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At the age of twenty-two, when the Mexican war broke out, Mr. Grove joined a company of cavalry raised by Capt. George Cost Biser, with Jacob M. Buckey as lieutenant. The company fully expected to enter service, but owing to the vast number of volunteer companies offered for the war only one hundred men were apportioned to Frederick County. As there were fifty thou- sand applications ahead of those made by Mr. Grove's company, its members were compelled to abandon all hope of fighting beneath the stars and stripes. The company was in existence for seven years and was in Frederick at the time General Scott was court martialed, marching in review with the other companies before that great soldier.
Mr. Grove engaged in teaching for several years, being at Arnoldstown, Broad Run, the Union school near Jefferson and later at the Fink school, near Middletown, all in Middletown Valley. He embarked in the mercantile business at Broad Run in 1851. In 1852 he married Susan, daugli-
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ter of William Jarboe, and a sister of John and Thomas Jarboe. Her ancestors came to this country with the first Lord Baltimore, settling in St. Mary County. Soon afterward he started another store at Burkittsville. During his mer- cantile operations he did considerable surveying in Middletown Valley. He also acted as post- master of Burkittsville from 1852 to 1859, and displayed in all occupations in which he engaged the energy and good judgment that afterward brought him large financial success.
The attention of Mr. Grove was in 1859 at- tracted to the rapidly increasing use of lime as a fertilizer. Believing the business would prove a profitable one he closed out his mercantile business and purchased from J. D. Eichel- berger a tract of limestone land at Lime Kiln, on the main line of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, four miles from Frederick. To this place he moved in the spring of 1860. The village was a mere station of the utmost insig- nificance, only fifty-two passengers having taken the train at this point during the year previ- ous to Mr. Grove's purchase, but now the rail- road carries an average of over ten thousand passengers per annum, and the town contains three hundred inhabitants. Immediately after moving to Lime Kiln, Mr. Grove began the manufacture of lime. His son, William J., was associated in business with him under the firm title of M. J. Grove & Son, until July 1, 1889, when the M. J. Grove Lime Company was organized, with M. J. Grove as president; William J. Grove, vice-president; B. L. Grove, secretary; and E. D. Grove, manager. At the same time the large kilns on the Baltimore & Ohio road in Frederick were purchased, and these have since been operated by the company. The supply of fine grade limestone appears to be inexhaustible. At Lime Kiln large quarries are being worked and they own seven lime kilns there, one being iron clad for the manufacture of lime with wood. They are also operating at Fred- erick two plants of eighteen lime kilns, three of which are iron clad for the manufacture oflime with wood. During the busy season about one hundred men are employed in the quarries and kilns. Both
building and agricultural lime are manufactured, the former in three grades: No. I Frederick city finishing lime, No. 2 Frederick city plastering lime and No. 3 for brick and masonry work. Tliese find a ready sale in the south, north to Philadelphia and west to the Ohio River. The kilns and warehouses are connected by tracks with the railroad, thus making the shipping fa- cilities admirable. Water is supplied by a large wind pump for manufacturing and residence pur- poses. Until 1890 the postoffice was located in the company's store at Lime Kiln, and Mr. Grove served as postmaster.
The company also own a large quarry at Buck- eystown, and have quite a number of buildings at their different plants for their employes. They furnish the best qualities of limestone and deal in coal and coke, dynamite caps, powder, fuse and general merchandise. The success of this enterprise is entirely due to the intelligent oversight of Mr. Grove, who, though having a high class of intelligent employes, as well as competent associates in the business, neverthe- less gives his personal oversight to the entire plant. His property possessions are large and valuable. He owns and occupies an attractive home, situated on the Frederick and Buckeys- town pike, and containing all of the comforts wealth can procure. He also owns a number of buildings and tenement houses, and several fine farms aggregating about eight hundred acres. He is also president of the Grove Lime and Coal Company at Washington, D. C., which is doing a large and successful business at that point.
