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 125

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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College of Dentistry. He is a graduate of the New York Dental College, and also of the Wisconsin Dental College. He has been established in this city since 1867, and during the interim of twenty-eight years has been steadily increasing his hold on popular favor and patronage. There are but few, if any, among Baltimore's leading dental practitioners, who sustain a higher reputation for skill and reliability. He stands at the head of his profession and has an enviable practice. His many years of experience have made him a thorough ex- pert and all-round dentist. He is a courtly mannered man of the Southern type. He occupies commodious and well-appointed quarters at 1208 E. Monument street and employs the latest improvements in appli- ances, while a competent assistant is in at- tendance. In a word, all the operations of modern dentistry are performed in a most superior and skillful manner. Aside from his profession, the Doctor is an educator, having been in various ways connected with the Baltimore College of Dental Sur- gery, and now serves on one of its Boards. Doctor Sutherland's services are in great demand because of his powers of oratory. Indeed he is a naturally and artificially polished elocutionist.

During the late War he served as Ad- jutant to Col. B. F. Fairinholt of the Twenty-fourth Battalion, Army of Virginia. He served the cause he represented faith- fully and well for over three years. He is now a member of the Camp Herbert Vet- erans, "Confederate." In social life he served the city as councilman of the Fifth and Sixth wards.

He was married in 1869 to the accom-

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plished daughter of John and Ann Gorm- ley, by whom he has had two sons.

REV. S. SCHAFFER, Rabbi of Shearith Israel Congregation, was born in Cour- land, Russia, May 4, 1862. In his earliest youth he devoted himself to the study of Hebrew literature and rabbinical lore, at the same time taking a complete course of secular knowledge at the gymnasium.

In 1880 he went to Libau and entered upon a preparatory course under the able . guidance of Rev. Dr. P. H. Kline, rabbi of the congregation of that city, now rabbi in New York. Provided with a diploma from Libau he went to Berlin in 1883, where he continued his studies for eight successive years as a student of the Rab- binical Seminary of Rev. Dr. I. Hildes- heimer, and also at the University. Philos- ophy, semitics, German literature and Roman law occupied his time there, under the guidance of Professors F. Feller, Sac- han, Barth and others. In 1889 he grad- uated, after passing a satisfactory examina- tion before Professors Heinze, Delilzseh and Maurenbrecher. He presented for his graduation a dissertation on "Law and Morals according to the Talmud," and re- ceived his diploma as Doctor of Philos- ophy.

In 1890 he also graduated at the Rab- binical Seminary and received his diploma. as rabbi. The year following, 1892, he re- turned to receive his ordination from the prominent rabbis of that country, which he succeeded in obtaining from the famous rabbi of Rosseny and the well known rabbi of Kyrno. Owing to the political condi- tions of Germany, which made it impos- sible for a foreigner to obtain a position

there, he turned his attention to his coun- try. The congregation Shearith Israel of Baltimore being without a rabbi and hav- ing resolved to engage one, applied to Dr. Hildesheimer for a suitable candidate from among his numerous disciples, and he gladly recommended Doctor Schaffer as one of his best and brightest pupils, and in 1893 he was unanimously elected rabbi of the congregation. The congregation Shearith Israel was organized about forty years ago, and is the union of two sepa- rate congregations. Attached to this synagogue is a school where children are taught the Hebrew faith. They claim that a person is not educated whose religious training has been omitted; this is outside of the public school life. The school is in charge of Doctor Schaffer and his assistant.

JOHN McKIM, JR. (deceased), was born in Ireland in 1766 of Scotch-Irish parent- age. His father, John McKim, was a ship- ping merchant of Londonderry, Ireland. He emigrated to this country shortly after the Revolutionary War and located in Bal- timore, Md., where he also engaged in shipping, his vessels sailing to India and other countries. He was a man of great energy, superior business qualities, and whose public spirit was more than once demonstrated in assistance rendered to his adopted country. He was deeply inter- ested in the financial growth of Baltimore and helped in a material way the various institutions of the city. During the War of 1812 Mr. McKim loaned the Government two hundred thousand dollars.

