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terian Eye, Ear and Throat Hospital, which he served as a member of the Board of Governors, and the Presbyterian Association, which he served as legal counsel. In the business world he was a director of the National Bank of Baltimore; the Title Guarantee and Trust Company; the American Bond- ing Company. His fraternity was Zeta Psi; his club the University. He was a member of the local, state and national bar associations and for many years president of the local association. He was a Republican in politics, taking an active interest in city politics and in 1904 was the successful candi- date of his party for Congress. But politics was little to his liking and his connection more a matter of civic duty than personal preference.
There is little question that the deepest interest of his life outside his home was the Second Presbyterian Church and Sunday School. He joined that church soon after coming to Baltimore in 1868, and was a faithful consistent member and strong pillar of support, until his death forty-nine years later. Nearly that entire time he was superintendent of the Sunday School and an elder of the church. In addition he was in- terested in other affairs of the Presbytery and well known in all religious denominations, although strict in his devotion to the tenets of his own church. The fruit of his zeal and devotion is in evidence in the large Sunday School of the Second Church, built up and held together through his per- sonal efforts and the teachers whom he inspired.
Mr. Smith married, April 23, 1873, Helen A. Alford, who survives him, a resident of Baltimore. Mr. and Mrs. Smith are the parents of two children, one deceased, and a daughter, Helen, now wife of Dr. Henry J. Walton of Balti- more.
When Mr. Smith's death was announced in the United States Court, adjournment was at once ordered and a com-
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mittee appointed by Judge Rose to draft a suitable memorial. All of the committee were present at the later memorial meet- ing except former United States Attorney General, who sent a letter regretting his inability to be present, but endorsing the resolution submitted by the Committee as they "expressed clearly and with entire accuracy the high regard entertained for Mr. Smith by his brethren of the bar and their regret at his death." A layman's memorial service was held at the Second Presbyterian Church, Sunday evening, October 14, 1917. The funeral services were held at 3 P. M., October II, and all that was mortal laid at rest.
A fitting close to this tribute of respect to a good man is his word of advice to young men: "There can be no success unless they are faithful and honest. I believe that character has more to do with a man's success than his genius."
EDWIN WARFIELD
THE history of the Warfield family of Maryland, of which
Edwin Warfield, former Governor of Maryland, and president of the Fidelity Trust Company of Baltimore, is representative, is ancient and honorable to the highest degree, and needs no reinforcing from the records of the past. It is a fact, however, that it is one of the oldest families of Great Britain, the surname being derived from the Manor of War- welt (modern name Warfield), in the Hundred of Ripples- mere, Barrochescire (Berkshire), England. At the time of the Domesday Survey in 1085, this manor was vested in the Crown (William the Conqueror) as tenant-in-chief, the Saxon holder having been Queen Eddid (Edith or Eadgyth), Queen of Edward the Confessor, the eldest daughter of God- wine, Earl of Wessex, and his wife Gytha, the sister of Harold. Warfield Manor afterwards came into the possession of the Nevilles, who were of Norman descent. Windsor Forest, Berkshire, is one of the five forests mentioned by name in the Domesday Survey. The forest was at that time divided into sixteen walks, among them "Warfeilde" or "Walfelde Walke."
In "The Annals of Windsor" there are many interesting references to this name showing its prominence at an early period in the history of England. On the 25th of September, 1216, "King John sent orders from Scotter, in Lincolnshire, to Engelard de Cigony, to deliver Hugh de Polested forthwith, in prison at Windsor, to John de Warfield, brother of Elye de Warfield, unless he should be ransomed in the meantime." (Patent Rolls 18 Johann. M. 2). In 1271, "the Prior of Merton held Upton in free gift of the grant of Pagan de Warfield." (Hundred Rolls 39 Henry III).
The Norman conquerors introduced the "de" into Eng- land, but it must not be supposed that the prefix meant that
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they were always of Norman origin, for very many families of British, Saxon and Danish descent also used the prefix until it was almost completely dropped or discarded in the four- teenth and fifteenth centuries for brevity and with the disap- pearance of Norman French.