In 1889 Mr. Grove was bereaved by the death of his wife, who had been his faithful helpmate and assistant during all the years of his struggle for success. They were the parents of five sons and two daughters, namely: William J., who is vice-president of the company; Edward D., who is the manager of the business at Washington, D. C .; James H., manager of the business at Frederick; Eugene Ashiby, assistant secretary of the company, Bernard L., general manager of the Grove Lime and Coal Company's business at Washington, D. C .; Carrie E., who married Jolin C. White, then of Kansas City, Mo., but
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now in charge of Mr. Grove's coal and wood bus- iness in Washington, D. C .; and Laura, still at home and unmarried. In 1891 Mr. Grove mar- ried Mrs. Josepha (Wilson) Durr, a member of a prominent family of Virginia, and closely re- lated to some of the very best people of the state.
Politically a Democrat, Mr. Grove was elected to the state legislature upon that ticket in 1887, serving in the session of 1888, and again, by a second election in 1892. While in the house he was a member of the committees on inspection, labor, temperance and others. For years he was register of voters. In religion he is connected with the Reformed Church. He was a member of Enterprise Grange at Buckeystown, of which he was for some time master. During late years he has spent much time in travel, covering a large portion of the United States and Canada. In 1887 lie visited California, and while there called on G. K. Fitch, the millionaire proprietor of the San Francisco Chronicle, and the former partner of his brother. In the beautiful resi- dence of that gentleman he found many memo- rials of his brother and in conversation with him he learned much concerning the early history of these two pioneers in California, their struggles and hardships, both in mine and newspaper office, and the intimate friendship which was cemented by their long and close association in business.
OSEPH E. BEATTY, M. D. This honored citizen of Middletown, Frederick County, received such training in his cliosen pro- fession as falls to the lot of comparatively few young men starting out to engage in practice. He had completed liis medical studies just about the time that the Civil war broke out in the United States, and being full of youthful and patriotic enthusiasmn he at once volunteed his services as a surgeon, and from that time until the close of the fearful conflict lie stood at his post of duty unflinchingly, doing all that was in
his power to alleviate and repair the awful ravages of war. In July, 1861, he entered the Second Regiment of Maryland Infantry, in Balti- more, in the capacity of assistant surgeon and as such continued until eighteen months had elapsed, when he was rewarded by his being promoted to the position of regimental surgeon. He partici- pated in the principal battles of the Army of the Potomac, went with General Burnside on his campaign. in the Carolinas, and was with Grant and the Army of the Potomac until the end of the war. He received but one slight wound in all this service, although he was often in the thickest of the fight, it seeming that his life was spared that he might be able to minister to the needs of his comrades. He was always to be de- pended upon and was faithful to the least detail in the dreadfully trying responsibility which rested upon him.
The father of the doctor, Affordby Philip Beatty, was a native of the city of Frederick and passed the whole of his life, which numbered only forty years, in this county. He was a mer- chant, was an active worker in the ranks of the Whig party and for years was city councilman. His father, Elijah Beatty, was a native and farmer of this county, and of Scotch descent, his ancestors having come to America in the latter part of the seventeenth century. A. P. Beatty and his good wife, Sarah, were faithful members of the Episco- pal Citurch. She was a daughter of Rev. Joseph Trapnell, who was pastor of several Episcopal Churches in Frederick and Montgomery Counties. He was a native of England, but from early life lived in this country. William, the eldest brother of the doctor, conducted a marble works in Frederick until his death, about twenty years ago. Alfred is a resident of Burkittsville Dis- trict.
The doctor was born in Frederick City in 1839. He was reared there and received his higlier educa- tion in the justly renowned old Frederick College, from whose classic halls so many of the representa- tive men of this region have graduated. Having pursued a thorough course of study in the medi- cal department of the University of Maryland in Baltimore City, he graduated in 1861, and almost
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immediately entered upon his army service. Afterwards he returned to this county and lo- cated in Burkittsville, where he remained three years. In 1869 he came to Middletown, and has been here ever since. He owns a pleasant home on the prettiest street in the town, having pur- chased it two decades ago. He enjoys an exten- sive practice and has a reputation for general ability and skill that is second to none in this section of the state. In politics the doctor is a Democrat. For years he has been one of the commissioners of this town, vaccine physician and a pension examiner. Socially he is a member, of the Ancient Order of United Workmen.