Besides being an extensive ship owner and shipper, he was largely engaged in the Copper Works of Baltimore. Mr. McKim

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was one of the incorporators of the Balti- more & Ohio Railroad and later became one of its directors. In the latter part of his life he served as president of the Mer- chants' National Bank. His wife was the daughter of Rev. Telfair, a Huguenot clergyman. After his death, which oc- cured in 1842, his sons David T. and John S. succeeded him in the copper business. David. T. died in 1847, leaving two sons- Robert who fell in the Confederate Army and John who is in the insurance business i: the city of Baltimore. John S. subse- quently became president of the Powhatan Steamboat Company, a position he sus- tained for twenty-five years. John S. died in 1865, leaving two children, Telfair, a young lawyer who died in 1876, and Rev. Randolph H. McKim, D. D., who is at this writing (1897) pastor of Epiphany Church, Washington, D. C. Rev. Dr. McKim served one year as private in the Confeder- ate Army, after which he was promoted to the staff of Gen. G. H. Steuart. He re- mained in active service until the surrender in 1865. During the latter part of the time he also filled the position of chaplain.

ABRAHAM SHARP, Attorney-at-Law, was born in Kent county, Del., March 6, 1844. He is a son of the late William and Temperance (Ferguson) Sharp, natives of Delaware and descendants of early Scotch- English settlers of the State. Abraham Sharp was graduated from Dickinson Col- lege with the class of '65. He then moved to Maryland and took up the study of law. He was admitted to the bar before the Supreme Bench of Baltimore in 1869, where he has since practiced law, with pre- sent offices in the Latrobe Building. Mr.

Sharp is one of the Directors of the Daily Record Company and Daily Record Build- ing Company. He is counsel of the Au- tomatic Telephone Exchange Company (limited) of Washington, D. C., and LouI- don, England. Mr. Sharp is a member of the Executive Committee of Emory Grove Association and of its Board of Trustees. He was married in October, 1871, to Sallie A., daughter of the late Charles Council- man, an agriculturist of Baltimore county. Charles Councilman was a son of Jacob Councilman, who was paymaster at Fort McHenry during the War of 1812. Mr. and Mrs. Sharp have three children, Er- nest, Ethel C. and Herbert Stanley; re- side at the northeast corner of Lafayette avenue and Carey street and are members of Grace Methodist Episcopal Church. Ernest Sharp is a graduate of the law de- partment of Maryland University, class of '94, and a member of the bar of Baltimore, with offices in the Latrobe Building. He was married June 2, 1897, to Willia, daugh- ter of the late William Tull, and grand- niece of the late James Cox, for many years cashier of the Bank of Baltimore, and great-granddaughter of Maria Gresham, of the historic Gresham family.

WILLIAM WALES, for some years con- nected as publisher and editor with the press of Baltimore, and for a time during President Johnson's administration Sur- veyor of the Port of Baltimore, was born in the city of Hartford, Conn., in 1814. His initial training was obtained in the public schools of his native city and he subse- quently attended the Academy at West Point, N. Y. He took up the study of law, pursuing it for two years under the

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preceptorship of Judge Charles Fox, at Cincinnati, Ohio. During the three years following his admission to the bar his time was fully occupied in looking after the interest of an uncle who was involved in vexatious litigation over the title to exten- sive sugar plantations near Caraccas, Ven- zuela, which Mr. Wales succeeded in bringing to a successful issue. A part payment for his services in the business made to Mr. Wales by the United States Consul General to Cuba, who was inter- ested in the property, consisted of seven thousand dollars worth of Venezuelan bonds. Mr. Wales had early developed an interest in journalism and upon his return to the United States accepted an editorial position on a Knoxville (Tenn.) weekly newspaper. In 1844 he removed to Nash- ville, Tenn., where he edited the Banner until 1850. In 1851 he founded the South Western Monthly Magazine, which he edited and published in Nashville until the following year, when he married and re- moved to Baltimore, Md. Upon the breaking out of the Civil War Mr. Wales was offered and accepted a position as editorial writer on the Baltimore Amer- ican, and in that capacity wielded a pen in behalf of the preservation of the Union that was a potent factor in keeping Maryland in line with the loyal States. His association with the American con- tinued until 1864 and during all of this stormy period his strong and cogent ed- itorials were ever in behalf of the Federal Government. In the summer of 1864, Mr. Wales purchased the Baltimore Clipper, from the surviving partner of the firm of Bull & Tuttle. The publication of the Clipper was suspended the following

