The Biographical cyclopedia of representative men of Maryland and District of Columbia Pt. 2, Part 38

Author: National Biographical Publishing Co. 4n
Publication date: 1879
Publisher: Baltimore : National Biographical Pub. Co.
Number of Pages: 802

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having displayed great talent for sculpture, his father has placed him in a leading marble establishment, with the ultimate object of sending him to Rome or some other art centre, for the development of his genins.

CHOOLFIELD, WILLIAM M., Farmer and Fruit- grower, was born near Newtown, Woreester County, Maryland, March 20, 1837. His parents were Elijah C. and Harriet ( Merrill) Schoolfield, both of that county. They owned and occupied the old homestead of Joseph Schoolfield, sueeeeding moder- ately well as farmers. The early educational advantages enjoyed by Mr. Schoolfield were only those afforded by a country school, at a time when the teachers and the books could bear little comparison with those of the present. His last two years of study were at the academy at New- town, three and a half miles distant from his home; but he walked the distance whenever it was possible for him to attend. As his father needed his assistance in the work of the farm, his attendance at school was necessarily irregular. Though passionately fond of study, and having no desire to become a farmer, being strongly inclined to the medical profession, he yielded to the wishes of his father, who placed him at the age of seventeen, upon one of his farms, near Cottingham Ferry. He followed for four or five years the general custom of the farmers of that day, planting his land in grains, which proved unprofitable to him, and re- solved to try a peach orchard, and run the risk of finding a market for the fruit ; for at that time there was scarcely any mode of transportation for perishable farm products in that part of the country. In the fall of 1859 he planted five hundred peach trees of the best varieties that could be obtained. In 1863, when the trees were four years okl, Mr. Schoolfield made his first shipment of the fruit. The nearest point of railroad connection was twenty-two miles distant. He had no experience in shipping and handling fruit. His first shipment was therefore made under many discouragements. The profits, however, far exceeded his expectations. After this he gave his trees every atten- tion, and they paid him about four hundred dollars a year, as long as he let them stand. In 1865 he planted fifteen hundred peach trees, five hundred apple trees, and one hundred pear trees. Two years later he planted seven thousand more peach trees, and four hundred apple trees. In 1873 he added asparagus, raspberries, and blackberries. In the home estate, Mr. Schoolfield has two hundred and sixty-eight acres, planted chiefly in apples, peaches, straw- berries and other small fruits; he also has another estate of two hundred and ninety-nine acres, in peaches and other fruits, and grain. He owns between seven hundred and eight hundred aeres of land sitnated in Worcester County. Mr. Schoolfield is a strong and decided temper-

ance man ; believes in local option. His success in life is mainly owing to his industry, promptness, and integrity. lle is an influential member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, in which he is a Steward and an exhorter, and has twice been elected a Delegate to the Lay Conference. He was married in 1857, to Emily S. W., daughter of James A. Barnes, of Worcester County. They have three sons and three daughters.

JOYNER, SAMUEL FULTON, M.D., of Baltimore, was born in Augusta County, Virginia, February 2, 1839. His father, Robert Coyner, was a wealthy farmer of that place, and his mother, whose maiden

3 name was Elizabeth Coyner, was a native of Indiana. The aneestors of both were of German origin, and were « among the early settlers of Pennsylvania, but removed to Virginia prior to the Revolution. There, in the three counties of Rockbridge, Augusta, and Rockingham, they became very numerous, numbering a few years since over five hundred voters. So many and so influential were they in these localities that the candidates for political honors who secured their favor were certain of sueeess. They were strong adherents of the Democratic party, were exceedingly clannish, and in religious, political, and social affairs, thought aud acted with great unanimity. They were a sober, industrious, and prosperous people, devoted almost exclusively to farming. In religion they are all either Presbyterian or Lutheran. A few have sought a home in the Western States, but most of them have re- mained in the Valley of Virginia. Until he reached the age of nineteen, Samuel F. Coyner pursued his education at Baxter's Institute, a celebrated Presbyterian school in West Virginia. He then entered the office of Dr. Edwin C. MeGoverin, of Greencastle, Pennsylvania, with whom he studied and practiced medicine till March, 1863, at which time he went South and entered the Confederate Army. He enlisted as a private in Lomax's Cavalry, in which he remained till the close of hostilities. He par- ticipated in the battle of Gettysburg, the three engage- ments at Fisher's Hill, Early's defeat at Winchester, and, indeed, in all the battles in which his division was engaged up to the time of the surrender of the Confederate Army at Appomattox. Instead of surrendering at that time he, with about two hundred cavalry, under Brigadier- General William L. Jackson, started to join Johnston in the South, but finding he also had surrendered, they disbanded at Lexington, Virginia, about a week after the surrender of Lee. Mr. Coyner then'spent a year at home, where, in 1866, he matriculated at the Uni- versity of Virginia, where he pursued a course in medi- cine till July, 1868, when he removed to Baltimore, and graduated M. D. at the Washington University, February 22, 180g. Ile at once entered upon the practice of his