Warfield is a village and parish, in the Hundred of War- grave, and about eight miles to the southwest of Windsor. It contains Warfield Park, Warfield Hall and Warfield Grove.
(I) The American history of the family begins with Richard Warfield, who came from Berkshire, England, in 1662, and was doubtless a member of the family which orig- inated in that county. He settled upon the banks of the Severn in Anne Arundel county, Maryland. The Howards and other old Maryland families settled in the same region, many of the first families of Maryland and other states tracing to these families through intermarriages.
Richard Warfield acquired a large estate, all of which came to him by purchase or exchange. The lands were in the finest agricultural section of the state, his several estates being known as "Warfield's Plains," "Warfield's Range," "Warfield's Increase," and "Warfield's Addition." A century later his descendants led in the struggle for independence. Richard Warfield was more zealous in the service of the church than in the state. He was a member of the first vestry of old St. Anne's, built under the act of assembly, of 1692, which divided the counties into parishes, and ordered the chapels built. He was a generous contributor to all religious causes, and from his large means gave bountifully to all public activities. His will, probated 1703-04, shows him to have been possessed of all the luxuries of the day, including valu- able slaves and indentured white servants, and his fealty to English tradition is shown in the willing of "My Gold Seal Ring to my son John," the head of the house.
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He married Ellen Browne, daughter of Captain John Browne, of London, who came from England, in 1673, a descendant of Sir John Browne, who brought over emigrants in 1659, receiving from Governor Philipp Calvert a grant of five hundred acres. Descendants of the marriage are con- nected with all the distinguished Maryland families and with many in Virginia, Kentucky, and other states.
(II) The line of descent to Governor Warfield is through John Warfield, son of Richard and Ellen (Browne) War- field. He was of "Warfield's Plains," in 1696, later of "War- field's Forest," and in 1704, of "Warfield's Range." He mar- ried Ruth, daughter of John and Ruth (Morley) Gaither, her father a Colonial official of Virginia, who moved to Anne Arundel county, Maryland, there receiving patents for large tracts of land prior to 1662.
(III) Benjamin Warfield, son of John and Ruth (Gaither) Warfield, of "Warfield's Range," Howard county, Maryland, was a member of the vestry of Queen Caroline Church. His wife, Rebecca, was a daughter of Judge Nicholas and Sarah (Worthington) Ridgely. Her father was Chancellor of Delaware, grandson of Colonel Henry and Katherine (Greenbury) Ridgely and great-grandson of Colonel Henry Ridgely, who died in 1710, a justice in 1667, member of the Dover House in 1698, and captain of the "Foote." Colonel Henry Ridgely married (first) Elizabeth Howard, of England, and (second) the widow of Mareen du Val.
(IV) Captain Benjamin (2) Warfield, son of Benjamin (1) and Rebecca (Ridgely) Warfield, was of Cherry Grove, his death occurring in 1806. He bought and added to the estate known as "Fredericksburg," the original patent which is owned by Governor Edwin Warfield. The old hipped roof house which he built in 1765 is still standing, and is owned
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and occupied by John Warfield, brother of Governor War- field. He held a captain's commission in the Revolutionary Army, dated March 2, 1778. He commanded the Eldridge Battalion, Severn Militia. The men of the Warfield family during this period were leaders in developing the patriotic spirit of the state to oppose the English oppression. They bitterly opposed the Stamp Act, "Liberty and Independence or Death in Pursuit of It" their motto. In the Severn Militia alone during the Revolution were Captain Benjamin War- field, Lieutenant Robert Warfield, Ensign Charles Warfield, Launcelot and Thomas Warfield, Lieutenants, Ensign Joseph Warfield. Dr. Walter Warfield was a surgeon in the Revo- lutionary Army, and an original member of the Society of the Cincinnati; Elijah and David, sons of Colonel Charles War- field, were captains in the Fifth Maryland Regiment Militia and were on guard in Baltimore in 1812. Dr. Charles Alex- ander Warfield paraded the battalion, of which he was the major in the upper part of Anne Arundel county, wearing in their hats labels bearing the motto, "Liberty and Independence or Death in the Pursuit of It." This was the spirit of the Warfields during the Revolution, and in every war they have promptly rallied to the support of their country's cause.
