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AGNER, GENERAL. PETER V., was born in the city of Washington in August, 1815. He grad- nated at the Military Academy in 1836, and was assigned to the First Artillery. He served in the Florida war during General Jessup's campaign of 1836 -- 7, with a field battery and ou ordnance duty, and on the Niagara frontier until July, 1838, when he was trans- ferred to the Ordnance Corps. In the war with Mexico he was attached to the " Siege-train Company of Ord- nance " of General Scott's army ; was brevetted Captain, April 18, 1847, at the battle of Cerro Gordo, and Major, September 13, 1847, at the assault and capture of the city of Mexico. In 1848-9, under the order of the Secretary of War, he visited European arsenals and laboratories, and a report was published with Executive Documents in 1850. From 1854 to 1860 he was a member of the Ord- nance Board ; in May, 1861, he was assigned to the duty of ordering, inspecting, and purchasing arms and ordnance stores, and in March, 1862, was appointed by Secretary Stanton member of the Commission on Ordnance and Ord- nance Stores. From 1862 to December, 1863, he was In- spector of all factories making small-arms for the govern- ment under contract, and since that thne has been in com- mand of Watervliet Arsenal. In 1863, 1868, and 1870 he was a member of ordnance boards, and in 1866 of boards for the trial of breech-loading small-arms, and in 1872-73 of the board for selecting a breech system for muskets and carbines. On March 7, 1867, he was promoted to the position of Colonel of Ordnance, having received brevets of Colonel and Brigadier-General, March 13, 1865.
PRICE, HON. JOHN HENRY, Attorney-at-law and ex-Judge, is of Welsh descent. Ilis ancestors came over with William Penn, the family name then being Ap-Rice. They settled first in Pennsylvania, thence removed to Cecil County, and afterwards to Harford County, Maryland. His paternal great-grand- parents were John and Abigail Price. Their son, David Price, married Ann, daughter of William and Mary 1Iur- bord. They were married by the Rev. John Hamilton, Rector of Northeast Parish, Cecil County, in the Province of Maryland, November 14, 1765. David Price died at Redstone (Brownsville), Pennsylvania, November 7, 1773. Ilis son, David E. Price ( father of John Henry Price), was born December 25, 1770; and May 31, 1803, married Rachel, daughter of Henry and Mary (Stump) Smith, and had five children, viz. : William, born April 7, 1804, and died April 16, 1804; Ann, born May 28, 1807, died . June 29, 1807; John Ilenry (the subject of this sketch), born June 8, 1808; Rachel, born December 9, 1809, married Robert Parker, of Harford County, May I, 1828; Margaret Ann, born April 18, 1811, married Wil- liam II. Gilpin, of Cecil County, April 23, 1833. David
E. Price resided at Harford Town (now called Bush), in Harford County, and was associated with John Stump, Jr., of Stafford, under the firm name of Stump & Price, and were extensively engaged in the manufacture of flour, and selling goods and merchandise. On Saturday, August 22, 1810, his wife, being on a visit to her grandfather, Henry Stump, near Stafford, Mr. Price left home on horseback to join her, and in attempting to ford " Elbow Branch," then very high, was swept down by the rapid current and drowned, near the dwelling-house of Mr. Stump, where his wife was then staying. llc had a high reputation as a business man, and was much esteemed for his integrity, intelligence, and gencrat worth. ITis son, John Henry Price, was born at the residence of his maternal great- grandfather, Henry Stump, near Stafford, Harford County, Maryland, June 8, 1808. He received his carly education at West Nottingham Academy, in Cecil County, under Rev. Dr. Magraw, and at Newark .Academy, Delaware, under the Rev. A. K. Russel. After which he entered Dickinson College, Carlisle, Pennsylvania, and was grad- nated with honor at that institution in 1827. He at once commenced the study of law in the Law Department of the University of Maryland at the Law Institute, then lo- ented in South Street, Baltimore, under David Hoffman, Esq., Professor of Law. So rapid was his progress and thorough his acquirements, that he was admitted to the bar in IIarford County, August 12, 1829. Devoting him- self assiduously to his profession, and maintaining a high reputation for morality, honor, and integrity, he soon en - joyed a lucrative practice. December 1, 1829, he married Grace, daughter of James and Mary (Stump) Williams. She was the daughter of Jehn Stump, Sr., of Stafford, and Cassandra, his wife. The fruit of this union was two chil- dren, both of whom died in infancy, viz., Mary, born Scp- tember 22, 1830, and died January 14, 1831 ; and David E. Price, who lived but a few days. Mrs. Grace Price departed this life in 1836. November 27, 1838, Mr. Price married Mary Ritchie, daughter of Joseph Parker, of Har- ford County, and his wife Margery, who was a daughter of David Price. They had children, viz., Mary, born August 9, 1840, died August 20, 1848; John Henry, born August 25, 1843, married Fannie Bailey (now deceased), of Washington city; Annie, born January 29, 1845, mar- ricd John C. Killingsworth, of Cecil County, now of St. Louis, Missouri ; Margaret Gilpin, born January 31, 1848, died September 14, 1855; David Elisha, born January 27, 1851, married Mary, daughter of Thomas Miller; Mary, born July 2, 1853; William, born August 31, 1855; Mar- garet Gilpin, born January 20, 1858; Isabel, born August 15, 1861. Mr. Price's devotion to the practice of his pro- fession has not prevented his indulging his fondness of agricultural pursuits. His farm, on which he resides, near Darlington, Harford County, is one of the finest estates in the county. To it and his other landed estates he now devotes much of his time, though he still practices law
