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On December 23, 1875, Mr. Bosley married Miss Mary E. Cockey, a daughter of John Robert Cockey, of Baltimore county. The Cockey family had the largest land holdings in the county and is one of the old and prominent families of the State. It dates back to William Cockey, who came to Maryland in 1666, settled in Annapolis, and be- came the founder of the Maryland family.
The children of Mr. Bosley's marriage are Captain Jno. Robert Bosley, surgeon in the U. S. A., William H. Bosley, Jr., attorney, Miss Marie E. Bosley, Chauncey Brooks Bosley and Harriman Gist Bosley.
According to Sir Bernard Burke, who is the recognized English authority, the following is the correct description of the Bosley coat of arms :
Bosleys of Staffordshire, England: Argent on a fesse engrailed between three cinquefoils, sable, three fleurs-de-lis of the field.
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T HE journalist dealing with current events is often of necessity superficial. The news of the day given in readable form is his business. When the sober historian or biographer comes into the field and takes stock of the doings either of his own or preced- ing generations, he is not to be excused if he overlooks any factor which bears upon the historical matter he is treating, or the individual sub- jects whose biographies he may be writing. The reader of current events from day to day, noting the happenings in every part of the country, might not catch the tremendous part which religion plays in our national life in its full force and extent; but the biographer has no such excuse. It is his business to study carefully from every angle everything, however trifling it may appear, that contributes to the make-up of a character. There is perhaps no more striking fact in the early history of our country than the part played in the individual lives of our good citizens and in the general history of the times by religion. The old Bruton Parish church in Williamsburg, Virginia, and the old Puritan church of Plymouth, Massachusetts, are reflected to a great extent today in the lives of the descendants of the men who founded the Episcopal church in Bruton parish and the Congregational church in Plymouth. A very common mistake fallen into by many people is that the Massachusetts Puritan was intensely religious and the Vir- ginia Cavalier was the opposite. The fact is that the Virginia Cavalier was quite as religious a man as the Massachusetts Puritan. His spirit- ual expression merely took a different form ; and Puritan Massachusetts can show no finer characters in a religious sense than Cavalier Vir- ginia ; for in George Washington, Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jack- son, Virginia has given to the world great statesmen and soldiers whose spiritual character will compare with that of any man of any age; and these are but examples of a great multitude of equally devoted but less conspicuous Christians.
Of this Virginia stock comes the Reverend Robert Saunders Coup- land, of Baltimore, who was born at Williamsburg, Virginia, in 1870, son of John Randolph and Susan (Henley) Coupland. Mr. Coup-
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land's father, John R. Coupland, was, prior to the Civil war, a lawyer. After that siruggle he engaged in farming. He was at one time an instructor in the famous old William and Mary College, and was for years a vestryman of Bruton parish, Williamsburg. He was a gentle- man of the old school, genial and courteous, and strongly devoted to the church.
The Couplands are a very ancient English family. There are in the family four coats of arms, three of which are so aneient that they have no erests, proving that they go back beyond the twelfth century. The American family was founded by David Coupland, who came from England in the first years of the settlement of Virginia, and settled in what is now Cumberland county. In the three hundred years which have since elapsed, the Couplands have been connected in some way with many of the most distinguished families of Virginia. Noting his early ancestors, we find that Win. Ruffin, of England, settled in Isle of Wight county, Virginia, in 1666; Benjamin Harrison settled in Surry county in 1631; Richard Cocke settled in Surry county in 1644; John Coeke came over in 1724; Reynolds Henley, son of Lord North- ington, came from England to James City county, Virginia, in 1661. All of these were ancestors of our subject, and were among the most distinguished names in Virginia. Benjamin Harrison, signer of the Declaration of Independence, was great-great-great-grandfather of Mr. Coupland. Wm. Henry Harrison, President of the United States, was a great-great-uncle, and Mr. Coupland's father spent part of his vaca- tion in the White House with President Harrison. Edmund Ruffin, who fired the first gun at Fort Sumter, in the Civil war, was a great- uncle of Mr. Coupland.
