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 75

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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DR. HARRY GIBSON UTLEY was born at Franklintown, N. C., November 5, 1873.

He is a son of W. F. and Elizabeth (Gib- bons) .Utley, natives of North Carolina, whose ancestors were early English settlers of the colonies. Harry G. Utley was edu- cated at Davis Military School and Raleigh Male Academy, N. C .; then entering the medical department of North Carolina University. After one year at the latter in- stitution be came to Baltimore, entered the School of Medicine of Maryland University and was graduated therefrom in 1894. In - 1894-5 he was senior resident physician at Maryland University Free Lying-in Hos- pital; in '95-6 Chief of Obstetrical Clinics of the Maryland University, and '96-7 Chief of Obstetrical Clinics and Demonstrator of Obstetrics of the Maryland University.

JAMES A. GARY, Postmaster General in the Cabinet of President McKinley, has been since attaining his majority a leading citizen of Baltimore, prominent alike in its business, finance and charities, and political and social life. Mr. Gary was born at Un- casville, Conn., October 22, 1833, and was therefore six years old, when, in 1839, his parents removed from Connecticut to Maryland. His father was a native of Mas- sachusetts and a descendant of Puritan set- tlers of New England. The Alberton Cot- ton Mills located at Alberton, Howard county, Md., were established by James S., father of the subject of this sketch, and the present head of the family became a part- ner in the business, which had grown to large proportions in 1861. Nine years later, (1870) James S. Gary died, and the son man- aged the mills and counting-room single- handed, until January, 1885, when his son, Mr. E. Stanley Gary, was given an interest therein. Mr. Gary has always been actively

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identified with the politics and public affairs of Maryland. He started out a Whig with Henry Clay as his ideal statesman. In 1858 he was nominated in Howard county for State Senator, but was defeated. He was one of the three delegates from Howard to the big Union Convention held at Mary- land Institute in January, 1861. Through- out all the years subsequent to the war, when his party was in a hopeless minority, he was ever faithful in his support of Re- publicanism, contributing largely of his means to its support. He was a delegate to the Republican National Convention of 1872, which nominated General Grant. Mr. Gary was chosen chairman of the Maryland delegation against the late John A: J. Cress- well, General Grant's Postmaster General. In 1870 Mr. Gary ran for Congress in the Fifth Congressional District, but was de- feated. In 1875, he lent valiant service to the reform ticket headed by J. Morrison Harris for Governor, and in 1876 was again dele- gate to the Republican National Conven- tion. In 1879 he was his party's nominee for Governor, and was defeated by William T. Hamilton, the Democratic nominee. In 1880, by a temporary combination with Mr. Cresswell, Mr. Gary captured the famous Frederick Convention, defeating the Ful- ton-Thomas faction and sending a delega- tion at large to the National Convention of that year which was opposed to Mr. Blaine, Mr. Gary's leaning being towards Mr. Sher- man, and Mr. Cresswell's being towards giving a third term to General Grant. Mr. Gary went to the National Convention of 1884 in the interest of President Arthur, with whom his relations were of the most cordial character. He appeared at the 1888 Convention as a Sherman man, but when he

saw that the Ohio man's case was hopeless, fell into line for General Harrison, with whom he had cordial relation during the latter's administration. At the Minneapolis Convention of 1892, to which Mr. Gary was also elected a delegate-an honor conferred upon him six times consecutively-he fa- vored and helped to achieve President Har- rison's renomination. In Baltimore City politics, Mr. Gary has always given earnest, practical support to the nominees of his party, whether the ticket was a straight one or representing a fusion of Independents, Reformers and Republicans. Mr. Gary was Maryland's member of the Republican Na- tional Committee from 1880 to 1896 and served as a member of the National Finance Committee in the latter year. No man in the party has shown a more liberal spirit toward the Republican cause than Mr. Gary. No man holds a higher place in the esteem of his party than this veterean of many battles with Democracy, and his se- lection as a member of the cabinet of Presi- dent Mckinley was hailed with satisfaction by the Republicans of Maryland and en- dorsed by the Republican party of the United States.

