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ber of the Medico-Chirurgical Faculty of Maryland, and for some years was its President. Latterly he was a mem- ber of its Board of Examiners. He was a member of the National Medieal Society, and represented the State of Maryland in the Committee on Nominations, when the an- untal sessions of the society were held in Baltimore, Cin- cinnati, and Washington, in successive years. In early manhood Dr. Cockrill united with the Wilkes Street Meth- odist Episcopal Church. He afterwards transferred his membership to the Broadway Church, and later still to Jackson Square Church, of the same denomination. Ile was a church officer, and was a frequent representative to Lay conferences. His counsel at official meetings always commanded respect. He was a man of imposing physical presence, and his general bearing indicated a cultivated mind and firmness of character. He unhesitatingly and without reserve gave expression to his opinions, and left no doubt on the minds of his hearers that he believed what he said, and rarely withheld what he believed. Ile possessed genial and social qualities, and his presence in- spired all with whom he was brought into personal relation with respect and reverence. Hle was gifted with rare con- versational powers and was always listened to with respect and profit. Ilis life was pure and his character spotless. Charitable in his views he was ever ready to impart his Christian advice and counsel to the many who daily sought them. Dr. Cockrill's wife was Mary E., daughter of Joseph T. and Eveline (Shaw) Ford. The latter was a daughter of Archibald Shaw, of Baltimore County, a de- scendant of the Clarkson family of Pennsylvania. The Clarksons were of Scotch descent. The doctor died at his residence, July 14, 1878, leaving his wife and five chil- dren his survivors, His son, Dr. Joseph M. Cockrill, who graduated at the Maryland University in the spring of 1871, married Miss Elizabeth Read. Ilis daughter, Mary P. Cockrill, married Albert II. Carroll, superintendent of the Mount Vernon Cotton Mills, Baltimore County.
ELBERT, CHARLES, M.D., son of Hon, William J. and Emily (Jones) Albert, was born in Balti- more, December 29, 1850. His mother was the daughter of Talbot Jones, one of the most promi- nent merchants of that city. His father, the Hon. William J. Albert, was one of the first capitalists of the State, and served for two terms in Congress, a period of four years. An carnest patriot, and the warm friend of Lincoln, he was one with whom the President loved to advise, and on whom he leaned in all the perplexing and trying times of the war. His house, the headquarters and rendezvous of the prominent Union men of the State, was the only one in Baltimore that was honored with Lincoln as a guest. Hle spared nothing ; was willing to risk all his prop- erty in the cause he loved. Jacob Albert, the grandfather of
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Dr. Albert, a native of Pennsylvania, founded in Baltimore the business which has been continued to the present time by his son and grandsons, and became one of the largest hard- ware merchants of the South. Dr. Albert received his classical education at the University of Maryland, graduating A.B. in 1868. Hle afterwards took a two years' course in the Military Academy at Chester, Pennsylvania, and per- fected himself as a civil engineer. He then commenced the study of medicine in the office of Professor Nathan R. Smith, M.D., of Baltimore, and after pursuing a full course in the University of Maryland he graduated, re- ceiving his degree in 1872. This he followed by sixteen months in Europe, spending the larger part of the time in London in practice in St. Bartholomew's Hospital, and in the office of Sir James Paget. Before his return he travelled through France, Switzerland, and Germany. Ar- riving safely home in 1874, he settled in the practice of his profession on Monument Street, Baltimore, where his suc- cess has been highly satisfactory and encouraging. Dr. Albert is a member of the Medical and Chirurgical Faculty of Maryland. In politics he is, like his father, a Republi- can. He was married in May, 1874, to Miss Maria A. Bascom, of Kentucky, and has two children, both daugh- ters, Mary Clark and Fanny Taylor Albert.