Captain Benjamin Warfield married Catherine Dorsey, born November 30, 1745, daughter of Philemon and Catherine (Ridgely) Dorsey. Her father, who died in 1772, was a captain of "The Hundred," and resided near Dayton, his estate consisting of over ten thousand acres, extending from Clarkeville to Florence in Anne Arundel county. Catherine (Dorsey) Warfield was a granddaughter of Joshua and Ann (Ridgely) Dorsey, of "Barnes Folly," and a great-grand- daughter of Major Edward and Sarah (Wyeth) Dorsey. Major Edward Dorsey was a judge of the Maryland High Court of Chancery, member of the Maryland House of
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Burgesses from Baltimore county in 1705. He was a descen- dant of Sir John d'Arcy, whose three sons came over in 1661. Captain Benjamin Warfield had three sons: Joshua, Phile- mon Dorsey and Beale, the last two named served in the War of 1812.
(V) Joshua Warfield, son of Captain Benjamin (2) and Catherine (Dorsey) Warfield, was born September 11, 1781, died March 19, 1846, being known as Joshua Warfield of Cherry Grove. He married, March 12, 1816, Lydia Welsh, born October 23, 1790, a descendant of Nicholas Wyatt, who came over in 1600, also of John McCubbin, a Scotch baronet, and of John Howard, who took up Timber Neck, now a part of Baltimore. Lydia Welsh was a daughter of John and Lucretia (Dorsey) Welsh, of Upper Howard county, Maryland, granddaughter of John and Hannah (Hammond) Welsh, of South River, Maryland, great-granddaughter of John and Rachel (Hammond) Welsh. Captain John Welsh was a merchant of South River, and a partner of his cousin, Richard Snowden. Rachel (Hammond) Welsh was a grand- daughter of Major General Hammond, Justice of the Provin- cial Court in 1667; member of the Council in 1668; member of the Court of Admiralty in 1700. Captain John Welsh was a son of Major John and Mary (Welsh) Welsh, the former of the "Quorum," 1671-81, and high sheriff of Anne Arundel county, 1676-78.
(VI) Albert Gallatin Warfield, son of Joshua and Lydia (Welsh) Warfield, was born in the old homestead of the War- fields, at Cherry Grove, February 24, 1817, and died at his residence, "Oakdale," Howard county, Maryland, November 3, 1891, inheriting as a part of his patrimony a large number of slaves, and was one of the largest slave owners in his section, yet he was opposed to the doctrine of slavery, and let each one free as he reached the age of forty years. He inherited also a
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part of the home plantation upon which he built "Oakdale," and there he lived his long and honorable life. He was espe- cially kind to his slaves and gave himself entirely to the man- agement of his large estate, real and personal. He never accepted but one public office, that of president of the country school board in 1869. "Oakdale," a beautiful estate, was noted for the open-handed hospitality there dispended, the courteous, refined, cultivated host and the gentle, womanly hostess vieing in their efforts to make "Oakdale" a place of fond recollection.
Mr. Warfield married, August 25, 1842, Margaret Gassa- way Watkins, a descendant of John Watkins, son of the founder, who came over in 1667. He married Ann, daughter of Major Nicholas Gassaway, who came to Maryland in 1649, member of the Upper House of Lord Baltimore's coun- cil, and deputy governor. The line of descent is through Nicholas Watkins, son of John and Ann (Gassaway) Watkins, born March, 1691, and his wife Margaret; their son, Nicholas (2) Watkins, born August 20, 1722, died in 1766, and his wife, Ariana Worthington ; their son, Colonel Gassaway Wat- kins, and his wife, Eleanor Bowie Claggett; their daughter, Margaret Gassaway Watkins, wife of Albert Gallatin War- field, and mother of Governor Edwin Warfield.
