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man) Neal. 2. Philip Barton, born November 19, 1836, died April, 1863; he graduated from Anne Arundel Academy, read medicine with his uncle, Dr. Joseph I. Duvall, also later with Dr. Samuel Chew, of Baltimore, and was graduated M.D. from the University of Maryland; went south at the beginning of the war, joined the Confederate Army in 1861, and on the day of his promotion to be assistant surgeon of Captain Dement's company, he was killed on the battlefield at Chancellorsville, Virginia; he was unmarried. 3. Samuel Fulton, born October 20, 1838, educated at Anne Arundel Academy, joined the Confederate Army in 1861, served until the close of the war, then again went south; he was wounded at the battles of Seven Pines and Gettysburg. 4. Joseph Com- stock, born October 21, 1840, died November 5, 1840. 5. Richard Joseph, born December 19, 1841, died September, 1851. 6. Richard Marcellus, born March 20, 1844, died January 27, 1857. 7. Daniel Clayton, born May 15, 1845, died in Virginia, in April, 1901 ; was educated at Anne Arun- del Academy; married, February 13, 1866, Mary Elizabeth Rosa Gantt, daughter of Thomas and Mary Gantt, of Anne Arundel county, Maryland. 8. Mary Emma, born January 18, 1848, died young. 9. Henry Willett, born July 3, 1850, died September 12, 1851. 10. Mary Virginia, born May 9, 1851, died July 29, 1853. 11. Sallie. Children by second marriage: 12. Richard Mareen, born November 1, 1856, near Millerville, Anne Arundel county, Maryland ; married, October 30, 1895, Julianna Webster Goldsborough, daughter of Dr. John Schley and Julianna W. (Strider) Goldsbor- ough; he was educated by private instructors and at Anne Arundel County Academy, and the State Normal School at Baltimore, and from 1877 to 1883 taught in private and pub- lic schools; he began the study of law in January, 1880, with Judge William H. Tuck, of Annapolis, was admitted to the
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Maryland bar in January, 1883, removed to Baltimore the fol- lowing September, and began the practice of law in that city ; he is a member of the Maryland Historical Society, the Mary- land Original Research Society, the American Bar Associa- tion, the Bar Association of Baltimore, the Maryland State Bar Association, is a trustee and member of the executive committee of Anne Arundel Academy, member of the Society of Colonial Wars, Sons of the Revolution, University Club and St. Andrew Society. 13. Marius Turner (twin with Rich- ard M.) was born in Anne Arundel county, Maryland, No- vember 1, 1856, died in Hanover county, Virginia, September 20, 1901 ; he was educated by private instruction and at Anne Arundel Academy, and was a substantial planter; he married Mary Elizabeth Sled, daughter of John Sled, Esq., of Han- over county, Virginia. 14. Everett, born August 3, 1858, in Anne Arundel county, Maryland; educated at the public schools and Anne Arundel Academy; he married, November 27, 1895, Libbie Mersereau, of Virginia. 15. Herbert, born April 17, 1861, in Anne Arundel county, died in Virginia, unmarried, March 30, 1901. 16. Barton Lee, born in 1863, in Anne Arundel county, died in Hanover county, Virginia, June 8, 1903. 17. Rachel Frances, born January 1, 1865, died in infancy. Child by third wife: 18. Hannah Lavinia, born in 1870; married James Hutchison, of Washington, D. C .; they have one child, Fulton.
JAMES WILLIAM THOMAS
THE ancestor of the Thomas family of St. Mary county,
Maryland, was Thomas Thomas, who came from Eng. land about 1652, and was among the early settlers on the Pautuxet river. In the Revolution, sons of the family dis- played their patriotism in council and field of battle, and dur- ing the conflict between the States, sons of the seventh genera- tion won fame by their loyalty, devotion and valor in the Con- federate army. Three brothers, sons of Senator Richard Thomas, of Mattapany, and grandsons of Major William Thomas, an officer of the Maryland Line during the Revolu- tion, are of special mention for valiant service; Colonel Rich- ard Thomas, who served under the name of Zarvona by act of the Virginia Legislature ; Captain George Thomas, of Com- pany A, Second Maryland Regiment, Confederate Army, and Sergeant James William Thomas, also of Company A, to whom this review is dedicated. After the war the survivors of Company A formed the Murray Confederate Association, and after the death of their comrade the association adopted resolutions to the memory of James William Thomas, as fol- lows in part :
Be It Resolved: That in the death of Sergeant James William Thomas, the Murray Confederate Association deplores the loss of one of its most honored members. A gallant soldier and a true gentleman.