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POPPER, DANIEL Cox, Farmer, of the Sixth District of Queen Anne's County, Maryland, was born May 22, 1816. Ilis father was Daniel C. Ilop- per, a brother of Ilon. P. B. Hopper, one of Maryland's most eminent and respected citizens. The latter was for many years a Judge of the Orphans' Court of Queen Anne's County, and served in the State Assembly of Maryland. Ile was one of the committee to receive General Lafayette in Baltimore in 1825. Ile was at one time a candidate for Congress, but was defeated by Judge Carmichael. Daniel C. Hopper, Sr., died in 18.19, in the seventy tifth year of his age. Ile was a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church at the time of his death, and was universally esteemed for his exemplary Chistian character. His wife, who was Maria, daughter of Colonel Thomas, of Wye Neck, Queen Anne's County, died in 1850, in the seventieth year of her age. She was an ex- emplary Christian, and a strict member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. She was very charitable, the poor ever finding in her a benevolent friend. The subject of this sketch was born and raised on a farm known as " Mount Pleasant," on which he still resides, It has been in the possession of his family for several generations. Ile at- tended a district school until his fifteenth year, when he. entered the Centreville Academy, then under the direction of Thomas C. Brown. He remained there until his nine- teenth year, when he undertook the management of his father's farm, the latter being crippled by being thrown
from a horse. Mr. Hopper has been continuously and successfully pursuing the business of an agriculturist ever since. In March, 1869, he removed to " Warner Hall," Gloucester County, Virginia, where he remained for over five years still engaged in farming, though occupy- ing, from the above year until the election of officers under the State organization, the position of Chief Judge of the Magistrate's Court. In 1874 he returned to the old Hop- per homestead. During the civil war Mr. Hopper was a decided and earnest friend and supporter of the Union, and was elected on the Union ticket in 1860 as County Commissioner, serving as such for two years. " Mount l'leasant," Mr. Ilopper's estate, is a tract of very valuable land, embracing three hundred acres. Ile has been thrice married : first, to Henrietta E., daughter of Eben Massey, of Kent County ; she dicd October 3, 1842. His second wife was Anna Augusta Perkins, of Chestertown, to whom -he was married November 16, 1847; she died July 4, 1858, leaving five children, four of whom are living : Sarah M., wife of O. W. Mosely, of Virginia ; Anna A., wife of Ne- hemiah Baily, of Queen Anne's County ; Daniel C., Jr. ; and Susanna P. Hopper. His third wife was Miss Evalina H., daughter of Hon. Charles McCallister, of Queen Anne's County, the marriage occurring November 3, 1859. By the last marriage he has five children, three sons and two daughters.
FITTINGS, JOHN STERRETT, Banker, was born in the house where his father and grandfather were born, in the beautiful valley known as Long Green, in Baltimore County, about fifteen miles north of the city of Baltimore, May 27, 1798. The first owner of this estate, now known as Long Green Farm, was Thomas Gittings, the great-grandfather of John S. Gittings, its present possessor, who inherits it by regular lineal trans- mission. Thomas Gittings came to Maryland about the year 1684, and in 1720 obtained patents for a large tract of land in the valley, then named as Gittings's Choice. He lived and died there, devising the estate to his son James, This son was zealous and active during the Revolution, and was a member of the General Assembly of Maryland at a time when the principal citizens were selected for the public service. It next became the possession of his son, James Gittings, Jr., who married Harriet Sterrett, daughter of John and Deborah ( Ridgely) Sterrett. This lady was a daughter of John Ridgely, eldest son of the original proprietor of " Hampton," in Baltimore County. Mr. Gittings passed his childhood at hong Green, and re- ceived the rudiments of his education at his mother's knee. His studies were further pursued at Dickinson College, l'ennsylvania. At the age of fifteen he left col- lege, and cutered the counting house of James A. Buch- anan. At seventeen he was made Discount Clerk in the City Bank. In the spring of 1820 his father died, and he
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was recalled to the country to take charge of his father's estate. In 1821 he married Miss Eleanor Addison Smith, daughter of William Rogers Smith. This lady died in 1848, leaving two children, Eleanor Addison, who mar- ried George H. Williams, a prominent member of the Maryland bar, and William S. Gittings, who died several years since, leaving a son and a daughter. In the same year of his marriage, Mr. Gittings commenced business in Baltimore as a stock-broker. In 1835 he was elected President of the Chesapeake Bank. The following year he was appointed Commissioner of the Loans for the State of Maryland, which office he filled until removed through a change in the administration of the State. He was reinstated under Democratic rule, but again removed under Republican sway. For many years he was a member of the City Council of Baltimore, during which time he was Chairman of the Committee of Ways and Means. Ile was elected by the city, and also appointed by the State, a Director in the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Com- pany during the Presidency of Mr. William G. Harrison, and was Chairman of the Finance Committee, and was President of the Northern Central Railroad for two years. When the State of Maryland was divided into four judi- cial districts, he was elected Commissioner of Public Works. In the Democratic State Convention which nomi- nated E. Louis Lowe for Governor, Mr. Gittings's name was presented as the choice of Baltimore County. In November, 1853, Mr. Gittings married Charlotte Carter Ritchie, daughter of the venerable and distinguished Thomas Ritchie, and granddaughter of Dr. Fouche, of Richmond, Virginia. Mr. Gittings has filled the position of President of the Chesapeake Bank, with the confidence of the public, for more than forty years.
