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Mr. Stump was a zealous worker in Congress, ever attentive to his duties, devoting himself to national legislation and to the private
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interests of his constituents; and as Commissioner-General of Immi- gration he discharged his duties to the entire satisfaction of the pres !- dent and secretary of the treasury, and of all who came in contact with him. He remained in office until August, 1896, after the incom- ing of Mr. McKinley's administration, when he tendered his resig- nation, and returned to his home (known as "Waverly"), Harford county, Maryland and resumed the practice of his profession.
Mr. Stump remained a bachelor until June 3, 1903, when he married Mary Fernandez de Velasco, who was descended on her father's side from an old and illustrious family of Spain, by that name. and from Admiral de Velasco, who, for his bravery and valor w :. - created Duke of Frias by King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella, and on her mother's side from the Haldanes of Scotland, who trace their ancestry in a direct line back to 1070, and whose kinsman, Richard Burdon Haldane, is now (1907) Secretary of State for War in the British Cabinet.
Mr. Stump is a member of the Episcopal Church. He is one of the board of visitors of the Maryland Asylum and Training School for the Feeble Minded; he is a member of the Maryland Club and other social societies; and he belongs to the Masonic Fraternity.
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HATTERSLY W. TALBOTT
T ALBOTT, HATTERSLY W., attorney-at-law, was born in that part of Anne Arundel county now included in Howard county, on August 26, 1842. His parents were Edward Alexander and Mary Jane (Wareham) Talbott. Edward A. Talbott was a merchant, who served as sheriff of Howard county. He was a quiet, unobtrusive, business man, who stood high in the estimation of his fellow citizens for uprightness of character, honesty and sterling worth. The first of the family in the Province of Maryland was Richard Talbott, who married Elizabeth, daughter of Major Richard Ewen, and settled on West river in Anne Arundel county, in 1648 or 1649. He was possibly one of the Puritans, who came from Virginia, but shortly became a Quaker, and the family were Quakers for several generations.
Mrs. Talbott, mother of Hattersly, was a good, religious woman, whose influence was of great benefit to her son. He was a healthy and robust lad, fond of reading, especially works on history and biography, spending his youth in and near the village of Ellicott's Mills, now Ellicott Ci. y. Though his father was of limited means, he gave his son every opportunity to acquire an education. He at- tended several preparatory schools, among them one kept by Rev- erend 'Cyrus Huntington, a Presbyterian minister at Ellicott City, and the Howard Latin school, where he was taught by the Honorable A. Leo Knott, now of Baltimore. He then entered St. John's college, at Annapolis, but left during his junior year in May, 1861, as the college then closed, on account of the opening of the Civil War, and did not reopen until the close of that great conflict. Feeling that he ought to relieve his father from any further expense on his account, he began teaching school in Howard county, and, at the same time, began to read law. He continued to teach from Septem- ber, 1861, to February, 1865, when he went to Parkersburg, West Virginia, as clerk in a real estate office and bookkeeper in a large flour mill, and so continued until December, 1865, keeping up his legal studies meanwhile.
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Mr. Talbott's legal course was planned for him by William H. G. Dorsey, Esquire, in 1861, and after his death in 1862, Mr. Talbo': continued his studies along the same lines. In West Virginia, Hor .- orable James M. Jackson directed his studies, and on his return t.) Maryland in December, 1865, Mr. Talbott went into the law office. of George W. Sands, Esquire, of Howard county, and read under !.:- supervision, until March, 1866, when he was admitted to practice at the Howard county bar. In November of that year, he began the practice of his chosen profession in Montgomery county, opening an office at Rockville, where he has since resided.
He is a member of the Protestant Episcopal church, and ha . been a vestryman of Christ church since 1870. Mr. Talbott is a Mason and past master in that fraternity. He is also a member of the Maryland Historical Society and of the Society of the War of 1812, belonging to the latter by virtue of his descent from his grand- father, Richard Talbott, ensign in Captain John W. Dorsey's Con :- pany of the 32d regiment of infantry in the Maryland militia.
On February 10, 1874, Mr. Talbott married Laura Willians Holland, the daughter of Lieutenant Zachariah Holland, United States navy, and Laura (Williams) Holland. She was born in Hagers- town. They have had two sons, both of whom are living. One of them is a resident of Rockville, and the other an electric engineer in New Orleans.
