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 79

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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cinnati to Baltimore. Mr. Rieman in for- mer years took an active interest in politics, , and was an old-time Whig. He was a mem- ber of the first State Convention which nominated the State officers under the new Constitution of the State, and was a mem- ber of the State Central Committee. When the Whig party disbanded he remained neu- tral for awhile, and then joined the Reform movement in 1861, which finally succeeded in electing George William Brown as Mayor. He was appointed a director in the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, serving under Mayor Brown's administration, and was also a director of the Northern Central under the administration of John S. Git- tings. Mr. Rieman retired from active busi- ness in 1870 and since then has devoted his time to extensive private interests. He has held many positions of trust and is one of Baltimore's most enterprising, substantial citizens, a representative man in the broad- est acceptation of the phrase. He has been identified with many enterprises advancing the city's welfare. He was a member of the committee of five formed for the encourage- ment of manufacturers; chairman of the Academy of Music Building Committee, and for a long time a director in the Cen- tral Ohio Railroad, a leased line of the Bal- timore & Ohio. He succeeded William Devries as President of the State Agricul- tural Society, and Jesse Slingluff as Presi- dent of the Commercial and Farmers' Na- tional Bank. Retiring from the latter for a time he was again elected president, suc- ceeding George A. Von Lingen, resigning in 1896. He served as President pro tem of the Baltimore City Passenger Railway Company upon the death of Governor Bowie, but resigned owing to the pressure

of his private affairs. He is a director in the Savings Bank of Baltimore, and inter- ested in many other prominent incorpora- tions. He is also First Vice-President of the Board of Trade and is now senior mem- ber of that body. Mr. Rieman is a member of the First Presbyterian Church and chair- man of the Executive Committee of its Board of Trustees. He was married in 1861 to Miss Lowe, daughter of Hon. P. P. Lowe, of Dayton, O.

HON. EDGAR H. GANS was born in Har- risburg, Pa., November 24, 1856. He re- inained in Harrisburg six years, when the family removed to Norristown, near Phila- delphia, where he attended the High School until his thirteenth year. He graduated with the highest honors from the Baltimore City College in 1875, and from the law department of Maryland University in March, 1877. He was admitted to the bar upon attaining his majority in Novem- ber of the same year. He formed a part- nership association with Mr. B. Howard Haman and was engaged in private prac- tice until 1879, when he accepted the of- fice of Deputy State's Attorney under Charles G. Kerr. His ability as a criminal lawyer and public prosecutor led to his ap- pointment to the professorship of criminal law in the legal department of Maryland University. During his term as Deputy State's Attorney, covering a period of eight years, Mr. Gans tried many important cases with credit to himself and honor to the Com- monwealth. Among these may be cited those of George Trout and William Hazel- tine, convicted of murder, in which he was opposed by Gov. Wm. Pinkney Whyte forthe defense; the Burke and Kennedy case, for

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the murder of James Curren, opposed by Jo- seph Heuisler; the Hance murder case tried at Annapolis with Senator Voorhees and Mr. Revell as opposing counsel, the jury ac- quitting the prisoner on the ground of in- sanity. Since retiring from the office Mr. Gans has practiced his profession with emi- nent success, the firm, Gans & Haman being recognized as one of the leading at the bar of Baltimore .. Mr. Gans was married in 1884 to Elizabeth, daughter of John Wall.

