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Many other public works for Baltimore and various other cities throughout the State of Maryland requiring en- gineering and architectural skill were designed and constructed by Mr. Marriott. Among these are the Casino and Observa- tory at Patterson Park, Baltimore. To the successful ac- complishment of work on behalf of the city Mr. Marriott de- voted many years of his life. The utility and general excell- ence of this work have always been universally recognized. Also a number of the churches in the City and large private buildings were constructed by him.
Mr. William H. Marriott was born September 23, 1849.
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Through his mother he was descended from a family of Wil- sons, whose business activities have been an important factor in the development of Baltimore. His paternal grandfather, William H. Marriott, Collector of the Port of Baltimore, once candidate for Mayor of Baltimore, was for many years a prominent figure in the political, social and financial life of Baltimore. General Marriott married Jane McKim, a mem- ber of the Baltimore family of that name which has played such a prominent part in the history of Baltimore since the early days of the nineteenth century. Mr. Marriott was also descended from General John Hammond, of Colonial and Revolutionary War fame. His Marriott ancestry in Mary- land ran back to John Marriott, one of the earliest settlers on the Severn river in Anne Arundel county, Maryland, who arrived there about the middle of the seventeenth century. John Marriott was one of the strenuous type and an interest- ing account of some of his experiences with the Indians in 168 1 is given in the Archives of Maryland. The Marriotts intermarried with the Sewells and other early settlers of Colonial Maryland.
Mr. Marriott married Mrs. Aline T. Marriott, nee Bracco, who, with one daughter, Mrs. George L. Radcliffe, survived him.
The prominent position which Mr. Marriott early in life acquired in his profession promised a brilliant career therein. In early middle age, however, he was attacked by a severe illness and remained a partial invalid for fourteen or fifteen years, that is, until his death on December 18, 1912. In the work of his profession Mr. Marriott showed marked ability. Possibly, however, his most distinguishing characteristic was a judicial cast of mind, exhaustive and impartial in its work- ings, combined with a spirit of toleration, gentleness and patient endurance.
ABIJAH H. EATON
IN the year 1877, Baltimore first knew Abijah H. Eaton as a young man of fine points, who had come out of the west via the maritime Provinces of Canada, gathering during the years 1867 to 1877, considerable reputation as a promoter of business schools, and as the joint author of a text book on arithmetic. Baltimore quickly endorsed the young educator, and until his death forty years thereafter, he was the head of the leading business college of that city, a member of the bar, and an author of standard textbooks. He passed from man- hood to the prime of life, reached the crest, and for several years walked amid lengthened shadows, but his ambition did not abate, although the physical man weakened, neither did his mental power deteriorate, and during his seventy-sixth summer, 1916, he revised and enlarged a work on bookkeep- ing, corporation voucher, and cost accounting. He was wide- ly known as the founder of Eaton and Burnett's Business Col- lege, and in Grace Methodist Episcopal Church as the faith- ful, devoted member of thirty years standing.
Mr. Eaton came from one of the oldest Colonial families, his ancestor, Francis Eaton, a passenger on the "Mayflower," his name on the list of Signers of the "Compact," the first form of government under which the Pilgrims lived. From Francis Eaton sprang a distinguished line of descendants, soldiers of the Revolutionary War, and in every war their country has ever waged, leaders in the professions, in public life, and in business. Abijah H. Eaton was a grandson of Nathaniel Eaton, of Boston, Massachusetts, and a son of Friend and Mary (Law) Eaton, who moved to Akron, Sum- mit county, Ohio.
Abijah H. Eaton was born in Akron, Ohio, April 26, 1840, and died in Baltimore, Maryland, December 29, 1917.
