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 99

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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Jing integrity and honor. He is of a kindly and genial disposition and liked by all who know him. He and his family reside at 1926 Eutaw Place, Baltimore.

EDWARD S. JUDGE, Editor and Publisher, also Secretary of the National Food Pack- ers' Association, office 38 S. Holliday street, Baltimore; residence, Winston avenue, Go- vanstown, Baltimore county, Md.

This gentleman was born in Baltimore on the 25th of June, 1842. His father was Henry Judge and his mother's maiden name was Anne McNulty; his father was a native of Ireland, born on Easter Sunday in the year 1809. His mother was born in Dublin of English and Irish parentage in the year 1819. At sixteen years of age his father set- tled in the island of Jamaica, W. I., where he was connected with a firm dealing largely in music and musical instruments. He left there in 1840, coming to Baltimore. His mother died in January, 1866, and his father in August, 1871.

Mr. Henry Judge, who was very well known in Baltimore, was the father of twelve children, eleven of whom lived to be over forty years of age. Of these, eight were sons and three daughters. The latter all went into religious life and became nuns. Two of the sons also entered the religious life, one of whom is Rev. Charles J. Judge, professor in the College of St. Charles, near Ellicott City, Md., and the other, Rev. Wil- liam H. Judge, is at present a Jesuit mission- ary in Alaska, located among the miners at Forty Miles.

The subject of this article was educated partly at Calvert Hall and partly in the pub- lic schools of Baltimore; but at fifteen years of age, being well grown, he found himself

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occupation with the gilding firm of Barrett & Bros., where he remained until the out- break of the war. In June, 1862, near the close of his nineteenth year, he ran the blockade to Richmond and entered the Southern Army, joining Captain (after- wards Colonel) Herbert's company; and from that until his capture at Hatcher's Run on the 2d of April, 1865, he was steadily with the command, having had neither sickness nor furlough. In May, 1863, while in camp at Lacey's Springs, in the valley of Virginia, he was appointed by Colonel Herbert as as- sistant commissary of subsistence to Capt. J. Edgar Howard, who was regimental com- missary. After the Gettysburg campaign, shortly after the command reached Warren- ton, he was appointed by Captain Crane, then in command of the battalion, commis- sary sergeant, under the new law of the Con- federate Congress which had abolished the office of captain commissary, and substi- tuted that of commissary sergeant. As stated, he remained with the regiment through all its experiences until captured at Hatcher's Run on April 2, 1865. Thence he was sent as prisoner to Point Lookout, where he remained until June 9th following, when he returned to Baltimore. Here he went into the provision business for two years, but later gave his attention to orna- mental architectural work, which his previ- ous knowledge in the gilding and orna- mental business specially fitted him for. At this time he took out a patent for Papier- mache and Carton-Pierre work, and shortly afterwards went to Philadelphia, where he sold the right to use the same to some large manufacturers of ornamental work in that city. While superintending that branch of their business, he established a factory for

the manufacture of doll heads, on his own account; but receiving favorable offers from some capitalists there for the general work- ing of his patents, they formed a company for its manufacture. Success and loss marked the course of the next ten years; the six years following 1873 being continuously disastrous. In 1880 he dismissed his work- ing force, closed up his business and went West to start life afresh. He went to St. Louis, where he remained but two years, and then returned to Baltimore to take charge of a weekly paper which had been started in the interests of the Canned Goods Packers, known as The Trade, of which he was editor and publisher. He soon suc- ceeded in making it the organ of the canning interests and gave his attention to the build- ing up of the influence of the Canned Goods Exchange of Baltimore, of which he was for five years secretary. He resigned that posi- tion in 1889, after having organized the canned goods packers in various parts of the United States, and consolidated them in the National Canned Food Packers' Associa- tion, of which he was made secretary, an of- fice which he still retains.

From his earliest years Mr. Judge had a literary inclination, and about 1887 he bought out the Labor Free Press of Balti- more and several other weekly publications, including the Commercial Index, The Market Journal, The Farmers' Alliance Journal. La- ter on he purchased the Fifth Regiment Ga- cette, his purpose being to keep in touch with the Southern military movement.

In 1870, in Philadelphia, he married Miss Therese M. C. Leahy, the daughter of an officer of the Federal Army and a native of Philadelphia. Her father was Mr. James Leahy, a merchant of Philadelphia, of Irish

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descent : her mother had been Rebecca Fox. a lineal descendant of the Fox who came over with William Penn.

