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 78

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. WIRT ADAM DUVALL was born in Anne Arundel county, Md., October 21, 1863. He is a son of Judge Grafton and Mary Rebecca (Sullivan) Duvall, natives of Maryland and descendants respectively of early French-Huguenot and English set- tlers of the colony. Of the former family, one of its members, Gabriel Duvall, was on the Supreme Bench of the United States, and of the latter family, several of its mem- bers were soldiers in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War. Judge Grafton Duvall is Chief Judge of the Or- phans' Court of Anne Arundel. He is a Democrat and has been active in his identi- fication with his party's interests and work in Anne Arundel county. At twenty-one years of age he was his party's candidate for the Legislature, was Journal Clerk of the State Legislature during the session of '72. Dr. Wirt A. Duvall completed his general education at St. John's College, An- napolis, in 1885, M. A. 1895, and was graduated from the medical department of the Maryland University in 1888. During 1889-90 he was Assistant Demon- strator of Anatomy at Maryland University under Dr. Herbert Harlan; in 1893-4-5,

Demonstrator of Osteology and Prosector at Baltimore Medical College and Dem- onstrator of Anatomy in the University of Maryland. He is a member of the Baltimore Medical and Surgical Associa- tion and Medical and Chirurgical Faculty of Maryland. He was married October 30, 1888, to Roxanna Louise, daughter of Capt. William Mitchell, of Baltimore. Captain Mitchell served throughout the late war as a Union soldier. He is now traveling manager of the National Am- monia Company. Dr. and Mrs. Duvall have four children, Helen Franklin, Graf- ton, Roxanna and Wirt; reside at 1609 Ed- mondson avenue, and are members of All Saints' Episcopal Church, of which Doctor Duvall is a vestryman.

DR. JAMES C. HUMMER was born in Lou- don county, Va., October 10, 1833. He is a son of the late Washington and Martena B. (Fox) Hummer, natives of Virginia, the former a son of William Hummer, a soldier in the Revolutionary War. Washington Hummer was for twenty years presiding magistrate of Loudon county. Dr. James C. Hummer was educated under Prof. Jonas Potts, then a private tutor in Hills- boro', Loudon county, Va., and subse- quently of the faculties of various educa- tional institutions. Doctor Hummer entered Virginia Conference of the M. E. Church, South, in 1854, remained in traveling con- nection with that until the close of the war, when he was transferred to Baltimore Con- ference until 1879, having charges succes- sively in Princess Anne Circuit, Ports- mouth, Middlesex Circuit, King William Circuit, Indian Ridge Circuit, Alexandria Mission, Hagerstown and Frederick.

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While installed with the latter charge in 1873, his health failed and he was compelled to retire from active ministrations. In that year he came to Baltimore and officiated as missionary to the M. E. Church, South, at- tached to Trinity Church. In 1879 he was elected superintendent of an independent missionary movement, known as Gospel Church of Highways, and was engaged in that service until 1885, since which time he has been a member of the United Evangeli- cal Church of the Central Pennsylvania Conference. As early as 1871 Doctor Hum- mer became interested in the study of Ho- meopathy and in now engaged in the prac- tice of medicine. He was married January 18, 1856, to Anna A., daughter of the late James and Amelia Whaley, of Loudon county, Va. Two children born of this marriage survive: Alice A., wife of George E. Cole, of Washington, D. C., and Ernest E. Hummer, manufacturer of Hummer's Medical Specific Co. Dr. and Mrs. Hum- mer and son reside at 621 N. Carrollton avenue.

DR. VERNON LEE NORWOOD was born in Baltimore, Md., July 6, 1862. He is a son of the late Rufus Norwood and Anna (Hyott) Norwood, natives of Montgomery county, Md., and descendants of very early settlers of that county. Rufus Norwood located in Baltimore about 1843 and en- gaged in manufacturing and lumber deal- ing and was at his decease, November 24, 1891, a member of the firm of Theodore Mottu & Co. He was the inventor and improver of a number of articles useful in character-among them a patent paving- block, the original of what is now the com- pressed asphalt paving-block-and an im-

provement. His widow survives and re- sides with her son. Vernon L. Norwood was educated in the public schools of Bal- timore and was graduated from the City College in 1881. For two years thereafter he was engaged in book-keeping, then enter- ing the School of Medicine of the Maryland University from which institution he was graduated in 1885. During the following year he was with Baltimore Institute for Nervous Diseases, and also of the Baltimore Polyclinic as assistant to the Professor on General Practice. He was then Chief of Clinics to the Professor of Surgery of the Maryland University. Doctor Norwood has been eight years visiting physician to the Aged Men's and Women's Home. His resi- dence and office are at 939 W. Fayette street. He was married November 20, 1895, to Miss Fanny B. K., daughter of Wm. H. Thomas, retired merchant of Baltimore. Doctor Norwood is a member of and one of the Board of Trustees of the Harlem Ave- nue Christian Church.