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at Bel Air, and during the interim of the courts is usually at his office in Bel Air to see clients on Monday of each week. In 1855 Mr. Price was elected by the people sole Judge of the Sixth Judicial Circuit of Maryland, composed of the counties of Cecil, Harford, and Baltimore, for a term of ten years. Prior to Judge Price's elevation to the beach, the criminal docket of Baltimore County had been bur- dened at each term with removed cases from Baltimore city. Indeed, Baltimore County Court had almost come to be considered a " city of refuge " for murderers, burglars, thieves, robbers, gamblers, lottery policy men, keepers of houses of ill-fame, and all high-handed violators of the law in Baltimore city, and who, by removing their cascs to the county, either escaped punishment or suffered a less penalty than they expected to be imposed if their causes had been tried in Baltimore city. Judge Price was not long in discovering his surroundings. Ifis ability as a jurist, his dispatch of business, his unswerving integrity, conscientious and unflinching execution of the law, and his sentence of notorious offenders and criminals, soon made him a " terror to cvil-doers and a praise to them that do well." Thereafter, during his judicial administration, the practice of removing criminal cases from Baltimore city to Baltimore County Court was almost discontinued. While dignified and stern (when sternness was needed) Judge Price was yet so affable, genial and accessible to all, that the youngest members of the bar might approach him as a son would his father. At the opening of the De- cember Term of Baltimore County Court in 1858, Judge Price delivered to the Grand Jury a " Charge " that ren- dered him famous. The Baltimore Sun published it in full, with the following preface : " We have read with the deepest interest and the utmost satisfaction the charge de- livered by Judge Price to the Grand Jury of Baltimore County. We cordially commend it to attentive and con . siderate perusal. It is really refreshing to peruse so . wholesome, instructive, and sincere a document at this day, and amid the circumstances by which we are sur- rounded. The whole paper is in admirable keeping, and does honor to the source whence it emanated. In one respect it is the best response that can possibly be offered to objections to an elective judiciary. A better paper has rarely, if ever, . issued from the bench of criminal jurisprudence in Mary- land." This charge was copied extensively, and elicited commendation from many of the leading newspapers of the country. Among them, the Journal of Commerce, New York, said : " A most excellent charge to the Grand Jury of Baltimore County, by Judge Price, will be found on our first page. We wish it could be read by every citi- zen, and especially those liable to jury duty," etc. Not only did the press give publicity to this charge, and edito- rially commend it, but numerous private letters from dis- tinguished sources were addressed to Judge Price on the subject. From one of these, from Judge William 1 .. Storrs, of Hartford, Connecticut, we are permitted to
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make an extract : " I think the sentiment of that charge ought to be circulated far and wide among all the people of this country who may be called on to aid the adminis- tration of criminal justice in the capacity of grand or petit jurois, or officers engaged in their selection. I do not know how this can be more effectually done than through the public prints, and I will do this in that mode, at least so far as the people of Connecticut are concerned." In 1864 Maryland adopted a new Constitution, and the judi- cial districts were changed. In the following November, 1865, Judge Price was again elected by the people sole Judge of the Ninth Judicial Circuit of Maryland (com- posed of the counties of Ilarford and Cecil, both of which counties had been included in his previous ju- dicial circuit), by a large majority, for the term of fifteen ycars. In 1867, under the new Constitution, the judicial circuits were changed, and provision made for three judges to a circuit, instead of one, as before. Under this pro- vision Judge Price's official term expired. Since then he has resided on his farm, and resumed the practice of law at Bel Air, honored and respected by all, and exerting a healthy moral and religious influence in the community. He is now and has been for many years an active member of the Protestant Episcopal Church, and Superintendent of a Sunday-school in Darlington, which he regularly attends. The first Sunday-school in that neighborhood was established by him about the year 1836. This was a Union Sunday-school, in which the American Union Sun- day-school books were alone used, and was continued by him, as Superintendent, until his election as Judge, in 1855, with an attendance of about one hundred scholars and six to eight teachers. Judge Price is a man of large size, fine physique, good health, active habits, and bids fair for length of days and continued usefulness.
