History of Baltimore, Maryland, from its founding as a town to the current year, 1729-1898, including its early settlement and development; a description of its historic and interesting localities; political, military, civil, and religious statistcs; biographies of representative citizens, etc., etc, Part 106

Author: Shepherd, Henry Elliott, 1844-1929, ed. 4n
Publication date: 1898
Publisher: [Uniontown? Pa.] S.B. Nelson
Number of Pages: 1344

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Mr. Snowden has had quite a number of trust estates placed in his hands, being rec- ognized as a safe and conservative business man, and one in whom such trust can safely be reposed.

In politics, our subject is an independent Democrat, and a staunch supporter of the sound money wing of the party.

Mr. Snowden was married, in 1879, to Miss Adela B., daughter of Mr. Horatio N. Vail, of Baltimore. Mr. and Mrs. Snowden are members of the Memorial Episcopal Church. Mr. Snowden's office is in the Central Savings Bank Building.

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NATHAN WINSLOW WILLIAMS & HENRY WINSLOW WILLIAMS, partners in practice of law, are the sons of John Butler and Kate (Winslow) Williams, the latter a native of Cleveland, O., daughter of Nathan C. Wins- low, a descendant of Kenelon and Job Wins- low, who served in the colonial wars.

John Butler Williams, a native Baltimor- ean, as was his father, was for many years a member of the firm of John Williams & Son, for many years a prominent firm in the grain commission business.

Nathan Winslow Williams was born in Cleveland, O., August 26, 1860, and in his early childhood lived in that city and Buf- falo. In 1866 his parents returned to Bal- timore and shortly after our subject became a pupil of the best private schools of the place, principally in that of Dr. Robert At- kinson. After a three years' course in the City College, he matriculated in the Johns Hopkins University, taking a special course in history and political economy. Deciding on the law for a profession, Mr. Williams attended lectures in the law department of Columbia College, New York, from which he was graduated in the spring of 1893, and in June of that year was admitted to practice in the courts of Maryland. Shortly after- wards he became assistant deputy attorney in the office of Hon. Charles G. Kerr during his incumbency as State's Attorney, which position he held until 1889. On severing his connection with the State's Attorney's office, Mr. Williams formed a partnership with his brother, Henry Winslow Williams, and they now occupy comfortable offices in the Fidelity Building. Their practice is of a general nature, though corporation law forms the greater part of it.

Mr. Williams is a member of St. Paul's

Episcopal Church of Baltimore, the Mary- land Historical Society, and the Society of the Colonial Wars. He holds membership in the Maryland Club, the Elkridge Coun- try Club, and the Civil Service Reform As- sociation. In political faith he is a Demo- crat. Mr. Williams was married, in 1890, at Hartford, Conn., to Miss Anne Tyler Foster, daughter of Mr. Frederick Rose Foster, of Hartford.

Henry Winslow Williams, a native of Buffalo, N. Y., was born in that city Octo- ber 6, 1864, during the temporary residence there of his parents, and was but two years of age at the time of their return to Balti- more.

Here he attended the public schools and City College, after which he became a pupil of Mr. W. S. Marston, preparatory to enter- ing Johns Hopkins University, from which he graduated in 1883, having completed the course in two years.

An opening in the engineering corps of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company presenting, Mr. Williams accepted, and for twelve months was employed with that cor- poration. Entering the Law School of the University of Maryland in 1884, he gradu- ated in one year, and on attaining his ma- jority in October, 1885, was admitted to the bar of Baltimore and the State of Maryland. On coming to the bar, Mr. Williams entered the office of the firm of Barton & Wilmer, and for two years practiced his profession in connection with them. In the fall he sev- ered his connections here and opened an of- fice in St. Paul, Minn., remaining for the space of nearly two years, when he returned and formed a partnership with his brother as before stated, in the fall of 1889. They together are the legal advisers of the Fidel-

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ity and Deposit Company, the National Building Association, and of several trac- tion and transportation companies. Mr. Williams is a member of the University and Elkridge Clubs and is a member of the Ex- ecutive Committee of the Civil Service Re- form Association and the Baltimore Reform League. For four years he was chairman of the Legislative Committee of the Mary- land Road League, and during that time most of the work of the League fell upon him. Mr. Williams is the author of many articles on various subjects that have ap- peared from time to time in the magazines and journals of Baltimore and elsewhere.

In politics, Mr. Williams is an independ- ent Democrat, having taken a prominent part in the independent campaign of 1895.

