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present time. Ile has also been prominent in public affairs, and in 1867 was elected to the Wirst Branch of the City Council from the Fourteenth Ward. Ile was then the only Democratic member, and was the first Democrat elected to the Council after the war. Ile was re-elected in 1868, when the Council was composed entirely of Democrats, and was made its President, filling the position with signal ability. In the absence of the Mayor, Robert T. Banks, Mr. Duvall frequently acted as Mayor ex-officio, performing most satisfactorily all the duties devolving upon him. In 1870 he was elected to the Second Branch of the City Council, of which during that and the ensuing year he was President. He has since occupied no political position. He is an active and warmly interested member of the Free and Accepted Masons, the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and the Independent Order of Mechanics. Mr. Duvall is a consistent member of the Protestant Epis- copal Church, gentlemanly in manner, an enterprising business man, and highly esteemed as a citizen. Ile was married in 1841 to Miss Eleanor B., daughter of Samuel Turner, a prominent lawyer of Calvert County, and has two sons and a daughter.
OULSON, REV. THOMAS LAYMAN, was born at Sadsburyville, Chester County, Pennsylvania, De- cember 13, 1831. His parents, Rev. Abraham and Catharine Poulson, were devoted Christians, and were very careful in the early religious training of their children. His father was a local minister in the Methodist Episcopal Church. While Thomas was yet a child the family removed to Odessa, Delaware, at which place his father became the Principal of the new academy which had just been established there, and it was in that institution that Mr. Poulson received his early education. Subse- quently removing to West Chester, Pennsylvania, he there continued at school until his sixteenth year, when he en- tered the office of the Village Record, where he remained five years and acquired a thorough knowledge of the print- ing business. During this early period of his life he was converted and became a member of the Methodist Episco- pal Church, in which communion he was especially active and efficient as a Sabbath-school worker. At the age of twenty-one he became one of the editors of the Smyrna Times, a newspaper of Delaware which his father had pre- viously started, and which was known for its strenuous ad- vocacy of the temperance cause. In 1854 he married Miss Cora Wilmer Coombe, the eldest daughter of Rev. Pennell Coombe, an eminent minister of the Philadelphia Confer- ence of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Ile soon after- ward removed to Port Deposit, Maryland, and there en- gaged in mercantile business. Ile was appointed class leader in the church, and November 8, 1855, was licensed to exhort. On the 12th of the same month he received a local preacher's license from the Quarterly Conference.
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In the spring of 1857 he gave up his business and sought admission to the Philadelphia Conference, then holding its annual session in Asbury Church, Wilmington, Delaware, und was received and appointed Junior Preacher to Annamessex County, Maryland, where he displayed un- usual talent as a revivalist. At the following Conference three hundred conversions were reported from that circuit. In 1858 he was placed in charge of Cambridge Circuit, Dorchester County, Maryland, where he labored with in- creasing usefulness until the Conference of 1860, when he was appointed to Church Creek Circuit, in the same county. While he was stationed there the civil war commenced, and September 21, 1861, he was elected and commissioned Chaplain of the First Regiment, Eastern Shore, Maryland, Volunteers. Resigning his charge in Church Creek Cir- cuit he assumed the duties of the chaplaincy and accompa- nied the regiment in all its marches for more than three years. Ilis preachings and other ministerial services were generally largely attended. At the expiration of his term of service he conducted a protracted meeting at Odessa, Delaware, which was regarded as one of the most successful ever hell in that place. About this time he was again ap- pointed Army Chaplain, but declined the position in order to resume his proper relations with the Conference. He was next appointed to the charge of the Delaware City Station, where he continued three years. While there he was elected Grand Worthy Chief Templar of the temper- ance order of Good Templars, in the State of Delaware, and while occupying that position attained considerable celebrity by his lectures and sermons on temperance. Un- compromising in his opposition to the liquor license system, the friends of the cause of temperance everywhere hailed his coming with delight and rallied to his support. From 1868 to 1871 he was