year and in October (1865) Mr. Wales, in partnership association with Col. R. M. Newport and Mr. William B. Cole, found- ed the Baltimore Commercial, a morn- ing daily. He withdrew from this enter- prise in 1869 and removed to Minneapolis, Minn., where he accepted a position on the Tribune. He continued to reside in Minneapolis, or its suburbs throughout the remainder of his life, except for two short periods, the one while editorially as- sociated with the Star of Cincinnati, O., and the other when connected with a Temperance publication at Chicago, Ill. He died at Chicago in 1882. Mr. Wales was an accomplished journalist and a man of the highest personal character. His literary attainments were large and his gentle although retiring disposition en- deared him to all who were admitted to his friendship. He was married in Pulaski, Tenn., in 1852, to Desdemona, daughter of Capt. John Phillips, a leading planter of Giles county, who served in the War of 1812 as captain of a company of Kentucky volunteers. After the war Captain Phillips bought of the Government occupant claims in Giles county, Tenn., whither he brought his five slaves and established a cotton plantation, and at the time of his decease had added very largely to his pos- sessions in lands, slaves and other proper- ties. Capt. John Phillip was a son of Moses Phillips, who was a soldier in the patriot army in the War of the Revolution. The newspaper ventures undertaken by Mr. Wales during a period of great busi- ness depression had entailed upon him serious financial loss. By the time he had settled in Minneapolis, material inroads had been made into the family possessions

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and Mr. Wales' strength, taxed by arduous journalistic work, was unequal to the de- mands of a growing family. At this junc- ture his noble wife, a woman of remark- able force of character and vigorous in- tellect joined to the lovable Southern dis- position, determined upon utilizing her very superior musical education by in- structing scholars in music. Despite the protestation of Mr. Wales she persisted in this effort, meeting with marvelous success, both in the number of pupils secured and in the efficiency attained by them. No teacher ever wielded a greater or more beneficent power in a community and her name is synonomous with all that is able, faithful and upright. Throughout the lat- ter years of Mr. Wales' life, and through all the subsequent years up to the attain- ing by her children of their majority, Mrs. Wales provided for the family, educated her children and purchased and furnished a pretty home in Minneapolis. She now re- sides in a handsome dwelling which she purchased in Pulaski, Tenn., near the scenes of her childhood, to which place she removed some years subsequent to her husband's decease. Mrs. Wales has been a life-long member of the Presbyterian Church and is actively identified with the interests of the congregation at Pulaski. Of the children born to Mr. and Mrs. Wales, Edwin, the youngest, is deceased. The remaining children are William Wales, of San Francisco; Arthur Wales, of South Dakota; Philip Wales, of Nashville Tenn .; Leonard Wales, of Chicago, Ill .; Alice, wife of J. C. Getzendanner, of Cincinnati, Ohio, and Charles Wales, of New York. City. Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Getzendanner have two children, Cortlandt Wales Getz-

endanner and Dorothy Phillips Getzen- danner.

HENRY JAMES, President of the Citi- zens' National Bank, was born July 1, 1821, in the town of Truxton, Cortland county, N. Y., of English descent. His parents were Nathaniel and Elizabeth Ingersoll James, natives of Vermont, who were distinguished for their prudent and pious lives. His education in the common schools and the academy was supple- mented by the counsel and example of these wise and loving parents, and as he grew up to manhood he had reason to bless the home training which he had re- ceived. Much of his youth was passed upon a farm, taking part in all its labors, thus strengthening his physical constitu- tion and making industry a habit which has never forsaken him. In 1840 Mr. James left his home, desiring to try his for- tune in the world. He had no capital but his own strong will, his readiness to grap- ple with work, and his confidence in these as his best resources. He found employ- ment in New York City, at which he as- siduously labored for three years, manag- ing to maintain himself and profiting by his business experience and increased knowledge of the world. In 1843 he landed in Baltimore. He was an entire stranger to the city and its people, but he had looked to Baltimore as a place where he might succeed in his ambition for enter- prise and its rewards, and he found that his intuitions were correct. The lumber business proved to be the especial field open to his cultivation. From modest begin- nings in it he annually extended his opera- tions; his name became known in all the

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avenues of commerce and trade, and in a few years his adopted city was happy to count him among her solid men. The wholesale lumber firm of Henry James & Co. is now composed of himself and N. W. James. Among the partners have been William E. Dodge and James Stokes, of New York, and Daniel James, of Liverpool. It has vast tracts of timber land in Penn- sylvania and mills in that State and Harford county, Md., and is one of the largest estab- lishments of the kind in the United States. On the death of the late John Clark, Mr. James was elected president of the Citizens' National Bank, and has been re-elected year after year up to the present time. This bank has been connected with the development of the industry and commerce of Baltimore for a long period, and under Mr. James' presidency its affairs have flourished. Mr. James was one of the first projectors of the Baltimore Warehouse Company, and is one of its directors. He was married in 1851 to the daughter of Ammon Cate, of this city, and has a large family. He is a member of the Presbyterian Church, and regular in the performance of his religious obligations.

