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these services were in the past. At the present time he is president of and director in the Black-Sheridan-Wilson Company, the Union Mi! ing Company, the Barton and Georges Creek Valley Coal Company. the New York Mining Company, and the Potomac Coal Company. II. is a director in the Consolidated Coal Company, the Fairmont Coa. "Company, the Somerset Coal Company, the Clarksburg Fuel Com- pany and the Northern Coal and Coke Company of Kentucky. In financial circles he is a director in the National Union Bank and the Eutaw Savings Bank of Baltimore. In addition to these he is also a director in the United Railways Company of Baltimore.
The record here given shows how largely Mr. Black has been, in his business life, a man of one work. He has largely concentrated on and mastered the coal business, with the result that he is not only an authority in that business, but has won for himself a large measure of finaneial success. While the coal business has absorbed his main energy and he is most thoroughly identified with that industry, the ability with which he has served on banking and railroad directorates has demonstrated the wide range of his business knowledge and his ca- pacity to apply that knowledge. He is active in the social life of the city, holding membership in the Maryland Club, the Baltimore Club, the Baltimore Country Club and the Merchants' Club. Outside of these purely business and social organizations he takes active interest in other matters and is affiliated with the Southern Society of New York and the Maryland Historical Society, and holds life membership in the Municipal Art Society and the Archaeological Society.
. Mr. Black has neglected nothing that would contribute to the making up of a well-rounded life. He has been an extensive traveler, having visited Europe on no less than eight occasions, his journeys during these visits having covered Great Britain, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Russia, Holland, Belgium, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Hungary and France.
Mr. Black's reading is illustrative of his desire to add to his in- formation and at the same time make it a source of recreation; thus in obedience to the demands of his business interests he keeps well read on financial and trade articles, general topics and current events. From these he turns to general reading, including classical literature : thence to fiction, not only standard, but also that of a romantic nature.
In 1875 he married Miss Ida Perry, youngest daughter of the late Thomas Perry, at one time a member of Congress and later judge of
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the circuit court for Allegany county, Maryland. Of this marriage there are two children, Van Lear and Harry C. Black. Van Lear Black, the elder son, is now thirty-four years of age and married. He is vice-president and director of the Fidelity Trust Company, director in the Fidelity and Deposit Company, and director in the Citizens' National Bank. Besides these he is director in half a dozen or more coal-mining corporations, and is one of the active young business men of Baltimore.
Harry C., the younger son, graduated from Princeton University, ('lass of 1909, and at once located in London, England, where he is engaged in business.
Mr. Black's life has been one of active industry combined with a considerable measure of adventurous spirit, but always backed by sound judgment. He has established his position in the community as a thoroughly capable and honorable business man and a good and useful citizen.
BENJAMIN MERRILL RHOADES HOPKINSON
B. MERRILL RHOADES HOPKINSON, physician, is a native Baltimorean, born on September 18, 1858, son of Moses Atwood and Elizabeth ( Frailey) Hopkinson. His father. Moses A. Hopkinson, was a scholarly man of gentle and lovable nature. but independent character. His vocation was that of oral specialist.
Hopkinson is an old English family name, found in the counti. of Derby, Lincoln and York. The American family probably comes from the Derbyshire family, because the same given names appear in that family which have been prominent in the American branch. The family has never been numerous in the United States, and has been confined chiefly to Massachusetts and the middle states. Judge Francis Hopkinson, who represented New Jersey in the Continental Congress and became one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence, a man of devoted patriotism, poetic temperament and lovable personality, who was appointed by President Washington Federal Judge in Penn- sylvania, and died while holding that office, was one of the ancestors of our subject. Another was Joseph Hopkinson, author of " Hail Colum- bia." On the maternal side, James Frailey, Commodore in the United States Navy, and Major Leonard Frailey, soldier of the War of 1812, are found among his ancestors.
Doctor Hopkinson was a robust, vigorous boy, whose early life was spent in Baltimore and Boston. Even in boyhood he showed a special aptitude for music and athletics, two tastes which have abided with him during life. He was the first boy chorister, singing soprano, in the city, and sang at St. Luke's Protestant Episcopal church.