Profoundly devoted to the cause of the South, he shouldered his musket at the beginning of the war, and, as one of Murray's men of the Maryland Infantry, C. S. A., followed the Stars and Bars during the memorable four years of heroic struggle. Of the many beardless youths who left their homes and their firesides in "Dear Old Maryland," when the War between the States began, none carried into the conflict a more unfaltering devotion and loyalty than Sergeant Thomas. He was an ideal soldier, alert and in- telligent in the performance of every duty, always at his post. and in the storm and stress of battle displaying the fortitude and coolness character-
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istic of the name he bore and worthy of the Maryland Line that charged at Cowpens and Camden.
Our comrade has crossed "over the river," to take his honorable place in the fast filling ranks of those, who, living and dying, loved the Cause, leaving behind him an untarnished name, and a record that must ever be the pride and boast of his descendants.
James William Thomas was of the seventh generation of the family founded in Maryland by Thomas Thomas, who secured a warrant for one thousand acres situated on the north side of the Pautuxet river, near Buzzard's island, March 31, 1656, and became prominent in the affairs of the colony, serv- ing as one of the high commissioners of the Provincial Court held at Pautuxet.
He was succeeded by his son, James Thomas, of Ware, Charles county, Maryland, who was born in England prior to 1651. His will, dated June 7, 1701, was probated Novem- ber 29, 1701. By his first wife, Teratia, he had children: John, of further mention, and Thomas, died prior to Febru- ary, 1723.
John Thomas, son of James and Teratia Thomas, was born in 1682, and his will, dated April 30, 1756, was probated July 7, 1757. He married and had issue: John, of Ware, Charles county, Maryland, married Mary Wilson; Leonard, of Bowling Green, moved to the State of Georgia; James, died in 1782; Jane, who died prior to 1756, married Edward Swan; Elizabeth, died prior to 1756, married Benjamin Wood; William, of further mention.
Major William Thomas, son of John Thomas, was born in 1714, died at his residence, at Deep Falls, St. Mary's county, Maryland, March 25, 1795. He was commissioned captain of the county militia, in 1752, and major in 1754. He was elected a member of the committee of correspondence for St. Mary county, June 5, 1774, was a delegate to the Revolution- ary Convention, 1775, member of the Maryland House of
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Delegates, 1761, 1768 to 1776, and member of the General Assembly of Maryland from 1777 until 1781. For forty years he was a vestryman of King and Queen Parish. He married Elizabeth Reeves, born in 1714, died in 1808, daugh- ter of Thomas and Mary Reeves. They were the parents of five children : 1. Colonel John Thomas, of Charles county, Maryland, died in 1797; was an officer of the Continental Army, member of the Maryland Legislature many years, pres- ident of the State Senate, 1795 to 1797. 2. William, of further mention. 3. George, born in 1764, member of the Maryland House of Delegates, 1787-88. 4. James, died in 1781 ; was a soldier of the Continental Army, wounded at Yorktown. 5. Elizabeth, died September 26, 1792; was wife of Major Wil- liam Courts, an officer of the Maryland Line, Continental Army.
Major William Thomas, Jr., of De La Brooke Manor, St. Mary's county, Maryland, was born at Deep Falls, Mary- land, in 1758, and died August 1, 1813. He was a lieutenant in the Continental army, and later major in the famous Mary- land Line; he was a prominent Free Mason and first master of Hiram Lodge at Leonardstown, Maryland, elected grand master of Maryland, 1809, and re-elected the following year ; was judge of the Orphans Court of St. Mary's county from 1797 to 1800, resigned to become chief judge of the County Court, in which capacity he served from 1800 to 1802; presi- dent of the board of trustees for Charlotte Hall Academy; member of the General Assembly from St. Mary's county, Maryland, 1791 to 1796; and from 1802 to 1813 served in both houses ; president of the Maryland Senate from 1806 until his death, August 1, 1813. He married, in 1782, Catherine Brooke Boarman, born 1760, died in 1812, heiress of "De La Brooke Manor," daughter of Richard Basil and Anne (Gard- iner) Boarman. Children: James, of Deep Falls, St. Mary's
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county, Maryland, three times Governor of Maryland, was born March II, 1785, and died December 25, 1845; he mar- ried, June 25, 1808, Elizabeth Courts. 2. George, born in 1791, died November 20, 1856; married Mary Tubman. 3. Dr. William, of "Cremona," St. Mary's county, Maryland, born March 8, 1793, died September 20, 1849; married (first) August 6, 1818, Elizabeth Tubman; married (second) April 8, 1828, Elizabeth Lansdale. 4. Richard, of further mention. 5. Anne, born in 1798, died July, 1862; married Hon. Thomp- son Mason, of Loudoun county, Virginia. 6. Matilda, mar- ried Colonel George Brent. 7. Catherine, married United States Senator William Duhurst Merrick.
