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Mr. Lloyd had a healthy boyhood, passed on the farm. He attended the Laurel public school from the age of eight up to thir- teen, and this completed his schooling. From thirteen to seventeen, he assisted his father in farm work. The boy had a natural bent to- wards stenography; and in the intervals of farm labor having acquired some proficiency in its practice, in 1877, he became a shorthand aman- uensis in the office of D. F. Murphy, then official reporter of the United States Senate. In July, 1881, during the recess of Congress,
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he went to Atlanta, Georgia, for six months to assist Sam W. Small ("Old Si") as a shorthand writer, acting as secretary to H. I. Kim- ball, Director-General of the International Cotton Exposition held in Atlanta in that year, as reporter and editor of the "Official Expo- sition Gazette," and doing miscellaneous reporting for the "Post Appeal" and other papers. In August, 1882, he was appointed sten- ographer in the office of W. B. Thompson, General Superintendent of the Railway Mail Service of the Post Office Department; and on June 1, 1883, was transferred at his own request to the office of H. J. McKusick, Division Superintendent of the Railway Mail Service at San Francisco, California, acting as Mr. McKusick's Private Secre- tary. In November, 1883, he resigned that position to resume his work in Washington, where he had previously been made a member of the corps of official reporters of the Senate. He served under D. F. Murphy in that position until Mr. Murphy's death in 1896.
In the meantime, in 1889, he had served for a time as clerk of the United States Senate Committee on Contingent Expenses during the recess of Congress; and in 1895, he acted as an assistant to Messrs. Edward V. Murphy and Theodore F. Shuey when they reported the Triennial Episcopal Convention for the "Churchman" during the sessions of the convention at Minneapolis in October, 1895. Upon the death of D. F. Murphy in 1896, Theodore F. Shuey and Edward V. Murphy were unanimously elected official reporters of the United States Senate, and they retained Mr. Lloyd as a member of the Senate corps, which position he now holds. He has acquired during these years a farm of 230 acres in Prince George's County, known as "Buena Vista Farm," located in the "The Forest;" and since 1889, he has there carried on actively the operations of a tobacco planter in addition to his official duties in Washington. He has traveled extensively in the United States and during 1895 and 1896 in Europe.
His political affiliation through life has been with the Democratic party since the day when he cast his first vote for Grover Cleveland on his first nomination. Though connected with no religious denom- ination, he is a firm believer in Christianity as taught by the Master.
On September 12, 1900, Mr. Lloyd was married to Miss Anna Belle Gray. They have two children, Daniel B. Lloyd, Jr., and Anna Belle Diantha Lloyd.
He finds his relaxation in shooting and fishing; and in the neigh- borhood where he lives he has tried to make himself useful in the
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discharge of civic duty and by contributing to the betterment of the community. He is an omnivorous reader; and has a large collection of books. It follows that he is a man of most extensive information.
Mr. Lloyd figures that in so far as he has failed to accomplish results in life, such failure is attributable to a tendency to attempt too many things at once-to scatter, as it were, instead of concentrat- ing upon one thing, which is a necessity for obtaining the largest measure of success. This is undoubtedly true, but it is also true that the men who "scatter" or who are versatile, are much more delightful companions and contribute much more to the pleasure of their fellow citizens than do the men who concentrate.
His motto in life is, "Do right;" and as every man has a con- science which tells him where the line between right and wrong should be drawn, his brief and comprehensive motto has its merits. In looking back over the influences which have shaped his career, Mr. Lloyd is assured that the most potent one was that of his mother, who early instilled in him a desire to accomplish something-a laud- able ambition to do good work; and he gladly acknowledges that to her, more than to all other causes, he owes that measure of success which he has won.