The Worthington ancestry of Mrs. Margaret G. Warfield is interesting. Ariana Worthington, born December 25, 1729, married, in 1743, Nicholas (2) Watkins. She was a daughter of Thomas and Elizabeth (Ridgely) Worthington, her father, who died in March, 1753, was a member of the House of Burgesses and major of Anne Arundel county militia. She was a granddaughter of John and Sarah (Howard) Worth- ington, the former a member of the "Quorum" also of the House of Burgesses, and captain of the Severn Militia. Sarah Howard was a daughter of Matthew and Sarah (Dorsey) Howard, who came in 1650, and granddaughter of Robert
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Howard, duke of Norfolk, and a descendant of Thomas Plantagenet, of Brotherton, a son of King Edward I. Ariana Worthington was a great-granddaughter of Rev. John Worth- ington, master of Jesus College, Cambridge, England, and a great-great-grandaughter of Roger Worthington, son of Thomas Worthington, of Worthington and "The Bryn."
Colonel Gassaway Watkins, father of Margaret Gassa- way (Watkins) Warfield, veteran of both the first and second war with Great Britain, served in the Revolutionary Army in Colonel Smallwood's regiment, from January, 1776, and was actively engaged in the battles of Long Island, White Plains, Germantown, Monmouth, Guilford Court House, and others. He was an original member of the Society of the Cincinnati, and for a number of years president of the Mary- land Society. He died at Walnut Grove in 1840. He mar- ried, April 26, 1803, Eleanor Bowie Claggett, daughter of Wiseman and Priscilla Bowie (Lyles) Claggett, granddaugh- ter of Edward and Eleanor Bowie ( Brooke) Claggett, great- granddaughter of John and Mary (Millikin) Bowie, the former the son of the founder who came from Scotland in 1705-06, and a great-great-granddaughter of James Millikin, the American founder of the family of the "Levels," Prince George county, Maryland.
"Oakdale," the home of Mr. and Mrs. Albert Gallatin Warfield, was not only where a place of hospitality and order reigned, but was a home made so attractive that the children loved to dwell in it, even when business and their own families made it necessary to live elsewhere. Mrs. Warfield was widely known for her gentleness, kindness and charity. She was the friend of everyone in sorrow or need, and ever ready to min- ister to their wants. She was a friend of the ministers to whom she gladly extended the hospitality of "Oakdale," and a friend of the church to which she generously contributed.
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She died at the home of her youngest daughter in Westchester, Pennsylvania, while on a visit, surviving her husband five years. At the funeral of Mr. Warfield at "Oakdale" every class and condition gathered to honor his memory, and all were mourners.
Mr. and Mrs. Albert Gallatin Warfield were the parents of eleven children, three died in infancy, and eight survived, four of whom are: 1. Albert Gallatin, a major in the C. S. A. 2. Joshua Nicholas. 3. Gassaway Watkins, died at Camp Chase, Ohio, a soldier of the Confederacy in 1864. 4. Edwin, of whom further.
(VII) Edwin Warfield, son of Albert G. and Margaret G. (Watkins) Warfield, was born May 7, 1848, at "Oakdale." He was educated in the public schools and St. Timothy Hall, Catonville, Maryland. He was admitted to the Maryland bar, 1881 ; was Register of Wills, Howard county, Maryland, 1874 to 1881 ; State Senator, 1882-1886; president of Senate, 1886; Surveyor of the Port of Baltimore, 1886-1890, appointed by President Cleveland. He was the founder of the Patapsco National Bank of Ellicott City, Maryland; founder of the Fidelity and Deposit Company of Maryland, its president, the largest surety company in the world; Governor of Maryland, 1904-1908, declining renomination. He is a member of the South River Club of Anne Arundel county, Maryland (one of the oldest in the world), a member of the Society of the Cincinnati, also of the Sons of the American Revolution, the Society of War of 1812, the Maryland Historical Society, of which he is president, American Bar Association, also Mary- land and Baltimore City Bar Association, and has many other business and social connections.
