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Surgeon in the navy, January 25, 1842; and the next month received his first orders to join the Florida Squadron, under the command of Lieutenant John T. Me- ยท Laughlin, who was assisting the army in Florida, in a war with the Seminole Indians. The rendezvous of the squad ron (called also the Mosquito Fleet) was Indian Key, one of the numerous coral islets on the Florida Reef. A few months after, the Florida war approaching its end, the squadron was withdrawn and dispersed, and Dr. Duvall was transferred to the frigate Constitution, Home Squadron, and then to the Naval Hospital, Norfolk. In the spring of 1844 he was detailed for duty on board the frigate Con- stitution, now under different auspices, with a roving com- mission, under the command of Captain John Percival, well known in the service, and familiarly and lovingly styled " Jack " Percival, and " Mad Jack." In this cruise the globe was circumnavigated ; having sailed around the Cape of Good Hope, visiting Madagascar, Zanzibar, Su- matra, Borneo, Cochin China, China, Luzon, Sandwich Islands, and thence to California and Mazatlan, Mexico. Ilere he was detached and ordered to the Portsmouth, sloop of war, just about to proceed to California to assist Captain Fremont, then exploring in anticipation of war with Mexico. He remained in California about a year, sometimes the medical officer of expeditions into the country. At the battle of Santa Clara, January 2, 1847, he was the aid of the commanding officer. A few months later he was the senior medical officer of Commodore Stockton's expedition, which landed at San Pedro. He re- turned to the United States in September, 1847, in the frigate Savannah, and very soon after his arrival home, he matriculated in the University of Pennsylvania, to com- plete his education, and to receive his degree. But he was again detailed for duty before the time 'arrived for the delivery of the diplomas. This difficulty was overcome, however, by the kind consent of his friend, Dr. Hastings, of the navy, a resident of Philadelphia, to act as his proxy on the occasion. Ile was next detailed to accompany a coast surveying party, with which he remained for eigh- teen months, when he was ordered to the Saranac, sup- posed to be destined to the East Indies. But Lopez, with his fillibusters, having just made his descent on the Island of Cuba, the Saranac was hastily dispatched to Havana, her commanding officer, Captain Tattnall, being invested with some diplomatic power. After duty on board that vessel, then the flag-ship of the West India Squadron, for nearly two years, his health being somewhat impaired, he was granted "siek-leave." Some months later, his health re-established, he was ordered to the sloop of war Preble, at the Naval Academy ; and in this vessel, with the midshipmen of the Academy, he performed some of the most agreeable duties in his naval experience, making
" three trips across the Atlantic, visiting the Western Islands, England, France, Spain, Madeira, Teneriffe, Grand Canary, and St. Thomas. While on duty at the Academy, he was
married, in New Castle, Delaware, to Elizabeth, daughter of Mr. James Booth, of that place. This lady was a sister- in-law of Professor Lock wood, one of the corps of Profes- sors of the Academy at the time, at whose house he had the good fortune to make her acquaintance. After nearly three years' service in the school-ship Preble, he was sud- denly detached and ordered to another surveying party, whose work was to be in the Gulf of Mexico, and the Gulf Stream, from the Tortugas to the Chesapeake. Having been fifteen months on that duty, he was ordered to the Naval Asylum, which he found to be a very magnificent marble palace, erected by the Government as a home for its old worn-out seamen. But, as it is situated in an inland position, out of sight of " salt water," and such things as old seamen would desire to see in their retirement, it is to them a sort of prison-house. It was there he received his promotion to Surgeon, September, 1856. After six months' duty there he was detached and placed on "waiting orders," affording him a resplte from all duty for a year. In December, 1857, he was Surgeon of the sloop of war Jamestown, which was sent to Greytown, Nicaragua, with some sort of reference to the notorious Walker, who, a few years later, was caught in one of his marauding expedi- tions in Central America, and summarily executed. In the spring of 1860, Surgeon Duvall was detached for special duty at Washington, District of Columbia, and was there when the civil war began. In the stampede of Southern officers from the service of the Government, the Navy Yard at Washington was vacated, and he was ordered to fill the position of Surgeon at that place, where he remained until July, 1862, when he was detailed for duty on board the ironclad frigate, New Ironsides, and in her he remained for two years, during all her service, blockading Charleston harbor. From that vessel he wit- nessed the attack of Dupont on the fortifications with all the ironclads at the disposal of the Government at the time. Upon its call, Dr. Duvall furnished the Navy De- partment with an account of that attack, which was con -. sidered of sufficient value to be laid before Congress, and printed by its order. He was present at all the bombard- ments of the fortifications by the New Ironsides, under the direction of Admiral Dahlgren, the successor of Dupont. After that ship was laid up at Philadelphia, he was again ordered to the Navy Yard at Washington, where he re- mained until the autumn of 1866, when he was sent to the Hospital Ship at Panama, which he was forced to leave in three months, because of an attack of yellow fever. In the summer of 1867 he was ordered to the steam frigate Guer- rierc, at Boston, the flag-ship of the South Atlantic Squad- ron. He was now the Fleet Surgeon. After two years on the coast of Brazil, and in the La Plata River, this vessel returned to the United States, and Dr. Duvall was ordered as medical officer in charge of the Naval Hospital at Nor- folk, where he remained three years. During this service he was promoted to the grade of Medical Inspector; thence
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he was transferred to the Naval Hospital at Annapolis, when he was promoted to Medical Director, the highest grade of naval medical officers. He is now (1879) on special duty in the city of Baltimore.
