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 74

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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Nicholas S. Hill, Jr., received his initial schooling at Pen-Lucy School under Col. Richard Malcolm Johnson, afterwards at- tending Loyola College, Baltimore, and Georgetown (D. C.) University. He was then apprenticeshiped to the machine shops of the B. & O. R. R. He then attended Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, whence he was graduated in 1892 with the degree, Mechanical Engineer. For a short period thereafter he was instructor in ex- perimental mechanics at Stevens Institute, leaving the institution to assume the duties of engineer of the South Side Elevated Rail- way at Chicago. In 1893 he returned to Baltimore and established an office at 203 East German street. He was engineer's secretary of the Sewerage Commission of Baltimore. In January, 1897, he was ap- pointed to his present position as chief en- gineer of the Water Department of Balti- more. He is a member of the University Club and one of the finance committee of the Children's Society of Baltimore. He was married April 17, 1895, to Miss Isabelle B., daughter of the late John C. Berry, a merchant of Baltimore. Mr. and Mrs. Hill have one child, Isabelle S., reside at 91I St. Paul street and attend Immanuel P. E. Church.


JAMES REAMER, proprietor of the Howard House, Baltimore (formerly known as Wheatfield Inn, 1790 to 1830). is a Virginian whose hotel experience began during his very early manhood, when he clerked for his father, the late Col. W. C. Reamer, when the latter was proprietor of the Railroad Hotel at Martinsburg. Mr. James Reamer was for more than twenty years proprietor of the Reamer House, Leesburg, Loudon


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county, Va., coming thence to Balti- more in July, 1889, to assume proprietorship of the Howard House (now known as Reamer's Howard House). Messrs. John M. and Frank Reamer, brothers of the pro- prietor, are of the office force of the How- ard. The late Colonel Reamer's widow and daughters reside at the Howard, and attend Westminster Presbyterian Church.


DR. REUBEN JAMES HOOPER TALL Was born July 9, 1843, at Tobacco Stick, Dor- chester county, Md. His father, Lewis W. Tall, and his mother, Mary (Har- rington) Tall, were natives of the same county. They had six children, two sons and four daughters, of whom Reuben was the youngest. Their first born, Luke Tall, died in Philadelphia, at the age of twenty- eight years, leaving a wife and two children. His parents removed to Baltimore when the subject of this sketch was but eighteen months old. He attended the public schools of this city until he was fourteen years of age, when the family returned to Dorchester county. He continued his studies in his na- tive town until he was sixteen, and was then appointed teacher of the school. While em- ployed in that capacity he began the study of medicine. He went to Baltimore and en- tered the medical department of Maryland University, where he graduated, having at- tended two courses of lectures. He has been engaged in the practice of his profession in Baltimore since 1865. He was married April 14, 1869, to Mollie C., daughter of J. W. Blake, of Baltimore. One son, born of this marriage, is Harry B. Tall. Doctor Tall is Methodistic in his political views.


DR. ARTHUR HOWARD MANN, JR., was born in Baltimore, October 29, 1869. He is


a son of Arthur H. and Augusta C. (Ulrich) Mann, the former a native of Maryland and of Irish descent, the latter of Pennsylvania and of German ancestry. Arthur H. Mann, now retired, was for many years proprietor of the Park Stables, a business founded by his father in 18 -. Arthur H. Mann, Jr., was educated at Lamb's Academy and Ox- ford School, studied medicine under Doctor Tiffany and was graduated from the medi- cal department of Maryland University in 1890. During the last year of his college course he was clinical assistant at Maryland University Hospital. The year following his graduation he spent abroad attending the University of Vienna, Austria, and the year following his return took a student's course at Johns Hopkins Hospital. He was . Assistant Demonstrator of Anatomy and Assistant Chief of Clinic to Professor of Surgery, '95-6, Chief of Clinic to Pro- fessor of Surgery, 96-7, Maryland Uni- versity, and Lecturer in Clinical Sur- gery, '97-8. He is also surgeon to Bay View Hospital. Doctor Mann is a mem- ber of the Medical and Chirurgical Faculty of Maryland, Baltimore Clinical Society and Baltimore Medical and Surgical So- ciety. He is unmarried, resides at 934 Mad- ison avenue, and is a member of St. Mark's Lutheran Church.


