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 85

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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Matthai, also natives of Saxe Meiningen, as were their ancestors as far back as the genealogies of both families are traceable. John Christopher Peter Beck, Mr. Matthai's maternal grandfather, was during Napoleon Bonaparte's reign, and for a period of twenty-five years, Mayor of his native town, Haselbach. John C. Matthai received a common school education, and at the age of fourteen was apprenticed to learn his father's trade of blacksmithing and edged tool making, and three years later, having mastered his trade, came to the United States, locating in Baltimore, where he worked for various firms until 1846. He then established himself in a general black- smithing business on Pennsylvania avenue, where he remained until 1866, when he teni- porarily retired from business, removing his residence to Linden Hill, Baltimore county, where he has since lived. In 1870 the firm of Matthai & Ingram was established for the manufacture of tinware, the firm con- sisting of the subject of this sketch and James E. Ingram, his son-in-law, and doing business on Lexington street. In 1872 George N. Knapp became a member of the firm, the business was removed to Howard street, and the manufacture of Japanned ware added thereto. In 1884 William H. Matthai, son of John C. Matthai, was ad- mitted to the firm, which, since the partner- ship association of Mr. Knapp, has been known as Matthai, Ingram & Co., with its manufacturing establishment on Lexington street up to 1888 and since occupying the newly-erected extensive plant bounded by Ohio avenue, Light, Byrd and Winder streets, and having a floor area of more than eleven acres. In June, 1895, the firm lo- cated their sample room and offices in the

building Nos. 109, III and 113 Hanover street. Mr. Matthai married, June 4, 1846, Theresa Jackins, a native of Alsace, whose parents located in Baltimore during her early childhood. She died November, 1873, leaving seven children: Amelia, wife of James E. Ingram; Elizabeth, wife of Wil- liam Baker, of Baltimore; Sarah, wife of Henry Reifle, retired business man, of Bal- timore; Martha, wife of E. E. Muller, sales- man, of Baltimore; William H., a member, and Joseph F., an employe of the firm, and Miss Florence Theresa. John C. Matthai is one of the Board of Trustees and Stew- ards of Arlington Methodist Episcopal Church, South, of which the family are members.

DR. THOMAS WILKINSON GREENLEY was born in Hillsboro, Caroline county, Md., November 6, 1865. He is a son of the late Alexander and Anna (Wilkinson) Greenley, natives of Maryland and descendants of early English settlers of the colony. Rev. Christopher Wilkinson, maternal great- great-grandfather of Doctor Greenley, was an Episcopalian divine of distinction, a graduate of Oxford, who built the churches at Hillsboro, Hibernia and Wye, Md. His remains are interred under the church at Wye. Thomas W. Greenley completed his general education at Swarthmore College, Pa., and while engaged as a pharmacist for several years at Easton, Md., took up the study of medicine, which he subsequently continued under the preceptorship of Dr. J. M. Wilkinson, Dover, Del. He was grad- uated from the medical department of Mary- land University in 1888 and during the final year of this course was a resident student at the University General Hospital. Follow-

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ing his graduation he pursued the practice of his profession at Trappe, Md., up to 1895, when he located in Baltimore. He is a member of the Medical and Chirurgical Faculty of Maryland and of the Clinical So- ciety of Baltimore. He was married Octo- ber 7, 1892, to Nellie, daughter of the late Hon. I. Davis Clark, late member of Con- gress from Talbot county, Md. Dr. and Mrs. Greenley have two children, Lenore and Clark; reside at 1805 N. Charles street, and are members of St. Michael and All Angels Episcopal Church.

FREDERICK H. GOTTLIEB, Secretary and General Manager of Wehr-Hoblemann- Gottlieb Brewing and Malting Co., was born in Hungary in 1853, came to this country with his parents when a child, and is to all intents and purposes an American in character and sympathies. Although but young, in the forties, he has been closely identified with brewing and malting inter- ests for upwards of twenty years, and the popularity and esteem in which he is held by his colleagues has long extended beyond the confines of his own State. Mr. Gott- lieb's connection with the brewing and malt- ing trades commenced with his employment as book-keeper in the malt house of John Butterfield, Wheeling, W. Va., who in 1876 bought the old Baltimore Brewery, occupy- ing a portion of the site of the present Model Globe Brewery in Baltimore, and the sub- ject of this sketch, who had in the mean- time married Mr. Butterfield's daughter, was given an interest in the Old Ale and Porter Brewery. Enlisting the financial support of Mr. Frederick Wehr (since de- ceased) and Mr. H. H. Hoblemann, he was instrumental in establishing the present

business and in the erection of its handsome brewery and malt house, one of the most important in the State of Maryland, to the success of which his business acumen and energy have largely contributed.