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In 1845, his parents moved to Doylestown, Wayne county, Ohio, and there he attended public and private school, and took special business courses under private teachers. When the Civil War called the manhood of the north to the "colors," he, with three brothers, enlisted, Abijah H. safely passing the perils of war and returning to his family. In 1865, in com- pany with Joel Warner, he opened an English school in Chatham, capital of Kent county, Ontario, Canada, and at the same time entered as a special student in the British- American Business College at Toronto, completing a business course of study which he needed in the career he had marked out for himself. He taught in Musgrove and Wright's Busi- ness College in Ottawa, capital of the Dominion of Canada, for one year (1866), going thence to St. John, New Bruns- wick, in the winter of 1867. There he founded Eaton's Busi- ness College and began his half a century connection with business college promotion and management. Eaton's Busi- ness College of St. John prospered, and in 1868 a college of the same name was founded in Halifax, Nova Scotia, and in 1870, a similar institution was opened by Mr. Eaton at Charlottetown, capital of Prince Edward Island, Canada. The same year the Eaton and Frazee's Commercial Arithme- tic, the first of his series of text books, was published. He placed Eaton's Business College at St. John under the man- agement of Samuel Kerr, in 1876, and entered Harvard Law School, completing a law course. He closed out his Canadian interests in 1877, and located in the city of Baltimore, and there purchased a half interest in Bryant, Stratton and Sadler Business College. The same year he was admitted to the Baltimore bar, and for a season practiced his profession and taught in the business college. In 1878, he opened a school for business instruction, was joined by Professor E. Burnett, the result of this connection being the founding of Eaton and
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Burnett's Business College, a school which drew its patrons from all parts of the United States and from Mexico. The proprietors published that standard text book which went through three editions, Eaton and Burnett's Theoretical and Practical Bookkeeping, and in 1881 Mr. Eaton wrote and published Eaton and Burnett's Commercial Law, a third edi- tion of that work being issued in 1887. In 1891, he began preparation of Eaton and Burnett's Practical Banking, based on the National banking system. His last work, completed during the summer of 1916, was on "Bookkeeping, Corporation Voucher and Cost Accounting." He continued the able head of the institution for forty years, succumbing to the "last call" at the age of seventy-seven years. He was an educator of learning and skill, infinitely kind, patient and conscientious, holding high ideals of his responsibilities, and very faithful in the discharge of every duty. The value of his life cannot be estimated, but must be found in the lives of the thousands of young men who have passed from under his instruction out into the world of business. He lived worthily and well, be- queathing to the city of his adoption an educational institu- tion of merit, and to posterity an honored name and a record of usefulness.
Mr. Eaton married (first) in 1868, Emma Andrews, of Milltown, Canada, who died in 1884, leaving three sons : John Bernard, born in 1869, died March 17, 1891 ; Clarence Jackson, born in 1875, a resident of Baltimore; Donald Law, born January 14, 1878, died August 9, 1902. Mr. Eaton mar- ried (second) Harriet E. Smith, of St. John, New Bruns- wick, Canada, who died in 1914.
ALFRED DUNCAN BERNARD
A LFRED D. BERNARD, lawyer and political economist, was born in Baltimore, Maryland, March 25, 1868. He was the son of Richard Bernard, born in Bandon, County Cork, Ireland, 1840, and Frances Duncan Bernard. He was educated in the grade schools, Baltimore City College, Loyola College, and the University of Maryland, from which he graduated in 1889, receiving the degree of LL.B.
Through his connection with the law firm of Richard Bernard & Son, Alfred D. Bernard became an ardent student of political economy. The real estate transactions of the office naturally led him to the study of real estate values in Balti- more and the counties. But the study soon spread and he be- came interested in land values all over the country. In con- junction with his profession, Mr. Bernard continued the study of real estate, as an avocation, for many years, until 1904, when the great Baltimore fire brought about the need for a Burnt District Commission, upon which Mr. Bernard was appointed. Mr. Bernard served so efficiently in this capacity that when the work of the commission was completed, he was retained by the city officials as real estate expert for the Appeal Tax Court. While holding this position, Mr. Bernard, with his colleague, Mr. Thomas J. Lindsay, devised a system of real estate valuation known as the Lindsay-Bernard Rule, which is employed exclusively by the Baltimore Tax Court.
As the real estate officer of the United States Fidelity and Guarantee Company, Mr. Bernard found the opportunity to publish a book entitled "Some Principles and Problems of Real Estate Valuation." The book was written as a guide and text for appraisers, and has received favorable comment and praise from some of the foremost real estate experts in the country. Through the fame of his book Mr. Bernard's ability
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attracted widespread attention throughout the country, and he was called into consultation by the officers of the city of Cambridge, Massachusetts, in regard to their assessment methods, while at Harvard University for the purpose of lecturing.
Following the death of Mr. Bernard the Mayor of Balti- more said : "We will not be able to replace him. His exper- ience was invaluable to us. Mr. Bernard saved the city not thousands but millions of dollars." In speaking of Mr. Ber- nard's ability and character, Judge John Gill, president of the Appeal Tax Court, said : "The city could always rely upon his work. He was peculiarly fitted to the work of the depart- ment, patient, and without prejudice of any kind. He was a man of even temper, and mature judgment, quiet, indus- trious and painstaking. His death is a distinct loss to the city, and to the Appeal Tax Court especially." Aside from real estate and law, Mr. Bernard was much interested in patriotic work. He was a member of the Society of the Sons of the American Revolution, and was president of the Society of the War of 1812 at the time of his death.
