The Biographical cyclopedia of representative men of Maryland and District of Columbia Pt. 2, Part 48

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

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HAYWARD, DR. WILLIAM R., Commissioner of the Land Office of Maryland, was born in Dorchester County, Maryland, December . 8, 1817, son of . Thomas and Margarette (Savage) Hayward. Ilis mother was a daughter of Dr. William Savage, of Somerset. Ilis father was also a native of the State. The first Hayward came to Maryland about the year 1660, under a grant of Lord Baltimore of a manor on the

Eastern Shore. Dr. Hayward graduated at St. John's College, Annapolis, in 1836, taking the degrees of B.A. and A.M. "Ile then read medicine with Dr. Alexander II. Bayley, at Cambridge, Maryland, and graduated M. D. at Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, in 1838. In 1839 he removed to Tallahassee, Florida, and practiced medicine there till 1848, in which year he was elected State Treasurer of Florida, and in this office served three terms of two years each. During that time he was also Mayor of the city of Tallahassee for two terms. In 1855 his health gave way, and he returned to his native State In 1855 he was appointed by President Buchanan Chief Clerk of the Lighthouse Board at Washington; Raphael Semmes, afterwards Admiral of the Confederate Navy, being at that time President of the Board. Dr. Ilayward resigned his office in 1861, and returned to Cambridge, where he remained until appointed by Governor Bowie to the office he now holds, for the unexpired term of J. L. L. Davis. In 1872 he was reappointed by Governor Whyte, and by Governor Carroll in 1876. The responsible duties of this office he has discharged with conscientious ability and fidelity. Dr. Hayward is a gentleman of fine attain- ments and courtly address. He is a member of the Epis- copal Church. He was married in 1839 to Eliza, daughter of William W. Eccleston, for many years Register of Wills for Dorchester County. He has three children : Charles E., present State's Attorney for Dorchester County ; Delia, wife of Hon. Clement Sulivane, Senator from the same county ; and R. Emmett Hayward.

CELSO, THOMAS, EsQ., of Baltimore, Maryland, was born, August 28, 1784, in Clonis, a market town 20 in the North of Ireland, and died at his residence on East Baltimore Street, where he had lived for many years, on the morning of July 26, 1878, having nearly completed his ninety-fourth year. His parents died when he was but a child, leaving three sons and a daughter older than Thomas, and Thomas was therefore forced to enter upon the struggle of life at a very early age. From his infancy he had been surrounded by religious influences. It was a memorable fact in his family history, that when John Wesley, the founder of Methodism, first visited Ireland he preached in Mr. Kelso's father's house in Clonis. Mr. Kelso dated his remarkable success in after life to his strict adherence to the precepts in which he was taught in early childhood. His brother John came to the United States and took up his residence near Balti- more about the time of Thomas's birth., Seven years later another brother, George, came to Baltimore, bringing Thomas with him. They landed in that city August 2, 1791, without a dollar. It was the place of his residence to the hour of his decease. On their arrival they learned that John was teaching school at a distant point in Balti- more County ; thither they wended their way on foot. At

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the first meeting John made known the fact that he was the possessor of one hundred dollars. A partnership between him and George was immediately agreed upon, with this money as the entire capital; a purchase of stock was made, and the butchering busines's was begun. Thomas preferred to work with his brothers rather than accept a position where he might qualify himself for mer- cantile pursuits. The Kelso brothers soon earned a repu- tation for strict integrity and for a very noticeable regard of the Sabbath, which was somewhat uncommon among the butchers of that period. They never slaughtered cattle on Sunday, although all around them the practice was very general. Drovers began to have implicit confi- dence in them, and thus they always had the pick of the stock. Their generosity began to show itself in their busi- ness, and in the Lexington, then known as the Hill Market, and in Centre Market, it was a common saying among the butchers that the Kelsos gave away more meat than the other butchers sold. The increase of their trade was enormous, and the profits correspondingly large. George retired from the business in 1807, and died soon after, leaving a fortune of one hundred thousand dollars, accu- mulated by honest transactions in business in about fifteen years, beginning with the small capital above named. As he never married, he left twenty-five hundred dollars of this sum to Thomas, and the balance to John and the Church. John and Thomas then entered into partnership, conducting their business with great success, and becoming very wealthy. John early retired to Clover Hill, near Baltimore, where he lived for thirty years. Thomas con- tinued the business, attending his stalls in Centre and Bel Air markets after he counted his wealth by more than a hundred thousand dollars. At and about this period, when he was the most extensive buyer of live stock brought to the Baltimore market, such was his well-known integrity in Maryland and Virginia that his check passed as freely in business transactions as bank bills. Attention to business, and a sagacity possessed by few, enabled him to accumulate a large fortune before retiring. Mr. Kelso's capacity for business caused him to become an active and leading agent in the prosecution of various enterprises conducive to the commercial growth of Baltimore. Ile was principal Director and the largest Stockholder in the Baltimore Steam Packet Company and the Seaboard and Roanoke Railroad Company. For thirty-seven years he was a Director in the Philadelphia, Wilmington and Balti- more Railroad Company. Ile was President of the Equitable Fire Insurance Company, and Vice-President and Director in the First National Bank of Baltimore. lle was also President of the Board of Directors of the Male Free School and Colored Institute, For several terms he was a member of the City Council when there was no salary attached to the position. The connection of Mr. Kelso with the Methodist Episcopal Church in Balti- more was more prominent, perhaps, in many ways than