In 1885 Mr. Talbott was appointed a director, on the part of the state, of the Baltimore and Ohio Railway Company. He has been a director of the Montgomery County National Bank, of Rockville. since its organization in 1884, and its vice-president since 1894. Since 1900, he has been president of the Montgomery County Bar Association, and since 1891, president of the Board of Trustees of the Rockville academy, of which Board he has been a member since ISSI. From May, 1900, to May, 1904, he was superintendent of the State Bureau of Immigration.
Mr. Talbott has been a life-long Democrat. In 1893, he was elected state senator from Montgomery county for a term of four years, and from 1894 to 1897, he was chairman of the Democratic state central committee. In 1SS4 he was a delegate from the sixth congressional district to the Democratic national convention a: Chicago, and in 18SS, he was presidential elector for the same district. He has been six times elected on non-partisan tickets as mayor of
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Rockville. Life's experience has shown him that success will be sure to come to a young man, who "will lead a clean life, be honest, persistent, and industrious."
DOUGLAS HAMILTON THOMAS
T HOMAS, DOUGLAS HAMILTON, bank president, from 1905 to 1906 chairman of the Executive Committee of the Balti- more Clearing House Association, from 1SS6 to 1892 finano .. commissioner of the City of Baltimore, from 1890 to 1901 comm -- sioner of Public Parks, and from 1892 to 1896, and again from 191 to the present time, financial agent of the State of Maryland, director of numerous banks and railroad companies, etc., was born in Bali- more on the first of January, 1847.
His father, John Hanson Thomas, was for forty years (1539 1879) president of the Farmers and Merchants Bank of Baltimore and he was a member of the City Council of Baltimore in 1855, atd of the Legislature of Maryland in 1861. He is remembered for 1 .. exceptional truthfulness, sincerity and devotion to his family, as well as for his business ability and integrity.
He married Miss Annie Campbell Gordon, a daughter of Bas:1 Gordon who was born in Scotland (1770) and died in Virginia, in 1846, and had married at "Windsor Lodge," Culpeper county, Virginia, in 1814, Miss Anne Campbell Knox; while among the earlier distinguished ancestors of Mrs. Thomas may be named John Tucker. who came from London to Virginia where he died in 1671: Colonel William Fitzhugh, who named his Virginia estate "Bedford" after his native place in England; and Captain Henry Fitzhugh, his son, who also lived at Bedford, Virginia, dying in 1758.
In the paternal line, Mr. Thomas traces his descent from Gov- ernor Robert Brooke, who was born in London in 1602, and died m Maryland in 1655; and on his paternal grandmother's side from Wii- liam Brewster, the first elder of the Plymouth Colony, who was born in 1560 and died at Plymouth, Massachusetts, 1644. The Willone! - bys, the Allertons, and the Randolphs of "Turkey Island, " Virgima. and of "Tuckahoe," are also among the distinguished members of his ancestry. Isaac Allerton (1589-1659) was deputy governor of the Plymouth Colony, 1621 to 1624. Robert Brooke (1602-1655) . appointed in 1652 by Cromwell's Commissioners, president of the
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Council and acting governor of the Province of Maryland. Major Thomas Brooke, his son (1660-1730), was president of the Council of the Province of Maryland and deputy governor in 1720. John Hanson (1715-1783) was president of the Continental Congress 1781- 1782, his official signature being "President of the United States in Congress Assembled." The State of Maryland has erected to him a statue in the Capitol at Washington.
A healthy boyhood, with a hearty interest in out-of-door sports was passed in a home where the influence of his mother was especially strong on his moral and spiritual life, and under the wise guidance of a father who was devoted to his life work and to his family; and he attended the private preparatory schools of the City of Baltimore where he early showed a fondness for books of history, finance and biography.
When prepared for college he studied for a time at the Univer- sity of Maryland, but he did not complete a college course. In 1863 he became a clerk in the Farmers and Merchants National Bank of Baltimore, of which his father was president. His own personal pref- erence, and the wish to succeed in the business of his father coincided with his parents' wish in determining his business and profession. With the exception of four years (1874-187S), when he was engaged in the business of a stock broker, Mr. Thomas has been steadily in the banking business. In 1878 be became cashier of the National Marine Bank in Baltimo ... From 1880 to 1886 he was cashier of the Mer- chants National Bank. In 1886 he was elected president of the Merchants National Bank-a position which he still holds.
