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Dr. Gallagher served during the Civil War with a regi- ment of Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, and was a member of the Grand Army of the Republic. He belonged to many societies and organizations, educational, religious and literary, was well known and greatly beloved by a very wide circle of friends.
Dr. Gallagher married (first) Emily Anne Hubbard, who died May 13, 1890. He married (second) Evangeline Corscaden, who died November 24, 1914. His only surviv- ing child is E. Louisa Gallagher, who married Professor Beekman Oliver Rouse, the able successor to the presidency of the Maryland College for Women. Their only son is Oliver Wesley Rouse.
CHARLES E. HILL
TN 1871, when Charles E. Hill first came from New Hamp-
shire to Maryland, there were some of his new neighbors who looked askance at one of the "Yankees." It was only seven years after his father's death on the Chattanooga Battle- field when he left a northern college to become Assistant Pro- fessor at the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis, and much of the bitterness of the Civil War still lingered, but, in 1909, when ill health forced him to live again in the New Hampshire hills, he had seen all that bitterness pass, and among his closest friends and business associates were men whose fathers had given their lives for the Confederacy as his had for the Union. When he died, April 6, 1917, at his house in Temple, Hillsborough county, New Hampshire, he had been for forty-two years a member of the Baltimore Bar and he had borne his part in the development of the city he had learned to love.
Pedigrees are interesting only as they explain individual character. The Massachusetts Archives and the Records of the Society of the Cincinnati show that Samuel Hill, Hope Brown and Ebenezer Bancroft bore their share of military service throughout the War of Independence. Samuel Hill's son, Ebenezer Hill, married November 18, 1795, Ebenezer Bancroft's daughter, Rebecca, and one of the twin sons of this marriage, Joseph Bancroft Hill, married, August 26, 1845, Hope Brown's great-granddaughter Harriet. Charles Ebenezer Hill, the first child of this last marriage, was there- fore, of purely "American" and typically New England ante- cedents.
Samuel Hill was a great-grandson of Ralph Hill, who came to Plymouth from Devon before 1638, and grandson of Captain Ralph Hill who fought in the Indian Wars and was
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a Representative in the Massachusetts General Court from 1689 to 1694. Both Hills were among the petitioners to Gov- ernor Bellingham for the incorporation of the Massachusetts town of Billerica. They were born in England and came of a family whose most distinguished member, probably, was Sir John Hulle (or Hylle) of Kyton, Devon, one of the judges of the King's Bench, 1389-1407. The Browns and the Bancrofts are the same sort of people as the Hills. All were members and many were ministers, elders or deacons of "The Church," for the Congregational Puritan Church was in those days supported by general taxation and civil rights depended upon church membership.
Hope Brown was fourth in descent from William Brown (e), who settled in Sudbury about 1638, and was of the lineage of the Brownes of "Hawkedon," Bury St. Ed- munds, Suffolk. The first church in Sudbury was founded by the brothers, William and Edmund Brown, in 1640, Edmund becoming the first minister, and William being elected the first deacon. William Brown afterwards was a representa- tive in the Massachusetts General Court. One of his sons, Hopestill, transmitted his typically Puritan name in a short- ened form to his descendant, Hope Brown, who April 19, 1775, then a corporal, marched with his company to Con- cord. Hope Brown's grandfather, Colonel Josiah Brown, had been signer of the church covenant in 1724, had commanded his regiment in the French and Indian Wars in 1755, and was one of the original grantees of the town of Mason, Hills- borough county, New Hampshire, with which his Hill descendants later became prominently identified.
Colonel Ebenezer Bancroft did not, like Hope Brown, march to Concord on April 19, 1775, for at that time he held the King's commission as captain, but the battle of Lexington absolved him from his oath, and, although wounded at Bunker
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Hill, he commanded Massachusetts troops in Rhode Island, was in the battle of Bennington, commanded the guard which conducted the Hessian troops to Cambridge and continued in the service until the close of the war. He was a descendant of Lieutenant Timothy Bancroft, who joined the Reading set- tlement in 1652, and among his co-descendants were such men as the Rev. Aaron Bancroft, D.D., Chief Justice Fuller and George Bancroft, the historian. The early Massachusetts families were much inter-married, and Henry Adams of Braintree, forefather of two Presidents, John Whitney and Elder Edward Howe of Watertown, Andrew Stevenson of Cambridge, the Warrens, Proctors, Pattersons, Cutlers, Fletchers, Farwells, Paines, Pages, and Parkers, all con- tributed a little of their Puritan steadfastness to descendants who have done their part in the development of the land their progenitors helped settle. The career of Charles E. Hill was thoroughly consistent with his heritage from these and others like them. In their lives, as in his, service of some sort was the primary object of life, whether that service were to Church, State, family or neighbors.
