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 82

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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JOHN STAFFORD WOODWARD was born in Baltimore, November II, 1870. He is a son of Prof. David A. and Josephine (Laty) Woodward, the former a native of Pennsyl- vania, of English descent, the latter a na- tive of Maryland and of French-English descent. David A. Woodward was for twenty years professor of drawing and painting in the Maryland Institute, of which he was principal, and is now pursuing his artistic calling with studio on Lexington street. J. Stafford Woodward was edu- cated in public and private schools of Bal- timore and was engaged in mercantile pur- suits for several years, then forming his present partnership association with R. Brent Walling under the firm name of Walling & Woodward and transacting a law, real estate and collection business at 228 St. Paul street. Mr. Woodward resides at Relay, Md., and is a communicant of St. Luke's Episcopal Church.

ISAAC MCCURLEY, Attorney-at-Law, was born in Baltimore, February 21, 1840. He is a son of the late William and Mary (Cur- ley) McCurley, natives of Baltimore and descendants of early Scotch-Irish settlers of Pennsylvania. Felix McCurley and James Curley, the paternal and maternal grand- fathers of the immediate subject of this sketch, located in Baltimore respectively in 1799 and 1802. James Curley rendered much valuable public service, was City Commissioner for twelve years, a member of the City Council and of the State Legis- lature. William McCurley went to Califor- nia in 1849, where he died the following year. Isaac McCurley completed his gen- eral education at Dickinson College, Car- lisle, Pa., where he was graduated with the class of '62. He then enlisted in Company B, roth Maryland Volunteer Infantry, and served until 1864. During the last year of his college course he took up the study of law, resumed it upon his return from the army under the preceptorship of the late George M. Gill and was admitted to prac- tice in December, 1864. His present office is at 227 St. Paul street. Mr. McCurley was in 1882 appointed auditor of the Cir- cuit Court of Baltimore, a position which he still holds. He was married January 13, 1870, to Annie, daughter of the late William H. Stran, for many years and up to the time of his decease a merchant of Baltimore. Mr. and Mrs. McCurley have five children: William S., Annie, James W., Kate A. S. and Mary T. McCurley. William S. and James W. McCurley are engaged in mer- cantile pursuits in Baltimore. The eldest daughter, Annie, is the wife of Charles G. Summers, Jr., a merchant of Baltimore. Mr. and Mrs. McCurley reside at 1311 Mad- ison avenue and attend the Madison Ave-

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nue M. E. Church. Mr. McCurley is a member of the Grand Army of the Republic and has filled the office of Post Commander.

JAMES S. CALWELL, Attorney-at-Law, was born in Baltimore, November 25, 1855. He is a son of the late Lucien B. and Harriet (Sloan) Calwell, natives of Baltimore and descendants of early settlers of Maryland. Lucien B. Calwell was for many years a member of the firm of Sloan & Calwell, wholesale liquor dealers of Baltimore. He died in January, 1871; his widow resides in Baltimore county. James S. Calwell was educated by private tutors and at Steu- art Hall, attended lectures of the law de- partment of Maryland University while reading under the preceptorship of Charles H. Wyatt and Frederick F. Benzinger; was admitted to the bar in 1880, engaged in the practice of his profession alone until 1888, when he formed his present partnership association with Harry M. Benzinger under the firm name of Ben- zinger & Calwell. Mr. Calwell is Secretary and Treasurer of Irvington Real Estate Company, of Baltimore; a member of the Reform League, Civil Service Reform As- sociation, University Club, Jr. O. U. A. M., and Royal Arcanum. He was married June 17, 1891, to Amanda, daughter of Daniel Scott, a lawyer of Belair, whose father, Otto Scott, a distinguished jurist, first, in 1860, codified the laws of Maryland. Mr. and Mrs. Calwell have three children, Amanda Norris, James S., Jr., and Lucien B .; reside at Irvington and attend St. George's P. E. Church, an edifice which is beautified with four memorial windows to deceased members of the Calwell family.