He was also actively interested in the es- tablishment of the Consumer's Brewing Co., Harrisburg, Pa., in which he is a director, while his familiarity with the theory as well as the practice of business methods, is at- tested by his authorship of a clever work on "Averaging Accounts," which is regarded as an authority on the subject.

In the affairs of the trade generally, as represented by its various associations, Mr. Gottlieb has taken special interest. He was instrumental in organizing the former Brewers' and Malters' Association of Bal- timore, of which he was secretary during almost the entire period of its existence, and from this organization has been evolved the present Brewers' Exchange of Balti- more, of which he was two years president and four years member of its Board of Trus- tees. His efforts were also largely instru- mental in inducing the Exchange to erect its handsome building which is alike an or- nament to the city and a credit to the brew- ing fraternity. As a member for three years of the Board of Trustees of the United States Brewers' Association, he has ren- dered services to that organization and the trade at large that have been recognized on more than one occasion in its official docu- ments, and he has proved himself ever ready to defend and advance, with voice and pen, the interests and welfare of the brewing in- dustry, as he has done on several occasions before the Legislature of the State.

A member of the leading clubs and socie- ties in Baltimore, Mr. Gottlieb enjoys

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marked social popularity, which is enhanced by his genial personality, courteous de- meanor and refined tastes. A skilled musi- cian and liberal patron of the art, he has at- tained more than local fame as a performer on the flute. This is not surprising, as he comes from a musical family, his brother, Will B. Gottlieb, who is well known as a malt broker in New York, being a com- poser of note, while another brother has at- tained fame in the theatrical profession. He is equally adept with the brush, and as a di- rector of the Charcoal Club has many warm friends among leading artists in the South. Affable, generous and withal a keen, active business man, he is a highly creditable representative of the industry it has been his constant effort to elevate.

DR. GEORGE BROWN REYNOLDS .- This gentleman was born in Cumberland county, Va., October 26, 1846. He is a son of the late James W. and Julia Ann (Carter) Rey- nolds, natives of Virginia and descendants of colonial settlers, the latter lineally de- scended from "King" Carter, one of the most prominent characters in Virginia's his- tory, and one of its earliest English settlers and great landed proprietors. Dr. George B. Reynolds was educated in private schools, entered the medical department of the University of Virginia, and was gradu- ated from Washington University, class of '72. Following graduation he was for one year resident physician at Bay View Asy- lum, and for about three years thereafter physician in charge of the old City Hospi- tal. During the latter period he was Dem- onstrator of Anatomy, medical department Washington University, resigning both of the latter positions to enter upon general

practice, in which he has since been engaged with present office and resi- dence at 809 N. Charles street, Bal- timore. Doctor Reynolds was for a number of years visiting physician to Bay View Asylum. He has taken a lively interest in and devoted as much time as possible to the service of a num- ber of benevolent and charitable insti- tutions of the city. He is one of the Board of Directors of the Children's Aid Society and Girls' Home, Watson Home and Home for Consumptives, and is consulting physi- cian to the last named. He has been for many years physician to Calvert Street Boys' Home. He is a member of the American Medical Association, Medical and Chirurgical Faculty of Maryland, Baltimore Clinical Society, Baltimore Med- ical Society and Baltimore Medical and Surgical Societies. He is a Mason and a member of and medical examiner for Independent Order of Heptasophs, Royal Arcanum, American Legion of Honor and Ancient Order United Workmen. He was married June 15, 1875, to Ada Campbell, daughter of the late Charles B. Fiske, of Washington, D. C., a graduate of Yale and a noted civil engineer, chief of the corps in the construction of the eastern end of the Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad. The ser- vices of Engineer Fiske were in demand wherever difficult feats in engineering were required. One of the greatest of the South American nations offered him practically his own terms to assume charge of the gov- ernmental engineering work, which included railroad construction and other great pub- lic works. The Fiskes of America are de- scended from English ancestors of noble lineage. Mrs. Dr. Reynolds is on the mater-

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nal side granddaughter of the late Maj. Charles Bender of the U. S. Army, who was a son of George Bender, a soldier in the War of the Revolution. Dr. and Mrs. Rey- nolds have four children: Charles C., stu- dent at St. John's College; Mary Elizabeth; Stanley Meade and Julia Ann Carter Rey- nolds. The family are communicants of Grace Protestant Episcopal Church.