While serving as cashier or president of a bank, Mr. Thomas has been chiefly instrumental, on three or four different occasions, in detecting and putting a stop to wholesale plans of deceit and fraud attempted by skilled forgers, who had for months escaped the vigi- lance of the most famous detectives of our country .He has also had a leading part in detecting fraudulent practices, on the part of public officials in positions of trust, which in one or two cases would have resulted in heavy losses to the State or to the country, had it not been for the exceptional vigilance and penetration of the bank cashier and president who discovered their dishonest attempts in time to prevent the worst consequences. The history of these cases rivals in interest the most romantic "detective stories" of the novelist.
Beside the positions of honor and trust referred to in the opening
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sentences of this sketch, Mr. Thomas is now director of the follow ;: : important companies, all of Baltimore: The Maryland Life Ins .... ance Company; the Mercantile Trust and Deposit Company; the S ... Deposit and Trust Company; the Savings Bank of Baltimore, the C ... tral Elevator Company of the Northern Central Railway Company the United Railways of Baltimore; and the Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washington Railroad. In 1876 he was commissioner of ti ... State of Maryland to the Centennial Exposition at Philadelphia.
In his early manhood he served for ten years (1867-1877) :- private, lieutenant, captain and major in the 5th regiment of the. Maryland National Guard.
Mr. Thomas is identified with the Democratic party, and has no; swerved in his allegiance to that party, except that in the cam paigns in 1896 and 1900 upon the sound money issue he supported President McKinley.
On the twenty-fifth of January, 1870, Mr. Thomas married Mis- Alice Lee Whitridge, daughter of Dr. John Whitridge, of Baltimore They have had three children, all of whom are living in 1907. Mr. Thomas has found his favorite form of exercise and relaxation in walking and driving.
By religious conviction he is identified with the Protestant Epis- copal Church. He is a Mason, a member of the Society of the Cincin- nati, of the Society of Colonial Wars, and a member of the Maryland Club, and of the Batimore Country Club.
His address is 1010 St. Paul Street, Baltimore, Maryland.
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Verytruly yours Oswald Sil liman Secretary of State
OSWALD TILGHMAN
D URING colonial and early state days the people of Maryland then leaning toward plantation life rather than that of the cities as found in more northeily commonwealths, vested the authority of government in the hands of landed farmers and planters. There grew up, in consequence, a series of manor sections, as it were, and over these sections, the lord of the manor, figuratively speaking, · held sway. As a result of this there sprang up in time throughout the state, but more especially on the bay shores, little communities that boasted of some particular family which dominated affairs there and gave the section a sort of central point. The name of each of these families is written all over the section in which they lived-in its history, in the names of its rivers, ports, and towns; and in the roll of descendents, who still exert a large influence upon public affairs.
Such a manor family were the Tilghmans. The names of various members are encountered constantly in the state history of Maryland. While records of the members of the Tilghman family are found in the pages of early Maryland history there are still Tilghmans in the flesh who are making the history which future chroniclers must record. Such an one is Maryland's secretary of state under Governor Warfield's administration. Mr. Tilghman was born with a name that might very naturally prompt pride; but by his services as soldier, as lawyer, and as statesman, he has followed in the steps of his ancestors and added to the worth of the family's contribution to the life of Maryland.
Oswald Tilghman was born on the old Talbot county plantation, Plimhimmon, near Oxford, on March 7, 1841 His father, General Tench Tilghman, was a graduate of West Point military academy, and his mother was a daughter of John Leeds Kerr, United States senator from Maryland, 1841 to 1843. Matthew Tilghman, an ances- tor of the family, was a member of the Continental congress at the time of the declaration of independence; and Colonel Tench Tilghman, another ancestor, served as one of Washington's aides-de-camp.