HANCE WILSON BROWN REID, Chief Deputy Clerk of the Criminal Court of Bal- timore, was born in Baltimore, February 5, 1847. He is a son of the late William and Agnes Jane (Brown) Reid, natives of Ireland, who came to the United States in 1841 shortly after their marriage, locating in Baltimore, where Mr. Reid was engaged as a carpenter and builder up to the time of his decease in 1885. His widow resides in Baltimore. Their son, Hance W. B. Reid, was educated in the public schools and City College of Baltimore, and then en- tered into the retail jewelry business, in which he continued to be engaged until 1888, when he became Secretary of the

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Board of Supervisors of Elections, a posi- tion which he resigned November, 1891, to accept that of which he is the incumbent. Chief Deputy Clerk of the Criminal Court. Mr. Reid is a member of the bar by gradua- tion in 1896 from the Baltimore University Law School. He was married January 5, 1877, to Mary A. L., daughter of the late Thomas Willis, carpenter, of Baltimore. Mr. and Mrs. Reid reside at 1519 W. Lom- bard street and attend Franklin Square Presbyterian Church, of the Board of Trus- tees of which Mr. Reid is a member.

ALFRED J. SCHULZ, Clerk of Circuit Court No. 2, of Baltimore, was born in Baltimore, October 27, 1843. He is a son of the late Wm. M. and Wilhelmina (Petry) Schulz, the former a native of Wurtemberg and the latter of Baden, Germany. Wil- liam M. Schulz was born in 1789, and after receiving a liberal education entered the army and had been promoted to the position of a staff officer, when, in 1831, through expressed sympathy with the revolutionists of that period, he was compelled to flee his native land. He came to the United States and located in Baltimore where there were then no German lawyers and where he earned a livelihood for some years as con- fidential business and legal adviser to Ger- man citizens, and later in mercantile pur- suits. He died in 1873, his wife surviving him five years. Their son, Alfred J. Schulz, received his education in public and private schools in Baltimore, and upon attaining his majority, established himself in business. In 1869 he established himself in business as a confectioner and is now proprietor of the store at 1081 W. Fayette street. He is a Republican in politics and has actively

identified himself with the party organiza- tion since 1887, representing the Fourteenth ward in State Central Committee. He was nominated for Council in 1888, but was de- feated owing to party dissensions. He was elected to his present position in 1895 by a majority of more than 6,000. He is a Ma- son and a Knight of Pythias; resides at 506 N. Arlington avenue and attends the German Lutheran Church.

RUFUS WOODS, President of the Mer- chants' and Manufacturers' Fire Insurance Company of Baltimore, was born in West- minster, Md., May 30, 1830. He is a son of the late Elias and Mary (Overdorff) Woods, the former of English, the latter of German descent. His father dying during his early childhood and leaving him en- tirely unprovided for necessitated the be- ginning of a struggle for existence on his part at a very tender age. He was willing and industrious, found employment, and retained the friendship of his employers, and by the time he had attained his ma- jority had succeeded in acquiring a sub- stantial business and reasonable general ed- ucation. He located in Baltimore in 1857, entering the employ of Fink & Bro., whole- sale grocers, at Eutaw and Franklin streets. Nine years later he became a partner in the business which was thereafter and up to its dissolution in 1892 conducted under the firm name of Fink, Bro. & Co.

Mr. Woods had had close association with a number of important business in- terests of Baltimore. He assisted in estab- lishing in 1877, and was connected until 1882, with the Merchants' Refinery. He is a large stockholder in the Enterprise Coffee Co. He has partnership association with

Francis Mike

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Thornton Rollins in the ownership of ves- sels which export flour to and import coffee from Rio Janeiro. He is one of the direc- tors of the People's Bank, and one of the founders and since its incorporation, Presi- dent, of the Merchants' and Manufacturers' Fire Insurance Co. He is unmarried, a member of the German Reformed Church, and resides at 1413 Madison avenue.

