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Men of Mark in Maryland
Johnson's Makers of America Series Biographies of Leading Men of the State
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VOLUME IV
Illustrated with Many Full Page Engravings
B. F. JOHNSON, Inc. Baltimore, Washington and Richmond 1912
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INDEX. OF BIOGRAPHIES VOLUME I
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Warfield Edwin. 27
Hemmeter, John C. 179
Ainslie, Peter.
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Henderson, James B 185
Alvey, Richard H .34
Hoffman, Richard C. 189
Avirett, John W 38
Hood, John M. 192
Baker, Bernard N.
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Hook, Jacob W 201
Baldwin, Charles W 48
Howard, William L. 205
Baldwin, Summerfield 53
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Huckel, Oliver 212
Bonaparte, Charles J
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Hunt, German H. 219
Brewington, Marion B
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Janney, Stuart S. 223
Bryan, William S., Jr.
70
Keedy, Martin L. 230
Carothers, Daniel D
75
Keyser, William 234
Carroll, David H.
86
Collins, William 83
Culbreth, David M. R 96
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Miller, Theodore K. 256
Drum, Richard C 99
Morgan, Francis O 260
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Elderdice, Hugh L
102
Mullan, Dennis W 263
Fearhake, Adolphus 106
Newcomer, Benjamin F 266
Fell, Thomas. 108
Newcomer, Waldo. 274
Foard, Norval E. 113
Oswald, George B. 273
Franklin, Walter S. 121
Pearce, James A., Sr. 2S1
Frick, Frank 124
Pearce, James A., Jr 2S1
Fuchs, Carl G. O 131
Porter, William F 2S6
Funk, Jacob J.
135
Prettyman, Elijah B. 291
Gail, George W., Sr.
139
Purnell, Clayton 203
Gail, George W., Jr 140
Ritchie, Albert C 298
Gary, Edward S 146
Rodgers, Frederick. 303
Rohrback, Jacob 300
Gildersleeve, Basil L. 153
Schley, Winfield S. 310
Gilman, Daniel C. 156
Schultz, Edward T 317
Seth, Joseph B 320
Skinner, Harry G 327
Hall, Clayton C.
171
Smith, Robert H
330
Harris, William H
175
Snowden, Wilton
334
A 498 3
Levering, Eugene. 246
McCosker, Thomas 252
Doll, Melville E.
Jefferys, Edward M. 224
Bryan, William S., Sr
76
Jones, Spencer C. 226
Brown, Arthur G 66
Hubbard, Wilbur W 209
Bennett, Benjamin F
Latrobe, Ferdinand C. 241
Gibbons, James, Cardinal: 149
Gilpin, Henry B. 160
Hagner, Alexander B .. 164
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Spence, William W
336
Tyler, Joseph H 380
Stanley, Charles H
340
Van Sickle, James H
387
Stevens, Martin B 344
Vernon, George W. F 391
Stone, John Theodore 351
Wheeler, James R. 394
Stone, John Timothy 354
Wheelwright, Jere .H. 398
Stump, Herman 359
Wight, Charles S 402
Talbot, Hattersly W
365
White, Francis A.
406
Thomas, Douglas H
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White, Warren C.
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Tilghman, Oswald.
375
Wyatt, James B. N.
412
Toadvin, Edward S
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INDEX OF BIOGRAPHIES VOLUME II
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Abell Family. 417
Hayne, Daniel H 226
Ammidon, Daniel C.
127
Hendrick, Calvin W 389
Ammidon, John P 123
Hering, Joshua W 208
Ashby, Thomas A. 101
Hill, Thomas. 219
Bevan, Charles F. 191
Hinkley, John. 165
Bigelow, William P. 189
Hopkinson, B. Merrill R. 334
Black, H. Crawford. 331
Johnston, Christopher.
