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YOUD ARNE, RICHARD 1 .. , A. M., Principal of St. John's Academy and Superintendent of Public Schools, Alexandria, Virginia, was born in that place, it be- ing then included in the District of Columbia, Octo- ber 5, 1826. Ile was the second son of Richard Libby and Cecilia (Latrinte) Carne, the former being a hardware merchant of Alexandria, and the latter the eldest daughter of John Shakes, a brush manufacturer of the same eity. Ilis grandfather, William Carne, a copper-miner, emigrated to this place from England in 1794, and engaged in the hardware business with his brother-in-law, Richard Libby, and his wife's cousin, Charles Slade, father of the Hon. Charles Slade, of Illinois. George Shakes, the ma- ternal great-grandfather of the subject of this sketch, was
a soldier of the Revolution and died of exposure in camp. His maternal grandmother, Mary Magdalin ( Thibodeaux) Latrinte, was born in Acadie, and while a child was carried by the English with three of her sisters to Baltimore, and her father to Louisiana, where he founded the town of Thibodeaux. She married a French sen-captain. The carly education of Richard L. Carne was conducted by his mother, and in his ninth year entered the St. John's Academy of his native place, where his time was devoted to the study of French and the classics. Ile was a boy of quiet disposition, fond of books and the society of his elders, and having a great ambition to excel. In 1840, his health being very delicate, he was obliged to leave school, and became a clerk in his father's store, but had little taste for the business, of which, however, he assumed the man- agement before he was quite twenty-one. His father having failed shortly after, the charge of St. John's Academy, which had been closed for some time, was offered him by friends who wished to assist him, and accepting it he found himself in his true vocation. It cost him a hard struggle to re-establish the school, there being others in Alexandria of the highest grade; but he triumphed over all obstacles, and has now successfully conducted it for thirty-one years. Mr. Carne has educated nearly twelve hundred young men from all parts of the country. For four years, from 1866, he was President of the Board of Guardians of the Wash- ington Free-school, founded by General Washington in 1785, and in September, 1870, was appointed by the Board of Education of Virginia Superintendent of Public Schools for the city and county of Alexandria. To this post he has been twice reappointed. He has been a fireman from a very early age, and one of the officers of the Hydraulion Company since 1845. Ile was also for a number of years President of the Alexandria Company. He has been since its organization President of the Conference of St. Mary, of the Society of St. Vincent of l'aul, a charitable associa- tion, and Prefect of the Sodality connected with St Mary's Church. He was at one time President of the Young Catholics' Friend Society of Alexandria. Mr. Carne was in early life very prominent in the societies of the Sons of Temperance and the United Brothers of Temperance, with which he remained actively connected till the decision at Rome, in 1850, that such membership was inconsistent with membership in the Catholic Church, when he withdrew, being a strong adherent of that faith. But his relations with Protestants have always been pleasant, and his school has never had a Catholic majority. He is an active mem- ber of the Educational Association of Virginia. On join- ing it in 1871 he was immediately clected its Third Vice- President. Inheriting Whig principles from his father he voted that ticket till the fall of 1855, when he gave his first Democratic vote. Since the war he has been a decided Conservative, but has taken little part in politics. In 1872 Mr. Carne declined a nomination for the City Council, made in a very flattering manner. Ile has written a great
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deal for the newspapers. In 1849 he published The Ark of Safety, in blank verse, and in 1875 a history of St. Mary's Church, Alexandria ; also his annual reports as Superin- tendent of Schools.
