Portrait and biographical record of the Eastern Shore of Maryland, Part 53

Author: Chapman Publishing Company
Publication date: 1898
Publisher: New York, Chapman pub. co.
Number of Pages: 906

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na Lodge No. 110, A. F. & A. M., of Baltimore, and is also a member of the Improved Order of Heptasophs and Chester Lodge No. 116, K. of P., in Kent Island.

September 10, 1867, Captain Kirwan married Mary Rebecca, daughter of Nelson Gardner, and a niece of Rev. Samuel Gardner, for years a prominent preacher on Kent Island. The three children of Captain and Mrs. Kirwan are Charles E., Sophia and Lemuel. Charles E., who is a merchant of Chester, married Maggie, daughter of Joshua Cooper, and a niece of Rev. J. A. Cooper.

ON. JESSE K. HINES, deceased, was for years a very prominent politician and legis- lator of Maryland. He was an able, energetic man, active in the best interests of his constitu- ents, possessing those sterling characteristics that command respect wherever seen. Few public men of his time were more esteemed and universally liked than it was his lot to be, and though he was in a position where he might have commanded wealth had he been disposed to subvert his lofty principles of action, he died a poor man.

A son of Isaac and Anne (Knock) Hines, our subject was born near Millington, Kent County, November 17, 1829, and during his infancy his parents left the farm, becoming residents of Balti- more. In that city the lad grew up, attending the private schools kept by Dr. Baxter and Jo- seph Walker. When he was fourteen his father died and the family returned to Kent County. He entered the mercantile house of Thomas Walker, of Millington, and under the training of the Walker brothers, who did an extensive busi- ness, including some banking, he rapidly rose to a thorough and comprehensive knowledge of general financial transactions, and attributed much of his later success as a business man to this fact. Later he worked for William F. Smyth, of the same town, and for Spruance Brothers, of Smyrna, Del., up to 1848, when he taught school in Morgan Creek district, near Chestertown, for

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a time. In 1852 he embarked in the mercantile business upon his own account, and success soon crowned his enterprise.

Had Mr. Hines been as anxious to succeed in the political world as he was to advance the in- terests of his friends and associates in politics, it has been often said that he would have received the highest honors, and would undoubtedly have succeeded in any position; but his plain, retiring manners and modest disposition were as marked as was his great ability. It was in 1854 that he entered politics on his own account, he being elected constable by the Whigs. In 1856 he was appointed collector of taxes for the third district. The succeeding year he was elected by the Know-nothing party to the clerkship of the cir- cuit court, and when his term had expired he was re-elected by the so-called Conservative Demo- cratic party which had succeeded the Know- nothing party, and was re-elected for another full term by the Democrats, and served under the new state constitution of 1867. Meanwhile he was studying law with Hon. Richard Hyn- son, and was admitted to the bar in 1868. In 1872 he was a delegate to the national convention in which Mr. Greeley was nominated to the presi- ency, and in 1873 was himself sent as a repre- sentative to the state legislature. In 1874 he was speaker of the house of delegates, and in the spring of the same year he was appointed com- mander of the state fisheries force, serving effi- ciently in that capacity two years. In 1878 the department of insurance was created and he was made commissioner of the same by Gov. John Lee Carroll. This responsible position he con- tinued to fill with distinction eleven years, or until his death in 1889. He was a Mason of the Knight Templar degree and was a regular at -. tendant at the services of the Methodist Episco- pal Church. He was charitable to a fault and was always ready with a helpful word and more inaterial aid for the poor unhappy ones whom he met in his journey through life.

Mr. Hines was twice married, his first union being with Emily Alphonsa Massey, whose par- ents were Col. Elijah E. and Mary Massey. Col- onel Massey entered the army at the beginning of

the late Civil war, when he served as a member of Halleck's staff, and rose to the rank of lieuten- ant-colonel. The seven children of Mr. and Mrs. Hines are as follows: Thomas L. is a resident of Baltimore; W. Franklin, particularly mentioned later in this article, is a resident of Chestertown; Jesse Knock, Jr., is in New Jersey; Isaac is liv- ing in Illinois; Annie and Jennie are both mar- ried and live in St. Louis; and Catherine A. is the wife of Dr. Richard Gundry, of Catons- ville, Md.