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. profession in the Eastern District of Baltimore city, where during the past ten years he has established an extensive and Incrative practice, and has become one of the leading physicians of that part of the city. He is prominent among his professional brethren, and was the leading; spuit in the organization of the Northeastern Climeal Society of Baltimore, of which he is Honorary President. Dr. Coyner, in June, 1869, married Miss Virginia Hulls, of Baltimore. They have had three children, only one of whom, Edith, is now living.

HAMMERSLEY, DAVID L., Confectioner, was born in Charleston, South Carolina, May 8, 1819, where his father was for several years engaged in mercantile business, removing thence to Baltimore after meeting with severe losses by fire. Mr. Hammersley's ancestors were from England, and came to America in the early colonial times, one branch of the family settling in New York, and another in Maryland. David, at quite an early age, conceived a great fancy for the confectionery business, and after completing his edu- cation resolved to pursue that vocation. With the view of acquiring a knowledge of the business he was placed under the instructions of a prominent confectioner in Baltimore. After > serving a regular apprenticeship, he went to Philadelphia to improve himself still further in his business, remaining there for several months. Thence he went to Richmond, Virginia, where he remained two years, and then returned to Baltimore, where he perma- nently settled, establishing himself in the fancy cake baking and confectionery business, which he has been steadily and successfully conducting in one locality (26 North Green Street) for twenty-eight years. Mr. Hammersley was for twenty-nine years a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, attached to Gratitude Lodge. Though not now actively identified with any benevolent societies, Mr. Hammersley is very liberal and charitable to all associations and causes of a humanitarian character. On several occasions of public fairs and festivals, where the objects were to benefit the deserving poor, he has made liberal donations of cakes and confectionery. Mr. Hammersley has never entered into politics, but has always led a quiet, nudemonstrative life. He was married, September S, 1842, to Miss Elizabeth Boden, daughter of William Boden, of Baltimore. Ile has five children, three sons and two daughters, George W., who married Miss Mary Diven; William HI., who married Miss Gazelle Keller, of Pennsylvania; Virginia, who married Mr. John S. llogg, a prominent carpenter and builder; Mary Duval, who married Mr. Albert N. Horner, of the firm of John A. Horner & Company, notions and fancy goods dealers on Baltimore Street; and D. Lewes Hammersley,

who is in his father's establishment. A brother of Mr. Hammersley, Mr. John D. Hammersley, removed to Richmond, where he entered the printing business, and became one of the proprietors of the Richmond Dispatch.

ICKES, COLONEL JOSEPH, Lawyer, was born, September 2, 1789, in Kent County, Maryland. He was the eldest son of Joseph and Mary (Piner) Wickes, and was educated at Washington College. Ile studied law in Chestertown, under the supervision of Judge James Houston, of the United States Circuit Court, and was admitted to the bar March 11, ISHI. Soon afterwards he was appointed Deputy State's Attorney for the State, in the counties of Kent and Cecil, the duties of which he discharged with credit and fidelity for many years, until he resigned. In early life he took great interest in military affairs, and was the Captain of the Chester Independents, a company in Kent County, and subsequently was Colonel of one of the Eastern Shore regiments. Ile was appointed, February 18, 1817, one of the Visitors and Governors of Washington College, and was made, March 6, 1822, a vestryman of Chester Parish. Ile was lineally descended from four of the early settlers of the Eastern Shore of Maryland, viz., Captain Robert Vaughan, Simon Wilmer, Thomas Ringgold, and Major Joseph Wickes. He married, November 20, 1821, Elizabeth Caroline Chambers, a sister of Judge Ezekiel F. Chambers, a daughter of General Benjamin and Elizabeth (Forman) Chambers, and a descendant of Colonel Augus- tine IIerman. IIc died, January 11, 1864, leaving chil- dren, now living, viz., Judge Joseph A. Wickes, of Ches- tertown; Judge Peregrine Lethbury Wickes, of York, Pennsylvania; and Sarah Augusta Wickes, who married Mr. William II. Welsh, the editor of the Baltimore Gazette. In politics he was a Democrat. The life of Colonel Joseph Wickes was passed in the uneventful current of an honorable and successful professional career. Hle uni- formly declined political preferment, choosing rather the quiet of private life, which he believed would more cer- tainly secure domestic happiness and personal independ- ence. Ilis character was a beautiful illustration of the noble traits of his namesake and first American ancestor. lle was a pious, refined, Christian gentleman.