Mr. Gary's connection with the business interests of Baltimore has been very inti- mate and extended. In addition to supervis- ing his own large business, he is President of the Citizens' National Bank, of Balti- more, President of the Board of Trustees of the Enoch Pratt Free Library and Vice- President of the Consolidated Gas Com- pany, of Baltimore. He was for several years President of the Merchants' and Man- ufacturers' Association and is a Director of the Baltimore Trust and Guarantee Com- pany, of the American Fire Insurance Com-

S. L. Bartlett

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pany and of the Savings Bank, of Baltimore and other corporations. He is a communi- cant of the Brown Memorial Presbyterian Church and for the last twenty-two years has been Chairman of the Board of Trus- tees.

DAVID L. BARTLETT was born in Hadley,. Mass., in December, 1816. His father was Daniel Bartlett, and his mother's maiden name was Louisa Stockbridge, both of Had- ley, Mass. His ancestors, both paternal and maternal, were New England people for many generations, intimately connected with the history of that section.

Mr. Bartlett's rudimentary education was obtained at the very excellent common schools of New England, and completed at one of the academies of that section, so noted for their thorough course and train- ing in all the branches necessary for the pursuits of business. Mr. Bartlett com- menced the business of a manufacturer of iron when a young man in Hartford, Conn., where he had a fair measure of success. In 1844 he removed to Baltimore and estab- lished a foundry on President street, but re- moved in a short time to Leadenhall street, and in 1850 established his foundry perma- nently on the corner of Scott and Pratt street, where the present firm, Bartlett- Hayward & Co., have gradually enlarged the business and have been very successful. The firm employs an average of five hun- dred skilled workmen, and fills a vast num- ber of orders and contracts. Mr. Bartlett has been intrusted with many important measures involving the interests of the pub- lic. He was a member of the committee appointed by the Mayor of Baltimore to re- port on the proper means of encouraging

manufacturers; is one of the trustees of the McDonough School Fund; has been one of the managers of the Maryland Institute; and is one of the directors of the Farmers' and Planters' Bank. Mr. Bartlett's general reputation may be well conceived by the character of the public trusts with which he has been connected. To a mature judg- ment and ripe experience he has brought to every undertaking, both public and private, a faithful, conscientious discharge of duty that has secured him the entire confidence of the commuity in which he cast his for- tunes more than forty years ago. He is at present in the full enjoyment of an iron constitution, preserved and strengthened by systematic habits, and promises yet, ac- cording to all human judgment, many years of usefulness in his family and to the public.

Mr. Bartlett is commanding in presence, urbane in manners, social and genial in all his relations with men, and exceedingly popular with all classes; and in all connec- tions, religious, political, and in business, he has been active, consistent and faithful, securing thereby the approbation and es- teem of all good men with whom he has come into contact during an active life. He is a communicant in the Episcopal Church, and has had no taste or inclination for po- litical office, but during the existence of the Whig party he affiliated with it. Upon its dissolution he became a member of the Re- publican party, with which he has since acted and voted. He has been married twice. By his first wife, Sarah Abby, to whom he was married in January, 1845, he had two children, who are still living. He was married the second time in April, 1867, to Julia E. Pettibone, of Simsbury, Conn.

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WILLIAM ALEXANDER BOYD was born in Baltimore, April 5, 1838. He is a son of the late William A. and Harriet (Rusk) Boyd, the former of Scotch and the latter of English descent. The late William A. Boyd was from 1832 and up to the time of his de- cease, 1876, engaged in business in Balti- more as a wholesale tobacco merchant and manufacturer of cigars. The business was conducted under the firm name of Boyd & Chappell up to 1846, since which date it has been W. A. Boyd & Co. Mr. Benjamin F. Gees, a half brother, became associated with Mr. Boyd, Sr., in 1852 and continued as a partner until his decease in 1869. In 1872 Mr. Thomas V. Cromer was admitted as a partner and continued until 1878, when he withdrew. William Alexander Boyd was graduated from Academia College, Juniata county, Pa., in 1856, and then entered his father's counting-room. In 1862 he took charge of the New York branch of the house (established in 1857) and upon the closing of the branch establishment two years later, resumed his connection with the Baltimore house. In 1869 the control of the business devolved upon him and he suc- ceeded to its proprietorship upon the demise of his father. Mr. Boyd was one of the founders and first president of the Balti- more Tobacco Board of Trade and has been its president each year since with one or two exceptions. He was Commissioner for Union Square from 1873 to 1879; a member of the Board of Directors of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Co. from 1873 to 1879, and one of the Directors of the Western Maryland Railroad for ten years. He was one of the founders and president since its incorporation of the Equitable Building, Loan and Investment Association; was a

member of the State Legislature, session of 1880; and has for many years represented the tobacco trade where the general trade interests of Baltimore have been under dis- cussion. Mr. Boyd is a Mason and a mem- ber of the American Legion of Honor. He was married December 28, 1857, to Lydia, daughter of the late Charles Cumming, manufacturer, of Philadelphia. Mrs. Boyd died in 1882 leaving six children, Charles C., Samuel R., William A., Isaac Denson Harry Burdett Boyd and Harriet, wife of James Brown, of Baltimore, all of whom are associated with their father in business.

