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 124

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. Hoffman was educated at Chestnut Hill School and McNally's School, Balti- more. After leaving school he entered the service of William G. Hoffman, stock broker, Baltimore, as clerk, in 1857. After- wards, in 1865, he was in the service of Hoffman, Thompson & Co., iron commis- sion merchants, this city, now R. C. Hoff-

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man & Co., Equitable Building, Baltimore. On May 7, 1888, he was made vice-presi- dent Seaboard Air Line System Railways, and February 14, 1893, was made presi- dent of this company, and February 23, 1893, was also made president of the Bal- timore Steam Packet Company, which two important positions he now holds.

Being a strong Southerner when the Civil War came on, he enlisted in the Con- federate Army, May 24, 1861, as first lieu- tenant of Company B, Thirty-first Regi- ment, Virginia Infantry, Second Brigade, Stonewall Jackson's Division, Army Northern Virginia, and was promoted to captain of his company April 4, 1862, and June, 1862, he was appointed captain Company E, Thirtieth Battalion Sharp- shooters, Confederate Army, Wharton's Brigade, Breckinridge's Division. On April 9, 1865, he surrendered at Appomat- tox Court House with Lee's army. He was a faithful and gallant soldier and popu- lar with the officers and men of his com- mand.

Mr. Hoffman was married in Baltimore, October 28, 1880, to Miss Eliza Lawrence Dallam, daughter of Edward Boothby Dal- lam, who was born in Harford county, Md., and Henrietta Julia (Mactier) Dallam, who was born in New York City. Mrs. Hoff- man's parents were both members of old American families. Mr. and Mrs. Hoff- man have six children: Richard Curzon, Jr., Henrietta Mactier, Elizabeth Curzon, Mary Dorothea, Wilmer and Eliza Law- rence Hoffman. The family are members of the Protestant Episcopal Church and re- side at Ruxton, Baltimore county, Md.

Mr .. Hoffman is a member of the Society of Colonial Wars, Society of the Army and

Navy of the Confederate States, for the State of Maryland; the Society of the Army of Northern Virginia, in Virginia, and a member of Buchanan Camp, United Con- federate Veterans of Baltimore. In poli- tics he is an Independent, and votes for those he considers the best men for posi- tions. He stands high as a man of strict honor and is one of the leading railway managers of the day. The system of rail- ways he has under his charge is among the largest in the country, extending and per- meating over all sections of the South, all of which he manages with marked success and with satisfaction to the stockholders and the public.

JOHN FREDERICK ADAMS, contractor and builder, was born at Ellicott's Mills, Md., January 30, 1829. His father, John Adams, an Irishman by birth, had immigrated to this country in 1820, and was for many years a successful contractor and builder of public works. His mother's maiden name was Anne Kuhn, the daughter of a wealthy mil- ler, of Adams county, Pa., and later of Rich- mond, Va. Mr. Adams died when the sub- ject of this sketch was four years of age, and the family then moved to Cumberland .. From an early age, rather from choice than necessity, John F. Adams relied upon his own efforts for support, and when but four- teen was engaged in running a steam engine at the first planing mill of Bell & Hendrick- son at Cumberland. At sixteen he was ap- prenticed to learn the carpenter's trade with William McClellan, with whom he served three and a half years. In 1849 he came to Baltimore, where he worked as a journey- man carpenter for two years, then entering into a partnership association with his

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brother, Samuel H. Adams. This partner- ship was dissolved in 1854 by mutual con- sent, and the brothers continued in business separately until 1860, when they re-united under the firm name of S. H. & J. F. Adams. This firm built many of the most notable structures not only in this city, but Phila- delphia, Washington, Richmond and other cities. They built all the shops and round houses at Mt. Vernon, the offices of the Northern Central Railway Company on Calvert and Centre streets, the Baltimore and Potomac Railroad Depot in Washing- ton, as well as the new Union Depot on North Charles street in this city; the Mt. Hope Insane Asylum, Carrollton Hotel, Notre Dame Convent, Union Bank and many other prominent buildings in this and other cities.

