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the long list of his valuable papers quite exceeding the lim- its of this sketch. He is an active member of many medi- cal societies, in whose deliberations he has always taken a prominent part, and has held many honorable positions of a professional character. From 1862 to '66 he was Acting Assistant Surgeon in the United States Army, on hospital, transport, and field duty, from the Hudson to the Rio Grande, from which place he wrote many interesting letters to the New York daily Times and News. During the cholera epidemic of 1866 and '67 he was Medical Officer in the llealth Board of Brooklyn; Surgeon in charge of the Brooklyn Central Dispensary from 1866 to 1869; Delegate to the Massachusetts State Medical Society from the Medi- cal Society of the County of Kings in 1867; and Delegate to the American Medical Association from the Baltimore Medical and Surgical societies in 1875 and '76. A volu- minous writer, an enthusiastic student, and devoted to « medical and general science, Dr. Caldwell has already achieved fame, and his star is in the ascendant. He was united in marriage, June 6, 1862, to Miss Anna Ridgely, daughter of R. Horace and Mary Worthington Love, of the " Forest," Baltimore County, a direct descendant of Sir Arthur Johns, of England.
BARROLL, JOHN KING, was born in the Ninth Ward of the city of Baltimore, May 21, 1806. His father, Thomas Carroll, was born in Ireland near the city of Dublin, and came to the United States, landing in Baltimore about the time of the rebellion in the former country. Ile was a carpenter by trade, and among the first buildings he helped to put up was the old Assembly Rooms, on the corner of Fayette and Holliday streets. He be- longed to Captain McEldery's company called the Grena- diers, afterwards commanded by Captain Lawson. He married Sarah King, a native of Baltimore County .: Her ancestors came from England, and were granted a tract of land from the Gunpowder River to Jones's Falls by King George the Fourth. The Kingsbury Works received from them its name. Thomas Carroll died in 1832 at the age of sixty-four, and his wife at the age of thirty-eight, both in Baltimore. They had five sons and two daughters, of whom only the subject of this sketch and his brother Thomas are now living. The former remembers the bom- bardment of Fort McHenry by the British in 1814, and the battle at North Point. He paraded in the old Twenty- seventh Regiment of Maryland militia. He served his time as an apprentice to the cooperage business from his eighteenth year till he was of age, after which he worked five years as a journeyman, when for the seven following years he combined the business of grocer, cooper, and that of a fisher on the Potomac. For six years he was Ilarbor Master for the port of Baltimore, his station being at Bow- ley's Wharf, and again for four years, and for two years
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under J. S. Hollins. While Governor Swann was Mayor of Baltimore, Mr. Carroll was two years in the First and Second Branchi of the City Council; also for four years under Mayor Vansant. In November, 1875, he was elected one of the Judges of the Orphans' Court of the city of Bal- timore, which position he still holds. He has always be- longed to the Democratic party, and is a member of the Catholic Church. Ile has never lived outside of Baltimore. Mr. Carroll has had a family of nine sons and three daugh- ters; all of the latter and five of the former are living.
ANDY, JOHN HUSTON, Lawyer, was born in Somerset County, Maryland, February 19, 1830. After a thorough academic preparation he en- tered, at the age of fifteen years, the Sophomore Class of Jefferson College, Cannonsburg, Pensyl- vania, of which the Rev. Robert J. Breckenridge was the Principal. After remaining there for two years he was transferred by certificate to Princeton, and graduated at the latter institution in the spring of 1848. The same year he commenced the study of law in the office of his father, William W. Ilandy, of Princess Anne, and in August of that year removed with his family to Cincinnati, Ohio. The family remained in that city only one year, the cholera epidemic of 1849, which prevailed there, inducing them to return to their homestead, Cherry Grove, Somerset County, Maryland. After a course of legal study in Baltimore city in the office of his kinsman, William H. Collins, he was in 1851 admitted to practice in the various courts, in- cluding the United States and Appellate courts. In 1854 he was admitted to the Supreme Court of the United States, and the same year removed to California, where he continued to practice his profession in San Francisco and Placerville. In the latter part of the above year Mr. Handy, on account of the harshness of the California climate, removed to Cincinnati, where he formed the law partnership of A. D. & J. II. Ilandy, which firm edited the Handy's Reports of the decisions in the Superior Court of Cincinnati. Whilst in Cincinnati Mr. Handy was ap- pointed by Governor Chase as Judge Advocate of the First Division of Ohio Volunteers under General William H. Lytle, his intimate friend. During the American civil war Mr. Handy joined the Confederate cause, and after the cessation of hostilities located in Harrisonburg, Virginia, in the practice of his profession. After remaining there two years he returned to Maryland and settled in Snow Hill, Worcester County, forming a law partnership there with Colonel E. K. Wilson, the present Associate Judge of that Circuit. For five years he remained at Snow Hill enjoying a practice which extended through the counties of Wor- cester, Somerset, and Wicomico. In 1872 he removed to Towsontown, Baltimore County, from whenge, after a practice of eighteen months, he established himself in his