J. WILSON LEAKIN .- The family of which Mr. J. Wilson Leakin is a worthy represen- tative is one of the oldest in America. The prime ancestor was John Leakin, who emi- grated from Northumberland in Old Eng- land some time in 1684, about the time that William Penn brought his first colony to Pennsylvania. He acquired an estate on the point between the Patapsco and Chesapeake Bay, and in this vicinity the family has re- sided ever since.

The grandfather of our subject, Gen. Shepard C. Leakin, was born in Baltimore county, but later removed to the city which he served as mayor from 1838 to 1840. He was a colonel in the War of 1812, partici- pating in the battle of Fort McHenry, and for meritorious conduct was brevetted gen- eral, by which title he was always known.

During his mayoralty he was conspicuous for prompt and brave defense of the Carmel- ite Convent on Aisquith street, from the fury

of the mob. He had also been prominent in quelling the mob in the bank riots of 1835, and in defending the houses of his friends, Reverdy Johnson and John Glenn.

His wife, Miss Margaret Dobbin, was a cousin of John Dobbin, well known during the middle decades of the present century.

Of the children of General Leakin, Shep- ard A. read law and became one of the lead- ing members of the Baltimore bar. He passed away in 1864 at the early age of 39, in the prime of life, with prospects bright before him. He married Miss Isabella K. Wilson, daughter of James Wilson, of Bal- timore. Mrs. Leakin was a descendant of Rev. Samuel Knox, a descendant of John Knox who was a thorn in the side of royalty in Britain three centuries ago. Samuel Knox was educated in the University of Dublin and began his ministry in Ireland. Espousing the cause of the oppressed in the Irish rebellion in 1798, he found it expedient on the collapse of that movement to emi- grate, which he did, coming to America and settling in Maryland. Through his writings he attracted the attention of Mr. Jefferson, who adopted his scheme for the organiza- tion of the University of Virginia, and Doc- tor Knox was offered the first professorship, which he felt constrained to decline. Al- though he was intensely religious, as all old Scotch Presbyterian divines were in those days, and Jefferson was an atheist, the two were intimate and life-long friends. Mr. Knox died at Frederick in 1833, at the ad- vanced age of eighty years.

J. Wilson Leakin, son of Shepard A., was born in Baltimore September 24, 1857. Af- ter attending the private schools of Doctor Atkinson and Rev. Mr. Griswold, he entered the University of Virginia, from which he

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graduated in 1875. This was followed by a course in law which he completed the fol- lowing year. Being too young to apply for admission to the bar, Mr. Leakin returned to Baltimore and entered the office of Mr. William A. Stewart (who was subsequently judge), where he remained until he was li- censed to practice in 1878. While his prac- tice is general in all the courts of the city and State, Mr. Leakin gives more attention to cases in admiralty and probate. He is a member of the Franklin Street Presbyterian Church, and of the University Club. In politics he is a Democrat. His office is at the Fidelity Building, room 705.

MR. CHARLES W. FIELD .- The family is one of the oldest in the South, dating back into the earliest colonial days. The first of the ancestors of our subject of whom any authentic information is available is Col. John Field, who was prominent in colonial affairs during the middle of the last century. He held a commission in the British colo- nial service and gave efficient aid in several of the campaigns. He was in the memora- ble engagement at Fort Duquesne when Braddock sustained his crushing defeat, and no doubt was, with Washington, instru- mental in saving the day, being familiar from childhood with the methods of border warfare. In times of peace he was a well known planter and farmer of the Old Do- minion.

Charles W. Field, Sr., was a native of Kentucky from which State he received the appointment to West Point from which he graduated in 1849, serving at various posts of the army service until the outbreak of the Civil War. He had for faithful services been repeatedly promoted and at the commence-

ment of the memorable struggle risen to the rank of captain of cavalry.

Believing the cause of the South to be just, he resigned his commission in the Uni- ted States Army and offered his services to the Confederacy, which were accepted and the rank of major general was conferred upon him. He fought valiantly through the entire war, serving under Longstreet in the Army of Northern Virginia. He was with Lee at Appomattox in charge of one of the largest divisions that laid down its arms on that fateful day. After the close of the war, General Field became a resident of Wash- ington, giving his attention to engineering. Among the many works with which he was connected were the improvements in the harbors of Brunswick, Savannah and Charleston. He was also in charge of the improvements on the government reserva- tion of Hot Springs, Ark.

General Field married Miss Monimia Mason, daughter of Mr. W. Roy Mason, of Virginia, and descended from the same an- cestors as George Mason, of Gunston, so prominent in the turbulent times during the birth of the republic.

