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generosity of the Union men of Delaware. | session of the family from early colonial times. They served on the Gunpowder river, Mary- land, and afterward were on duty in Balti- more. This company was mustered out of the service at the close of its period of enlist- ment, in the city of Wilmington. He then en- listed in the 7th Delaware Volunteers and was commissioned Lieutenant by Gov. William Cannon, and served with that command to the close of its term of enlistment. At the close of the war he resumed the life of an Agricul- turist, and has conducted the business and labors of his excellent farm.
Mr. Lockwood is a member of the Masonic fraternity, having been made such in Union Lodge, No. 5, which tradition says is, perhaps, in order, the fourth organized by order of the Grand Lodge of the Province of Penna. Of this Lodge, his father Richard Lockwood was master as far back as the year 1808. He has served in all the chairs of the Blue Lodge and is a Knight Templar.
He was reared in the Protestant Episcopal church, having been baptized by the venerable Stephen H. Tyng, D. D. He was united in marriage on the 8th day of January, 1870, to Mrs. Anna M., widow of William Wygant, Esq., of Pennsylvania, and daughter of Mr. George T.McIlwain of the city of Philadelphia.
Mr. Lockwood is a man of intelligence, and possesses a heart filled with kindly and gen- erous impulses, and is qualified for extensive usefulness in civil and political life.
He had several children, his wife being Mary, daughter of John Collins of Sussex county, and cousin of Governor Collins of Delaware. Mr. Charles Tatman commenced attendance, at five years of age, at a pay school kept in a neighboring dwelling, but the greater part of his education was obtained at the common school-house of the neigborhood, which boast- ed neither floor, windows nor chimney. He relates how the children suffered on winter days, when the ground, even in the school- house, would be soaked with water, and was often frozen solid in the morning. The chil- dren would brings in pieces of wood, or any- thing on which to keep their feet from the ice. The fire of logs was built on the ground at one end of the room, the smoke escaping through a hole in the roof. Leaving school at fifteen, he remained on the farm, assisting in the support of the family till he reached the age of twenty- four years. He then was clerk in the store of William Polk, the husband of his eldest sister, at Cantwell's Bridge, with whom he made his home, faithfully serving him three or four years, after which he engaged in mercantile business with Mr. Manlove Hayes of that town, the firm assuming the name of Tatman and Hayes. The partnership continued with suc- cess till 1825, when the two gentlemen separ- ated and divided their goods. During the next five years Mr. Tatman conducted business by himself, enjoying an unusual degree of prosperity.
About the year 1827 he largely increased his business and commenced the purchase of grain, wood, staves, and every kind of country produce, shipping his goods in his own vessels to Philadelphia, New York, and other ports.
ATMAN, CHARLES, of Odessa, Presi- dent of the New Castle County Nation- al Bank, at that place, was born near Greenwood Station, Sussex county, May He exhibited in every department very un- common zeal, enterprise and judgment, and in 1834 his business had assumed such propor- tions, that he found it necessary to take a partner, and was most happily associated with Daniel B. McKee for nine years, after which the firm dissolved, and Mr. Tatman retired from active business. He was but fifty-one years of age, but had accumulated a handsome fortune, insuring him comfort and abundance, during the remainder of his life. 5, 1792. His father, Purnell Tatman, a farmer in moderate circumstances, a man of intelli- gence and superior character, was born, July I, 1766, on the farm on which he spent his life, and where he died, September 1, 1826. His wife was Bathsheba, daughter of John Griffith of that county. They had nine children, six of whom - Cyrus, Eliza, Charles, Purnell, Bathsheba and Eunice, lived to have families of their own. Mitchell Tatman, the grand father of the subject of this sketch, was also a For several years following he was largely able property in Odessa, besides numerous farmer, and also passed his days on the old interested in real estate, and owned consider- homestead, which had probably been in pos-
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farms in the vicinity. He has long since | old Presbyterian Church of White Clay Creek, disposed of all these farms, and keeps all his and of that celebrated family of Morrisons who have given so many men of talent to the pulpits of the Presbyterian church and to in- stitutions of learning in Delaware, Maryland and Pennsylvania business affairs in perfect order. Mr. Tatman was Secretary of the Farmer's Mutual Fire Insurance Company from 1851 to 1877. In 1854, at the first meeting of the Directors, he was elected President of the New Castle County Bank of Odessa, just incorporated, which office he has held to the present time.