Mr. Coupland was reared in the small town of Williamsburg and the surrounding country, one of the most cultivated communities in the world; and, though not a robust boy, the necessities of the ease, his father's property having been lost during the Civil war, forced him to do a boy's part of the labor around the farm. Naturally a lover of nature, as well as of books, with a character sobered by the adversities of his people, trained under the eye of a father who was a man of fine spiritual character, it is not surprising that the lad grew up possessed of a serious turn of mind. When he was but two years of age, his mother was taken away, and he thus lost what is perhaps the finest influence in any man's life. His education was not obtained without difficulty. Those who are old enough to know the conditions
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which obtained in Virginia for the first twenty years after the Civil war will appreciate how very difficult it was for even the most ambi- tious boy of that period to obtain a good education. The lad attended the grammar school of Williamsburg, and was finally able to enter the old home college of William and Mary, from which he was graduated in 1891 with the degree of A.B. He also obtained the degree of Licen- tiate of Instruction.
He had early been impressed with the idea that it was his duty to preach the gospel of Christ. Leaving college, he entered the theologi- cal seminary in Alexandria, Virginia, in 1891, and graduated there- from in 1894. The sixteen years which have since elapsed have been years of hard service in the highest of all callings. Yet a young man, as years count, he has done much effective work and won a strong position in the church. His first service was as assistant minister of the St. Luke's church in Norfolk, Virginia. From there he went to Covington, Kentucky, as rector of St. John's church. From Coving- ton he went to Charlestown, West Virginia, as rector of Zion church, and from Charlestown came to Baltimore as rector of the Church of the Ascension. It is not out of place here, as evidence of the esteem in which Mr. Coupland is held by his co-workers, to mention that he has been offered the rectorship of Grace church, Chicago; Trinity Cathedral, Omaha; St. Paul's church, Boston; St. Paul's church, Richmond (Virginia), and St. Paul's church, Lynchburg (Virginia). In November, 1908, he came within a few votes of being elected Bishop Coadjutor of Maryland.
Aside from the Bible and books of purely religious character, Mr. Coupland's reading has taken a very wide range. Shakespeare, Dickens, Bacon's Essays, biography, great orations, history, and ser- mons of great preachers have all been interesting, and all have been of some value to him in giving him a constantly better equipment for his work. He makes one statement so strong and so clear, and which con- tains so much wisdom, that it is worth reproducing in his own words. He says : " I have never striven for any prizes. Whatever prizes have come to me have come through my one great desire to help and win people for Christ. This great desire came first when I first realized the nobility of the life and love of Jesus, as interpreted to me by mem- bers of my family, my Sunday school teacher and my friends." That sentence is worthy of much study. While he acknowledges his indebt- edness to home influence and school and early companionship, he is
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also impressed that no man can succeed in the calling of a minister without intense private study, and without a knowledge of men by a constant personal contact. In October, 1909, Bishop Paret appointed Mr. Coupland Archdeacon of Baltimore, which position he declined. He is a member of the Diocesan Committee of Missions of Maryland. He served two years as vice-president of the Maryland Sunday School Institute, and was elected president, but declined the office. He is now serving as a trustee of the Church Home and Infirmary of Baltimore. He is a member of the Phi Beta Kappa College Association, an honor conferred by William and Mary College in 1904. By virtue of his descent from Benjamin Harrison, he is a member of the Society of the Descendants of the Signers of the Declaration of Independence.
Mr. Coupland's political affiliations are with the Democratic party.
In early years he found relaxation and exercise in baseball, foot- ball and tennis. He now prefers golf and bowling.
Mr. Coupland has been honored recently by being appointed one of the special preachers for Princeton University, and preached there on January 16, 1909. In 1905 he was appointed by Governor Warfield Chaplain of the Fourth Maryland Regiment, with the rank of Captain, and served for three years in that capacity, from 1905 to 1908.