MAJ. WILLIAM L. KENLY, Chief En- gineer of Baltimore City Water Depart- ment, was born in Baltimore, March 31, 1833, the son of Edward and Maria (Reese) Kenly. His maternal ancestors came to Maryland from Wales, in a very early day, and his grandfather, Thomas Reese, was a successful merchant of Baltimore. The Kenly family came to the United States from Scotland, the first of the name to come hither being Dr. Daniel Kenly, the great- grandfather of Major Kenly, and a Presby- terian minister, who in 1740 crossed the ocean and settled in Harford county, Md. His son, Richard Kenly, was born in Har- ford county and married a Miss Ward. Their children were Daniel, Richard, Ed- ward and Fannie. Edward Kenly spent the major part of his life as a farmer in Har- ford county, but was latterly engaged in mercantile pursuits in Baltimore. During this period he was Judge of the Appeal Tax Court. The youngest of his family of seven children, William L. Kenly, received his primary education in Baltimore and then attended Newton University, Md. In 1854 he entered the engineering corps of Isaac Trimble. He resigned this employment af-

ter four years to enter the service of the Bal- timore City Water Works, in which he was engaged uninterruptedly until the outbreak of the Civil War. In 1862 he entered the service as first lieutenant of Company H, First Maryland Infantry, was promoted to a captaincy by President Lincoln in 1863, and was brevetted major by the President at the close of the war because of especially effi- cient service. During three years of his war service he was attached to the Army of the Potomac and participated in most of its en- gagements. At the close of the war he re- sumed his connection with the Water De- partment of the city, with which he has been connected for more than forty years, having been in every department from rodman to chief engineer.

He was married June 12, 1861, to Eliza- beth Marion Hook, daughter of the late Richard W. Hook, who at one time was Sheriff of Baltimore county. Of the children born of this union there survive William Lacy Kenly, first lieutenant United States Artillery; Ritchie G. Kenly, assistant engi- neer of the West Virginia Central and Pitts- burg Railroad; Edward Marion Kenly, former resident engineer Lynchburg & Durham Railroad, and now in Alaska: George T. Kenly, who was assistant engi- neer Guilford Reservoir Company, and the inventor of a spigot that carries hot and cold water at the same time; and Maria Reese, Laura Hook and Robert Martin Kenly. Major Kenly is a member of the Royal Arcanum, Loyal Legion, Mason, the G. A. R., American Society of Civil Engi- neers and Society of the Army of the Poto- mac. The family residence overlooks Lake Montebello.

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DR. JAMES FRANCIS MCSHANE, Health Commissioner of Baltimore, was born in Baltimore, August 13, 1851. He is a son of the late Lawrence and Anne (O'Hare) Mc- Shane, natives respectively of Monaghan and Amagh, Ireland, who came to this country in youth, were married in Brook- lyn, N. Y., and in 1847 removed to Balti- more, where Lawrence McShane was en- gaged in business as a retail furnishing goods merchant up to within a few years of his decease in 1885. His widow resides in Baltimore. Dr. J. F. McShane was edu- cated at Calvert Hall and Loyola Colleges, Baltimore, graduating from the latter insti- tution in 1867. He studied medicine under the preceptorship of the late Dr. Nicholas L. Dashiell and was graduated from the medical department of the Maryland Uni- versity with the class of '70. He was vac- cine physician for several years, assistant health commissioner of Baltimore from No- vember, 1879, to 1892, and health commis- sioner since the latter date. Doctor McShane is one of the Faculty of Baltimore Medical College, filling the chair of Associate Pro- fessor of Hygiene. He is a member of the Baltimore Medical Society, Baltimore Clin- ical Society, Medical and Chirurgical Fac- ulty of Maryland, American Medical Asso- ciation and American Public Health Asso- ciation and member of the Executive Com- mittee of the last named association. Doctor McShane was married February 10, 1870, to Sarah E., daughter of the late P. E. Brad- ley, merchant, of Baltimore. The children of Dr. and Mrs. McShane are Robert, stu- dent at Baltimore Medical College; James, draughtsman in the employ of Bartlett, Hayward & Co .; Frank; Lillian; Loretta; Albert, and Edgar. The family reside at

