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WILSON BURNS TRUNDLE
SCION of one of the best known families of Maryland, and in his own right one of the foremost citizens of Baltimore, and an eminent member of the Baltimore bar at which he practiced for forty-three years, the career of Wilson Burns Trundle was one to excite interest and admi- ration. His English and Scotch ancestors came to this coun- try early in the seventeenth century, and, as one of them was an uncle of the poet Burns, he came rightfully by his name Burns, and his inheritance of admiration for that great poet, Robert Burns, whom all Scotchmen love. In his numerous speeches and writings, not of a legal character, he quoted freely that poet's gems, many of which he could give in full. In addition to the cares of a large practice, and his many social obligations, Mr. Trundle gave freely of his time to church work, his interest in both church and Sunday school being life-long and intense.
Paternally he descended from David Trundle, of Eng- land, born in 1671, and maternally from John White, of Hulcote, England, who died in 1501. The Whites were seated in Hulcote, Bedfordshire, over four centuries ago; were of the Shire gentry and bore arms :
Arms-On a chevron between three wolves' heads erased sable a leopard's face or.
The first of the Trundle name, of which there is definite information, was David Trundle, of Suffolk, England, born in 1574, and died in 1671, aged ninety-seven years. His son, John Trundle, the founder of the family in America, came about 1640 or 1649. He was born in Suffolk County, Eng- land, about 1624, and died in Maryland, August 3, 1699. He settled in Anne Arundel County, Maryland, and owned
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considerable land there, as, according to his will dated Janu- ary 7, 1698, he bequeathed to his only son, John, his planta- tion of two hundred and fifty acres located in that county. His wife, Mary (Ross) Trundle, survived. She is spoken of in her husband's will as "my beloved wife, Mary." Their children were four daughters, who married, respectively, Benjamin Thorley, John Thorley, Samuel Thorley and Ed- ward Thorley ; and one son John.
John (2) Trundle, son of John (1) and Mary Trundle, was born December 26, 1687, and died April 15, 1771. Though he inherited his father's plantation in Anne Arundel County (according to his father's will) he must have later removed to Frederick County, Maryland, as his death and will are recorded in that county. He married, in 1717, Ann -, and by her had three sons and one daughter, who were: Thomas, who married Rachel Lewis; John (see for- ward) ; Josiah and Joanna.
John (3) Trundle, second son of John (2) and Ann Trundle, was born in 1724, and was married in 1750. His wife died May 10, 1809.
John (4) Trundle, son of John (3) Trundle, was born March 6, 1753, and died March 1, 1797. He married, in 1775, Ruth Lewis, born 1753, and died May, 1810. John Trundle served in the War of the Revolution, was commis- sioned ensign in Maryland Militia, August 11, 1779, and promoted lieutenant, August 4, 1780 (see Militia officers of the State of Maryland, 1776-1779, and Original Commissions Maryland Historical Society). Children of John and Ruth (Lewis) Trundle: 1. David, born 1776, married, 1797, Drusilla Lewis. 2. James, married Eleanor Burns, moved to Tennessee in 1810. 3. Daniel, married, 1800, Esther Belt. 4. Ann, married Dr. Stephen Newton Chiswell White. 5. Mary, married Colonel Benjamin Shreve. 6. John L., mar-
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ried a Miss Veach, and had three sons and four daughters. 7. Hezekiah, married Christiana Whittaker, and they had five children. 8. Otho, see forward. 9. Charlotte, married Alfred Belt, had three sons and three daughters. 10. Eleanor, married Henry Jones, and had three sons and three daugh- ters.
Otho Trundle, son of John (4) and Ruth (Lewis) Trundle, was born in 1781, and died in 1819. He married, January 27, 1804, Elizabeth Burns, daughter of William and Mary (Wilson) Burns. William Burns, son of Robert Burns, was born in 1759, came to this country in 1778, and married, February 27, 1781, Mary Wilson, daughter of Wadsworth and Eleanor (Walker) Wilson. William Burns and Robert Burns, the poet, were first cousins. They were sons of two brothers, namely, William Burns and Robert Burns. Each brother named his son respectively for the other, hence William Burns' son was named Robert (the poet), and Robert Burns' son was named William Burns (ancestor of Wilson Burns Trundle) .