In tracing the ancestry of the Hines family it is found that the father of Jesse Knock Hines, previously referred to, was one Isaac, a native of Cecil County, Md. He was many years an offi- cer of the Baltimore Bank, and was chief clerk in the house of delegates for a number of years. His father, Isaac, was a participant in the war of the Revolution, serving throughout that long and severe struggle. They were Welsh people and came to Maryland in the earliest days of the col- ony. The mother of Jesse K. Hines was a de- scendant of the Knocks who came from Scotland in the early part of the eighteenth century and settled in Kent County. They were owners of large plantations and were very influential in their locality, though at this day there is no one living to bear the name in Kent.

W. Franklin, second son of the honored sub- ject of this article, was born September 19, 1856, and finished his literary studies in Washington College. When only seventeen he entered the office of Dr. Thomas R. Brown, professor of sur- gery in the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Baltimore. Young Hines graduated in Febru- ary, 1877, and has since been very successfully engaged in practice in Chestertown. He soon established a large clientage and has paid special attention to surgery, being well and favorably known by the members of the medical profession throughout the state. Like his father, he is an earnest believer in the principles of the Democ- racy, and is an active worker in its behalf. He is a member of the American Medical Association and is a valued member of the Medical and Chi- rurgical Faculty of Maryland, having served it in various ways. In 1892 he was elected by them

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to act on the state board of examiners, and was re-elected to that body in 1896. He was, how- ever, obliged to resign the following autumn, as he found that the demands of his extensive prac- tice would not permit of his holding the general position longer. He is a member of the Protest- ant Episcopal Church, and is a vestryman in the same. He is a member of the board of visitors and governors of Washington College, and since its organization has been a director in the Kent County Savings Bank, of Chestertown. In 1880 Dr. Hines married Miss Mary, daughter of Will- iam Emory, of Queen Anne's County, and five children have come to grace their household, viz .: Frank Brown, Jennie Emory, Charles Gilpin, Mary Alphonsa and Emory Massey.

UTHER T. MILES, JR., a candidate for the position of sheriff of Somerset County in the autumn of 1897, is one of the progressive young business men of the county and is quite active in the support of the Democratic party. He is engaged in conducting a general store at Marion Station, and is also concerned with the planting and packing of oysters here. He pos- sesses the requisite will and determination to suc- ceed that eventually win prosperity and is genial and friendly to all whom he meets in a social or commercial way.

Mr. Miles is a son of Luther T. Miles, who has been county commissioner of Somerset County for four terms and also president of the board. He is recognized as an important factor in the local Democracy. He is a successful agriculturist, and resides upon a portion of the original tract known as Heart's Ease. For a wife he chose Annie E. Handy and to them the following chil- dren were born: Ida E., wife of Charles S. Whit- tington; Carrie E., Mrs. E. W. Tull; Lillian H., Mrs. C. L. Gunby; and Luther T., Jr. The parents are members of the Methodist Protestant Church, as are also several of their children.

Luther T. Miles of this sketch was born upon a farm near his present home in 1867. He was

a student in the common schools and later went to Marion Academy. At the age of twenty he embarked in business with E. W. Tull as his partner, the style of the firm being Miles & Tull, and as such it continues up to the present time. During President Cleveland's last administration the village postoffice was located in their store. He is a member of the Heptasophs and of the Junior Order of American Mechanics, and has been honored by being made treasurer of each lodge.

The marriage of Luther T. Miles, Jr., and Miss Florence M. Hall was soleninized in 1894, at the home of the bride's father, Henry W. Hall, a well-known citizen of Marion Station. She was born and reared in Somerset County and is a lady of pleasing social qualities and excellent tact and grace of manner. The young couple have one little son, Luther T., the third of the name. They attend the Methodist Protestant Church and are much esteemed in all circles of this community.

APT. DANIEL FRIEL, whose pleasant home is situated in Queenstown, Queen Anne's County, has had a varied life and many unusual experiences both on sea and land. He has traveled extensively and has seen the people of many climes, and has profited by a study of their strange customs and manners. For nearly thirty years, though, he has been interested in the grain business, buying, selling and ship- ping the cereals raised in these parts to Baltimore, chiefly. In addition to this particular trade he is more or less extensively engaged in handling coal and phosphate, and owns a vessel, the schooner William McKenney, which has made the record of having taken a cargo to Baltimore, unloading the same and returning within nine hours.