CHARLES SNOWDEN WATTS, Attorney-at- Law, was born October 25, 1868, at "Bev- erly," Baltimore county, the country seat of his parents. He is a son of Garrard Snow- den and Anne Elizabeth (Wolvington) Watts, the former a native of Maryland, the latter of Virginia. The firm of G. S. Watts & Co. was for a number of years a leading wholesale tobacco house of Baltimore. The firm is now dissolved, its senior member, Mr. G. S. Watts, having retired in 1880 from business. His eldest son, George W. Watts, removed to Durham, N. C., in 1878, where he has since identified himself with various important interests of the South. To the town of Durham he gave a thor- oughly equipped hospital. A college known as the Arthur G. Watts Memorial College was founded by the Messrs. Garrard S. and George WV. Watts at Guntur, India. This memorial college, founded in the interests

of the Lutheran Church, was offered as a tribute to the memory of Arthur G. Watts, M. D., of Baltimore, third son of Mr. Gar- rard S. Watts. The Presbyterian Theolog- ical Seminary now located at Richmond, Va., through the munificence of Mr. George W. Watts was the beneficiary of a sum of $50,000, the gift of that gentleman. Charles S. Watts received his initial training at Carey's School for Boys, Baltimore, and then entered Johns Hopkins University from which institution he was graduated in 1890. He attended the law department of Maryland University and was graduated therefrom and admitted to the bar in 1893 and shortly thereafter formed his present partnership association with William C. Smith, under the firm name of Watts & Smith. Mr. Watts is a member of the Sec- ond English Lutheran Church, of Balti- more.

JUDGE HUGH LENNOX BOND was born in Baltimore in 1826. He was the son of Dr. Thomas E. and Christiana Bond, a well known and much respected family of Balti- more. Doctor Bond was a practitioner of large experience and unsurpassed intel- lectual attainments and ability. Seeing the necessity of providing for his growing-up family an education superior to that which Baltimore could furnish at that time, he gave up the practice of medicine, removed to New York and took the editorship of The Christian Advocate, the leading paper in the Methodist Episcopal Church. This honor- able office of trust and responsibility he filled with creditable acceptance while he lived. His son Hugh L. Bond was educated and fitted for the bar in New York, and is a graduate of New York University. He

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came to Baltimore and studied law under Judge Talbot, and was admitted to the bar in his native city. He practiced law for a number of years, rising step by step un- till he reached the climax in his profes- sion. He was elected judge of the crim- inal court, an office which he held before and during the war. During the late war Judge Bond was very unpopular in the South because of his pronounced convic- tions of duty to the Union cause. Aside from a political standpoint he was a uni- versal favorite. A man of sterling qualities, with a keen sense of justice and with force and courage to administer it. At the close of the war President Grant appointed him to the honorable office of Judge of the Cir- cuit Court of the United States. This office he held till he died at the age of 64.

He married Miss Annie, daughter of Wil- liam Penniman, Esq., a native of Baltimore, but whose parents were natives of Boston and who removed to Baltimore where Mr. Penniman became an active agent for north- ern manufacturers.

The house in which Mrs. Bond and fam- ily live was built by Doctor Birkett in 1800, to which was attached at that time ninety acres of good farming land. Most of this property has been divided between the heirs, but the old homestead, grand and stately still remains.

There were born to Judge and Mrs. Bond three sons-Nicholas P. and Hugh L., who are prominent lawyers of Baltimore, and Dr. Summerfield Bond, who is a leading physi- cian of the city.

WILLIAM CURLEY (deceased) .- William Curley was born in Baltimore in 1821. He is the son of James Curley, who was a strict

member of that noble society called "Friends." He was an architect of superior skill and a builder of great ability. He was a man in whom his fellow-citizens trusted and showed their confidence in placing him in offices of trust. He was at one time city commissioner. His son, William, followed the professional footsteps of his respected father as an architect and builder. He also followed in his father's foot-prints in his superiority as an artist, not only with pen and compass, but with saw and plane. As a mechanic he was in great demand. He was a man of large heart and responsive sympathies who practiced the "golden rule."

He was a strict member and a practical supporter of the Methodist Episcopal Church. He died of small-pox January 30, 1858, at the age of thirty-six years. He was married December 16, 1845, to Mary E., daughter of James and Catherine (Litchfield) Carr, by whom he had six chil- dren, three of whom are (1897) living. One of his sons, Rev. William E., is a successful pastor of the M. E. Church, of Sykesville, Md. Charles H. is in the stationery busi- ness in Baltimore, while James A. is a trav- eling salesman for William H. Crawford, Baltimore; the two latter are residents of Baltimore.

Mrs. Mary E. Curley has been a resident of her present home for the last forty years, and has been confined to her room as an in- valid for the last six years.