Otho Wilson Trundle, son of Otho and Elizabeth (Burns) Trundle, was born August 30, 1816, and died Feb- ruary, 1891. He married, December, 1838, Sarah White, daughter of Benjamin and Rachel White. Children: I. Rachel, married Americus Dawson, no issue. 2. Benjamin Otho, died in infancy. 3. Elizabeth Ellen, married W. H. Dickerson; children: William Harrie, Edwin Trundle, C. Milton, Edith and Lillian. 4. Joseph Henry, married Emily R. Thomas ; children : Emily Maude, Harry Burns and Bertha Thomas. 5. Wilson Burns, see forward. 6. Sarah Virginia, married Charles W. Baggarly. 7. William Edwin, died un- married, aged twenty-seven years. 8. Margaret Ann, married John Owens, no issue. 9. John Wallace, died aged thirteen years. 10. Milton, married Margaret Corbin, of Missouri, and has two daughters, Ola Ray and Mabel May.
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(The White Line).
John White, of Pocomoke, Somerset county, province of Maryland, was the American ancestor of Sarah (White) Trundle. He was a justice of the peace, member of the assembly of Maryland, from Somerset county, Cap- tain of Horse, and Sheriff of Somerset county, in 1678 (Maryland Archives). He was the son of Thomas and Elizabeth (Fisher) White, of Bedfordshire, England, and was born August, 1624 (White book records). He emi- grated to America between 1644 and 1650. He was named in the will of his brother, Thomas White, in 1670, as "living beyond the seas" (Maryland). He was descended from John White, of Hulcote, England, who died December 20, 1501.
John White was the son of Thomas White, who died 1661, son of Lawrence White, died 1599, son of Thomas White, died 1586, son of John White, died 1572, son of John White, of Hulcote, England, who died 1501.
John White, the founder in America, died in Somerset county, Maryland, October 3, 1685. He begins his will: "I, John White, of Pocomoke, Somerset county, Gentleman, Etc." He was a large landowner, willing several thousand acres of land to his family. He married, in 1652, Sarah Stevens, daughter of Colonel William Stevens. They had six children: William Stevens, John, Elizabeth, Sarah, Priscilla and Tabitha.
William Stevens White, son of John and Sarah (Stevens) White, was born in 1654, and died in 1708. He married Catherine White, and had four children: John, see forward ; Rose, Sarah and Katherine.
John White, son of William Stevens and Catherine (White) White, died in 1672. He married Elizabeth -, and had two sons and two daughters: John, William, see for- ward; Ann, married a Mr. Jones; and Margaret, married John Neal.
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William White, second son of John and Elizabeth White, married Elizabeth Smith, daughter of Nathan and Elizabeth (Cole) Smith, died 1783. They had four sons and six daughters: 1. William, married Mary Whitehead. 2. Ben- jamin, married Rebecca Odell Chiswell, 1786. 3. Nathan Smith, see forward. 4. John, married Elizabeth Gott. 5. Sarah, married Edward Jones. 6. Eleanor, married Joseph Newton Chiswell, 1779. 7. Jane, married Hezekiah Thomas, 1780. 8. Elizabeth, married Mr. Allen. 9. Hester, married Mr. Whittaker. 10. Mary.
Nathan Smith White, son of William and Elizabeth (Smith) White, married, in 1787, Margaret Presbury Chis- well, daughter of Stephen Newton, son of Mary Newton, sister of Sir Isaac Newton, and Sarah (Newton) Chiswell; children: Benjamin, see forward; Nathan Smith; Stephen Newton Chiswell; Sarah, married John Waters and moved to Kentucky; Eleanor, married Lawrence Allnutt.
Benjamin White, son of Nathan Smith and Margaret Presbury (Chiswell) White, married, 1815, Rachel Chiswell, daughter of Joseph Newton and Eleanor (White) Chis- well. They had four sons and seven daughters, who were: 1. Nathan Smith, married Frederika McGuire, of Virginia. 2. John, married Tollie Wailes. 3. Joseph, married Anne Viers. 4. Benjamin Franklin, married Margaret Allnutt. 5. Eleanor, married Joseph Chiswell. 6. Sarah, married Otho Wilson Trundle. 7. Rachel Ann. 8. Mary Eliza- beth, married Edward McGill. 9. Virginia Catherine, mar- ried Joseph Chiswell. 10. Hester Chiswell, married Walter Williams. 11. Rachel, married B. Allnutt.
Sarah White, daughter of Benjamin and Rachel (Chis- well) White, married Otho Wilson Trundle. They were the parents of Wilson Burns Trundle, to whose memory this tribute of respect is dedicated.
