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seenre the enactment and enforcement of laws designed to prevent the evils resulting from the liquor traffic. Mr. Mosher has been an active and efficient worker in the vari- ous temperance organizations, in which he has occupied many prominent positions. He is Secretary of the Mary- land State Temperance Alliance, Worthy Chief Templar of America, Temple of Ilonor, of the city of Baltimore, and a Past Grand Worthy Patriarch of the Sons of Tem- perance of Maryland. His business is that of a photog- rapher, being located at 465 West Baltimore Street, Balti- more, and he occasionally gives art exhibitions for churches and Sunday-schools. In December, 1858, he married Miss Augusta Wilde, only daughter of John and Mary . Wilde, of Baltimore, Soon after his marriage he removed to Selma, Alabama, where his three children, Minnie, Ada, and John Ilugh were born. In 1870 he returned to Bal- timore, where he has since resided. His daughter Minnie having developed very superior histrionic talent, has rendered great service to the temperance cause by her readings and dramatic recitals, and she has thus been in- strumental, also, in contributing largely to charitable and benevolent causes. Although quite young, she has at- tained considerable local celebrity, and her performances have frequently been mentioned in the highest terms of praise by the press of Baltimore and other places,
BAY, ANDREW J. H., Artist, was born in Washing- ton, District of Columbia, April 27, 1826. His paternal grandfather was a merchant of Phila- delphia, in which city his father was born in the year 1775. The latter removed to Washington in 1800, and resided there for several years, acquiring an ample fortune in the printing and bookbinding business. For many years he was Congressional printer, and was a conspicuous member of Washington society. In 1808 he married Mrs. Mary Matilda Pawson, daughter of Captain John Brevitt, of Baltimore, Maryland, an Englishman by birth and son of a wealthy manufacturer of Wolverhamp- ton. At twenty years of age, Mr. Brevitt was prosecuting his studies with an attorney when the war of the Revolu- tion broke out, and his sympathies heing entirely with the struggling American colonists, he left home and kin- dred, came to this country and cast in his fortunes with those fighting for freedom. Ile entered the patriot army as a private and left it with the rank of Captain. lle was one of the original members of the " Society of the Cincin- nati." After the war he made his home in Baltimore, and died there in 1819 at the age of sixty-four, leaving three childreny tano tlaughters and a son, Mr. Brevitt had seve- ral brothers, one of whom, Dr. Joseph Brevitt, served as a surgeon in the British Army throughout the Revolutionary war, and after the declaration of peace, joined his brother
John in Baltimore, where he practiced his profession until his death. The father of Mr. Way removed from Wash- ington in 1830 or 1831, and purchased a farm in Cham- paign County, Ohio, where he died at the age of fifty-seven, in the year 1833. He left two sons, the eldest, George B. Way, born in 1811, was educated in Yale College, and at Oxford, Ohio; studied law in that State with Hon. John C. Wright, and attained distinction in after years as a law- yer and a Judge. He died in Washington in 1868, aged fifty-seven years. The mother of these two sons was a woman of strongly marked character, noted for her vivacity of disposition, her conversational powers and ready wit. She was a leader in the society of Washington, and num- bered among her intimate friends, Mrs. Madison, Mrs. Sea- ton, the Wallacks, and others of note. In the way of art she possessed great natural ability, handling her pencil with much skill and originality, though she had received very little instruction. She displayed much dexterity in needle- work, hoth in beauty of design and execution. ller younger son, the subject of this sketch, inherited her love of art, and when he was but a very young child his mother used to fill books of blank paper with sketches of every conceivable description for his amusement and entertain- ment. His mother was the object of his fervent worship, and her many noble qualities won his life-long admiration. In 1835 she entered for a third time into the matrimonial state, being then forty-five years of age. Iler husband, Colonel Benjamin Franklin Stickney, of Concord, New Hampshire, had been in the service of the United States for the greater part of his life. He was a gentleman of means, owning at that time nearly the whole site of the pres- ent city of Toledo, Ohio. Mr. Way was educated in Balti- more until sixteen years of age, after that at Norwalk and Iludson, Ohio. At eighteen, while yet pursuing his classi- cal studies, a miniature painter of considerable ability visited the town of Norwalk. Ile was social and agree- able, and young Way becoming interested in the man, be- came infatuated with his work to that extent that he neglected the classics and gave his entire attention to this one fascinating pursuit. Hle commenced the study of miniature painting with zeal, and persevered until he ac- complished something which his friends declared worthy of unqualified admiration. Up to that time he had be- stowed little thought on the future, and had no fixed idea as to what course he should pursue in life. At the age of nineteen he returned home, and still continued his efforts in painting on ivory. Hle painted a miniature of his step- father which was considered a strong likeness. Ilis de- ficiency in drawing had become apparent to himself, and he longed to study under a competent master, but his mother was much opposed to his making art a profession, while his stepfather approved it. It was at last agreed that some of his productions should be submitted to a friend of Colonel Stickney in Cincinnati who Was compe- tent to judge of his merits, and if he advised the young
