one of the Town Commissioners to lay off a new town called Jonetown. John Moale, Sr., died in 1740, leaving his widow and two sons, John and Richard, to inherit his valuable estate. In 1753 John Moale, Jr., was manager of a lottery to build a wharf. In 1754, besides a homestead, he built a house on the southeast corner of Calvert Street and Lovely Lane. In 1767 Ire was one of the delegates to the Provincial Assembly, and in 1768 one of the Com- missioners to build a court-house and prison at Joppa, on the Gunpowder River, which were subsequently sold by them. During the building of the court house, the courts were held in a hall over the market-house that stood on the corner lot north of Baltimore and west of Gay Street. In 1773 he was one of the Trustees to erect a poorhouse on Howard Street, and in the succeeding year was a Pre- siding Justice of the County Court, and a member of the Convention of that year (1774). In 1781 he was Chair- man of the Committee to receive General Washington on his visit to Baltimore. In 1782 he became one of the Town Commissioners, and also one of the Associate Jus- tices of the Criminal Court, Samuel Chase being the Chief Justice. The same year he made an accurate sketch of Baltimoretown, which is still in existence. He died July 5, 1793, leaving two daughters, Elizabeth, who married Richard Curson, and Rebecca, who married Thomas Russell, both of whom were leading merchants at that time. The third, John Moale, left one daughter, Ellen, who married the eldest son of the Chevalier de Bernabeau, who was appointed his Catholic Majesty's consul for Maryland, where he came to reside in 1795. lle was lost at sea. Samuel Moale, his grandson, was educated at St. John's College, Annapolis, with the view of becoming a lawyer. At the age of eighteen years he left school and went to Baltimore, where he studied law with Samuel Johnson, who was always called " the honest
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lawyer." September 19, 1208, Mr. Moale was appointed by the Governor, First Lieutenant of Captain Robert G. Harper's Artillery Company, attached to the Third Brigade of the Maryland Militia in the city of Baltimore. May 24, 1812, he was appointed by Governor Bowie, Captain of the same artillery company, attached to the same regiment, and December 2, 1816, was promoted to be Major of same. March 18, 1818, he was appointed Colonel of the Second Artillery Regiment, attached to the Fourteenth Brigade. He participated in the defence of Baltimore in 1814, being stationed at Fort MeHlenry during its bom- bardment; exhibiting, during the action, the utmost cool- ness and bravery. Whilst the shells were bursting over the fort, a companion asked Colonel Moale, while he was walking on the parapets of the fort, where he was going to dine that day. His characteristic reply was that " they would dine in eternity if they did not fight hard." Col- oncl Moale's company fired the alarm guns on the appear- ance of the British in the Patapsco. The company was stationed on the corner of Calvert and Baltimore streets, where Cohen's Bank now stands. These guns were fired in response to guns fired on Federal Hill as soon as the enemy's ships were noticed entering the river. At the age of twenty-five years, Colonel Moale married Am M. Howard, daughter of Samuel Harney Howard, of Annapolis, the marriage ceremony being performed by Rev. Ralph Iligenbotham. The issue of this union were three children, Ellen, who married . Samuel Hol- lingsworth; Susan R. H., who married John Travers ; and Samuel Iloward Moale, who married Eleanor Git- tings. Ile married the second time Ann G. White, daugh- ter of Abraham White, of Baltimore, by whom he had eight children. Two of them died in infancy. The others were Mary Susan, who married General John G. Foster, United States Army ; Frances North, who married : General Jolin Gibbon, United States Army ; Ann White Moale, who married Doctor Berwick Smith, son of Pro- fessor Nathan R. Smith; Henry, a prominent merchant of Baltimore, who married Margaretta E. Elder, daughter of Francis Elder; Colonel Edward Moale, United States Army, who married Jeannie Wilson, daughter of Richard Wilson ; Angusta Moale, who married Colonel Wilson Nicholas. John Travers had one son and two daughters, William R. Travers, of New York, a very prominent stock- holder, and well known for his benevolence and wit, and Ellen and Mary Travers, of New York. Their grand- father, John Moale, who married Ellen North, daughter of Robert North, was the first white child born in Baltimore. Colonel Samuel Moale was a prominent member of the Masonic fraternity, and its Treasurer when the Order built the old hall on St. Paul Street, where the present City Court is now held. His pohtical sentiments were those of the old Federal party. When the Know-Nothing organization came into existence, he allied himself with the Democratic party, the principles of which he con.
tinned to support until his death, which occurred February 21, 1857, at the mature age of eighty-six years. Colonel Moale, in stature, was five feet eight inches. He was of rather a stout build, had a fair complexion, blue eyes, and enjoyed most excellent health. He was very partienlar in; his diet, and remarkably so in his attire. As a chancery lawyer, he occupied the most distinguished position, and enjoyed the same reputation for integrity and faithful at- tention to the interests of his clients, as did his illustrious legal preceptor, Samuel Johnson. Upright and conscien- tious to the highest degree, he was implicitly intrusted with the management and settlement of the most important cases and estates. It may be interesting to here relate an incident of his law student days, which was the fact of his then fighting a duel with Judge Hanson. There was no fatal result, however, and the difficulty between him and the Judge was amicably adjusted. Colonel Samuel Moale was a most highly respected and honored citizen of Balti- more. Born before Baltimore was incorporated as a city, he lived to see it become one of the largest and most pros- perous cities of America. Having been identified with its early history, its material progress and prosperity, its bene- ficial institutions, as well as its preservation from British aggression, he well deserves to be classed among the rep- resentative men of Maryland.
CCULLOUGHI, JETHRO JOHNSTON, was born March 8, 1810, in White Clay Creek Hundred, about four miles north of Newark, New Castle County, Delaware. Ile was named after Jethro Johnston, a Baptist minister (at one time in charge of the London Tract Baptist Church, located in the lower edge of Chester County, on White Clay Creek ), an uncle of Jethro Johnston, who formerly lived at Bay View, Cecil County, Maryland. Jethro J. Mccullough was one of a family of eleven children, he having six brothers and four sisters-all of whom he survived. His father, Enoch Mc- Cullough, died in 1827, and was buried in the Baptist churchyard at London Tract Church. He was also a na- tive of Delaware, and was by trade a carpet and coverlet weaver. He was a skilful workman, and had the reputa- tion of making superior articles, celebrated for their beauty and durability. When Jethro was only six years and six months old, he was placed at work in the old Roseville cot- toir factory, located on the White Clay Creek, on the road leading from Newark to Stanton. In this factory he spent about two years of his life, working, as was the custom at that time, for six months of the year, when the days were longest, from sumise to sunset, and the other part of the year from sunrise to eight o'clock at night. When eight years of age he went into his father's shop, where he as- sisted in the preparation of work, winding bobbins for the
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