DR. W. EDWARD MAGRUDER was born at Sandy Spring, Montgomery county, Md., June 9, 1873. He is a son of Dr. Wil- liam E. and Margaret (Brooke) Magruder, natives of Maryland, and descendants re- spectively of the earliest Scotch and English settlers of Maryland. Dr. William E. Ma- gruder is now practicing in Montgomery county, Md., where he has practiced and re- sided for forty-four years. He was grad-


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uated from the medical department of Maryland University in 1854. His father, Dr. William Bowie Magruder, was a grad- uate of Maryland University in 1825, and was up to the time of his decease in 1873 a leading physician. The father of Dr. W. B. Magruder, Zadock Magruder, was also a physician, who graduated from the College of Philadelphia under Benjamin Rush in 1796. Upon his return from Philadelphia to enter upon the practice of medicine in Maryland, Dr. Zadock Magruder assisted in laying plans for the formation of a State Medical Society which resulted in the founding of the Medical and Chirurgical Faculty of Maryland. Dr. W. Edward Ma- gruder attended Sherwood Academy, en- tered Johns Hopkins University where he remained for two years, then entering Co- lumbia University, Washington, D. C., from which institution he was graduated with the degree A. B. in 1889, and M. D., 1892. For a time thereafter he was engaged in practic- ing with his father in Montgomery county. In 1894 he entered the Baltimore Medical College, was graduated therefrom the fol- lowing year, and had charge of its dispen- sary department of general medicine until May, 1897. Doctor Magruder has offices and residence at 922 Madison avenue, and branch offices at 844 S. Sharp street, and 214 N. Central avenue. He is a member of the Baltimore Medical Association, Medical and Chirurgical Faculty of Maryland and American Medical Association. His church connection is with the Hicksite Branch of Friends.


WALTER IRELAND DAWKINS, Attorney- at-Law, was born in St. Mary's county, Md., October 21, 1858. He is a son of the


late Young Parran and Alethea Elizabeth (Dorsey) Dawkins, natives of Maryland, the former of Scotch-English and the latter of Irish descent. He graduated from St. John's College with the class of '80, began the study of law under the preceptorship of James H. Wilson and Judge Robert Ford, of Leonardtown, St. Mary's county, Md., and was admitted to the bar at Leon- ardtown in September, 1883. He was en- gaged in his profession at the latter place until 1887 when he removed to Baltimore, where he has since resided and practiced law with offices in the Fidelity Building.


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AUGUSTIN DE RUSSY SAPPINGTON, Attor- ney-at-Law, was born in Baltimore March 24, 1862. He is a son of Nicholas J. and Maria E. (Birkey) Sappington, both na- tives of Baltimore and descendants of early settlers in Maryland and Pennsylvania. Nicholas J. Sappington has been in Govern- ment service in Baltimore since the Civil War and is now connected with the Customs Department. A. de R. Sappington was ed- ucated in the public schools and City Col- lege of Baltimore, then entered the law de- partment of Maryland University, graduat- ing therefrom in 1881. Upon attaining his majority he was admitted to the bar and for some years practiced in partnership associa- tion with Messrs. James Pollard and Albert W. Rivers, and is now of the firm of Sap- pington & Rivers, with offices in the Fidelity Building. He is one of the examiners of the Circuit or Equity Courts of Baltimore. Mr. Sappington was married April 18, 1894, to Edith, daughter of the late George H. Miller, a retired merchant of Baltimore. Mr. and Mrs. Sappington reside at 2034 Linden avenue and are members of Immanuel Epis-


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copal Church. Mr. Sappington is one of the vestrymen of of St. Bartholomew's Episco- pal Church.