JOHN FLETCHER PARLETT, Collector of the city of Baltimore, was born in Baltimore, March 1, 1853. He is a son of the late Ben- jamin F. and Mary (Taylor) Parlett, natives of Maryland, the former of French, the lat- ter of German descent. Benjamin F. Par- lett established a wholesale tobacco business in Baltimore in 1843. In 1874 he added a tobacco manufacturing business at Danville, Va., continuing both businesses in conjunc- tion with his sons, John F. and Benjamin F. Parlett, Jr., until July, 1884, when he retired because of failing health, disposing of his business to his sons. He died September 3, 1884. The business continued to be con- ducted under the original firm name of B. F. Parlett & Co., B. F. Parlett, Jr., subse- quently retiring from the firm and John F. Parlett finally closing up the Danville factory and the Baltimore jobbing trade, and connecting himself with the R. J. Rey- nolds Tobacco Company, of Winston, N. C., with which he is still associated as resi- dent director and manager of the eastern territory. He was nominated by his honor, Mayor Hooper, to the position of City Col- lector in March, 1896; the appointment was confirmed the following November and he entered upon the discharge of the duties of his office December 3, 1896. He was mar- ried January 10, 1878, to Susan M., daughter

of the late Thomas G. Evans, for many years one of Baltimore's leading builders. Mr. and Mrs. Parlett have three children, Car- rie Melville, Florence Edna, and Mary; re- side at 1717 Park Place and are members of Mount Vernon Place Methodist Church, of the Board of Trustees of which Mr. Par- lett was a member for several years.

CAPT. SETH S. ULLRICH, M. D., Surgeon for the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad and As- sistant Surgeon of the Fourth Regiment of Maryland National Guard, with the rank of captain on Col. Willard Howard's staff, re- sides at No. II N. Carey street, Baltimore. Of southern birth, but of northern and German parentage, he was born in Louis- iana, May 18, 1858, being a son of John H. and Leah C. (Stevens) Ullrich, natives, re- spectively, of Germany and Pennsylvania. The Ullrich family was prominent in Nur- emberg, where the Doctor's great-grand- father attained the great age of one hun- dred and five years. The Doctor's father came to America in 1847, when a young man, and for many years engaged in mer- cantile pursuits, but now, at the age of sev- enty-four, is living in retirement from active labors. He was one of three brothers who participated in the Civil War as sol- diers in the Union Army. The Doctor's grandfather was a soldier in the War of 1812, and when eighty-seven years of age, was killed on the 4th of July, 1874, in a railroad bridge accident, he with a num- ber of others having taken refuge there dur- ing a storm which blew the bridge down. The mother of our subject was a woman of noble character and was especially inter- ested in church matters; of a hospitable dis- position, her home was the headquarters for

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ministers and her labors were unrivaled to promote the happiness of those who labored for the world's salvation. She died in 1894, at the age of sixty-six years.

The youngest of three sons, Doctor Ullrich was educated in Dickinson Semi- nary, Williamsport, Pa., and entered upon the study of medicine in Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, in 1877. He re- mained a student in that institution until he was graduated in 1881, carrying off one of the honors in a class of two hundred and sixty-five. Upon the completion of his course of lectures, he gained practical ex- perience by study in the hospitals of Phila- delphia and New York, and as surgeon in the Belgian mercantile marine service. In 1885 he opened an office in Baltimore, where he has since practiced. For three years he was chief surgeon in the City Hos- pital Dispensary, and since 1893 has been surgeon for the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Company. June 26, 1895, Doctor Ullrich married Catharine E., daughter of the late J. J. and Frances Boyd, of Baltimore. She is a member of the Episcopal Church, with which the Doctor is also identified. Fra- ternally he is a member of St. John's Chap- ter, No. 19; Crusade Commandery, No. 5, Knights Templar, and Boumi Temple, Mystic Shrine. He is also identified with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, the Junior Order American Mechanics and the Daughters of Liberty. As a believer in Democratic principles he takes an interest in politics and public affairs. He is an en- thusiast on horse matters and writes for a number of papers on that subject. His so- cial qualities are of a high order, and his genial manner wins friends. Few men are more capable than he of bringing all around |

him to an appreciation of the great value of a vigorous intellect and a genial nature.