The present large business of the Citi- zens' National Bank is chiefly due to the in- telligent labor and strict attention to all the details of its business by Mr. James. The strong points of his character are visible in his daily business-energetic, positive, firm, yet spirited and liberal. He has doubled the capital of the bank since he became its president, and the splendid marble banking house in which the bank is conducted was built under his auspices. His whole busi- ness career has been one of honorable suc- cess, attained by diligent attention to detail

rather than by speculation, and he stands to-day among the solid men of the city without a stain on a long business life. He is honored in Baltimore, and deserves the esteem in which he is held.

MISS MELISSA BAKER, Fulton avenue, Grove No. 2, is a native of Baltimore, and was born January 29, 1814. She is the daughter of William and Jane (Jones) Baker. William was the son of another William Baker, who was born in 1752 near Reading, Pa., where his father, of German nativity, was killed during an Indian war. Through the friendship of an Indian, Wil- liam Baker, then a mere boy, was brought to Philadelphia, and subsequently, in 1769, came to Baltimore, where he finally en- gaged in the mercantile business and eventually became a leading importer. He died in January, 1815. His son, William, Jr., the father of Melissa, was engaged with and succeeded his father in business. He was extensively engaged in the wholesale dry goods trade, a man of keen business qualities, conscientious in all his dealings with his fellows, and with a clear perception of right. He served his country honorably in the War of 1812. He was elected by his fellow-citizens as Judge of the Orphans' Court, a position which he filled impartially and with satisfaction to all. He settled on what is now the old homestead in 1786, which is known by the name of "Friends- bury." His family consisted of eleven chil- dren, nine of whom grew to maturity, and the male portion of which engaged in vari- ous pursuits. William George practiced law, Henry and Charles became interested in the window glass business, in which pur- suit their sons have succeeded them. Miss

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Baker's ancestors on her mother's side were of Welsh origin. Her grandfather, Jones, was contemporary with the Wesleys, be- came much interested in the Methodist movement, and finally became a member of one of John Wesley's classes, and from this has passed down from one generation to another the spirit of Methodism. "Friends- bury" has always been, and is now, a home for Methodist preachers. Miss Baker is alive to every good work, and a generous contributor to the numerous charitable in- stitutions. She is now vice-president and manager of the Home for the Friendless. She still resides on the old homestead.

PETER AINSLIE. JR., Pastor of Calhoun Street Church of Disciples, is a native of Virginia. He is the son of Peter and Re- becca E. (Sizer) Ainslie. Mr. Ainslie graduated from Kentucky University with high honors. He is a member of the class of 1889. After he graduated he became pastor of the Disciple Church at Newport News, which office he filled with credit to himself. His next pastorate was the Cal- houn Street Church of Disciples of this city, where he is now in the sixth year of his pas- torate. Thus far his young life has been active and useful. He founded the Chris- tian Tribune, an organ of his people, along the Eastern Coast, in 1894. He is also editor, assisted by Rev. B. A. Abbott. He has written also a book, "Plain Talks to Young Men," on which he has received many compliments. He is also the author of many tracts which have been the means of working for good to those who have read and studied them. His father, Peter Ainslie, Sr., was a preacher of importance also. He received his education at Bethany College.

He began preaching at the age of twenty. He founded and edited The Christian Teach- er, a church organ of Little Rock, Ark. He also edited The Christian Examiner. He was the author of an extensive biography of Geo. W. Abel. His wife, Miss Rebecca E. Sizer, was a native of King Williams county, Va. The Sizers are of old English stock, who settled in Virginia previous to the Revolutionary War. To this union were born eight children, three of whom are liv- ing. Charles H. is a prosperous business man of Wilmington, N. C. Etta is a gradu- ate of Norfolk College for young ladies. She subsequently became principal of the Southern Institute of Newport News. Peter Ainslie, grandfather of Peter Ainslie, Jr., was a Scotch divine of the Baptist denomi- nation, who sent him to this country as a missionary in 1812. He finally settled in Virginia, where he met the founder of the Disciples of Christ Church. The meeting was congenial, their doctrine the same, and therefore the two souls became as one. Mr. Ainslie was the first Disciple preacher in Richmond. His life was short but useful. He met his death by drowning while cross- ing the Mattaponi Creek on his way to fill an appointment, at the age of 42.