RIFFIN, REV. CHARLES MORTIMER, was born in Milford, Clermont County, Ohio, October 4, 1841. . His parents were Andrew and Catharine Ann Gitfin. His father was of Irish lineage ; his birth- place was Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. His mother, whose maiden name was Martin, was of Welsh extraction ; she was born in Mount Vernon, Knox County, Ohio. When Charles M. was about one year of age his parents removed to Cincinnati, where his father established him- sclf in business as a tin and stove dealer. He took a prominent place in politics, and served ten years consecu- tively in the City Council ; being President of the Council for one year. He filled other offices also. He died in 1864. The subject of this sketch was educated in the schools of Cincinnati, and afterward studied law with Honorable Bellamy Storer, Judge of the Superior Court. Hle graduated in the Law Department of the Cincinnati College, April, 1861, when nineteen years of age. When
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he took his degree of Bachelor of Laws he was too young to be admitted to the bar, but on arriving at the legal age he took the oath of an Attorney, in the Southern District of the Supreme Court of Ohio. Having become a mem- ber of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and being attached to Christie Chapel, the Quarterly Conference of that So- ciety gave him a license to preach, and July 24, 1861, he delivered his first sermon. From thenceforth he has been actively engaged in the work of the ministry. As a member of the Cincinnati Conference, with which he had connected himself, he served five years in pastoral duty in and near the city. His health becoming feeble, he made a six months' trip to New Orleans, Kansas, and Minnesota ; after which he was transferred, in April, 1868, to the New York East Conference, and at the request of the Seventh Avenue Methodist Episcopal Church, now Grace Church, he was appointed its pastor, and served it for the term of two years. Ile served the full term of three years in West Chapel Street, New Haven, Connecticut ; thence to Nostrand Avenue, Brooklyn, where he spent three years. While in that charge the congregation gave him four months' leave of absence and sufficient funds to pay the expenses of a trip to Europe. Ilis next appointment was the First Place Methodist Episcopal Church, Brooklyn. After one year's service in that charge, his own and his wife's health demanded a change to a warmer climate, and at the request of St. John's Independent Methodist Church, Baltimore, he became one of its pastors. His field of labor is the Chapel on Madison Avenue and Lau- rens Street, a very handsome stone building. The congre- gation worshipping there is a growing one, composed of intelligent, refined, and wealthy persons. Mr. Giffin re- ceives frequent invitations to address large audiences. He is a close and discriminating student, and is thoroughly alive to the requirements of the advanced thought of the age. Hle is a good writer, and has contributed largely to the religious press; he is at present ( 1879) one of the edi- tors of the Independent Visitor, a monthly paper published in the interest of Independent Methodism. He received the honorary degree of Master of Arts from Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut, at the commence- ment in 1875. He married Miss Belle Lampley, of Brooklyn, New York, formerly of Alabama, January 14, 1869. They have three sons : Mortimer Parell, Charles Brown, and William Gill.