B POULDEN, JAMES E. P., M. D., was born on Bohe- mia Manor, Cecil County, Maryland, July 8, 1825. His grandfather was James Boulden, one of four well-known brothers (the others being Levi, Jesse, and Nathan), who were extensive planters and slave- holders in the above county in ante-bellum times; and his father was Alexander Smith Boulden, a native of Cecil. The ancestors of the family were from Wales, and came to America in colonial times, the section of Cecil County in which they settled being known as the " Welsh Tract." Alexander S. Boulden was a prominent surveyor and civil engineer. He located in Baltimore when James was an infant, and engaged in mercantile pursuits, conducting the same for about six years, when he removed to Harper's Ferry, Virginia, with his wife and the subject of this sketch, having whilst in Baltimore buried a younger son, Edwin Horatio Boulden. At the age of seven years James lost his father. At the time of his death Mr. Boulden was con- structor of public works at Harper's Ferry, Virginia. Ile was a most estimable gentleman, a true and sincere Chris- tian. James's mother, Ann (Porter) Boulden, was the eld- est daughter of Captain David Porter of the Revolutionary Navy, and sister of Commodore David Porter, one of the naval heroes of the war of 1812, and who was subse- quently and for many years United States Minister at Con- stantinople. Mrs. Boulden's father was an intimate friend of General Washington, who was a great admirer of his valor and patriotism. On one occasion, when on a visit to Washington, then President of the United States, Captain Porter was accompanied by his daughter Ann (the mother of James), who was then six years old. Placing his hand on her head Washington remarked to those present : " This is the daughter of the brave Captain Porter." Washington appointed Captain Porter to the command of the Marine Observatory on Federal Hill, Baltimore, he being the first commandant of that station. In 1838 Mrs. Boulden died. She was a rigid Presbyterian, a devoted mother, and a gentle counsellor. Thus in the thirteenth year of his age James was rendered an orphan. IIe had been attending various private schools, and on the death of his mother entered MeIlvainc's Latin School, Georgetown, District of Columbia. After remaining there for a year he became a pupil in the celebrated Quaker boarding school of John Bullock, Wilmington, Delaware, where he pursued his studies for four years, and during the last year was con- tinuously at the head of the first class in every department of learning. In his eighteenth year he entered the count- ing-room of Brown & Muncaster, wholesale drygoods merchants of Baltimore, the senior partner being a cousin
of. George S. Brown, head of the banking house of Alex- ander Brown & Sons. Ile acted as assistant the first, and chief bookkeeper the second year, and then for a year or so devoted himself to general reading and study. In the summer of 1848 he commenced the reading of medicine, entering as a private student the office of the late Samuel Chew, M.D., Professor of Materia Medica and Therapeutics in the University of Maryland, at which institution he ma- triculated in the autumn of the above year, and graduated therefrom in the spring of 1850. After graduating Dr. Boul- den located in Ohio in the practice of his profession. He remained there for a year, and then returned to Baltimore, where he married in April, 1851, Miss Mary Virginia, second daughter of the late Colonel Richard France, an enterprising resident of that city. Having relatives at Constantinople, Turkey, who represented the United States Government at that capital, the doctor concluded to make a general tour through Europe and visit the " City of the Sultan." Accompanied by his wife and sister-in-law, Miss Sarah France, now Mrs. George Peter Hoffman, he in May of 1851 left New York in the steamship Baltic of the old Collins Line, and after a voyage of ten days arrived at Liverpool. His journey thence was through England, France, Switzerland, Lombardy, Italy, Austria, down the Adriatic, over the Mediterranean, up the Grecian Archi- pelago, through the Dardanelles, and over the Sea of Mar- mora. Ile remained in Turkey several months, whence he wrote a series of letters to the Baltimore Sun over his initials " J. E. P. B." They attracted general attention on account of their graphic descriptions of Oriental scenes and customs. They were widely copied by the press. Whilst at Constantinople the doctor corresponded with other leading American journals. On his return trip from the Orient he visited Smyrna (Asia Minor), Malta, Elba (where the great Napoleon was first banished), the Sicilian cities, including Catania, at the foot of Mount Etna, which was in full eruption at the time, Naples, Rome, Florence, Pisa, Genoa, Marseilles, and revisited Paris, London, and Liverpool, recrossing the Atlantic in the ill-fated Arctic. On his homeward voyage he was the bearer of dispatches from the American legations at Constantinople and Naples to the State Department at Washington. After his return to Baltimore in 1852, thence to 1860, he was engaged in his profession and as a general contributor to the daily and weekly press. During and after the civil war he devoted himself very considerably to journalism, writing numerous articles on a great variety of subjects. To the Baltimore American he contributed a series of interesting articles on the graveyards and cemeteries in and around Baltimore, giving biographical sketches of their distinguished inmates. Ile furnished the same journal an exhaustive, four column, illustrated article on the " Water Question," in which he demonstrated the advantages of obtaining the water supply for Baltimore from such a high source as that of Glencoe, on the Gunpowder River, which would have given the