His mother died when he was but an infant, two years old, and he says now in words of affectionate remembrance, " My father was both mother and father and dear familiar friend. He gave me in education the best advantages."
The lad attended Pembroke school, and from there went to Loyola College. Having elected to take up dentistry as a profession, he became
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a student in the Baltimore College of Dental Surgery and in the Medi- cal Department of the University of Maryland, receiving from the former the degree of D.D.S. in 1880, and from the latter that of M.D. in 1885. In 1908 he was given the honorary degree of A.M. from his Alma Mater.
Then, as now, his literary taste found its greatest pleasure in books of science and music, while medical works were to him both a source of pleasure and practical instruction. Long before he entered upon the practice of his profession he had been a worker as a clerk in the wooden-ware establishment of Messrs. Lincoln and Hopkinson in Boston.
In looking back over the past he sees now that circumstances had much to do with his taking up of dentistry, that his real choice for life work was medicine and music. An impelling motive in those earlier years was a strong desire to help his father and repay him for the long years of sacrifice in behalf of the son. Naturally he was much influ- enced by his school training, by his personal and private studies and by contact with his fellow men, but the one abiding influence was that of the good father who had been to the partly orphaned boy both father and mother.
For many years past Doctor Hopkinson has practiced medicine in Baltimore and has devoted much of his time to music, with remarkable success. For more than twenty years he has been soloist and precentor at the Brown Memorial Presbyterian church. His voice is a strong, sweet, flexible and well-trained baritone, and as a concert singer his reputation has extended far beyond the boundaries of his native city, as he has sung in all the large cities of the United States and Canada.
Though not a maker of books, he has taken much pleasure in cer- tain forms of literary work in the shape of articles for newspapers and other periodicals. He holds membership in many clubs and societies, among which may be mentioned the various Masonic bodies from the Blue Lodge to Knights Templars, the American Medical Association, the Medical and Chirurgical Society of Maryland, the Baltimore Ath- letic Club and the Maryland Country Club. For twenty years he has been president of the Baltimore Athletic Club, and during his incum- bency he has not only done an enormous amount of hard work towards the promotion of amateur athletics, but was largely instrumental in the erection of a club house which cost $125,000.
In political matters he classes himself as a Democrat, though like
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a student in the Baltimore College of Dental Surgery and in the Medi- cal Department of the University of Maryland, receiving from the former the degree of D.D.S. in 1880, and from the latter that of M.D. in 1885. In 1908 he was given the honorary degree of A.M. from his Alma Mater.
Then, as now, his literary taste found its greatest pleasure in books of science and music, while medical works were to him both a source of pleasure and practical instruction. Long before he entered upon the practice of his profession he had been a worker as a clerk in the wooden-ware establishment of Messrs. Lincoln and Hopkinson in Boston.
In looking back over the past he sees now that circumstances had much to do with his taking up of dentistry, that his real choice for life work was medicine and music. An impelling motive in those earlier years was a strong desire to help his father and repay him for the long years of sacrifice in behalf of the son. Naturally he was much influ- enced by his school training, by his personal and private studies and by contact with his fellow men, but the one abiding influence was that of the good father who had been to the partly orphaned boy both father and mother.
For many years past Doctor Hopkinson has practiced medicine in Baltimore and has devoted much of his time to music, with remarkable success. For more than twenty years he has been soloist and precentor at the Brown Memorial Presbyterian church. His voice is a strong, sweet, flexible and well-trained baritone, and as a concert singer his reputation has extended far beyond the boundaries of his native city, as he has sung in all the large cities of the United States and Canada.
Though not a maker of books, he has taken much pleasure in cer- tain forms of literary work in the shape of articles for newspapers and other periodicals. He holds membership in many clubs and societies, among which may be mentioned the various Masonic bodies from the Blue Lodge to Knights Templars, the American Medical Association, the Medical and Chirurgical Society of Maryland, the Baltimore Ath- letic Club and the Maryland Country Club. For twenty years he has been president of the Baltimore Athletic Club, and during his incum- bency he has not only done an enormous amount of hard work towards the promotion of amateur athletics, but was largely instrumental in the erection of a club house which cost $125,000.
