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Narcissus W. Miller, father of the subject of this notice, while clerk of his county, was also an extensive planter in the brightest days of Vir- ginia's prosperity. He was a gentleman of culture and wide popularity; an old-line Whig, and a warm admirer and supporter of Henry Clay. The mother of C. M. Miller was formerly Miss Kitty E. Anderson, a daughter of Col. Benjamin Anderson, of Goochland County, who was a cousin of the Col. Robert Anderson, con- spicuous in the Fort Sumter episode at the beginning of the Civil war. In the seventeenth year of his age Charles M. Miller joined the Sec- ond Company of Richmond Howitzers, First Regiment of Virginia Artillery, Ewell's Corps, Army of Northern Virginia. He was in all of the battles of the campaign of 1864, in front of General Grant from the Wilderness to Richmond; with General Early in the late summer and fall in the Valley of Virginia; back again to the breast- works between Richmond and Petersburg; in the retreat of the army in the closing scenes of 1865, and was one of the forty-four of the survivors of the Second Howitzers in the capitulation of Lee at Appomattox Sunday morning, April 9, 1865. He was at the Taylors Creek Academy in 1866 and 1867; with Gen. Charles P. Stone, late of the Union army, in his large coal producing en- terprise at Dover Mines, Va., from 1868 until General Stone was chosen commander of the army in Egypt; raised cotton in Houston County, Ga., in the years 1871 and 1872; came to Swan- ton, Garrett County, Md., May 9, 1873, as the personal representative of the late Gen. Joseph R. Anderson, of Richmond, Va., to survey and sell his vast estate of about fifty thousand acres of land in Garrett County; completed that undertaking just before the death of General Anderson in 1892, and since that time has been settling up unmatured contracts with land purchasers, and farming, as above stated.
In the year 1875 he was married to Miss Lizzie Lansdale, of Baltimore, Md., and they are the parents of six daughters: Jennie Lansdale Miller,
Bessie Anderson Miller, Nannie Lewis Miller, Mary Ella Miller, Emily Caralene Miller and Elizabeth McIlvaine Miller.
Mr. Miller has been president of the board of county school commissioners and in 1894 was nominated by his party as a Democrat for the legislature, but was defeated in the general re- verse met by the Democracy in the campaign of that year.
C. M. Miller descends from a long established family of the Protestant Episcopal Church in Virginia, and for about twenty-five years has served as a vestryman of that church in the dio- cese of Maryland, for the parish of St. Matthews, covering the county of Garrett.
OHN W. BEALL owns a valuable farm comprising one hundred and fifty-four acres, situated in Wheaton District, Montgomery County. Upon a farm adjoining his present home he was born on New Year's day of 1834, a son of Thomas and Mary K. (Headly ) Beall. His father was a son of Daniel Beall, who, it is thought, was born on the same farm; at least, his entire active life was spent here, and he owned large tracts of land and many slaves. The family of which he was a member came to America from Scotland, and in an early day settled in Mont- gomery County. He died when his grandson was a small boy. . Thomas Beall was born on the same farm and spent his entire life there, carrying on general farm pursuits. In politics he was an old-line Whig, and in religion sup- ported the Methodist Episcopal Church. He died at the age of sixty-nine years, about the time the war closed. His wife, who was born in Pennsylvania, and the daughter of a farmer, died in 1881 on the place now owned by her son. She was a lady of gentle disposition and Christian character, and was a faithful member of the Methodist Episcopal Church.
Of the children comprising the family, the oldest, Isaiah F., was a farmer and is now de-
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ceased; he has sons who live in this neighbor- hood. Our subject was second in order of birth. Maria, Mrs. John R. Champaign, died a number of years ago; Mary J. married Charles W. Brady, a brother of Samuel and John Brady; she is now deceased; Louisa is the wife of George Casheli, a prominent farmer of this district; Ann E., who is unmarried, resides with our subject. The boy- hood days of our subject were spent in Maryland and Ohio, to which state his parents moved when he was small. Returning soon to Montgomery County, he attended the district schools for a short time; but his educational advantages were limited to such studies as were taught in local schools. The enlarged information that he pos- sesses is the result of observation and reading.
At the age of twenty-nine years Mr. Beall com- menced for himself on the place he has since owned. The farm, which is called "Enster," extends about one-quarter of a mile along the Washington and Brookeville pike. Its acreage is under good cultivation, and the buildings are substantial and appropriate. In 1864 he married Emily C. Cashell, a sister of Hazel Washington Cashell, to whose sketch upon another page the reader is referred for the history of the Cashell family. The family attends the Episcopal Church. While Mr. Beall has never been active in politics and has never sought official honors, he never- theless keeps well informed concerning all matters of public and political interest, and gives his sup- port to the Democratic party.