Mr. Hill was born in Colebrook, in the extreme north- ern part of New Hampshire, where his father was then min- ister, but he spent part of his childhood at his grandfather's house in Mason, Hillsborough county. This town lies on the boundary line between New Hampshire and Massachusetts, farther in the hills than Groton and not quite so far as Temple and Dublin, its near neighbors. Colonel Brown had been an original grantee of Mason, and Ebenezer Hill became its minister soon after he graduated from Harvard College (A.B., 1786; A.M., 1789). In accordance with the custom that then prevailed, he remained as minister of "The Church" for sixty-four years, and also represented Mason in the New Hampshire Legislature. His first wife died, and he married
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Rebecca Bancroft, widow of Samuel Howard, who bore him, November 26th, 1796, twin sons, Joseph Bancroft and John Boynton Hill. 'These two graduated at Harvard College (A. B.) 1821 in the same class, both were in the first seven of the Phi Beta Kappa; both were members of the "Institute of 1770" and the "Hasty Pudding Club," and, on graduation, both studied law and were admitted to the bar. John Boynton Hill continued practice, became a partner of John Appleton, afterwards Chief Justice of Maine, was speaker pro tem of the Maine Legislature in 1855 and finally returned to the Mason homestead, where he died in 1886. Joseph Bancroft Hill was admitted to the Tennessee bar in 1828, but later re- turned to Mason and became colleague with his father in the ministry of the church. When the war came, although over sixty, he joined the Army of the Cumberland in the service of the United States Christian Commission and was killed in a hospital train accident at Chattanooga, June 16th, 1864.
Mr. Hill was then sixteen and upon him fell much of the responsibility for his mother and two younger brothers, who were then living in Temple. He prepared for college from 1863 to 1867 at the Appleton Academy in New Ipswich, of whose trustees his grandfather Hill had been president. He had expected to enter Harvard, of which his father and grandfather were graduates, but changed his plans and en- tered the freshman class of Dartmouth College in 1867. Of his life at the academy and at college, Honorable Melvin O. Adams, his classmate and roommate wrote:
The literary programs of those days show his trend. He never rode a Greek or Latin Oration where if both horse and rider were thrown-the audience still sat in awed unwisdom. He took a full-sized theme requiring something to be said and he stood up and said it. Graduating at the Academy his oration was on "True Glory." At another time he made his appeal for "Energy." Still in his boyhood at the Academy, at a mock murder trial he was counsel for the defense and got away with it. The functional events
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of college days were what we call Sophomore Prize Speaking; and The Junior Exhibition. He competed as a Sophomore, rendering that old sonorous declaration : "Virginius to the Roman Army ;" while at The Junior Exhibition his oration was "The Heroic Age of American History." These illustrate. He was scholarly and his scholarship was flexible. If he excelled in Greek and Latin he was no less good in mathematics and physics.
At college he was a member of the Alpha Delta Phi. On March 8th, 1871, Captain Carter, the commanding officer at the Naval Academy, reported to Secretary Robeson that he had examined Mr. Hill and found him duly qualified to fill the position of "Assistant Professor of Ethics and English Studies" at the Naval Academy, and recommended that his appointment be forwarded to him as such. He left college before graduating to accept this postion, but years later his college conferred upon him the A.B. degree. In 1871 the old Naval Academy, founded by his father's cousin, Secre- tary of the Navy Bancroft, was a quaint, delightful place with ancient, tree-shaded houses and green lawns. The mild climate of Annapolis was a great contrast to the rigorous New England winters, and for four years Mr. Hill taught history to future officers and studied law for himself. It was his original intention to practice in Boston, but dread of its cold winters, and his engagement to a Maryland girl led him to select Baltimore as a permanent home. He resigned from the navy, to take effect on September 15th, 1874, was admitted to the Baltimore Bar, February 13th, 1875, and November 23rd married Kate (Keturah) Watts, daughter of Philip Coleman Clayton, sixth in descent from John Clay- ton, Attorney-General of Virginia, 1714-37, whose son, Samuel, married Philip Pendleton's daughter, Elizabeth. Mrs. Hill was born April 25th, 1849, in Annapolis, and such Marylanders as Colonel Henry Ridgely, Richard Wells, Cap- tain Thomas Stockett, John Brewer and Major John Welsh were among her progenitors.