DR. CHARLES RAWLINS DAVIS was born at Mount Airy, Carroll county, Md., No- vember 19, 1858. He is a son of George H. and Margaret (Waters) Davis, natives of Maryland, of English descent. George H. Davis, who now resides with his son, Doc- tor Davis, was a farmer of Carroll county and his son followed the same vocation from the close of his school days up to 1887, when he began the study of medicine under the preceptorship of Dr. S. R. Waters. In 1887, Charles R. Davis came to Baltimore, entered Maryland University Medical De- partment, was graduated in 1890 and for a year thereafter was assistant to Professor Tiffany in the surgical box of the Univer- sity Hospital. He is now practicing medi- cine, with offices and residence at 633 Car- rollton avenue. Doctor Davis is a member of the I. O. O. F.

MILES WHITE was born in Perquiman's county, N. C., August 30, 1792. His pa- rents, Francis and Miriam White, were de- scendants of the early converts in that State to the doctrines of George Fox, the founder of the religious Society of Friends. The second meeting of that society for religious worship in North Carolina was held in the dwelling of one of Mr. White's ancestors, who was a member of the Provincial Gov-

ernors' Council in the year 1682. His dwelling continued to be used for that pur- pose until the erection upon his lands of a meeting house, which was occupied for wor- ship by the Society of Friends in that dis- trict for more than a hundred years, when it was destroyed by a hurricane. Mean- while other like houses of worship were erected in the country, and the religious So- ciety of Friends increased in numbers and strength. The establishment of this faith in that quarter was mainly due to the efforts of William Edmundson, a noted minister, who came over to this country with George Fox; and it was under his auspices that the primitive meeting which took place in the dwelling of Mr. White's ancestor was held. Mr. White, adhering to the faith and traditions of his family, was a zealous and prominent member of the orthodox relig- ious Society of Friends. Early in life he inherited a number of slaves; but, being conscientiously opposed to slavery, freed them all. He assisted some of them to emi- grate to Liberia and induced others to seek their fortunes in the free States. Mr. White's first residence was in the country, where he was engaged in agricultural pur- suits, but even there the natural activity of his mind attracted him to stirring busi- ness occupation. He removed to Elizabeth City, in his native State, in 1830, where he soon became largely and successfully en- gaged in mercantile and commercial pur- suits. He occupied himself in part in the coasting trade, and that with the West In- dies; and it is worthy of remark that al- though in the business in which he was engaged at that time, a trade in ardent spirits might have been carried on exten- sively and profitably, he persistently fore-

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bore, on ground of public policy, and from conscientious scruples, from dealing at all in what he considered to be a pernicious ar- ticle of commerce. With a fortune consid- erably increased by his mercantile business, Mr. White removed in 1849 to Baltimore. The then recent discoveries of gold in Cali- fornia and Australia attracted much of his attention and consideration. His natural sagacity of mind, aided by reading and re- flection upon the effects of like causes upon prices and values, as illustrated by differ- ent epochs in the history of England and this country, led him to the conviction, upon which he was prompt and bold to act, that a rise in the value of real property in this country was sure to follow upon the infusion of so large an amount of the pre- cious metals into its currency. He there- fore at once embarked his fortune in the purchase of Government bonds in the West, in lots in Western cities, and in the city of Baltimore, in the growth and develop- ment of which place in size and business he had implicit faith. He traveled in the West, and made his investments in land and lots with singular sagacity and self-reliance. His foresight and judgment were rewarded, in many instances by an enormous increase in the value of his purchases. In Balti- more, the city of his adoption, his opera- tions in real estate were most extensive and successful, and of such a character as to add to the material growth and prosperity of the city. Vacant property in which his investments were large did not remain idle in his hands, many hundreds of dwelling houses being built thereupon, thus adding to the wealth and beauty of the city and serving to promote the comfort and supply the wants of its growing population. Mr.

White's interest in the improvement of Bal- timore was not confined to the increase and extension of handsome and comfortable dwellings for the living, but was further manifested in the establishment and proper management of the "cities of the dead." He was stockholder and manager of Green- mount Cemetery for many years, and Pres- ident of the Baltimore Cemetery, resigning the latter position upon becoming President of the People's Bank.

Miles White was mostly known as a suc- cessful financier and one of Baltimore's wealthiest citizens, but to those who were most closely related to him in business and social life, his crowning characteristic was a benevolent heart, which never displayed itself in ostentatious forms, but in generous effusion through channels calculated to pro- duce the greatest good. Besides his per- sonal acts of charity he gave liberally to public organized efforts to educate and im- prove his city and humanity. He was one of the most generous supporters of the many religious, charitable and educational institutions under the fostering care of the Society of Friends. Among those to whose success and efficiency he greatly con- tributed should be mentioned the Friends' Federal Hill Mission, Baltimore, and the Friends' Educational Society, High Point, Randolph county, N. C. In his will he left $100,000 to found "The Miles White Bene- ficial Society of Baltimore City," the ob- ject of which as stated in the articles of in- corporation is to "promote piety and Chris- tianity (especially by the dissemination of books and tracts), to extend aid to the young in their religious, moral and intel- lectual training and education, and to re- lieve the deserving poor."