76
Bloede, Victor G 232
Jones, J. Wynne
66
Bond, Duke. 327
Kelly, Howard A 72
Bonsal, Leigh. 239
Kerr, Robert P. 276
Bosley, William H 149
Kinsolving, Arthur B 269
Clark, Ernest J. 251
Knott, A. Leo 403
Cordell, Eugene F
246
Knox, James H. M., Jr. 283
Coupland, Roberts S 153
Leary, Peter, Jr. 35
Dame, William M 94
Levering, Joshua. 46
Davis, Jesse A. 195
Long, Charles Chaillé. 81
Dickey, William A
303
McConachie, Alexander D 86
Dunbar, William H. 272
McCreary, George W 92
Duvall, Richard M. 102
McLane, Allan. 138
Eccleston, J. Houston 130
Marburg, Theodore. 237
Edmonds, Richard H. 27
Misb, Frank W 222
Edmunds, James R. 263
Moffat, James E. 215
Farrow, J. Miles. 158
Morrison, George C 243
Forsythe, William H., Jr 200
Murray, Oscar G. 375
Friedenwald, Harry. 198
Packard, Morrill N 255
Frost, William A. Crawford 120
Penrose, Clement A 112
Garnett, James M. 63
Platt, Walter B 292
Gary, James A. 135
Poe, Edgar Allan. 177
Gill, Robert Lee. 258
Gillett, George M. 278
Goddard, Henry P 205
Gordon, Douglas H. 61
Gottlieb, Frederick H 162
Greiner, John E. 40
Griffin, Edward H 285
Haines, Oakley P 168
Hallwig, Paul 337
Poe, John P. 172
Randolph, Robert Lee 184
Reese, David M. 306
Riggs, Clinton L. 57
Rollins, Thornton 110
Rosenau, William. 180
Rowland, Samuel C 294
Schroeder, Ernest C. 323
Stirling, Yates. 142
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Stockbridge, Henry 299
Whitelock, George 370
Streett, David.
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Williams, John W
357
Thom, DeCourcy W 361
Williams, Robert L. 383
Thomas, John B.
325
Williams, Thomas J. C 318
Thompson, Henry F
348
Winslow, Randolph. 350
Turnbull, Edwin L.
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Witzenbacher, William J 286
Turnbull, Lawrence.
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Woods, Hiram 355
Waters, Francis E.
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Yellott, John I. 397
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INDEX OF BIOGRAPHIES VOLUME III
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Abbott, Cornelius Webster 254
Adt, John Baptist. 324
Adkins, Elijah Stanton 215
Kelly, John Joseph. 230
Kimble, John Haines 171
Lamb, John George Michael. 162
Baker, William Benjamin 63
Barber, Isaac Ambrose. 277
Bartlett, David Lewis 50
Baughman, Louis Victor 280
Birnie, 'Clotworthy 364
Birnie, George Harry 368
Blake, George Augustus 113
Bland, John Randolph. 44
Bledsoe, John Francis. 79
Bond, James Alexander Chesley, 347
Bowyer, John Marshall. 153
Brashears, James Russell 377
Charshee, Thomas Amos 209
Cockey, Joshua F. 178
Creswell, John A. J. 398
Cromwell, William Kennedy 130
Devecmon, William Coombs 236
Dickey; Charles Herman 57
Dirickson, Edwin James.
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Dohme, Albert Robert Louis. 351
Epstein, Jacob. 392
Footer, Thomas. 188
Foster, Reuben .. 66
Gisriel, William 185
Gunby, Louis White. 195
Hagerty, Oliver Parker 219
Harrison, Orlando.