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man to devote himself to art, his mother was to make no further objection. The referee's opinion was favorable, and at his advice Mr. Way entered the studio of John P. Frankenstein, of Cincinnati, a portrait painter of note, and was at once set to work at drawing bones, and kept at it, to his great disgust, until he had drawn every bone in the human body over and over again. Mr. Frankenstein be- lieving that a thorough knowledge of anatomy was neces- sary to the successful artist, kept the student at it, until the pursuit of art became less attractive to him than it had been. Ile remained in Cincinnati a year, and having been put through a course of amber and white, he was al- lowed to paint a head or two in color. At that time he made the acquaintance of many young artists who have since made their mark. Among the number were J. W. Whit- tredge, late President of the N. A. Academy of Design, New York, William Beard, T. Buchanan Read, and J. O. Eaton. At the end of the year he returned to Baltimore, and placed himself under the instruction of Alfred J. Mil- ler, the most promising artist then in the city, famed for his rare and valuable collection of Indian studies taken by him from life. After some considerable time with Mr. Miller, he decided on a trip to Europe, which he was enabled to do through the inheritance of six thousand dollars from his father's estate. He took with him letters of introduction to Hon. Abbott Lawrence, American Minister at the Court of St. James, and to Charles Leslie, the noted painter. He was taken sick in London, which caused a postponement of his trip to the continent for about six months. In the meantime, however, after his recovery, he visited Ireland and Scotland. In the fall of 1850 he went to Paris and entered the atelier of M. Drolling, a leading artist of France. Suffering greatly with dyspepsia, by the advice of a physician he left Paris about the Ist of February and jour- neyed to Rome, seeing Elba, Spezzia, and " Genoa the Su- perb " by the way. At Rome and Naples he occupied him- self in sight-seeing, and arrived in Florence about the mid- dle of April. He was introduced into the Academy of Fine Arts by Horatio Greenhow, the sculptor. He remained in that city several months, drawing from the antique, and occasionally copying in the Gallery of the UGizzi. He be- came acquainted with all the American artists who were in Florence at that time, and was in daily intercourse with Greenhow, Randolph Rogers, Joel Hart, Alexander Galt, Ives Terry, Page, Powers, and others. Late in the summer he visited Switzerland, went thence to Paris, and after a second visit to London, to see the Exposition. of 1851, he returned to Baltimore. Two years afterward he married Mrs. Kate Griffith, widow of Charles H. Griffith, of Balti- more, and daughter of Nathaniel Horsey, of Delaware, by whom he has had two sons and a daughter. The eldest ' son, George B., is an artist, and the daughter has a decided talent in that direction. Until after thirty years of age, all of Mr. Way's art studies were in portraiture. From his childhood he had possessed the faculty of catching a like-
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ness with pen or pencil, and as a man had painted many hundred heads, but he was never satisfied with his skill in that line. About the year 1860, he submitted to Mr. E. Lentze, during one of his professional visits to Baltimore, one of his still life pictures, for his criticism. It received that gentleman's high commendation, and he has devoted himself to it since with unremitting attention. IIe has ex- hibited his pictures for many years in the National Academy of New York, in the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, and in many other leading institutions throughout the country. He is one of the artists who orig- inated the " Allston Association" of Baltimore; also one of those concerned in the rise and progress of the short-lived " Maryland Academy of Art," and acted as its Vice-President. He has actively participated for the last twenty-five years in every effort made to advance the fine arts in Baltimore, and has been identified with many of the charitable art enterprises during the last ten years. In the summer of 1861 Mr. Way again visited Europe, taking his family with him. He spent several months in London, where he painted many original pictures, and studied the works of George Lance. They went to Paris, when he studied " St. Jean," the great fruit painter, and made sev- eral studies from his works in the Luxemburg Gallery, and also from Jaccobee. They returned in the fall of 1862. In 1865 they crossed the Atlantic again, remaining mostly in Paris, studying the works of the great masters. They came back to Baltimore the next year, and have since re- mained in that city. Mr. Way is a man of decidedly re- ligious tendencies, and has been all through life a regular attendant upon divine worship, but has never connected himself with any church.