ILSON, REV. FRANKLIN, D.D., was born in Bal- timore, Maryland, December 8, 1822. His father was Thomas Wilson, of the firm of William Wilson & Sons. His mother's maiden name was Mary Cruse, She was the daughter of Thomas Cruse, an Irish patriot, who emigrated to America to escape the vengeance of the British Govern- ment, in consequence of his efforts for the freedom of his native land. She died in 1824, leaving five children, who were greatly indebted to the faithfulness and piety of their father's cousin, Miss P. Stansbury (afterwards Mrs. Thomas M. Locke), who exercised over them a motherly care. Dr. Wilson's first school-teacher was a Mrs. Addison, the next, Dr. Francis Waters ; but at ten years of age he was sent to Mount Hope College, near Baltimore, Dr. Frederick Ilall, Principal. In September, 1835, before he was thir- teen years of age, he entered the Freshman class, but after completing one year in that institution he was sent to Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, where, on account of his youth, he was obliged to again enter the Freshman class. He spent one year at home, on account of weakness of the eyes, and graduated in 1841, taking the third honor of his class. After another year at home, he entered the Theological Seminary at Newton, Massa- chusetts, but left it, June, 1844, to watch over his father, who was threatened with fatal illness. In 1845 he made a brief voyage to Europe, and on his return in January, 1846, was ordained to the ministry in the First Baptist Church of Baltimore, of which he had been a member since April, 1838. His associations in college had great influence in forming his character and giving direction to his mental habits, as well as determining his choice of a profession. He was fortunate in having as friends or classmates many young men who have since become dis- tinguished as professors and presidents of colleges, or preachers of the Gospel, such as Drs. Dodge, Weston, Brooks, Lincoln, Samson, Caldwell, and others. Mr. Wilson's first pastoral charge was at a little chapel in the northern suburbs of Baltimore, now called Waverly. There he met with great success, twenty-three having been baptized in one year and a church organized, which remains to the present. In April, 1847, he accepted the pastoratc of the High Street Baptist Church, Baltimore, at a time when it was overwhelmed with debt, and the meeting- house offered for sale. By his gratuitous services, and the benefactions of its friends, the house was preserved to the congregation, and the church held together for future use-
fulness, In 1848 he was chosen Secretary of the Mary- land Baptist Union Association, a Home Missionary body embracing the Baptist churches of Maryland and District of Columbia, an office which he yet retains. When he assumed the Secretaryship it had only seventeen churches and seventeen hundred and fifteen members, now, after thirty years, it has sixty churches and ten thousand seven hundred and sixteen members. In November, 1850, a serious bronchial affection developed itself, and after vainly struggling against it for nearly two years he resigned his pastorate. For five years he was unable to preach, but since then his throat has been partially restored, so that he has preached many hundred sermons. Before his resig- nation as a pastor he had become editor of the True Union, a weekly religious paper, which he served gratuitously, altogether, about seven years. In 1852 Mr. Wilson gained a prize of one hundred dollars which had been offered for the best essay on " The Duties of Churches to their Pastors," published by the Southern Baptist Publication Society. His subsequent publications have been on " Popular Amuse- ments ;" " The Comparative Influence of Baptist and l'edo- baptist Principles in the Christian Nurture of Children ;" tracts on " Keep the Church Pure;" " What must I do to be Saved ?" and a sermon on " Truth Triumphant." In 1854 he united with the Franklin Square Baptist Church, where he has frequently officiated as Pastor, oceasionally for many months together. In that same year he was