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 76

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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During the past few years of the Doctor's active practice he has found time to write many spicy articles for the Baltimore Sun- day American, one of which especially his graphic description of the spider, wasp

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and fly probably led the literary editor of that paper afterwards to christen the articles from the Doctor's pen: From the Sage to the Salon of East Baltimore.

The Dwinelle Ventilating Window Awn- ing was the invention of the Doctor, and is acknowledged to be a great boon to suffer- ing humanity during the summer time, and is universally used in this country and Can- ada.

While surgeon of the Baltimore Eagle Artillery in October, 1859, the company un- der Capt. John T. Farlow was called by the Governor of Maryland to assist in sup- pressing the insurrection of the John Brown raid in Virginia, October 14, of that year. The company responded with alacrity to the appeal, but when it arrived at Camden Sta- tion, news came that Col. R. E. Lee with the Washington Marines has captured the in- surgents. The Doctor was originally a "Douglas Democrat," but when it was "county or no county" he like his great pro- totype became a strong Union man and is to-day an inflexible Republican. He has never held office or taken active part in poli- tics save after the 19th of April riots of 1861. He was then chairman of the first Union combination meeting of the three lower wards that was held on the corner of Pratt and Canal streets, a few days after the ter- rible riot, the proceedings of which meeting were favorably received in the North and West by giving them a promise that sol- diers could pass safely through the streets of Baltimore.

Those days were never to be forgotten for they were terribly turbulent, and at a time that tried men's souls ; and to declare oneself in favor of the Union would render him liable to scoffs and sneers, if not personal

violence by hot-headed sympathizers with the late Civil War. The Doctor is a member of the American Medical, the Maryland Medical and Chirurgical and the Baltimore Medical Association, and also the Baltimore Academy of Natural Science and the Monu- mental Lodge of Masons, Adonian Chap- ter and the Monumental Commandery of Knights Templar; has also been a member of and trustee of the Second Presbyterian Church of this city for many years.

DR. FRED CLARKE JEWETT was born Au- gust 21, 1868, at Pittson (now Gardiner), Me. He is a son of Hon. Gorman P. H. and Caro- line A. (Bradstreet) Jewett, both natives of Pittston, Me., and descendants of the Puri- tan settlers of New England. Gorman P. H. Jewett has been closely identified with the growth and development of his native place, was its first Mayor and served as its member for State Senate for several terms. Fred Clarke Jewett attended the High School of Gardiner, the Derigo Business College, of Augusta, Me., and completed his general education at Dartmouth Col- lege, New Hampshire, in 1888. His initial professional schooling was received at the Bowdoin Medical College, Brunswick, Me. He then entered the School of Medicine of the Baltimore University, was graduated

therefrom in 1891, and has since been en- gaged in practice in Baltimore. He is now (1896) lecturer on nervous diseases and clinician of throat and chest diseases in the School of Medicine of the Baltimore Uni- versity. He is a member of the State Medi- cal and Chirurgical Faculty, and of the Knights of Ancient Assenic Order, resides and has his office at 2238 Druid Hill avenue, and is a member of the Episcopal Church.

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DR. ST. CLAIR SPRUILL was born in Co- lumbia, N. C., July 28, 1866. He is a son of the late William' L. and Martha E. (Walker) Spruill, the former of Scotch, the latter of English descent. Doctor Spruill completed his general education at Trinity College, N. C., and then entered the School of Medicine of the Maryland University. He was graduated in 1890 and appointed resident physician of the University Free Lying-in Hospital. In 1892 he assumed the duties of assistant resident physician of the University General Hospital, in 1893 be- came resident physician of the same insti- tution and is now its Medical Superintend- ent. He is a member of the Clinical and Gynecological and Obstetrical Societies of Baltimore and of the University Club.

DR. HENRY FOREE GAREY was born in St. Louis, Mo., July 22, 1854. He is a son of the late Judge Henry Faithful Garey, who was for the full term of fifteen years, a Judge of the Supreme Bench of the city of Baltimore, and who died July 29, 1892. Judge Garey was a son of Jeremiah Garey, who came to Baltimore from Ireland before the War of the Revolution, and who was one of the volunteer soldiers in the defense of Baltimore in the War of 1812. Judge Garey's wife, who survives, was a Foree, of French-Huguenot extraction, a daughter of one of two brothers, officers in the French Army, who were compelled with other Huguenots to flee their native land and who located first in Virginia, removing thence to Kentucky, where Judge Garey found and married his wife. Dr. Henry Foree Garey received his general education in the public schools of Baltimore, and at Rockhill Col- lege, Ellicott City, Md. He then entered the