Charles W. Field, of this sketch, was born in King George county, Va., November 18, 1857. Until the age of fourteen he received his education from his mother, and after that age was a pupil in the Bethel Military Col- lege in Virginia. Deciding on the law as a profession, Mr. Field read in the office of his uncle, J. J. Mason, and later attended the law course of the University of Virginia, from which he graduated in 1879, and was admitted to the bar. In 1881 he became a resident of Baltimore, practicing in the city. In May, 1897, he formed a partnership with Mr. Robert Clinton Cole, with whom he is

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now associated in the general practice of law. In 1892 Mr. Field was elected to the lower house of the Maryland Legislature, and was re-elected for the term of 1894-95, serving on the judiciary and election com- mittee, and was chairman of the committee of re-assessment measure, one of the most important committees of the session. In politics Mr. Field is, of course, a Democrat. In religious belief he is of the Catholic faith, to which church his mother held allegiance. Socially he is a member of the Baltimore Club and the Baltimore Athletic Club, the Maryland Bicycle Club and the Maryland Club. Mr. Field was married in Baltimore, in 1897, to Miss Alberta von Lingen, daugh- ter of Mr. George A. von Lingen, of Balti- more.

Mr. Field's office is in the Law Building, 521.

MR. ROBERT CLINTON COLE, Attorney- at-Law, 521-522 Law Building.

Mr. Robert Clinton Cole, though at pres- ent a practicing attorney at the Baltimore bar, has been familiarly known in the city as an educator. Born in Baltimore Novem- ber 16, 1857, he has since been a resident of the city, and is intimately associated with its interests. Private tutors had charge of the early education of Mr. Cole, pre- paring him for Dickinson College, from which he graduated in 1879 after a four years' course. On completing his educa- tion Mr. Cole became an educator, having had charge of Grammar School No. 12 dur- ing the ten years preceding 1890, at which time he was made professor of history and political economy in the City College, in which he continued until 1896. During the years of his connection with the grammar

school, Mr. Cole took the law course in the University of Maryland, which he com- pleted and was admitted to the bar in 1889. In May, 1897, Mr. Cole formed a partner- ship with Mr. Charles W. Field as men- tioned elsewhere in this work in the review of that gentleman's career. Mr. Cole was married to Miss Elizabeth Rice, also a na- tive of the Monumental City, daughter of Mr. Frederick Rice, well known in the city.

Mr. and Mrs. Cole are members of St. Peter's Protestant Episcopal Church. Of the social orders, Mr. Cole has membership in several. He is Past Master of Maryland Lodge, No. 120, A. F. & A. M .; member of the Baltimore City Lodge, I. O. O. F .; the Baltimore Club; the Park Bicycle Club; the Baltimore Athletic Club, of which he is president, and member of the college frater- nity Beta Theta Psi. He is State Director of the Sons of the Revolution, and member of the Society of the War of 1812. In his connection with corporate bodies, Mr. Cole is president of the Law Building, director of the Maryland Real Estate Company, and a trustee of Dickinson College. In politics he is an unswerving Democrat. His occu- pation and tastes have been contrary to office holding, so he has never served the people in an official capacity.

Mr. Cole is a son of Mr. Robert C. and Ellen A. (Wise) Cole, the latter a daughter of Mr. John Wise, a well known Virginia gentleman, whose wife, Miss Verlinda A. Selby, was a daughter of Mr. Henry Selby, Jr., who served with honor through the War of 1812. His father, Henry Selby, Sr., was an officer in the War of the Revolution.

Robert C. Cole was a son of William Cole, a prominent planter on the Eastern Shore, who served in the Maryland troops during

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the War of 1812. The first American ances- tor of the male line of whom any authentic data at hand was James Cole, although it is well known that the family had been liv- ing on the Eastern Shore of Maryland sev- eral generations prior to him. He, too, was a soldier of the Revolution.

Mr. Cole is descended through both pa- ternal and maternal lines from James Small- wood, the ancestor of Maj. Gen. William Smallwood, of the Maryland Line, who in early colonial times was a major in the Maryland troops in the early wars with the Indians. He was a well known character in the colonial period of Maryland.

MR. GEORGE M. UPSHUR, Jr., was born at Snow Hill, Worcester county, Md., De- cember 14, 1847. After completing the course of Union Academy at Snow Hill, he attended Yale College from 1864 to 1867. Returning to Snow Hill he began the study of law in the offices of Senator E. K. Wilson and Mr. John H. Handy, and in October, 1869, was called to the bar of Maryland. His practice is general, not confining him- self to any one branch of the law.

