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of Rutberg's College, at their anniversary, on " The Old World and the New." Other addresses made by him were one in 1868, at the Maryland Institute, on " The Relation of the Legal Profession to Society," and one in 1869 before the literary societies of St. John's College, on " The Need of a Higher Standard of Education in the United States," and one in 1872 to the medical graduates of the Maryland University. October 29, 1839, he married Clara Maria Brune, daughter of Frederick William Brune, of Bremen. He has had seven children, five of whom are living.
6 NOWDEN, PHILIP M., Sheriff of Baltimore, was born in Anne Arundel County, Maryland, Novem- ber 18, 1831. Hle made good progress in the schools of his native town, and left the parental roof at the early age of thirteen to seek his fortune in the ,9 eity of Baltimore. Ile there entered the employ of Mr. Hughes, saddle and harness maker, in whose establish- ment he was made a complete drudge, with little considera- tion for his tender years. Soon becoming discouraged and homesick, he returned to his home on West River. At this course his mother was much displeased, and after a time, placing a ten-dollar note in his hands, she started him off again with the command never to return to his home under similar circumstances. Returning to Baltimore he en- gaged to learn the printing business, at which he served for aliout five years. At the expiration of this period, when only nineteen years of age, he was married to Sallie E., daughter of John Kuyhton, of South River. He then went to Washington and entered the office of the Globe, of which paper he was the principal proof-reader before the end of two years. At that time he returned to Baltimore and en- tered the conveyancing and real estate business, which he conducted with great, success until his nomination and election to the position of Sheriff of the city of Baltimore, November 6, 1877. His majority (24,000) was the greatest ever received by any individual to any office in that city. The business of this office he performs to the entire satis- faction of the courts and of the public. Mr. Snowden was for a number of years a member of the Maryland Institute, and had charge of the Educational and Lecture Depart- ment. It was through his means that the Female Book- keeping Department was introduced into this institution. Ile was also for six years Commissioner for the Public Schools, and established the Saturday Normal Class for the teachers, which has proved a great success. Mr. Snowden also established English-German schools, and the first eolored grammar school in the city. He is a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and has filled the next highest position in tlie Grand Lodge of Maryland. He is also a member of the Order of United Mechanics of Baltimore. At the close of the late war he established the
first military organization under the new military law. Ile was Assistant Librarian at Annapolis under John Swann for two years. His uniform courtesy and kindness have made him very popular, and secured him the warm friend- ship of all who know him. He has had four children, only two of whom are now living, Florence May, and Ella Virginia.
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STEWART, JOHN, was born in Roxburgshire, Scot- land, February 17, 1779. Ile married and came to the United States, arriving in Baltimore in 1817, in which place he engaged in the manufacture of agricultural implements. He invented a patent plough, which took the premium at the first exhibition of the Maryland Agricultural Society. In 1826 he started the well-known livery stable on Calvert Street, opposite the City Spring, which proved a successful undertaking, and in which he was engaged until after the year 1850, when he retired to his farm near Bel Air, Harford County. Here, until he became too enfeebled by age, he occupied his time in agricultural pursuits. He died March 8, 1876. Ile was a gentleman of pure and blameless character, sterling integrity, and as long as he retained his health was always energetic and successful in business. Two sons and a daughter survived him, Francis, John Duncan, and Maggie, now Mrs. James Ileald. The last-named now occupies the country-seat of her father near Bel Air, which is one of the most beautiful and valuable in the State. The grounds of the County Agricultural Fair form a part of the estate, and the projected Narrow Gauge Railroad will run through it. Barbara, the wife of John Stewart, died in the October preceding his death. Their son George at the age of six years spoke six languages with fluency and correctness, and as he grew older his attainments as a scholar and writer were very wonderful. He died at the age of nineteen. Their son, Colin Mac- kenzie, also highly gifted, died at the age of twenty-one, and their son James, twin brother of John Duncan, a sketch of whose life appears in this volume, died at the commencement of the war.