DR. JOHN TURNER was born at Irving- ton, Va., January 23, 1869. He is a son of John W. and Margaret F. (Evans) Turner, the former a native of Maryland, of Scotch descent, the latter a native of Virginia, of Welsh descent. John Turner, paternal great-grandfather of the immediate subject of this sketch, came from Scotland and set- tled in Maryland a few years prior to the Revolutionary War. His son, John, served for four terms as a member of the State Legislature. He was also founder of the mercantile firm at Nanticoke, Md., of John Turner & Sons, which has its successor in the firm of John Turner & Sons of to-day. Dr. John Turner was educated by private tutors, and at Randolph-Macon College, Ashland, Va. Coming to Baltimore he took a course at Eaton & Burnett's Business Col- lege and then entered the School of Medicine of Maryland University. He was graduated in 1893, taking the Chisolm prize. For one year thereafter he was assistant clinician in the University of Maryland Hospital, and has since been Prosector to Professor of Anatomy and Assistant Demonstrator of

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Anatomy of Maryland University. In 1896 he was appointed physician to Children's Country Home, Catonsville. In 1897 he was elected Professor of Physiology at the Boy's Notir School. Doctor Turner makes a specialty of eye, ear, nose and throat treat- ment, and has offices at 1814 N. Charles street and 29 N. Broadway. He is a mem- ber of the Medical and Chirurgical Faculty of Maryland and of the University of Mary- land Medical Association, and was secretary of the latter in 1895. He is a member of the Baltimore City Yacht Club and surgeon to Boys' steam yacht Ivanhoe. He resides at 1814 N. Charles street and is a member of Mt. Vernon M. E. Church.

DANIEL JAMES FOLEY, senior member and founder of the wholesale grocery firm of D. J. Foley & Co., Baltimore, was born at Enniscorthy, County Wexford, Ire- land, April 5, 1819. His ancestors, on both paternal and maternal sides, were natives of Ireland, as far back as their genealogy has been traced. His parents were Mat- thew and Elizabeth (Roche) Foley.

Matthew Foley was born September 21, 1786, and died October 5, 1866; his wife was born in 1792 and died May 12, 1882. They were married in Ireland and emigrated to the United States, locating in Baltimore in 1820. Matthew Foley established a grocery business on St. Paul street, between Centre and Franklin streets, which he continued to conduct for many years. Mr. and Mrs. Foley had six children who attained their majority, viz: the Misses Ann Martina and Julia Ann Foley; Daniel J. Foley, the im- mediate subject of this sketch; Rt. Rev. Thomas Foley, who was born March 6, 1822, ordained August 6, 1840, conse-

crated February 27, 1875, and died Febru- ary 19, 1879, being at the time of his de- cease Bishop of Chicago; Rt. Rev. John Foley, present Bishop of Detriot, Mich., and Matthew Foley, formerly of the firm of D. J. Foley & Co., but now retired from business and residing in Baltimore.

The brothers received their education at St. Mary's College, Baltimore, John com- pleting his ecclesiastical education at Rome. Daniel J. Foley at the age of sixteen found employment with the wholesale grocery firm of Sellman & Crook, whose place of business was at the corner of Pratt and South streets, Baltimore. He remained with this house for six years, then accepting the po- stition of passenger and freight agent for the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Company. In 1847 Mr. Foley in partnership association with the late John T. Woodside, established a wholesale grocery business under the firm name of Foley & Woodside, the store being located on South street near Pratt. Mr. Woodside died in 1854, following which the firm name was changed to that of D. J. Foley & Co., by which it has ever since been and is still known. The business was removed to its present location, southeast corner of Pratt and South streets in 1890. Mr. Foley is one of the substantial, scrupu- lously honest business men to whom Balti- more is indebted for the excellence of her standing among the cities of the first class in the United States. Although advanced in years and practically retired from active business life, Mr. Foley may be seen at the wharehouse daily, and keps in touch with the firm's interests and municipal, State and national affairs. Mr. Foley has been a mem- ber since 1840 of the Hibernian Society, of Baltimore (established in 1803 by Robert