N EGLEY, PETER, was born in Franklin County, Pennsylvania, August 29, 1818. Ile is the second child and only son of Christian and Barbara Negley. Ilis mother's maiden name was Newcomer. She was born on Beaver Creek, Washington County, Maryland. His father is a descendant of the Negley family that emigrated from Germany and settled in Lancaster
County, Pennsylvania, long before the Revolution. His mother's family is of Swiss origin, and originally migrated from Pennsylvania into Washington County, Maryland. When Mr. Negley was fourteen years of age, his father sold his farm in Franklin County, Pennsylvania, and pur- chased another two miles north of Hagerstown, Washing- ten County, Maryland, where he still resides, being now in his eighty-eighth year. The subject of this sketch worked on his father's farm in summer and attended the county school in winter. In 1837, being very desirous of a thorough education, he prevailed on his father to send him to Dick- inson College, and he became a student in the Preparatory Department of that institution for one year. In 1838, in- stead of returning to Dickinson College he entered the Preparatory Department of Marshall College, located at Mercersburg, Franklin County, Pennsylvania, and entered the Freshman class in the fall of 1839. At the end of his Sophomore year his health became impaired from hard study and insufficient exercise, necessitating a year's absence, after which he returned and graduated in 1844, and was offered the second honor of his class, but declined it in favor of a friend. Being still in delicate health he remained with his father for two years, assisting him on his farm. In 1846 he commenced the study of law with Hon. James Dixon Roman, of Ilagerstown ; was admitted to the bar in 1849, and immediately commenced the practice of his pro- fession. In 1851 he was the Whig candidate for Prose- cuting Attorney of his county, but was beaten by his Demo- cratic opponent by a small majority. About this time he was offered the Treasurership of a very prosperous Sav- ings institution, which he accepted on account of continued bad health, and thus with many regrets left the active walks of his profession. In 1854 the institution of which he was Treasurer was changed, under a charter, to the Hlagers- town Savings Bank, of which he was made Cashier. In 1865 that institution became the First National Bank of Hagerstown, and Mr. Negley was continued its Cashier. In 1864, being an active Union man from the beginning of the civil war, he was prevailed on to accept the nomination as a Republican delegate to the Constitutional Convention. lle and all his party colleagues were elected, the bank granting him leave of absence during the sessions of the Convention. In the proceedings of that body he took a very active and leading part, as its published proceedings will show. In 1870 the United States Depository of Balti- more was made an Assistant Treasurer's office. Mr Negley with a number of other prominent gentlemen became an applicant for this position. Mr. Boutwell, who was the Secretary of the Treasury, recommended to President Grant Mr. Negley's appointment. The President sent his name to the Senate and he was immediately confirmed. On July 29, 1870, lie resigned his position as Cashier of the First National Bank of Hagerstown, and on the ist day of Au- gust was sworn in as the Assistant United States Treasurer of Baltimore. In 1874, two months before the expiration
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of his commission, General Grant reappointed him for another term. He was so generally acceptable to the busi- ness community and his party that no one applied for his place. In 1878, on the expiration of his second term, his reappointment was strongly urged by all the banks, both National and State, and all the private bankers, with one or two exceptions, in the city of Baltimore. There was a small political opposition to him on this occasion, but it had no weight with Secretary Sherman, as he promptly recom- mended his reappointment to President Hayes, who sent his name to the Senate, and he was confirmed for the third time. In 1849 he married Laura Richenbaugh, the youngest daughter of Martin Richenbaugh, of Hagerstown. In 1859 she died, leaving four children, three sons and one daugh; ter. In 1861 he married Mrs. P. L. Brooke, of Cambridge- port, Massachusetts, who is still living. By this marriage he has no children. He never gave up his residence in his own town. His family reside nine months of the year in Hagerstown. In the winter he closes his house and his wife remains with him in the city. Ilis oldest son, Walter, and his second, Charles, were educated at Amherst Col- lege, Massachusetts, where they graduated in 1872 and 1873. His youngest son, William, was educated at Cornell University, New York. His youngest child and daughter, Rose, was educated at Bordentown, New Jersey, and is mar- ried and lives in her native place, Ilagerstown. Walter and William went to Texas in 1875, and are now sheep- raising near Eagle Port, on the Rio Grande, His son Charles is a lawyer and resides in Ilagerstown,