Mr. Judge has eight children living, five sons and three daughters; the three elder boys are connected with his business in the office in one way or another. As can be seen, he was born and raised in the Roman Catholic faith, and at 55 years of age says he cannot see that any other creed will make better men or women, if it is only properly lived up to by a liberal American mind. Some years ago he joined the Knights of Labor for the purpose of studying their views, and he believes the principles of the Order the best of any he knows of, and finds fault only with the fact that instead of championing the cause of the idle they os- tracize them as "scabs." While a member of this Order he was an urgent pleader for the idle man, maintaining that the only so- lution of our labor difficulties is for the em- ployes in each of the industries to divide the work that is to be done among all those who need to work to live by it; that it is of no consequence to body-politic whether a day's work is five hours or fifteen; that the only necessity is that the man shall be in demand and the rates of wages will adjust and fix themselves satisfactorily.

As editor of the Farmers' Alliance Journal, he was a foremost and fearless advocate of an increase of the currency, preferring greenbacks even to silver, and maintaining that while an increase of currency of any kind whatever will cause an inflation and a depreciation of the currency, unless the country is producing an amount of real value in equal proportion to the currency increase; it is equally true that an increase of the products of the country, the real ma-

terial wealth of the country, with no increase of the currency, will cause such an inflation and depreciation in value of the products as will ruin all producers, especially in a coun- try that is as heavily in debt as ours, for the conveniences of public and private life which always maintain their face value and do not depreciate as products do. He sums up his political views by saying that no republic can exist unless it cares primarily for its producers.

Mr. Judge is a member of the Society of the Army and Navy of the Confederate States in Maryland, and of the James R. Herbert Camp of Confederate Veterans of Baltimore. While all his present occupation is literary work, it is mainly of a commercial character ; he has done but little in the line of fiction and that only for his own private 11se.

MR. GEORGE C. MORRISON, Attorney-at- Law, offices 949 Equitable Building, was born in Baltimore June 13, 1869. He is the son of F. D. Morrison and Mary A. (Pat- rick) Morrison. His parents are Americans of Scotch-Irish descent. His father was born in Harford county, Md., in 1837 and his mother in New Hampshire in 1839, both of them coming from families who were among the early settlers of this country, their ancestors immigrating in the early part of the eighteenth century. Mr. Morrison was educated in Baltimore, first attending for several years the school of Mr. George G. Carey. Subsequently he entered the Johns Hopkins University, where he grad- uated in 1890, and took the degree of A. B. After graduation he taught school in this city from 1891 to 1893, at the same time at- tending the Law School of the University

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of Maryland. In 1893 he graduated from this university with the degree of L. B. Af- ter his admission to the bar, Mr. Morrison commenced the practice of his profession in Baltimore City, practicing in both the United States and State Courts. He has also given considerable attention to the study of co-operative banking systems so common in Europe, and is at present a di- rector of the Co-operative Savings and Loan Association of Baltimore City. Mr. Morrison is a member of the Alumni Asso- ciation of the Johns Hopkins University, and of the University of Maryland. He is also a member of the Alpha Delta Phi and Phi Beta Kappa fraternities, and of the Green Spring Valley Hunt Club. In poli- tics he is a Democrat.

Mr. Morrison stands well at the bar as a young lawyer, and painstaking and careful attorney and counsellor, and is regarded as having a promising future before him in his profession. He is genial and pleasant in his manners and is popular among his friends.

MR. JAMES H. SMITH, Attorney-at-Law, whose office is at 11 East Lexington street, was born in Howard county, Md., March 17, 184I. He is the son of Henry Smith and Sarah Ayler. His father was born in the north of Ireland and immigrated to this country in 1835, when eighteen years of age, and settled in Baltimore. His mother was a native of Maryland, and a res- ident of Baltimore. His father's profession was that of an accountant, and he followed his profession in Baltimore until his death in 1880. His mother died in 1858. His parents had four children: James H. Smith, the subject of this sketch; Joseph M. Smith,

merchant; William O. Smith, clerk, and Sarah E. Smith; all of them reside in Bal- timore. Mr. Smith was educated in the public and private schools of Baltimore. On finishing his education in 1858 he was employed for five years in the machine works of Pool & Hunt, of Baltimore. Af- terwards, for several years, he was in the mercantile business. He then studied law, and in 1870 was admitted to the bar in Tow- son, Baltimore county, and also was ad- mitted to the Baltimore bar, and he prac- tices in the courts of both Baltimore county and city.