that of any other layman in the city. The year of his birth, 1784, was the year of the first organization of that Church in Baltimore, at the old Lovely Lane Meeting- house ; so that his birth was contemporaneous with Balti- more Methodism. Although from his earliest childhood governed by religious principles, and punctual in his at- tendance upon religious services, he did not formally unite with the Church until his twenty-third year. Ile then became connected with the old City Station, which afterwards embraced Light Street, Exeter Street, and Eutaw Street churches. He lived at that time in the neighborhood of the Exeter Street Church, of which he was an official member and class-leader for many years. Ile subsequently joined the High Street Church, and a few years before his death he transferred his membership to Mount Vernon Church, having contributed largely to its erection. As illustrative of his prominence as a layman," an incident is told of Mr. De Haas, an intimate acquaint- ance of Mr. Kelso, who was at the time United States Consul at Jerusalem. On the nineticth anniversary of Mr. Kelso's birthday, Mr. De Ilaas unfurled the stars and stripes from the consulate station. The Governor of Jeru- salem inquired of Mr. De Ilaas the cause of the flag being displayed. He was told that it was in honor of Mr. Thomas Kelso, the most distinguished layman on the American continent. The Governor expressed himself pleased, and ordered his own flag unfurled from the guber- natorial mansion. The Kelso Home for Orphan Children of the Methodist Episcopal Church, nearly opposite his late residence, which he purchased and endowed at a cost of one hundred and twenty thousand dollars, was the only charity he ever individually established, but the recipients of his benevolence are numbered by thousands. It was a principle with him to give during his lifetime rather than postpone charity to a last will and testament. For many years, while a Director of the Franklin Bank, he devoted himself to discounting the notes of men in moderate cir- cumstances. His business education, though entirely self- attained, was very complete. His investments were usually in corporations which were just starting, and which he considered would advance the public interest. In almost every instance they have paid large dividends. lle was one of the defenders of Baltimore in 1814 at the North Point battle, and among those who guarded the breastworks on Laudenslager's Ilill, but was not a member of the Old Defenders' Association. In 1807 he married Miss Ellen Cross, daughter of John and Jane Cross, well- known and highly respected citizens of Cecil County, Maryland. This lady was a Presbyteriay, and a member of the church of which the distinguished Dr. Brecken- ridge' was for some years pastor. She died in 1862. During the lifetime of Mrs. Kelso, Mr. Kelso's hospitality was remarkable. Once a week ministerial levees were held at his home, in which the clergy of different denomi- nations met and enjoyed social intercourse, and which

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contributed much to the fraternity that marked with honor the days when men of renown filled the pulpits of Balti- more. But in his home, which entertained more Presby- terian and Methodist ministers than any other home in the city, lamed for hospitality, no wine, brandy, or champagne ever disgraced the table or sideboard. When his adopted country was threatened with dissolution by civil war, he loyally and vehemently stood by the flag. In addition to his liberality otherwise bestowed, Mr. Kelso was liberal in his gifts to the denomination of which he was a member. He gave fourteen thousand dollars to the Metropolitan Methodist Episcopal Church at Washington, twelve thou- sand to the Church Extension Society, besides numerous bequests to charitable institutions, among which are the following: to the Kelso Home, or Orphan Asylum, in addition to the property occupied by it, annuities aggregat- ing five thousand dollars per annum; to the Methodist Episcopal Preachers' Aid Society of the Baltimore Confer- ence, ten thousand dollars; to Dickinson College, Carlisle, Pennsylvania, ten thousand dollars; to the Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church, two thousand live hundred dollars; to the llome for the Aged of the same Church, two thousand dollars; to the Centenary Biblical Institute, one thousand five hundred dollars; to William E. Hooper, for the poor of High Street Methodist Episcopal Church, one thousand dollars ; to the Maryland State Temperance Alliance, three thousand dollars; and to the Maryland Bible Society and the Boys' Home, each, one thousand dollars.