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highest points in the city a natural flow, thus avoiding the enormous expense of forcing the water by artificial means np to Ingh-water service. For the American he also wrote " The Penal History of Maryland," from the Lord Proprietary to the present time. For the Baltimorean he wrote biographies of the surviving defenders of Baltimore in the war of 1812. Dr. Boulden is the author of several books, among which may be mentioned An American Among the Orientals, published in 1855 ; Medicine, or the Legitimists and the Illegitimists, 1870; and the Presbyte- rians of Baltimore : their Churches and Ilistoric Grave- yards, 1875. During the great small pox epidemic of 1873 in Baltimore Dr. Boulden was appointed by Dr. George W. Benson, Health Commissioner, as a special Vaccine Physician. His precinct being in the most affected region he was frequently exposed to the disease. In 1874 he was appointed by Mayor Joshua Vansant as Vaccine Physician for the Eleventh and Twelfth wards of Baltimore, and held the position during the two years of that gentleman's second administration. As a member of the Medico-Chi- rurgical Faculty of Maryland and other medical societies he has furnished several valuable papers on the phenomena, etc., of disease, and has contributed to the public press, in- cluding the Baltimore Sun, articles on vaccination, quar- antine, and infectious or contagious diseases. Ile was the founder, in conjunction with the late Dr. George Robinson, of the " Maryland Epidemiological Society," and was its Corresponding Secretary during the period of its existence. Ile read before the Society an able original paper on Asiatic cholera, which was subsequently published in a leading London medical journal. During the Mayoralty of Robert T. Banks Dr. Boulden was highly recommended by many prominent physicians and leading merchants for the posi- tion of Resident Physician at the Marine or Quarantine Ilospital. The former included Professors Nathan R. Smith, George W. Miltenberger, and Sammuel C. Chew. Ile has two children living, Mary Virginia and George A. P. Boulden. A son, named after him, died, and is buried in Greenmount Cemetery.
BARRIS, CHAPIN AARON, M.D., youngest son of Jolin and Elizabeth (Brundage) Harris, was born in Pompey, Onandaga County, New York, May 6, 1806. To this place his father had removed a few years previously from Sheffield, Massachusetts. The family is of English descent, and claims connection with the Wiltshire and Ilampshire family of that name, which is represented by the Earl of Malmesbury, a lineal descendant of James Harris, author of Hermes. The grandfather of Dr. Harris was killed in a skirmish in the Revolutionary war, and his granduncle, Captain Joshua Harris, fought gallantly under General Stark at the battle of Bunker Hill. On his mother's side he was re-
lated to the Chapin family, the founder of which in America was Deacon Samuel Chapin, a stanch old Pu- ritan, who settled in Springfield, Massachusetts in 1642, and whose muncrous descendants are scattered throughout the Northern States. John Harris removed to Ohio while his youngest son was still a child, and he there completed his education, and pursued his medical studies under the direction of his elder brother, Dr. John Harris, a sur- geon of much skill and reputation, with whom also he commenced the practice of his profession. Ile was united in marriage, January 11, 1826, with Lucinda Heath, second daughter of Rev. Barton Downes Hawley, formerly of Loudon County, Virginia. Her mother was Catharine, second daughter of Andrew Heath, of " White Chimneys," near Winchester, Virginia, an Englishman of noble family. After several years, greatly desiring to make his home in the South, Dr. Harris made a tour through the Southern and Southwestern States, in the principal cities of which he found many inducements to settle, but his health would not permit him to remain. Ilis eldest brother, Rev. James II. Harris, living in Baltimore, persuaded him to give that city a trial, and he arrived there with his family August 11, 1833. Shortly before, his attention, with that of his brother, Dr. John Harris, had been drawn to the study of dentistry, and realizing the necessity of delivering the profession from the hands of ignorant charlatans and quacks and elevating it to the rank of medicine and sur- gery, he resolved to give up his own chosen profession and to work to redeem dentistry from the obloquy which had been cast upon it and the prejudices which had been excited against it. It required great labor and self-denial to assume the responsibilities of a teacher in a school newly organized and to build up a profession that he determined should be one worthy of all honor, and had he not been gifted with indomitable perseverance and a strong will combined with untiring patience he would never have conquered the difficulties he encountered, nor obtained his great success and world-wide fame. But fixedness of purpose was a prominent trait in his character, to which his labors as an author, for his