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JAMES YOUNG
J AMES YOUNG, one of the prominent figures in the- present day life of the city of Baltimore, belongs to a family of Eng- lish origin, identified with Maryland since its very earliest period, for we find in the old records as far back as 1665, the will of Richard Young, of "The Clifts." In the same year his brother Wil- liam appears; and Nicholas, who was the administrator of Thomas Kent; and James, who was a witness to the will of Bulmer Mitford. Among the earlier Youngs appear Charles, George, Lawrence and Thomas. As families go in America therefore, the branch of the Young family to which the present Mr. James Young belongs is one of the oldest. His parents were James and Eleanor (Parks) Young. The elder James Young was a printer and publisher, and a very no- table man in his day. He served as President of the First Branch of the City Council for six years; was for a long time acting Mayor, and declined the nomination for the office of Mayor-which at that time was equivalent to an election-in favor of Mr. Chapman. He was a gracious, genial gentleman; a pronounced peace-maker; always avoided dissension; gave strict attention to his business and was most pronounced in his opposition to intemperance. He held the office of Police Commissioner in those strenuous days when Governor Swan removed Messrs. Hinds and Wood.
The mother of Mr. James Young, the subject of our sketch, died when he was quite young; but he was fortunate in hisstep- mother, who prior to her marriage to his father was Miss Elizabeth Stretch. She exercised a most excellent influence over the young and mischievous boy, and exacted from him a promise to refrain from undue indulgence in intoxicating liquors, a promise which Mr. Young has faithfully kept. Among his boyhood traits was a fond- ness for trading; he was disposed to pranks of mischief, but at the same time a lofty military aspiration was one of his ideals. His father, a strong, thoroughly well educated man, gave the boy every advan- tage in the way of schooling, and the son admits that the chief draw- back was his own disinclination to apply himself to his studies.
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Practically, Mr. Young's entire life has been spent in the city of Baltimore. From the age of nine to eleven, however, the years were passed in Manchester, Maryland, where he attended Irving College, and afterward became a student at private schools in Baltimore. In the meantime, Mr. Young applied himself to his father's occupation, the art of printing, for which he displayed a marked aptitude. He began as a 'devil' in his father's printing office, and did every form of manual labor connected with the office, from cleaning-up to feed- ing the press. Looking back over that period of his life Mr. Young can see the immense value of the experience gained. He believes it to be good discipline for any boy to begin at the bottom of the ladder whatever he proposes his calling to be.
As he matured his ideas of life continued to improve. At the age of twenty-one he was married to Miss Sara Waite Gorsuch, herself a descendent of several of the best families of the State. Her father was the late Thomas J. Gorsuch, who was of English * descent in a direct line from the union of Rev. John Gorsuch, rector of the Church of England; and Lady Anne Lovelace, daughter of Sir William Lovelace, Knight of Kent, England. Her mother was before marriage, Miss Sara J. Waite, whose ancestral tree was also English, and the late Chief Justice Waite was a member of the same family. Two of the three children born of this marriage, James, the Third, and Thomas Gorsuch Young, are still living and prosperous in their professions; James prominent in the histrionic art, and Thomas G. in the modern business pertaining to automobile supplies. The love of home and of each other was founded early in this family, and has ever been the foremost inspiration to Mr. Young's success in life. At school he acquired methodical and orderly habits; in the compan- ionship of his sisters, refinement; and from association with the best of his fellows, business methods and the value of business integrity. So, he was well equipped in every way when he succeeded to his father's business. In order to keep pace with the times his business acumen prompted him as to the wise thing to do; so he put in new machinery and made the old office a thoroughly up-to-date plant which expanded rapidly. Within a short time he was executing the press work of twenty-eight publications.
Fate fulfilled one of his most ardent military ambitions. For seven years he served as First Lieutenant of Company B, in the famous Fifth Regiment of the Maryland National Guard, one of
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the crack regiments of the United States, and commanded his Com- pany during the various encampments while he was a member. Although offered the honor several times, he declined to become the captain.
Although modest and somewhat retiring Mr. Young has by force of his personal and business qualities become one of the strong men of Maryland. He is, and has been, secretary of the Maryland Insti- tute Schools of Art and Design, for some years; an Institution that has at present over 1600 students and which has graduated men and women who have attained world wide fame in the Fine Arts and in Architectural and Mechanical skill. He is President of Oak Lawn Cemetery, one of the best enterprises local to the city and State. He is also President of the "Democratic Telegram," a paper estab- lished fifty years ago by J. Cloud Norris, and in the management of which he has associated with him a number of the most prominent and influential citizens of the city. In 1896 he supervised the build- ing of the Baltimore, Middle River and Sparrows Point Railroad, and served as President of the Company for a number of years.