AYDEN, CHARLES FERDINAND, was born in " Cobb's Neck," Charles County, Maryland, in 1838. Ilis father, William Jno. Hayden, a farmer of the Fifth District of that county, died in IS61. Ilis mother was Jane Hayden (her maiden name). She was of English descent, and died when Charles was an infant. The latter's early opportunities for acquiring

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an education were limited, his whole school-life being com- prised in less than one year's attendance on a primary country school, before he was ten years of age. When six . teen years old he went to Washington, D. C., where he drove a cart in a brick-yard. He afterwards indentured himself to the blacksmithing trade, with Burdett & Hall, of Washington, with whom he remained as an apprentice until he attained his majority, and for six years longer as a journeyman. After a year's employment at the Wash- ington Navy Yard, he commenced business on his own ac- count at Greenleaf Point, but not being successful he re- turned, after a year, to journeywork. After being thus employed for a short time, he started the business of car- riage and wagon building and repairing, which he con- ducted until 1869, when he disposed of it and returned to his native county. After pursuing the above business for three years at Allen's Fresh, he purchased the grounds and shops at Cox's Station, on the Baltimore and Potomac Railroad, which are quite extensive. In the magnitude of his business as a mechanic and manufacturer, he has but one rival in the county who at all competes with him. He has been twice married, first, to Miss Sarah Ann Hayden, a distant relative, and, secondly, to Miss Eliza Ann Dutton, daughter of llenry Dutton, of Charles County. He has five children, four of whom are sons. Starting out in life without education or friends, Mr. Hayden deserves great credit for the success he has attained through plodding industry, perseverance, and upright dealing.

INTER, SAMUEL, Capitalist, was born in Hope- well Township, York County, Pennsylvania, October 30, 1800. He was the son of John and Catharine Winter, both of German descent. Ilis mother's maiden name was Meckley. They have nine children : Catharine (deceased), Samuel, John, Jacob, Mary, Elizabeth, Lydia, Michael, and Susan. All the sur- viving members of the family except Samuel are residents of Ohio. His father carried on the business of farming, blacksmithing, and distilling, and was Captain of a militia company. Until he was seventeen years of age Samuel worked on the farm in the summer from his eighth year, and attended school in the winter. At seventeen he was apprenticed to John Darkus, a carpenter, and served him for three years. For about five years afterwards he worked as a journeyman. During that period he enrolled himself with the Washington Blues, a military company that went to York to receive General Lafayette. In 1825 he went to Rochester, New York. He remained in that city, working at his trade, until 1827, and was there when the waters of Lake Erie were first let into the Krie Canal. There being no telegraphs in that day, information as to the flow of the waters was conveyed by the living of cannon stationed

along the whole line within hearing distance of each other. In 1827 he went to Baltimore, and performed his first work on the steamboat " Kentucky" for Messrs. Erickson & Page. Ile afterwards held the position of foreman in the shops, where he worked and was thus employed for many years. From 1835 to 1862 he carried on the carpentering business on his own account, dealing in lumber a part of the time, purchasing from twenty thousand to fifty thousand feet in rafts, which were generally sent down the Susquehanna River. With the carpentering he connected the building business, erecting about two hundred fine dwellings, fur- nishing the material. By integrity, energy, perseverance, and frugality he has accumulated a handsome fortune. He was brought up in the Lutheran Church, his parents having been members of that denomination ; he is a pewholder in the First English Lutheran Church. Previous to the war he was a Democrat ; then a Union man; now Conserva- tive. Mr. Winter represented the Seventeenth Ward in the First Branch of the City Council of Baltimore in 1848. In 1867 he travelled in Europe, attending the Paris Exposi- tion, and visiting London, France, Germany, Switzerland, and other countries. Mr. Winter has been twice married, first, to Miss Sarah Price, daughter of Captain John Price, by whom he had four children : Amelia (deceased), Jerome (deceased), William, and Samuel. His second wife was Miss Sarah Armstrong, daughter of William Arm- strong, of Wheeling, West Virginia, owner of a valuable coal mine and an extensive shipper of coal to New Orleans, Louisiana. By his second wife he has had two children, Sarah A. and John A., the first-born, who died at three years of age. He now resides at " Washington Heights," corner Gilmour and Pressman streets. From the top of his house he has an elegant view of the city and bay.