C CCLELLAND, CARY, was born near Waynes- burg, Greene County, Pennsylvania, October 21, 1815. His father, John McClelland, was born in the same place, where his grandfather had set- tled in the middle of the eighteenth century. The latter was a soldier in the Revolutionary war, and an ardent patriot. The subject of this sketch received his education in the subscription school of Morgan Township, Greene County, which was the only one in existence at that time in that neighborhood. Owing to the death of his father, when he was but fifteen years of age, he was deprived of the advantages of obtaining a good education, and his father's farm being incumbered by debt it devolved upon him to devote his labors and energy to the clearance of the same and the support of his widowed mother and her children. After ten years of assiduous industry and great economy, working the farm during the spring, summer, and fall, and driving stock to market during the winter months, he had the satisfaction of seeing the debt entirely removed, and his brother and sisters receiving as good an education
as the surrounding schools could afford. During the above period (in 1834) he commeneed operating in live stock, and that year carried the first lot of his own hogs and cattle to the Baltimore market. In 1844 he removed to Baltimore and established himself at Hoge's drove- yard, then located at the northwest corner of Pratt and Amity streets, and associated himself with Levi Hoge as a commission -dealer in hogs, he being the second person who had regularly established himself as such in that city. At first his operations were carried on upon a small scale, but he soon became well and favorably known among shippers from all parts of the country, and established a permanent trade. His copartnership with Levi IIoge con- tinued for four years, and was very successful. In 1848 he associated himself with William Gray, and for two years carried on business at the same yards, when he removed to the corner of Pratt and Carey streets, where the partner- ship was continued until 1853. He subsequently carried on business for one year with George Frank at the same place, but in 1854, the droveyards being removed outside of the city limits by ordinance of the Council, he joined with James Stockdale and built what is known as the "Calverton Hotel and Droveyards," where he continued to carry on his business until 1858, when the firm was dis- solved and he remained alone for one year. In 1859 he associated with him David Logan, and this partnership still exists. In 1867 Mr. McClelland built his handsome and commodious residence on the corner of the Calverton Road and Franklin Street, having previously (in 1863) purchased over twenty-five acres of the city's portion of the old Almshouse property located in this neighborhood. Although in his sixty-fourth year he is still an active and vigorous business man, and is now surrounded by a large family of children and grandchildren. He has amassed a considerable fortune, and continues to be the owner of the valuable tract of land upon which the droveyards were originally located. Ile has always been known as a man of strict integrity, and in a business, where confidence is of the utmost importance, this fact has without doubt added to his long-continued success. He is of kindly impulses and a generous disposition. Few men have shown in their business life as much disinterested kindness to those who have been unfortunate. With means always at his command he was ever ready to assist the deserving, and not a few persons now enjoying the fruits of inde- pendence owe their success in great part to his timely lib- crality.
JOHNSTON, CHRISTOPHER, M.D., Professor of Sur- gery in the University of Maryland, was born, Sep- tember 27, 1822, in Baltimore, Maryland. His grandfather, Christopher Johnston, was a native of Moffat, Scotland. His grandmother, Susan, was the daughter of Griffin Stith, Esq., of Northampton County, Virginia. His father, Christopher Johnston, was a mer-
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chant of Baltimore, and his mother, Eliza, was the dangh- ter of Major 1 .. Gates, of Keene, Massachusetts. The sub- jeet of this sketch received his classical education at St. Mary's College, Cincinnati, and St. Mary's College, Balti- more. He pursued his medical studies in the office of Dr. ; John Buckler, in the Baltimore Almshouse, and in the School of Medicine of the University of Maryland. Ile was graduated Doctor of Medicine in the last-named in- stitution in 1844, and commenced general practice in Bal- timore, giving special attention to microscopy, histology, and pathology. In 1848 Dr. Johnston travelled exten- sively in the United States, and in 1850 visited, as a student, England, France, Germany, Italy, Holland, Spain, and Switzerland. He is a member of the American Medical Association, Medical and Chirurgical Faculty of Maryland, and was elected its President in 1876. He is also a member of the Baltimore Medical Association, Balti- more Clinical Society, Maryland Academy of Sciences, College of Physicians, Philadelphia, and of various micro- scopical societies. He has contributed many articles to the American Journal of Medical Science, Microscopical Magasine of London, etc. In 1864 he was appointed Professor of Anatomy and Physiology in the University of Maryland ; in 1866 Professor of General Descriptive and Surgical Anatomy ; in 1869 Professor of Principles and Practice of Surgery ; and of Surgery in 1870, which chair he still holds. Dr. Johnston is possessed of artistic abili- ties in drawing and painting, which enable him to illustrate his lectures with large drawings and water-color pictures. He has successfully performed most of the great operations of surgery. In 1855 he married Sally L. C., daughter of Benjamin P. Smith, Esq., a member of the bar of Wash- ington, D. C., and has five children living.