made Secretary of the Baltimore Baptist Church Extension Society, which he was largely instru- mental in founding. That society built the Lee Street Baptist house of worship, as also that at Franklin Square. Ile built, at his own expense, a handsome Gothic Chapel at Rockdale, on the Falls Road, and a commodious brick chapel at Madison Square, besides aiding liberally in the erection of nearly every other house of worship built by the Baptists in Baltimore or Maryland. In 1856, in con- nection with Rev. George B. Taylor (now missionary at Rome, Italy), he took the Editorship of the Christian Re- view, the Quarterly periodical of the Baptist denomination, which he held for two years. In 1860 and '61 he pub- lished several articles in the True Union, urging the Bap- tists to establish a mission in Italy, and addressed letters on the subject to the officers of the Foreign Mission, Bible and Publication Societies, At his instance, Rev. John Berg wrote a letter to the London Freeman, which at- tracted the attention of influential men in England, and was the means of originating the English Baptist Italian Mission, under Rev. Mr. Wall. In 1865 he edited the Maryland Baptist for one year ; and in, that year the Columbian University, at Washington, District of Colum- bia, conferred on him the title of Doctor of Divinity. In 1870 Dr. Wilson delivered an address on Italy, in Phila- delphia, before the American Baptist Publication Society, which awakened much interest. Shortly after, he received a letter from Rev. James B. Taylor, Corresponding Secre-
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tary of the Foreign Missionary Board of the Southern Baptist Convention, saying : " I was deeply interested in your remarks in Philadelphia, and let me solicit your aid in this thing. Help us to secure the proper men ; the Board are ready to take action." A few days after, Rev. Dr. Cote was providentially brought to Dr. Wilson's no- tice, and by him introduced to the Board at Richmond, and appointed as their. missionary to Rome. That was the origin of the American Baptist Mission to Italy, in which Rev. George B. Taylor, D.D., son of the Secretary above named, has labored with so much devotion, pru- dence, and success. In 1874 Dr. Wilson wrote and pub- lished a work on Wealth, its Acquisition, Investment, and (se, which has received warm commendations from the periodical press. Ilis sympathies and labors have not been confined to his own denomination. Ile was the originator of the Young Men's Christian Association of Baltimore, in 1852. He first advocated it in the True Union, then issued the first invitation to a public meeting on the subject, was chairman of the committee to form its constitution, and was its first secretary. He has been a Manager of the House of Refuge since 1857, and Presi- dent of the Board of Trustees of the Baltimore Orphan Asylum, since the death of the lamented George Brown in 1859. Ile has also been a Manager of the Children's Aid Society, of the Home for the Fallen, and President of the Maryland Industrial School for Girls, since its ori- gin, June 8, 1868. It was chiefly through his efforts that the noble donation of Joseph Patterson, Esq., of a large lot of ground and five thousand dollars in United States bonds was secured for this important object, and increased by other subscriptions. Besides these religious and benev- olent enterprises, Dr. Wilson has taken a deep interest in developing the growth and improvement of his native city and its suburbs ; having aided in the crection of over forty buildings, and being connected with several associa- tions, among others the " Fire-Proof Building Company," and the " Peabody Heights Company," designed to pro- vide healthful and attractive homes for the people. In November, 1848, he married Miss Virginia Appleton, of Portland, Maine, a granddaughter of Rev. Elisha S. Wil- liams, who was an Adjutant in the Revolutionary Army, and who crossed the Delaware with Washington. They have two sons and a daughter, J. Appleton Wilson, archi- tect, F. Hamilton Wilson, and Adelaide S. Wilson.