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Oliver and others), was its treasurer in 1843, and was president of the Society for some years. He was for a number of years a Director of the Baltimore & Ohio Rail- road Company, and more recently was a member of the Directory of the Western Maryland Railroad Company. He is a Democrat, has never had aspiration for nor held political office. He was married May 7, 1851, to Anna Maria, daughter of the late Benedict I Sanders, a prominent wholesale grocer, of Baltimore, in the first half of the century. Mrs. Foley died September 29, 1878, leaving three children, two daughters and a son, the latter, Thomas J. Foley, of the firm of D. J. Foley & Co. The city home of the family is 706 Park avenue, and the country residence, Enniscorthy, How- ard county, Md., a portion of the Charles Carroll Manor. The family attend the Ca- thedral.

DR. HENRY BRISCOE THOMAS was born in St. Mary's county, Md., April 16, 1864. He is a son of the late James Richard and Jennie E. (Briscoe) Thomas, natives of Maryland and descendants respectively of early Welsh and English settlers of the col- ony. William Thomas, paternal great-great- grandfather of Doctor Thomas, represent- ed St. Mary's county in the House of Dele- gates in 1761, was in the same year commis- sioned captain and afterwards promoted to major; was a delegate to the Revolutionary Convention in 1775 and in the same year one of the Committee of Safety of St. Mary's county and a member of the General As- sembly from 1775 to 1781. His son, James Thomas, was major commandant, Mary- land Line, a member of the House of Dele- gates and for twelve years immediately prior

to his death, President of the State Senate. He was a prominent Freemason, first Mas- ter of the Leonardtown Lodge, and was in 1799 elected Grand Master of Maryland, and re-elected in 1800. His son, James Thomas, a prominent physician, was edu- cated at St. John's College, Annapolis, and graduated from the medical department of the Maryland University; was for several terms President of the State Senate and for two terms Governor of Maryland-1833-40 -the only one who has ever held that office for two terms. His son, James R. Thomas, was educated at Charlotte Hall and spent his life as a planter with an extensive estate in St. Mary's county. Dr. H. B. Thomas completed his general education at Char- lotte Hall. He was graduated from the medical department of the Maryland Uni- versity with the class of '88. The year fol- lowing he was resident physician at the University Hospital. He is now Chief of Clinics and Demonstrator in Larynology and Rhinology of the University and Laryn- ologistand Rhinologistof Presbyterian Eye, Ear and Throat Hospital. He is a member of Maryland Clinical Society, Maryland Medical and Chirurgical Faculty, American Medical Association, and Maryland Book and Journal Club. He was married June I, 1893, to Helen C., daughter of the late Isaac Coale, merchant, of Baltimore. Dr. and Mrs. Thomas have two children, Henry B., Jr., and James R .; reside at 1629 St. Paul street, and are members of St. Michael's and All Angels' Episcopal Church.

BENJAMIN DEFORD, a leading tanner and leather dealer, of Baltimore, descended from an old Huguenot family which emigrated to this country after the revocation of the

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Edict of Nantes and settled on West river, where the subject of this sketch was born in 1799, and where he was reared under those influences that have fashioned into the highest types of manhood many of the de- scendants of the Huguenots, who, wherever located in exile, have stamped their individ- uality upon their contemporaries. Left an orphan at an early age, he was under the guardianship of his uncle, Richard G. Hut- ton, until, in his fourteenth year, he was placed under James C. Dodrell, to learn tan- ning, currying and dressing leather. Faith- ful in work, he acquired a thorough knowl- edge of all the processes of tanning. With correct habits and by strict economy he ac- cumulated the means of beginning business for himself, and in 1823, without capital or influential friends, he began the business of tanning. At that time the large tanneries of Baltimore, though few in number, were owned and worked by men of capital and experience. William Jenkins, Poland, Jen- kins & Co., and George Appold were the leading tanners of that day. In a few years Mr. Deford had laid the foundations of that eminent success which he afterwards at- tained. His business increasing as the city grew, he built and operated tanneries in Maryland and other States, and became one of the leading manufacturers and dealers of oak-tanned leather in the United States, and contributed very largely to the increase and development of the trade in leather with New England, New York, and Philadelphia. Uniting with others in the leather trade, a charter was obtained for the Merchants' and Miners' Transportation Company, un- der which the line of steamers known as the Boston Steamship Line was organized and operated. In the work of organizing the