EINEKAMP, WILLIAM, Piano Manufacturer, was born in the town of Lippe, Detmold, Prussia, in 1826. After receiving as good an education as the schools of his native place could furnish, he, at the age of fourteen years, commenced to learn the piano manufacturing business, in which he continued for seven years, at the expiration of which he came to America and settled in Baltimore, Maryland. This was in 1848, and the subject of this sketch, then in his twenty-
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first year, entered into the service of a piano manufac- turing establishment, in which he continued for thirteen years and a half, thus enjoying the long experience of nearly twenty one years in his trade. In 18ot Mr. Heine- kamp established himself in business on his own account at 511 West Baltimore Street, for the manufacture of pianos. In 1872 he built the extensive factory, five stories high and covering an area of over seven thousand square feet, at the corner of St. Peter and Sterritt streets, Baltimore, where he manufactures grand, square, and up- right pianos (the former being a specialty), and gives employment, during active seasons, to fifty workmen. Mr. Ileinekamp has constructed other valuable improvements at the corner of St. Peter and South Paca streets. His father was John Heinekamp, of Detmold, a distinguished professor of music and general literature. He died recently at the advanced age of eighty-seven years. Mr. William Heinekamp's wife was Miss Mary Marischen, daughter of John Marischen, of Oldenburg, Prussia, by whom he has six children (Lizzie, William, Mollie, Annie, Charlie, and Katie). Like their father, the children possess great mu- sical talent, and the eldest son, William Ileinekamp, Jr., who is now in the twentieth year of his age, particularly excels as a pianist, and at the same time possesses rare busi- ness qualifications. He received a collegiate education at Rockhill College, Howard County, and also went through a complete mercantile course at the Bryant, Stratton, and Sadler College. He is in his father's establishment. Mr. Heinekamp has always led a quiet, unpretending life, carefully avoiding all political office or excitement, de- voting himself to his business interests and his family. He is a member of the Germania Mannerchor and the Scheutzen Society, as also of various Catholic societies, he being attached to the ancient faith of the Roman Chruch. He is an enterprising, useful, highly respected citizen.
EORGE, HON. MATTHIAS, of Queen Anne's County, Maryland, was born in that county in 1801. His father, Joseph George, a well-known farmer, and a member of the Society of Friends, died in 1820, in the vicinity of Centreville. His mother was a native of the above county. Her maiden name was Ilenrietta Hart. Her death occurred in 1829. An ex- emplary member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, she left behind her the record of a devoted Christian life. The early ancestors of the family, it is supposed, came from Wales and settled in the county of Kent. Bishop George, one of the early bishops of the above-mentioned Church, was of the same family. Young Matthias George was from his fifth year under the care of a governess in his father's house. When in his tenth year his father, jointly with the late Major Massey, of Queenstown, whose
estate was contignons to his own, built a school house and employed a competent teacher for their children. This school Matthias attended until his twentieth year, when his father died, and he carried on the farm for his mother, In 1825 he commenced farming for himself, and from that time has made it the business of his life. From his early manhood he voted with the Whig party until it ceased to exist. In 1839 he was, on that ticket, nominated and elected to the General Assembly, and was kept a member of the Lower House until 1845, when he was elected State Senator from Queen Anne's County, serving until 1851. In 1862 he was elected a member of the Board of County Commissioners, and served for two terms in that office. On the breaking out of the civil war Mr. George took strong ground and a very active part in the support of Mr. Lincoln, and the triumph of the Union cause. For a long time he has been an active Republican, and an influential member of that party in his county. He is not a member of any church, but is strongly inclined to the faith of his fathers, and may in reality be classed with the Society of Friends. He has been three times married ; first in 1824, to Martha Elliott. Iler son, Joseph E. George, of Sudlersville, is now his only surviving child. He was next married in 1840 to Clarissa, daughter of John Boone, of Caroline County. His present wife was Mrs. Lucretia D. (Haddaway) Hopper, widow of Thomas W. Hopper, of Queen Anne's County, Maryland.