Richard Thomas, of Mattapany, St. Mary county, Mary- land, son of Major William Thomas, Jr., was born in 1797, and died October 30, 1849. He was for many years a member of the Maryland Assembly from St. Mary's county ; speaker of the House of Delegates, 1830, after which he was elected to the Senate, was president of that body from 1836 to 1843, and was president of the Maryland Colonization Society; he mar- ried Jane Wallace Armstrong; they had three sons: Richard, George and James William, of further mention. Richard Thomas was a commissioned colonel in the Confederate Army under the name of Richard Thomas Zarvona; his exploit in capturing the Federal steamer "St. Nicholas," is famous in the annals of the history of the Confederate service; after the Civil War he went to Europe and served with distinction under Garabaldi, and also in the Egyptian Army. Captain George Thomas, of Mattapany, born August 6, 1835, died May 14, 1903; was captain of Company A, Second Maryland Regiment, Confederate States Army; he married, October 23, 1866, Ellen Ogle Beall, born October 21, 1841, died Octo- ber 30, 1909, daughter of Rev. Upton and Louisa (Ogle) Beall; they were the parents of eight children: Richard MD .- 10
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Brooke, born January 27, 1868, died in 1875; John Henry, born August 3, 1869, of Mattapany, Maryland, Boston, Mas- sachusetts, and New York City; Rev. Upton Beall, born March 31, 1871, married, Jnauary 22, 1907, Emily Hoffman ; Tazewell Taylor, of the Baltimore bar, born September 9, 1872, married, September 23, 1903, Maria Antonia Vall- Spinoza; Edward Ogden, of New York; Louise Ogle, born December 20, 1875; Rev. William Matthews Merrick, of Rio Grande de Sul, Brazil, born May 3, 1878, married, October 25, 1904, Sara Elizabeth Cruishank; Kate, born September 10, 1879, married, September 15, 1910, Dr. Henry Nicholas Browse, of West Virginia.
James William Thomas, youngest son of Senator Richard Thomas, was born at Mattapany, St. Mary's county, Maryland, April 2, 1840, died at his estate in St. Mary's county, Decem- ber 21, 1901. When war broke out between the States the three sons of Senator Thomas volunteered for service in the Confederate Army. Their mother remained at "Mattapany" until the same was occupied by Federal troops. James W. Thomas left his home on Wednesday, May 22, 1861, and ar- rived in Richmond, May 24. On the following day he was enrolled as a private in Company B, of the Maryland Guards. On June 17 he obtained a transfer to Company D, of which his brother, George, was first lieutenant, on June 19 was mus- tered in for the war, and on June 22 the company was ordered to join the First Maryland Regiment at Winchester, Virginia. He was first under fire on Sunday, July 21, at the battle of Manassas (First Bull Run), and he was continuously in the service until wounded at Gettysburg, July 3, 1863, and taken prisoner. Captain Murray was killed the same day, and George Thomas succeeded him in command of Company B. That company lost in the battles of July 2 and 3 their captain and eight privates killed, a lieutenant, two sergeants, and forty-
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seven privates wounded, and six captured. James W. Thomas was then first sergeant of the company. On July 19 he writes : "Several days since I was removed by Dr. Quinlan (a Federal surgeon) to the Presbyterian Church. Here I am comfortably fixed. Sisters of Charity attend here, everything is clean, and I get what I want. By Dr. Quinlan's directions they at- tend particularly to me. I could not be more fortunate unless I could go home. Mother has been with me some time." On July 23 he was sent east to David's Island, about twenty miles from New York, and was in the hospital until September 23, when he was sent South on parole. After partially regaining his health he took a clerkship in Major Anblers' office, Rich- mond, serving until February 9, 1864, when he rejoined the army, and on August 19 was taken prisoner in battle, and was confined at Point Lookout, a point of land lying between Chesapeake bay and the Potomac river. He was held a pris- oner until February 17, 1865, when he was paroled, later exchanged and returned to Richmond. He again entered the army, and sixteen days later, on April 2, 1865, was again taken prisoner through a blunder of the captain commanding the brigade picket line. This ended his military service, as before he was released the war ended. He attained the rank of ser- geant major. From the beginning of the war until May 26, 1865, Sergeant Thomas kept a diary, which long after the war he transcribed for his sons. He did not rewrite it, but added many valuable explanatory notes. This record, typed and paged, has been bound in morocco, and is a souvenir priceless to the family. After the war Mr. Thomas returned to St. Mary's county, Maryland, and there passed a quiet life in con- tentment and honor.