In political matters he classes himself as a Democrat, though like
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many eastern Democrats he has at times voted for Republican candr. dates on account of the financial question. He was baptized as a child into the Roman Catholic church, but in his mature life he became a communicant of the Protestant Episcopal church, and in connection with that church holds membership in the Protestant Episcopal . Brotherhood.
He is profoundly interested in athletics; to use his own words, "in anything so it is clean, pure amateur sport. The time I have given to general athletics (which I cannot say I regret), had it been devote : to my profession, would probably have served to increase my bank account. All men must have a hobby, I fancy."
For the ambitious youth of the country just entering upon t !... serious work of life, Doctor Hopkinson offers this thought: " If ther. is any lesson to be learned from what I have failed to do, it is in : matter of a concentration of boundless energy upon one thing, and only one. Only great men can do more than one thing well. Work. study and intensity of purpose to do everything one undertakes in accord with the highest possible ideals and with unswerving integrity ; an absolute concentration of energy, mental, moral and physical, upon one thing, is the only way to attain true and lasting success in this life."
On Janury 24, 1884, Doctor Hopkinson married Miss Lillian Lewis, daughter of Wm. Penn and Ida Jane Lewis, of Baltimore. They have one daughter.
Doctor Hopkinson belongs to a rare type. The kindliness of his spirit can in some measure be accounted for by heredity, for the same thing crops out in the devoted patriot who risked his life and his prop- erty when he signed the Declaration; it crops out again in his father: but, in addition to this, he possesses a God-given talent, and while pur- suing the sober work of life conscientiously and faithfully, he has used that talent to add to the pleasure and happiness of a vast number of his fellows. He has, therefore, given service in that way which was the most effective for him to give it, and, judged by that high standar : of usefulness-service-he has been in his generation a man of good works. No man can be more. Far too many are less.
PAUL HALLWIG
P AUL HALLWIG, artist, portrait painter, of Baltimore, was born on the 18th of December, 1865, in the city where he still resides.
His father, Oscar Hallwig. was a portrait painter of reputation. His grandfather, Austin Hallwig, was also an artist, born in Dresden, Saxony, in 1828, an instructor at the Berlin Academy, and a writer apon art subjects.
Paul Hallwig's boyhood was passed in Baltimore. He developed an early interest in the practice of drawing ; and he began to draw and paint when still a small boy. He attended the public schools of Mary- land and began a systematic study of his art in 1883, under the direc- tion of his father, who had a well-established reputation as a portrait painter in Baltimore. At the same time he became a student in the Maryland Institute Art School, where his diligent study and his artis- tic ability won for him honorable mention, a prize of one hundred dol- lars, and his diploma. Going abroad for the opportunities in his art which Europe alone can offer, he studied at Munich under Professor Loetz, and was for four years a pupil of the Munich Royal Academy of Fine Arts, winning several prize medals, and finally a gold medal. He then became a private student in the studio of Professor Fritz A. Kaulbach, and also under Professor Nanen, of Munich.
Returning to Baltimore in 1889, he brought home a fine collection of studies of the German peasantry-sketches and portraits which are remarkable for their strength and boldness, and have received the warmest praise from his friends. He was at once commissioned to paint the portraits of some of the leading people of Baltimore, among hem President W. W. Taylor, of the Union Bank; Mr. James B. Whedbee, of Whedbee and Dickinson ; Reverend J. B. J. Hodges, rec- :or of Saint Paul's Episcopal church ; Mr. and Mrs. Augustus Alberts, Jr., and many others.
After a short stay in Baltimore. he returned to Munich, where he «win received commissions to paint portraits of a number of prominent
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people of that city. Out of several hundred artists, Mr. Hallwig w ... selected by Luitpold, prince regent of Bavaria, to paint a life-size p.r. trait of the prince for a place in his own palace. The exceptionally favorable notice which this portrait won for Mr. Hallwig resulted in his receiving a commission to paint a life-size portrait of Prince Lud- wig, the heir apparent, to the crown of Bavaria (a duplicate of this pic- ture may be seen at Mr. Hallwig's studio in Baltimore), as well as portraits of the Princess Gisela, Prince Ruprecht, Graf Holsten, Baron Seymusky, and many more of the court notables.