LOUIS SCHNEEBERGER, Cashier of Post- office, Baltimore, was born in Bavaria, Ger- many, March 30, 1850; received his educa- tion at Nuremberg, Bavaria; came to the United States in 1869, and was for a brief period engaged in mercantile pursuits in

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New York City, removing thence to Junc- tion City, where he was in business one year, then coming to Baltimore. He was for six- teen years head book-keeper for the whole- sale grocery firm of H. Cone & Sons, and upon its retirement from business in 1890, received the appointment of cashier of the Baltimore postoffice under Postmaster W. WV. Johnson, and was re-appointed under Postmaster S. Davies Warfield. Mr. Schneeberger was one of the founders and is one of the board of governors of the Young Men's Republican Club of Balti- more, and has been its treasurer for the past seven years. He is one of the board of gov- ernors and secretary of the Phoenix Club, and was for two years first vice-president of Independent Order B'nai B'rith. He is also a member of the Masonic fraternity. In 1874 he entered the Fifth Regiment, Mary- land National Guard, as private and was successively promoted until he had attained a captaincy, serving as such officer for five years prior to his resignation in 1886. He is a member and was one of the charter members of the Fifth Regiment Veteran Corps. He was married May 22, 1870, and has five children: David, Morris and Mil- ton, engaged in mercantile pursuits in Bal- timore, and Misses Fannie and Birdie, the latter a teacher in the public schools of Bal- timore. The family reside at 2042 Fair- mount avenue, and are members of Eutaw Place Temple.

JUDGE NICHOLAS CHARLES BURKE .- The career of Judge Nicholas Charles Burke is an illustration of what merit and perseverance can accomplish when honestly and intelligently directed.

The subject of this sketch was born in

the city of Washington, D. C., March 27, 1854, and when about a year old was brought by his parents to Baltimore county, where they cultivated a farm near Newmar- ket in the Seventh district. Here the boy at- tended public school, where he excelled as a student, displaying unusual faculty for reasoning and for memory, which powers have won for him the merited distinction he enjoys. During these years he read Black- stone's Commentaries at night after his work on the farm was done. When of suit- able age he attended Calvert College at New Windsor, Carroll county, Md., and finished at St. Mary's College, at Emmittsburg, Md. It was here that his surprising powers of memory won a substantial recognition. Doctor McCloskey offered a prize for the greatest number of pages of Greek grammar committed to memory. When it came to young Burke's time to compete, he began with the first page and recited through to the end. It is needless to say he won the prize.

Having previously decided upon a legal career, Mr. Burke, on completing his col- lege course, began the serious study of the law in the office of Mr. Robert L. Boarman, of Towson, and on attaining his majority, was admitted to the bar in March, 1875, af- ter a thorough examination by Hon. George Yellott, who was appointed for that purpose by the Court. Judge Burke's success from the first was marked. The thoroughness of his legal learning and the clearness of his logical application of legal principles was at once recognized and in much less time than usually befalls a young attorney he acquired a large and lucrative practice.

In November, 1883, his talents were rec- ognized by election to the office of prosecut-

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ing attorney, and in 1887 he was again elect- ed to that important position. Before his term had expired, however, he was appoint- ed, in August, 1889, by Governor Jackson, to fill the unexpired term of Hon. David Fowler, associate justice of the third circuit, and in November of that year was elected to the full term of fifteen years, after nomi- nation by acclamation by his party. It is a noticeable fact that in every convention in which Judge Burke came at his party's call, he was nominated without a dissenting voice. The Judge is a strong party man, always burying his own desires in the gen- eral consensus of the majority's belief in what is most expedient for the organization. His counsel is eagerly sought by his co- workers for Democratic success and his judgment given due weight in conferences and conventions.

Judge Burke is the author of the Criminal Information Law, which was enacted by the Maryland Legislature, by which the work of criminal courts is expedited, smaller of- fenses being submitted to the prosecuting attorney, without waiting for the session of the grand jury, thus disposing of them long before they would have been commenced under the old system. One of the first acts of Judge Burke on coming to the bench was to give the old court-room an over-hauling. The antiquated system of ventilation and heating made it uncomfortably warm in summer and cold in winter. All this is changed and instead of a dingy old court- room, it is now as cheerful and comfortable a room as will be found in the State.