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In his personal and domestic life, Mr. White was studiously exact in the fulfill- ment of his duties, and among the "Friends" was regarded as one of their most upright and useful members. He died March 13, 1876.

BENJAMIN BUCK OWENS, Building Inspec- tor of Baltimore, was born in Baltimore, September 13, 1841. He is a son of the late Edward T. and Susan (Green) Buck Owens, natives of Maryland, respectively of Welsh and English descent, their pro- genitors locating in Maryland in its colo- nial days. Joseph Owens, grandfather of the immediate subject of this sketch, was one of the "Old Defenders" of Baltimore, and was wounded at the battle of North Point. His son, Edward T. Owens, was, in his early manhood, a dry goods merchant of Baltimore, and latterly and up to the date of his decease, September 20, 1872, treas- urer of Eutaw Savings Bank. His wife died December, 1845. Their son, Benja- min B. Owens, was educated in private schools of Baltimore. He enlisted in the IIth Maryland Volunteer Infantry in the spring of 1864 and was mustered out at the close of the war as first lieutenant in command of his company. He was then for several months clerk in the Commissary Department of the United States Army and during this period took up the study of architecture, which he subsequently pur- sued under leading architects of Baltimore up to 1875, when he embarked in business for himself. He was the architect of the Baxter Motor Company's buildings, Ter- minal Warehouse and numerous other ex- tensive structures of Baltimore. Early in

his professional career he was for seven years the architect for the Pennsylvania Steel Company at Sparrow's Point. He was appointed by Mayor Hooper in Janu- ary, 1896, as Building Inspector to fill the unexpired term of the incumbent and was re-appointed for the full term the following March. Mr. Owens is a member of the G. A. R. and Military Order Loyal Legion, Royal Arcanum and Improved Order of Heptasophs. He was married November 18, 1869, to Anna C., daughter of the late Samuel Harris, architect, of Baltimore. Mr. and Mrs. Owens have four children, Maud Ella, wife of Lindley M. Huggins, an attorney of Baltimore; Clara M., Mabel G., student at the Normal School, and Herbert H. Owens, runner for the Traders' Bank of Baltimore. The family reside at 2218 Oak street, and are members of the Metho- dist Episcopal Church.

DR. MAX SCHAPIRO was born January 4, 1857, at Crottingen, Russia, of which place his parents were natives, as were their an- cestors for generations. Dr. Max Schapiro received his general and professional edu- cation at Vienna, Austria, graduating from the Medical University of Vienna in 1887. For five years thereafter he was physician for the North German Lloyd and Ham- burg American Steamship Companies and then located in Baltimore, where he has since been engaged in the practice of his profession, with present office and residence at 122 Madison avenue. Doctor Schapiro makes a specialty of throat and nose, and of orthopaedic surgery, and was for several years assistant in the throat and nose department of the City Hospital,

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College of Physicians and Surgeons. He is the author of numerous papers on medi- cal subjects.

DR. HENRY CHARLES OHLE was born at Catonsville, Baltimore county, Md., June 4, 1860. He is a son of Henry and Pauline (Peters) Ohle, the former a native of Braun- schweig, and the latter of Wurtemberg, Germany, both of whom came to the United States in childhood and were wedded in Baltimore. Mr. Henry Ohle was for a number of years engaged in business as a builder and contractor of stone work, and as such superintended the construction of a number of bridges and other public works, extensive manufacturing plants, etc. He removed to Chicago in 1888 where he has since resided. Dr. Henry C. Ohle received his initial training in the public schools of Baltimore county, this being supple- mented by private tutorage for several years. In 1883 he began the study of medi- cine under the preceptorship of Dr. Guy Hollyday, of Baltimore, and was graduated from the School of Medicine of Maryland University in 1886. During the year fol- lowing his graduation Doctor Ohle was as- sistant to the Demonstrator of Anatomy of the University, was from 1885 to 1891 clini- cal assistant to Baltimore Dispensary for Nervous Diseases of Children, and has been since 1893 visiting physician to St. Agnes' Hospital. He was married March 20, 1889, to Mamie, daughter of the late James T. Cameron, for a number of years connected with the Erie Railroad at Susquehanna. Doctor and Mrs. Ohle have one surviving child, Marie Cameron, and in 1896 lost a son, H. Cameron. The family reside at

I203 W. Fayette street and are members of the First English Lutheran Church.