ARRISON, REV. JOHN THOMAS, Evangelist, was . born in Boston, Massachusetts, December 25, 1854. At the age of sixteen years he entered as a student Wilbraham Academy, Massachusetts, of which the Reverend Edward Cook was the Presi- dent. After leaving that institution he went to Brooklyn, New York, where he attended, for about a year, the lec- turcs of prominent theologians. In 1871 he returned to his native city. About this period occurred a remarka- ble religious revival, in which Mr. Harrison became im- mediately enlisted, and to the promotion of which he devoted his talents and energies. He speedily acquired a reputation as a great revivalist. Throughout Massachu- setts, and everywhere he went and preached, he met with great success. In May of 1876, Mr. Harrison attended the sessions of the General Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, held at the Academy of Music, Balti- more. Whilst serving as a delegate to that Body he was invited to occupy the pulpits of several Methodist churches, and his sermons attracted attention on account of their vigor, originality, and efficacy. He returned home, and after a brief period returned to Baltimore, with the view of only temporarily sojourning in that city. Whilst there he received an invitation from the Rev. Samuel Shannon,
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+ of the Franklin Street Methodist Episcopal Church, to con- duct revival services then (October, 1877,) in progress. He their labored with great assiduity and success, awaken- ing deep religious interest. At the expiration of six weeks he went to Caroline Street Church, East Baltimore, where his labors were also crowned with signal success. His subsequent engagements were with St. John's Independent Methodist Church, North Liberty Street, Union Square Methodist Church, the Foundry Methodist Church, Wash- ington, District of Columbia, and the Madison Square Methodist Church, Baltimore. In all these fields of labor he has been remarkably successful. The father of Mr. Harrison was Richard Harrison, a native of Nova Scotia. He removed to Massachusetts in 1849, and is now living in Boston. IIis grandfather was the Reverend Frederick IIarrison, who was a native of England, and came to this continent in the latter part of the eighteenth century, settling in the British Provinces. He was a great Metho- dist revivalist, and was cminently successful in his re- ligious work. Mr. Harrison's mother, to whose teachings and example he attributes his conversion and successful ministry, was Mary Augusta Ritchie, daughter of John Ritchie, of St. John's, New Brunswick. Mr. Ritchie's brother was Reverend Doctor Matthew Ritchie, a promi- nent clergyman of the Wesleyan Church in New Bruns- wick. Mr. Harrison's early conversion to' religion, which occurred in his sixteenth year, when he dedicated himself to the service of Christ, and the great work he has accom- plished in the cause of religion, illustrate the benign effects of the precepts and example of a pious mother. In ap- pearance Mr. Harrison is extremely youthful. In his · nature and manners, especially whilst conducting religious services, he is enthusiastic, impassioncd, and earnest, of a quick, wiry, nervous temperament, and full of fire and energy. Thousands of persons have been converted through his efforts, and few, young as he, have accom- plished more as a revivalist or exercised greater influence over the minds and hearts of auditors.
CANE, COLONEL GEORGE PROCTOR, Ex-Mayor of Bal- timore, was born in that city in 1820. He received a liberal education, and at an early age entered into the grain and grocery business on Light Street Wharf, removing thence to Bowly's Wharf where he was in business in 1847, when the famine in Ireland enlisted all the sympathies of his heart for the relief of that distressed people, in whose behalf he was warmly seconded by the people of Baltimore. As the President of the Hibernian Society, he interested himself continuously for years in the welfare of Irish-American citizens and the education of their children. In 1855, with Wilmer John- son, William R. Travers, of New York, J. Hall Pleasants,
and William Sperry, Colonel Kane purchased the old Ex- change, on Second Street, for ninety thousand dollars, and subsequently sold the property in two separate parts to the United States Government, for a custom-house and post- office. Colonel Kane was the active man of the Exchange Company, and he contracted with the Government to re- model the buildings so as to suit the purposes of the public offices mentioned. The remodelling involved the tearing down of that portion used as a hotel, and the Colonel, with the old materials, built in part the Corn Exchange Build- ing, the Howard Fire Insurance Company's building, and the building No. 55 Second Street, occupied by the Mer- chants' Exchange. In early manhood he took an active part in military matters, and in the old Volunteer Fire De- partment. IIe was an ensign in the Independent Grays, and afterwards commanded the Eagle Artillery. In 1858 hc commanded the Montgomery Guards, a company com -. poscd exclusively of Irishmen. He was, during his mili- tary career, Colonel of the First Maryland Regiment of Artillery. He was the President of the Independent Fire Company, and up to the time of his death, a member of an association composed of those who belonged to the old fire organizations, and who cherish the memories that cling to those associations for the protection of life and property in the past. In this connection it may be stated that Colonel Kane is credited with having suggested the idea of a Paid Steam Fire Department. In politics the Colonel was an ac- tive adherent of the old Whig party, and a