In politics he is a Democrat of the strictest kind, recognizing in his political principles neither variableness nor shadow of turning. In 1882 he represented his district in the General Assembly; from 1904 to 1906 he was State Senator from the First District, ran ahead of his ticket and served on all the important Committees .. Not himself a seeker after office he has been a power to depend on in his party and has contributed to the preferment of many of the leaders. At the earnest insistence of the Democratic organization Mr. Young in 1910 became one of four candidates for the Congressional nomina- tion of the Third District. But the organization, for some reason unknown, but which has been surmised, shifted its support to an opponent and Mr. Young was defeated by less than 200 majority.
James Young is a strong fraternalist, holding membership in the Masons-thirty-second degree; Odd Fellows; Shield of Honor; Knights of Pythias; Red Men; Heptasophs, Eagles and many others. He is connected with about forty-six various Institutions and Associa- tions. He has written and revised some of the Rituals of the re- spective Orders, and has held the highest positions within their gift. In organizations of a charitable or benevolent character, Mr. Young has given his services without monetary compensation. It has pleased him to give time, attention and labor from a purely
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unselfish standpoint for the benefit and success of a good institution and for the welfare of unfortunate mankind.
In the life of James Young can readily be found the example for the rising generation. To his mind the young man who aims toward true success should cultivate quickness of decision, method- ical habits, determination and honesty of purpose. He lays stress on honesty and good faith, advising young men above all to avoid decep- tion in matters small or great. His father laid for him a good foun- dation and he has builded wisely and well, ever eager and anxious to pass along to men of the Twentieth Century the fruits of his train- ing. He stands before his people with a long and honorable career of useful citizenship. No man could desire more.
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JAMES ALEXANDER CHESLEY BOND
J UDGE JAMES A. C. BOND of Westminster, one of the best known lawyers of Maryland, is a native of the State, born in Calvert County, on September 3, 1844; son of James Alexander and Sarah Elizabeth Chesley (Hance) Bond.
James A. Bond was a planter, who graduated from Kenyon Col- lege in the same class with Edwin M. Stanton, John B. Minor and David Davis-two of whom were among the great and good men of their generation, and one among the great and bad men. James A. Bond was one of the strong men of Southern Maryland, a schol- arly man who spent his life among his books, valuing chiefly those rich old volumes which antedated the time of George IV. He lived according to the old Southern Maryland ideas and practices, and hospitality was a virtue in his home. He had in an unlimited degree the confidence of the people of his county, whom he served in pub- lic positions frequently, and often against his will, never having been defeated as a candidate for office. He filled the place of county commissioner; judge of the Orphan's Court; member of the House of Delegates, and Senator from Calvert County. He was particularly noted for his courageous devotion to duty and implacable hatred to all forms of dishonesty, deceit and sham. He was a leading mem- ber of the Protestant Episcopal Church, with which Judge Bond is also affiliated.
This family of Bonds is descended from Doctor Thomas Bond, the immigrant, one of whose sons, Richard, married Elizabeth Chew in 1702, at the Quaker Meeting House on West River, Anne Arundel County, Maryland. Doctors Thomas and Phineas Bond, sons of the Richard who married Elizabeth Chew, moved to Phila- delphia in 1734 and 1738 respectively, and became famous physi- cians. Doctor John Bond, the great-grandfather of Judge Bond, was a surgeon of the Pennsylvania troops in 1758, during the French and Indian War. There seem to have been two distinct families of Bonds in the earlier Colonial period, one of which was founded by Colonel William Bond, who settled in Watertown, Massachusetts,
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in 1649; then the Bond family of Maryland and Pennsylvania, so equally divided between the two States that it is hard to say to which State it belongs. This family probably goes back to 1660 in America. A brother of Judge Bond is Doctor Young H. Bond of St. Louis, one of the distinguished physicians of the middle West and dean of the Medical Department of St. Louis Univeristy. In the last generation, two prominent members of the American Bond family were Judge Hugh L. Bond, an eminent lawyer and judge; and the Reverend Thomas E. Bond, a prominent Methodist min- ister. Hugh L. Bond, Junior, son of Judge Hugh L. Bond, is one of the prominent lawyers of the country, and now occupies the posi- tion of General Counsel of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad System, which position he has held for many years.