CAREY, HONORABLE HENRY FAITHFUL, Associate Judge of the Supreme Bench of Baltimore, was born in that city, September 5, 1821. Ilis father, Jeremiah Garey, was a native of Virginia. Ilis grandfather, William Garey, married Henrietta Gar- land, of a well-known Virginia family, whose ances-
tors came to America in colonial times from England. Jeremiah Garey, who removed to Philadelphia, married, in 1810, Elizabeth Burke, daughter of Edward Burke, an Irish gentleman, distinguished for his literary and scientific attainments. Mrs. Buike was of the Elling- wood family, of England, which has many branches in this country. Jeremiah, who had an inventive mind and a great aptitude for mechanics, removed from Phila- delphia, where he had been pursuing the business of a machinist, and took up his residence in Baltimore, where he conducted a large establishment on Light Street, where Lombard Street has since been opened. IIe had fine lit- erary taste, and delivered occasional lectures on scientific subjects, and also on medicine. Ile was a zealous member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and was well known to the pioneers of that denomination in Baltimore. He died in 1828, leaving an only son, the subject of this" sketch. Henry was sent to the best schools, and subse- quently received instructions from the late Dr. William Roszel, a noted teacher of his day. In 1835 his mother removed to the West, and shortly afterwards married a Cin- cinnati gentleman. Henry remained in Baltimore and turned his attention to a commercial education. In this purpose he was aided by an eminent merchant, a friend of his father, with whom he resided nearly two years. In 1838 he removed West and made his home in Cincinnati. In the ensuing year he united with the Methodist Episco- pal Church. Soon after joining the Church he was induced to enter the ministry, and in 1840 was called to fill a va- cancy in and around Louisville, Kentucky. In 1841 he met Rev. Henry B. Bascom, afterwards Bishop of the Meth- odist Episcopal Church South, who became warmly attached to him. Mr. Bascom, who was then professor in a Metho- dist college, at Augusta, Kentucky, invited young Garey to that place, which invitation the latter accepted, and under the patronage of that eminent divine he began the study of theology and the ordinary college curriculum. IIe remained at Augusta two years, during which he made rapid progress in his studies. Dr. Bascom being elected President of the Transylvania University, located at Lex- ington, Kentucky, the greater number of the students of Augusta College followed him, including Mr. Garey, who matriculated at the University, in the class of the third year. There he was conspicuous for his diligence, and enjoyed great popularity among the students. At the close of the year he was selected to represent both of the University societies in the annual address, which was the great feature of the last day of the session. At this point he was forced to bid adieu to college life by reason of a fixed and dangerous disease of the throat, which was then prevalent. A change of residence was indispensable, and he left Lexington with reluctance. He returned to Balti- more, where he underwent lengthy medical treatment. Owing to the general impairment of his health he was advised to relinquish the idea of ministerial labor. For
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several years he sought rest and recuperation in the country, and in the spring of 1845 returned to Kentucky with the view of studying law. His preceptors were the well-known law firm of Purtle & Speed, the former of whom had been for a long time Chancellor of Lonis- ville, and the latter subsequently became Attorney General of the United States. In 1846 Mr. Garey was urged to take charge of an academy at New Castle, Kentucky, known as the Henry Institute. Under his general super- vision the ordinary liberal branches of education were taught, and the enterprise proved very successful. In 1848 Mr. Garey, who had been admitted to the bar, discontinued his connection with that institution. During his stay at New Castle, at the request of Senator Crittenden and others, he delivered the address to the returned volunteers from Mexico. He also pronounced a eulogy upon young Henry Clay, who fell at the battle of Buena Vista. IIe was assistant Elector for Cass and Butler in the Presiden- tial campaign of 1848. In the winter of this year he established himself as a lawyer in Columbia, Boone County, Missouri, receiving, on the occasion of his leaving Kentucky, a complimentary testimonial from his profes- sional brethren, who, at a meeting presided over by HIon- orable Humphrey Marshall, adopted resolutions expressive of their great reluctance in parting with one of their number so capable of doing honor to the professsion, and of their best wishes for his happiness and prosperity. Columbia was the seat of the Missouri University, and Mr. Garey immediately found friends in its president and pro- fessors. William Roberts, a prominent member of the Columbia bar, being made Attorney-General, his increased practice made it necessary for him to take a partner. He selected Mr. Garey. Shortly after the partnership Mr. Rob- erts died, and the whole of the extensive business of the firm passed into the hands of Mr. Garey, and was retained by him. In 1849 he purchased and improved a tract of land two miles from the county seat, adding thereto an open farm, upon which he constructed proper buildings. Ile soon became a large producer of grain, and gave much attention to fine cattle. In 1851 he was appointed a local Curator in the State University, and was subsequently elected by the State Senate and Lower House to the same position. In 1853 he was elected Secretary of the Board of Curators of the University. During his connection with the University he was very active in its affairs. Mr. Garcy was the manager of the bill which was passed for the geo- logical survey of the State, at the head of which was placed Professor George C. Swallow, who is well known for his researches and labors in that field. In the contest which occurred in Missouri between the Benton and anti-Benton wings of the Democratic party, Mr. Garey took a leading part, and was sent to the convention as Chairman of a com- . promise delegation. In the convention the controversy was settled by the adoption of a platform which was op- posed by Mr. Gardenhire, the Attorney-General, who rep-