After a visit to the Court of Saxony, where he met with extraordi- nary success, painting the royal family of King Albert of Saxony an i other prominent, members of the court circle, Mr. Hallwig went : Paris and studied some months under distinguished portrait painte. - there. The Chronicle of " Arts Critiques " names him among the vers best of portrait painters.
In 1891 the Honorable Robert C. Davidson, the retiring mayor of Baltimore, commissioned Mr. Hallwig to paint his portrait for a place in the collection in the City Council Chamber of the City Hall, and Mr. Hallwig returned to Baltimore for this purpose, first making an extended tour throughout Europe, and visiting all the most famous exhibits and academies. Besides the portrait of Mayor Davidson, since his return to Baltimore Mr. Hallwig has had among his sitters Mr. Mayo H. Thom, Mrs. Ernault Williams and her daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Hazelyte, President Cushing of the Maryland Institute, President McD. Richardson of the Baltimore Savings Bank, General Felix Agnus, and numerous other prominent Marylanders. He has also painted a very lifelike and impressive portrait of Cardinal Gibbons.
On the 20th of May, 1890, Mr. Hallwig married Miss Mari- Hellmeyer, daughter of Haver Hellmeyer, of Munich. They have two children.
In a city which has always been noted for its interest in the fine arts, Mr. Hallwig has won for himself a most notable reputation amon. the young portrait painters of our country. The large circle of his admirers are not only proud of what he has accomplished, but a ?? awaiting eagerly the still finer work which they expect from his studio.
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FRANCIS E. WATERS
G ENERAL FRANCIS E. WATERS, of Baltimore, lumberman, financier, and one of the most prominent men of his state, both in business and public circles, is a descendant of one of the very earliest settlers of Virginia. This progenitor was Lieutenant Edward Waters, who was born in Hertfordshire, England, about 1568. There is some confusion about the exact time of the arrival of Edward Waters in Virginia. There seems to be a common agreement that he sailed from England in the Somers and Gates Expedition of 1608, that the vessel was wrecked on the Bermuda Islands, and that they were detained there for some little time, and that he finally arrived in Vir- ginia in 1610. Another authority says that he reached Virginia in 1608 on the ship " Patience." This much is certain : that he lived in Virginia in the early years of the colony's existence; that he married Grace O'Neal, who was thirty-five years his junior, and of this mar- riage two children were born-William and Margaret. He died about 1630, and his widow later married Colonel Obedience Robins, who died in 1662, and she survived until 1682. Lieutenant Edward Waters was a prominent man in the early days of the colony, and was instrumental in bringing a large number of people into the new settlements. In his will, recorded in Somerset House, London, he left as his executor his brother, John Waters, then a resident of England. Wm. Waters, son of Edward, born about 1619, died about 1689, was a Burgess from North- ampton county from 1654 to 1660; High Sheriff of his county in 1662; Commissioner to run boundary line of the county; was appointed Com- mander, a position which included among his official duties that of presiding Judge of the county. This position he held for many years. That he was the son of Lieutenant Edward Waters was proven by a patent issued to him in 1646 for a thousand acres of land, wherein it is stated that he was a son of Lieutenant Edward Waters, of Elizabeth county. He was married three times, the given names of his wives being Catherine, Margaret and Dorothy. He left six sons: William, Edward, Richard, John, Thomas and Obedience. During his lifetime Colonel Waters (who held the military rank of Lieutenant-Colonel
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under the Colonial government) had acquired land in Somerset county, Maryland, not far distant from his home county of Northampton, both being on the eastern shore of the Chesapeake bay. In his will his real estate was divided among these six sons, and the Maryland land was given to John. John married Mary, the daughter of Lazarus Maddux, and from certain data now in existence she appears to have been a second wife. There is no evidence as to who his first wife was, and it is apparent that that connection was a short one, and she probably left no children. The second son of this second marriage was William. William married, in 1:39, a daughter of Colonel Geo. Harmanson. This Colonel Harmanson had married Elizabeth Yardley, who was a daughter of Captain Argall Yardley, who was the son of Colonel Argall Yardley, who was the eldest son of Sir George Yardley and Temperance West. This Sir George Yardley was one of the earliest governors of Virginia, and spelled his name Yeardley. The second son of this marriage was George. George married Elizabeth Handy, daughter of Captain Robt. Handy, a prominent man of that day. The Handy family goes back to Samuel, who was the first American pro- genitor and settled in Somerset county, Maryland, in 1664. The second son of George and Elizabeth (Handy) Waters was John. John was born March 4, 1777, and died March, 1823. He married Elizabeth Corbin, a daughter of William and Sarah ( Pollitt) Corbin. There were eight children of this marriage. Richard T. Waters, born Novem- ber 24, 1817, died April 21, 1900, was the sixth child and the fourth son. Richard T. Waters married on April ?, 1841, Hester Ann Hop- kins, daughter of Benj. Burton and Mary King (Gunby) Hopkins. Of this marriage there were five children, of whom the subject of this sketch was the youngest, born on May 4, 1856. It would be of great interest, if space permitted, to trace out all the family connections through these various marriages in the different generations; but it is sufficient to say here that General Waters is connected with a large number of the most prominent families of Virginia and Maryland, and especially of Maryland.