Captain. Friel was born in Philadelphia in 1841, and came to this county in 1854, here growing to mature years on his father's farm. The latter gentleman was a native of Adams County,

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Pa., and was a son of Daniel Friel, who was of He owns valuable wharf and granary property Irish birth, but from childhood identified with and dwelling houses in Queenstown, besides the schooner before mentioned. He is a worker in the Democratic party, but has never had any inclination to hold public office. Religiously he is a Catholic. the United States. The father of this Daniel Friel, Bernard by name, was a man of considera- ble wealth and influence. He built a section of the turnpike between Hagerstown and Gettys- burg, and was a contractor in general. Early in the 30's the captain's father, Jolin, and his brother Daniel came to this county and organ- ized the Schuylkill Lime Company, and were numbered among the leading mnen of the district. John Friel married a Miss Clarke, of Philadelphia, and she is still living, now residing with her son, our subject, in her seventy-ninth year. Her five children are all living and are as follows: Daniel; Thomas, of Queenstown; John, of the Quaker City; Jeannie and Katherine.

When the captain was twenty years old he left home in search of adventures and fortune, perhaps. For two years he sailed the sea, at the end of which time he went to Philadelphia and studied in the nautical college for a time, grad- uating from that institution in navigation and nautical astronomy. Then he returned to the sailor's life and in the five years which followed visited nearly every country on the globe. The delights of ocean voyages and sight-seeing has some drawbacks, nevertheless, and the captain eventually preferred to settle down in a quieter routine.

Undoubtedly his decision in this matter was strengthened by his becoming acquainted with a very estimable young lady, Miss Emma J., daughter of Samuel Whiting, of Corsica Neck, Queen Anne's County. They were married in 1871 and became the parents of a son, Samuel E. Whiting, now a bright and energetic business man of Queenstown. Mrs. Emma J. Friel was summoned to the better land May 24, 1874. In December, 1875, the captain was united in marriage with Miss Virginia Whiting, half-sister of his first wife and the daughter of William Whiting. She died suddenly April 3, 1896.

In 1869 Captain Friel began to deal in grain on the Wye River, and was located there for about Six years. In 1875 he established his present business and has succeeded very well financially.

EWIN W. WICKES. In the practice of his chosen profession, the law, Mr. Wickes is becoming well and favorably known, not alone in Chestertown, where he has his office, but also throughout the entire county of Kent. He ranks among the able professional men, who by their ability have honored their chosen occupa- tion and who in turn have been honored by their fellow-citizens. For the calling which he has selected Mr. Wickes is fitted by education and training, as well as by the possession of the quali- ties that are his by inheritance from a long line of honorable ancestors.

In the city where he now resides, Lewin W. Wickes was born December 17, 1866, the son of William N. E. and Anne Elizabeth (Wethered) Wickes. He obtained his primary education in the public and high schools of his native place. Later he was a student in Washington College, that time-honored institution of Chestertown from which have graduated men of prominence in pub- lic affairs and in business. In 1886 he matricu- lated at Johns Hopkins University, but did not complete the course of study there, returning to Chestertown in the spring of 1887. He then began the study of law with J. A. Pearce and carried on his legal researches until his admission to the bar, in 1890. Since then he has followed professional work and has built up an important clientage.

There are few of the young men of Chester- town who take a more active interest in politics than does Mr. Wickes. He is well informed concerning the issues before the people to-day and not only has opinions of his own, but possesses the courage of his convictions and champions the Democratic principles with a firmness that oppo-

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sition cannot modify. He is a member of the Protestant Episcopal Church and is a vestryman of the congregation in Chestertown. In social circles he is prominent, as indeed are all who bear his family name.

AMES KENT HARPER JACOBS, M. D. In studying the lives and character of promi- nent men we are naturally led to inquire into the secret of their success and the motives that have prompted their action. Success is more often a matter of experience, sound judgment and thorough preparation for life's work than it is of genius, however bright. When we trace the career of those whom the world acknowledges as successful and of those who stand highest in pub- lic esteem, we find that in almost every case they are those who have risen gradually by their own efforts, their diligence and perseverance. These qualities are undoubtedly possessed in a large measure by the gentleman whose name intro- duces this sketch. He is not only one of the leading physicians and surgeons in Kent County, but is also one of the most prominent and success- ful business men of Kennedyville, where he makes his home.

A native of Maryland, the doctor was born February 11, 1856, in Centreville, Queen Anne's County, and is a son of William H. Jacobs, a native of the same county, who spent his early life in Church Hill, where the grandfather, Will- iam Jacobs, Sr., engaged in merchandising for many years. He was also born in Queen Anne's County. The founder of the family in the new world came from England prior to the Revolu- tionary war, and many of its representatives aided the colonies in their struggle for inde- pendence.