DR. EDWARD AUGUSTUS SMITH was born April 14, 1862, in Baltimore, Md. He is a son of Henry and the late Josephine B. (Tilyard) Smith, the former a native of London, Eng., and the latter of Baltimore and of English descent. Mr. Henry Smith was engaged for a time in mercantile and manufacturing lines but has been for the past forty years in the employ of the North- ern Central Railway Company of Balti- more. Dr. E. A. Smith received his edu- cation in the public schools of Baltimore and was engaged as book-keeper for some years thereafter, during which period he be- gan the study of medicine, continuing it un- der the preceptorship of Dr. A. C. Pole, and at the Baltimore Medical College, from which institution he was graduated in 1891. He has ever since been one of the faculty of that college, occupying the chairs suc- cessively of Demonstrator (assistant) of An- atomy, Demonstrator of Physical Diagno- sis, Chief of Clinics in the Dispensary, and is now (1897) Demonstrator of Obstetrics and Gynecology. He is a member of the Medical and Surgical Society of Baltimore, the Medical and Chirurgical Faculty of Maryland; the Royal Arcanum and the Loyal Additional Benevolent Association. He was married April 6, 1893, to Julia, daughter of the late Capt. James Tilghman. Dr. and Mrs. Smith have two children: Anna T. and Edward A .; reside at 2531 Pennsylvania avenue and are members of St. Peter's Episcopal Church.

DAVID HENRY SANDERS, senior member of the firm of Sanders & Stayman, dealers in pianos, etc., Baltimore and Washington, D. C., was born in Rowley, Essex county, Mass., November 29, 1840. He is a son

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of the late David and Elizabeth (Howe) Sanders, natives of Massachusetts, the for- mer of Scotch, the latter of English descent. David Sanders, grandfather of the immedi- ate subject of this sketch, located in Massa- chusetts from Scotland shortly after the Revolutionary War and became promi- nently identified with the interests of Es- sex county, which he represented in the State Legislature, and where he held a num- ber of offices of public trust. His son, too, was a valued and valuable citizen. The founder of the Howe family in the colonies was one of the early English settlers of New England and lineally descended from the same progenitors, as was Lord Howe one of the commanding officers of the British forces during the Revolutionary War. David Henry Sanders completed his educa- tion at Dummer Academy, Newbury, Mass., and then took up the study of music with a view to adopting it in one or other of its branches professionally. His studies were interrupted through the breaking out of the Civil War and his enlistment, May, 1861, in the 2nd Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, a part of the 12th Corps, up to and including the battle of Gettysburg, and thereafter upon the consolidation of the 12th and 20th Corps under the command of Gen. Joe Hooker, participating in all of the engagements of General Sherman's Georgia campaign. Mr. Sanders was suc- cessively promoted up to a lieutenancy. He was badly wounded in the battle of the Wilderness and was thereafter in the Vet- eran Corps. He was mustered out in 1864. Following his army service he was engaged as salesman for a Philadelphia piano house until 1867, when he came to Baltimore and founded the retail piano, organ and musi-

cal merchandise establishment, now known under the firm name of Sanders & Stayman, and doing business in Baltimore at 13 N. Charles street, with a branch house at 1327 F. street, N. W., Washington, D. C. The partnership association with the late Dr. J. H. Stayman was formed in 1871 and con- tinued up to the latter's decease, January 31, 1896. Mr. James N. Muller, now of the firm, became associated therewith in 1894. Mr. Sanders has been a patron of musical enterprises of Baltimore generally and has given much time to choir leading and choral conducting. He was married May 7, 1868, to Anna F., daughter of the late Samuel Fort, a prominent citizen of Burlington, N. J., whose family subsequent to his demise, located in Philadelphia. Mr. and Mrs. Sanders have three children: Blanche, Corinne and Evelyn Sanders; re- side at 2212 N. Charles street, and are mem- bers of the First Methodist Episcopal Church.

OLIN BRYAN, Attorney-at-Law, was born in Queen Anne's county, Md., June 22, 1863. He is a son of the late Wm. I. and Mary C. (Bryan) Bryan, natives of Mary- land, of Scotch-Irish descent, and descend- ants of early settlers of the State. Wm. I. Bryan died in 1870; his widow now re- sides in Baltimore. Their son, Olin, at- tended Dover Academy and then entered the law department of Maryland University, from which institution he was graduated in 1887. Immediately thereafter he was ad- mitted to the bar by the Supreme Bench at Baltimore, then entering upon the practice of his profession at Centreville, Queen Anne's county, where he remained until May 1, 1896, when he removed to Baltimore

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and formed his present partnership associa- . tion with Mr. Alfred J. Carr. Mr. Bryan was an active Democratic partisan during his career in Queen Anne's county, was clerk of the County Commissioners from 1887 to 1891, and a member of the State Legislature during the session of 1892. He is a member of the Knights of Pythias and one of the Grand Trustees of that order; a member of the Improved Order of Hepta- sophs and one of its Supreme Law Council; a member of the Essenic Order and its treasurer, and a Mason. He was married January 22, 1890, to Anna L., daughter of John Dodd, real estate agent, of Queen Anne's county. Mr. and Mrs. Bryan have three children, Dodd, Katherine and Hen- rietta; reside at 2021 N. Calvert street, and are members of the First Methodist Episco- pal Church.