REV. B. A. ABBOTT, 917 Carollton ave- nue, Pastor of the First Church of the Dis- ciples of Christ, was born in Craig county, Va., in 1866. He is a son of S. C. and Lucinda (Williams) Ab- bott. Nine children were born of this union. One son, F. L., is State's Attorney in Craig county, Va .; another son, P. B., is practicing law in the same county. L. M. Clynician and R. E. Lee conduct the busi- ness department of Tazwell College. Others

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are following useful and honorable voca- tions in life. Rev. Philip B. Williams, father of Lucinda (Williams) Abbott, was one of the first pioneer preachers of the Disciples of Christ Church. S. C. is the son of Thomas Abbott, whose father came to this country from England in colonial days, and was one of the first settlers in Virginia. Rev. B. A. Thomas' great-grandson, and the subject of this sketch, after receiving a public school education and a preparatory training, entered Milligan College, Tenn., from which he graduated. He then entered the University of Virginia, taking a special course in Moral Philosophy, from which in- stitution he graduated with the class of 1887. He then, in connection with teaching school, served four county churches as preacher. He subsequently became, by ap- pointment of the church, General Evangelist for the churches of the southwest of Vir- ginia. After serving well and honorably in that capacity, he became pastor of the Dis- ciples of Christ Church in Charlottesville, Va., where he remained six years. While there he was co-editor of The Missionary Weekly, the organ of the Disciples of Christ in Virginia. He was largely instrumental in organizing the Ministerial Association of the Disciples of Christ and remained its presi- dent while he resided in that State. He was appointed literary editor of the Christian Guide, which office he filled with credit to himself and with profit to his associates. He is now associate editor of The Christian Tri- bune. He became the pastor of the First Church of the Disciples of Christ in this city in 1894, where he has endeared himself to the hearts of his people by his high standard of Christian ethics. He has organized in his church something unique in connection

with church work, i. e., a normal Bible Class, of which he is teacher. In 1897 he published a biography of Rev. C. S. Lucas, which has been well received and has had an extensive sale.

RICHARD GRADY, M. D., D. D. S., was born in Syracuse, N. Y., November 28, 1850. His parents moved to Baltimore in his early childhood. His father having been a teacher, the son early.in life gave unmis- takable evidence of his love for teaching. He entered the Maryland State Normal School in his seventeenth year and gradu- ated in 1870 at the head of his class, deliver- ing the honorary address, "Ignorance and Her Twin Sisters, Poverty and Crime." While a student he was the first president of the Pestalozzi Literary Society; after graduation he was president of the Alumni Association. In 1870 he was also elected teacher in the Normal School and clerk to the State Board of Education; but later be- came principal of the Boys' Model School, an annex to the Normal School.

In 1871 Doctor Grady entered the service of the public schools of Baltimore, continu- ing for fifteen years, during which time he was president of the Public School Teachers' Association and organized several schools, which speedily grew to such an extent that commodious buildings were erected for them. He was the first principal of English- German School No. 2, and left it in two years with nearly 600 pupils; he was the first principal of the High and Grammar School and left it with 538 students; he was the first director of the Baltimore Manual Training School (Polytechnic Institute), which he conducted for two years, retiring in 1886, at which time the State Board of Education

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reported the school "a distinguished and pronounced success." This was the first manual training school of its class incorpo- rated into the regular public school system of any city in the United States. There was no exemplar which Doctor Grady could safely copy; but his varied experience as a teacher in every grade of school, and his knowledge of mechanical tools and appli- ances eminently fitted him to organize the Baltimore Manual Training School. In 1883. after inspecting as the representative of the city of Baltimore the typical "manual training school" attached to Washington University, St. Louis, Doctor Grady pub- lished an exhaustive report on the history, objects and methods of manual training schools and proclaimed that instruction, not construction, is the object sought-the great object is educational, other objects are sec- ondary.

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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