2 S. Patterson Park avenue and are mem- bers of St. Patrick's Roman Catholic Church.

DR. FRANK SLINGLUFF, of Slingluff & Co., manufacturing chemists and fertilizers, was born in Baltimore county, Md., August 14, 1845. He is a son of the late Jesse and Frances E. (Cross) Slingluff, natives of Maryland, and descendants respectively of German and Scotch colonial settlers. Jesse Slingluff, Dr. Frank Slingluff's grand- father, located in Baltimore about 1790 and was one of the wholesale grocery firm of Slingluff & Bohn, the late Charles Bohn being Doctor Slingluff's maternal grand- father. Jesse Slingluff, Doctor Slingluff's father, was for many years President of the Commercial & Farmers' Bank of Baltimore. He died in 1862; his wife survived him some years. Dr. Frank Slingluff was educated at private schools and under private tutors of Baltimore, and from 1863 to 1865 studied chemistry at Heidelberg. Returning to Baltimore he studied medicine under the late Dr. Frank Donaldson, was graduated from the medical department of the Maryland University, class of 1868; was resident physician at Bay View Asylum the year following, and then entered the firm of Slingluff & Co., with which he has ever since been identified. He is Vice-President of the Commercial and Farmers' National Bank, President Mutual Fire Insurance Com- pany of Baltimore and Patapsco Mutual Fire Insurance Company of Baltimore, and one of the Executive Committee of the Merchants' and Manufacturers' As- sociation. He was married July 14, 1880, to Isabella, daughter of the late Thomas

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Cross, of Prince George's county, Md. The family reside on West North avenue and attend Church of the Prince of Peace. Tru- man Cross, Doctor Slingluff's grandfather, was for a number of years cashier of the Commercial and Farmers' Bank. 1

RILEY WRIGHT, Chief Judge of the Or- phans' Court of Baltimore City, was born in Westminster, Windhaven county, Vt., July 24, 1839. He is a son of Erastus and the late Mary (Fairbrother) Wright, na- tives of Westminster, Vt., and descendants respectively of early Welsh-English and English settlers of New England. Capt. Azariah Wright, great-grandfather of the immediate subject of this sketch, was prom- inent in colonial history; a compatriot and intimate of Gen. Ethan Allen. Captain Wright was one of the first settlers of West- minster and a few months prior to the bat- tle of Lexington distinguished himself as captain of a militia company in preventing the holding of court by English officers in the court house of Westminster. Some of colonels were killed and theirs was the first blood shed in the events culminating in the Revolutionary War. (See Hall's History of Vermont.) Captain Wright served throughout the war. Judge Wright's maternal great-grandfather was also an officer in the patriot army during the Rev- olutionary War. His grandson, Erastus Wright, now resides at Coventry, Vt., his wife died in 1861. Their son, Riley E. Wright, received his initial training in the public schools of Coventry, then attended successively Darby Academy and Green Mountain Academy, Vt., and Powers In- stitute, Bernardstown, Mass .; entered Dart- mouth College (N. H.), but left that in-

stitution to attend Middleburg College, of his own State; and while in his sopho- more year (1862) at the last institution abandoned scholarship to enter the Union Army. In four days' time he raised a com- pany, one hundred and nine men strong, was elected and commissioned its captain. The company went to the front as Co. H, 15th Vermont Volunteer Infantry, and served until mustered out in July, 1863, shortly after the battle of Gettysburg, in which the regiment participated, although its term of service had expired some days previous. Returning to Vermont Captain Wright entered the law office of Hon. Ben- jamin H. Steele (afterward Judge of Su- preme Court of Vermont) and was admitted to the bar December 31, 1864. In April, 1865, he came to Baltimore, where he has ever since engaged in the general practice of his profession, with present offices at 106 E. Saratoga street. On February 15, 1897. he was appointed by Governor Lowndes to fill the unexpired term of the late Sylvester L. Stockbridge, Chief Judge of the Orphans' Court of Baltimore City. Judge Wright is a Republican and was twenty years actively identified with his party's work and inter- ests in Baltimore. He was nominated for the Legislature on the Reform ticket in 1876, and was his party's nominee for Asso- ciate Judge of Supreme Bench of Baltimore in 1894. He was one of the organizers and for two terms commander of Custer Post, G. A. R., and was for two terms Judge Ad- vocate General of Maryland Department, G. A. R. He is one of the Board of Managers and chairman of the Executive Committee of the Society for the Protection of Chil- dren and a member of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. He was

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married September 11, 1866, to Mary E., daughter of the late Isaac and Abigail (Stevens) Collier, of Coventry, Vt. One child, Mabel, born of their marriage, died in infancy. Judge and Mrs. Wright reside at 1318 Harlem avenue.