ROBERT MAGRUDER, President of the Union Credit Company, Baltimore, was born in Washington, D. C., March 24, 1856. He is a son of the late Thomas J. and Sarah A. (Botler) Ma- gruder, natives of Prince George's county, Md., and descendants of early settlers of Southern Maryland. Thomas J. Ma- gruder was the first wholesale shoe mer- chant south of Baltimore, establishing him- self in that line at Washington, in 1844, and removing thence to Baltimore in 1861, where he was so engaged up to the time of his decease, July, 1890. The business founded by him is continued under the original firm name of T. J. Magruder & Co., in Baltimore, by his sons, Lyttleton and Edward B. Magruder. Robert Mag- ruder received his initial schooling in pri- vate schools of Baltimore and completed his

education at Randolph-Macon College, Ashland, Va. He then entered the office of his father's establishment and upon attain- ing his majority was admitted to the part- nership, having charge, during the seven- teen years of his connection with the firm, of its credit department. In 1890 he founded the Union Credit Company, of which he is president and general manager. He is one of the Board of Trustees of Ran- dolph-Macon College and was from 1889 to 1895 President of the Board of County Commissioners of Baltimore county. Mr. Magruder was one of the incorporators and is now President of the Atlantic Permanent Building and Homestead Association of Baltimore. He is a Mason, Knight Tem- plar, member of the Order of the Golden Chain and Jr. O. U. A. M. He was mar- ried September 1I, 1877, to Elizabeth, daughter of the late James P. Thomas, banker and broker, of Baltimore. Mr. and Mrs. Magruder have five children: Ham- lin, with T. J. Magruder & Co .; Herbert T., student at Baltimore City College; Ethel R., Robert, Jr., and Donald; reside on Park Heights avenue, Baltimore county, and are members of Arlington M. E. Church South, of which Mr. Magruder has been a member of the board of trustees for seventeen years. He is President of Wesley Grove Camp- meeting Association; member of the Gen- eral Conference Sunday-school Board, which has charge of the entire Sunday- school work of the M. E. Church South; president of the Baltimore Conference Sun- day-school Board of M. E. Church South; member of the directory of the Wesleyan Female Institute, Staunton, Va., and mem- ber of Committee of General Conference M.

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E. Church South, to meet in Baltimore in I898.

CHARLES W. DORSEY, President of the Manufacturers' National Bank of Balti- more, was born in Waterford, Loudon county, Va., May 7, 1838. He is a son of the late Capt. Allen M. and Matilda J. (Polton) Dorsey, the former a native of Loudon county, Va. (1812), the latter of Baltimore county, Md. (1814), and both descendants of early settlers of the colo- nies. Capt. Allen M. Dorsey brought his family, in 1840, to Howard county, where he was engaged in business as a carpenter and builder up to the time of his decease in 1846. His wife died in 1875. Three of their children survive, viz .: Mrs. Sarah F. Waidner (widow), who resides in Balti- more; Mrs. Simmons Paxson, who resides at Byrwin, Md., and the immediate subject of this sketch. Charles W. Dorsey re- ceived a limited public school and business college education and as a boy was con- pelled to earn a livelihood, his first service being that of a clerk in a clothing store, where he remained for two years. He was then apprenticed to learn the trade of car- penter; served his time and worked as jour- neyman until 1861, when he obtained a situ- ation as a street car conductor in the em- ploy of the Baltimore City Passenger Rail- way Company. The following year he was appointed substitute receiver of the com- pany and in 1863 was promoted to the as- sistant superintendency of the Company's Green and Blue lines under William C. Ar- thur. In 1864 he was made superintendent of these lines, a position which he continued to hold until 1872, when he resigned to en- ter the firm of W. J. Dickey & Sons, wool

and cotton manufacturers, of Baltimore, with which he has ever since been con- nected. He succeeded the late W. J. Dickey as President of the Manufacturers' National Bank upon the decease of the lat- ter in 1896. Mr. Dorsey was married in December, 1872, to Lizzie A., daughter of the late William J. and Agnes (Murphy) Dickey, natives of the North of Ireland, who settled in Baltimore in youth. Mrs. Dor- sey died in 187. . and. in 1876 Mr. Dorsey married her sister, Sarah J. Dickey. The children are Lizzie A., wife of Rev. F. F. Kennedy, and Edgar A. Dorsey. The fam- ily reside at Wetheredsville, Baltimore county, and are members of the Presby- terian Church, in which Mr. Dorsey has been a ruling elder for many years. Mr. Dorsey is one of the Board of Directors of the Ashland Manufacturing Company of Baltimore county, and Treasurer of the Wetheredsville Savings Bank, of which he was one of the founders. He is a Mason, Knight Templar, and was First Master of Sharon Lodge, Arlington.