In the generation back of that, appears the figure of Shadrach . Bond, first governor of the State of Illinois, who was a native of Maryland and evidently belonged to this same family.
Judge Bond, referring to his early life, says that his mother's influence was "the best in the world in every way upon her sons." His boyhood was passed in the country, where he had access to his father's excellent library and there acquired the excellent taste for reading which has abided with him through life. He says history was his aptitude if he had any. Again speaking of that period of his life, he says he "lived on slave labor and enjoyed it, until suddenly wakened up." He entered the famous old Charlotte Hall Academy in St. Mary's County, and was graduated in 1863. He then entered the sophomore class of Princeton College and won his A.B. degree in 1866. Having elected to enter the legal profession, he read law under James T. Briscoe, afterwards Secretary of State, and William Meade Addison, United States District Attorney, and was admitted to the bar in Baltimore City in 1867.
Southern Maryland was left in a deplorable condition after the war. The majority of the people were black, and there was thrust into the body politic a great mass of ignorant, enfranchised blacks. Though then a young man of twenty-three, Judge Bond appreci- ated the conditions. Speaking of his decision at that time, he writes: "When slavery left Southern Maryland, I left too and determined not to be submerged." He therefore settled in Westminster, where he has been a practicing attorney ever since, and for many years a recognized leader of the bar.
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In 1872, Judge Bond was married to Miss Selena W. Fiddis, a niece of Robert Clinton Wright of Baltimore. There have been born to them three children. Of these, a son and daughter are living, and a married daughter has passed away.
In politics, Judge Bond would be classed as an "Independent." A Democrat up to the time the currency issue became acute, he left the Democratic party on the money question. He has personally never been a seeker after public office, as the demands of a large and lucrative practice have left him no time to indulge in political activity, even if he had the desire. On May 1, 1890, without his solicitation or suggestion, he was appointed Associate Judge of the Fifth Judicial Circuit, and held the position until the autumn of 1891. He resumed his practice then, and on September 14, 1899, was appointed Chief Judge of the Fifth Judicial Circuit by Governor Lowndes, and was immediately thereafter nominated by the Repub- lican party as their candidate for the position, but was defeated at the following general election. While on the bench he acted with rigid impartiality and unvarying fidelity to duty. It is worthy of note that at the time of his appointment to this position, it involved a very great sacrifice for him to accept it, and he took it only from a sense of duty. It is also worthy of note that his appointment was universally approved by lawyers of all political parties and by his colleagues on the bench. In 1904, Judge Bond was elected presi- dent of the Maryland State Bar Association. He has for long years been affiliated with the Masonic fraternity.
Judge Bond is now division counsel for the State of Maryland for the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. He is vice-president of the Farmers and Mechanics Bank at Westminster. Outside of his pro- fessional and business pursuits, he is greatly interested in the work of the Academy of Political Science and the Maryland Historical Society, in both of which he is a valued member and does a good deal of work for these societies along the lines of political economy.
To attain success, he believes that one should "follow nothing except it be warranted by close and painstaking reason, the only guide."
The Bond family of Maryland has been an unusually strong one, and the name is one of the most ancient of our English nomen- clature. Baring-Gould, in his work upon the origin of English names, says that it originated among the Norsemen, where the "bonder"
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was a freeholder, and next in position to the Earl (or jarl). When Harold Fairhair determined to introduce the feudal tenure of lands into Norway, a great exodus of these "bonders" took place to Ice- land and Faroe Isles. It is probable that some of them drifted to the Orkneys, and possibly Northumberland, England, where we find the name "Bonder" shortened into Bond, and used at a little later period by the Danes and Northmen of Northumbria and East Anglia. In the Domesday Book, Freemen, Franklyns and Bonders were all included under the heading "Liberi." If this derivation is correct, (and there is no good reason to doubt it), this family name goes back to the year 900.