Pastor in the North East Station, Cecil County, Maryland, and although his work was attended with great success it did not interfere with his advocacy of the temperance cause. At an immense gathering at Notting- ham, Pennsylvania, he spoke on the same platform with Horace Greeley. Mr. Poulson was then Grand Worthy Chief Templar of the Good Templars of Maryland. At the Oakington National Camp Meeting, held in Harford County, Maryland, in July, 1870, he edited a daily journal, which reported the sermons and account of the exercises of that meeting. He was one of the orators at the com- mencement of Delaware College in 1871. In March, 1871, he was appointed to the charge at Zion Circuit, which he resigned after seven months of successful labor and ac- cepted the pastorate of the First English Reformed Church of Baltimore. He was Assistant Secretary of the Wilming- ton Conference from its organization, in 1869, to the time of his removal to Baltimore. In the summer of 1873 he was sent as a delegate from the Grand Lodge of Maryland to the International Session of the Right Worthy Grand Lodge of Good Templars at London, England. During this tour he lectured on temperance to large audiences in
England, Scotland, and Wales, everywhere receiving very flattering receptions, After a brief tour through Belgium, Germany, Austria, Hungary, Italy, Switzerland, and France, he returned home and resigned the pastorate of the First English Reformed Church and accepted that of the Bethany Independent Methodist Church, Baltimore, where his labors were attended with the usual success. In 1875, during the illness of the late Bishop Cummins, he was invited to supply the pulpit of the Church of the Redeemer ( Reformed Epis- copal), which he did to the satisfaction of the congregation until the Bishop's recovery, a period of about two months. In 1875 Mr. Poulson organized a Methodist Episcopal So- ciety in the northwestern part of Baltimore, on the corner of Gilmor and Mulberry streets, which he served until 1878, and which is now considered one of the most prominent societies of that denomination in Baltimore. In 1876, by invitation of the President of the Bible Society of the Dis- trict of Columbia, he delivered the anniversary address in Lincoln Ilall, Washington city, to a very large congre- gation. Ile is still actively engaged in his ministerial work, being stationed in South Baltimore, and is at the same time one of the most earnest and efficient advocates of the temperance cause in Maryland. He is an eloquent preacher, and an instructive, entertaining, and popular lec- turer.
ARR, HON. DABNEY S., was born in Albemarle, Virginia, March 5, 1802. His grandfather, Dab- ney Carr, married Martha, daughter of Peter Jef- GNUS ferson. She was the favorite sister of Thomas Jef- ferson. Dabney Carr was an intimate friend of Jeffer- son. He died in 1773 and was buried at Monticello. His eldest son, Peter Carr, was a man of very superior ability and attainments. Ile married in 1798 Hetty, daughter of the llon. John Smith, of Baltimore, and sister of General Samuel Smith, who for forty years represented his State and city in the national councils. Peter Carr died at the age of forty-five. ITis only surviving son was Hon. Dab- ney S. Carr, the subject of this sketch, who passed his early years in the counting-room of his uncle, General Smith, whose house of Smith & Buchanan was then at the head of the foreign trade of Baltimore. Mr. Carr, how- ever, early entered the political arena. He was a man of most genial spirit and fascinating manners, and possessed great personal popularity. For a long time he was the editor and proprietor of the Baltimore Republican and Argus, a journal which he started in 1827, and which was the leading Democratic paper of that day. To his pen and political influence General Jackson was mainly in- debted for carrying Maryland in the Presidential canvass, and Mr. Carr was rewarded by the appointment of Naval Officer of the Port of Baltimore, an office which he held from 1829 until 1843, when he was appointed by President
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Tyler Minister to Constantinople. In this position Mr. Carr remained until 1850, when he returned to America. His death occurred soon afterward, March 24, 1854, at the University of Virginia, and was hastened by the effects of a sunstroke received in Asia Minor while he was engaged in reorganizing the United States Consulship in that country with a view to promoting the influence of the American missionaries. His grave is beside that of his father at Monticello. He married Sidney, daughter of the IIon. Wilson Cary Nicholas, Governor of Virginia, 'and member of Congress from that State for many years IIe had five sons and two daughters. His widow and three sons and a daughter survive him. His eldest son, Wilson C. N. Carr, is the present Deputy State's Attorney for Baltimore city.