DR. JOHN R. ABERCROMBIE, Coroner Northwestern District of Baltimore, was born in Baltimore February 20, 1869. He is a son of John and Elizabeth (Daniel) Abercrombie, the former a native of Scot- land and the latter of Port Stanley, Ontario. John Abercrombie is assistant manager of the Baltimore News Company. Dr. John Abercrombie attended the public schools and City College and Johns Hopkins Univer- sity, and was graduated from the medical department of Maryland University with the class of '95. Following his graduation he was assistant resident physician at Uni- versity Hospital and is now one of the chiefs of clinic in the University Hospital Dispen- sary. He was appointed by Governor Lowndes to the position of coroner, May 4, 1896. Doctor Abercrombie is lecturer on Materia Medica at the Woman's Medical College, and physician to the Shelter for Aged Colored Women. He is a member of St. Andrew's Society, Medical and Chi- rurgical Faculty of Maryland, Baltimore Medical Society, Baltimore Clinical Society and a member of and medical examiner for the American Legion of Honor.


DR. CHARLES WELLMAN MITCHELL Was born in Baltimore, February 4, 1859. He is a son of the late John and Clara (Well- man) Mitchell, the former a native of Scot- land, the latter born in New York and of Hollandese extraction, being lineally de- scended from one of the Dutch settlers who located in New Amsterdam, the latter part of the seventeenth century. The late John Mitchell was a merchant in New York up to


his retirement from business and removed to Baltimore in 1857. He died in 1865; his widow resides with her son, the immediate subject of this sketch. Charles W. Mitchell was graduated from Baltimore City Col- lege, in 1875, and from Princeton in 1879. He studied medicine under the preceptor- ship of the late Dr. J. E. Michael and was graduated from Maryland University Medi- cal Department, class of 1881. From 1881 to 1883, he was assistant resident physician at University Hospital. The following eighteen months he spent at the Universi- ties of Prague and Vienna, making an es- pecial study of the practice of medicine, dis- eases of children and pathology. From 1885 to 1888 he was resident physician at the University Hospital and has since been en- gaged in general practice with present office and residence, 1021 Cathedral street. From 1888 to 1893 Doctor Mitchell was Univer- sity lecturer on Pathology, from '93 to '96, Clinical Professor of Medicine, and since the latter date Professor of Materia Medica and Clinical Medicine, up to 1897, when he became Professor of Diseases of Women and Children instead of Materia Medica. He is one of the visiting physicians to Union Protestant Infirmary, a member of American Medical Association, Medical and Chirurgical Faculty of Maryland, Bal- timore Clinical Society and Journal Club. He attends Associate Reformed Church.


DR. HAMILTON JANEY COFFROTH was born in Baltimore, March 17, 1856. He is a son of George R. and Azzie C. (White) Coffroth, the former a native of Pennsyl- vania, and of German descent, the latter by birth a Virginian and of English ances- try. The Coffroths of the United States


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are lineally descended from the ancient and titled Van Kanfroths of Germany. George R. Coffroth, who located in Baltimore in 1856, was a prominent wholesale tobacco merchant up to 1890, since which time he has been engaged in fire and marine insur- ance. He was for a number of years Presi- dent of Bank and was one of the founders and a liberal supporter of the Hendshaw Memorial Church and is su- perintendent of its morning and evening schools. Dr. H. J. Coffroth was a student for four years of the Maryland Agricultural College, then entering Virginia Military In- stitute, from which he was graduated in 1877. He studied medicine under the pre- ceptorship of Drs. Claggett & Walls, and was graduated from the School of Medicine of Maryland University March 1, 1879. During the final year of his attendance at the last institution he was one of the internes of the University General Hospital. In


June, 1880, he entered the Medical Corps of the United States Army and was em- ployed on the frontier until the latter part of 1881, when he returned to Baltimore, where he has since been engaged in the practice of his profession with office and residence at 924 Madison avenue. Doctor Coffroth was one of the founders of Balti- more University School of Medicine and held the Chair of Physiology of its Faculty during 1885-86. He is .a member of St. Peter's Episcopal Church. He is medical examiner for and a member of the Royal Arcanum, Order of the Golden Chain,Amer- ican Legion of Honor and Knights of the


Golden Eagle, and the Progressive Chain. Doctor Coffroth is a member of the Medi- cal and Chirurgical Faculty, and is Past


Grand Procurator of the Kappa Sigma So- ciety. .