Mr. Thomas married, January 17, 1871, Fantelina Shaw, born October 9, 1842, daughter of Dr. Joseph Ford and Re- becca (Thomas) Shaw, of St. Mary's county, Maryland. They
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were the parents of Carroll, Armstrong, Richard Zarvona, Fantelina and Allison Ford. Carroll Thomas, born October 13, 1871, married, September 1, 1896, Margaret Ellen, daugh- ter of Barclay and Eliza (Morton) Thomas, of Prince Georges' county, Maryland, and have one child, James W. Thomas, born February 8, 1903; Armstrong Thomas, born March 21, 1874, married, November 26, 1902, Rebecca True- heart Ellerson, of Richmond, Virginia, daughter of Andrew Roy and Rebecca Lewis (Storrs) Ellerson; they are the par- ents of Ree Storrs, born April 18, 1905, died in infancy ; Re- becca Lewis, born April 19, 1907; Armstrong, Jr., born April 8, 1909. Richard Zarvona Thomas, born November 8, 1876, died May 12, 1879. Fantelina Thomas, born October 30, 1879, died in July, 1888. Allison Ford, born March 27, 1881, married, April 1, 1916, Nell Aminta Kalbaugh; they have one child, Nell Allison, born May 19, 1917.
G. LANE TANEYHILL, M.D.
A' LTHOUGH of Pennsylvania birth, Dr. Taneyhill's long and useful life was spent in Maryland, and from 1869 until his death in 1916, nearly half a century, in Baltimore. Aside from his eminence in his profession he was a prominent figure in the public life of the city, and in educational and religious affairs took an earnest, active part. The public schools of Baltimore owe much of their efficiency to his earnest efforts as commissioner to promote their advancement along modern lines.
Dr. G. Lane Taneyhill was born in Bellefonte, Pennsyl- vania, March 11, 1840, died at his home, No. 1103 Madison avenue, Baltimore, Maryland, March 2, 1916, son of Rev. Thomas Taneyhill, a minister of the Methodist Episcopal church. After completing his academic studies he began the study of medicine under Dr. John F. Petherbridge, of Calvert county, Maryland, his study of medicine having been in the intervals of teaching school in Calvert county. In 1863 he first came to the city of Baltimore, there entering the military hospital as a cadet. He completed his medical education at the University of Maryland, whence he was graduated from the medical department M.D., class of 1865. Soon afterward he was commissioned assistant surgeon of the Eleventh Regi- ment, Volunteer Infantry, by Governor A. W. Bradford, and ordered to duty at Fort Delaware.
After the war was over Dr. Taneyhill was appointed as- sistant physician to the Maryland Hospital for the Insane, remaining about three years. He then spent a year in Bellevue Hospital, New York City, returning to Baltimore in 1869. The next few years were employed in building up a private practice in Baltimore, and the subsequent years until death in meeting the demands of that practice. He became one of
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the best known and highly regarded general practitioners in the city, and ministered to a very large, influential clientele. He kept abreast of all modern medical discovery, and for many years was a prominent leader in the medical societies of Baltimore and Maryland. He took a deep interest in the proceedings and work of the Baltimore Medical Association, serving as its president, and in the Obstetrical and Gynecologi- cal Society of Baltimore, which he served as vice-president. He was for many years secretary of the board of trustees of the Medical and Chirurgical Faculty of Maryland ; member of the American Medical Association ; member of the United States Military Surgeons Association ; treasurer of the Alumni Association of the University of Maryland; member of the Maryland Academy of Sciences; member of the Maryland Historical Society, and at the time of his death was a trustee of Dickinson College, and examining surgeon of the United States Pension Board. He was a whole-hearted, devoted phy- sician, the soul of honor, and strictly observant of the ethics of his profession. No call upon his professional skill was ever disregarded, and many were the number of those he treated without hope of fee or material reward.
A Republican in politics, he took life-long interest in city affairs, but his chief interest was in the public schools. When elected school commissioner he labored most effectually to develop a modern school system to give to the youth of Balti- more greater opportunities for a practical education which would fit them for life's duties. He was a member of the Methodist Episcopal church from youth, and in Baltimore a long time member of the Madison avenue congregation, be- longing to the official board. He was one of the vice-presi- dents of the City Missionary and Church Extension Society, president of the Laymen's Convention of Baltimore Con- ference of the Methodist Episcopal Church in 1915, and in
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church activity bore a leading part. He was a member and physician to the St. Andrew's Society, was a member of the Grand Army of the Republic, and ever took a deep interest in that organization. There were no idle periods in his life, every talent he possessed being consecrated to the service of his fellow-men.