While Mr. Coupland admits that he has accomplished more than he had hoped to do, he equally admits that there has been to some extent failure, and that where he has failed he can see now that it was due to lack of appreciation in his younger days of the need of thorough preparation, the storing of the mind with knowledge, the cultivation of a broad sympathy-a sympathy that embraces all sorts and condi- tions of men-a sympathy that is realized only by an intimate knowl- edge of the life of Christ, and kept fresh by constant communion with him. His standard of success in life is the correct one. He rates everything as subordinate to true Christian character, and his summing up of what constitutes a Christian man is brief and to the point. He puts it thus: " To be a Christian man means to be pure, to be indus- trious, to be honest, to be God-fearing, to be a lover of one's fellowmen, to be brave and courageous, to be humble in the sense of not being egotistical or overbearing." And then he adds a great truth which many men overlook, when he states that the world needs such men, the world honors them, and for such there is always an honorable place.
This necessarily imperfect sketch of Mr. Coupland-imperfect because it cannot deal with the details of the great work which he has
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done-at least shows one thing: that he has grasped the fundamental truth of the Christian religion, and puts into practice in his own life that truth in the form of love and service.
On October 5, 1897, Mr. Coupland married Miss Cornelia Wick- ham Whitehead, daughter of Harry Colgate and Margaret Walker (Taylor) Whitehead, of Norfolk, Virginia. Of this marriage three children have been born, of whom two are living-Robert S. Coupland, Jr., and Margaret Walker Coupland.
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JAMES MILES FARROW
J AMES MILES FARROW, choir-master and organist, was born at Winsboro, South Carolina, on October 13, 1871. He is the son of Miles Marion and Elizabeth (Caldwell) Farrow, who died when Mr. Farrow was seven years old. His father was a professor of French and mathematics, and during the Civil war served as lieutenant in the corps of engineers in the Confederate army. Mr. Farrow traces his earliest ancestry in the United States to Lieutenant Edward Waters, who married Grace O'Neil and, coming to Virginia, settled there in 1608.
In boyhood, Mr. Farrow lived in the city, and was of sound health. He showed marked interest in music and in steam engines and locomo- tives. The works of Dickens and Thackeray especially appealed to his literary sense. His early education was received at the Baltimore City College. He then served for a time as a private secretary to a capital- ist, and in that position learned much of business and money transac- tions. He left this occupation to devote his time to the study of music, and pursued a course in the same at the University of Pennsylvania. in Philadelphia, from which institution he received the degree of Bachelor of Music in 1901. IIe has also followed a special course in German at the Johns Hopkins University, in Baltimore. Active life was begun by the subject of this sketch as an organist in the Franklin Street Presbyterian church in Baltimore, where Doctor W. U. Murk- land was pastor. His relatives were at first opposed to his following music as a profession, but finally gave their consent. Referring to the impulses which made him strive for the best in life, Mr. Farrow men- tions " the love of church music and the organ and the influence of visits to England, where the teaching of and association with the organists of Magdalen College at Oxford and of St. Paul's Cathedral at London had great weight in forming my ideas and ambitions." He ranks the relative strength of influences on his life in the following order : First. that of a Christian home, and next, the influences of competition, of manly companionship and of hard work." From 1887 to 1890, Mr. Farrow was organist of the Cathedral in Baltimore, and in 1891 he was
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organist and choir-master at the First Presbyterian church in that city. In 1892 he held the same position at Mt. Calvary church. Since 1894 Mr. Farrow has been choir-master and organist at St. Paul's Protestant Episcopal church, and has held the same positions in Christ Protestant Episcopal church since 1900 and in the Madison Avenue Synagogue since 1897. As a successful choir-master and organist, Mr. Farrow has well deserved the reputation he holds in Baltimore and elsewhere. The St. Paul's choir, which is so admirably trained by Mr. Farrow, has, through its excellent music, aroused general interest. The training that he has given the boys has been most vigorous, and he has developed several notable solo boys who have had more than a local reputation. As a concert organist, Mr. Farrow has many times proved his popu- larity at recitals by playing the highest order of music with fine skill.
Mr. Farrow, in 1898, published " About the Training of Boys' Voices." He is a member of the following clubs and societies: the Alpha Delta Phi fraternity, the University Club of Baltimore, the Alpha Delta Phi Club of New York City. He also is a fellow of the Guild of Organists of London, England. In politics, he is a Democrat. In church affiliations, he is connected with the Protestant Episcopal church. For exercise he turns to long walks across the country. Mr. Farrow's suggestion to the American youth is: " Absolute devotion to your profession or business, 'minding your own business,' and going ahead when you know you are right."