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Wilson Burns Trundle, son of Otho Wilson and Sarah (White) Trundle, was born at Mount Auburn, Frederick county, Maryland, December 2, 1847, and died April 19, 1914. He received his early education with private tutors and in the public schools of that county, and later entered Calvert College at New Windsor, Maryland, completing the four years' course in two years, receiving his degree of Bach- elor of Arts. He studied law with his uncle, Nathan White, at Charlestown, Jefferson county, West Virginia, and then entered the law office of the late Judge John Ritchie, of Frederick, who presented him for admission to the Mary- land bar.
Mr. Trundle began his career as a lawyer in October, 1870, when he passed the State examination held at Fred- erick, Maryland. One month later he located in Baltimore with which city he was to become so actively identified in later years. For forty-three years he was a very successful member of the bar of Maryland, and one of the foremost workers for the advancement of the city of his adoption. In these many years of active professional life he became known to the leading members of the legal profession throughout Maryland, and numbered among his friends nearly all the judges who have sat in the courts of the State for many years.
Learned in the law, and skillful in its application, Mr. Trundle was recognized as an authority on equity and was widely consulted on that department of the law. He was a man of wide and varied information, legal and otherwise, and from the rich store-house of his mind his associates drew largely. His practice extended to all state and federal courts of the district, a large and influential one. He was a member of the city, county, State and national bar associa- tions, and in 1911 was elected president of the Maryland State Bar Association. He was a director of the Western
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National Bank, counsel for that institution for seventeen years, and counsel for the Baltimore Stock Exchange for a number of years.
Soon after taking up his work in Baltimore, Mr. Trundle became interested in politics. He was a staunch Democrat, but did not care for political offices, although he served on the Board of Fire Commissioners under Mayor Hayes, who reorganized the fire department by introducing civil service, the laws of which Mr. Trundle wrote. He was one of the most ardent advocates of civil service reform, and always argued that the State could best be served in its purposes by having men in a position who owed their office not to political friendship, but to intellectual superiority and mental equip- ment.
Mr. Trundle was a devoted churchman, senior warden and member of the vestry of St. Bartholomew's Episcopal Church, their treasurer for thirty-six years, and for twenty years superintendent of the Sunday school of the church. He was a member of the Sons of the American Revolution and St. Andrew's Society, his Scotch and patriotic ancestry en- titling him to membership in both. He was a member of the Country Club and thoroughly enjoyed its social features; member of the United States Reform Association; Baltimore Bar Association; Maryland Bar Association, and Sons of the American Revolution.
In 1873 Mr. Trundle married Anne Maria Dryden, daughter of Joshua and Cordelia Elizabeth (Owings) Dry- den, a descendant of Richard Owings in the following line: Richard Owings married Rachel Beall, daughter of Ninian Beall; their son, Samuel Owings, married Urith Randall, daughter of Thomas Randall and Hannah Beale; their son, Thomas Owings, married Ruth Lawrence, daughter of Levin Lawrence, son of Benjamin and Rachel (Mariartee) Law-
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rence, and grandson of Benjamin and Elizabeth (Talbot) Lawrence, and Susanna Dorsey; their son, Dr. Thomas Beale Owings, married Cordelia Harris, daughter of Nathan Harris, and Rachel Lawrence, widow of Captain Philamon Dorsey; their daughter, Cordelia Elizabeth Owings, married Joshua R. Dryden, son of Major Joshua Dryden, of the War of 1812, and Anne Maria (Roberts) Dryden, descendant from Hugh Roberts, friend of William Penn; their daughter, Anne Maria Dryden, married Wilson Burns Trundle. Chil- dren of Wilson Burns and Anne Marie (Dryden) Trundle : Harris White, born 1873; Cordelia Elizabeth, born 1875, died 1892; Albert Burns, born 1877, died 1895; Eldon, born 1883, died 1896. Mrs. Trundle survives her husband, and continues her residence at No. 2414 Madison avenue, Baltimore.
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CHARLES D. FISHER
PROBABLY the greatest compliment that can be paid a
man is that he has made himself an honor to his Nation in the great commercial world, as well as a credit to the mer- cantile community in which he has lived, and this can be said in the truest sense of Charles D. Fisher, whose sudden and untimely death removed from Baltimore a man of fine natural endowments, spotless probity of character and use- ful influence.
David Fisher, grandfather of Charles D. Fisher, was born in 1754, and died October 15, 1815. His family had been residents of Carroll county, Maryland, for a number of generations. He married Elizabeth Galt, born in 1769, died April 16, 1849.