In 1864 Dr. Beatty married Emily Trapnell, whose father was the Rev. J. Trapnell, of this county. To this union two sons and a daughter have been born: Philip Affordby, who is a civil engineer; James H., at home; and Emily, an ac- complished young lady living at home with her parents. For several generations the family have been members of the Episcopal Church, and the wife and dear ones are no exception to this rule.
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ANIEL PETER THOMAS, deceased, was one of the most respected agriculturists of Buckeystown District, Frederick - County, and with his loved wife, who was a true helpmate to him, aiding and cheering him in the sorrows and trials of life's journey, he lived for over thirty years on the fine homestead which is now carried on by her. This farm, one of the most valuable in this district, is a tract comprising one hundred and sixty acres of fertile and well-cultivated land, supplied with substantial buildings, fences, and all that goes to make up a desirable homestead.
Born in 1830, on the same farm we have re- ferred to above, our subject is a son of Peter Thomas, a native of the vicinity. The latter was a life-long agriculturist of this district, and was a Whig in politics. He married Miss Susan Whip, and had the following children: Jonathan, Josiah, Lewis; Susan, who married Eli Waskey;
Maria, wife of Ephraim Zimmerman; Ellen, Mrs. Lewis Main; Amanda, wife of Benjamin Dixon; and Daniel Peter. The mother died at about forty years of age, while the father reached three- score, ten and five years.
After having obtained a good general educa- tion in the old Red Hill school-house of his home district, Daniel P. Thomas started forth to "pad- dle his own canoe." He remained with his father, working on the old homestead, until he was about twenty-seven or eight. December 10, 1857, he married Elizabeth R. Remsburg, daugh- ter of Jacob Remsburg. They had grown up together, as her father's farm was located just across the road from his own home. Together they had attended the same school and Sunday- school, and in time became members of the same church, and nothing could have been more natu- ral and fitting than that their lives, thus one in interest, hope and training, should become more closely entwined. A happy union it proved in every sense, and when death claimed the loving husband and father, the loss of the family was almost insupportable. Nor is he missed in the domestic circle alone; the whole community in which he was an interested citizen and true patriot, a kind neighbor and generous friend, feel that in his being taken from them a place is left vacant that will not soon be filled. He was an active member of the Reformed Church and was an official in the congregation for years prior to his death. In his political belief he was inde- pendent. After many decades of busy industry and untiring effort in the maintenance of liis position in the community and of his place in his loved household, the hand of deatlı beckoned him and he went to his reward, the date being May 16, 1892.
The parents of Mrs. Thomas were Jacob and Elizabetlı (Willard) Remsburg, who were life- long residents of this district, and whose family numbered twelve children, nine of these being sons. Three died in childhood; Washington J. is operating the old homestead; Philip lives in Ohio; Calvin is a citizen of Adamstown: Gideon is in Mount Pleasant; Albert is a physician in Pennsylvania; George was accidentally killed;
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Lucinda married Tilman Myers, who is deceased; Ann married Lewis Smith, of this district. The father of this family was a member of the Re- formed Church from his boyhood, was a member of the church board of officers and was superin- tendent of the Sunday-school many years. His wife was identified with the Lutheran Church.
The marriage of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas was blessed with eight children, three of whom have been called to the better land. Louis F., the pride of the family, as he was the only son who lived to maturity, was preparing himself for the min- istry and was a young man of great promise when he was taken ill with typhoid fever and died, aged nineteen years. Ann is the wife of John J. Culler, a farmer of this neighborhood; Ella married Stephen Thomas; Cora B. and May G. are at home; and Lillie is Mrs. George Thomas. They were all educated in the Red Hill school-house, and are worthy members of society.
ILLIAM CLARENCE BOTELER, M. D., (Oculist and Aurist). A sturdy Norman, Simon De Bouteler, who came to England as a captain of cavalry with William the Con- queror in 1066, was the progenitor of the; Mary- land family of Botelers; as well as all of the Botelers, Butlers and LeBoteliers of history. For his valor he was given a land grant in Sur- rey and Kent Counties, England. The family became divided at the time of Charles I .; one Robert Boteler espoused the cause of the king, and his brother Benjamin supported the Pro- tector Cromwell. After the restoration the de- scendants of Benjamin became gradually known as "Butlers." The descendants of Robert retained the name of Boteler and subsequently came to America.