Washington University, now College of Physicians and Surgeons of Baltimore, from which institution he was graduated in 1876. He has ever since been engaged in the prac- tice of his profession in Baltimore, making a specialty of and being exclusively engaged in the treatment of the eye and ear. Doctor Garey was one of the promoters of the Southern Homeopathic College and was for two years one of its Faculty. He is now surgeon in chief of the Homeopathic Free Dispensary. He is a member of the B. P. O. E. Doctor Garey was married in 1878 to Clara M., daughter of Edmund Utley, of Brooklyn, N. Y. She died in 1893, leaving two children, Edna and Anna. Doctor Garey was again married October 2, 1895, to Clara, daughter of George Keck, of the United States Custom House at Baltimore. One child born of this union is Foree Garey. Doctor Garey resides at 804 W. Fayette street and has his office at 341 N. Charles street.

MAJ. ANDREW ELLICOTT, who was a grand-uncle of Mr. P. T. George, was born in Bucks county, Pa., January 24, 1754, and devoted the greater part of his life to the service of his country. Though a member of the Society of Friends, he commanded a battalion of Maryland militia in the Revo- lutionary War. In 1784 he was employed by the State of Virginia in fixing the boun- dary between that State and Pennsylvania. In 1786 he was commissioned by the su- preme executive council of Pennsylvania to run the northern boundary of the State. Two years later he was directed to make a survey of the islands of the Allegheny and Ohio rivers within the State of Pennsylva- nia. This occupied about a year, after

Philip Thomas George

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which he was commissioned by the United States Government to locate the Western boundary of the State of New York, and ascertain the validity of the claim of that State to the territory which is now the northern portion of Erie county. After much labor and hardship he succeeded in locating the present boundary. In this im- portant and responsible duty his services seem to have been highly appreciated, for about the time of its completion he writes: "General Washington has treated me with attention. The Speaker of the House and the Governor of the State have constantly extended to me the most flattering courtes- ies." The next important service which he rendered to his country was that of sur- veying the District of Columbia and the city of Washington, which he began in 1790. In 1796 the Government was again in need of one in whom it could place im- plicit confidence; and Washington, seem- ingly ever conscious of Major Ellicott's sterling qualities, appointed him commis- sioner to fix the boundary between the United States and the Spanish American possessions. During the very first month of Jefferson's administration the "Father of Democracy" tendered to Major Ellicott the surveyor generalship of the United States, which he accepted, subject to conditions of his own dictation. On September 1, 1813, he was appointed professor of mathematics in the West Point Military Academy, to which place he soon afterward removed with his family, and where he died August 28, 1820, leaving a widow and nine children. The intelligence and active ability of Major Ellicott were of inestimable value in the set- tlement and development of this new coun- try, and one important duty followed an-

other for a period of over forty years, in which he was constantly employed in some public capacity of responsibility and trust, and he was never found wanting. Chief among his characteristics, touching upon his public life, were his true sense of duty, well defined conception of personal respon- sibilities, and his general upright character. It was these, rather than shrewd political diplomacy, which won for him the exalted honors which were conferred upon him. The name of Major Ellicott will go down in American history an honor to his coun- try, to his family and to his posterity.

In June, 1795, Ellicott and Irvine, com- missioners, arrived, accompanied by a corps of surveyors, and escorted by State troops, under command of Capt. John Grubb, to lay out the town of Erie, which was done during that year. Troops remained at the post until 1806, but were few in number.

PHILIP THOMAS GEORGE, senior member of the firm of P. T. George & Co., was born in Baltimore, January 17, 1817. He is a son of the late William E. and Sarah (Elli- cott) George, natives of Maryland and de- scendants respectively of Welsh and Eng- lish settlers of the colonies who came to America with William Penn. The paternal great-grandfather of Philip T. George set- tled in Kent county, Md., prior to the Revo- lutionary War. His son, William E. George, who was born in Kent county, lo- cated in Baltimore in 1800. Jonathan Elli- cott, P. T. George's maternal grandfather, came from Pennsylvania to Maryland late in the last century, with his brothers, pur- chased large tracts of land on the Patapsco river in Baltimore county, and built iron and flour mills on the site of what is now

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known as Ellicott City. Several of the Ellicotts were members of the State Legis- lature and it is of record that they declined to accept compensation, on the ground that good citizenship should include gratui- tous public service. It is a further inter- esting fact that in connection with the history of the Ellicotts that they were in- ventors of valuable devices for hoisting, shifting, etc., which they would not patent because they held that these ideas were inspirations, Providentially intended for the general good and should be disseminated and profited by as widely as possible.