DR. MILTON RAPHAEL WALTER was born in Baltimore, June 30, 1870. He is a son of Abraham and Paulina (Jordan) Wal- ter, natives of Baltimore and respectively of Bavarian and Westphalian parentage. Ra- phael Walter came to this country and lo- cated about 1830 in Baltimore, and in con- nection with a brother established a whole- sale clothing business under the firm name of R. Walter & Bro. This firm was suc- ceeded by that of R. Walter's Sons, of which Abraham Walter was senior member. Mil- ton R. Walter attended the public schools and City College of Baltimore, graduated from Maryland College of Pharmacy in 1890 and from Maryland University medi- cal department in 1893. During the last year of his university course he was resi- dent student at the University Hospital and the year following his graduation assistant resident physician at Bay View Asylum. In 1895 he was assistant in neurological de- partment of Johns Hopkins Dispensary, and the following year was spent at the Univer- sity of Berlin, Prussia, where he was assist- ant to Professor Krause, throat and nose department. Since his return to Baltimore Doctor Walter has been assistant laryngolo- gist Bay View Asylum and assistant in the nose and throat department, Maryland Uni- versity. He is a member of the Medical and Chirurgical Faculty of Maryland and Bal- timore Clinical Society, has his office at 1301 Madison avenue, and resides at 1833 Bolton street.

DR. WILLIAM JAMES HUGHES was born in Baltimore, July 18, 1865. He is a son of

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William H. and Mary Elizabeth (Smith) Hughes, natives of Maryland and descend- ants, respectively, of early Welsh and Eng- lish settlers of the colony. John Hughes, Doctor Hughes' paternal grandfather, lo- cated in Baltimore from Harford county, Md., as a boy, and by dint of industry and perseverance accumulated a large fortune which he lost in the Spanish Main. Noth- ing daunted he started afresh and amassed a competency in the undertaking and cabi- net making business, in which he was asso- ciated with his son, William H. Hughes. 'The former died in 1887, the latter has re- tired from business and resides at Royal Oak, Md. James Smith, Doctor Hughes' maternal grandfather, was for many years one of Baltimore's leading contractors and built numerous of the public buildings of the city and vicinity. He resides at 621 W. Lafayette avenue. Dr. W. J. Hughes at- tended the public schools at Baltimore, was graduated from Maryland University medi- cal department in 1893 and during the last year of his university course was resident physician at Maternite Hospital and has since been engaged in general practice with present office and residence at 1811 E. Bal- timore street. Doctor Hughes is a mem- ber of Maryland University Alumni Associa- tion. He was married February 28, 1895, to Anna C., daughter of Adam Pole, mer- chant tailor, of Baltimore. Doctor Hughes is a member of the Episcopal and his wife of the Lutheran Church.

DR. EDWARD PONTNEY IRONS was born in Baltimore, October 12, 1824. He is a son of the late Dr. James and Rebecca (Kelly) Irons, natives of Maryland, respect- ively of English and French-Irish ancestry, and descendants of early settlers of Mary-

land. Edward P. Irons received a common school education and was variously em- ployed in mercantile pursuits in several of the Southern States until 1863, when he re- turned to Baltimore and entered the medi- cal department of Maryland University, from which he was graduated two years later. During the closing months of the Civil War he was assistant surgeon in the Officers' Hospital at Annapolis. For one year thereafter he was engaged in the prac- tice of medicine in Alabama returning thence to Baltimore, where he has ever since followed his profession. He is a member of the Medical and Surgical Society of Balti- more and of the Medical and Chirurgical Faculty of Maryland. He is a Mason and a member of the Royal Arcanum and subordinate medical examiner of the latter order. He was married, March 20, 1851, to Anna Rebecca, daughter of the late Thomas H. Sewell, manufacturer, of Baltimore. One daughter, born of this marriage, Anna Rowe, married Samuel Pleasants, lawyer, of Baltimore, by whom she had one child, Honora H. Pleasants. Mr. Pleasants died and his widow mar- ried J. W. Ramsey, dealer in wooden and willow ware, Baltimore. Doctor and Mrs. Irons reside at 1835 E. Baltimore street and attend Broadway Methodist Protestant Church.