Burke's Landed Gentry of England says: "This family is among the most ancient of the untitled gentry of England." Lord Boteler, of Abbotsford, Scotland, was an intimate friend of Sir Walter Scott, and the fourthi chapter of the pref-
ace to the first volume of the Abbotsford edition of the Waverly novels (Sir Knight Waverly) is given to a description of scenes of merriment be- tween the author and his friends Lord Boteler and Lady Jane Boteler, from the hospitable castle of Boteler, near Abbotsford. Again, as remotely as 1255, the town-site of ancient Walluntune (now Warrington), the busy linen and leather manufacturing town in Lancaster County, Eng- land, was donated to the priory of Thurgarton by Sir William C. Boteler, who was high sheriff of the county and governor of the castle of Lan- caster. At Estry, Kent County, England, is probably the oldest seat of this family. There lived Sir Knights John, William and Philip Boteler, who were prominently connected withi the royal households of Kings Henry VI. and VII., Charles I. and James I. Samuel "Butler," the author of Hudibras, the well-known satire upon English royalty, was a Boteler; as was James "Butler," who was appointed Lord Lieu- tenant and Chief Butler of Ireland by King James I., and afterward created twelfth Earl and first Duke of Ormonde.
The Maryland Botelers were among thie colonists who first settled southern Maryland under the charter granted to Lord Baltimore, Henry, Charles and Rupert Boteler having re- ceived a very large land grant in the neighbor- hood of what is now Upper Marlboro, Prince George County, Md. Edward, the immediate progenitor of the Frederick County Botelers, married Miss Priscilla Lingon (Lincoln), aunt of. Gen. James McCubbin Lingon, who was killed in a political riot in Baltimore, on the night of July 27, 1812.
We find this family well represented in all the pursuits that marked the settlement of west- ern Maryland. Probably the largest number were land owners; many of them were physicians, some ministers, lawyers, mechanics, merchants, etc .; Alexander R. Botcler was a member of con - gress; Hezekiah Boteler served in the Maryland legislature; and William C. Boteler, the subject of this sketch, was selected to assist in compil- ing the First Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology by the government in 1879 and ap-
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pointed United States Surgeon at a post on the plains under the administration of President Hayes.
The father of Dr. Boteler, Dr. William E. Boteler, is one of the oldest living physicians of western Maryland, having practiced his profes- sion in Middletown, Frederick County, for nearly fifty years. He is descended from Capt. Henry Boteler, of old Elizabethtown (now Hagerstown), Washington County, Md., who recruited a com- pany of volunteers and marched to the Jerseys to the assistance of General Washington in the Rev- olutionary war. This family, as already stated, was among the first settlers of western Maryland, their residence, "Park Hall," near "Elizabeth- town," dating back to 1757, when this beautiful section was still a part of the "forest primeval" and the noble red man was "monarch of all he surveyed."
On his maternal side Dr. Boteler is a great- nephew of Hon. Christopher Hughes, of Balti- more, who represented this country at various foreign courts as Minister Plenipotentiary; of General Armistead and Armstrong, who repulsed General Ross at Fort McHenry in 1814; and of the late United States Senator Anthony Kennedy, of Maryland, and J. Hall and Richard Pleasants, of Baltimore.
Dr. William Clarence Boteler was born in Mid- dletown, Frederick County, Md., August 4, 1855. At a very early age he evinced a fondness for books and literature, and his father, who was then a busy physician, encouraged his son's taste to a very liberal degree. His primary education was under the tutelage of some of the very best private instructors in western Maryland. When quite young he entered the Freshman class of Pennsylvania College, Gettysburg, Pa., in 1873, and there applied himself for three years, pre- paratory to the study of law. In 1876, however, he undertook the study of medicine under the instruction of his father at Middletown, and two years later graduated from the Medical Depart- ment of the University of Maryland. A year prior to graduation he was made assistant to the resident physician at the University Hos- pital, Baltimore, and clinical assistant to Prof.