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. ALFRED ROBERT LOUIS DOHME
D OCTOR A. R. L. DOHME, of Baltimore, though yet a com- paratively young man, is one of the most distinguished chemists of our country. He is a native of Baltimore, born on February 15, 1867, son of Charles E. and Ida (Schulz) Dohme. His father was one of the founders of the great house of Sharp and Dohme, manufacturing chemists, which has built up a trade and reputation not only co-extensive with our own country, but well known in other parts of the world. The elder Dohme was something more than an able business man and good chemist. He was a man of domestic tastes, a constant reader and student, and very-generous to his fellows. He was born in Germany, came to America in 1852 and settled in Baltimore. He rose to great eminence as a manufacturing chemist, served as president of the Maryland College of Pharmacy, chairman of the board of trustees of the United States Pharmacopoeia, and president of the American Pharma- ceutical Association. One of Doctor Dohme's relatives, Robert Dohme, of Berlin, Germany, was eminent in that country in artistic and literary circles, being the author of numerous works on art, and served as Librarian for the Emperors William I, Frederick and William II, until his death.
Doctor Dohme's early years were spent in Baltimore. Like all healthy boys, he was fond of sport; but even in those years he devel- oped a taste for books. He inherited his father's domestic tastes, and the love of home has been a passion with him through life. He attended the Friends' School, and then entered Johns Hopkins University, from which he was graduated in 1886, with the degree of Bachelor of Arts, and in 1889 with the degree of Doctor of Phil- osophy. In working for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy, he took up especially the sciences of chemistry, mineralogy, geology and physics. But he was not content. He had made up his mind to master all the knowledge of the schools and equip himself thoroughly for his work in life; so upon his final graduation from Johns Hopkins in 1889, he went to Germany. He studied under von Hofman in the
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University of Berlin; took up practical work in the laboratory of Fresenius, at Wiesbaden, and the University of Strasburg.
Returning from Germany in 1891, he entered the laboratory of the establishment of Sharp and Dohme as an analytical chemist. Knowing that in the ordinary course of events he would succeed to the management of a business already one of the largest in the country, he resolved to become a thorough master of it, and having the scientific foundation, commenced at the bottom. He did not spare himself, and did not shirk even manual labor. He filled first one position and then another, until he had been in turn superin- tendent of every department of the factory, then assistant general superintendent, then general superintendent, then vice-president and general manager of the factory. It may fairly be claimed for Doctor Dohme, that he has won his position in the business by hard, faithful and capable labor.
In 1901 he was chosen Instructor in Pharmacy in Johns Hopkins . University. His scientific attainments have won him recognition in many directions. He has been president of the Maryland Phar- maceutical Association and chairman of the Scientific Section of the American Pharmaceutical Association, and secretary of the com- mittee for the revision of the Pharmacopeia of the United States. He holds membership in the American Chemical Society, the German Chemical Society, the British Society of Chemical Industry, and the French Chemical Society. He has invented numerous machines and processes applicable to the business in which he is engaged.
Notwithstanding the active and laborious life which he has led in connection with his other work, he has found time to render much valuable service as a citizen. He was one of the founders and first vice-president of the Dime Savings Bank, and a member of the executive committee of the Merchants' and Manufacturers' Associa- tion. He was one of the committee to collect funds for the erection of the Music Hall (the Lyric), and of that committee which collected a million dollar endowment fund for Johns Hopkins University. Interested from childhood in music, he has always attended and been enthusiastic about musical affairs all over the world. This has manifested itself particularly in the last two years in an active effort to secure and retain grand opera for Baltimore. He is a great believer in the educational and uplifting effect of Grand Opera and hence in Grand Opera at popular prices for the masses. A Republican in his
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