DR. J. WILLIAM CORRELL was born in Winchester, Va., August 14, 1825. He is a son of the late Abraham and Ann (Lyder) Correll, natives of Virginia and descend- ants of early English settlers of the colony. Dr. J. W. Correll was educated at private schools and the Academy, Winchester; studied medicine under the preceptorship of Dr. Hugh Maguire and was admitted to

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practice in Virginia in 1847. At the break- ing out of the war he enlisted in the Con- federate Army and served throughout the entire war as surgeon and in different ca- pacities. In 1866 he came to Baltimore and was for a number of years engaged in Mary- land University Hospital service and since been engaged in general practice. He was married October 17, 1850, to Lucinda, daughter of the late Thomas Latham, of Winchester, Va. One daughter, born of this union, is the wife of John Shinn, auditor of Lehigh Valley Railroad with headquarters at Baltimore. Dr. and Mrs. Correll reside at 1105 Argyle avenue and are members of Eutaw Place Baptist Church. Doctor Cor- rell is a Mason.

DR. JOHN HAMPTON SCALLY was born in Baltimore, June 23, 1870. He is a son of John and the late Ellen (Cushley) Scally; the former a native of Belfast, Ireland; the latter a Baltimorean by birth and descended from early Irish settlers of the colony of Maryland. John Scally was for thirty years a leather merchant in Baltimore, but since 1892 has been a dealer in furniture. His wife died January 1I, 1885. Their son, John Hampton Scally, attended the public schools and City College of Baltimore, graduated from Maryland College of Phar- macy in 1890 and was engaged for several years thereafter as a pharmacist in Balti- more. He studied medicine under Dr. J. C. Monmonier, and was graduated from the College of Physicians and Surgeons with the class of 1892. During 1892 he served as assistant resident physician at Spring Grove Asylum and has since been engaged in gen- eral practice with office and residence at 1807 E. Fayette street.

DR. CHARLES JOHN CARROLL was born at Dennisville, Cape May county, N. J., De- cember 16, 1872. He is a son of the late John and Mary (Van Gilder) Carroll, the former of English, the latter of Scotch de- scent. Charles J. Carroll received his initial education in the public schools of his native county. Following this he took up the study of pharmacy and had charge of a drug store at South Seaville, N. J., a business which he abandoned to enter the medical department of the University of Pennsyl- vania, from which institution he was grad- uated with the class of '95. He then came to Baltimore and became assistant in the surgical dispensary of Johns Hopkins Hos- pital, which service continued for one year, following which he was for brief periods in the nerve and general medicine depart- ments and has been since December, 1897, with the gynecological department under Dr. Howard A. Kelly. Doctor Carroll is a member of the State Medical State Society and of the Royal Arcanum. His office and residence are at 2508 E. Baltimore street.

DR. HENRY AYRES HYLAND was born at Moundsville, Marshall county, W. Va., Au- gust 15, 1854. He is a son of the late Rev. William L. and Eliza J. (Machir) Hyland, the former a native of Maryland, and the latter of Ohio, and both of Scotch descent. Henry Hyland, paternal great-grandfather of Dr. H. A. Hyland, was one of three bro- thers who fled from Scotland because of a political offense, and located in Maryland prior to the Revolutionary War. His son, Henry Hyland, was a physician, an 1812 graduate of the University of Pennsylvania. He practiced medicine in Maryland. His son, Rev. William L. Hyland, was an Epis-

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copal minister,' who, in early manhood, left Maryland to engage in missionary work in West Virginia, marrying and settling in Moundsville, where he built the Episcopal Church edifice. His next charge was at Parkersburg, where the erection of the new- est Episcopal Church structure was com- menced during his ministry. Returning thence to Maryland he ministered to a con- gregation in Prince George's county until disabilities necessitated his retirement from the ministry, and thereafter until his de- cease (1892) he resided in Washington, D. C. James Machir, maternal great-grand- father of Dr. H. A. Hyland, located in the valley of Virginia, and early in the century represented his district in Congress. His son moved into Kentucky and finally lo- cated at Dayton, O. Dr. H. A. Hyland was educated at the public schools and academy, Parkersburg, W. Va., graduated from Bryant, Stratton & Sadler's Commer- cial College in 1873, engaged in the drug business at Baltimore and later in Pitts- burg, and then established himself in the drug business at Hyndman, Pa., where he remained for nine years, and during which period he took up the study of medicine. In 1888 he entered the College of Physi- cians and Surgeons, of Baltimore, where he attended one course of lectures, when the burning of his store at Hyndman compelled his return to that place and the consequent temporary abandonment of medical studies. Upon his return to Baltimore in 1891 he was made dispensary physician of Balti- more University, graduated from the insti- tution in 1892, continuing his dispensary work for another year and fulfilling also the duties of clinical assistant to Dr. P. B. Wil-

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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