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FREDERICK HERMAN GOTTLIEB
A MAN coramauds attention, exerts influence and becomes a power in the world in proportion as he proves to the public that intelligence, energy, honesty of purpose and integrit. are the underlying principles of his character. The foundation [- these qualities must be laid in early life. as it is rare that they devel. in a man after he has attained maturity and his habits are formed.
The subject of this sketch, Frederick Herman Gottlieb, vice-pre -!- dent of the G. B. S. Brewing Company, of Baltimore, in his early ver doubtless conceived ambitious projects and subconsciously laid the foundation of character that has made him notable in the business, ar: and musical world. Born in Nagyvarad, Hungary, October 12, 1852. the son of Emanuel and Rosalia ( Fischer) Gottlieb, he imbibed, during his childhood, a taste for the artistic and refined. His father was a lover of art and music, and his home was frequented by the artists and musicians in that locality. When in his twelfth year, young Gottlieb, with his parents, came to the United States, and two years later he found his first avocation as one of the messengers on the New York stock exchange. The opportunity to acquire an education in the schools of Hungary and of this country was supplemented by hard study, and it was not long before he became an efficient bookkeeper and account- ant, and found no difficulty in securing a lucrative position in that ca- pacity, besides obtaining a knowledge of salesmanship and managerial direction.
Going to Wheeling, West Virginia, about 1873, he assumed the position of bookkeeper in the malt-house of John Butterfield. His in- dustry and devotion to the business of his employer caused him to be highly esteemed, not only by Mr. Butterfield, but by the members of the family, including the daughter, Miss Christine Butterfield, whom he married, June 6, 1876. Of this marriage nine children were born, only four of whom are living.
Shortly after Mr. Gottlieb married, his father-in-law, Mr. Butter- field, obtained possession of the old Baltimore Brewery, Hanover and Conway streets, which, for a century and a half, had been famous for
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the ale and porter it produced. Under the active management of Mr. Gottlieb, who had been admitted to partnership, the business grew until, a few years later, he interested Messrs. F. Wehr and H. H. Hobelmann in the manufacture of malt, the firm being Wehr, Hobel- mann and Gottlieb. The old brewery was razed and a modern malt- house erected on the site, to which was subsequently added the Globe Brewery, which, in the process of merging, passed into the hands of the G. B. S. Brewing Company, of which Mr. Gottlieb is vice-president. Besides retaining the management of the Globe Brewery, Mr. Gottlieb has been honored by election on the directorate of banks and trust com- panies, and he has been and is a notable factor in many movements which have for their object the civic, artistic and commercial uplift of Baltimore. In politics he classes himself as an Independent and, whi! : holding aloof from partisan activity, he has been more than once tenta- tively considered for important public office.
Successful as his business career has been, his interest in the realm of art, music and literature has brought him still greater renown. A musician himself, he has done more, perhaps, than any other private individual to promote the taste for classic and meritorious music in the community. Nor are his efforts in the direction of art less con- spicuous. As president of the Charcoal Club, he has rendered material aid in the development of that organization, which has produced artists who have attained international renown. Few art connoisseurs in the country are more capable critics of paintings than Mr. Gottlieb, and his private collection, which is quite extensive, bears evidence of his discriminating judgment.
Mr. Gottlieb has been, for several years, honorary president of the Journalists' Club, an honor conferred upon him for the interest he takes in literature. His taste in this connection runs chiefly to biog- raphy and history, his library being well represented in this particular.
Personally, he is most genial in temperament, kindly, generous to a fault, a devoted husband and father and one whom it is an honor to claim as a friend. His talent as a musician (and he is known as the best amateur flutist in the country) brings him into requisition for entertainments for charity, and he invariably complies when time will permit, irrespective of creed or nationality.
Naturally a man of his disposition is an optimist, and his sanguine belief that success will follow effort and merit has saved, in more than one instance, what appeared to be a hopeless venture.