William Fisher, son of David and Elizabeth (Galt) Fisher, was born in 1808, and died in 1867. Shortly after his marriage he removed to Baltimore, where he was engaged as a merchant in the wholesale dry goods business for a number of years. Later he became the senior partner of the widely known banking house of William Fisher & Sons, which he had organized, and as his sons arrived at maturity, they were admitted to partnership. He married Jane Alricks Boggs, who was born January 15, 1814, and died July 26, 1862. Among their children were: 1. Charles D., see forward. 2. William Alexander, who served as Senator and Judge, and in a number of other responsible public offices. 3. J. Har- manus. 4. Parks.
Charles D. Fisher, son of William and Jane Alricks (Boggs) Fisher, was born at Westminster, Maryland, Janu- ary 20, 1848, and was killed on Thanksgiving Day, November 29, 1906, in a wreck on the Southern railway, in which the president of that line, Samuel Spencer, was also killed. Mr.
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Fisher was a very young lad when his parents removed to Baltimore, and he was educated under excellent masters in a well known private school. When he had attained the age of eighteen he entered the banking business of his father as clerk. Scarcely more than a child at the time of the out- break of the Civil War, yet he volunteered his services and bore his share with honor in the ranks of the Confederate Army.
After the death of his father, Mr. Fisher embarked that portion of the fortune which he had inherited in the grain business in association with E. W. Barker, forming the firm of Barker & Fisher. While this undertaking did not increase the capital of Mr. Fisher very greatly, it gave him a thorough insight into the methods and details of the grain business, and laid the foundation of his future success in this line of com- merce. The partnership was dissolved in 1873, and in July of the same year, he associated himself with General John Gill, who had been identified with the grain business for a period of seven years, forming the firm of Gill & Fisher, brokers and grain merchants. Both partners had had an unusual amount of experience and were men of sound judg- ment, and success attended their efforts from the inception of the business. They made a specialty of the exportation of grain in large quantities, purchasing their supplies of bread- stuffs in the West, mainly for exportation purposes. Although the financial panic of 1873, the year in which they started, overthrew many old-fashioned firms, it speaks well for the capable management of this concern that it was able to weather the financial storm and come off with flying colors. Mr. Fisher derived great and personal pleasure from the management of his large interests. It was due to his foresight and representations to John W. Garrett, president of the Bal- timore & Ohio railroad, that the first grain elevator in Balti-
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more, the first at the seaboard, was constructed, and the methods of handling grain which had hitherto been in vogue were completely revolutionized. Baltimore immediately pushed her way into the foreground as a grain market, and was enabled to compete with New York, and other elevators being erected in other cities, the exportation of grain was enormously increased, and the entire country reaped the bene- fit of the idea which had emanated from the brain of Mr. Fisher. Two years after the organization of this firm, the business world commenced to realize the value of the mind of Mr. Fisher as a leader in commercial and financial affairs and he was elected president of the Corn and Flour Exchange, was re-elected the following year, and served as president of the Board of Trade from 1885 to 1889, in all of these offices being the youngest man who had ever held these responsible positions. The firm had immense dealings with western con- cerns and was recognized as one of the most important in its line in the country. The partnership was in existence until General Gill withdrew and accepted the presidency of the Mercantile Trust Company, and Mr. Fisher withdrew from the active management of affairs in 1905, leaving the con- duct of the business in the hands of Blanchard Randall and George W. Jackson.
Naturally Mr. Fisher desired success, and rejoiced in the benefits and opportunities which wealth brings, but he was too broadminded a man to rate it above its true value, and in all of his mammoth business ventures he found that enjoyment which comes in mastering a situation-the joy of doing what he had undertaken. Among the other financial enterprises with which Mr. Fisher was connected may be mentioned the following: He was one of the original directors of the Balti- more Chamber of Commerce Building Company, which erected the first Chamber of Commerce Building in 1880,
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which was completely destroyed in the disastrous fire of 1904. He was a valued member of the finance committee of the Mercantile Trust Company, and served for a long time as one of the directors of the Seaboard Air Line railroad. As president of the American District Telegraph Company he rendered excellent service. He never took any active part in political controversies or sought public office, but so univer- sal was the esteem in which he was held by all classes, that a few years ago the nomination for mayor was offered him by the Citizens' Committee of One Hundred, at a time when nomination was practically equivalent to election, but the honor was declined by Mr. Fisher. While he took an intel- ligent interest in public policies and his advice was frequently sought, the responsibilities of business engrossed his entire attention, and he felt that he could not, with justice to either, serve two masters.