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For the thirty-four succeeding years he lived in Balti- more and spent the summer vacations in New Hampshire, first at Mason, and after the death of his uncle, John Boynton Hill. at Temple. Those thirty-four years were devoted to his pro- fession, church and family life, with a participation in the duties of citizenship. At first alone, then with Mr. Fred- erick P. Ross, and finally as head of the firm of Hill, Ross & Hill, he lived the usual lawyer's life. His work was mostly what is known as "business law," but he appeared in many important litigated cases in the local courts and the Court of Appeals. Perhaps the best known of these was "The Berry Will Case," which occupied various courts for long periods and resulted in important decisions on testamentary law by the Court of Appeals. In this case with ex-Governor Wil- liam Pinckney White and Mr. Edgar H. Gans, he repre- sented the Safe Deposit and Trust Company, executor. On the business side of law he helped organize various corpora- tions, in some of which he took an active interest. At his death he was still president of the Maryland Color Printing Company, and a director of the C. J. Youse Company, the one a large manufacturer of all sorts of colored labels and the other of all manner of paper boxes. When he was forced by ill health to give up active business, he was engaged in the development of the suburb known as Howard Park, and he founded the water service which later grew to be The Artesian Water Company, and which supplies the greater part of the suburbs adjoining the city to the northwest.
He worked hard during the week at his office, first, 16 East Lexington street, then in the Central Savings Bank Building, and finally in the Keyser Building, but he worked as hard, if not harder, on Sunday with his church duties. After graduating from Harvard, in 1879, his brother, Wil- liam Bancroft Hill, came to Baltimore, was admitted to the
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bar and practiced with him for a time. He shortly, however, followed their father's example and left the law for the church. Mr. Hill often jestingly asserted that his brother's change from law to theology was due to the influence of his law office.
Outside of New England, the Congregationalist usually becomes a Presbyterian, and when Mr. Hill first came to Maryland he attended the latter church. Bishop Ames was then, however, a powerful preacher and to hear his sermons Mr. Hill attended the Methodist Episcopal church, with which he later became closely identified. About 1885, the time of the building of the present First Methodist Episcopal Church, he became one of the trustees and continued this relation until his death. January 3rd, 1886, he was elected superintendent of its Sunday school. "A born teacher and a devout student of the Bible from boyhood, he not only," in the words of the Rev. Dr. Hugh Johnston, "built up a great school, but became thoroughly identified with the mighty movements of the church and the benevolent work of the city." He was trustee of the Women's College, now Goucher College, from 1891 to 1914; for many years trustee and special treasurer of the Home for the Aged of the Meth- odist Episcopal Church, as well as a trustee of the Baltimore Annual Conference, the Ashbury Sunday School Society and other church and benevolent agencies. For a number of years he lectured on "Medical Jurisprudence" at the Maryland Homeopathic Hospital.
His inherited Republicanism was very much tempered by the strong Southern Democratic views of his wife, and he took no part in what is known as active politics. He was, however, an early member of the Reform League and of the Civil Service Reform Association, and was actively engaged in the political revolution in Maryland in 1895, which over-
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threw the old city and State rings. Soon after coming to Baltimore, he took up his residence in what was then No. 80 Charles street in Baltimore county, one door from Brown street and three blocks above the "Boundary." Here he resided until forced to spend most of his time in New Hampshire. Later, No. 80 became No. 308 and finally No. 2120 North Charles street. Brown street became Third, and then Twenty-second street, and the boundary became North avenue when that part of Baltimore became a portion of the "Annex," and of the old Twenty-second Ward. The "Good Government Movement," in 1895, for a time was thought to have great promise of political regeneration for the country. It started in New York, and in Baltimore, under the leadership of Honorable Charles J. Bonaparte, it was taken up by the governing body of the Reform League, and Good Government Clubs were organized in various parts of the city, perhaps as many as ten or twelve altogether. In each case the nucleus was furnished by the members of the Reform League and Mr. Hill organized and became presi- dent of the Good Government Club of the Twenty-second Ward. He was also a member of the executive committee of the general movement.