profession in Baltimore city, where he has continued in successful practice up to the present time. Whilst at Towsontown Mr. Handy was engaged by the State of Maryland as counsel in many important suits against cor- porations in relation to the payment of taxes. Among these were suits against the Philadelphia, Wilmington and Baltimore Railroad, the Northern Central, Baltimore and Ohio, and the Cumberland, Pennsylvania, Railroads, and the National Banks. The latter refused to pay State taxes under the then existing laws, and being sustained by the courts in that position Mr. Handy advised the Comptroller of the State Treasury to procure legislation to re-assess the property of the banks for taxation for all the years they had escaped by defective legislation. This was done, and though the banks at first resisted in the courts they finally complied with the requirements of the new law, the exe- cution of which was intrusted to Mr. Handy's direction as counsel for the State. Mr. Ilandy's father was William W. Ilandy, a native and prominent lawyer of Somerset County. llis grandfather, William Handy, was also a native of the above county, and resided upon his elegant demesne, " Handy Hall." The Handys originally came from Eng- land, the progenitor of the American branch, Colonel Isaac Handy, settling on Wicomico River, in 1665, about three miles from the present town of Salisbury, Wicomico County. Mr. Ilandy's mother's maiden name was Ann Dashiell Huston, daughter of Dr. John Huston, a dis- tinguished physician of Salisbury, and granddaughter of Rev. Alexander Huston, a celebrated Presbyterian clergy- man and graduate of Princeton, whose father was Samuel Huston, an Irish gentleman who emigrated to Delaware in the colonial times, purchasing there extensive tracts of land, which are still in the possession of the family. Ilis paternal grandmother was Elizabeth Ker, daughter of Rev. Jacob Ker, a Presbyterian clergyman and graduate of Princeton, who was the grandson of Walter Ker, a Scotch- man, who was banished to this country in 1685 in conse- quence of his being engaged in the Monmouth Rebellion. lle settled in Frechold, New Jersey. The maternal grand- mother of Mr. Ilandy was Sarah Dashiell, daughter of Captain Robert Dashiell, of Tony Tank, Somerset County, Maryland, the latter being of Huguenot descent. The Handys are connected with many of the oldest and most respectable . families of Maryland, including the Winders, Henrys, Morrises, Wilsons, Irvings, etc. Mr. Handy married, in 1859, Miss Louisa Dirickson Waters, daughter of Thomas L. Waters, and granddaughter of William Waters, a lawyer and gentleman of large fortune. She is a lineal descendant of Sir Thomas Littleton, the celebrated law writer, through her ancestor John Waters, who married a sister of Lord Littleton. Mr. Handy has two children living : Anne Huston and Louise Wilson Handy. He en- joys an extensive and lucrative practice, and confines him- self mostly to civil practice, in which he is constantly and actively employed. Ile is a polished and eloquent speaker,
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RANDOLPH, REV. ALFRED MAGILL, Rector of Emanuel Church, Baltimore, was born in Win- chester, Frederick County, Virginia, in 1836. His father was Robert Lee Randolph, an extensive planter and slaveholder of the above county> His grandfather was Colonel Robert Randolph, and his great- grandfather, Robert Randolph, was a Colonel in the Revo- lutionary war. Edward Randolph, an ancestor, was the first President of the Continental Congress. The Randolph family trace its pedigrce back for eight generations in Virginia, their original progenitor being William Randolph, who came to America in the sixteenth century and settled in the above State, where his descendants thence to the present day have been distinguished for their social and political worth and influence. William and Mary College, the oldest institution of its character in America with the exception of Harvard, was founded by Sir John Randolph. William Randolph, the pioneer of the family to this country, had four sons, William Randolph, of Chatsworth, being the immediate ancestor of the subject of this sketch. Mr. Randolph's mother was Mary, daughter of John Magill, a prominent lawyer of Frederick County, Virginia, and granddaughter of Colonel John Magill, who served in the Revolutionary Army with General Washington. His grand- mother on the maternal side was a Thurston, daughter of Judge Thurston, of Washington. Alfred M. Randolph's youth. was spent on the ancestral estate of his family, " Eastern View," Frederick County, Virginia, which has descended " from father to son" for over a century and a half. There he enjoyed the private instructions of a famous educator, Andrew J. Moulder, now Superinten- dent of Public Instruction in California. At the early age of seventeen years he entered William and Mary College, where his ancestors had been educated for eight gencra- tions. He remained there three years, when he graduated with the degree of A.M. IIe then became a student in the Episcopal Theological