college, for his journal, and for the many societies with which he was connected all bear witness. The idea of a dental college first came from Dr. Harris, and it was chiefly through his instrumentality that the Baltimore College of Dental Surgeons was organized in 1839, in which he never failed in rigorous attention to his duties as Professor. In addition he had always a private class of students who were anxious to do extra work. In 1850 he became sole editor of the American Journal of Dental Science, having been part editor all the previous years of its existence, and some years later he became part owner. To him the paper chiefly owed its existence. Ilis Principles and Practice of Dental Surgery is used as a textbook in all the dental schools both in the United States and in England. This was followed in 18449 by his Diction- ury of Dental Science, Biography, Bibliography, and Medi-
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cal Terminology. It is estimated that Dr. Harris did more with his pen and active labors to promote the science than any man on either continent before or since. Often after a day of heavy professional labors he would write till long past midnight, thus gradually undermining an iron constitution, capable of enduring great fatigue and toil. These incessant labors finally cut him off in the meridian of a life of usefulness. Dr. Harris was Professor of the Principles and Practice of Dental Surgery in the Baltimore College, member of the Medical Association and of the Society of Dental Surgeons, also correspond- ing and honorary member of others, besides which he belonged to various art and literary associations in the United States. In 1858 he was made a member of the Maryland Historical Society. He was a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, though leaning in the later years of his life to the Protestant Episcopal faith. As a Mason he was very prominent, and an enthusiastic worker to advance the interests of the Order. 1Ic died after eight months of suffering, borne with unfailing sweet- ness of temper, September 29, 1860. His only son, Chapin Bond Ilarris, followed him on the 7th of May of the following year, leaving his young widow, Mary Custis, youngest daughter of Lloyd Rogers, of Druid Hill Park, Baltimore, and one child, Chapin Barton Monroe Harris. The widow of Dr. Harris died in London, June 28, 1878, surrounded by her five daughters, who are all living in England and France. The eldest, Ozellah Louisa, married Alfred Addison Blandy, born in Bristol, England, youngest son of Benjamin Blandy, of Zanesville, Ohio, but now of England, and has two sons and four daughters. The second daughter, Zairah C., married Louis Miguot, of New York, and has one son. Alice E., the third daughter, married Carlos Brelaz, nephew of Merle D'Aubigne, the historian, and has two sons and two daughters. Helen Pendleton is unmarried ; and Anna Meredith, the youngest daughter, married Captain C. E. Barrett-Leonard, late of the " Essex Rifles," formerly of the Eighth Dragoon Guards, and brother of the present" Sir Thomas Barrett- Leonard, " Belhas," Essex.
HOMSEN, JOHN JACOB, was born in Baltimore May 23, 1823. His father, J. J. Thomsen, who was a native of North Germany, came to America about 1807, and settled in Baltimore. After clerk- ing for several years in commercial houses, and in the Baltimore Post-office, he removed to a farm which he owned, near York, Pennsylvania. After remaining there about eighteen months he returned to Baltimore, where he died at the age of sixty-two years. For a long time he took an active interest in the emancipation of the slaves, and also in their education. The subject of this sketch
received an excellent education, including the classics, mathematics, German, French, and Spanish, after the com- pletion of which he spent a year in an apothecary estab- lishment, and subsequently two years as a clerk in an ex- tensive shipping house. During the above period he took private lessons in Latin, French, and German. After six months' employment in the drug house of G. & N. Poplein he entered into the manufacture of stearine candles. He continued in the business two years, and then formed a partnership with Poplein & Orrick, wholesale druggists in Baltimore. Eighteen months thereafter Poplein and Thomsen purchased Orrick's interest and conducted the business for fifteen months. Subsequently Mr. Poplein retired from the house, and Mr. Thomsen associated with him G. Davidge Woods and John Block. A few years thereafter Mr. Woods retired, and the business was con- ducted for twelve years by Mr. Thomsen and Mr. Block. In 1871 Mr. Block retired, and Messrs. Lilly and Muth became Mr. Thomsen's partners. On the retirement of Mr. Lilly the business was continued by the present firm of Thomsen & Muth, whose drug house is regarded as among the most important and extensive in Baltimore. Mr. Thomsen has contributed liberally to the building of several Presbyterian churches in Baltimore, with which denomination he is connected. He was one of the four originators of Eutaw Place. He is a member of the Maryland College of Pharmacy, and has long taken a great interest in the Baltimore General Dispensary, of which institution he has for about twelve years been the Secretary. On October 12, 1854, he married Emma Lena, daughter of Alonzo Lilly, now of Boston, but for many years a merchant of Baltimore. He has four children, three sons and one daughter.