Although he belonged at various times to the Maryland, University, Country, Merchants and other clubs, he used them rarely, and took his recreation with his family. Brought up in the country, he rode well, was an excellent whip and devoted to horses. When bicycles came into use he gave up his daily drive and rode with his sons, but when bicycling fell into disuse, he again took up driving and riding, and rode daily before breakfast. Part of the summer vacation was always spent in a two or three weeks' driving trip in the White Mountains or other portions of New England. After his forced retirement to New Hampshire, he did considerable MD .- 12
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writing, and translated and annotated the larger part of a History of the French Revolution, which he intended to publish. At the same time he transformed an old golf course on his place into a scientifically planted fruit orchard of sev- eral hundred acres and became a local authority on fruit culture, keeping up a constant correspondence with the State Agricultural authorities.
The death of his wife, April 6th, 1907, was a blow from which Mr. Hill never fully recovered. He spent the sum- mer of 1908 in England and France and returned in Sep- tember, in apparent improved health, but soon contracted a cold he was unable to throw off. He made short trips to Savannah and Asheville and resisted the idea that there was anything the matter with him. Finally, however, he became convinced that his health was seriously impaired and spent the spring of 1909 in the Blue Ridge. He remained there until July and then feeling much improved, went to his house in New Hampshire. During the remaining eight years of his life, despite his invalid condition, he lived an active life, made a number of trips to Baltimore and took a keen interest in his affairs there and in New Hampshire. His death, April 6th, 1917, occurred just ten years to a day after that of his wife, and he was buried beside her in Greenmount Cemetery.
He had three sons to whose education and interests he gave unremitting care, and whose companionship he constant- ly sought,-John Philip Hill (Major and Judge Advocate, N. G. Md.), formerly United States Attorney for Mary- land; Dr. Eben Clayton Hill (Captain U. S. A.), of the Medical Staff of Vassar Hospital at Poughkeepsie; and Bancroft Hill, consulting engineer, treasurer of The Artesian Water Company of Baltimore. He was survived by his brothers, Rev. William Bancroft Hill, D.D., professor of Biblical Literature at Vassar College, and Joseph A. Hill, Ph.D., Chief Statistician, Census Bureau, Washington, D. C.
George Moram
GEORGE MORROW
Passed out to softer summers than we know,
Passed out to sweeter countries than we've seen ;
Passed out to golden cities with their glow Of Jasper and of beryl and onyx sheen.
Passed out with all your gentle sweetness, friend, A brave and smiling comrade to the end, A faithful soldier in this life that signs Above the toil and all the care it brings. Passed out from such a circle as drew around Your heart in love so earnest and profound, Respecting you because of worth that drew All men who loved true worth in work to you. Passed out, but not forever from our hearts ; Already there a flower of memory starts
That holds as sweet and dear as memory can Your golden record as a friend and man.
Passed out from faithful service through the years, Passed out to leave us unashamed of tears That flow from one so worthy of a grief In which our hearts cry out on Death, the thief.
Passed out to sunny slopes where childhood smiles, To Daisied fields and slopes where song beguiles
The Noble hearted and the leal and true-
Good night: Bon voyage : from all your comrade crew.
TH HUS wrote Folger Mckinsey, the "Bentztown Bard," on the death of his friend, George Morrow, dean of the local editorial staff on the Baltimore "Sun," and one of the best known newspaper men in Baltimore.
George Morrow was born in Washington county, Penn- sylvania, July 23, 1853, and died in the city of Baltimore, Maryland, August 3, 1915. He began his newspaper career as a boy on the "Echo Pilot" of Greencastle, Pennsylvania, learning the printer's trade in that office. He came to Balti- more in 1870, and for a short time was employed on the old
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Baltimore "Gazette." He left the "Gazette" to go to St. Louis, Missouri, but after two years in that city returned to Maryland, becoming owner and editor of the Baltimore "County Demo- crat," published at Towson. Later that paper passed under the control of William Ruby, and in 1882 Mr. Morrow be- came a reporter for the Baltimore "Sun" and was connected with that paper until his death, a period of thirty-three years. He served in every capacity from reporter to editor, his news- paper experience in Baltimore gaining for him a wide circle of friends in every station in life. For many years he was court reporter, covering some of the most stirring and import- ant proceedings that has ever occurred in the Baltimore courts. His intelligent and accurate accounts of the happen- ings in the courts won him the friendship of every prominent member of the bar practicing at that time and of every judge on the bench. Among his close friends won during that period, which were ever retained, was Judge Stewart, Judge Phelps, Bernard Carter, William Pinckney White, Edgar H. Gans, former mayor of Hayes, and the older members of the bar, all of whom knew him well and esteemed him.