STONE, HONORABLE THOMAS, was born in 1743 in Charles County, Maryland. He was the eldest son of David and Elizabeth (Jenifer) Stone. ITis father was the son of Thomas, the son of William, the son of John Stone, who was the son of llonorable William Stone, the third Proprietary Governor of Mary. land, from August 6, 1648, to March 25, 1655. Ilis mother was a sister of IIonorable Daniel of St. Thomas Jenifer, the daughter of Dr. Daniel and Ann ( Hanson) Jenifer, of Charles County, Maryland, and the granddaughter of Honorable Samuel Hanson. He received a liberal clas- sical education, and read law at Annapolis, in the office of Thomas Johnson, who was afterwards the first con- stitutional Governor of the State of Maryland. Ile com- menced the practice of law in Fredericktown, Maryland, where he remained two years, and then returned to Charles County. In 1771 he married Margaret Brown, dangh- ter of Dr. Gustavus and Margaret (Bond) Brown, of the same county, who died June 3, 1787. Thomas Stone and
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Matthew Tilghman, Thomas Johnson, Robert Goldsbor- ough, William Paca, Samuel Chase, and John Hall were elected, December 8, 1774, by the Maryland Convention, to represent the Province in the Continental Congress, and was ie elected by the Convention of April 21, 1775, and of July 20, 1775. Ile was a member of the Maryland Con vention which assembled December 7, 1775, and served on the Committee "to report Resolutions for Raising, Clothing, and Victualling the Forces to be raised in this Province ;" and to report " Rules and Regulations for the Government of the Forces." January 12, 1776, he and the other delegates to Congress were instructed by the Mary- land Convention, " not, without the previous knowledge and approbation of the Convention of this Province, to assent to any proposition to declare these Colonies inde- pendent." The delegates named in the instructions were Matthew Tilghman, Thomas Johnson, Robert Golds- borough, William Paca, Samuel Chase, Thomas Stone, Robert Alexander, and John Rogers. These instructions were reaffirmed May 21, 1776, and the same delegates re-elected by ballot. June 28, 1776, these instructions were recalled, the "restrictions therein contained re- moved," and the delegates were "authorized and em- powered to concur with the other United Colonies, or a majority of them, in declaring the United Colonies free and independent States." While the Declaration of Indepen- dence was discussed and passed, in Philadelphia, the Con- vention 'at Annapolis elected the following delegates to Congress, viz., Matthew Tilghman, Thomas Johnson, William Paca, Samuel Chase, Thomas Stone, Charles Car- roll of Carrollton, and Robert Alexander. One of them, a new member, Charles Carroll of Carrollton, served until November 10 following, and, August 2, 1776, signed the Declaration of Independence, with Samuel Chase, William l'aca, and Thomas Stone. November 10, 1776, the following delegates to the Continental Congress were elected by the Convention of Maryland, viz., Matthew Tilghman, Thomas Johnson, William Paca, Thomas Stone, Samuel Chase, Benjamin Rumsey, and Charles Carroll, barrister. From June 12, 1776, to November 15, 1777, . Thomas Stone laboriously served on the Committee charged with preparing the Articles of Confederation. Ile retired from Congress in 1779 and became a member of the Legislature of Maryland. He was the author of the act which abolished the right of primogeniture in Mary- land. In 1784 and 1785 he was a member of Congress, and for a brief period before his death served in the Sen- ate of Maryland, and was appointed a member of the Convention that formed the Constitution of the United States, but declined. Thomas Stone was a devout mem- ber of the Episcopal Church, a gentleman of liberal cul- ture, considerable legal learning, solid acquirements, sound judgment, and much political sagacity. In his hab- its he was simple, strictly temperate, and austere. In dis- position he was retiring and reserved, a man of deep and
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tender feeling, and lavished, without stint, the wealth of his strong affections upon his family. Ile never recovered from the depressing effects of the death of his wife, anl died at his residence, " Haverdeventure," near Pont To. bacco, in Charles County, Maryland, October 5, 1787. Upon his tomb the following is inscribed : " The Archives of Maryland will show the offices of trust he has held. He was an able and faithful lawyer, a wise and virtuous patriot, an honest and good man." Ile left three children, viz., Frederick, who died in 1793, a youth of extraordi- nary promise ; Margaret, who married Dr. John Moncure Daniel, of Virginia ; and Mildred, who married Travers Daniel, a brother of Dr. John Moncure Daniel. Both of the daughters have descendants living.