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JOORE, JOSEPH T., Master of Maryland State Grange Patrons of Husbandry, and a prominent agriculturist of Sandy Spring, Montgomery County, Maryland, was born in Baltimore, Sep- tember 19, 1835. His great-grandfather, Robert Moore, came from Ireland about the year 1760, and set- tled in Talbot County, Maryland. His son, William W., was at first a merchant of Easton, and afterwards moved to Baltimore, where he resided near the site of the Maryland Institute. Robert R., father of the subject of our sketch, was a native of Easton. He lived in Baltimore for sev- cral years ; but has been the efficient and popular Secretary and Treasurer of the Mutual Fire Insurance Company of Montgomery County, Maryland, since its organization, and is extensively known through the State; Edward Sta. bler being the President. The mother of Joseph T. Moore was Iladassah, daughter of Joseph Townsend, one of the founders, in 1794, of the Equitable Fire Insurance Company of Baltimore, and its President until his death. His son, Richard HI. Townsend, has been for fifty-two years Secretary of the Union Manufacturing Company of Maryland, char- tered in 1808, whose mills are located near Ellicott City. The ancestors of the Townsend family came from Bork - shire, England, first settling in Chester County, Pennsyl- vania, and in 1783 removing to Baltimore. Joseph T. is the

eldest of five children, his brothers being William W., who married Mary E. Thomas, of Montgomery County ; Archi- bald Dobbin, who married Miss Faucett, of Alexandria, Virginia ; J. W., who died in early life ; and a sister, Hettie. His brothers are agriculturists. The primary education of Mr. Moore was received in the district school at Sandy Springs, Maryland. He afterwards pursued a two years' course at a boarding school in Westtown, Pennsylvania. Part of his early youth was spent on a farm. Leaving school about the age of sixteen years, his first experience in business life was in Philadelphia, with the drygoods house of George D. Parrish, where he remained as salesman for five years. In early manhood he married Miss Annie F. Leggett, of New York city. From Philadelphia he re- moved to New York, and in 1857 established the firm of Joseph T. Moore & Co., in the manufacture and importa- tion of paper stock, with emery and sand papers, for a " period of twelve years meeting with great success. His partner was S. T. Foote, a relative of the late Commodore Foote, of the United States Navy. In 1867, on account of impaired health, he relinquished his business in that city, and returned to Montgomery County, Maryland, where he purchased the fine estate formerly owned by Ex-Governor Philip E. Thomas, who had resided there during the war of 1812. The old mansion built in 1770 still remains, al- though greatly improved. This was the beginning of his successful career as a farmer. His large farm of about three hundred acres is one of the most productive in the State, and is valued at thirty thousand dollars. His main crop is that of wheat, of which his last crop yielded about thirty bushels to the acre. In 1877 Mr. Moore was elected Master of the State Grange Patrons of Husbandry. His wife holds the position of Ceres, or patroness of grain, in the same Order. This organization was projected in Wash- ington, District of Columbia, after the war, rapidly spread- ing, first through the South and West, and numbering its members by tens of thousands all over the country. There are about eight thousand members in Maryland, having one hundred and seventy-one granges. The object of the organization is the advancement of the agricultural interests of the State. This organization has enrolled among its members some of the most eminent men in the State. The gentlemen who compose the Executive Committee are ex- tensively known for their wisdom and sound business qualifications, and are able representatives of the agricul- tural interests of Maryland. The office held by Mr. Moore is the only one he would accept of any nature. IIe is a gentleman of fine abilities. Offers of political prefer- ment he has invariably declined. Ilis religious faith is that of the Friends, to which his family belongs. He has been . connected with the Masonic fraternity for more than seven years, and is a member of " Door to Virtue Lodge, No. 46." His children are Mary 1 .. , Thomas 1 .. , Joseph T., Jr., Frederick P., George II., and Margaret C. Elizabeth 11. deceased.