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Oswald Tilghman was educated at the Maryland Military Acad- emy, at Oxford. His school days over, he went to Texas in 1859, and settled in Washington county. When the Civil War began, he volun- teered as a private in Company B, in Terry's Texas Rangers, of the Confederate army. He participated in the battle of Shiloh and in the campaigns about Richmond, and was aide on the staff of his kinsman. General Lloyd Tilghman, who was killed in front of Vicksburg, Missi- sippi. During the siege of Port Hudson, Oswald Tilghman commanded the Rock City artillery of Nashville, Tennessee-a heavy battery on the banks of the Mississippi river-and was the only one of the four officers of that battery who survived the siege. In March, 1863, he took active part, with his battery, in the destruction of the United States steam frigate Mississippi, of which vessel Admiral George Dewey was then executive officer, when Admiral Farragut's fleet attempted to pass the Confederate batteries. For his bravery on this occa- sion, he was commended by Lieutenant Colonel de Gournay, who commanded the left wing of the Confederate batteries. But his military career was cut short by the capitulation of Port Hudson. after which he was held as a prisoner on Johnson's Island in Lake Erie until the conclusion of the war.
When the conflict between North and South had been brought to a close, Tilghman returned to Talbot county and began his prepara- tion for the legal profession. He read law with Senator Charles H. Gibson, was admitted to the bar, and has since been engaged in the practice of law and in the real estate business in his native county, residing at Foxley Hall, Easton, a colonial brick mansion built by Henry Dickinson, whose son, Charles Dickinson, was killed by Gen- eral Andrew Jackson in a duel in Logan County, Ky., in 1806.
He was married in 1884 to Belle Harrison, daughter of Doctor Samuel A. Harrison, the local annalist of Talbot county. They have two children, a daughter, Mary Foxley Tilghman, and a son, Sammel Harrison Tilghman, a graduate in civil engineering of Lehigh Univer- sity, class of 1907. Governor Win. T. Hamilton, of Maryland, appointed Oswald Tilghman, in ISS1, one of the two commissioners. with the rank of colonel, to represent the state at the Centennial Cole- bration of Cornwallis's surrender at Yorktown. On this occasion le wore the sword presented to Colonel Tench Tilghman by congress in 1781 for his especial service in bearing to the Continental congress in Philadelphia the official announcement from General Washington of
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the surrender of the British garrison at Yorktown. From 1893 to 1897 Colonel Tilghman was a member of the senate of Maryland, having been elected on the Democratic ticket. The state bureau of immi- gration was established in 1896 largely through his efforts. Colonel Tilghman has long been a personal friend of Governor Warfield, and in 1904 the latter appointed him secretary of state under his adminis- tration as governor.
Colonel Tilghman owns a valuable collection of Revolutionary relics and papers; he is a member of the Maryland Historical Society and of several patriotic and fraternal societies, including the Society of the Cincinnati of Maryland, of which he is the vice-president: the Maryland Society of Colonial Wars; the Masons; and the Odd Fellows. He has for several years represented the Maryland State Society in the General Society of the Cincinnati. He is president of the Board of Development of the Eastern Shore of Maryland, and was auditor of the circuit court of Talbot county for over twenty years. He is commander of Charles S. Winder Camp, U. C. V., and he also commands the 1st Brigade of the Maryland Division of the United Confederate Veterans. He is the author of several historical and genealogical papers and addresses.
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EDWARD STANLEY TOADVIN
T OADVIN, EDWARD STANLEY, of Salisbury, Wicomico county, lawyer, from 1887 to 1895 State senator, and since 1900 land commissioner of the State of Maryland, was born at Salisbury on the 3d of December, 1848. His father, Pumell Toadvin, was a merchant at Salisbury, a member of the Maryland Legislature in 1857, a member of the State Constitutional Convention in 1867, and an energetic and charitably disposed citizen whose integrity of character and public spirit led to his being chosen to fill numerous local offices. He married Miss Amanda Parsons, daughter of John Parsons, of Salisbury, Maryland.
The earliest known ancestor of his family and name in America was Nicholas Todwin or Taudveine, a French Huguenot, who came to Maryland in 1675, with the Brereton and Gardy families. The family name had for a long time been spelled "Toadvine" but the final "e" has of recent years been dropped. His descendants for two hundred and fifty years have lived in Maryland, so far as they know, the only family connection of the name in this country; and have done their work as citizens in a quiet way, taking their share in matters of local government and administration.
A healthy boy, fond of books and fond of study, with a predilee- tion for books of history, general literature and natural science, he passed his boyhood in Salisbury, and was prepared for college at the Salisbury high school. In 1865 he entered Princeton College and was graduated with the degree of A.B. in 1869. He pursued advance studies in history, constitutional law, and literature, at the Univer- sity of Virginia, in 1871 and 1872. His law studies began on his graduation from college; and in 1873 he settled as an attorney at law in his native town, Salisbury.