During his career as a real estate expert, and as a mem- ber of several patriotic societies, Mr. Bernard made many speeches and wrote many essays on various subjects. Notable among these are his essays on taxation, published in the "Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science."
Aside from Mr. Bernard's reputation as a business man, he also had an enviable reputation as a fine character. Throughout his life he was temperate, broad-minded, kind- hearted, affectionate and patient. He was noted for the beau- tiful attitude he maintained toward his father, it being more like that existing between two affectionate brothers than be- tween father and son. So great was the attachment between
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them that upon the death of Alfred D. Bernard his father was unable to resume business, and died a few months after, grief-stricken over the death of his beloved son. Mr. Bernard was married twice, and was survived by his second wife, Theresa Elizabeth Bernard, and his only son, Richard C. Ber- nard.
The news of Mr. Bernard's death, on April 19, 1916, was a shock to all his friends and associates, as he was thought to have been in good health up to the time of his death. In his honor the flag on the city hall was placed at half mast, and the courts adjourned with appropriate eulogies by promi- nent lawyers and judges.
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SAMUEL KIRK
TO the Quaker family of Kirk belongs the honor of estab-
listing in Baltimore one of the first manufacturies of silverware in this country, and that city owes much of its moral worth and commercial standing to the high character of this family. The Kirks were silversmiths in ancient times in England, and the ancestry has been traced to Godfrey Kirk, a member of the Chesterfield Monthly Meeting of Quakers in England.
(II) John Kirk, son of Godfrey Kirk, was born June 14, 1660, at Alfreton, Derbyshire, England, and came to Ameri- ca about 1682-83, locating in Darby township, in what is now Delaware county, Pennsylvania. He was an extensive land owner, and died 8th month (October), 1705. He married, about the 2nd month (April) 1688, Joan, daughter of Peter Ellet, who survived him, as she did also a second husband, and was living in 1735. Children: 1. Anne, born 1688-89, in Darby, married Benjamin Peters. 2. Godfrey, born Novem- ber 27, 1690, married, February 17, 1725, Rachel Ellis. 3. John, mentioned below. 4. Samuel, born November 11, 1693, died unmarried. 5. Mary, born February 17, 1695, died January II, 1782; married, October 20, 1715, John Warner. 6. Elizabeth, born May 9, 1696, died November 8, 1774; mar- ried, January, 1719, John Twining. 7. Joseph, born Sep- tember 1, 1697, married, September, 1723, Ann Hood, died November 16, 1773. 8. Sarah, born February 23, 1699, mar- ried, July 23, 1723, Nathaniel Twining, died 1775. 9. Wil- liam, born October 31, 1700, married (first) May, 1723, Elizabeth Rhoads, (second) June 9, 1747, Mary Ellis, died May 8, 1749. 10. Isaac, born April 23, 1703, died about 1781; married (first), December 9, 1730, Elizabeth Twin- ing, (second). September 4, 1746, Rachel Kinsey. 11.
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Thomas, born February 26, 1705, died February 14, 1752; married, October 28, 1731, Mary Shaw.
(III) John (2) Kirk, second son of John (1) and Joan (Ellet) Kirk, was born March 29, 1692, in Darby, Penn- sylvania, and died in Abington township, Philadelphia (now Montgomery) county, August 9, 1759. He married at Ab- ington Meeting, October 17, 1722, Sarah Tyson, born Novem- ber 12, 1698, buried June 19, 1780, daughter of Reynear Tyson and Mary (Roberts) Tyson, of Abington. Children : I. John, born September 30, 1723, died in childhood. 2. Reynear, born June 28, 1725, died 1799; was a farmer in Abington township and Upper Dublin; he married (first), May 24, 1748, Mary Michener, who died in 1766; (second), Elizabeth Wilkins. 3. Margaret, born September 7, 1727, married Nathaniel Loofborrow, Jr. 4. Elizabeth, born Sep- tember 25, 1730, died January 10, 1820; married, November 21, 1752, John Spencer. 5. Mary, born October 29, 1732, died February 22, 1761 ; married, August 19, 1753, William Loofborrow. 6. Isaac, mentioned below. 7. Jacob (twin with Isaac), born September 30, 1735, died October 13, 1829; was a farmer in Abington; was born, lived and died in the same house; he married, May 14, 1760, Elizabeth Cleaver. 8. Sarah, born October 12, 1737; married (first), December 23, 1761, her brother-in-law, William Loofborrow, for which she was disowned by Abington and Philadelphia Friends' Meeting; (second) Samuel Spencer.