Seminary near Alexandria, Vir- ginia, the President thereof being Rev. William Sparrow, D.D. After a three years' course in this institution he graduated with distinction. Among his co-graduates who have since attained fame in the Church were Rev. Phillips Brooks, of Boston ; Rev. Henry C. Potter, of New York ; and Rev. Henry A. Wise, of Virginia. His first call was to St. George's Church, Fredericksburg, Virginia (which is the largest church in the dioscese of Virginia), as Assist- ant. The Rev. Dr. McGuire, the Rector, died suddenly on the Sunday succeeding that upon which Mr. Ran- dolph entered upon his sacred duties. Two months there- after he was called to the Rectorship, which he accepted, and took full charge of the parish. In November, 1862, Burnside's army appeared in front of Fredericksburg. Twelve hours before the bombardment of that city Mr. Randolph with his wife and babe, the latter but twenty- four hours okl, left the town (about midnight) in an am- bulance and passed through the Confederate Army whilst
it was moving into position. He halted two miles out of Fredericksburg, and was a witness by the aid of a field- glass of the bombardment. Ile watched with anxions in- terest the shelling of his church, which was struck sixty- two times without receiving any material injury. Shortly after leaving Fredericksbing he entered the Confederate Army as Chaplain, and was assigned to duty in Jackson's corps, in which he served for about a year, and was then transferred to a Post-Chaplaincy at Danville, Virginia, in which capacity he served until the close of hostilities. After having charge of a parish in Halifax, Virginia, for six months he, in 1866, was called to Christ Church, Alexandria, which is one of the oldest buildings for re- ligious worship in the United States. Its membership com- prises the oldest and most refined families of Alexandria, and in it worshipped the " Father of his Country." In the autumn of 1867 Mr. Randolph was called to the Rector- ship of Emanuel Church, Baltimore, to succeed Rev. Noah Schenck, and for twelve years has proved himself a zeal- ous and faithful pastor of a congregation that in refinement, intelligence, and moral worth will rank with any in the country. In 1858 Mr. Randolph married Miss Sallie Griffith IIoxton, daughter of Dr. William Hoxton of the United States Army, and granddaughter of Rev. Mr. Grif- fith, who was the first Episcopal Bishop-elect of Virginia, and during the last three years of the Revolutionary war Chaplain to George Washington. Mr. Randolph has had eight children, seven of whom are living. The eldest son, Robert Lee Randolph, is being educated at the Episcopal High School in Virginia.
CHAPMAN, REV. WILLIAM HINKLE, was born at Middleburg, Loudon County, Virginia, August 31, 1828. His father, whose name he bears, was a minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church and a member of the Baltimore Conference. He died in 1828, while in charge of the churches comprising the Lou- don Circuit. His widow with her two children removed soon afterward to the home of her father-in-law in Alle- ghany County, Maryland. She remained there a few months and then removed to Cumberland, where she continued to reside for sixteen years. In 1848 she removed to Baltimore to better enable her elder son to complete a curriculum in Materia Medica at the University of Maryland, who, soon after graduating, entered on the practice of his profession in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, and subsequently prosecuted it successfully in New York city, where he died. When but nineteen years of age the subject of this sketch resigned his position as clerk in a drygoods house and entered the Christian ministry: The Rev. O. H. Tiffany, D.D., now an eminent minister of New York city, having resigned a junior pastorship near Baltimore to accept a Professorship in Dickinson College, Pennsylvania, Mr. Chapman was
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invited to fill his unexpired term on the circuit, which in- vitation he accepted, and on the following March (1848) was received into the Baltimore Conference. During the past thirty years he has filled a number of the prominent pulpits of his denomination in Baltimore and the District of Columbia. At the close of the civil war he was stationed at the Dumbarton Street Church, Georgetown. Ile was known to be thoroughly in sympathy with the National authorities in their efforts to preserve the integrity of the Union, but so impartial was his clerical administration, and so devoted was he to the work of his ministry, that not one of the numerous parishioners whose sympathies were with the Southern States withdrew from the church of which he was the pastor. President Lincoln appointed him Chaplain to the " Seminary Hospital " for officers of the army, the duties of which position he performed with great satisfac- tion. His ministrations at Georgetown were highly valued by the people. In all the churches over which he has pre- sided his ministry has been successful. Mr. Chapman has
a wide reputation as a financier, and through his skilful management a large number of churches in Maryland have been relieved of the burden of debt. He has performed a large amount of dedicatory work. Ile is an able and en- tertaining preacher, and a ready and impressive extempo- raneous debater. At the Baltimore Annual Conference in 1878 he was appointed Presiding Elder of the Baltimore District.