At the time Mr. Morrow joined the "Sun" the founder and owner, A. S. Abell, made it a point to know personally every man connected with the news and editorial departments of the "Sun." The "Sun's" reputation was built on accuracy, attention to detail, conciseness and impartiality, and these he would discuss with the men frequently, pointing out to a writer just where he thought an article had fallen short of what he conceived such an article should be, and he had no patience with mistakes in names. It was that kind of train- ing Mr. Morrow received practically at the beginning of his career, and to the last day he remained at the office of the "Sun" he remained faithful to it. As a reporter, as telegraph editor, night editor, and assistant city editor, with the duty
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of editing local "copy" and preparing it for the printers, his constant striving was for accuracy and conciseness. His long training seemed to have given him a sixth sense for the de- tection of errors in copy that passed through his hands. When an error in name or fact was suspected he invariably looked it up, and then with his kindly, friendly manner that left no sting of reproof would call the attention of the writer to his . error in order that he might not repeat it. Scores of men that he trained in this way passed out of the "Sun" office to positions in all parts of the United States, and then prac- ticed the habits of accuracy and fidelity he had impressed upon them.
He was not an unsympathetic task-master, no man being quicker to recognize merit in a story than he. The reporters whose work it was his business to edit felt the warmest friend- ship for him, and among the younger men in the office he was known as "Uncle George." In later years his hair turned a silvery white, although he was not an old man, and his standing form was as erect as it had ever been. He was the friend of every man who was in earnest, and no one was so well pleased with the success of advancement of the younger men or so willing to call general attention to a particularly good piece of work. Dissipation on the part of one of his boys always grieved him, and in a manner devoid of offense he took advantage of the first opportunity to point out to the young man where such a course would invariably lead. His influence was strong for good in the "Sun" office, and the idea did not prevail there that dissipation was a part of the curriculum, but on the contrary that such a course would utterly ruin a newspaper career.
Mr. Morrow was a serious, thoughtful, moral and up- right man, genial in manner and with a keen sense of humor. He had no vices, coarse jokes offended him, and he never
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could tolerate humiliation or hardship placed upon any human being for the sport of others. The hardships of children par- ticularly grieved his tender heart, and in all things he was a gentleman of the highest type, kindly, courteous and unas- suming, an honor to his profession. There were many older residents of Baltimore who had known him from youth and followed his rise with gratification. His knowledge of Balti- more and its history during more than a quarter of a century of residence was wonderfully interesting and authentic, while his memory for names was remarkable. For many years he was a member of St. Peter's Protestant Episcopal Church. He had the personal friendship and respect of every man who had been in control of the "Sun" from founder down to the present owners, and until stricken with his last illness was rarely away from the office.
Mr. Morrow married, January 4, 1882, Amanda C., daughter of Lewis A. and Mary Ann (Burdick) Howser, of Washington, D. C., her mother, a daughter of Henry and Lydia (Hoadley) Burdick, who were married about 1843, Henry Burdick, a soldier of the War of 1812. Henry and Lydia Burdick had eight children: Caroline, married Mat- thias Jeffers; Cornelia, married John Murphy McCreary, of Cincinnati; Elizabeth, married (first) Mr. Newton, (sec- ond) William Gordon, of Virginia; Mary Ann, married Lewis A. Howser; Lydia Amanda, married George R. Cin- namond; Virginia, married Abner L. Ross, of Lebanon, Ohio; William Henry, unmarried; Maria Louise, married Wil- liam Eickelburger. Lewis A. and Mary Ann (Burdick) Howser had children: Lydia; Virginia, married Louis R. McClure, of Baltimore; Lewis A., married Julia V. Keller; Emily Louisa, died unmarried; Mary Cunningham, married John M. McCreary, and had two children; Lewis Howser, and Emma Ross McCreary, married Albert Romosher, and
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