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Henderson, Charles English 116
Holland, Charles Fisher 260
Holzshu, John Henry 247
Jackson, Elihu Emory. 310
. Jackson, William Purnell. 106
Jeffrey, Elmore Berry 286
Jones, Robert Morris. 251
Allen, William Francis. 143
Baker, James Henry 264
Lloyd, Daniel Boone. 334
Mallory, Dwight Davidson. 383
McCormick, Alexander Hugh 85
Melvin, George Thomas 307
Mohlhenrich, John George. 198
Nicodemus, John Luther 269
Orrick, Charles James 136
Price, William James 297
Redden, George Thomas 273
Reese, James William. 149
Riley, Elihu Samuel. 240
Roulette, Joseph Clinton. SS
Schwatka, Jolın Bushrod 156
Silvester, Richard William 373
Sisk, Albert Wesley 290
Simon, William .: 72
Smith, Franklin Buchanan 321
Smith, John Walter 13
Tabb, John Bannister 355
Taylor, Jonathan Kirkbride. 331
Townsend, Walter Robey 126
Trail, Charles Bayard. 100
Trail, Charles Edward. 96
Warfield, S. Davies 24
Waters, Henry Jackson 205
Webb, Charles Albert. 301
Wellington, George L. 224
Williams, Ferdinand. 167
Willson, Charles Carroll 362
Wright, Riley E 174
Young, James P 341
Zimmerman, Louis Seymour
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Abell, Enoch Booth. 353
Jacobs, Henry Barton. 30
Beard, Elmer Maurice 392
Johnson, Reverdy. 371
Brown, Alexander. 367
Jones, Robley Dunglison. 302
Busteed, Charles A. 406
Knapp, George W. 106
Carter, Merville Hamilton. 75
Leitch, John William. 309
Chaney, Richard Gardner 117
Lewis, David John. 316
Chaney, Thomas Morris. 110
Lilburn, John Grey Hopkins. 162
Clark, Joseph Clement. 125
Little, John Mays. 204
Clements, Alday. 92
Mackenzie, George Norbury 375
Coblentz, Emory Lorenzo 378
Martin, Dr. Frank 343
Codd, William Cowpland. 141
Matthews, Francis Brooke 181
Corkran, James Merritt. 191
McCardell, Adrian Ceolfrid 385
· Cross, William Irvine.
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Meigs, Henry Benjamin. 413
Cugle, Charles Davis 201
Miller, C. Wilbur. 56
Cushwa, Victor.
215
Morgan, Joseph Francis. 219
DiGiorgio, Joseph
152
Morris, John Gottlieb. 420
Dill, Lewis. 248
Morris, Thomas Hollingsworth .. 431
Elderdice, John Martin 158
Neilson, Charles.
Ellegood, James Edward 428
Newcomb, Harry Turner 66
Fenton,.Matthew Clark. 84
Noel, Edgar Marion 169
Gambrill, James H., Jr 222
Paret, William. 94
Gardner, Asa Bird, Jr. 359
Peters, Charles Massey 172
George, John Elliott. 240
Pitts, John W. S8
Gibson, Woolman Hopper 252
Poole, George. 208
Gladfelter, Reuben. 279
Price, Jesse Dashiell. 290
Gorman, William Henry 269
Quincy, Walter Cottrell. 334
Grove, William Jarboe. 233
Scott, Norman Bruce, Jr. 41S
Hanley, Thomas George. 113
Shriver, Alfred Jenkins 403
Hardcastle, Hughlett. 103
Shriver, Thos. Herbert. 44
Hargett, Douglas H. 346
Smith, Thomas Alexander. 120
Hargett, Peter Lilburn. 327
Stewart, Hyland Price 131
Thomas, James Sewell. 425
Hill, Charles Geraldus. 2S2
Hill, Jno. Thomas. 331
Thomas, T. Rowland. 194
Hubner, John. 27
Tilghman, Richard Lloyd. 244
Hughes, Frank. 39
Tilghman, William Beauchamp. 258
Vollenweider, John. 272
Warfield. Elisha Griffith.
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Hynson, Richard 295
Hynson, Richard Dunn 365
Thomas, James Walter 228
Henderson, Joseph Edward 265
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Waters, John. 3SS
Williams, Nathaniel
99
Watson, Harry Goldsborough. 313
Williams, Stevenson A 137
Weis, Louis Theodore. 399
Wood, Robert Elmer ..
79
Welch, William Henry.
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Yellott, Coleman.
145
Wickes, Joseph Augustus.
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Yellott, Robert E .- Lee 148
Willard, Daniel.
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Zimmerman, Leander M. 185
Williams, Jay.
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DANIEL WILLARD
T HE Baltimore and Ohio Railroad is, as railroads count in America, an old line. It has long been one of the best known roads of the country and has been manned from time to time by some of its ablest railroad officials. Competent authorities of the present agree that it has never had at its head a stronger man than Daniel Willard, who since January 15, 1910 has been its presi- dent. Mr. Willard comes of a family which in America has been distinctively of New England. In the very earliest settlement of New England one of the strong figures was Major Simon Willard, the ninth generation of whose descendants now abide in the land. The family has been settled in England on the east coast of Sussex since the time of Edward III. It was founded there by a Frenchman from Caen in Normandy, whose name was Villiard, which was promptly anglicized into its present form. One English genealogist holds that the derivation of the name is from the French Gueulard; but his argument is not well borne out in face of the authenticated fact of the establishment of the Villiards in Sussex and the change in name to the English form of Willard.