The father of our subject, Capt. Nicholas Burke, was for many years an honored citi- zen of Maryland. His wife, a daughter of Mr. Joshua Shipley, is of old Revolutionary

stock, her grandfather Shipley having served in the War of Independence. Capt. Nicholas Burke served with distinction in the Mexican War, as an aide to General Walker, and in the late Civil War, where he won his title, under the command of Gen. Harry Gilmor. He died in 1874, while his good wife survived until 1892.

The grandfather of our subject, Capt. Nicholas Burke, Sr., was in command of troops in the Sixth Regiment during the battle of North Point in the War of 1812.

Judge Burke was married November 21, 1878, to Miss Chloe C. Ady, daughter of Edward H. Ady, Esq., of Baltimore county, a former clerk of the Circuit Court. Judge Burke is not connected with any of the so- cial orders or clubs. He is a member of the Catholic Church. His home in the suburbs of Towson, named "Greystone" in honor of that of Samuel J. Tilden of whom the Judge is a great admirer, is one of the most taste- ful and homelike of the country seats sur- rounding the town of Towson.

DR. ROBERT TAYLOR WILSON .- This gentleman was born in Baltimore June 16, 1860. He is a son of the late Dr. Henry Parke Custis Wilson and Alicia B. (Griffith) Wilson, natives of Eastern Shore of Vir- ginia and Maryland, respectively, and de- scendants of Scotch-Irish and English colo- nial settlers. Dr. H. P. C. Wilson was grad- uated from Maryland University Medical Department, and was engaged up to the time of his decease (1897) in the practice of his profession in Baltimore. He was recog- nized as one of the leading, as he was, one of the most successful of Baltimore's physi- cians and surgeons, and gave many years of professional and official service to the hospi-

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tals and other benevolent institutions of the city. Among these were the Church Home Infirmary, Union Protestant Infirmary, St. Vincent's Hospital, St. Agnes' Hospital and Woman's Hospital of Maryland.

Dr. Robert T. Wilson attended private schools in Baltimore, Episcopal High School of Virginia (near Alexandria), and the University of Virginia, where he took academic and medical courses, and was graduated from Maryland University Medi- cal Department, class of 1881. During the last year of his university course, Doctor Wilson was resident student at University Hospital. After graduating he went to New York, where for some months he continued his medical studies. In 1882 he spent some months in medical studies in London and Edinburgh, and again in 1889 in London, Birmingham, Berlin and Liverpool. He was gynecologist for several years of Union Protestant Infirmary, and one of the visiting staff of St. Vincent's Hospital ; also assistant surgeon of Woman's Hospital of Maryland. He is one of the founders, ex-treasurer and ex-first vice-president of the Gynecological and Obstetrical Society of Baltimore; assist- ant recording secretary, and secretary of the Executive Committee of the Medical and Chirurgical Faculty of Maryland since April, 1881; member of the Clinical Society of Maryland and Baltimore Medical and Surgical Association ; Foundation Fellow of British Gynecological Society, and Honor- ary member of the Sei-I-Kwai of Japan (the leading medical society of the Japanese Em- pire); member of the Maryland Academy of Sciences, and the Sabbath Association of Maryland; secretary of Baltimore Micro- scopical Society; life member of American Seamen's Friend Society of New York;

member and ex-director of the Charcoal Club of Baltimore; member of the Book and Journal Club (of the Medical and Chirurgi- cal Faculty of Maryland). Doctor Wilson is president of the Hospital Relief Association of Maryland; consulting gynecologist to the Home for Incurables; consulting physician to the Young Women's Christian Associa- tion; The Christian (female) Home (N. Greene street), The Home (N. Exeter street), Female House of Refuge (N. Carey street), Hospital for Consumptives, St. Lukeland Cottage Convalescent Hospital, Catonsville, Md .; and to some of the religi- ous (female) orders of the Protestant Epis- copal and Roman Catholic Churches. He is one of the board of directors of the Fe- male House of Refuge, Maryland Sunday- school Union, Maryland Hospital for Con- sumptives and the Home for Fallen Wo- men. He is a contributor to medical jour- nals at home and abroad, and an inventor of some useful surgical instruments used in his specialty. He is interested in the work of the Port Mission of Baltimore and of the "Anchorage" (Thames street). He is one of the medical examiners of Manhattan Life Insurance Company of New York. He is a life member of the Bible Society of South Carolina. He has been a delegate from medical societies of Maryland to medical societies at home and abroad. He is a mem- ber of the Young Men's Christian Associa- tion, the University Club and Amateur Photographic Society of Baltimore; and a life director of Maryland Bible Society. In February, 1898, he was unanimously elected surgeon to the Woman's Hospital of Mary- land (Lafayette avenue and John street) to succeed his father.