He was originally a Federalist, was after- wards a Whig, and on that ticket was a can- didate in 1842 for the Legislature : his party, however, were defeated. He took strong ground for the Union, in 1861, and used freely his means and his influence to sustain the Government in all its measures to put down the rebellion. Always indifferent to political distinction he has ever been an efficient and disinterested worker for the good of his coun- try and state. From the time of its organiza- tion he has been an active and useful member of the Republican party.
His family, have for an hundred years, been conspicuous in the M. E. church, and in 1867 he united with that denomination, in which he has since been made a Trustee. Mr. Tat- man was married, March 30, 1847, to Mrs. Harriet Brinton Corbit, widow of John C. Corbit, and daughter of Joseph Trimble, late of Concord, Pa., all of the Society of Friends. seventy-one, March 23, 1873.
Mr. Tatman, now over ninety years of age, has the appearance of a man many years younger. His sight is still good, his hearing perfect, and he goes about the town and attends to the duties of the Bank. He is ex- cellent company for the young, and children love to visit at his house. He has occupied for the last thirty-three years his present simple and unostentatious home. He has lived under the administration of all the Presidents of the United States, and still retains the place, long since won, of one of the first, most upright and honored citizens of the town and county.
ENRY, COLUMBUS, M. D., a resident of Newark, Delaware, was born in New Castle hundred, New Castle county, December 8, 1843; His parents, James Henry and Matilda Morrison were of Scotch descent and among the early founders of the
Dr. Henry received his primary education at the public schools of his county, and his acad- emic course of two years at Blairstown Academy, New Jersey. Hisearly life was de- voted to agricultural pursuits, but he never manifested any special interest in the labors of the farm, and in 1868 decided to enter upon the preparation for the Medical Profession. He read medicine and taught school for six months, and in the fall of 1868, entered the Medical Department of Yale College,and com- pleted the session of 1868-9. In the fall of 1869 he entered the university of Pennsylvania, and graduated from that institution in 1871. He immediately entered upon the practice of his profession in Newark, and in 1873 united with it the business of druggist.
In May 21, 1873, he was married to Agnes E. Griffith,a daughter of Caleb and Mary E. B. Griffith, and a granddaughter of Joseph Grif- fith, Esq., of Newark, Del., of whom see sketch and plate. They have two children, Edna, five years old, and George G., one year old, 1880.
Dr. Henry has always taken an active part She had no children, and died at the age of in the affairs of his community and State.
During the Civil War he was mustered into service in Co. B. 9th Regt., Del., Volunteers, and was mustered out with the Regiment, January 23, 1865. He is a member of Dela- ware State Medical Society, and a member of the State Board of Medical Examiners. He has been an active member of both the Masonic and Odd Fellows' Fraternity, and for several years the President of the Building and Loan Association of Newark. In all these various positions he has discharged his duties faith- fully, and to the entire satisfaction of his fellow citizens.
ATTIMER, HON. HENRY, was a Representative in Congress from Dela- ware from 1794 to 1795. He served as a U. S. Senator from 1795 to 1801 when he resigned. Mr.Lattimer was able and upright, and his services conferred distinction on the State sending him to the National Councils.