Mr. Warfield married, November 24, 1886, in Baltimore, Emma Nicodemus, daughter of J. Courtney Nicodemus, a grandson of Lieutenant Frederick Nicodemus, of Washington
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county, Maryland, an officer of the Revolution, and his wife, Mary J. Montandon, a descendant of Albert Montandon, a Huguenot, who settled in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1720. Children of Governor Warfield are: Carrie; Emma; Louise ; Captain Edwin Warfield, of the 10th Field Artillery, now in France; Alice, married M. Gillett Gill; John; Clarence ; Margaret Gassaway, married Herman Hoopes, of Philadel- phia; Marshall T., married Lucy W. Holland. The family home is "Oakdale," Howard county, Maryland, Governor Warfield's birthplace and the family homestead for genera- tions far into the past.
JAMES ELLICOTT TYSON
AI LTHOUGH one-half the life of James Ellicott Tyson, an eminent native son of Baltimore, was spent retired from active business life, there was never a time when he was not deeply concerned for the welfare of the city. In a day when commercialism was believed to be the prevailing American characteristic, he laid aside business cares, content with the fortune he had amassed, and although he lived to the great age of eighty-nine, he never tired of the delights his country estates gave him. He was a man of fine presence, most courtly manner, lovable in character and gentle in disposition-a true gentleman of the old school, greatly esteemed by all. His career in the business world was one of honorable success, but his heart lay away from the marts of trade, and he there re- mained only until he could retire with sufficient competence to gratify his love of the pleasures and recreations of the great out-of-doors furnished by his own broad acres, travel and kindred pursuits. He was of distinguished ancestry, tracing to the days of William Penn in Pennsylvania, to early Mary- land days, and to a long line of English ancestors.
(I) Reynear Tyson, the first of the family by this name in America, was a member of the Society of Friends, having been converted by the preaching of William Penn, at whose re- quest he emigrated to Pennsylvania, arriving on the ship "Concord," October 6, 1683. Reynear Tyson's own statement regarding the date of his arrival in Pennsylvania is given in "Watson's Annals of Philadelphia," as follows :
We whose names are to these presents subscribed do hereby certify unto all whom it may concern, that soon after our arrival in this province of Pennsylvania, in October, 1683, to our certain knowledge, Herman ap den Graff, Dirk ap den Graff and Abraham ap den Graff, as well as we our- selves, in the cave of Francis Daniel Pastorious, did cast lots for the respec-
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tive lots which they and we then began to settle in Germantown; and the said Graffs (three brothers) have sold their several lots each by himself ; no less than a division in writing had been made by them. Witness our hands this 29th day of November, A. D., 1709. Leanart Arets, Thomas Hunder, Abraham Tunis, Jan Lensen, William Streygert, Jan Lucksen, Reynear Tyson.
William Penn, proprietor of Pennsylvania, named Rey- near Tyson as one of the incorporators in his patent for Germantown, October 12, 1689, by which Francis Daniel Pastorious, Reynear Tyson and others were authorized to form a court and sit once a month; they were constituted a body corporate by the name of Bailiff Burgesses and Commonality of Germantown in the county of Philadelphia. Under this charter he was a burgess 1692-93-94-96. The government of Germantown began October 6. 1691, and ended February 12, 1707, when the borough and court records of Germantown were ordered to the recorder's office, Philadelphia, by Act of Assembly. He was one of the signers of the certificate issued by the quarterly meeting at Philadelphia, addressed to the London yearly meeting, which Samuel Jennings bore with him to London in 1693, concerning the Keith controversy. Some years before his death, Reynear Tyson removed from Germantown to Abingdon, Philadelphia county, where he be- came a large landowner and active business man, and was associated with the Friends' meeting of that place. He lived beloved and honored to a ripe old age, dying July 27, 1745, aged about eighty-six years. He married Margaret Kunders, a lady of good family and high social position. Children : Mathias, mentioned below; Isaac, born September 7, 1688; Elizabeth, August 7, 1690; John, October 9, 1692; Abra- ham, August 10, 1694; Derrick, September 6, 1696; Sarah, December 19, 1698; Peter, March 6, 1700; Henry, March 4, 1702.