He was married January 9, 1884, to Ma-

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bel, daughter of the late Dr. James T. Chunn, of Baltimore. Doctor Wilson is a member and elder of Franklin Street Pres- byterian Church; Mrs. Wilson is a commu- nicant of Emmanuel P. E. Church, and Dr. and Mrs. Wilson reside at 820 Park avenue.

MR. JACOB KLEIN, Manufacturer of Building and Paving Brick, was born July 23, 1843, in Marburg, Hesse Cassel, Prussia, and came to this country when only nine years of age, with his parents, who located in Baltimore, in 1855. His education was obtained at the public schools in his native country and this city. At the age of thir- teen he began to earn a livelihood, being ap- prenticed to learn metal working with the firm of Collins, Hayward & Heath. Mr. Klein followed metal working as journey- man up to 1866, and for himself since that date up to 1886, on Pratt street, near Han- over, when he connected himself with Chris- tian G. Nickel in the manufacture of brick, a business which Mr. Nickel established in 1883 and in which he continued until his decease, since which time it has been con- ducted as Klein Brothers. The yards are very extensive, covering over five acres of ground, with a capacity of seven millions of brick per annum. The working force runs from seventy-five to eighty hands, employ- ing twelve teams.

When the Civil War broke out Mr. Klein took sides with the South, enlist- ing in the First Virginia Cavalry under Colonel Wood. His espoused cause was well and faithfully served by him during the closing years of the war, the scene of his service being in the vicinity of Richmond, Va. He has taken an active interest in the

success of the Germania Maennerchor, and has been its presiding officer since 1894.

He married, in 1867, Marie C., the accom- plished daughter of the late Christian G. Nickel. His son, Albert D., a pushing young man of business ability is his chief clerk. Mr. Klein is one of the Board of Man- agers of the German Society of Maryland, and vestryman for many years of the Ger- man Science Church, North Gay street (es- tablished about 1733). . Mr. and Mrs. Klein reside at IIO E. Huntington avenue.

DR. FERDINAND E. CHATARD was born in Baltimore October 7, 1839. He is a son of F. E. Chatard and grandson of Pierre Chatard, both prominent physicians of Bal- timore since the beginning of the nineteenth century. Doctor Chatard was educated at Mount St. Mary's College, Frederick coun- ty, Md., graduating in the class of 1858. He then entered the University of Maryland medical department from which institution he was graduated in 1861. He was for one year resident physician at the almshouse, and then spent two and a half years at Ber- lin, Paris and Vienna, in the study of medi- cine. Upon his return from Europe he be- gan the practice of his profession. He is president of the board in St. Agnes' and St. Joseph's Hospitals, a member of the State Medical and Chirurgical Faculty, Clinical Society, Academy of Science, medical direc- tor of the Maryland Life Insurance Com- pany, and various other organizations. He married Miss Miles, daughter of George H. Miles, the distinguished poet of Maryland.

MR. WILLIAM J. DICKEY (deceased) was born in County Antrim, Ireland. He emi- grated to America when a very young man.

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After arriving in this country, which he thoroughly adopted as his own, he located in the city of Baltimore. He soon became accustomed to the ways of his new sur- roundings, and by honesty and industry built for himself a character which still lives in the hearts of those who knew him best.

In a few years, his business as manufac- turer of woolen cloth, at Wetheredsville, assumed extensive proportions. Since his death, which occurred August 20, 1896, it became a stock company, of which his son William is president. Mr. William J. Dickey was for a number of years presi- dent of the National Manufacturing Bank of Baltimore.

He was a kind-hearted Christian gentle- man, who contributed largely to charitable objects. At Wetheredsville he built and supported the Presbyterian Church of which he was a member. This church he maintained in order that his employes might not be deprived of the ministry of God's Word.

In 1847 he was married to Miss Agnes Murphy, by whom he had two sons and two daughters; the latter are dead but his sons have succeeded him in business.

J. B. SUTHERLAND, D. D. S., is a native of Richmond, Va., and is the son of Samuel and Martha Sutherland; the former is a native of Scotland, the latter of Richmond, Va.

Samuel Sutherland was an extensive hardware dealer, who by industry and honesty built up for himself a flourishing trade. He received his classical education at Randolph-Macon College, Va .; his professional education at the Baltimore

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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