SAMUEL HENRY TATTERSALL, Supreme Secretary of Improved Order of Hepta- sophs, was born in Philadelphia, Pa., April 13, 1866. He is a son of John and Alice (Lees) Tattersall, natives of England, who located in Philadelphia from Oldham, Lan- cashire, in 1862, removing hence to Tren- ton, N. J., where Mr. John Tattersall has since been engaged in business as a coal merchant. He was one of the founders of the Sons of St. George. Samuel H. Tatter- sall received a public school and business college education, and was thereafter until 1884 engaged by the Coxon (now Empire) Potter Company as an artist on china. Coming to Baltimore he did contract work for the Maryland Pottery Company, in charge of its decorative department up to 1895. He became a member of Zeta Con- clave, No. 6, Improved Order of Hepta- sophs, in 1887, and from the date of his ini- tiation has been officially connected with that Order, Prelate to Zeta Conclave, Pro- vost Archon of Zeta Conclave and Past Ar- chon. At New York in 1891 he represented Zeta Conclave at the meeting of the Supreme Conclave, and the same year was elected Deputy Supreme Archon of District 23, composed exclusively of Zeta Conclave, No. 6; representative again in 1893 at At- lantic City and again in 1895 at New Ha- ven, where he was elected to his present of- fice of Supreme Secretary. He is Past M., Concordia Lodge, No. 13, A. F. and A. M .;

member of Adoniram Chapter, No. 21, R. A., and member of A. O. U. W., American Legion of Honor and Jr. O. U. A. M.

He was married April 20, 1887, to Annie, daughter of William Hardy, of Baltimore. Mr. and Mrs. Tattersall have two children, Alice M. and Samuel L., reside at 12 E. Lanvale street and are communicants at St. Michael and All Angels' P. E. Church. Mr. Tattersall was one of the moving spirits in urging the erection of a suitable hall for Zeta Conclave. The beautiful structure at Preston and Cathedral streets, which is now the headquartes of the Order, is due to his energy and devotion.

LLOYD LOWNDES JACKSON, second mem- ber of the firm of John E. Hurst & Co., wholesale dry goods merchants, of Balti- more, was born at Jane Lew, Lewis county, W. Va., February 3, 1846. He is a son of the late Blackwell and Emily Byrd (Lorentz) Jackson, natives of Virginia, and descendants respectively of early English and German settlers of the colony of Vir- ginia. The late Blackwell Jackson was a valued and valuable citizen, held numerous official trusts, represented his district in the State Senate for two terms and was one of the reorganizers of West Virginia during the Civil War. He died in 1878; his wife survives as does her mother. The latter's father, Jacob Lorentz, was one of the origi- nal settlers of Upshur county, where he owned an immense plantation. Lloyd L. Jackson completed his schooling at Monon- gahela Academy, Morgantown, W. Va., in 1865. At the breaking out of the war, al- though but fifteen years of age, he enlisted in the Confederate Army under his cousin, Capt. Alfred Jackson, but was reclaimed