Burke, the great English authority, makes this Waters family to be of royal descent, in this way: James Methold Waters, an English gentleman, married the granddaughter of Edward III and became the progenitor of this family. His grandson, John Waters, was York Herald under Richard II. As Edward Waters brought with him to Virginia as his family coat of arms what was practically the identical
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coat armor used by John Waters, the York Herald, and as the English families of those days kept accurate record of their descent, it is evident that this family of Waters comes down from the founder, James Meth- old Waters.
Many of the names above recited, like the Handys and Gunbys and Corbins, bore an honorable part in the Revolutionary struggles. Colonel Gunby, for example, commanded one of the famous Maryland Line regiments, either the First cr Second regiment, in Greene's famous Southern Campaign. Que of the Handys commanded a militia regiment. William Corbin was an officer in the Revolutionary army, and a member of the Maryland legislature in 1800. Richard T. Waters, father of General Waters, began his business career in Snow Hill, Maryland. He was one of the first to operate a steam sawmill in the United States. After years of success in that section, he moved, in 1865, to Baltimore, and established business as a lumber commis- sion merchant. In 1866 he formed a partnership with the late Green- leaf Johnson, under the firm name of Johnson & Waters, who added to the lumber commission business the manufacture of North Caro- lina pine lumber. This firm purchased extensive forests in Virginia and North Carolina, and erected large mills at Norfolk, Virginia. In 1874 the firm of Johnson & Waters was dissolved, Mr. Johnson con- tinuing in the manufacturing of lumber, and Mr. Waters associating with himself his young son, Francis E. Waters, under the firm name of R. T. Waters & Son, confining their operations to a commission busi- ness. The firm of R. T. Waters & Son, of Baltimore, and Richardson, Smith, Moore & Co., of Snow Hill, Maryland, were closely allied. Mr. R. T. Waters was a most capable man. He became one of the incor- porators of the Lumber Exchange of Baltimore City ; was a director in the First National Bank of Snow Hill from its organization up to his death; was president of the Surry Lumber Company and also of the Surry, Sussex & Southampton Railway. He was a man of alert and sound judgment. of rigid integrity, and possessed the absolute confi- dence of his business associates. He was of genial temperament, readily made friends, and these friends became strongly attached to him. He was generous, and dispensed charity with a liberal hand and kindly manner. Much given to hospitality, he was never happier than when entertaining his friends. Himself a man of strong attachments, especially for the friends of his earlier days, he never under any cir- cuinstances forgot an old friend. During life he was a communicant
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of the Presbyterian church. In his early life he was very active in politics, and did much to promote the interests of the Democratic party on the Eastern Shore of Maryland. Though he never forsook his early allegiance in politics, being a man of strong convictions and sound purpose, as the years passed by and his business interests became more pressing, he withdrew from activity in political matters and con- fined himself to a voting interest. He left an unblemished record, and few men of large affairs have ever been less subject to unfavorable criticism than was Richard T. Waters.
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