On the 27th of May, 1872, he was married to Miss Frances R. Gibson, the daughter of James F. Gibson and Araminta (Sanders) Gibson. Mrs. Smith's father and mother were Marylanders and descended from old Maryland families. They have three chil- dren, two sons and four daughters. He and his family are Protestants and attend the Presbyterian Church. Mr. Smith is a Dem- ocrat and takes quite an active part in poli- tics. He has been elected a number of times by the Democratic party to the Baltimore- City Council, as a representative from the Twenty-second ward, serving as follows: In 1889, 1890, 1891, 1892, 1893, 1894 and again in 1896, and was chairman of the im- portant Committee of Ways and Means in 1890, 1891 and 1892; was a member of the same committee in 1896 and '97, and was president of the Second Branch, City Coun- cil, in 1893 and '94. Mr. Smith has always taken a prominent part in public affairs, and has been very active in the development of the annexed section of the city, the people of which section have kept him in the Coun- cil because of his abilities and great use- fulness to them and to the city, as he is con-

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sidered by people of all political parties as a model councilman, and a representative of whom the people of Baltimore can be proud. He stands high in his profession among the people, and as a man of sterling worth and honesty. He has been favorably and prominently mentioned a number of times for the nomination as Mayor of the city by the Democratic party. He is pres- ident of the Baltimore Association for the Improvement of the Condition of the Poor, and takes great interest in charity, and is ever active in looking after and helping those in need. He is president of the Citi- zens' Association of North Baltimore. Mr. Smith is very pleasant in manner and of a kindly disposition and is very popular with all classes of people. His home is 2455 Maryland avenue.

WALTER ROBEY TOWNSEND, Attorney- at-Law, offices 17 St. Paul street, was born in Baltimore county, July 20, 1857. He is the son of Wilson and Mary L. (Robey) Townsend. His father was born in Balti- more City, February 18, 1829, and his mother in Prince George's county, Md., October 14, 1838, both being descended from early English colonial settlers of Mary- land.

Wilson Townsend, a very prominent and popular man of his day, was a farmer and a large real estate owner, and for over thirty-eight years was connected in a confi- dential capacity as special agent with the Philadelphia, Wilmington and Baltimore Railroad Company. He also represented Baltimore county in the Legislature of Maryland, being a member of the House of Delegates in the session of 1878, elected to this position on the Democratic ticket. He

had three children, two of whom are living, Walter R. Townsend, the subject of this sketch, and Mrs. Elizabeth T. Douglas, wife of Mr. James M. Douglas, a promi- nent civil engineer of this city. They have one child, Malcolm Townsend Doug- las. The deceased child, Addie C., married Dr. Sidney O. Henkell, quarantine physi- cian of Baltimore. She died February 26, 1885. Mr. Townsend's mother resides at the old Townsend homestead, "Sunny Side," Rossville, Baltimore county, Md. His father died March 7, 1893.

Mr. Townsend was educated in the pub- lic schools of Baltimore City and county, and attended the Baltimore City College for three years. He then entered the law offices of the late Thales A. Linthicum and Julian J. Alexander, reading law with them, and in 1881, after passing a very creditable examination, was admitted to the bars of Baltimore City and Baltimore county to practice, since which time he has been prac- ticing his profession in the courts of the city and county, and has by his energy and abil- ity built up a good practice.

Mr. Townsend was married in Philadel- phia, May 30, 1888, to Miss Cora, daughter of Mayer Farmer, an agriculturist of Ches- terfield county, Va. Both her parents are Virginians of English descent, and are de- scendants of some of the oldest families of that State. Mr. Townsend and his family are Protestants and Episcopalians. He is a member of the Royal Arcanum, Ancient Order United Workmen, and an alumnus of the Baltimore City College. He is a Democrat and takes an active part in poli- tics. In 1885 he was elected on the Demo- cratic ticket as a member of the Maryland Legislature to represent Baltimore county,

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and served in the House of Delegates in the session of 1886. He was also elected by the House of Delegates of Maryland reading clerk for the legislative sessions of 1888, 1890, 1892 and 1894, and in all these posi- tions he has the reputation of having filled them with ability, general satisfaction and credit to himself, his constituency and the members of the Legislature. He is pleasant in his manner, has many friends and is pop- ular in his county as well as our city, also stands well at the Towson and Baltimore bars as a lawyer.