Both the George and Ellicott families were Quakers and took the high moral ground that characterized the early Friends in their dealings with their fellows. The late William E. George, in connection with Philip E. Thomas (first president B. & O. R. R.), established a wholesale hardware business in Baltimore under the firm name of Thomas & George, and it was in the em- ploy of this firm that Philip T. George re- ceived his initial business education. Upon attaining his majority he became a member of the firm which was thereafter known as William E. George & Son, Philip E. Thomas having in the meantime retired from the firm. William E. George died in 1840, having survived his wife several years. In the fifties Philip T. George, in connec- tion with the late T. Robert Jenkins, estab- lished the wholesale provision business of George & Jenkins, succeeded by the pres- ent firm of P. T. George & Co. The specialty of this firm is the manufacture of hard lard by a process first conceived and made use of by Mr. George. Mr. George was for a number of years one of the board of directors of the Farmers' and Planters'

National Bank. He was married in April, 1847, to Ellen, daughter of the late Josias Jenkins, of Long Green Valley, Md. Mr. and Mrs. George have three children, Sam- uel Ellicott and Josias Jenkins George, as- sociated with their father in business. and Sarah, wife of Richard Cromwell, merchant, of Baltimore, and president of the Mount Vernon Company. The family reside at 703 St. Paul street and attend the Cathe- dral.

DR. SAMUEL ALOYSIUS KEENE was born in Dorchester county, Md., June 23, 1843. He is a son of the late Vachel and Mary A. (Meekins) Keene, natives of Maryland and descendants respectively of early Eng- lish and Scotch settlers of the county. Vachel Keene was in early manhood en- gaged in steamboat traffic on the Missis- sippi and latterly and up to the time of his decease, 1885, as a planter in Dorchester county. His widow survived him but two weeks. Dr. Samuel A. Keene was gradu- ated from Mt. St. Mary's College in 1863, studied medicine under the late Drs. Rich- ard McSherry and W. C. Van Bibber, and graduated with the class of '65 from the Maryland University Medical Department. He practiced in Dorchester county until 1869, when he removed to Ellicott City, where he remained until 1889. During this period Doctor Keene was physician in charge of St. Charles Woodstock Jesuit and Redemptionist Colleges, the latter at Ilches- ter, Howard county. Since 1889 he has been engaged in general practice in Balti- more with present office and residence at 1322 Lanvale street. West. Doctor Keene is a member of the Baltimore Medi- cal Society, Baltimore Clinical Society,

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Medical and Chirurgical Faculty of Mary- land and Maryland University Alum- nal Association. He has been active in his membership in the Catholic Be- nevolent Legion, serving for two years as State President and for two years as Supreme Representative. He is also medical examiner for the Legion. He was married July 24, 1866, to Elleanora, daugh- ter of the late John E. Applegarth, planter, of Dorchester county, Md. The children born of this union are Pierre G. Keene, Texas agent for the National Cash Regis- ter Company, of Dayton, O .; Mary Ce- celia Keene, E. Starr Keene, an employe of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Company at Baltimore; John V. Keene, book-keeper of the John Ryan Type Foundry, Balti- more, and J. Carlos and Wm. Kenneth Keene. The family are members of St. Pius Roman Catholic Church.

MARTIN GILLET, from early manhood up to the date of his decease (1837) a leading merchant of Baltimore and founder of Mar- tin Gillet & Co. (still existent), was born December 31, 1787. He was descended from Jonathan Gillet, one of two brothers, who came from England with a shipload of other Puritans in the ship "Mary and John," which landed at Nantucket May 30, 1630. The brothers Gillet settled in Dorchester, Mass., removing thence to Windsor, Conn., in 1636. A number of their descendants were officers and soldiers in the Revolu- tionary War. Martin Gillet married Eliza Edwards, of Richmond, Va., February 23, 1808, and the same year came to Baltimore where he was for several years engaged in the salt business. In 18II he established the tea importing house which still bears