Mr. Fisher married, April 15, 1868, Nannie Poultney, daughter of the late Dr. Septimus Dorsey, a physician of note in Baltimore county; and the home presided over by this gracious and refined woman, in unison with her home- loving husband, was indeed a charming and most hospitable one.
Both Mr. and Mrs. Fisher were fond of travel and Mr. Fisher made annual hunting trips to the South and to Scot- land. His social affiliations were with the Maryland, Mer- chants, Elkridge Hunt, Bachelors and Junior Cotillon clubs, in which his genial disposition and fine nature won for him innumerable friends. His plans were always formed with a due amount of deliberation and while he was a money-maker, his benefactions in the name of charity were generous in the extreme. As president of the Home for Incurables he gave not only of his money, but of his time and personal service- contributions not to be valued lightly. As vestryman of Christ
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Protestant Episcopal Church, he was personally active in the good works connected with that institution. In the matter of recreation, he found his chief pleasures in such sports as brought him in close communion with nature, and he truly appreciated the joy of living. Hunting was one of his chief forms of outdoor sport, and resulted in the excellent health and robust constitution of which he was possessed.
Evenness and poise were among his characteristics, and he was a dependable man in any relation and in any emerg- ency; a man ready to meet any obligation of life with the confidence and courage which come of conscious personal ability, proper conception of relative values, and an habitual regard for what is best in the exercise of human activities. All in all, he was a splendid type of the American citizen whose interests are broad and whose labors manifest a recog- nition of the responsibilities of wealth as well as ability in the successful control of commercial affairs.
EDWIN FRANKLIN ABELL
TT IS the custom in monarchical countries to bestow upon great rulers some name, independent of august titles, which is indicative of the people's estimate of their char- acters. Were such an ancient custom followed in Demo- cratic America, Edwin Franklin Abell would bear among his fellow citizens of Baltimore the name bestowed upon Christ's favorite disciple-that of "Well Beloved."
Edwin Franklin Abell, from May 1, 1894, president of the A. S. Abell Company, publishers of "The Sun," and eldest of the twelve children of Arunah Shepherdson and Mary Fox- Campbell) Abell, was born in Baltimore, Maryland, May 15, 1840, and died in the same city, February 28, 1904, at his residence, northeast corner of Charles and Preston streets. He was the eldest of the twelve children of the founder of "The Sun," and his parents resided at the time of his birth on Lee street, at that time one of the prominent residential sec- tions of the city. He was in the sixty-fourth year of his age, and with his decease passed the last of the sons of A. S. Abell.
Edwin F. Abell was educated in the public schools of Baltimore and of Harford county, near Jerusalem Mills, and also attended Dalrymple's Old University School of Maryland, on the south side of Mulberry street, at what is now the head of Cathedral street, and which has since been cut through to Saratoga street. His classmates in this school were many who afterwards became prominent men of Balti- more. When sixteen years of age Mr. Abell entered the counting room; of "The Sun," and from that time continued almost uninterruptedly his business association with the paper. Although always identified with the publishing of "The Sun," he gave his attention more closely to the management of his father's extensive estate, and not until the death of his brother,
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George W. Abell, May 11, 1894, did he assume the direct control of the paper. With duties and responsibilities almost doubled by reason of his brother's death, he became the direct- ing head of the paper's policies in national questions and local affairs. With what success his efforts were rewarded by the entire State is best indicated by the respect and con- fidence with which "The Sun" is regarded in the thousands of homes it enters every day.
There has probably never lived a man occupying so commanding a position as did Mr. Abell, whose personal identity was so carefully kept from the public gaze as Mr. Abell studiously kept his own. On public questions he was absolutely fearless in matters he thought right, and having with calmness and judgment arrived at his own conclusions, he made his ideas felt and respected by reason of their force and common sense. With no personal wishes to be gratified in the political world, with no friends to reward nor enemies to punish politically, he directed the columns of "The Sun" for what he felt to be the best interests of the community, ir- respective of party or men. His only wish was to serve the State as he honestly thought it should be served, by proper recommendations in legislation and in the conduct of public service. Apart from the public welfare but three interests engaged Edwin F. Abell's attention-the affairs of "The Sun," his father's estate, and his home circle. Although a member of the Athenaeum, the Maryland and Country clubs, he cared little for club or even social life beyond the environ- ment of his hearthstone, preferring to entertain friends in his home, free from conventionality, and in accordance with the hospitality inspired by a warm and generous heart.
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