He has no children, and he and his wife reside with his mother, and Mr. and Mrs. Douglas, at their old family homestead, "Sunny Side," Rossville, Baltimore county.

RICHARD BEAUREGARD TIPPETT, Attor- ney-at-Law, 603 Law Building, southwest corner of Lexington and St. Paul streets, was born in St. Mary's county, Md., Janu- ary 14, 1862. He is a son of Robert Bruce Tippett and Susan E. Payne, of St. Mary's county, Md., where his father is a prominent farmer. Mr. Tippett's father is of Scotch and his mother of English descent, and both belong to families that were among the early settlers of Maryland. His parents have nine children as follows: Mr. Tippett, the subject of this sketch; Mary B., wife of Bernard Long; Jennie, wife of T. Webster Mattingly; Nora, wife of A. Kingsley Love, attorney-at-law; Robert Lee Tippett, mer- chant; William T. Tippett, merchant and farmer; Bruce G. Tippett, merchant; James E. Tippett, attorney-at-law and junior mem- ber of the firm of R. B. Tippett & Bro., and J. Preston Tippett, merchant. His father and mother are both living and reside at Chaptico, St. Mary's county.

Mr. Tippett was educated at Charlotte Hall Military Academy, in St. Mary's county, Md., and at St. John's College, An- napolis, Md. He graduated from the latter in the class of 1884 and delivered the vale- dictory address of the graduating class. While attending St. John's College, in ad- dition to his studies, he read law under the instruction of Mr. James Revell, of the An- napolis bar, and now one of the judges of the Circuit Court of that Judicial' District. In 1885 he took his examination in law and was admitted at Upper Marlboro, Prince George's county, Md., to practice law. A short time thereafter he came to Baltimore to reside and practice his profession in this city. Subsequently his brother, James E. Tippett, graduated in law at the University of Maryland, with whom he formed the law firm of R. B. Tippett & Bro. He and his brother have built up a large and lucra- tive practice and both hold prominent po- sitions at the bar as able and reliable attor- neys.

Mr. Tippett was married April 7, 1885, to Miss Margaret F. Thornton, of Balti- more. Her father was James M. Thornton, of this city, now deceased. Both of Mrs. Tippett's parents were residents of Balti- more. Mr. Tippett has four children: James Royal, Mary Helen, Richard Edgar and Margaret Natalie Tippett. He and his family are Catholics, and in politics he is a Democrat. Mr. Tippett resides at Wal- brook and has a charming country cottage there, where he resides the year around and is said to be the leading spirit in improving and making Walbrook the pleasant suburb that it now is.ª He is a member of the Catho- lic Benevolent Legion and is the orator of

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Maryland State Council of the C. B. L., and a member of the Catholic Club.

He is a large owner of real estate and is connected with many enterprises and in- dustries of this city. Mr. Tippett is pleas- ant in his manners, a forcible and fluent speaker, of a kindly disposition, and besides standing well as a lawyer, is popular as a man, and has hosts of friends.

EUGENE N. BELT, whose place of busi- ness is 606 E. Lombard Street, was born in Baltimore and is a son of Thomas Walter Belt and Louisa Ann (Steever) Belt. His father was of English and his mother of Ger- man descent, and on both sides his ancestors were among the early settlers of the coun- try, his mother's parents and ancestors first settling in Pennsylvania and his father's in Prince George's county, Md., in 1647. Beltville in this county took its name from his ancestors. His father was born in Bal- timore; engaged first in business as a mer- chant and then as a banker, being among the most prominent merchants and bankers of that day. The father died in 1840, the mother in 1881.

Mr. Belt was educated by private tutors in Baltimore, and in Louisville, Ky. After finishing his education he went to New Or- leans in 1841 and began life as a clerk in a mercantile business. After remaining there awhile he returned to Baltimore and was en- gaged as clerk in the insurance business. From this he went into the Franklin Bank of Baltimore, and from there to the Bank of Baltimore as clerk, after which, in 1859, he formed a partnership with P. C. Martin and conducted a commission and liquor busi- ness under the name of Martin, Belt & Co., until the Civil War in 1861, when this firm

went into liquidation. In 1868 Mr. Belt re- sumed business, and became a member of the firm Cahn, Belt & Co., wholesale liquor dealers, and is still a member of that firm.