his name, and of which his grandsons, Messrs. M. Gillet Gill, C. Lorraine Gill and Ernest Gill, are the present proprietors, di- rect successors of their father, the late Owen A. Gill, a son-in-law of the late Martin Gillet. Martin Gillet was a man of un- bounded energy, indomitable will and un- compromising integrity; a strict and con- sistent member of the Presbyterian Church and a generous supporter of the congrega- tion of the Third Presbyterian Church, of which he was a member. He was a warm personal friend and a great admirer of Doc- tor Musgrave, for many years pastor of the Third Church. Three of Martin Gillet's children survive. They are Joseph Gillet, Mrs. Rosalva Smith and Martin Gillet. Jo- seph Gillet is associated with the firm of Blake Bros. & Co., of New York; Martin Gillet with Howard W. Spurr & Co., of Boston, Mass., and Mrs. Rosalva Smith is the widow of Joseph Dean Smith, who was a member of the bar of Baltimore. Of the deceased children, Eliza Adams Gillet, the eldest child, married Owen A. Gill, whose sons are successors to the business estab- lished by their grandfather as above set forth. Of these Mr. M. Gillet Gill is one of the board of directors of the Fidelity Trust and Deposit Company.

DR. MARSHALL GRUNDY SMITH was born at Columbia, S. C., August 31, 1864. He is a son of the late Robert T. and Pattie Macon (Mason) Smith, natives of North Carolina, and descendants respectively of early English and French settlers of the colonies. Marshall G. Smith was educated in the public schools of Baltimore, studied medicine under Dr. Wm. M. Mason, of Calloway county, Ky .; was graduated from

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the Maryland University Medical Depart- ment in 1887, and has since been engaged in general practice, with present office and residence at 1637 W. Lexington street.

DR. CHARLES FRENCH BLAKE was born in Athens county, O., December 13, 1866. He is a son of Samuel B. and Pauline (Camp) Blake, natives of Ohio and of Eng- lish descent. The American Blakes are lineal descendants of Admiral Blake, of the English Navy. Samuel B. Blake is a re- tired agriculturist of Athens county, O. Dr. Charles F. Blake completed his general education at Ohio University, from which institution he was graduated with the class of 1890. He began the study of medicine under the preceptorship of his brother, Dr. W. H. Blake, of Shadeville, O. In 1891 he came to Baltimore to enter the College of Physicians and Surgeons and was gradu- ated in 1893. For two years thereafter he was resident physician at the City Hospital and has been since 1894 Demonstrator of Surgery and Osteology at the College of Physicians and Surgeons. He is also one of the staff of visiting physicians at Bay View Asylum. Doctor Blake is a member of the Masonic Order and Independent Or- der of Odd Fellows.

CHARLES L. MARBURG, manager of Mar- burg Bros., branch of American Tobacco Company, was born in Baltimore, October 29, 1842. He is a son of the late William A. and Christina (Munder) Marburg, the former a native of Nassau, near Wiesbaden, Germany, the latter of Baltimore and of German parentage. William A. Marburg was a cigar importer on an extensive scale, his aggregate importations during the last

two years in which he was thus engaged footing up more than sixty millions. He then (1864) started his sons, Charles and Louis H. Marburg, in the tobacco manu- facturing business at 147 S. Charles street, on a portion of the site of the present ex- tensive plant. He held a partnership in- terest therein but was rather an advisory than active member of the firm. Subse- quently, another son, William A. Marburg, Jr., became a member of the firm, and fol- lowing the decease of William A. Marburg, Sr. (1873), two other sons, Albert and Theo- dore, became identified as full partners in the concern. Charles L. Marburg received his schooling in Baltimore, supplementing this with two years' attendance at a business college at Wiesbaden, Germany. At the early age of fourteen he became an office employe of his father in the cigar importing business, and was thus engaged up to the breaking out of the war, when he enlisted in Alexander's Battery, Baltimore Light Ar- tillery, serving therewith until the close of the struggle. He was captured at the second battle of Winchester (General Milroy, com- mander), and kept a prisoner for twenty- two days. During this period (in 1864) he was summoned home by his father and upon being granted a few days' furlough, returned to Baltimore where he was in- formed that he was to be one of the new firm of Marburg Bros., tobacco manufac- turers; that the business was to be carried on upon two lots owned by his father and one owned by himself on S. Charles street; and that he was called home to deed his property to the firm. This he accordingly did and this was the inception of the great tobacco manufacturing establishment of Marburg Bros. He returned to his com-

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mand, remaining until the close of the war, being mustered out of the service June 16, 1865, and on the following day took up the management of the business of Marburg Bros. The business of the firm grew to ex- tensive proportions necessitating the erec- tion in 1888 of the great structure at the northeast corner of Charles and Barre streets. The special manufactures of the firm were high grade smoking tobaccos. The business was merged into the Ameri- can Tobacco Company in January, 1891, Mr. Charles L. Marburg being retained as manager. Wm. A. Marburg, Jr., was made second vice-president at New York, and Albert Marburg, manager of fine smoking department, New York. Mr. Theodore Marburg has retired from business and is devoting his time to literary pursuits. Mr. Chas. L. Marburg is one of the trustees of the Academy of Sciences. Mr. Wm. A. Marburg is one of the directors of the Un- ion National Bank of Maryland. The fam- ily residence is at 6 E. Eager street.