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EWBELLE, HON. FRANK THOMAS, Teacher and Legislator, son of Thomas and Mary Ann ( Painter) Newbelle, was born in the city of Baltimore April 1, 1852. Ilis parents were natives of Maryland. When Mt, Newbelle was eleven years of age his father died, and he was early thrown upon his own re- sources. He soon saved money enough from his own earnings to enable him to attend the High School, and to pursue his studies for one year at Reisterstown Academy, in Baltimore County. He commenced teaching in De- cember, 1870, and has been so engaged in Baltimore County ever since. Although devoting himself closely to his profession, he has occasionally taken an active part in politics. He was elected to the House of Delegates on the Democratic ticket in the year 1877, and served on sev- eral important committees. He introduced the bill, which was passed, authorizing the corporation of Manchester to subscribe for the Baltimore and Hanover Railroad, and opposed the bill in favor of instructing the Representatives in Congress to pass the Resumption Act, and also what is known as the Bland Silver Bill. Mr. Newbelle was mar- ried in 1873 to Miss Margaret A. Davidson, daughter of Captain John and Penelope Davidson, of Carroll County, Maryland. Ile is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and is a member and Past Master of the Inde- pendent Order of Mechanics.

B URT, HION. ALFRED PATTERSON, was born in Mont- gomery County, l'ennsylvania, February 10, 1823. llis father was Thomas W. Burtt, a native of London, England, who came to America in carly life, settled in Baltimore, and married Miss Esther Spear, a daughter of Henry Spear, of Kent County, Mary- land. Mr. Burtt, Sr., subsequently located in Montgom- cry County, Pennsylvania. During the early childhood of the subject of our sketch his parents removed to Philadel- phia, where he was educated. At the age of eighteen years he entered the book establishment of the Rev. Dr. Hooker, an eminent author aud divine of the Protestant Episcopal Church, where he acquired a thorough knowl- edge of the book business. In 1848 he settled in Balti- more, where he established himself in the book business on his individual account, which he prosecuted success- fully until 1857, when he sold out his establishment and retired from active business. In 1863 he, in connection with other prominent gentlemen, became largely engaged in coal mining operations in West Virginia, continuing in the same until 1868. At the same time he was a heavy oper- ator. in public and private securities in the Baltimore market and on Wall Street, New York. He has occupied various positions of honor and trust, among which may be mentioned that of Director in the Maryland Penitentiary ; Director, on the part of the city, in the Western Maryland Railroad, as also in the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad ;

Delegate from Baltimore city to the Commercial Conven- tion held in Louisville, Kentucky. Ile was a member of the Legislature of Maryland during the session of 1878, and rendered efficient services as a member of the Commit - tee of Ways and Means. He was the originator of the bill to punish officers of corporations for misrepresentations of their financial condition, and of the bill to punish par- ties for the rehypothecation of securities; as also the bill to punish captains of vessels for fraudulently selling car- goes, or for neglecting or refusing to pay over proceeds of sales to owners. Mr. Burt has been for many years a prominent Odd Fellow and Mason. For several years he was a vestryman in St Andrew's Protestant Episcopal Church. He married, in 1848, Miss Christiana Shaw, daughter of Thomas Shaw, a prominent citizen of Phila- delphia. She died in 1851. In 1855 he married Miss Lizzie Dawes, of Baltimore, who died in 1859. In 1861 he married Miss Mary E. Ellis, sister of Alexander B. Ellis, and half-sister to Thomas Ellis, John, James A., and Gustavus R. Henderson, who were among Baltimore's most extensive and successful merchants. Mr. Burt has five children living, three sons and two daughters. Ile is a gentleman of quick perception and varied knowledge, and has always enjoyed, in the highest degree, the esteem and confidence of his fellow-citizens of all classes.

B RONMEL, JAMES, Real Estate Dealer, Baltimore, was born at Cambridge, Dorchester County, Mary- land, May 7, 1822. His father, William Bronmel, was for a number of years engaged in the mercantile and shipping business in Cambridge. lle died when James was about five years of age. His mother, a woman of great force of character, died when he was about ten years of age. James being bound to a farmer and becom- ing tired of the monotony of his mode of life, in 1836, when about fourteen, secreted himself in a vessel and went to Baltimore. Shortly afterward he went to Port Deposit, and there became acquainted with Mr. Daniel White, who was largely engaged in the lumber and flour trade. He re- mained with him and in his family about two years. He then became apprenticed to Lester & Shipley, carpenters and builders, with whom he continued four years. He then began business on his own account, and was gradu- ally led into what became the business of his life, namely, the buying of real estate and building houses. In the prosecution of this business he gradually increased his pur- chases in real estate until now he owns a large number of houses both in the business parts of the city and in its sub- urbs. In almost every case he owns the land the buildings occupy. He is also the owner of much unimproved land in the city and the belt which surrounds it. In 1850 Mr. Bronmel went to California for the purpose of making it his future home ; but being ill when he reached that State he found himself compelled to return. Part of the journey