BAGE, HENRY, State's Attorney for Somerset County, Maryland, is the son of Hon. John W. Cresfield, who married Etheline Page, daughter of Dr. Hen- - ry Page, of Kent County, a lady of nousnal culture and piety. She died at the birth of this son. Her mother, Mrs. Ann Page, then a widow, and residing with her son Henry at Cambridge, Dorchester County, assumed the care of the child, and gave him the name of his uncle, desiring to preserve in him the memory of an honored line. Ile was carefully instructed at home, and at the age of eight could read and write. He then attended a school in the neighborhood for two years, after which he was sent to the celebrated school of A. Bohmar, in West Chester, Pennsylvania. Here he remained till he was sixteen years of age, when he returned home on account of ill health, His nudle died, and with his grandmother he spent one year in Baltimore. Having recovered his health he entered the University of Virginia, where he pursued his studies

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until the commencement of the late civil war, when leav- "ing his collegiate course incomplete he went to Princess Anne, and studied law in his father's office. He was ad- mitted to legal practice in the spring of 1864, but proceeded to Baltimore, and studied further in the office of William S. Waters, attorney in that city. Returning to Princess Anne, he commenced the practice of his profession with his father, with whom he continued until 1871, since which time he has practiced alone. In 1867 he was elected a member of the Constitutional Convention, which framed the present Constitution of the State of Maryland. In May, 1870, he was appointed, by the Court, State's Attor- ney for Somerset County, to fill the unexpired term of Adam C. Miles, at the termination of which he was nom- inated and elected to the same position, and again in 1876. Ilis present term will expire in 1880. The talents and high public character of Mr. Page assure his continued success. His mind is clear and logical ; he depends on facts and on the truth to gain his cause, and despises trickery or any . questionable course. He is a great favorite in society. lle was married, in 1867, to Virginia, daughter of John U. Dennis, of Worcester County.

EWNAM, REV. EDWARD BEVERLY, Pastor of the Methodist Episcopal Church at Chestertown, 6. . Kent County, Maryland, was born in Centreville, Queen Anne's County, November 29, 1836. His father, Daniel Newnam, of the latter place, was a native of Talbot County. A man of great industry and business eapacity, he amassed a fortune and owned a great deal of real estate in his county. From an early date in the present century he had been in that place one of the pillars of Methodism, and his house was the home of the ministers who travelled Centreville Circuit, where they were always hospitably entertained. He married the wid- ow of the Rev, Mr. Iliffe, who for a number of years was a member of the Philadelphia Annual Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church. She was formerly Miss Caroline S. Woodward, of Woodbury, New Jersey. Their son Edward completed, at Dickinson College, Carlisle, Pennsylvania, the education so well begun at Centreville . Academy, and on leaving college devoted himself to agri- culture, taking charge of one of the estates left him by his father. In 1864 he united with the Church of his parents, and two years later was admitted to the travelling ministry of the Philadelphia Annual Conference. On the division of that Conference, in 1868, he became a member of the Wilmington Annual Conference. His first charge was Church Hill, in the vicinity of his native place. In 186S he was sent as pastor to Leipsic, Delaware, in 1870 to Millington, and in 1871 to Frederica, remaining two years

in the latter place. In 1873 he was stationed at Easton, Maryland, in 1875 at Chesapeake City, in the spring of 1877 was appointed to Still Pond, and in 1879 to his present charge. Mr. Newnam is a scholar of good attaiments, and a man of winning address in the pulpit. He is an earnest and successful preacher, and makes many warin friends wherever he is sent. He is a Mason, and an active promoter of all benevolent and reformatory societies. In Wilmington, Delaware, in 1857, the Rev. Dr. Cook per- formed the marriage ceremony uniting Mr. Newnam with Sarah E., daughter of George E. Wooley, of Cecil County, Maryland. IIer grandfather, Rev. George Wooley, was a veteran member of the Philadelphia Annual Conference ; she is also the great-granddaughter of Rev. John Carnan. Mr. and Mrs. Newnam have had two sons and one daugh- ter, of whom only the latter, Florence Julia, survives. "