DR. ROBERT WRIGHT MIFFLIN was born in Philadelphia, Pa., December 23, 1853. He is a son of the late Samuel W. and Eliza- beth (Martin) Mifflin, natives of Pennsyl- vania and descendants of English colonial settlers. The founder of the American Mifflin family was John Mifflin, who came from Warminster, Wiltshire, England, and located at what is now Chester, Pa., in 1679. One of his descendants, Thomas Mifflin, was the first Governor of the State of Penn- sylvania. Col. Jonathan Mifflin, Doctor Mifflin's paternal grandfather, was ap- pointed brigade major to General Mifflin, June 29, 1776; paymaster, 5th Pennsylva- nia Battalion, September 3, 1776; member

of Philadelphia Troops, Light Horse, in 1777; deputy quarter-master general, Con- tinental Army, June 30, 1777; superintend- ent of magazines, February 4, 1778. The late Samuel W. Mifflin was one of the most prominent civil engineers in the United States and located and constructed a great portion of the Pennsylvania Railroad lines through the Alleghanies. He died July 26, 1885. Dr. Robert W. Mifflin completed his general education at New London Academy, Chester county, Pa., was en- gaged in law publication business for three years, studied medicine under the precep- torship of an uncle, Dr. S. Armor; was graduated from Hahnemann Medical Col- lege, Philadelphia, in 1876; spent the year following as resident physician at Ward's Hospital, New York, and in May, 1877, came to Baltimore where he has since been engaged in general practice with present office and residence at 1016 Madison ave- nue. Doctor Mifflin is Professor of Prac- tice and Medicine and lecturer on Derma- tology, Southern Homeopathic College, and one of the medical staff of Maryland Homeopathic Hospital. He is a member of the Sons of the Revolution and the Mary- land Historical Society. He was married November 22, 1881, to Ellen, daughter of the late Samuel T. Adams, for a number of years purchasing agent of the B. & O. R. R. Doctor and Mrs. Mifflin have three chil- dren, Robert Thornton, Jonathan Earle and Cornelia. The family attend Mt. Cavalry P. E. Church. Doctor Mifflin is a Quaker.

JOHN THOMAS MORRIS, Attorney-at-Law was born in Baltimore, June 4, 1827. He is a son of the late Thomas and Sarah (Mc- Kinnell) Morris, the former a native of Ire-

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land, the latter of Baltimore birth and Scotch ancestry. Thomas Morris came to Baltimore in early manhood and was en- gaged up to the time of his decease in the business of importing French burr blocks. John McKinnell, maternal grandfather of the immediate subject of this sketch, located in Baltimore from Wigtownshire, Scotland, early in the century, and was engaged in mercantile pursuits in Baltimore through- out his life. John T. Morris attended Long Green Academy, Baltimore county, Md., and then entered Pennsylvania College, Gettysburg, from which institution he was graduated with the class of '45. His law preceptor was the late Edward Hinkley, who, with his son, the late Edward Otis Hinkley, and Mr. Morris, subsequently formed the law firm of Edward Hinkley & Son. Upon the decease of the senior mem- ber the firm became that of Hinkley & Morris. Edward Otis Hinkley died in July, 1896, but the firm name is unchanged. Mr. John Hinkley, son of the late Edward Otis Hinkley, having partnership associa- tion with Mr. Morris. Mr. Morris has given many years' service to the city of Bal- timore. In his earlier manhood he repre- sented the Twelfth ward in the City Council. He was one of the original Board of Fire Commissioners appointed by Mayor Swann to organize the present fire department. He was a member of the School Board for thirty-three years and for twenty-seven years of this period its presiding officer. He has been State Director of the House of Refuge for thirty years; a member of the Directory of the Maryland School for the Blind and secretary of the board for the past twenty-nine years; president of the Board of Directors of Maryland School for

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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