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home was on board the ill-fated steamship Ohio, which was wrecked off the coast of Virginia, near Norfolk. He had for fellow-passengers the commissioners who had been sent by Virginia and Maryland to investigate the cele- brated McDonogh will. After much suffering the passen. geis were landed at Norfolk, without loss of life. Return- ing to Baltimore and regaining his health, Mr. Bronmel resumed his business. He now takes rank among the prominent real estate owners in Baltimore. In 1842 he married Louisa,M., daughter of Thomas Willis, of Balti- more. Ile has seven children living.

S MITHI, REV. JEREMIAH P., Pastor of the Fifth Church of the United Brethren, George Street, Baltimore, was born in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, Feb- ruary 26, 1826. ITis parents, Conrad and Susan (Ensminger) Smith, had a family of five sons, of whom he was the second. His father, a farmer of large means and greatly respected, died February 7, 1879, at the age of ninety. Both his paternal and maternal grand- fathers served in the Revolutionary war, one as a Lieu- tenant and the other as a Captain. The latter, a surveyor by profession and a great mathematical genius, constructed an accurate model of the planetary system, and always made his own almanacs. In this he was entirely unaided by authors, and depended solely on his own observation and study. The ancestors of Mr. Smith on both sides were from Germany, and among the earliest settlers of Pennsyl- vania. IIe received a good common-school education, and at the age of twenty, having a natural taste for me- chanics, decided to become a machinist. In this he ac- ,quired skill and proficiency so rapidly that, after an ap- prenticeship of one year, he was thoroughly qualified to undertake the business on his own account, and at once established himself as a manufacturer of agricultural im- plements, in which he contiuned prosperously till the year 1860. During that time he took out twenty-one patents, and never failed in an application. His inventions always contained something novel, and were mostly in connection with agricultural implements and machinery. Some of them brought him considerable money, and many of them are still in extensive use. In 1849 he joined the Church of the United Brethren, and from the time of his conver- sion took an active part in religious matters. For many years he was a class-leader, and in 1855 was licensed as an exhorter. He filled the duties of a local preacher till 1860, when he gave up his business, and was licensed as a preacher by the Annual Conference in Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, receiving charge of the High Spire Station, in Dauphin County, where he remained four years. There his labors were attended with great success, about three hundred being added to the church. Ile next had the care of Hummelstown Circuit, in which he travelled four years, and had many conversions. Following this he . preached

at Anville Station one year, the church enjoying an exten- sive revival, when his health failed entirely from his ex- cessive labors, and he discontinued preaching for two years. „Ile there originated a camp meeting, which has become a permanent institution. In 1870 Mr. Smith was appointed to Schuylkill Haven Station, and remained four years, during which time the church debt was paid, the building remodelled, and a parsonage fund commenced. Ile worked hard, had three revivals, and many additions to his church. At the end of this time, needing rest, he was one year without charge, but preached seventy or eighty times. In 1875 he was appointed to York, Penn- sylvania, where for the next four years he enjoyed a most remarkable pastorate, his membership being doubled during the first year. The whole number added before he left was two hundred and fifty, over three hundred having been converted. For six months and two weeks he preached every night, and during the whole four years was employed every evening in his duties as a Christian pastor and teacher. Of these evenings fourteen hundred were de- voted to the needs of his own church, and the remaining sixty he was engaged at quarterly meetings, camp-meet- ings, or in other religious work. Ile baptized two hun- dred and forty persons, married fifty-four couples, and ex- erted a great influence, not only among the older members, but particularly over the young people, by whom he was especially beloved. In the winter of 1879 Mr. Smith came to Baltimore and assumed his present charge, the field being one of great promise. Mr. Smith preaches without notes, is fluent, eloquent, and able, enchaining the atten- tion of his hearers and deeply moving the heart. He was married in 1846 to Miss Leah Stoner. They had but one child, Conrad William, who died in August, 1853, at the age of three years and seventeen days.

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The Biographical cyclopedia of representative men of Maryland and District of Columbia Pt. 2, Part 48

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