DR. DAVID JEROME REINHART was born in Frederick county, Md., March 26, 1845. He is a son of Rev. Andrew H. and Rebecca (Hilton) Reinhart, natives of Maryland, the former of German, the latter of English de- scent. Ulric John Reinhart, Doctor Rein- hart's great-grandfather, emigrated from Darmstadt and located at Lancaster, Pa., in the latter part of the last century. Of his eleven sons, George Reinhart, grandfather the immediate subject of this sketch, re- moved to Frederick, Md., where his son, Rev. Andrew H. Reinhart, was engaged in business as a miller while filling the pulpit of the German Baptist Church. He now re- sides at Monrevia, Md. Dr. D.J. Reinhart was educated in the public schools of his na- tive county, where he subsequently taught for eighteen months. He studied medicine under the preceptorship of Dr. Isaac N. Wood, Newmarket, Md., and was gradu- ated from the Maryland University with the class of '71. He engaged in the general practice of medicine at Hyattstown, Mont- gomery county, Md., for six years there- after, removing thence to Baltimore. Doctor Reinhart is a member of the Medi- cal and Chirurgical Faculty of Maryland, and the Johns Hopkins Medical Society, member of and' medical examiner for Bal- timore of the American Guild of America, and medical examiner for several life in- surance companies. Doctor Reinhart mar- ried Nannie, daughter of the late James Wil- liams, of Laytonville, Montgomery county, Md. Dr. and Mrs. Reinhart have four chil- dren, Elizabeth, student at the Latin School,


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Woman's College, Elenora, Rebecca and a son, Stewart. The family attend Eutaw Place Baptist Chruch.


DR. FRANK MARTIN was born at Brook- ville, Montgomery county, Md., October 21, 1863. He is a son of Dr. James S. and the late Lucretia (Griffith) Martin, natives and descendants of colonial settlers of Mary- land. Dr. James S. Martin is a son of Dr. Samuel B. Martin, who studied medicine under Doctor Brown, of Baltimore, and graduated from the University of Pennsyl- vania in the days of Dr. Benjamin Rust, early in the century, locating in East Bal- timore, where he practiced throughout a long life, dying in 1876 at the age of ninety- one. He was one of the censors of Wash- ington University, from which institution his son, Dr. James S. Martin, was gradu- ated with the class of 1841. Dr. James S. Martin practiced medicine in Baltimore until 1863, except during an interim of five years when he conducted a hospital at Sacra- mento, Cal. In 1863 he settled at Brook- ville, where he continued practice up to his retirement in 1895. His wife died August 26, 1895; he now resides in Baltimore. Dr. Frank Martin attended Brookville Acad- emy and Maryland Agricultural College, class of '83, was graduated from medical department Maryland University, class of '86, was resident clinician at University Hospital prior to graduation and six years following his graduation, and has since been assistant to Professor of Surgery Maryland University, and Lecturer on Principles and Practice of Surgery. He is one of the vis- iting surgeons to Bay View Asylum, a member of the Medical and Chirurgical Faculty of Maryland, Baltimore Journal


Club, Baltimore Clinical Society, and Book and Journal Club. He resides at 1021 Ca- thedral street. He married, June 9, 1897, Miss R. Anna, daughter of Dr. Charles E. Coster, 1000 Cathedral street. Dr. and Mrs. Martin attend Emmanuel P. E. Church.


DR. THADDEUS WATKINS CLARK .- This gentleman was born in Howard county, Md., May 3, 1852. He is a son of the late William and Albina (Watkins) Clark, na- tives of Maryland and descendants, respect- ively of early North of Ireland and English colonial settlers of Maryland. Doctor Clark's maternal grandfather was a soldier throughout the War of the Revolution and again took up arms against the mother country in the War of 1812, being mustered out as colonel. His third wife, a Miss Bowie, was related to Bishop Claggett, the first Episcopal Bishop in the colonies. Rep- resentatives of the families, paternal and maternal, have served the State in various capacities, as members of the House of Delegates and otherwise. The late William Clark was a prominent agriculturalist of Howard county. He died March 31, 189 -. His wife survives and resides at Green Spring Valley. Dr. T. W. Clark attended Rock Hill and St. Clemens Colleges, grad- uated from the latter institution with the class of '72. For several years thereafter he taught school and was subsequently for a time engaged in mercantile pursuits, dur- ing this period became interested in and cursorily took up the study of medicine. This he continued under the preceptorship of Dr. W. W. and his son, Dr. W. C. Wat- kins. He was graduated after a three years' course from the medical department of