(IV) Isaac Kirk, third son of John (2) and Sarah (Tyson) Kirk, was born September 30, 1735, died June 17, 1826. He resided in Upper Dublin township, Montgomery county, Pennsylvania, where he was a farmer. His will was proved at Norristown, July 6, 1826. He married, June 20, 1756, Mary Tyson, born April 28, 1733, died June 1, 1828, daughter of John and Priscilla (Naylor) Tyson. Mary
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(Tyson) Kirk died intestate, and letters of administration were granted June 5, 1828, to Isaac Tyson, John Child, John Kirk and John Tyson. Children : Priscilla, born about March 13, 1757, died April 3, 1834; married, May 25, 1780, Absolom Michener. 2. Sarah, born February 10, 1759, died October 12, 1815; married, May 22, 1788, Henry Child. 3. Eliza- beth, born April 11, 1761, died December 10, 1849; married, January 22, 1784, Jesse Cleaver. 4. John, born February 29, 1764, died July 7, 1813; married Mary Dungan. 5. Joseph, mentioned below. 6. Susanna, born November 18, 1767, died April 5, 1838; married William North. 7. Mary, born June 25, 1770, married Isaac Tyson. 8. Isaac, born June 4, 1773, died April 5, 1827; married, October 1, 1807, Sarah Rush. 9. Margaret, born July 18, 1775, died November 12, 1852; married Thomas Marple.
(V) Joseph Kirk, second son of Isaac and Mary (Tyson) Kirk, was born April 12, 1766, died August 1, 1829. He was a carpenter by trade, and lived in Doylestown, Pennsylvania, and later at Philadelphia. He married, July 5, 1787, at the Presbyterian church in Philadelphia, Grace Child, born December 26, 1765, daughter of John and Sarah (Shoemaker) Child. Children : 1. Eliza, married James Warner. 2. Pris- cilla, died young. 3. Isaac, married Margaret Stinson, and resided in Baltimore county, Maryland. 4. Joseph, died 1812, in United States Army, in Canada, unmarried. 5. Samuel, mentioned below. 6. Absolom, died in infancy. 7. Sarah, married Dr. John S. Rich, who practiced in Doylestown, Pennsylvania. 8. Mary, died 1845, unmarried. 9. Hannah, married John T. Smith. 10. Robert Sherman, born June 23, 1800, died in Baltimore county, Maryland, June 24, 1872; married Ellen Alvira Waters. The Child family, like that of Kirk, was for many generations engaged in the manufac- ture of plate, and has been traced to Sir Francis Child, a gold-
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smith of London. The banking business originated with the goldsmiths of London, with whom people of property kept running accounts for safety rather than keep their valuables at home. The Childs for generations were first goldsmiths and then bankers. In the latter capacity they reached great prominence. The famous banking house of Child & Com- pany is still in existence, and for more than two centuries has played an important part both in the financial and political history of England. Child & Company are inserted in the little London Directory of 1677 as "goldsmiths keeping run- ning cashes." They were the first to separate the two callings. There is an account of their ledgers opened in 1669, before they divorced the two vocations, under the head of "Pawn," changed a few years later to "P," which has been brought forward from ledger to ledger under this title as their col- lateral loan account for over two hundred years.
The record of this family of bankers is so interwoven, warp and woof, with that of the Temple Bar, the Marygold and their environs, that any narrative of either, without fre- quent reference to the others would be incomplete. Many of their customers addressed their cheques to "Mr. Alderman Child and partners, at ye Marygold, next door to Temple Bar ; sometimes next door to the "Devil Taverne." When the head of the firm was Lord Mayor of London, the Earl of Oxford addressed his cheques "To the Worshipful the Lord Mayor & Co., at Temple Bar." Like most of the distinctive appella- tions of the goldsmiths of London, the sign of the Marygold originated in that of the tavern. It was the usage for suc- ceeding occupants to retain the sign, without reference to the vocation. "Messrs. Child's banking house was in the reign of King James First a public ordinary, the sign being the Marygold." When it came into the occupation of the gold- smiths is not definitely known, but probably about 1620, as
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the last mention of it as a public house was on St. Thomas' day, December 21, 1619, when it was presented to the ward- mote "for disturbing its next neighbors late in the nights, from time to time, by ill disorders." The goldsmiths held it on a ground rent. Sir Francis Child put the present front to the Marygold in 1666, the year of the great fire of London, although the conflagration did not reach it. An old docu- ment, still extant, shows that Sir Francis renewed his lease of the Marygold from the "Feast of St. Michael," 1707, and the Sugar Loaf and Green Lettuce, 1714, at a yearly rental of £60 for sixty-one years. The Sugar Loaf was an old tavern directly in the rear of the Marygold. Sir Francis repaired it in 1707 and added it to his banking premises. He subse- quently purchased for £2,800 the famous tavern popularly called the "Old Devil," which adjoined, and erected a block of houses, later known as "Child's Place." The "Old Devil" was the favorite of Ben Johnson, where he lorded over his confreres that were "sealed of the tribe of Ben." Here he sometimes met Shakespeare. Child & Company have, with characteristic conservativeness, preserved many very inter- esting relics of these three historical houses. They have the original sign of the Marygold and Sun, made of oak, stained green, with gilt border, with the motto Ainsi mon ame, now put over the door between the front and back office, and retain it on the watermark of their cheques.