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AULL, DAVID WILLIAM, physician and surgeon, of Wilmington, Dela- ware, was born in Georgetown. Sussex county, May 16, 1831. His father, Dr. George W. Maull still lives in that place, and has been in the active practice of his profession for fifty-three years. His mother, whose maiden name was Julia Ann Hobbs, was of an English family. Dr. D. W. Maull has one brother, James Henry Maull, who is the post- master at Georgetown, and a sister, Emma, who is the widow of Edwin G. Parker. Dr. Maull passed his boyhood in the place of his birth, where he attended the academy, and re- ceived, under excellent instructors, a good education in the English branches, besides acquiring a sufficient knowledge of Latin and Greek, to aid him in the study of medicine, upon which, even in his school days, he had resolved to enter. It was a subject always uppermost in his mind, and all his studies were pursucd with this end in view. Accordingly, upon leaving school, at the age of eighteen, he at once commenced his professional studies in his father's office, where he continued till he began to attend lectures at Jefferson Medi- cal College, graduating from that institution in 1853. He then returned to his native town and engaged in practice with his father, with whom he remained till the breaking out of the war, with the exception of a few months spent on board an emigrant ship, plying between Philadelphia and Liverpool. The event of the war roused the patriotic ardor of his nature, and in May, 1861, he enlisted as a private in Company G, of the First Delaware Volunteers for the three months' service. At the organi- zation of the company he was made First Lieutenant, and, subsequently, Captain, this being his rank at the time the regiment was mustered out in August of that year. This company was stationed, part of the time, at Elkton, and part of the time at Perryville, doing guard duty. On being mustered out, Dr. Maull returned at once to his native county and assisted in raising Company E, for the First Delaware regiment, reorganized for the three years service ; and on bringing the com- pany to the headquarters in Wilmington, was mustered in as surgeon of the regiment. After a brief encampment at Hare's Corner, the regi- ment was sent, September 16, 1861, to Fort-
ress Monroe, remaining until May, 1862, when it was sent with other regiments to assist in the capture of Norfolk. He witnessed, while at Fortress Monroe, the famed naval engage- ment between the Monitor and Merrimac, and the burning of the Congress. When the vari- ous regiments at the fort were ordered to the attack on Norfolk, President Lincoln was on the wharf, personally superintending the em- barkation of the troops. The regiment re- mained at Norfolk doing provost duty for several weeks. A hospital being a necessity, Surgeon Maull took the large academy and fitted it up in a suitable manner, and it became the resort of all the sick at that station. In all these different places Dr. Maull found his medical experience considerably augmented, there being much sickness among the soldiers; measles prevailed to a great extent, and cere- bro-spinal meningitis, typhoid fever, and a disease called the Dismal Swamp fever, taxed his skill. Also, in addition to his duties among the troops. he was much occupied with sickness among the contrabands, who were then flock- ing into the vicinity of Fortress Monroe. From Suffolk he was sent with his regiment to Wash- ington, and thence to Maryland, in time to be present at the battle of Antietam. The regi- ment was now attached to the third division of the second army corps, and was present at, and engaged in, most of the battles fought by the army of the Potomac from Antietam to the surrender of Lee at Appomattox. At the battle of Gettysburg Dr. Maull was surgeon in charge of the Division Hospital, and was Chief Operator and Surgeon in Chief of the Second Division, Second Army Corps, during the campaign, from the Rapidan through the Wilderness, in front of Petersburg, and up to the time of the surrender. He was in Fred- ericksburg at the first fight, when the enemy was shelling the town. He had his Division Hospital along the banks of the river, and was obliged to send all his wounded on stretchers across the stream, bridged by pontoons, while the enemy were firing from their batteries upon the bridge. This was preparatory to the evacuation. All the wounded were safely re- moved. On the fifteenth of February, 1864, he was, by special orders to the Second Army Corps, assigned to duty as Surgeon in Chief of the Third Division of that corps, and on the thirteenth of September, in the same year, was