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Maryland University in 1880, and has ever since been connected with his Alma Mater. He is now Demonstrator of Physics, Chief of Clinic and Nervous Diseases and Clini- cal Lecturer of Medicine, Bayview Asylum. He has given special attention to Neurology and has had association for some years, as student and physician with Dr. F. T. Miles. He is a member of the Medical and Chirur- gical Faculty of Maryland and of the Neu- rological Society of Baltimore. He was married in 1885 to Florence C., daughter of William Matthews, ex-Judge Orphans' Court of Howard county. The family reside at 10 W. Hamilton street.


JOSEPH S. HEUISLER, Attorney-at-Law, was born in Baltimore, Md., February 17, 1832. He is a son of the late Joseph A. and Mary (Parker) Heuisler, the former a na- tive of Munich, Bavaria, whence he was brought to the United States by his parents in his early boyhood. Joseph A. Heuisler was a florist and horticulturist of note in Baltimore for many years, and during the latter years of his life pursued as a pastime the cultivation of fruits and flowers, which had been the active business of his earlier years. He died in Baltimore February 12, 1862, aged eighty-one years. His wife, Mary (Parker) Heuisler, was a native of Saffron-Walden, County Essex, England. Her parents came to the United States lo- cating in Baltimore early in the century. She died January 5, 1837. Joseph S. Heuis- ler completed his education at St. Mary's College, Baltimore, in 1849. He then be- came one of the clerical staff of Register of Wills, David M. Perine, continuing in that service under Register Perine, and his suc- cessor, Nathaniel Hickman, for a period in


all of seven years. He began the study of law under the preceptorship of James M. Buchanan, United States Minister to Den- mark, and while pursuing the study was successively engaged on the clerical staff of the Orphans' Court of Baltimore City, and in the conveyancing business with Corne- lius M. Cole. He was admitted to the bar in 1860, and has ever since practiced law in Baltimore, being now associated with his son, Charles W. Heuisler, with offices in the Fidelity Building. Mr. Heuisler repre- sented the Twelfth ward in the City Coun- cil of Baltimore for two years, during which time he rendered himself particularly ob- noxious to ringsters. He served for one term under Mayor Latrobe as City Exam- iner of Titles. He is a Democrat and a member of the Catholic Benevolent Legion. He was married March 29, 1853, to Cath- erine, daughter of the late Henry McCann, a teacher for many years in the public schools of Baltimore. Of ten children, born of this marriage, six survive. They are Charles W. Heuisler, an attorney, whose personal history is contained herein; Margaret P., wife of Frederick C. Cook, an attorney of Baltimore; Joseph G. Heuisler, D. D. S., who married Miss Katie, daugh- ter of William H. Jenkins, of Baltimore; Mary A., wife of Francis E. Tormey, an ar- chitect, of Baltimore; Philip I. Heuisler, Superintendent of Emerson Drug Com- pany, Baltimore, and William F. Heuisler, with Firemen's Insurance Company, of Baltimore. Four children deceased were Harry S. Heuisler, an expert book-keeper and employed in the Sixth Auditor's office, Washington, D. C., at the time of his de- cease, April 23, '88, and who left a wife and one child, Mary Louise; George A. Heuis-


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ler, a scholastic of the Society of Jesus at the time of his decease, November 16, 1890; and two children who died in infancy. Mr. Joseph S. Heuisler and family reside at 41I Freyer avenue, Roland Park, and are mem- bers of the Roman Catholic Church.