prominent sup- porter of Henry Clay. On the occasion of the grand civic procession of the Whig Young Men's National Conven- tion of Ratification at Baltimore, to ratify the nomination of Mr. Clay for the Presidency of the United States, which was made in that city, May 1, 1844, Mr. Kane, then but twenty-four years of age, acted as Grand Marshal. In 1848 he was nominated by the Whig party as its candidate for Sheriff of Baltimore city, but was defeated by his Democratic opponent, Charles Ferree Cloud. In 1849 lic was appointed by President Taylor Collector of the Port of Baltimore, which position he filled with great credit to himself, until the close of the Fillmore administration. Hle took no active part in politics after 1854, until the Reform movement in Baltimore, which was organized in 1859 to put down the lawlessness and excesses of the then domi- nant party. In the restoration of order he took an active part. The new Police Board named by the Legislature of 1860, appointed Colonel Kane as Marshal of Police, which position he filled to the entire satisfaction of the community, displaying unusual activity, energy, and bravery. As the executive head of the police force he in. stilled into each individual member something of his own spirit, and under his rule the rough element was brought into complete subjection. Colonel Kane bore a conspicu- ous and brave part in the maintenance of order on the oc- casion of the passage of the Sixth Massachusetts Regiment through Baltimore, April 19, 1861. llis prompt appear-
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ance with a squad of men prevented the bloodshed that might have occurred in the unfortunate affair. Throughout the troubles of the spring and summer of 1861 he adhered steadily to the purpose of preserving the public peace and the discharge of his duties, until June 27, when he was ar- rested by a detachment of soldiers and conveyed to Fort McHenry. After an imprisonment of over a year there, he was sent to Fort Warren, where he was confined for four- teen months. In the latter part of 1862 he was liberated, with the understanding that he would go South. Ile im- mediately proceeded to Richmond, Virginia. In 1865 the Colonel engaged in the business of manufacturing tobacco at Danville, Virginia. In 1867 he returned to Baltimore and subsequently became the agent of the Imperial Fire Insurance Company of London. In 1873 he was clected Sheriff of Baltimore by the Democratic party, having pre- viously served on the Jones's Falls Commission, with Gen- eral Trimble and Henry Tyson. He was elected to the office of Mayor, October 24, 1877, and entered upon his duties November 5, so that he was but little over seven months in the Mayoralty chair. His death occurred June 23, 1878, and was generally regretted by all classes, as no man was better or more favorably known in the community than Colonel George P'. Kane. He was a man marked and distinctive in his character, fearless in expression, and prompt in action. lle was strong in his convictions, up- right and honorable in all his dealings, faithful to duty, and led an unblemished private life. Ile was kindly in his nature, and remarkable for his generosity and openhanded- ness to the poor and unfortunate. Colonel Kane married Miss Annie Griffith, daughter of Captain John Griffith, of Dorchester County, who survives him. Ile left no chil- dren.
HIAPMAN, GENERAL ANDREW GRANT, was born at La Plata, Charles County, Maryland, January 17, 1839. At the age of eleven years he was placed at Charlotte Hall Academy, where he remained four years, and then entered the University of Virginia, continuing as a student therein for two years, when, on account of failing health, he returned home. After recu- perating he entered St. John's College, Annapolis, whence he graduated with honor in 1858. lle returned to the University of Virginia, where he remained for two years in the Law Department of that institution, Having com- pleted his university course he went to Baltimore, and en- tered as a law student the office of William A. Stewart, a prominent member of the Baltimore bar. Ile was admit- ted to the practice of law in 1860. After remaining in Baltimore for three years he returned to Charles County, and opened a law office in Port Tobacco in 1864, since which time he has been continuously engaged in the prac-
tice of law in connection with the management of his estate, called " Normandy," lying two miles east of the Baltimore and Potomac Railroad. In 1867 he was nom- nated by the Democratic party a candidate for the House of Delegates from his native county, and was elected by a handsome majority. Ile served in the sessions of 1868, 1870, and 1872, consecutively. He was a prominent can- didate before the Democratic Congressional Nominating Convention in 1874, and also that of 1878, Hon Eli J. HIenkle being the nominee. In 1874 General Chapman was appointed Aid and Inspector-General, with the rank of Brigadier, on the staff of Governor Groome, and was reappointed to the same position by Governor John Lee Carroll. The General's father was Hon. John G. Chap- man, member of Congress for two terms, from the Fifth Congressional District of Maryland. He married Miss Susan P. A., daughter of George Chapman, of Thorough- fare, Prince William's County, Virginia, and died, Decem- ber, 1856, in the fifty-ninth year of his age. He was a highly honored citizen, and his death caused general re- gret. His wife survived him until January 17, 1872, when she died at "Glen Albin," Charles County, Maryland. General Chapman married, November 29, 1871, his cousin, Miss Helen Mary, daughter of Pierson Chapman, of Chap- man's Landing, Charles County, Maryland. He has three daughters living.