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assigned to duty as Surgeon in Chief of the | long as the board was in existence. In the Second Division of the same corps. On the 27th of December he was made Acting Medi- cal Director of the corps in the absence of the Medical Director; he being at that time the Senior Surgeon of that large corps. During his military life, Dr. Maull was on the staff of Maj. General Gibbon, Maj. General Barlow, Brig. General Alexander Hayes, Brig. General William Hayes, Brig. General Carroll, and Brig. General Smith. In virtue of his position as Division Surgeon, he was, during the various campaigns and many engagements, possessed of unexceptionally fine opportunities for acquir- ing a rare surgical experience. Almost daily he was brought in contact with wounds of varied extent and character, necessitating amputation or resection; and during some campaigns, capital operations occupied him entire days for many consecutive days. This almost daily familiarity with wounds gave him not only confidence in himself, but a certain facility of operation which it would have re- quired one in civil practice, a long time to reach ; and the nature of the work also served to give him that quality of resource in emer- gency which is essential in surgery. Some of the operations performed by him were done perforce at night, in order that the wounded might be transported safely, and some "under fire." On the 20th of April, 1865, the war having virtually ended, he resigned and came home. On his doing so, the medical officers of the division met and drafted a set of reso- lutions commendatory of Dr. Maull and his services, and forwarded them to him. He had been in the service a period of four years, lack- ing one month, and with his large and varied army experience, meeting disease in camp, hospital and field, in many forms, and almost constantly observing wounds of nearly every possible character, he was well prepared for the pursuit of his profession in civil life, upon which, indeed, he entered with a skill and reputation that few could boast. He settled in Wilmington, in May, 1865, where he has since remained, actively engaged in medicine and surgery, and devoted to his professional duties. A few weeks after his return to civil life he was appointed, without any application on his part, United States examining surgeon for pensions, which position he still retains, and was presi- dent of the examining board of surgeons, as
sarne year he was appointed city vaccine physician and was reappointed each year for about six years. He was a member of the board of public education for five years, and for one year was surgeon of the Delaware Division of the Philadelphia, Wilmington and Baltimore railroad. He has been for three years, and is at present, one of the vice presidents and managers of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, of which he has been an active member. In 1880 a State Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children being instituted, with head quarters at Wil- mington, Dr. Maull was elected president, and was re-elected at the next annual meeting. He was Medical Director of the Mutual Life Insurance Company as long as it continued- about five years-and has been and is medical examiner for a number of the leading Life In- surance Companies. His commodious offices are equipped with nearly everything that goes to make up the armamentarium of the surgeon and physician ;- a library of choice medical literature, a large collection of surgical instru- ments and appliances, microscopic and ana- tomical preparations, and models, and patho- logical specimens. He has performed some of the major operations in surgery, as excision of the head of the humerus, removal of the up- per jaw, laryngotomy, visico-vaginal fistula, lithotomy, and has performed many amputa- tions of the thigh and resections of various bones. In that voluminous work. "The Medical and Surgical History of the War of the Rebellion," issued from the Surgeon Gen- eral's office, his name figures largely, he being credited with numerous operations in the field. He built up his practice in Wilmington stead- ily and surely, by strict attention to his duties and by conscientious care for his patients. In view of his army experience it was natural that in a growing and manufacturing city his . practice should be much in the surgical line, and that with increasing success and reputa- tion it should grow upon him. He also seeks to perfect himself still further by constant study and observation, and has that confidence in himself, and facility and skill, that comes from long experience. He, moreover, has a natural gift and inclination for this branch of his profession. Dr. Maull has always evinced considerable literary taste. In his youth he
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assisted in editing a weekly newspaper in Georgetown. In 1860 he was the Delaware correspondent of the New York Daily Tribune for one year, and received from Horace Greeley a carte blanche to write on any theme that occurred to him. He also wrote occa- sionally for a medical journal. In 1865, after his removal to Wilmington, he was solicited by the Delaware State Historical Society, of which he is a member, to write the memoir of Brigadier General Thomas A. Smythe, with whom he had been very intimately associated while in the army. This biography made a small volume, which was published by the Society. It is well written, and is a worthy memoirial of the services and character of that distinguished patriot. Dr. Maull was married April 28, 1870, to Mary K. Buck, daughter of the late Jeremiah Buck, and a niece of Dr. L. P. Bush, one of the most prominent physi- cians of Wilmington. They have two children, Julia Frances Maull, and Mary B. Maull who is about two years old. Dr. and Mrs. Maull are members of the Central Presbyterian Church.