DR. WM. BUDEKER was born in Baltimore, Md., September 21, 1870. He is a son of Chas. A. and Anna Elizabeth (Schone) Budeker, natives of Germany, who came to the United States and located in Baltimore about the close of the Civil War. Mr. Charles A. Budeker was for a period of twenty-five years a successful retail mer- chant, retiring from business recently. Dr. Wm. Budeker received a public school and business college education, attended the School of Medicine of the Maryland Uni- versity two sessions, and then entered Bal- timore Medical College, graduating there- from in 1893. For one year thereafter he was assistant resident physician of the Maryland General Hospital and has since been engaged in the practice of his profes- sion with office at 914 W. Fayette street. Doctor Budeker is a member of the I. O. O. F., Jr. O. U. A. M., A. O. F. and a Mason.

GEORGE ROBERTS WILLIS, Attorney-at- Law, was born in Baltimore, October 31, 1851. He is a son of the late John E. Willis and Virginia M. (Green) Willis, natives of Maryland and descendants of early English settlers of the State. John E. Willis was a leading manufacturer of Baltimore, and es- pecially engaged for many years in trade with the West Indies. He died in 1871; his widow resides with her son, the immediate subject of this sketch. George R. Willis at- tended Loyola and Dickinson Colleges and was graduated from the latter institution with the class of '72. During his academic course he took up the study of law, which

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he continued during his collegiate course under the preceptorship of Judge Martin Herman at Carlisle, Pa. Upon attaining his majority he was admitted to the bar in Cum- berland county, Pa., and immediately fol- lowing his return to Baltimore was admit- ted to practice in its courts and has ever since been associated with Mr. Luther M. Reynolds, with present offices at 213 Court- land street. Mr. Willis was a member of the Board of Trustees of the Maryland Agri- cultural College by appointment of Gov- ernor Jackson, and of the Executive Com- mittee of that Board, and has been since 1895, by appointment of Mayor Ferdinand C. Latrobe, a member of the Board of Park Commissioners of Baltimore. He was mar- ried December 22, 1881, to Mary E. D., daughter of the late Joseph Hoskins, a farmer of Harford county, Md. Mr. and Mrs. Willis have two children, Luther M. R. and Mary; reside at 2129 E. Baltimore street, and are communicants of Holy Com- forter Episcopal Church.

DR. ROBERT BROWNING KENYON was born in Wirt, Allegany county, N. Y., April 27, 1866. He is a son of Lewis H. and Frances Mary (Sinnett) Kenyon, natives of New York and of English ancestry. The founder of the American family of Kenyons located in Rhode Island prior to the Revo- lutionary War, and the Sinnett family had its first representative in the United States in the person of John T. Sinnett, who came from Dublin, Ireland (of which city his father was then Mayor) about 1820. Dr. R. B. Kenyon received his initial training in the public schools of Wirt and Friendship Literary Academy. He then entered Alfred University and was graduated therefrom in

1888. The four years following were spent in assisting in the cultivation of his father's farm, and during the latter part of this period he commenced the study of medicine. In October, 1892, he entered Baltimore Medical College and was graduated in 1895. During the last year of his attendance at the latter institution he was an interne at the Maryland General Hospital. In 1896-7 he was assistant clinician of the Baltimore Medical College Dispensary. Doctor Ken- yon resides and has offices at 601 W. Frank- lin street.

JOSEPH H. RIEMAN was born in Balti- timore, August 29, 1822. His grandfather, Daniel Rieman, came to America during the Revolutionary War, settling in Balti- more, where he established a sugar refinery, which was continued by his son, Henry Rie- man, until the new system of refining sugar was introduced, when the business was changed into packing and provisions. Jo- seph H. Rieman was educated in private schools of Baltimore and Harford county, Md., then entering as clerk in his father's establishment. Upon attaining his majority he became a member of the firm, which was and still is known as Henry Rieman & Sons, of which the subject of this sketch is the sole survivor. Upon his admission to the firm, Joseph H. Rieman was sent West to take charge of the western branches of the house, located at Cincinnati, O., and Terra Haute, Ind., and spent twenty suc- cessive winters from November until April there, making Cincinnati, which at that time was the centre of the packing industry, his headquarters. Mr. Rieman was the first man to send a cipher telegram for business purposes over the telegraph lines from Cin-

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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