'OLLARD, REV. JOHN, D.D., Pastor of the Lee Street Baptist Church, Baltimore, was born No- vember 17, 1839, near Stevensville, King and Queen County, Virginia. He was the seventh of ten children of John and Juliet (Jeffries) Pollard, of English descent. His father was a man of singular vi- vacity and persevering industry. He was to a large extent a self-cultured attorney, actively engaged in public busi- ness for more than fifty years in the county of which he was a prominent resident. He studied under his uncle, Robert l'ollard, who was County Clerk for many years, and distantly related to Edward A. Pollard, author of The Lost Cause, John l'ollard, Sr., died September, 1877, in the seventy-fifth year of his age. He had a vigorous intel- lect, and maintained decided views of men and things. Hle filled prominent offices in his county at different times, and was for nearly forty years a deacon in the Mattaponi Baptist Church, in Virginia, and superintendent of the Sunday-school for about the same length of time. The mother of Dr. Pollard was a daughter of Thomas Jeffries, a highly respected farmer, who had acquired a compe- tency, and had filled the offices of sheriff and magistrate. She was a sister of Judge James Jeffries, now of the Cir- cuit Court of the Sixth Judicial District of Virginia. His paternal grandmother was Catharine Robinson, of the family of John Robinson, who was Speaker of the House
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of Burgesses of Virginia, and presided on the occasion of Patrick Henry's famous speech against the crown of Eng- land. Mrs. Juliet Pollard was a lady of rare excellence, being universally esteemed for her worth and piety. To her influence and training is due as much as to any other cause whatever of success in life her sons have achieved. On both sides Dr. Pollard is descended from Revolutionary patriots. Ile received his early religious and secular edu- cation from his father-the former in the Sunday-school of which his father was superintendent, and the latter in his father's law office. llis academic education began when he was nine years of age. In his eighteenth year he entered the Columbian College (now University), and after a course of three years' study, graduated with the first honors of his class. For one session after his graduation he was tutor of Latin and Greek in the same institution. He had been converted at the age of thirteen, and while in college was impressed with his call to the ministry. l're- paratory thereto he studied theology under the President, Rev. G. W. Samson, D.D., and in 1861, in his twenty- second year, settled as Pastor of two Baptist churches in Middlesex Connty, Virginia, where he remained nine years. In this field he ministered to large and influential congre- gations, embracing some of the most prominent men in that part of the State. Among the number were Lieutenant- Governor R. I. Montague, and Judge Joseph Christian, of the Supreme Court of the State. Fle was very strongly at- tached to that pastorate, and it was not until a second and urgent call had been given him by the Lee Strect Baptist Church in Baltimore that he consented to dissolve his con- nection with a people, endeared to him as his first ministerial charge, so long and so prosperously continued. He ac- cepted the call to his present charge, and commenced his labors in 1870. The church at that time numbered about one hundred and fifty members, and was at a most critical period in its history. Financially, it was in a state of dependence upon the Missionary Board of the Mary- land Baptist Union Association ; it has now nearly four hundred members, and is a contributor to the funds of the Board. As the fruit of a revival in 1876, one hundred new members were added to the church. Through that season of extra services, Dr. Pollard was assisted by the evangelist, Rev. II. G. Dewitt, who afterward said of the pastor : " In all my labors I have never met a man more congenial and lovable, and one with whom I had such a pleasant and profitable scason of labor." By those who know him best, Dr. Pollard is esteemed as a man in the truest sense ; firm in purpose, honest in expression, and deeply sympathetic. As a pastor he is faithful to all the requirements of the office; as an expounder of Biblical truth he is clear and earnest, enforcing it by practical rea- soning. He is universally beloved by his flock. It is the privilege of but few ministers, comparatively, to possess an equally general and strong attachment on the part of those who sit under their ministry. Dr. Pollard was President
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