AVIS, HON. ISAAC, was born near the town of Milford, in Kent county, State of Delaware, on the 20th day of February, in the year 1765: His father, Jehu Davis, was an officer of the local militia during the Revolutionary war, and also a mem ber of the committee of Public Safety. He afterwards represented the county in the Gen. Assembly, and for many years presided as speaker of the House, in which capacity, he, for a time, acted as Governor of the State. He also served as a Judge of the Board of Property, for granting, and settling titles of vacant land, and was for many years a Judge of the Court of Common Pleas for Kent county. The public duties of his father requiring him to be frequently absent from home, upon Isaac Davis, as the eldest of a large family, there devolved, at an early age, an unusual share of responsibility. The interests submitted to his care did not suffer from his inexperience, for while availing himself of what facilities for education the times afforded, by devotion to business he laid the foundation of the metho- dical and energetic habits which, through life, characterized him. The alarms and privations
of the Revolutionary period, during which his youth was passed. made a deep impression on his mind, and he often expressed his gratifica- tion, that peace and prosperity, had resulted to the country, from the sufferings of that time of trial. After attaining manhood, while engaged in agricultural pursuits, in which he continued through life to be interested, Mr. Davis was called to fill various public posi- tions. In 1793, he was elected to the House of Assembly, and the next year to the Senate, of which he was soon after made Speaker. The independence of his course as a Legisla- tor often brought him in conflict with influen- tial men of his party, but continuing true to his convictions of public duty, he retained the confidence of the people. In 1799, he was ap- pointed Register of Wills for Kent county, which office, he held for five years, residing at Dover. After the expiration of his term of office, he removed to the town of Smyrna, where he continued for the remainder of his life, a period of over fifty years. In January, 1814, he received from Governor Haslet a commission as one of the Judges of the Su- preme Court for the State of Delaware. He discharged the duties of this office, until the adoption of the new Constitution, in 1832, caused a reorganization of the judiciary of the State. He had no fondness for military pur- suits, his mind being of a different cast, but circumstances having in a measure forced him into the militia service of the State, he served first as Major and Colonel, and finally, for some years, as Brigadier General of the second Brigade of Delaware militia. After the town of Smyrna became his residence, Judge Davis was closely identified with the social and business interests of that com- munity. He was one of the organizers of the Bank of Smyrna, of which institution he acted as President, until his resignation, a few years previous to his death. At an early period, he had become a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. and continued through life to give it an earnest and devoted support. From the commencement of its ministrations in Delaware, through all the stages of its pro- gress, he had watched its development, taken part in its work, and enjoyed the friendship and respect of its ministry. A vigorous con- stitution, preserved by moderate and regular habits, enabled Judge Davis to sustain his
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varied labor, and maintain to the last his facul- | ties unimpaired. He did not lose his interest in life, after retiring from its more active duties. His assistance, his great practical wisdom, and his influence were constantly at the command of those needing his aid, while his conversation enriched by graphic details of former times, was of unfailing interest to his friends. He died on the thirtieth of March, 1856, in the ninety-second year of his age. Of his children, there died during his lifetime, his sons, James Davis and Isaac Davis, and his daughters Rhoda Corbit and Mary L. Budd, and there survived him, his sons Joshua Davis, Henry Davis and George Davis, and his daughter Ann Eliza Budd. B.
For native intellect, possession of a judicial mind, an amazing memory, and executive ability, he had few equals ; and had early ad- vantages and opportunities been given him, he could, had he so desired, have ranked among the first men of any land .- EDITORS.
ALE, JOHN, Civil Engineer, of Bridge- ville, was born June 25, 1814,in Odessa. His father was Dr. Richard Colgate Dale, a leading physician for many years, in New Castle county. The Doctor was commissioned captain of a company which he raised in his county in the war of 1812. Afterwards he was made a captain in the Reg- ular army and served with General Scott as his ranking officer at that period. He resigned his position in the army, resuming the prac- tice of his profession in Wilmington, where he died in 1817. He was buried in the grounds of the Old Swedes church. He was a man of courage and honor and had a great reputation for benevolence and sympathy. He was a de- voted member of the Democrat party and was elected as Sheriff of New Castle county. He was a master mason of influence, and died highly respected and deeply mourned by the community in which he resided. Dr. R. C. Dale married Margaret, daughter of Thomas Fitzgerald, who was a lineal descendant of Thomas Fitzgerald, the son of a young brother of the Earl Fitzgerald, who traces his lin- eage back to the Earl of Kildare, who came to Britain with William the Conqueror. The sub- ject of this sketch was the fourth son and fifth
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