Dr. Taneyhill married Caroline A. McAllister, of New York, who survives him, with two children: G. Lane (2) Taneyhill, M.D., Ruth Hollis Taneyhill, and one grandchild, Jean Cranston Taneyhill.
ROBERT CLINTON COLE
R OBERT CLINTON COLE, born November 16, 1857,
in Baltimore, was a son of Robert Clinton and Ellen Louisa (Wise) Cole, of Baltimore, grandson of William and Cassandra (Smallwood) Cole, the former of Baltimore, and the latter of Charles county, Maryland, and great-grandson of James and Elizabeth (Clinton) Cole, the former of Cecil county, Maryland, and the latter of North Carolina. Mr. Cole was descended from an ancient English family, early planted in New England and Maryland. The name is derived from an ancient personal name of unknown antiquity.
Mr. Cole received his early education under private tutors. Subsequently he entered Dickinson College, at Car- lisle, Pennsylvania, from which he was graduated in 1879 with the degree of Bachelor of Arts. He took a post-graduate course at Johns Hopkins Institute in political economy, and founded the Beta Theta Chi chapter there. Soon after he became principal of the old No. 12 grammar school of Balti- more, and while pursuing the duties of this position engaged in the study of law at the University of Maryland. In 1889 he completed the course and was admitted to the bar in that year. Two years previously his alma mater conferred on him the degree of Master of Arts. In the following year he became professor of history and political economy at Baltimore City College, continuing in that position until 1896, when he re- signed to engage in the practice of law. While highly suc- cessful as a lawyer, Mr. Cole was best known as a factor in the educational life of the city and State. For nine years, 1904 to 1912 inclusive, he was a member of the State Board of Education, and his sober judgment was highly regarded dur- ing those years, when new problems were developing in the State educational system. In 1905 he retired from the practice
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of law, and at the time of his death, December 16, 1914, he was president of the Calvert Mortgage Company, being asso- ciated with D. H. Doyle, J. Albert Hughes and Charles F. Hutchins in that organization. He was ever in touch with progressive educational work in the State, and contributed much to the establishment of the liberal educational quality maintained by the State. Mr. Cole was a familiar figure in the life of Baltimore, and was well known to most of the leading men of the city. Of tall and commanding figure, with gray hair and pleasant, kindly countenance, he was the object of considerate attention wherever he went. He was a member of the leading clubs of Baltimore, including the Maryland Club, Baltimore Club, Baltimore Country Club, Baltimore Athletic Club, of which he served as president, and Baltimore Chapter of the Dickinson College Alumni Association. He was a member of the Beta Theta Psi college fraternity, of the Sons of the Revolution, and the Society of the War of 1812. Popular in society, successful as a lawyer and business man, he died deeply regretted and widely mourned.
Mr. Cole married Elizabeth Rice, daughter of Frederick Rice, of Baltimore, who survives him.
WILLIAM WALLACE SPENCE
ON October 18, 1915, William Wallace Spence passed
from the ranks of the nonogenarians to the honors of a centenarian, and in a quiet way celebrated the passing of the one hundredth milestone marking his journey through life. It was with great satisfaction that he reached that age, and feeling that Baltimore, where he had spent seventy of his one hundred years was the proper place to celebrate it, he returned from Hot Springs, Virginia, where he had been sojourning for several months. He spent the day in his bed resting, although not ill, smoked his customary cigar and greatly enjoyed the flowers and gifts which came from dear friends, particularly a small basket of heather, bracken and thistle, gathered in his native Scotland, and sent him by St. Andrew's Society. He only enjoyed the distinction of a centenarian a few weeks, his death occurring the following November 3, his life as full of honors as of years.
Mr. Spence sought the United States not as a refuge, but as a believer in America's opportunities and her institutions. He prepared himself to embrace these opportunities by ob- taining a good education, then despite the strong arguments of his honored father and his many friends broke away from the home traditions of his race. But he was a loyal Scot and everything pertaining to the "auld Highland," as he was fond of calling his native land, appealed to him and warmed his heart. In Druid Hill Park, Baltimore, stands a heroic statue of the Scotch patriot, William Wallace, whose name he bore, presented by his namesake, and he made many visits to the land of his birth.
In Baltimore he won business reputation and fortune, first as a shipping merchant, then as a financier, was closely associated with Johns Hopkins in many important business
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