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To the young man starting to carve a career for himself, Mr. Gott- lieb offers these fundamental principles: 1st, honesty of purpose; 2d, not to be discouraged over seeming failures; 3d, a determination to do all that any one can do. By living up to these principles, keeping inviolate his promises, maintaining his commercial credit, adhering to the truth, even when it hurts, sticking to his task, however irksome, forming good habits and avoiding evil associates, he need have no fear but he will win a measure of success commensurate with his abilities and efforts.
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JOHN HINKLEY
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OHN HINKLEY, lawyer, is a native Baltimorean, born on . March 1, 1864, son of Edward Otis and Anne M. (Keemle) Hinkley.
Edward Otis Hinkley was an eminent lawyer of his day, who prac- tised his profession for fifty years in Baltimore.
This family was founded in America by Samuel Hinckley, who came with a son, Thomas, from Tenterden, Kent county, England, and settled in Scituate, Massachusetts, in 1634. Thomas Hinckley, the son, born in England in 1618, and a youth of sixteen when his father came to America, arriving at manhood, settled in Barnstable, Massa- chusetts, in 1639. He became active in the affairs of Plymouth colony at the age of twenty-one years. Six years later he became a deputy, and for the succeeding thirty-five years continually held public place as deputy, representative and magistrate. In 1680, he became deputy governor, and in 1681 governor, in which capacity he served the greater part of the ensuing eleven years. His public service covered a period of more than fifty years. He died in 1706, at the age of eighty-eight. The old governor was the direct ancestor, seven generations back, of the subject of this sketch.
Another notable ancestor, also seven generations removed, was the Reverend John Robinson, of Leyden, Holland, pastor and leader of that famous congregation which came over in the Mayflower. Also in Major Hinkley's line may be mentioned Captain John Hinckley, of the fifth generation back, who held a commission in the Colonial wars, and the Reverend John Hargrove, of Baltimore, the third generation re- moved, who was one of the first ministers in America of the New Jeru- salem church (commonly known as Swedenborgian).
The origin of the family name of Hinkley is Saxon, being more than nine hundred years old in England. The manufacturing and market town of Hinckley, in Leicestershire, dates back as far as 1080. The name is derived from a Saxon word meaning "horse" and "lea" or meadow. The armorial records of England show curiously enough
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the grant of coat armor to "Hinkley or Hinckley," that being the precise form of the grant, and indicating that both spellings were used indifferently.
Major Hinkley was fortunate in his immediate parentage, was a healthy boy, surroun led by the best home influences, and aside from the natural fondness of boys for sports had a decided partiality for reading. He pursued his studies in the private school of George G. Carey in Baltimore, a school noted for the thoroughness of its instruc- tion, and from that school in 1881 he passed to the Academie Depart- ment of Johns Hopkins University. In 1884 he was graduated with the degree of Bachelor of Arts, and then took up the study of law in the Law School of the University of Maryland, from which he received the degree of LL.B. in 1886. The succeeding twenty-four years have been passed in the practice of his profession." The profession of law came to him as an inheritance, for his father and both grandfathers were capable lawyers. His first legal work was done under his father's eye, and, to some extent, under his direction. That direction, however, was wisely exercised, as he threw upon the young lawyer matters re- quiring self-confidence and judgment, and thus taught him self- reliance.
In 1888 he was admitted as a junior partner in the old firm of Hinkley and Morris, of which his father was the senior member. In 1893 he succeeded his father as secretary of the American Bar Asso- ciation. The elder Hinkley was the secretary of that association from its foundation in 1878, and had given fifteen years of service. The son was the second secretary and gave sixteen years of service, declin- ing a re-election in 1909. Thus father and son contributed more than thirty years of hard work to the building up of that association, which has been of immense value to the legal profession in our country.
Politically, Major Hinkley may be classed as an independent Democrat, for while his convictions hold him in line with the Demo- cratic party as a rule, he has frequently, on occasions of local reform movements, voted for opposing candidates, and on the question of the gold standard voted with the Republican party in national elections. Many of the leading men of Baltimore of the present generation have given some service in the Fifth Maryland Regiment. Major Hinkley joined that famous organization in 1884 and is still a member, having held since 1903 the rank of major. On the outbreak of the Spanish- American war, when the regiment was mustered into the United States
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