MES, EDWARD RAYMOND, D.D., LL.D., one of the Bishops of the Methodist Episcopal Church, was born in Amesville, Adams County, Ohio, May 20, 1806. Ile was educated in the Ohio Uni- @ versity, and in August, 1827, during his student life, united with the Church. After leaving the University he opened a high school at Lebanon, Ohio, which subse- quently developed into McKendree College. In 1830 he entered the travelling ministry in the Illinois Conference, and in due course was ordained as an Elder in that body. At the formation of the Indiana Conference, in 1832, Mr. Ames became one of its members. His active pastoral life was spent in connection with that Conference, excepting only two years spent in St. Louis. After filling several important stations, and acting as Presiding Elder, he was sent as a Delegate to the General Conference in 1840, and by that body made Corresponding Secretary of the Mis- sionary Society. His duties lay in the South and West. lIe travelled extensively, visiting the Indian missions along the northern lakes and on the western froutier, and aided in establishing schools among the Indian tribes west of Arkansas. Ilis relations among the various tribes he visited were of the most friendly nature. He was devoted to their interests, and they fully reciprocated the devotion. In 1842 he was called to officiate as Chaplain to a Council of Choc- taws. Between the two extremes of his labors, from Mis- souri to Michigan, the civilizing effect of his presence along the frontier was soon felt. In 1844 he returned to Indiana, and resumed work as a Pastor or Presiding Elder, in which service he continued until 1852. He was a Delegate from the Indiana Conference to the General Conferences, meet- ing quadrenially, of 18.10, 1844, and 1852; at the latter Conference was elected a Bishop. In 1848 he was elected President of the Indiana Asbury University, but he de- clined the honor, preferring to remain in his more active

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ministerial work. On his elevation to the bishopric his reputation became national. Ile has travelled extensively in all the territory where the Methodist Episcopal Church has a footing in the United States. He was the first Meth- odist bishop to visit the Pacific coast. In the South, too, his labors have been especially fruitful, where, both during and since the war, he has been active in extending the borders of the Church. The National Government, in its time of peril, recognizing his worth, urged upon his accep- tance many responsible positions, all of which he declined on the ground of their interference with his ecclesiastical work. He was appointed by the General Conference of 1868 to visit the Irish and British Conferences as a fra- ternal Delegate, but on account of ill health was pre- vented from serving in that capacity. In all the positions which he has held through life, Bishop Ames has dis- played great ability. As a thinker he is prompt, clear, and forcible ; and his manner of address, whether on the plat- form or in the pulpit, is calm and deliberate. For several years he has been a resident of Baltimore.

ROBINSON, HION. JOHN MITCHELL, Judge of the Court of Appeals, was born, December 6, 1827, in Caroline County, Maryland, being the second son of Peter and Sarah ( Mitchell) Robinson. His father was a farmer and planter; also his grand- father, Ralph Robinson, was a wealthy planter of Sussex County, Delaware. The family descended from the Rev. Ralph Robinson, a distinguished Protestant clergyman of England during the Reformation. Their ancestors settled in Delaware over two hundred years ago. Judge Robin- son graduated at Dickinson College, Pennsylvania, in 1847, and studied law with Messrs. Carmichael & Brown, of Cen- treville, Queen Anne's County, Maryland. He was ad- mitted to the bar in November, 1849, and settled in Cen- treville for the practice of his profession. In January, IS50, he was appointed Deputy AAttorney-General for Kent County, and, upon the adoption of the Constitution of 1851, was elected State's Attorney for Queen Anne's County, which office he filled for four years. He prac- ticed law with great success till 1864, when he was elected Judge of the Third Judicial Circuit, embracing the coun- ties of Kent and Queen Anne, which office he filled till he was elected to the Court of Appeals in 1867, for the term of fifteen years. Judge Robinson has exercised the judicial office for fourteen years with increasing popularity. elle is an indefatigable student, a profound lawyer, and is regarded, both by the bar and the people, with the highest admiration and respect. In politics he has always been a Democrat. He was married, in 1857, to Miss Marianna Emory.

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The Biographical cyclopedia of representative men of Maryland and District of Columbia Pt. 2, Part 38

Author: National Biographical Publishing Co. 4n Publication date: 1879 Publisher: Baltimore : National Biographical Pub. Co. Number of Pages: 802

Author: National Biographical Publishing Co. 4n
Publication date: 1879
Publisher: Baltimore : National Biographical Pub. Co.
Number of Pages: 802