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by his mother and returned to school. He came to Baltimore March 1, 1866, to enter the employ as salesman of the dry goods house of Hurst & Co, with which and its successors, Hurst, Purnell & Co., and John E. Hurst & Co., he has ever since been con- nected. He was taken into partnership in 1871 and is the second member of the pres- ent company. Ever since attaining his ma- jority Mr. Jackson has been actively iden- tified with the interests and work of the Democratic party. It was largely through his instrumentality that the Business Men's Democratic Association, which nominated and elected Robert C. Davidson to the may- oralty of Baltimore was formed. He is one of the Executive Committee of the National Association of Democratic Clubs; a mem- ber of the Board of Directors of Maryland Penitentiary, to which he was appointed by Governor Jackson and reappointed by Gov- ernor Brown, and was Quartermaster Gen- eral on the latter's staff. He is First Vice- President of the Maryland Trust Company, and a member of the Boards of Directors of the Commercial and Farmers' National Bank, Western Maryland Railroad Com- pany, Brush Electric Light Company, Ar- lington Cotton Mills and Blue Ridge Cotton Mills. He was married November 30, 1873, to Anne Elizabeth, daughter of the late James M. Lester, contractor and builder, of Baltimore, and who represented Baltimore for several terms in the State Legislature. Mr. and Mrs. Jackson have five children, Lloyd L. Jackson, Jr., a graduate of Johns Hopkins University and a member of the bar of Baltimore, and the Misses Anne L., Edith B., Elsie and Emma Jackson. The family reside at 1210 N. Charles street, and are communicants of Emanuel P. E. Church.

Mr. Jackson was the organizer of the Com- mercial Travelers' Democratic Club, which took an active part in the Bryan-McKinley campaign, and which subsequent to the election was reorganized under the name of the Commercial Travelers' and Business Men's Democratic Club, of which Mr. Jackson is president.

THOMAS ROBERT CLENDINEN, Attorney- at-Law, was born in Baltimore, March 31, 1847. He is a son of the late Dr. Alexander and Mary Louise (Belt) Clendinen, the for- mer a native of South Carolina, and of Scotch-Irish descent, the latter a daughter of the late Capt. Walter Belt, of the United States Navy, who was descended from early English settlers of the colony of Maryland. Dr. Alexander Clendinen lo- cated in Baltimore in 1800, was one of the early graduates of the Maryland Medical Department, was one of the faculty of that institution and of the University Hospital staff for some years, and was one of the surgeons to Baltimore's "Old Defenders." He died April 15, 1861 ; his wife September 16, 1883. Thomas R. Clendinen attended the schools of Baltimore, including Mary- land University, and in June, 1861, ran away from home to enter the Confederate service in Alabama. After a year of ser- vice he was captured in Florida, and upon his release entered the Virginia Military Institute, and from it went with the corps of cadets of that institution into the valley of Virginia campaign in 1864, and was one of the cadets under Gen. John C. Breck- inridge in the battle of New Market and other engagements. He then attended the University of Virginia. Returning to Balti- more he read law under the preceptorship

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of the late Judge W. A. Stewart, was ad- mitted to the bar in 1866, and has since been engaged in general practice with pres- ent office at 211 Courtland street. During 1887 Mr. Clendinen acted as United States Attorney, by appointment of the Attorney General, vice Thomas G. Hayes, who was in ill-health and spent that year abroad. Mr. Clendinen was married November 10, 1874, to Alice, daughter of the late J. Alex- ander Shriver, for many years President and General Manager of the Baltimore and Philadelphia Steamboat Company, and New York and Baltimore Transportation Line. Mrs. Clendinen died November 26, 1896, leaving two children, Alice and Vio- let, students at Miss Lefebfre's private school, Baltimore. The family reside at 27 East Mount Vernon Place, and attend Emanuel P. E. Church.

DR. CHARLES WESLEY MCELFRESH was born in Fairmount, Marion county, W. Va., May 30, 1866. He is a son of James and the late Alice (Gantz) McElfresh, natives of West Virginia, the former of Scotch-Irish, the latter of German descent. James McElfresh was for many years su- perintendent of the Gas and Gas Coal Company, of Fairmount, but has latterly been engaged as an agriculturist of Marion county, W. Va. Dr. C. W. McElfresh completed his general education at Fair- mount High School, then began the study of medicine under the preceptorship of Dr. John Reger, of Fairmount. He came to Baltimore in 1887, and entered the School of Medicine of Maryland Univer- sity, from which institution he was gradu- ated in 1889. During the following year he was connected with the University Dis-

pensary and has since engaged in the prac- tice of his profession with office and resi- dence at 854 West Lombard street. He was married March 2, 1889, to Anna, daughter of the late Robert Applegarth, merchant of Baltimore. Dr. and Mrs. McElfresh have one child, Hattie. They attend Calvary M. E. Church, South.