STONE, HONORABLE JOHN HOSKINS, was born in 1745 in Charles County, Maryland. He was the second son of David Stone and Elizabeth Jenifer, daughter of Dr. Daniel Jenifer. He was a younger brother of Hon. Thomas Stone, who signed the Declaration of Independence. On January 2, 1776, he was elected by the Convention of Maryland Captain in the Battalion of Colonel William Smallwood, and in Decem- ber of the same year rose to the rank of Colonel. Ile greatly distinguished himself at the battles of Long Island, White Plains, Princeton, and Germantown. In the last mentioned he received a wound, maiming him for life. He resigned his military commission Angust 1, 1779. In 1781 he was a clerk in the office of R. R. Livingston, Secretary of Foreign Affairs, and afterwards was one of the Executive Council of Maryland. Ile was a member of the Cincinnati Society, and his certificate of membership, signed by George Washington, dated July 22, 1793, is still extant in the possession of his grandson, Nathaniel Pope Causin, of Baltimore. He was Governor of Maryland from 1794 to 1797, and died at his residence in Annapolis, October 5, 18o.p. Ile married Miss Couden, a Scotch lady, and had three children, viz., Couden Stone, who married young and died without issue; Ann Stone, who married Dr. J. Turner, of Charles County, Maryland, and left two children, viz., Zephaniah Turner, who mar- ried Miss Hungerford, of Virginia, and Mary Turner; and Eliza Stone, who was born August 30, 1783, at Annapolis, married February 18, 1808, Dr. Nathaniel Pope Causin, son of Gerard B. and Jenny Pope ( Rowe) Causin, and died May 7, 1845, leaving two children, viz., Jane Adelaide Pope Causin, born November 25, 1812, who married March 27, 1832, Dr. Henry F. Con- diet, of New Jersey, and died in September, 1871, leav- ing two children, viz., Cansin Condict, and Eliza Stone Condict; and Nathaniel Pope Causin, born August 24, 1815, at Port Tobacco, Maryland, who married, May 14,
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1855, kliza Mactiar Warfield, daughter of Daniel and Nancy (Martial) Washeld, of Baltimore, and had two children, viz., Nathaniel Pope Cansin, deceased, and Nannie D. Cansin.