Mr. Upshur is the son of Dr. George N. Upshur, Sr., who was a native of Northamp- ton county, Va. After completing his liter- ary education, Doctor Upshur entered the Jefferson Medical College of Philadelphia, from which he graduated. In his many years' practice in Snow Hill he endeared himself to a wide circle of patrons and friends, and like many of the old school doc- tors, much of his services was given freely to the poor, receiving in payment only the consciousness that he was doing good. He died in 1877, at the age of sixty years. His wife was Miss Priscilla A., daughter of Levin Townsend, of Snow Hill.

The first ancestor of the direct male line to come to America was Mr. Arthur Upshur, who emigrated in 1638 from Essex county, England, settling in Northampton county, Va., which has since been the family seat of his many descendants. He became one of the leading planters of his day, leaving an honored name. Among his descendants was Mr. Abel P. Upshur, a near kinsman of our subject, who served as Secretary of State under President Tyler, after having first held the portfolio of the Navy under the same administration.

George M. Upshur married Miss Emma Franklin, daughter of Mr. John A. Frank- lin, of Snow Hill. He was one of the Mary- land National Commissioners to the World's Fair in 1893. He was a delegate- at-large from the State of Maryland to the Democratic National Convention which nominated Mr. Cleveland for President in 1892. He is a director in the Fidelity and Deposit Company of Maryland. In political faith he is a Democrat, having been honored by that party with election to the House of Delegates over which he presided as Speak- er in 1888.

Mr. and Mrs. Upshur have three children, Priscilla Franklin and Emily Franklin. Franklin Upshur is a student in the law department of Maryland University. The family reside at 1813 N. Charles street.

He is a member of the Episcopal Church, and socially holds membership in the Athenaeum, Maryland and Merchants' Clubs. His offices are in the Equitable Building.

HENRY D. HARLAN, Chief Judge of the Supreme Bench of Baltimore, was born in Harford county, Md., on October 23, 1858. His father, David Harlan, was a large land-

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owner at Harford, near Churchill, and a medical director of the United States Navy. His mother's maiden name was Margaret Rebecca Herbert. Her grand- father on her mother's side was Jeremiah Baker, who was a captain in the Revolu- tionary War. The Harlan family is an old one. Two brothers of that name, George and Michael, settled in Pennsylvania about two hundred years ago. Their descendants in this country now number over three thousand. Michael is the remote progen- itor of Judge Harlan, and George is one of the ancestors of Justice John M. Harlan, of the United States Supreme Court. His grandmother on his father's side was Esther Stump. Through her, Judge Harlan is re- lated to Judge Frederick Stump, of Cecil county, and to Herman Stump, formerly representative in Congress from the Second District. Mr. Harlan graduated at St. John's College, Annapolis, in 1878, taking second honor. He read law in the office of Henry D. Farnandis, at Belair for a year. He came to Baltimore in 1879 and entered the Law School of Maryland University from which he graduated in 1881, with both honors, having secured the prize as first- grade student and for the best thesis. The subject of his thesis was "Contributory Negligence." Judge George W. Brown and A. W. Machen were members of the committee that awarded the thesis prize. While he was a student in the university he also read law in the office of John P. Poe. He was admitted to the bar in May, 1881. In 1883 he was chosen associate professor in the Law School of the University of Maryland to lecture on elementary common law and domestic relations. At the same time he was elected secretary and treasurer

of the law faculty with executive control of the school. He was subsequently made full professor and his connection with the Law School still continues, which has grown in the number of its students from sixty to nearly two hundred. Mr. Harlan practiced in all the courts. In October, 1888, Gover- nor Jackson asked him to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Chief Judge Brown, on account of his having arrived at the constitutional age limit, and the selec- tion met with general approval. It was of- ficially endorsed the following year by his formal election to the position by the people of the city for the full term of fifteen years. In 1889 he married Helen, daughter of Henry and Hannah Eyre Altemus, of Phil- adelphia. Judge Harlan was for some years one of the Board of Visitors and Governors of St. John's College. He is one of the trustees of the Johns Hopkins Hospital and a member of the Executive Committee of the Board. He is one of the Building Com- mittee of the new Court House, and has taken a prominent part in its work. He is a member of the Baltimore Club, University Club, Elkridge Fox Hunting Club and the Baltimore Country Club. He is a Demo- crat in politics and a Protestant Episco- palian in religion.

RICHARD T. MARTIN is a native of Talbot county, Md., where he was reared and edu- cated. At the age of eighteen he went to St. Louis, where he remained a short time, but finally located in southern Missouri, where he became connected with the lead mines of that country. In 1861, on account of sym- pathy with the Southern cause he was obliged to return to his native place.

After his marriage, which took place at

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Talbot, he removed to Belair, Harford county, Md., where he opened a drug store. Mr. Martin, being a man of integrity and decided intellectual ability, was elected deputy clerk of the county of Harford. In 1884 he returned to Talbot, where the same honor was conferred upon him by his fel- low citizens.