Daniel Willard, the subject of this sketch, was born in North Hartland, Vermont, on January 28, 1861; son of Daniel Spalding and Mary Anna (Daniels) Willard. His father was a farmer and held the office of justice of the peace. Mr. Willard was reared in a vil- lage, and as a boy had strong mechanical tastes. He went through the local schools and the.Windsor (Vermont) High School, from which he was graduated in 1878. Leaving school, he began at the very bottom as a railroad man, at one time running an engine. It is said of him that he was a good engineer and knew how to put one in order as well as to keep it in order, and of the innumerable stories told about him now, one is worth telling. Since his election as president of the Baltimore and Ohio, he came down part of the way from Phila- delphia to Baltimore on an engine cab, and on the trip was able to give the engineer most valuable information as to the proper handling and keeping in order of an engine.
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He steadily climbed between 1879 and 1899 in the railroad service by reason of his constantly qualifying himself for the position above, until in 1899 he was assistant general manager of the Baltimore and Ohio. He held this position until 1901, when he went to the Erie as first assistant to the president; later as third vice-president, and then as vice-president and general manager. In 1904, he left the Erie to become second vice-president of the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy system, with which he remained until 1910. In the mean- time, during 1910 he was also president of the Colorado Midland Railway, and vice-president of the C. & S. Railway. On January 15, 1910, he came back to the Baltimore and Ohio as president.
It is worth while to notice a little more closely the career of this most able railroad manager. He entered the service as a track laborer on the Central Vermont. He was then a fireman and loco- motive engineer on the Passumpsic; next an engineer on the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern; then a brakeman, conductor, round- house foreman, engineer, trainmaster, assistant superintendent and superintendent of the Wisconsin and Peninsular divisions of the Minneapolis, St. Paul and Sault Ste. Marie Railway. In twenty years he had passed through all these positions and had become a recognized force in railway circles.
One would naturally expect from such a career a hard-headed, entirely practical and grim sort of man who would subordinate every- thing to his own success. In this case nothing is farther from the facts. Abundant light is shed upon the man himself by the opinions of some of the men who knew him well. A prominent railroad man who knows Mr. Willard thoroughly, said: "He is as plain as an old shoe, without any frills and furbelows; and yet he has dignity enough for two or three ordinary men. Few men realize what a great man he is amongst railroad men, but I'll tell you, every one of the great and successful ones feel that when Willard steps over the city limits of a town, it tips up on the other side." Here's another. Willis J. Abbott, the well known Washington correspondent, says: "Sure, I know Dan Willard. He has a new fad. It is books. . When he sees a book, whether history or economies, that he thinks his subordinates should read, he buys at least twenty-five copies and distributes them where the most good will be accomplished. An- other thing, he believes in taking the public into the confidence of the railroad. and has no secrets. This is probably the best policy
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that can be pursued now-a-days. He's a hard worker." This statement of Mr. Abbott shows that Mr. Willard in traveling from the bottom to the top in the railroad world, has gained a very just appreciation of present day conditions, and like the wise man that he is, realizes that the time has come when the railroads must deal with absolute frankness with the public, knowing that only upon that basis can they receive from the public that generous treatment which is essential to the success of the business.
In politics he takes no active part, and is classed as an Independ- ent. In religion, he is a Universalist. He is a member of several clubs: the Chicago, Union League, South Shore Country, and Chicago Athletic. In Baltimore, he belongs to the Maryland, and Baltimore Country Clubs; in New York, to the Lawyers, and the Railroad ' Clubs.
Mr. Willard was married on March 2, 1885, to Miss Bertha 'Leone Elkins, daughter of Oscar Elkins, of North Troy, Vermont. Of this marriage there are two sons, Harold N. and Daniel Willard, Jr.