resented the Benton faction, and advocated by Mr. Garey. These two, by common consent, conducted the discussion. The adoption of the platform resulted in the reuniting of the party. The convention was in session during the Presi- dential contest, and before the adjournment Mr. Garey was nominated as one of the Electors. He took a leading part in the canvass, and being elected, cast his vote for Franklin Pierce for President, and William R. King for Vice- Presi- dent, of the United States. Upon the inauguration of Gen- eral Pierce he was recommended by his party, including Colonel Benton, for Secretary of Nebraska Territory. Ile was, however, unwilling to change his residence, and there- fore made no application to the President for the place. He, however, accepted the position of State's Attorney for the Second Judicial Circuit, which he was appointed to fill, August 31, 1852. He held this office during the anti-slav- ery agitation in Kansas, which extended throughout Mis- souri, making it necessary for him to try many aggravated cases in the midst of popular frenzy and in the face of every form of intimidation. He fearlessly discharged his duty, and was warmly supported by the bench and bar of the circuit. The arduous duties of the farm, the law, poli- tics, and the university, commenced to tell unfavorably upon Mr. Garcy's health, and he found it necessary to forsake his labors and seek repose and health amidst new scenes. He therefore sold his farm, resigned his practice and position as Curator, and returned, in April of 1856, to Baltimore, where he took up his permanent residence, Ile was immediately admitted to the bar in Maryland, but did not open a law office until August 1, 1857, he having taken a rest of sixteen months to recuperate his exhausted energies. He gradually acquired a large and lucrative practice. Mr. Garey was active in the reform movements of 1860, which resulted in the triumph of law and order, by the election of Mayor George William Brown. During the civil war Mr. Carey sympathized with the Southern people, but took no active part in the con- flict. At the close of the war he assisted in the reorgani- zation of the Democratic party; to which he had always been attached. In the spring of 1867 he was sent to the first Democratie City Convention held after the war. Ile at once became prominent in that body and wrote and re- ported the address which was adopted, and which was the opening act in the contest that terminated in the establishment of Democratic rule in Maryland. In the same year he was elected a member from Baltimore to the State Constitutional Convention, and his practical good sense and ability gave him a strong influence in that body. The labors of the convention resulted in the adoption of the present Constitution of the State, which was confirmed by the people September 18, 1867. On Mr. Garey's re- turn from the convention he was urged to allow his name to be used as a candidate for a judicial position, and in October, 1867, he was elected an Associate Judge of the Supreme Bench of Baltimore City. He took his seat in
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the Court of Common Pleas, which he occupied uninter- ruptedly for eleven years. Ile is now, by assignment, presiding in the Baltimore City Court. Judge Garey is a prominent member of the Odd Fellows, and has passed through all the offices. When Grand Master of Maryland he delivered the address at the laying of the corner-stone of the Wildey Monument in Baltimore. In 1866 he en- tered the Supreme National Grand Lodge of the body, and has, every year since, presided over its most important committees. At the Odd Fellows' semi-centenary, he ad- dressed ten thousand members of the fraternity at Music Hall, Boston, April 26, 1869. In 1877 the Supreme Body of Odd Fellowship authorized the publication of a history of that Order, by James L. Ridgely, its Grand Secretary. Judge Garey became the editor and writer thereof, and the work, since published, has been widely eulogized by the press as a literary production. He has delivered many able and eloquent addresses before the public, and is a polished and forcible speaker. His first wife was Miss Ball, of Kentucky, who died in 1852. His present wife is the eldest daughter of the late Beale H. Richardson, former editor of the Republican and Argus of Baltimore, and a leading Democrat. Judge Garey has a son, who is a practicing physician, and a daughter, Mrs. Walton, who resides in Richmond, Virginia. Few persons possess more solid, general, and varied information; a more mature judgment or intimate knowledge of the law, or enjoy greater personal popularity than Judge Garey. He is in the prime of life, and is noted for quickness and clearness in his decisions and for his energy in the dispatch of business.
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