B 'ARCLAY, REV. JOSEPH IL., D.D., Pastor of the First Lutheran Church, Baltimore, Maryland, was born in Baltimore, April 1, 1834. llis parents were Hugh and Elizabeth Barclay. His father was the son of an English esquire, residing in heland, and a descendant of the old English family of Barclays. His mother was a native of Ireland, and of Scotch-Irish extraction. Dr. Barclay's father emigrated to America and settled in Baltimore over sixty years ago. Owing to finan -. cial misfortune and ill-health, he was prevented from giv- ing his son the liberal education he himself possessed, but he aided him in laying its foundation. Although deprived of college privileges, the subject of this sketch was able through self discipline to enter and pass the examination of the graduating class of 1856, entering a course preparatory to the ministry in the Lutheran Theological Seminary, at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. His mother was a most de- voted Christian, and to her influence he attributes his con- version and entrance into the ministry. His first charge
was at Williamsport, Maryland, where he remained but sixteen months, owing to the malarial climate, and his impaired health, resulting from typhoid fever. He was subsequently settled for six years at Red Hook, New York, near the Hudson River, after which he removed to Easton, Pennsylvania, where, although beginning with but eighteen members and twenty-three Sunday-school scholars, he was instrumental, within two years, in securing the erection of an elegant church edifice, and during his five years' minis- try there the membership of the church was increased to two hundred and seventy-five, and the Sunday-school to three hundred. In 1872 he went to Baltimore, his former home, as the successor of the celebrated pulpit orator, Rev. Dr. McCron. The house on Lexington Strect where his congregation worshipped having been entirely destroyed by fire in 1873, Dr. Barclay inaugurated and gave direc- tion to the undertaking which resulted in the erection of the magnificent marble structure on the corner of Fremont and Lanvale streets, erected at a cost of one hundred and fifty thousand dollars. It is the most elegant house of worship of the Lutheran denomination in this country, and contains one of the finest organs in the city of Baltimore. Its beautiful memorial windows . are a very attractive feature and afford an interesting study to the visitor. Not- withstanding the discouragements resulting from the general depression of business throughout the country, most of the debt incurred in the erection of this church has been liquidated, and the work is in a very prosperous con- dition. As a result of his five years' labor in Baltimore, Dr. Barclay has seen the membership of his church more than doubled in numerical strength, and that of the Sabbath-school trebled. His present congregation is the largest of any church of his denomination in the city or State, and embraces many of the most prominent business men of Baltimore, and a number distinguished for literary culture. He has always been an earnest and continuous worker in the Sabbath-school. His manner of preaching is illustrative and analytical, his thoughts being clearly and briefly expressed, and his delivery earnest and impressive. While pastor of the church at Easton, Pennsylvania, he made an extended tour through Europe, Egypt, and Pales- tine, and his notes of travel have been embodied in several interesting lectures, which have been well received in various cities. llis title of Doctor of Divinity was con- ferred upon him by Roanoke College, of Virginia. He has occupied positions on the Board of Foreign Missions, and is at present (1879) President of the Children's Foreign Missionary Society, which he originated, and which is the only society of the kind in the Christian Church. It em- braces over seven hundred schools, and has for its object the support of missionaries in India, and the care and Christian culture of heathen children. Thus far the society has been eminently successful. During his ministry Dr. Barclay has been instrumental in building five church edilices, and his labors have generally been attended with
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most gratifying results. He married, April 27, 1856, Miss Martha Jenison, daughter of Joshua Jenison, of York, Pennsylvania. She died September 15, 1877. Five chil- dren were the fruits of this union, all of whom are living. On January 9, 1879, Dr. Barclay married Miss Lonisa B. Super, daughter of Mr. Frederick Super, of Baltimore.