Several members of the New England Willard family have been eminent in this country, but curiously enough always along educa- tional, ministerial and reformatory lines. Daniel Willard appears to. be the first who struck out in industrial lines. Perhaps the greatest member of the family in point of reputation was the famous Frances E. Willard, who though she did not live to reach the age of sixty, was the greatest reformer of her generation and the most widely known woman of the world at the time of her death in 1898. Her memory . is to this day cherished in millions of American homes.
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JOSEPH AUGUSTUS WICKES
J UDGE JOSEPH A. WICKES of Chestertown, is not only one of the oldest, but also one of the most eminent men of the East- ern Shore of Maryland. He was born in Chestertown, September 27, 1826; son of Joseph and Elizabeth (Chambers) Wickes. His father was a soldier in the War of 1812, and participated in the battle of Cork's Hill, Maryland. He was a lawyer by profession; served as deputy attorney-general for Kent and Cecil Counties for many years, until the Constitution of 1850 was adopted. He was a courtly man in his manners, noted for the purity of his character and the excel- lence of his judgment.
No family in Maryland' has a cleaner line of descent than this. The American progenitor was Major Joseph Wickes, who came from England in 1650; settled on Kent Island, then a part of Kent County; was within a year after his arrival in the country appointed judge of the county court, serving until 1656, in that capacity, when he became its presiding judge. He was one of the burgesses representing Kent County in the assembly in 1668, and in 1678 was again presiding judge. He married a Mrs. Hartley and had a son, Joseph, who also was a prominent man; and a daughter, Rachael. He had another daughter, Mary, who appears to have married George Gouldhawke, and whose will appears dated April 27, 1671. The first Joseph Wickes appears as one of the singers of a document dated fifth of April, 1652, pledging loyalty to the commonwealth of England; and this list of sixty-six names is said to have represented the entire white male population of Kent Island on that date.
Judge Wickes has an honorable and useful record, second in length to that of no man in Maryland. His father, himself a culti- vated man from a long line of cultivated ancestors, saw to it that he was well educated. He went through Washington College in Chestertown; entered Princeton University; was graduated in the class of 1845, taking one of the honors in a class of over eighty. He then studied medicine in the University of Maryland, and was graduated in 1848. He changed from medicine to the law; studied
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under his father's direction; was admitted to the bar in 1852, and began active practice.
Prior to that, in 1848, when a young man of twenty-two, he had married Miss Anna Maria Tilghman, a member of the noted Tilgh- man family of Maryland. She passed away on April 2, 1864, leav- ing five children, two of whom yet survive. In November 1865, he was married to Anne Rebecca Wickes, daughter of Colonel Simon Wickes. She died on October 17, 1889, survived by one daughter,-an only son. having died in infancy .. In November, 1893, Judge Wickes was married to Miss Gladys Robinson, daughter of Joseph T. Robinson, granddaughter of Doctor Porter Robinson and great-granddaughter of Major Beverly Robinson of Prince William County, Virginia. Of this marriage there are two children living, a son and daughter.
His professional and public life covers a period of fifty-eight · years. In 1852, the same year in which he was admitted to the bar, he was nominated by the Democratic party of the State as one of its electors in the impending presidential election. . His.associates on the electoral ticket were Robert McLean, Judge Alvey, Carroll Spence and Charles J. M. Gwinn. Together with these able men, Judge Wickes canvassed the State, and his party carried Maryland.
In 1854, believing that there was a wider field for him in the practice of his profession in Western Maryland, he removed to Cum- berland and instantly met with success. In 1855, while he was absent from the county, and even without his knowledge, the Democratic party nominated him as a candidate to the House of Delegates. The American, or "Know-Nothing party" as it was often called, was then in the zenith of its short-lived power. It was believed that it had enough members enrolled in its secret lodges to carry the State. The Democrats undismayed made a hard fight, and Mr. Wickes was elected. He went to the General Assembly in January, 1856, having as colleagues such eminent Democrats as William D. Merrick, Benja- min G. Harris and Judge Stone. Mr. Wickes served as member of the judiciary committee, and took active part in the debates in the Mouse.