(II) Mathias Tyson, eldest son of Reynear and Margaret
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(Kunders) Tyson, was born June 3, 1686, at Germantown, Pennsylvania, and preceded his father to the grave by many years. He received a good estate from his father, and moved to Abingdon, Philadelphia county, where he lived the quiet life of a country gentleman. He married in Abingdon, Mary Potts, daughter of John Potts, of Llanidoss, Wales, by whom he had the following children : Margaret, born July 7, 1708; Mary, March 25, 1710; Reynear, June 24, 1711; John, De- cember 20, 1712; Sarah, October 10, 1714; Elizabeth, Sep- tember 14, 1716; Isaac, mentioned below; Matthew, July, 1720; Martha, March 12, 1722; Elizabeth, October 25, 1723. (III) Isaac Tyson, third son of Mathias and Mary (Potts) Tyson, was born August 21, 1718, in Philadelphia county, died in Baltimore county, Maryland, in 1784. He settled in Upper Dublin township, Philadelphia county, Penn- sylvania, where he was living at the time of his removal to Maryland. In the year 1774 Isaac Tyson purchased a tract of land in Baltimore county, on which was a saw mill, situated on the falls of the Little Gunpowder River. He did not re- move to Maryland until the year 1783, the year after purchas- ing an additional tract of two hundred and fifty acres from his son, Elisha Tyson, who had settled in Baltimore county about the time of his father's first purchase, which was in the year 1773, according to the Baltimore records. He brought with him to Maryland a certificate from the Horsham Friends Meeting, Philadelphia county, to Friends of Gunpowder Meeting, Baltimore county, dated July 2, 1783, with certifi- cates for his sons, George and Jesse Tyson. Although a new- comer in Maryland, he became one of the influential and prominent men of his community. He died honored and re- spected by his neighbors in Baltimore county. He married, March 28, 1748-49, Esther, daughter of Isaac Shoemaker, of Shoemakertown, Pennsylvania. Children : Elisha, men-
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tioned below; Tacy, born May 20, 1752; Aneas, May 20, 1754; Jacob, October 1, 1755; Nathan, January 10, 1757; Sarah, September 16, 1758; Jesse, July 20, 1761; Elizabeth, September 21, 1768; Dorothy, February 18, 1770; Mary, 1772; George, 1775; William.
(IV) Elisha Tyson, son of Isaac and Esther (Shoemaker) Tyson, was born December 18, 1750, in Philadelphia county. He lived at Jericho on the Little Falls of Gunpowder River, in Baltimore county, and later moved to Baltimore, Maryland. He built a mill at Jones Falls near what is now Druid Hill Park. Always a member of the Society of Friends, he was full of wisdom and courage in every-day life, and was the first of the family to come to Maryland, having preceded his father here by ten years. The approximate date of his arrival is de- termined by the certificate which he presented from Abingdon Friends Meeting to the Gunpowder Monthly Meeting of Friends in Baltimore county, March 3, 1773, in which he was recommended as a member of the Society, by which meet- ing he was received. He prospered greatly in this world's goods and became one of the wealthiest men in Baltimore, his estate at his death being valued at nearly three hundred thou- sand dollars. Philanthropist and humble Christian, Elisha Tyson's constant endeavor was to redress the wrongs of suffer- ing humanity, and he devoted much of his life to efforts in behalf of the persecuted son of Africa, suffering persecutions himself on their account. A complete biography has been written of this devoted friend of emancipation, who, though far ahead of his time in his horror of slavery, yet remained unshaken by the adverse criticism of his contemporaries. He left a farewell address to the colored population of Baltimore, and at his death was mourned by ten thousand of those whose cause he had so valiantly espoused. He married (first) No- vember 5, 1776, Mary Amos, who died April 17, 1813, daugh-
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