ADLER, WARREN H., President and Proprietor of the Bryant, Stratton & Sadler Business College, Baltimore, was born, September 30, 1841, at Lock- port, Niagara County, New York. After graduating at the primary and high school of his native city he entered upon a course of study at Bryant & Stratton's Busi- ness College in Buffalo, New York, and here laid the, foundation of his future career in life, graduating with honor. At the close of his school-life he spent one year in active Imsiness, and thus commended by the develop- ment of his talents in that direction he was called to take charge of the Department of Penmanship and Bookkeep- ing in the public schools of the city of Lockport. Enter- ing upon his duties with enthusiasm he held the position for three years with increasing success. His work at- tracted the attention of Mesas. Bryant & Stratton, and inspired them to offer Mr. Sadler inducements to associate himself with them. He resigned his position at Lockport to accept an offer from them. Early in 1863 and for a short time he taught in the Cleveland and Buffalo colleges. From herc he was transferred to Rochester, New York, and in connection with Messrs. Bryant, Stratton & Chap- man organized the Rochester College, since so highly prosperous. In December, 1863, he married Miss Letitia HI. Ellicott, daughter of the late Andrew Ellicott, of Orleans
County, New York, whose ancestors were among the first settlers of Ellicott's Mills, Maryland, and in the summer of the ensuing year removed to Baltimore. It is here that Mr. Sadler may be said to have first fully individualized his reputation, connected as he had long been with the founders or the first practical appliers of a scheme of special business education. In establishing the Baltimore link in the famous international chain or association of business colleges which fell to his lot as organizer, Mr. Sadler first came prominently before the public. He founded the Bryant, Stratton & Sadler Business College in the summer of 1864. At the end of three years the con- nection of Messrs. Bryant & Stratton with the Baltimore institution was dissolved, and Mr. Sadler, then its Presi- dent, became by purchase the entire owner. His per- sistent and earnest efforts and wise and liberal manage- ment have raised his institution to the front rank among the business colleges of the United States. Its standard is high, and its course of study the result of careful thought and long experience. Its aim is to give a thorough and practical business education, to graduate students as fully prepared to enter upon commercial pursuits as others are in other institutions for law, medicine, clergy, and the like. To this end Mr. Sadler has made a special endeavor to bring together all conveniences and appliances of known value. Ilis college is fully equipped for the help, health, and comfort of the student. It has become to the young man intending a business life one of the attractive features of Baltimore. Over seven thousand young men have gone from this college prepared for a business career, many of whom are now prosperously engaged in active business life. Nearly three hundred students are now in daily attend- ance. Mr. Sadler is an expert in intricate branches of business calculations. He is one of the authors of the celebrated Orton & Sadler's Business Calculator, a work now extensively known and commanding a larger sale than any authorities ever before published. The first six months of publication it reached a sale of over thirty thousand copies, and is to-day acknowledged as the best textbook of the kind extant. Mr. Sadler is a member of the Episcopal Church. He has three children, two sons and one daughter. His home, " Irvington," is located in Baltimore County, a short distance from the city.