Concluding his legislative service, he devoted himself with as- Aidaity to his growing practice, and was building up a large and lucrative practice, when the close confinement of his office, combined with the dampness of the climate brought about such impairment of his health that in the early part of 1858, he was compelled to relin-
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quish his practice and abandon the law. He returned to his native town and spent the greater part of a year in recreation and outdoor life, which restored his health to such an extent that, in 1859, he resumed practice, this time in Chestertown, and speedily built up a large practice. He confined himself to the steady practice of his profession, until 1866, when he was appointed a delegate to the Peace Convention which met in Philadelphia, and over which Mr. Doolittle presided. This effort,-however little productive in results it was- was very creditable to the men engaged in it, who were trying to cure the evils resulting from a bloody war. Maryland was then under the Constitution of 1864,-an instrument which had been drawn and made into law by a minority of the people. It was not in har- mony with the views of the majority; and so after a hard struggle, the General Assembly submitted in January, 1867, to the voters of the State the question of calling a new convention. The convention was called. Mr. WVickes was elected a member of that convention from Kent County; he was appointed chairman of the committee on elective franchise; member of the judiciary committee, and a member of the committee on revisions. The Constitution was ratified by the people and superseded the Constitution of 1864. Under the provisions of the new Constitution, it was necessary to elect judges to carry into effect the judicial system. Mr. Wickes was nomi- nated as one of the judges for the Second Judicial Circuit, composed of Cecil, Kent, Queen Anne, Caroline and Talbot Counties. With him were associated John M. Robinson and Frederick Stump, and they were elected without opposition for a term of fifteen years. In 1882, just prior to the expiration of his term, he was nominated and again elected for another term of fifteen years.
While serving his first term, as far back as 1872, he could have had the Congressional nomination from his district, but declined it. Before the conclusion of his second term, there occurred an incident most creditable to him, and one indeed remarkable in our annals. Judge Wickes is, and has been, a lifelong Democrat of the staunchest breed. On the bench not a partisan, yet his political views are known of all men. Under the Constitution, he had reached the age limit in 1896, when his term had more than a year to run. The legislature was then Republican. Doctor Barber, a Republican member in 1896, offered in this Republican legislature a joint resolution extend- ing his term until it expired, which was two years beyond the consti-
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tutional age. This was done absolutely without his request, and was the strongest possible tribute that could have been given of his absolute impartiality and rectitude as a judge during his thirty years on the Bench.
For more than thirty years, Judge Wickes was president of the board of visitors and governors of Washington College. By long and faithful service, marked not only by the strictest rectitude, but also by the highest capacity, Judge Wickes has endeared himself to the people of his State, and now in his old age enjoys their esteem in fullest measure. He has lived up to the traditions of the elders.
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I T IS one of the curious ironies of fate that very few of the men who have most effectually and usefully served humanity have reaped any material reward for their services. It must be conceded that these useful men have not been seekers after material rewards-that, is reserved for the promotors and exploiters. Butit · would cast a little better light upon our human race if one could see that the people had some sort of appreciation of the services rendered by the great scientists, the inventors, and the patriots The true scientist is never a money-hunter-he works for love of science and love of humanity. It may be added that he is never a seeker after notoriety or fame. His satisfaction comes from the knowledge of a problem worked out-a discovery made-a benefit conferred. No generation has had a monopoly of these men, but they are comparatively few in every generation. In the last half of the nineteenth century the medical profession gained as much ground in the way of useful discovery as it had gained in all the preceding generations. The introduction of anesthesia by William Morton, preceded by the work of Crawford Long and Horace Wells in 1846 would of itself have made the century a notable one in medical annals. But this was merely the beginning. From that time down to the closing years, there is a long record of great achievements, of valuable discovery, such as antiseptic surgery, and the causation of infectious diseases. The closing years of the century were signalized by the great discovery of the agency of a particular species of mosquito in spreading yellow fever-and in the research along this line the honor belongs to Doctor Walter Reed, a native of Virginia and surgeon in the United States army, now deceased; and his colleagues of the army yellow fever commission. Dr. Reed and other members of this commission were pupils of Doctor William Henry Welch of Baltimore, a native of Connecticut, professor of pathology in Johns Hopkins University and the subject of this sketch.
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