In 1895 he removed to Baltimore, where he now resides. Mr. Martin is a descendant of one of the oldest families of Maryland, his father being one of the "Old Defenders" of 1812. The Martins held a large tract of land under a patent from Lord Baltimore.

Mrs. Richard T. Martin is the accom- plished daughter of John B. and Jane Pairo, natives of Washington, and who belong to the first and oldest settlers of the District of Columbia. The Pairos removed to Balti- more about 1840 and became largely en- gaged in the dry goods trade, but subse- quently embarked in the vinegar business in partnership with Mr. Frisby. To Mr. and Mrs. Martin were born four children. One son, Richard H., is a graduate of the Law School of Maryland University.

DR. CHARLES CARROLL BOMBAUGH Was born in Harrisburg, Pa., February 10, 1828. He is a son of Aaron and Mira (Lloyd) Bombaugh. His paternal ancestry was German, the old robber barons Von Baum- bach dating back to the fourteenth century. George Bombaugh, founder of the Ameri- can branch of the family, came from the Palatinate to settle in Pennsylvania in 1740. On the maternal side he is of English de- scent, the Lloyds having been prominently identified with the early settlement of Penn- sylvania and Delaware. Fitted for college at the Military Academy of Capt. Alden

Partridge, at Harrisburg, he was graduated at Harvard University in 1850, and Jeffer- son Medical College, Philadelphia, in 1853.

On the outbreak of the war he was ac- tively engaged in practice at Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia, but upon the organization of the Philadelphia Brigade he yielded to the urgent invitation of Col. E. D. Baker (after- wards killed at Ball's Bluff) and became sur- geon of the Second Regiment, August, 1861. He served as a medical officer in Gen- eral Stone's division on the Potomac river, and afterwards in General Sedgwick's divi- sion in the Peninsular Campaign. At Berkeley (Harrison's Landing) he was brought to the point of death with typho-malarial fever, the result of over- work and exposure during Mcclellan's retreat to the James river, from the effects of which he never fully recovered. In September, 1862, he was transferred to hospital duty in Philadelphia, whence, in April, 1864, he was ordered at his own re- quest to Baltimore on special lines of duty, to which he gave his best endeavors until the close of the contest in May, 1865.

Obliged to abandon general practice on account of impaired health and deficient energy he engaged in journalism and gen- eral literary pursuits and also became med- ical examiner for several life insurance com- panies. For awhile he was editor of the Baltimore American. In 1865 he assumed charge of and has since successfully con- ducted the Baltimore Underwriter, which in point ofeditorial ability, vigor and independ- ence has always maintained a leading posi- tion among class journals. Aside from fre- quent contributions to medical and other journals, and papers and essays on various public occasions, he has published several

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books, some under his own name and others anonymously. Among the former are "Gleanings for the Curious," "The Book of Blunders," "The Literature of Kissing," "First Things," and "Stratagems and Con- spiracies to Defraud Life Insurance Com- panies."

PROF. OTTO FUCHS, Principal of the Maryland Institute, was born in Saltzwedel, in the Province of Saxony, Prussia, in Octo- ber, 1839. He received his early education in Germany, and came to the United States in 1851, landing in New York City. He ac- quired his professional education in New York City, in the branches of civil and me- chanical engineering, his tutors being pri- vate instructors. His purely technical edu- cation was thus under the auspices and su- pervision of men eminently qualified for their duties. In mathematics, for example, Professor Fuchs had, as private tutor, Pro- fessor Boeck, who was private secretary to that patriot, Louis Kossuth, during the lat- ter's residence in this country. During the Civil War in America, Professor Fuchs was constructor in the General Inspector's Of- fice of iron-clad steamships, which were the beginnings of our first monitors. He also taught, as professor of drawing in the Cooper Institute, of New York City. In 1865 he accepted the appointment as professor of drawing at the Naval Academy in Annapolis, his specialty being mechanical drawing. He was in Annapo- lis for two years, when he resigned his posi- tion and went to Boston to enter the service of Harrison Loring, one of the largest ship and engine builders in Boston. Professor Fuchs was a specialist there in the engineer- ing department. He also took up teaching

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Author: Shepherd, Henry Elliott, 1844-1929, ed. 4n Publication date: 1898 Publisher: [Uniontown? Pa.] S.B. Nelson Number of Pages: 1344

Author: Shepherd, Henry Elliott, 1844-1929, ed. 4n
Publication date: 1898
Publisher: [Uniontown? Pa.] S.B. Nelson
Number of Pages: 1344