BITCHELL, HON. WILLIAM DE COURCY, Farmer and Legislator, was born in Queen Anne's County, Maryland, November In, 1840. He was the second son of Henry S. and Mary S. E. (De Courcy) Mitchell. His father is one of the largest landowners and tobacco planters in Southern Ma- ryland. At one time he owned between five and six thousand acres of land. Ilis paternal grandfather was a very wealthy merchant in Baltimore, Ilis mother is a
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lineal descendant of Baron De Courcy, the English gen- eral who completed the supremacy of English rule in Ire- land, and became Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, with the titles and estates of the old Anglo-Norman barony of Courcy and Kinsale. One of the descendants of Baron De Courcy, Ilon. Henry De Courcy, emigrated to the Province of Ma- ryland with Lord Baltimore, or soon followed him, and re- ceived an estate near the mouth of the Chester River, which was designated as " My Lord's Gift," and has ever since borne that name. It was preserved intact in the direct family line until the year 1870, when it was sold under a mort- gage obtained upon it just prior to the late war. Mr. Mitchell spent four years at Georgetown College, District of Columbia, after which he was for two years a student at Mount St. Mary's College, near Emmettsburg, Maryland. Ile then returned home and entered upon the active duties of his chosen occupation as a farmer in Charles County, where he still resides. He has never been conspicuous in public affairs, preferring the peaceful pursuits of private life. In the campaign of 1877 he consented to be the candidate on the Independent Republican ticket, which was successful by a small majority. During the war he was an avowed Secessionist, and went to Virginia for the purpose of enlisting in the Confederate Army ; but finding the sentiment in that State so hostile to Maryland, because of her failure to secede and join the rebellion, he returned home. At the close of the war he accepted the situation in good faith, and believed it the sacred duty of every citizen to support the laws and Constitution of the United States. A change gradually took place in his sentiments, he becoming more and more liberal in his views, until in 1872 he joined the Republican party, voting for Grant in opposition to Greeley. He is now devoted to the prin- ciples of the Republican party, and heartily believes in the equal rights of all citizens before the law, and in the edu- cation and elevation of the masses as the only security for the stability of our free institutions. Mr. Mitchell was educated in the Roman Catholic faith, to which he adheres.
ANIEL, HON. WILLIAM, was born in Somerset County, Maryland, January 24, 1826. Ilis an- cestors on his father's side were natives of North Carolina, some of whom have been distinguished for legal ability and position. His ancestors on his mother's side were natives of Maryland. His father, Tra- vers Daniel, was a planter of Somerset County. Mr. Daniel entered Dickinson College, Carlisle, Pennsylvania, in 1844, and graduated in 1848. . He studied law in his native county with William O. Waters, and there began the practice of law in 1851. In 1858 he removed to Bal- timore, where he has since followed his profession .. In June, 1860, he married Ellen Young, daughter of the late Sheriden Guiteau, her grandfather being the late Thomas
Kelso, of Baltimore. Mr. Daniel professed conversion and united with the Methodist Episcopal Church in the last years of his collegiate life, and a large portion of the time has been an official member of that Church. Ile has been a Trustee of the Mount Vernon Methodist Episcopal Church; a Trustee and Treasurer of the Educational Fund of the Baltimore Annual Conference ; Secretary and Treas- urer of the Male Free School and Colvin Institute; a Trustee of the Centennial Biblical Institute ; a Manager of the Baltimore Preachers' Aid Society, and Trustee of the Kelso Home for Orphans. In 1860, in Staunton, Virginia, at a meeting of the lay members of the Baltimore Con- ference to consider the desirableness of having the Balti- more Conference united with the Methodist Church South, Mr. Daniel stood with the minority, and strongly advo- cated the continuance of the old relations. His views were then overruled, but time has vindicated their correct- ness. Mr. Daniel is a thorough temperance man. For years it has been one of the great aims of his life to help advance all movements designed to suppress the vice of intemperance and to secure the enactment and enforcement of prohibitory liquor laws. He has been President of the Maryland State Temperance Alliance ever since its organ- ization in 1873, mainly through the influence of which six and a half counties in Maryland have adopted prohibition by means of local option. To increase the strength and efficiency of this organization Mr. Daniel has contributed liberally, and has devoted to it much valuable time. He was three times elected to represent his native county in the Legislature, twice to . the House of Delegates and once to the Senate. After removing to Baltimore he was elected to the Constitutional Convention of 1863. Although he had been somewhat connected with slavery, he took a prominent part in the emancipation of the slaves. In the Constitutional Convention in 1864 he thus gave expression to his views : " I believe that slavery is a great moral evil, condemned alike by the spirit of Christianity, the teaching of the Bible, and the civilization of the age." In the early part of the civil war he co-operated with Ilenry Win- ter Davis in most of his measures. He always took high ground for the Union and the supreme power of the Gen- eral Government. These views we find ably elaborated in his speeches in the volumes of the debates of the Consti- tutional Convention. Mr. Daniel is an able and successful lawyer, and one of the most prominent, useful, and influ- ential citizens of Maryland.
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