GERMAN H. HUNT, Vice-President of the Baltimore Trust and Guarantee Company, was born in Baltimore in 1829. At the age of fifteen he left school and entered the es- tablishment of John Watchman, in South Baltmore, to learn the trade of machinist. On January 1, 1851, he started into the foundry and machine business in a modest way on North street in partnership associa- tion with Robert Poole, under the firm name of Poole & Hunt. The development of this enterprise is one of the most inter- esting and important chapters in the indus- trial history of Baltimore. Mr. Hunt was the business manager of this great concern, and both he and Mr. Poole machinists of exceptional ability, and men of boundless energy. On January 1, 1889. after thirty- eight years of continuous connection with the firm, Mr. Hunt retired from the busi- ness, and has since been engaged in im- portant financial undertakings. He was Secretary and President of the Maryland Institute during the decade preceding 1860. He has been a Director of the Franklin Bank. He has been a director for thirty years in the Central Savings Bank. He was one of the founders of the Merchants' and Manufacturers' Association, of which he served as Vice-President and President. He is a Director of the Board of Trade, a trustee of the McDonough Fund, and a

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member of the Board of Park Commis- sioners. He is a Democrat, and has been frequently urged to accept the mayoralty and other nominations at his party's hands, but has never had political aspirations. He was a delegate-at-large to the Democratic National Convention of 1888. Mr. Hunt is one of the strongest men in the Methodist Church of the city. He is a member of the Madison Avenue M. E. Church, and has been superintendent of its Sunday-school for twenty-five years. Many positions of honor and trust in the church have been conferred upon him, among them that of Treasurer of the Methodist Episcopal Con- ference, held in Washington in 1891. He assisted in the organization of the Baltimore Trust and Guarantee Company, one of the strong financial institutions of the city, and was its first president. This position he re- signed to devote his time to his private business, and to various charitable associa- tions in which he feels much interest.

CHARLES GOLDSBOROUGH KERR, Attor- ney-at-Law, was born in Easton, Talbot county, Md., October 23, 1832. He is a son of the late Hon. John Leeds and Eliza (Goldsborough) Kerr, natives of Maryland, and descendants respectively of Scotch and English settlers of the colonies. David Kerr, Charles G. Kerr's paternal grandfather was a native of Dunreith, Shire of Galloway, Scotland, who came to the American colonies in 1769, locating in Falmouth, Va., removing thence to Annap- olis, and from the latter place to Tal- bot county, which he represented in the House of Delegates in 1798. He died at Easton in 1816. His son, the late John Leeds Kerr, was one of the leaders of the

bar of Talbot county and of the Eastern Shore of Maryland, was a member of Con- gress for three terms, viz: 1825-27, 1827-29 and 1831-33; and a United States Senator from 1841-43. He was a member of the National Whig Convention held at Harris- burg in 1839, and one of the State electoral ticket for the "Log Cabin" candidates. Be- fore entering Congress Mr. Kerr was agent of Maryland for the prosecution of militia claims against the United States growing out of the War of 1812 He died February 21, 1844; his wife died in December, 1870. On the maternal side, Mr. Charles G. Kerr is lineally descended from Nicholas Golds- borough, who came from England and set- tled in Kent Island about 1640. One of his descendants, Charles Goldsborough, of Dorchester county, maternal grandfather of Mr. Charles G. Kerr, was Governor of Maryland in 1817, and a member of Con- gress from 1805 to 1817. He died Decem- ber 13, 1834.

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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