The old passageways of the Sugar Loaf with their wooden hat pegs, the old dining rooms, kitchens and larders, with their wooden meat hooks, are preserved as they were two and three centuries ago. In one of the rooms over the old kitchen may be seen the bust of Apollo, and the tablet on which the lines of welcome to the Apollo Room, by Ben Johnson, are en- graved in gold letters. When Sir Christopher Wren rebuilt Temple Bar, in 1666, Child & Company rented the chamber
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over the arcade adjoining their premises, of the city of London, at a yearly rental of £20. This they used as a sort of muniment room for the safe keeping of their old papers and books of accounts, until the excavations for the founda- tions of the new Inner Courts of Law, in 1875, caused Temple Bar to settle so much that, in 1877, the city gave them notice to vacate. The widening of Fleet street demanded for public convenience the demolition of the time-honored banking house, and the erection of another one door east, covering the site of Child's Place, to which the firm moved April 15, 1879. They are still on ancestral ground. Dickens describes Childs & Company characteristically in his "Tale of Two Cities," under the appellation of Tellson & Company as they were in the days of the French revolution.
Child & Company had had a branch house in Paris, with the accounts of the noblesse, which were transferred to Lon- don during the Revolution, together with their valuables to be used to eke out a miserable existence, or to be settled sans compte rendu par les Etats executifs, the guillotine. The Marygold became the headquarters of the Emigres during the reign of terror, and its secret couriers were constantly passing between the two cities. The banking firm retains many old time usages, probably inherited from their an- cestors, the goldsmiths. They call their front office "the shop," and that in the rear, where the ledgers are kept, "the counting house," where they "cast up the shop" once a year.
The family was founded in this country by Henry Child, of Hertfordshire, who resided in Coldshill, in the parish of Rindersham, and had several children. The family was identified with the Society of Friends. On the twentieth of January, 1687, Henry Child purchased five hundred acres of land in Plumstead, Bucks county, Pennsylvania, near the head- waters of the Neshaminy river, for which he paid ten pounds.
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He brought his son, Cephas, to America, and soon after returned to England. In 1715 Henry Child "for the love and affection he beareth to his son, Cephas," gave the five hundred acres to him. Before attaining his majority, Cephas Child was placed for a time with a family in Philadelphia, where he was taught the carpenter's trade. He came to America in 1693, and married, in February, 1716, Mary At- kinson. They were the parents of John Child, born June 14. 1739, in Plumstead, died in 1801, at Frankfort, Pennsylvania. He married, September 19, 1751, Sarah Shoemaker, daugh- ter of George and Grace Shoemaker, of Warrington, Penn- sylvania. They were the parents of Grace Child, who became the wife of General Joseph Kirk, as previously related.
(VI) Samuel Kirk, third son of Joseph and Grace (Child) Kirk, was born February 15, 1793, in Doylestown, and died July 5, 1872, in Baltimore. He was educated at a Friends' school, and at the age of seventeen years was ap- prenticed to James Howell, a silversmith of Philadelphia, to learn the trade. At this time his parents took up their resi- dence in the Quaker City. At the end of his apprenticeship he was offered an interest in the business of James Howell, but decided to embark on an independent career, and removed to Baltimore. In August, 1815, he purchased an account book, and from this is learned the date of his beginning business. The first entry was made in August, 1815. His establishment was on Market street, and spoons, tea urns and pitchers made by him in 1816-18-19 are preserved by his descendants. For about one year he had a partner named Smith, and many pieces bearing the stamp of Kirk & Smith are still in existence. Multitudes of samples bearing the stamp of Samuel Kirk are among the treasures of his successors in business. His part- nership with Smith continued about a year, and he subsequent- ly carried on business alone until 1846, when his son, Henry
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