TORK, REV. THEOPHILUS, D.D., founder of St. Mark's English Lutheran Church, Baltimore, was born in the month of August, 1814, near Salisbury, North Carolina. His father, Rev. Charles A. G. Stork, was a noted clergyman of the same faith, and pastor of a group of churches in that neighborhood. His mother was a daughter of Lewis Beard, of Salisbury, North Carolina. Dr. Stork was the youngest child of a large family, and in his early years was in very delicate health. He was educated at Gettysburg. Having com- pleted the full course of college and seminary he entered on his first charge at Winchester, Virginia, in the year 1837, at the age of twenty-three. During his ministry there the present church edifice of that denomination was projected, and the membership largely increased. From Winchester he went to Philadelphia as pastor of St. Matthew's, where his ministry was eminently successful. Through his efforts St. Mark's congregation was established upon a firm basis.
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From the pulpit of St. Mark's Dr. Stork was called to the Presidency of Newberry College, South Carolina. " To this new field of labor he gave his maturest cfforts. The hope of improving his impaired health exercised no little influence in deciding the question of his change of ocen- pation and location. He entered this new and untried work with characteristic enthusiasm, hoping, if possible, in a wider sphere, by educating the future educators of the Church to serve the cause he loved so well. Before he be- came fairly engaged, however, the disturbed condition of the country interfered with the conduct of the institution, and the prospect of an early adjustment of civil difficulties was so unsatisfactory that Dr. Stork very soon resigned and retired from the college. He soon afterward accepted a call to become pastor of St. Mark's Church at Baltimore, and at once became a favorite within and without his charge. Under his faithful and affectionate care that church grew in every element of congregational strength, and now, under the charge of his son, is one of the most active and liberal congregations of the Lutheran Church. Ile finally resigned the pastorate of St. Mark's Church in favor of his son, and returned to Philadelphia, where he devoted most of his time to literary pursuits, and served with untiring energy in the work of the Publication Society of the Lutheran Church. He was thus engaged until his death, which occurred March 28, 1874. He was a faithful Christian minister, greatly beloved by his own denomina- tion and all who knew him. Soon after entering upon his ministerial career he was married to Miss Mary Lynch, daughter of William Lynch, who for several terms repre- sented Frederick County in the Maryland Legislature. He left three sons: Rev. Charles A. Stork, D.D., pastor of St. Mark's Church, Baltimore; William L. Stork, a prominent business man of that city; and Theophilus B. Stork, an attorney of Philadelphia.
TORK, WILLIAM L., of the firm of Stork, Wright & Co., stationers, engravers, printers, and blankbook manufacturers, Baltimore, was born, February 14, 22 1841, near Jefferson, Frederick County, Maryland. Ile is a son of the Rev. Theophilus Stork, D. D., a native of Salisbury, North Carolina, whose biography ap- pears in this volume. Mr. Stork's grandfather, the Rev. Charles Augustus Stork, was a noted clergyman of the same faith, and distinguished as a linguist. He emigrated .to this country from Germany at an early age. Mr. Stork's mother's maiden name was Mary Lynch. She was a daughter of William Lynch, a Maryland farmer, who rep- resented Frederick County in the Legislature for several terms. Mr. Stork's brother, the Rev. Charles A. Stork, D.D., a prominent minister of Baltimore, has been pastor of St. Mark's Lutheran Church of that city since 1865, of which his father was formerly pastor. His half-brother, Theophilus R. Stork, is a lawyer of Philadelphia. During
the early part of his life Mr. Stork resided with his mater- nal grandfather for several years. Hle attended the dis- trict schools from his eighth until his eleventh year, when he went to Philadelphia, where his father was then stationed, and attended the public schools of that city until his six - teenth year. He then left school to accept a clerkship in the Lutheran Publishing House of Philadelphia, where he underwent a thorough business training. At nineteen years of age he went to Virginia, purchased a book and stationery store, and did a successful business until the commencement of the civil war in 1861, when he returned to Philadelphia and entered the Union Army, enlisting in the Twenty-ninth Pennsylvania Regiment. He served with distinction for three years ; participated in the battles of Winchester, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, Wauhatchie Run, Lookout Mountain, Mission Ridge, and Ringgold; and was promoted to the rank of Captain for gallant ser- vice. He resigned his commission in 1864 and returned to Baltimore, where he purchased a small book store in connection with the Lutheran Observer. In 1866 he formed a copartnership with William Gillespie in the sta- tionery and engraving business, with whom he was asso- ciated until 1868, when the partnership was dissolved and he became associated with Robert A. Wright, who died in 1876. In 1877 the firm name was changed to Stork, Wright & Co., Mr. John H. Griffin and Mr. F. W. Koch becoming members thereof. Mr. Stork is a Conservative in politics. He is a member of the Lutheran Church, and one of the Vice-Presidents of the Young Men's Christian Association, in which he takes a prominent part.
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