GEORGE C. WILKINS, General Agent Pennsylvania lines, Baltimore, was born in England, January 29, 1835, and began his long, honorable and fruitful railroad life in August, 1853, as rodman on surveys and construction of the Pittsburg and Connells- ville Railroad. He continued in that ser- vice until October, 1856, when he became an assistant engineer on the surveys and construction of the Southwest Branch and the main line of the Pacific Railroad of Mis- souri.

In October, 1861, he returned to the Pittsburg and Connellsville Railroad and served as ticket clerk, ticket and freight

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agent and superintendent's assistant in the transportation department until January, 1863, when he entered the employ of the Philadelphia and Erie Railroad as assistant engineer on construction, in which capacity and that of senior assistant engineer he was engaged until August, 1864, when he was made resident engineer of the Eastern Di- vision of that road. In March, 1866, he was promoted to be Superintendent of the Middle Division, Philadelphia and Erie Railroad, and in March, 1867, to be Super- intendent and Resident Engineer of the Ty- rone Division of the Pennsylvania Railroad. In November, 1873, he was transferred to Baltimore as Superintendent of the Balti- more Division of the Northern Central Railway, and in January, 1875, he was ap- pointed Superintendent of the Baltimore and Potomac Railroad, and of the line south of Washington to Alexandria, and Quan- tico, Va. Subsequently he was made Gen- eral Superintendent of the line from Marys- ville, Pa., to Quantico, Va .; and in January, 1883, he was promoted to General Agent of the Pennsylvania system of roads in Balti- more. His record in those positions com- prehends the development of the Baltimore Division of the Northern Central Railway, the acquiring of the Union Railroad, the double tracking of the Baltimore and Poto- mac Railroad, the creation of a large por- tion of the terminals at Baltimore and Washington, and the complete reorganiza- tion of the methods of operating these roads. For this work he was well equipped by his previous experience. When he took charge of the Baltimore Division in Novem- ber, 1873, the property was in a very un- satisfactory condition, its superstructure generally laid with iron rails, and with few

exceptions, the bridges were of wood and had nearly reached the limit of serviceable condition. To give the details of the re- building of the division, the ballasting and relaying of the track with steel rails, the re- placing of the weaker iron and wooden bridges with iron bridges adapted to the heavier locomotives and trains of the pres- ent day; the establishment of greater sys- tem and higher discipline in its operation; the development of its suburban travel and business, would make this sketch too vol- uminous and they are therefore omitted; it is only necessary to say that previous to 1883, when Mr. Wilkins retired from the general superintendency to become General Agent at Baltimore, the road had been brought up to the standard of the Penn- sylvania Railroad in respect to its roadway, tracks, masonry and bridges.

The Baltimore and Potomac road had only a single track, with a large passenger traffic, constantly increasing, and its opera- tion was a task involving the most con- stant care and great anxiety ; the extensions of the second or double track were pushed forward from time to time vigorously until the entire road was laid with double-track in May, 1883.

Mr. Wilkins has shown great ability and signal success in the direction and manage- ment of men. This is largely due to the fact that while he demands and secures the best possible results from their labor for the company, his treatment of the employes is just and kindly, attaching the men to the service, and creating that esprit de corps so essential in the operation of a great trust involving the employment of a large num- ber of men. He has always retained in himself the final judgment in all cases of

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discipline, and never delegates to a subor- dinate the right to suspend or discharge an employe for any cause. When he was transferred from the Tyrone Division of the Pennsylvania Railroad to the Baltimore Di- vision in 1873, he left that division, which he had received in the usual poor condition of a lateral branch, fully up to the Pennsyl- vania Railroad standard, and carried with him to his new field of labor the esteem and good-will of the employes left behind, as evidenced by a handsomely engrossed tes- timonial now hanging in his office, to "the ability, judgment, and above all, the high regard you have always shown for the just rights of all with whom your public busi- ness or private intercourse has brought you in contact has not only resulted in the suc- cess of this division, so that it stands second to none, but has won from all a warm re- gard for you, both officially and person- ally."