ENNIS, COLONEL JOHN UPSHUR, was born, June 14, 1846, at Kingston, Somerset County, Mary- land. His father was George Robertson Dennis, and his mother's maiden name was Louisa A. S. Joynes, daughter of Thomas R. Joynes, of Accomac County, Virginia. The family record of Mr. Dennis is embraced in the sketch of his father, Senator Dennis, which appears in this volume. The family has always been distinguished for ability, social qualities, and integ- rity. The academic education of the subject of this sketch was received at the Washington Academy, Somerset County, Maryland, after which he entered the Sophomore Class at Princeton College, graduating therefrom in 1865 in the eighteenth year of his age. He then entered upon the ยท study of law in the University of Virginia, which he con- tinued under the private instruction . of Scarburgh, Duf- field & Sharp, prominent lawyers of Norfolk, Virginia. Ile afterwards read law in the office of his uncle, James U. Dennis, at. Princess Anne, Maryland, until he attained his majority, when in January, 1868, he was admitted to the bar. After practicing his profession for a few months in Somerset he removed to Baltimore, where he has since been successfully engaged in law practice. Though always manifesting a decided interest in politics Mr. Dennis has invariably declined being a candidate for public office, pre- ferring to devote himself exclusively to his profession.
G e 3 CAMILLINGSLEA, JAMES LEVIN, M.D., was born in Abingdon, Harford County, Maryland, October 24, 1804. Ilis parents were James and Elizabeth (Matthews) Billingslea, both natives of Harford County. He received the rudiments of his eduea- tion in his native town and his classical culture at the Bel Air Academy, of which Rev. Reuben 11. Davis was Prin- cipal. This Academy was at that time the most distin- guished seat of learning in the county, and was largely
patronized by the surrounding counties and the city of Bal- timore. After leaving Bel Air Academy he entered the Junior Class in St. Mary's College (now St. Mary's Semi- mary), Baltimore, and graduated in medicine at the Uni- versity of Maryland in 1827. Soon after taking his degree Dr. Billingslea settled in Uniontown, then a part of Fred- erick County, now in Carroll County, where he was en- gaged in the practice of medicine for over twenty years. Ile removed to Baltimore in the spring of 1847 and en- gaged in the drug business for a short time. Ile then removed to his farm on Long Green in Baltimore County. He returned to Carroll County in 1860, and settled in Westminster. The doctor was appointed Provost Marshal during the civil war, and was taken prisoner by General Lee on his first invasion, but subsequently liberated on parole. Ile represented Carroll County as a Republican in the Maryland Senate in the sessions of 1865, '66, '67. Ile was an original reformer in the Methodist Epis- copal Church, and united with the Methodist Protes- tant Church upon its organization, and still continues a member. Dr. Billingslea married, first, Susannah IIaines, a member of the Society of Friends; and second, in 1867, Elizabeth Cover, of Frederick County, who is still living. His children are Elizabeth Haines, Uriah Haines, Albert, Charles, James II., Ada Mary, Louis Levin, and Josiah Slinglulf.
ASTMAN, LEWIS M., M.D., was born in Balti- more, Maryland, July 17, 1836. His parents were Jonathan Shepherd and Adeline P. Eastman, of English extraction. Doctor Eastman received his preliminary education at Elizabethtown, New Jer- sey, and at Newark, Delaware. He then entered Newton University, where he received his degree of Bachelor of Arts, and three years subsequently that of Master of Arts. Hc commeneed the study of medicine in -Professor Dun- bar's office, continuing his studies under Professor G. W. Miltenberger and the late Professor Charles Frick, gradu- ating from the Maryland University with the class of 1859. Ile commenced the practice of his profession in Baltimore. In 1862 hie presented himself before the Medical Board of the Regular Army for examination, and after successfully passing the same he was commissioned an Assistant Sur- geon in the United States Army, which commission he held until the latter part of 1863, when he resigned. Doctor Eastman married, September 23, 1863, Mary A., daughter of the late Mr. John Gormley, and again commenced the 'practice of his profession in his native city, where he has since prosecuted it with energy and success. He is a mem- ber of the Alumni of the Maryland University, the B.uti- more Medical Association, the Medical and Chirurgical Faculty of Maryland, the American Medical Association, and the Maryland Academy of Sciences.
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