TONE, JUDGE MICHAEL JENIFER, was born in 1747, at " Equality," in Charles County, Maryland, the third son of David Stone and his second wife, Elizabeth Jenifer, daughter of Dr. Daniel Jenifer, of Charles County, Maryland, and granddaughter of Ifon. Samuel Hanson. Ile was a younger brother of lIon. Thomas Stone, who signed the Declaration of Indepen- dence, and of Hon. John Hoskins Stone, who was Gov- ernor of Maryland from 1794 to 1797. Judge Stone was a man of brilliant and versatile talents, exquisite taste, re- fined wit, and conscientious in the discharge of his public and private duties. Ile was a member of the Convention of Maryland which ratified, April 28, 1788, the Constitution of the United States, served in Congress from 1789 to Janu- ary 11, 1791, and voted for loeating the seat of the National Government on the banks of the Potomae. On January 11, 1791, he was appointed Chief Judge of the First Judicial Dis- trict of Maryland, comprising the counties of St. Mary's, Calvert, Prince George's, and Charles. He married his consin, Mary Hanson Briscoe, daughter of Samuel Briscoe, and granddaughter of John and Mary ( Hanson) Briscoe. Mrs. Mary ( Hanson) Briscoe was the daughter of Hon. Rob- ert Hanson, and granddaughter of Colonel John Hanson. Judge Stone left five children, Frederick Daniel Stone, born in 1796, who married in 1819 Eliza Patton, of an ancient Virginia family, who died in 1820, leaving an only son, Ilon. Frederick Stone, of Port Tobacco, Maryland ; William Briscoe Stone, who married in . 1825 Caroline Brown, daughter of Gustavus and Sarah Brown; Mi- chael Jenifer Stone, born May 1, 1806, at " Equality," Charles County, Maryland, who married, December 10, 1845, Susan Ann Somervell, daughter of Thomas Trueman aud Margaret Terrett (Hollyday) Somervell, and died April 13. 1877 : Elizabeth Jenifer Stone, who died in 1875. unmarried ; and Eleanor Stone, who married George Rob- ertson; he died in 1839 and left a son, Captain Michael Stone Robertson, a brave officer in the Confederate Army, who was killed at the battle of Cross Keys.
OALE, WILLIAM ARMISTEAD, retired Merchant, was born June 7, 1800, in the city of Baltimore. Ilis ancestors were English. Ilis great-grand- father was born in Devonshire, England, and was the first of the name of Moale who came to this country. Ilis great-grandmother was Ellen North, con-
nected with the old and celebrated English family of that name. His grandfather patented Moak's Point, on a branch of the Patapsco River. He married Rachel, dangh- ter of General John Hammar, who was President of the King's Council of the 'colony of Maryland in the year 1725. This gentleman came to Maryland in 1719, mar- ried in 1725, and died in 1740. Mr. Moale's grandfather was Chairman of the Committee that received General Washington when on his way to Annapolis. His father, Richard Moale, was born in Baltimore, and was a member of the legal profession. He died at the age of thirty-six. llis mother's maiden name was Judith Carter Armistead ; she was born at the family seat, called " Hesse," in Matthews County, Virginia. She married at the age of twenty, and died in Baltimore, aged eighty-eight. Mr. Moale had two brothers, John and Richard. The first named was killed by the explosion of the steamer Medora. Mr. Moale was married in February, 1841, to Mary Win- chester, daughter of George Winchester. They have had three sons and two daughters; two of their sons are de- ceased. Their eldest daughter, Judith Carter, married Robert Livingston Cutting, Jr., of New York ; the other daughter, Evelyn Byrd, married J. Townsend Burden, of Troy, New York. Seven generations of the Moale family have worshipped in the congregation of St. Paul's Church.
AMAR, REUBEN DAVIS, on his paternal side is of French descent. His grandfather, Henry Jamar, was exiled from France, and emigrated to America early in the eighteenth century. During the Revo- lutionary war he served as a commissioned officer in a Pennsylvania regiment. After the war he settled in Alexandria, Virginia, where he died in his forty-fourth year, of apoplexy. Ilis son Ilenry, when a boy, removed from Alexandria, Virginia, about the year 1800, to New- ark, Delaware, and subsequently removed to Elkton, Cecil County, Maryland, where he continued to reside until his death in 1844. He was one of the pioneers of Method- isin in that town, a trustee of the First Methodist Epis- copal Church, and continued an active and useful member of the Church during his life. He was honored and be- loved for his sterling integrity and deep piety. His wife, Rebecca, was the daughter of James and Hannah Me- Cauley. They were married April 9, 1812. They had two sons, James Henry, a lawyer, who possessed rare ora- torieal powers and great personal and political popularity. Ile represented his county in the Legislature, and at the time of his death held the office of Register of Wills. Reuben D., the other son, the subject of this sketch, was born in Elkton, June 5, 1815. Ile was named for Rev. Reuben Davis, a distinguished divine of the Presbyterian Church and an educator of high repute. Ile was an inti-
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