In the memorable strike of 1877, the em- ployes of the Baltimore Division, shopmen as well as trainmen, recognizing his con- scientious interest in their personal welfare, in the panicky condition of workingmen at that critical period, responded to his appeal to their manhood and loyalty by determin- ing that there should be no strike and no violence on the Baltimore Division, and there was none. Language cannot fully describe the feverish condition of labor, or the anxiety of those supervising it at this critical juncture, but Mr. Wilkins knew his men, and was known and recognized by them to be wise and just, and his words of counsel and admonition, fitly spoken and at the right time, stilled the threatened temp- est in North Baltimore, while under similar circumstances in South Baltimore the

strong arm of the military was required to protect the property of the Baltimore and Ohio Company, with only partial success. Not a dollar's worth of damage was done to the property of the Northern Central or Baltimore and Potomac Companies during that crisis. Thomas A. Scott, President of the road, in his annual report dated Febru- ary 28, 1878, in commenting upon the strike, said: "It is a source of great gratifi- cation to be able to commend the prompt action of Mr. Wilkins, Superintendent of the Baltimore Division, and the sensible and prudent course pursued by the other offi- cers and men in your service connected with the operation of and maintenance of your line through which the men declined to join in the strike, and remained at their posts. The Board desires to place on record their appreciation of this most satisfactory and honorable action upon the part of your offi- cers and employes."

And Frank Thomson, then General Man- ager, in his report, said: "It is a source of great gratification, however, to state that under the guidance of Mr. George C. Wil- kins, Superintendent of the Baltimore Divi- sion, our men stood firmly at their posts, manfully protected the property of the com- pany, faithfully and zealously performed the duties required of them, and exhibited a de- gree of loyalty and fidelity that, in view of the trying circumstances, is especially com- mendable."

In January, 1883, Mr. Wilkins was ap- pointed General Agent at Baltimore for all the railways centering there allied in inter- est with the Pennsylvania Railroad Com- pany. His duties require him to keep him- self advised in respect to commercial and other questions affecting the interests of the

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company, and to have general supervision of the business in that city.

JAMES E. INGRAM, JR., Attorney-at-Law, was born in Baltimore, November 12, 1873. He is a son of James E. Ingram, manufac- turer of Baltimore, whose personal history is contained in this volume. James E. In- gram, Jr., received his education in private schools and the Johns Hopkins University, of Baltimore, then entered the law depart- ment of the University of Maryland, from which institution he was graduated in June, 1896; his admission to the bar following im- mediately thereafter. He is now practicing law with offices in the Law Building.

JOHN J. WADE, Attorney-at-Law, was born in Montgomery county, Va., September 12, 1824. He is a son of the late John and Susannah (Trigg) Wade, natives of Vir- ginia, the former of Scotch-Irish, the latter of English descent. John Wade was a son of David Wade who came from Scotland at the close of the Revolutionary War, and after a short stay in Pennsylvania, settled at Charlottesville, Va., in 1784. The Triggs were among the earliest English settlers of Montgomery. Sol. Daniel Trigg, maternal grandfather of John J. Wade, was a soldier in the Revolutionary War. John J. Wade was graduated from Washington-Lee Col- lege, Class of '47, studied law under Alexan- der Eskridge, of Fincastle, Va., and was li- censed to practice in 1849. He pursued his profession in Montgomery county, serving for several terms as State's Attorney of Montgomery and Giles counties. At the breaking out of the war he enlisted in the Confederate Army, having command of a company, and during his first year's service

was promoted to a lieutenant-colonelcy and had command until the close of the war of the Fifty-fourth Virginia, the colonel of that regiment being for nearly all that period on detached duty and acting as brigadier gen- eral. The service of the Fifty-fourth was in Kentucky, Tennessee and Georgia, under Generals Bragg, Johnston and Hood. At the close of the war Mr. Wade resumed practice in Montgomery county, Va., where he remained until 1875 when he removed to Baltimore, where he has since followed his profession. He was married September 13, 1849, to Mary A., daughter of Gen. A. A. Chapman, of Monroe county, Va. (now West Virginia), General Chapman repre- sented his district in Congress for several terms. Mr. and Mrs. Wade have six sons: W. A. Wade, graduate of Virginia Univer- sity, class of '88, and lawyer of Baltimore; Dr. James T. Wade, of Nebraska; Geo. B. Wade, civil engineer, Baltimore; Walter I. Wade, mercantile business, Philadelphia; Dr. J. Percy Wade, Superintendent Spring Grove Asylum, and Hubert B. Wade, civil engineer, Delaware. Mr. and Mrs. Wade reside at 1819 Madison avenue, and are members of Maryland Avenue Presbyterian Church, of which Mr. Wade is an elder and member of the Board of Trustees.

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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