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ULANY, HONORABLE DANIEL, was born in 1721, in Annapolis, Maryland. His father, Daniel Dulany, Senior, a cousin of Rev. Patrick De. laney, the Dean of Down, was born in 1686, in Queen's County, Ireland. In consequence of the second marriage of his father, and an irreconcilable quarrel with his step-mother, he ran away, while quite a lad, from the University of Dublin, indentured himself to defray the expenses of his passage, and came to Maryland. Acciden- tally, his education and breeding were discovered by the gentleman who purchased his services, and he soon rose to his natural social level, was admitted to the bar in 1710, attained distinction in the Province as the leader in the Lower House of the country party, in the controversy con- cerning the extension of the British Statutes, held the va. rious offices of Attorney-General, Judge of the Admiralty, Commissary-General, Agent, and Receiver, and was a member of the Provincial Council during the administra- tion's of Governors Thomas Bladen, Samuel Ogle, and Iloratio Sharpe. Until his admission to the bar, he spelled his name Delaney. IIe was a devout member of the Protestant Episcopal Church. He died December 5, 1753, in the sixty-eighth year of his age, and was interred at
St. Anne's Church, Annapolis, Maryland. Ile married, first, Miss Plater, of Calvert County, Maryland, who died young. Ile married, secondly, Rebecca Smith, a daughter of Colonel Walter Smith, of Calvert County, and had six children, viz., Hon. Daniel Dulany, the subject of this memoir; Rebecca Dulany, who married James Paul Ileath ; Rachel Dulany, who married first, William Knight, and secondly, Rev. Henry Addison; Dennis Dulany, who was Clerk of Kent County, Maryland ; Mary Dulany, who married first, Dr. Hamilton, of Annapolis, and secondly, William Murdock ; and Walter Dulany, the Commissary- General, who married Mary Grafton, and had a daughter, Rebecca Dulany, who married first, Thomas Addison, and secondly, Captain Thomas Hanson, of the Maryland Line, a son of Colonel Samuel Hanson, of Green Ilill. His third wife was Mrs. Henrietta Maria ( Lloyd) Chew, daughter of Colonel Philemon Lloyd, and had two children, viz., Henrietta Dulany, who married Edward Dorsey, son of Caleb Dorsey, and Lloyd Dulany, the Royalist and head of the Dissentients, May 30, 1774, who married Elizabeth Brice, daughter of John and Sarah ( Frisby ) Brice, and died June 26, 1782, in England, of a wound received in a dnel, fought in Ilyde Park, with Rev. Bennett Allen, leaving his widow, who married Walter Dulany, the son of Wal- ter and Mary (Grafton) Dulany. The subject of this sketch was educated in England, at Eton, and at Clare Hall in the University of Cambridge. After reading law in the Temple, he returned to Maryland and was admitted to the bar in 1747, where he distinguished himself in his profession. In 1757 he was made one of the Council, and was also appointed in 1761 Secretary of the Province, and filled these offices until the outbreak of the American Revolution. On October 14, 1765, he published his cele- brated essay against the Stamp Act, entitled " Considera- tions on the Propriety of Imposing Taxes in the British Colonies, for the purpose of Raising a Revenue by Act of Parliament." This masterly production made him renowned, and won for him the admiration and affection of the people of Maryland. On November 26, 1770, Governor Robert Eden issued his proclamation regulating official fees. The measure was very odious to many patriotic citizens of Maryland, and was considered by them to be an illegal and arbitrary stretch of prerogative. It had, however, some defenders, and among them were Secretary Dulany and his brother Walter, the Commissary-General. Daniel Dulany, in January, 1773, published a newspaper article containing a dialogue purporting to be between two citizens, in which "The First Citizen," an opponent of the Proclamation, was cleverly worsted in the argument. Chatles Carroll of Carrollton adopted the name of " The First Citizen," and replied with unexpected and startling ability. Mr. Du- lany, over the name of " Antilon," rejoined and defended the Proclamation with his utmost power, but retired dis- comfited. The papers of this famous controversy were published at Annapolis, in Green's Gazette, on January 7,
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February 4 and 18, March 11, April S, May 6, June 3, and July 1, 1773. From this time Mr. Dulany was regarded with suspicion by the friends of liberty and became very unpopular. In the acrimonious controversy, commonly called the " Vestry Act Question," concerning the act of 1702, chapter 1, he advocated the validity of the act, and brought upon himself much odium. Though he never swerved from the principles of his essay, these unfortunate controversies brought him into fierce collision with Thomas Johnson, Samuel Chase, Thomas Stone, and Wil- liam l'aca, the leaders of the people, and forced him to occupy a place in the ranks of the opposition to their rev- olutionary measures. Ile retired to private life and died in the city of Baltimore, Maryland, March 19, 1797, aged seventy-five years and eight months. He was a ripe scholar, an eloquent speaker, a profound lawyer, and a man of exalted patriotism and great purity of character. He married Rebecca Tasker, daughter of Hon. Benjamin and Anne (Bladen) Tasker, and had three children, viz., Daniel Dulany, Barrister, of Lincoln's Inn, London, who died in 1823; Colonel Benjamin Tasker Dulany, aide-de-camp to General Washington, who married in 1773, Elizabeth French, and had a daughter, Elizabeth French Dulany, who married Major Joseph Forrest, and was the mother of Admiral French Forrest, of the Confederate Navy, and Ann Dulany, who married M. De la Serre, and had a daughter, Rebecca, who married, at the residence of the Marquis of Wellesley, Regent Park, England, Sir Richard Ilunter, Physician to the Queen.
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