Mr. Belt attends the Episcopal Church. He is a member of the Historical Society, the Archaeological Society, Merchants' Club, Maryland Club, and Elk Ridge Fox Hunting Club. In politics he is a Demo- crat, but takes no active part being strictly a business man. Mr. Belt is one of our lead- ing business men and stands high as a man of the strictest integrity; has many warm friends and is noted for his kindly and gen- erous disposition. His home is at 816 N. Charles street.

HON. FRANK BROWN, Ex-Governor of the State of Maryland. Offices No. 230 N. Charles street, Baltimore .- This gentleman was born on "Brown's Inheritance," an es- tate of his father, the late Stephen T. C. Brown, near Sykesville, Carroll county, Md., August 8, 1844. His mother was Su- san A. Bennett, daughter of Wesley Ben- nett, a prominent farmer of Carroll county, Md. Both his father's and mother's ances- tors were among the early settlers of the country, and prominent people in Maryland in their day; they were Scotch-Irish. His father, Stephen T. C. Brown, was one of the most prominent farmers of his time in Carroll county, and a large land owner in that county. The farm called "Brown's In- heritance," where the Governor was born, he inherited from his father, and in addi- tion to another farm of over 2,000 acres called "Springfield," inherited from an uncle; he thus became one of the largest land owners in the State. His father had

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two children, the Governor being the only one living. His mother still lives.

He sold the greater part of his land a few years ago to the State of Maryland, as the most suitable location for the new State In- sane Asylum, which has recently been fin- ished.

Governor Brown was educated in the pri- vate schools of Carroll and Howard coun- ties and in Baltimore, but early in life was put to work on the farm, his father's ambi- tion being to make him a first-class farmer, which ambition was gratified as Mr. Brown is considered one of the best farmers in the State, and up to the time of severing this large farm of 2,000 acres by the sale of a portion of it to the State, it was regarded in all its appointments as one of the finest farms in Maryland, it having been brought up to this high state of perfec- tion by the Governor's exertions and indi- vidual attention, he being a great lover of agricultural pursuits. For some time Mr. Brown was employed in the agricultural im- plement and seed house of R. Sinclair & Co., of this city. A few years later he made his first political appearance as clerk in the State tobacco warehouse in this city. In 1875 he was nominated by the Democratic party as a candidatefor the Legislature in his county, and was elected to the House of Delegates to represent Carroll county ; in 1877 he was re-elected to the same position. After serv- ing out his term he declined further elec- tion.

During the campaign of 1885 the Gov- ernor was treasurer of the Democratic State Central Committee and took an active part in the campaign, and it was considered as being largely due to his skillful manage- ment that the party achieved such a marked

success at the polls as they did at this elec- tion. During this time and for several years he was a director of the B. & O. R. R. on the part of the State. This position he re- signed when he was appointed postmaster of Baltimore by President Cleveland during his first term. He held the office four years, and during his term he introduced in the postoffice many reforms which were adopted by the Government at Washington.

In 1881 he was elected president of the State Agricultural Association and during his occupancy of this position new life and energy were imparted to agricultural pur- suits in Maryland, owing to his knowledge of the subject, coupled with his unusual en- ergy. The State Fairs held afterwards were remarkable for their success. Under his management, but for the unfavorable weather, the Exposition of the Agricultural Society in 1889 would have been one of the most successful events of its kind ever held in the United States.

During this time Mr. Brown was making an enviable reputation as a man of push, sterling integrity and faithfulness to any duty he was assigned to, and in 1891, when the question as to who should be the next Governor of the State arose, the people throughout Maryland at once centered upon him as the man best suited for the po- sition, and when the Democratic State Con- vention met at Ford's Opera House in this city, July 30, 1891, Frank Brown was nomi- nated for Governor, and on the following 3d of November he was elected, carrying the State by one of the largest majorities given for years. His Republican opponent for this office was Mr. William J. Vannort, of Chestertown, Kent county, Md. There was a good deal of what is called "ring politics"

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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