When a young man the doctor's father went to Wilmington, Del., and later became editor of the Port Gibson Herald, at Port Gibson, Miss. About the same time he organized a company for the Mexican war, was commissioned first lieu- tenant, and had charge of a company of Texas

Rangers at the battle of Monterey. His company belonged to Jefferson Davis' regiment. On his return to Centreville, Md., he embarked in mer- chandising with Col. John McKenney and his son, William McKenney, and when the colonel withdrew a few years later the firm remained Jacobs & McKenney for a time. He was one of the original promoters of the Queen Anne & Kent Railroad, of which he served as secretary and treasurer. His last years were passed in retire- ment upon his farm near Centreville, Briar- field, and at the time of his death, December 23, 1880, he was in his sixty-fifth year. In early life he was a Whig in politics and later became quite a prominent member of the Democracy. His sympathies were with the south during the war. Socially he affiliated with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and the Masonic fraternity, while religiously he was an Episcopalian. He was deservedly popular, as he was affable and courteous in manner, and his friends were many.

On the 17th of May, 1855, William H. Jacobs was united in marriage to Miss Caroline B. Harper, a daughter of Dr. James K. Harper, of Centre- ville, who was descended from a royal family of . England. The Browne family, of which Mrs. Jacobs was a descendant, settled in Maryland in 1720 and came into the possession of a large tract of land at Batchelder Hoope, Queen Anne's County, a gift from Lord Baltimore. To Mr. and Mrs. Jacobs were born two children, Dr. James K. H., of this review, and Caroline Browne, who for the past fifteen years has resided with her brother. She was educated by a private teacher at home, and for one year also attended a private school in Greensborough, taught by Miss Betts, under the control of Bishop Lay.

The doctor spent the days of his boyhood and youth upon the home farm near Centreville and began his education under the direction of private tutors. Later he attended the academy at Cen- treville, and afterward entered the University of Maryland, where he was graduated in 1877, with the degree of M. D. He at once opened an office in Kennedyville, where he has since successfully engaged in active practice, being called to all parts of Kent County. On the organization of

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tlie Second National Bank of Chestertown he be- came one of the charter members and directors, owning $5,000 of the capital stock, which then amounted to $50,000. He has also successfully engaged in the loan business, is one of the sub- scribers to the Baltimore Building and Loan Asso- ciation, and in Queen Anne's County owns two farins, aggregating four hundred and fifty acres, a part of which has been planted in fruit.

In 1892 Dr. Jacobs was united in marriage to Miss Namnie, daughter of Gen. William Mc- Kenney, of Centreville, and they have become the parents of two sons, James K. H., Jr., and William McKenney. The doctor, his wife, mother and sister are all members of St. Paul's Episcopal Church of Centreville, and in the social circles occupy an enviable position. His political support is always given the men and measures of the Democratic party, in the success of which he takes an active interest, and fraternally he is iden- tified with the Junior Order of American Me- chanics, the Knights of Pythias, Kent County Grange, and has passed all the chairs in Chester- town Lodge, I. O. O. F. He is also an honored and prominent member of the encampment, and is medical examiner for a number of well-known insurance companies of New York, Baltimore and Philadelphia. A man of keen discrimination, of great sagacity and of unbounded enterprise, he has met with excellent success in business affairs and as a physician and surgeon he ranks second to none on the Eastern Shore. Wherever he goes he wins friends and has the happy faculty of being able to retain them. The Jacobs, Brownes and Harpers are all related to the Kent family of England, who were of royal blood, and in whose honor Kent County, Md., was named.

C AMES FASSETT DOUGHERTY, M. D., is a rising young physician of Princess Anne, Somerset County. He comes from an old and honored family of the southern part of the Eastern Shore of Maryland and has inherited traits of character that will undoubtedly bring

him success. His father is, with perhaps one exception, the pioneer merchant of this place and is still actively engaged in business. He has been a prominent factor in whatever movements have been inaugurated for tlie benefit of our citi- zens, and is always certain to stand by all things that make for progress and good government. Dr. Dougherty needs no introduction to the peo- ple of Princess Anne and vicinity, for here he was born and grew to manhood, and in our excellent public schools he received the foundations of his later-acquired knowledge. He is heart and soul in sympathy with whatever affects the welfare of his fellow-citizens and is truly patriotic in spirit.