CHARLES WILLIAM HEUISLER, Attor- ney-at-Law, was born in Baltimore January ary II, 1854. He is a son of Joseph S. Heuisler, whose personal history is con- tained in this volume. Charles W. Heuis- ler was educated at Calvert Hall Academy, Baltimore, and Rockhill College, Ellicott City, Md., and was graduated from the latter institution with the class of '72. He read law under his father's preceptorship, attend- ed a course of lectures in the law depart- ment of Maryland University and was ad- mitted to the bar upon oral examination before the Supreme Bench of Baltimore. He has since been engaged in the practice of law in partnership with his father, the firm having offices in the Fidelity Building. Mr. Heuisler has been for a number of years a member of the Board of Trustees of St. Mary's Industrial School, is Secretary of the Particular Council of the Society of St- Vincent de Paul, and is a member of the Catholic Benevolent League, having as such filled all of the offices in St. Pius Coun- cil, No. 20. He is also Past Regent in the Royal Arcanum. He was married Novem- ber 15, 1883, to Julia, daughter of the late Frederick F. Benzinger, a distinguished member of the Baltimore bar. Mr. and Mrs. Heuisler reside at 918 McCulloh street, and are members of the Cathedral.


DR. SYLVESTER ROBERT KELLY, de- ceased, was born in Baltimore, March 5,


1862. He was a son of Sylvester R. and Cath- arine Jane (Spence) Kelly, natives of New York, the former of English-Irish, the lat- ter of Scotch-Irish descent. Both the Kelly and the Spence families flourished in America in colonial days and had represen- tatives in the Continental Army during the War of the Revolution. Sylvester R. Kelly, Sr., is a machinist and engineer and is now operating an ice plant in Baltimore. Dr. S. Robert Kelly was educated in the public schools, City College and Johns Hopkins University of Baltimore, and then entered the Maryland College of Pharmacy, gradu- ating therefrom in 1882. For six years thereafter he was in the retail drug business at Wheeling, W. Va. Returning to Balti- more, he entered the School of Medicine of Maryland University, from which institu- tion he was graduated in 1890. From '90 to '92 Doctor Kelly was Chief of Clinics of Medical Department, and since '93 Chief of Clinics of Diseases of the Chest. From '90 to '93 he was assistant surgeon in throat department of Presbyterian Eye, Ear and Throat Hospital, of Baltimore; and from '92 to '95 Physician of Baltimore Orphan Asylum.


DR. HAMPSON HUBERT BIEDLER was born at Page View, Page county, Va., Au- gust 26, 1854. He is a son of the late Am- brose M. and Sarah A. (Keyser) Biedler. His initial schooling was received at Hawksville Academy, Va., and this was sup- plemented by a three years' course at New Market, (Va.,) Polytechnic Institute. Af- ter a short period spent in teaching school, he began the study of medicine under the preceptorship of Doctors Miller and Brum- bach in Luray, Page county, Va. He was


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graduated from the medical department of the University of Maryland February 29, 1876, and during the closing year of his course was resident student at the Univer- sity Hospital. In 1876 he took a six months' practical course in pathology and microscopy in the office of the microscopist of the Army Medical Museum, Washing- ton. Doctor Biedler entered upon the prac- tice of his profession in Woodville, Rap- pahannock county, Va., where he remained for six years, removing thence (1882) to Baltimore. In 1883 he was called to the chair of Women's Diseases in Baltimore Medical College, and a short time thereafter was elected to the chair of Surgery. Since the incorporation of Baltimore University he has been its secretary, and filled the chair of Principles and Practice of Surgery and was Dean of the Faculty for 1897-8. Doctor Biedler is a prolific writer for medical jour- nals. He represented the American Medi- cal Association at the International Medi- cal Congress, convened in Berlin, in 1890, and was also a delegate to the British Medi- cal Association. He is a member of the Medical and Chirurgical Faculty of Mary- land, Clinical Society of Maryland, Ameri- can Medical Association and President of Baltimore Medical Association. He is Chief Examiner for the National Life (Vt.) Amer- ican Union and Michigan Mutual Life Insurance Companies. In addition to his work in medicine and surgery, Doctor Bied- ler has been identified with many important local enterprises, and is now Treasurer and a Director of the Baltimore and Drum Point Railroad.




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