steamship line Mr. Deford took a most ac- tive part, subscribing largely to the stock, and contributing to the successful establish- ment by the free use of his capital and ef- forts. In his honor one of the first steam- ships of the line was called the "Benjamin Deford." The value of this line, in great measure owing its success to Benjamin De- ford, cannot be estimated, and the result of this enterprise has been to extend the line to New York, Savannah, Charleston, and other Southern ports.

His business sagacity made him one of the earliest and most active friends of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, and identi- fying himself with Johns Hopkins, Thomas Swann, Wm. G. Harrison, Chauncey Brooks, and John W. Garrett, he sustained the road through its most perilous periods. He stood by the road when general confi- dence abandoned it, and when the credit of the State and city was nearly ruined. In the Board of Directors his practical judg- ment was valued in some respects above all others. His financial and business opera- tions had demonstrated the sagacity of his strong intellect, while his careful scrutiny of surroundings and contingencies proved the soundness of his conclusions.

The influence and association of Mr. De- ford was so highly esteemed by business men that they were sought in every branch of business. He became a director in the Mount Vernon Manufacturing Company, the Mechanics' Bank, the Union Bank of Maryland, the First National Bank of Balti- more (of which he was one of the founders), The Baltimore Savings Bank, the Equitable Fire Insurance Company, and several other corporations. In all these boards, various as was their routine of business, his judg-

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ment and opinion were always sought and followed. With a native genius of his order, and trained by self-culture, his judgment was always calm and clear, withholding him from the effects of over-confidence, and re- straining him from those speculative ven- tures by which so many fortunes have been wrecked. Pursuing the straight road of business enterprise, he achieved his success by laborious industry, and not by any sud- den freaks of fortune. Associated with the late George Brown in the management of the House of Refuge, lie formed for him a very strong attachment, and erected to the memory of Mr. Brown a beautiful testi- monial on the grounds at the main en- trance. The House of Reformation for Chil- dren, which he aided essentially in estab- lishing, is another evidence of his benevo- lent disposition. Possessing a warm and sympathetic nature, he was at all times a valuable friend to the poor and suffering. His sterling character has left a pleasant memory among all his contemporaries of Baltimore. He died April 17, 1870, leaving a large fortune, and his funeral was attended by a great concourse of citizens. He was succeeded in business by his sons, Thomas and B. F. Deford, who preserved its rela- tions to the trade, and maintained the high character established by the father.

DR. ALBERT JOSEPHI PHILLIPS was born in Susquehanna, Pa., May 31, 1855. He is a son of the late Walter J. and Catherine (Conrad) Phillips, the former a native of Pennsylvania of English descent, the latter of Indiana, and of German ancestry. Albert J. Phillips was educated in the public schools and under private tutors of Susque- hanna, attended Jefferson Medical College and was graduated therefrom in 1885. He

was engaged in mercantile pursuits in New York until 1890, when he removed to Balti- more and entered upon the practice of his profession. He married Amanda, daughter of Charles Tees, produce merchant, of Phila- delphia. Doctor and Mrs. Phillips have one child, Albert, and reside at 1703 E. Balti- more street.

JAMES ELLIOTT DWINELLE, M. D., was born in Cazenovia, Madison county, N. Y., January 30, 1830. He is of Huguenot ex- traction, his ancestors having left France for this country twenty years before the massacre of St. Bartholomew. The Doctor was educated at the Oneida Conference Seminary of that town and received the de- gree, Doctor of Medicine and Surgery at the Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, in the spring of 1854, and then after spending a year in the Blockley Hospital of that place he came in July, 1855, to this his adopted city, where he began practice as physician and surgeon on South Broadway near Bank street. The Doctor has married twice, the first time to Miss Mary E., daughter of the late Jonas B. Bowditch, November 21, 1860, New Haven, Conn., and on February 21, 1872, to Miss Susie E., daughter of the late Joseph M. Wellslager, of this city. The Doctor almost from his early coming to this city secured a large and lucrative position and has performed hundreds of capital oper- tions in surgery, most of which were during those troublesome Know-Nothing riots in the fifties.

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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