REYNOLDS, JOHN CROMWELL, M.D., Surgeon United States Army, was born in Cecil County, Maryland, in 1810. He was the only son of Reuben Reynolds and his wife, Henrietta Maria Cromwell. Reuben was the son of Jacob and Rebecca Day Rey- nolds. Ile was the son of Henry Reynolds, a distinguished minister of the Society of Friends, who, with his wife, came from Nottingham, in England, and settled in Not- tingham, in Cecil County. Henrietta Maria Cromwell was the daughter of John Hammond and Mary Hammond (Dorsey) Cromwell, of England. Hle was a lineal de- scendant of Oliver Cromwell, through his son, Sir Henry Cromwell, and Lady Mary Russell. The subject of this sketch was left fatherless when only seven years of age, and was at once placed at Nottingham Academy, Rev. Dr. Magraw, Principal. At the age twelve he entered Dick- inson College, Carlisle, Pennsylvania, and was graduated when only fifteen years of age. Subsequently he read medicine with Professor Nathan R. Smith, of Baltimore, and at the age of twenty-one was graduated at the Uni- versity of Maryland. For a short time thereafter he was Private Secretary for General Cass, at Washington, where he went to perfect himself for examination for surgeon of the United States Army. He then went before the United States Medical Board, sitting in New York city, and after a class of twenty young physicians had been examined, Dr. Reynolds received from the board a certificate that he had passed with the highest honors of the class. He was then appointed Surgeon United States Army by President Andrew Jackson, and sent to Florida. For General Jackson Surgeon Reynolds had the highest admiration ; the regard was mutual, and when General Jackson retired to the " Hermitage," Dr. Reynolds had the honor of being detailed by Surgeon General Lawson one of the escort to accompany General Jackson to his home. Dr. Reynolds continued in the army until 1839, when he resigned, and was appointed by the Government a Disbursing Agent to the Sioux Indians in the Upper Missouri country. The same year he married his cousin, Ellen Moore Reynolds, daughter of Judge David Reynolds, of Lewistown, Penn- sylvania, and his second wife, Ellen Moore, of Carlisle, Pennsylvania. He located in Mifflin County, Pennsylva- nia, and during his residence there practiced his profession with marked success. In 1846, when war was declared against Mexico, Dr. Reynolds tendered his services, and was appointed Surgeon of the First Regiment of Pennsyl- :
vania Volunteers, and entered Mexico with General Win- field Scott. On arriving there he was detached from his regiment, and as staff officer was placed in command of the operating department at Cerro Gordo. Afterwards had charge of the hospitals at Perote, and hospitals for four thousand volunteers at Mexico under General Robert l'at- terson, of Philadelphia. Ile was at the taking of Puebla, and of the city of Mexico. He was distinguished as a surgeon and for his bravery, and was known by the sobriquet of the " Fighting Doctor." His popularity .with his regiment manifested itself after the close of the war, by their presentation to him of a magnificent sword, with all the battles they fought inscribed upon it, and with honorable recognition of his devotion to them as a friend and physician. This sword has been given by Dr. Rey- nolds's widow to Mrs. Thaddeus Banks, a sister of Dr. Rey- nolds, to be held in trust for her grandson Cromwell, son of Colonel M. H. Stacey, United States Army, who mar- ried a daughter of Mrs. and Mr. Thaddeus Banks, of IIol- lidaysburg, Pennsylvania. For this youth no higher bene- diction need be asked than that the mantle of his uncle for intellect, integrity, bravery, wit, and all the attributes that go to make a finished gentleman may fall upon him. Dr. Reynolds was of medium height, light erect figure, dark gray eyes, soft brown hair, that fell in waves over a finely- formed head. He was of a highly sensitive temperament, and at times vehement in manner, but was usually bland and complacent. He was devotedly attached to his wife, sisters, and family. He was a ripe scholar, and read Hebrew and Greek with as much facility as he did Eng- lish. Judge Jeremiah Black said he was the most brilliant conversationalist he had ever met. In politics Dr. Rey- nolds was a Democrat of the Jacksonian school, strong in his convictions of right, and zealous in the maintenance of his opinions. By education and conviction he was a. Presbyterian, and died in the faith of salvation through the atonement of Jesus Christ. His death was the result of a malarial disease contracted while in Mexico, from which he never recovered, and from which he died in Lewis- town February 20, 1849, aged thirty-nine years, leaving a widow.
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