In 1877 he was appointed State's attorney for Wicomico County, and elected for one term, holding office for six years. At the man- date of his fellow-citizens he became a State Senator in 1SS7; and after four years of useful service in the Senate he was reelected in 1891 serving until 1895. His reputation and influence with his fellow-
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senators is indicated by the fact that he served on such important committees as finance, judiciary, etc.
In February, 1900, Governor Smith appointed Senator Toadvin Land Commissioner of Maryland. He was reappointed by Governor Warfield and still holds that position in 1907.
On the first of November, 1889, Senator Toadvin was married to Miss Kate Houston Tilghman, daughter of William B. Tilghman, of Salisbury, Maryland. They have had one child, a girl, who is living in 1907.
Senator Toadvin is engaged in the preparation for publication of a book upon "Land Law and Land Office Practice in Maryland."
Senator Toadvin has always been identified with the Democratic .party. He is a Mason. He is a member of the Kappa Sigma college fraternity, and of the Elks. He is a member of the Historical Society of Maryland.
In his religious life he is identified with the Protestant Episcopal Church. While he is a lawyer by profession, he has found diversion, health and exercise in the supervision and management of a small farm, and he regards his good health as in no slight degree due to the out-of-door interest and exercise which he has found in this diversion of farming.
His address is Salisbury, Wicomico County, or Annapolis, Mary- land.
JOSEPH HENRY TYLER
T YLER, JOSEPH HENRY, generally known as J. Harry Tyler, was born in Baltimore, June 8, 1855. His ancestors, English on both sides, were among the early settlers of Massa- chusetts and Connecticut. Gurdon Kimball Tyler, his father, was a physician, druggist and manufacturer in Baltimore. He spared no pains in bringing up his children to appreciate the things in life that are really worth while; and devoted himself assiduously to training them for all that their several careers might hold for them. J. Harry Tyler inherited the sterling qualities which were so prominent in his father's character; and his extraction and training combined to capacitate him for the services which time should map out for him. He inherited sane and sturdy views of things; his home training was good, and his education thorough.
His youth was spent in Baltimore and its suburbs. He received his elementary education at James C. Kinear's school, in Baltimore, and then entered the Connecticut Literary Institution, from which he was graduated in 1873. Continuing his studies at Brown Univer- sity, he was given his bachelor's degree in 1877. While at this latter institution Mr. Tyler became a member of the Phi Beta Kappa and the Delta Upsilon fraternities. He returned to Baltimore after completing his academic course and took up post graduate work in history and political science at the Johns Hopkins University, his pur- pose being to enter some profession.
About this time, however, the father, Dr. Tyler, persuaded his son to give up his intention of becoming a professional man and enter upon a business career instead. Mr. Tyler is very versatile. He has an aptitude for applying himself to new-and various tasks, moving easily from one engagement to another, with very little loss of time. This trait be revealed in the readiness with which he responded to his father's persuasion. Simply putting aside his plans and ambitions for a professional life, he entered the business world and gave to his new found duties such energy and attention as were sure to win sucess. In 1878 he entered as a clerk the house of Kimball, Tyler and Cour-
Sincerely yours J. Mary Tyler
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pany, barrel manufacturers, in Baltimore. He continued here for seven years, until 1885, when he resigned this position that he might enter into partnership with A. A. Kennard & Company, commission merchants, with which firm he remained for three years. For the next eight years, from 1888 to 1896, Mr. Tyler was interested as a " partner in the steam cracker bakery of Tyler & Brothers. On his retiring from this concern he took up his present duties with the Bagby Furniture Company, manufacturers of furniture, where he fills the offices of secretary, treasurer, and general manager.
A disposition to contribute to the weal of the world has entered largely into his life. In his business, his home, and his church, he has been animated by a desire to do his part faithfully. Every worthy . enterprise in which his aid has been requested, has found a sympa- thetic advocate in him. This willingness to lend a hand; this disposition to further all good interests, has created for him many avenues of usefulness, and, as the habit of doing well the duty nearest at hand usually opens a larger field, Mr. Tyler has been one of the busiest of men. There is a constant demand for his advice upon problems for the general good; and his time and his influence are fre- quently solicited to foster some newly launched enterprise.
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