Born November 8, 1869, James F. Dougherty is a son of Z. James and Adelia (Henry) Dough- erty, whose family numbered three children. With his brothers and sisters the lad passed his happy boyhood in Princess Anne, and when he arrived at the dignity of six years was admitted to the primary department of the local schools. Subsequently he pursued his studies in the high school until he was about seventeen, when he took a course of instruction under a private tutor. Then he went into his father's mercantile busi- ness for a short time, but, having made up his mind to become a member of the medical pro- fession he entered the College of Physicians and Surgeons in Baltimore. In the spring of 1895 he graduated with the degree of M. D., and, return- ing to Princess Anne, was taken into partnership with Dr. Rufus W. Dashiell. He has since been actively engaged in practice and is doing well. He is a member of Manokin Lodge No. 106, F. & A. M., of this place, and is also identified with the Improved Order of Heptasophs and with the Red Men. Religiously he is connected with the Presbyterian Church.

Z. James Dougherty, father of the doctor, was one of the ten children of John and Esther (Wain- wright) Dougherty, both natives of Wicomico County. The mother died when in her fifty- seventh year. The father was a wealthy agri- culturist and owned large tracts of improved land. He died at the age of seventy-three years. Z. James Dougherty commenced clerking in a general store when he was about twenty years

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old, in Princess Anne, and continued in a similar position until after the close of the war. In 1865, when financial affairs were beginning to resume a healthy basis, he embarked in business upon his own account here, and has since conducted a general supply store. For the first five years he had a partner, but for nearly thirty years he has been alone in his enterprise. He is a Democrat, but has never been a politician or desirous of holding office. He married Adelia Henry, of Worcester County, and they have three children: James F., Ellen Myers and Bredelle H.

IEUT. HENRY COOKE TILGHMAN. Notwithstanding the years that have elapsed since the death of this gentleman, he is still affectionately remembered, not alone by the immediate members of his family, but also by those who were associated with him in life, by those who came within the circle of his friendship and by those to whom his sympathy, counsel and help had been given in time of need. Much of his life was spent at sea, as a lieutentant in the United States navy, but delicate health finally induced him to abandon his seafaring life and return to land. His last years were spent at his home in Easton district, Talbot County, where his family still reside.

The birth of our subject occurred at the Her- mitage in Queen Anne's County, Md., in 1809. He was a son of Richard Cooke Tilghman, a native of Baltimore and a grandson of Richard Tilghman, who was also born at the Hermitage. At the age of fifteen he ran away and went to sea, beginning before the mast, but working his way from one position to another until he was finally made lieutenant. On the 14th of No- vember, 1839, he was united in marriage with Miss Milcha M. Skinner, daughter of Andrew Skinner, of Talbot County, and a descendant of Elder Brewster, a leader of the pilgrims on the famous Mayflower, and a picture of whom may be seen in the captitol at Washington. Fair- view, on Miles River, is one of the old and noted

estates on the Eastern Shore, it having been granted to the Skinners by Lord Baltimore. It remained in the family of the wife of Lieutenant Tilghman until all the children of Andrew Skinner were married.

After his marriage Lieutenant Tilghman settled at Riverslie, an estate that belonged to his wife and comprised two hundred and six acres lying in Easton district. Here he resided, en- gaged in managing the cultivation of the place, until his earth life was ended, February 19, 1880. He did not take an active part in public affairs, but kept posted concerning the problems before the people, and in politics gave his ad- herence to the Democratic party. With his family he attended services at the Episcopal Church. He and his wife were the parents of nine children, of whom the following are now living: Elizabeth, who resides at the old home- stead; Louisa T., wife of William Carroll, of Baltimore County; Fannie, wife of Robert Huff, of Baltimore; Sophia, who married Powell Holli- day, of Key West, Fla .; Susan Tilghman, at home; and Millie M., wife of John L. Pascault, who carries on the old homestead in Talbot County. Mrs. Tilghman, with her two daughters and son-in-law, resides at the old homestead.

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Portrait and biographical record of the Eastern Shore of Maryland, Part 53

Author: Chapman Publishing Company Publication date: 1898 Publisher: New York, Chapman pub. co. Number of Pages: 906

Author: Chapman Publishing Company
Publication date: 1898
Publisher: New York, Chapman pub. co.
Number of Pages: 906