J. J. Chisholm, After his graduation at that in- stitution, in March, 1878, he became one of the first students of the Johns Hopkins University, in the class of Biology under Prof. H. Newell Mar- tin, from Cambridge, England, who had just been elected to that Department. After complet- ing this special course, in October, 1878, he went to Philadelphia, enlisted under one of the pro- fessors of surgery in the Jefferson Medical Col- lege, where he spent six months, taking a review course of his whole profession. In October, 1879, Secretary Schurtz appointed him Surgeon for a United States Indian agency in western Nebraska, and detailed him to assist Col. Garrick Mallery, of the United States army, in compiling the First Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology, a scientific government series of the Smithsonian Institute.
Resigning from the government service Dr. Boteler located temporarily in St. Joseph, Mo., where he was elected Professor of diseases of the Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat, in the North- western Medical College, a position that he held for several years. In 1892, his health having failed, he sold his practice and property in St. Joseph and spent a part of a year in the high altitudes of South Dakota, Montana and Colo- rado, for recuperation. In September, 1893, he founded the Medical Department of the Univer- sity of Kansas City, organizing the stock com- pany and empaneling the faculty. He was made its first Vice-President and Professor of diseases of the Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat, a position which he held until the ill health of his aged fa- ther necessitated his return to Frederick County, his native home.
For many years Dr. Boteler was editor of the North American Medical Review, a monthly medical magazine of power and influence in the medical profession, and published in Kansas City, Mo. He has also been a contributor to leading literary periodicals of the country and several ini- portant discoveries have been added by him to standard medical and surgical text-books, notably to the International Clinics 1898, edited by Dr. Judson Daland, Philadelphia, wherein Dr. Bote- ler shows in an exhaustive scientific article that
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he was the first investigator to point out the Actual Patlı of Transmission of Sympathetic Oph- thalmia from one eye to the other; and the Path of Transmission of Trophic or Salutary Ocular Reflexes from one eye to the otlier. Thougli he strictly limits his professional work to diseases of the Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat, one of his "fads" has been passing examinations before tlie Medical Examining Boards of different states where occasion called him, and he now holds diplomas or certificates from the Boards of Mon- tana, Missouri, Maryland, South Dakota and the District of Columbia.
In surgical literature Dr. Boteler is credited with having been the first surgeon to have re- moved successfully a large brain tumor (Hydro- Meningocele containing Encephalocele) from tlie human brain, saving the life of an eleven-month- old babe of Charles Sadtler, at Scotland, S. Dak. He also performed the third successful operation recorded for the removal of Glioma, a cancerous eye tumor, generally a disease of infancy and fatal in its consequences. This operation was performed in 1892 upon a child of John Town- send, of Centralia, Kan. The doctor is now en- gaged upon scientific investigations tending to show that Harvey's theories as to the Circulation of the Blood are not correct; papers and proofs relating to the same will be published in a short time. As an Oculist and Aurist, etc., Dr. Boteler has "not more than a superior auywhere. His excellent educational advantages as the subtra- tum of an experience of twenty years in a busy practice make up now all that could be desired in a skilled expert. He has performed the diffi- cult operations for the removal of cataract and the correction of cross eye, several thousand times, making him not only dextrous, but abso- lutely safe, qualities much to be desired in such very delicate work. He was a member of the Mis- souri State Medical Association and the Kansas City Medical and Surgical Society, also the Ma- sonic order, the Knights of Pythias, the Ancient Order of United Workmen, the Key Monument Association, the degree of Honor and tlie Sons of the Revolution.
At a very early age Dr. Boteler liad made a
success of his practice as an Oculist and Aurist and had acquired a competency. This was due to his skill and an unusual combination of pro- fessional knowledge and business judgment. He has a gratifying practice in Frederick and tlie surrounding counties of his native home. He diversifies his leisure time by participation in public affairs and is said to have been selected by Hon. Lyman Gage, Secretary of the Treasury, as his Auditor for the War Department, in March, 1897, but- waived the occupancy of the office in behalf of another candidate who had been selected by the President. In June, 1898, he was elected to head the delegation of representatives from the Sixth Congressional District of Maryland in the meeting of the National League of Republican Clubs at Omaha. As an orator he signalized himself by a remarkable oration entitled "Mar- velous Maryland," delivered before a meeting of the Frederick County Farmers' Institute in Au- gust, 1897. By many of his hearers it was said "He set everybody wild with state patriotism."
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