ILLIAM E. MANNAKEE, dealer in grain, flour and feed at Silver Spring, Montgomery County, on the Metropolitan branch of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, also the owner and proprietor of the Burnt Mills, where he manufactures different brands of fine flour, was born at Brookeville, this county, in 1852. His father, Reuben, who was born at the same place as himself, made farming his life occupation, but died in early manhood, when his
only son was a small boy. In politics he was a Democrat. His wife, Sarah, was a daughter of Eaven Jones, a native of Rockville, this county, and a farmer by occupation.
The subject of this sketch was one of eight children. He has the following-named sisters: Sarah, who married Charles Sanford, an employe in the patent office in Washington; Isabella, wife of John Henderson, who is special inspector for the Underwriters' Insurance Company; Sophia, wife of Thomas Alnutt, of Laytonsville; Lizzie, whose husband, John Sparrow, is a successful farmer in Ohio; Clara, who lives with our subject and is stenographer at the Labor station; and Alice, a teacher of shorthand and typewriting, and at present stenographer for the Southern Railroad Company.
Soon after the death of his father our subject was taken into the home of Allen B. Davis, a wealthy farmer, who owned a large mill in Howard County. He attended the district schools and Brookeville Academy, and learned the miller's trade in the mill owned by Mr. Davis, which occupation he followed in Wash- ington, D. C., for some time. Fourteen years ago he purchased a half interest in the Burnt Mills of his father-in-law, James L. Bond, and they ran it together for a number of years, after which S. D. Waters became a partner, and the firm was changed to Mannakee & Waters. Later Mr. Mannakee purchased Mr. Waters' interest and since then has operated the mill alone. In 1893 he established his grain, flour and feed business at Silver Spring, where he sells at retail and also does a large shipping business.
In 1878 Mr. Mannakee married Carria Bond, daughter of James L. Bond. They have one son and two daughters, namely: Chester, who assists his father in the store; Alma, wife of Theodore Jones, a clerk in a wholesale grocery in Phila- delphia; and Leifa, who is in school. Politically a Democrat, Mr. Mannakee was school commis- sioner for six years, and for a long time has been secretary, treasurer and a director of the Wash- ington and Colesville turnpike. In religion he and his family are identified with the Methodist Episcopal Church. In his store and mill he
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FLODOARDO HOWARD, M. D.
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gives employment to a number of hands. He is a prosperous business man, owns a comfortable home and is surrounded by the comforts ac- cumulated by his energy and perseverance.
LODOARDO HOWARD, M. D., deceased, was regarded as an authority in his profes- sion, not only in Rockville, where many of the best years of his life were passed, but in Washington, where he attained great prominence. He was a most exemplary citizen, and in his death the community lost one of its ablest and most public-spirited men. His life and character were above reproach and his name was associated with innumerable philanthropic and religious works, while his private charities were constant and unending.
A native of Virginia, the doctor was born near Falmouth March 11, 1811. When he was about eleven years of age he removed with his father to Rural Retreat, near Brookeville, Md., and for three years attended the academy at that place. He then began the study of medicine with his uncle, Dr. Henry Howard, but in September, 1829, moved to Washington, D. C., where he entered the drug store of Joel Wright. In 1832 he became associated in the same business with Dr. Little, of Georgetown, and a few years later purchased the business of Mr. Wright in Wash- ington. This enterprise he conducted success- fully until 1841, at which time he resumed his medical practice.
In 1856, on account of poor health, Dr. Howard settled upon a farm near Brookeville and practiced his profession in connection with his agricultural duties for the next seven years. At the expira- tion of that period he went back to Washington and became prominent as a physician. For con- siderably more than a quarter of a century he was a member of the faculty of the medical depart- ment of the University of Georgetown, of which institution he was one of the founders, and during the last years of his connection with the same
was emeritus professor. Altogether he was as- sociated with the institution for over thirty-seven years. While a resident of Washington he served as a member of the common council and on the board of health. In 1878 he began to spend his summers in Rockville and in September, 1885, became a permanent resident of the place. Here his death occurred January 17, 1888, when he was seventy-seven years of age. He was for years a devoted member of the Methodist Church and was one of the originators of the Washington Grove camp-meeting. - He died as he had lived, strong in the Christian faith. In his politics he was a Republican, though inclined to be inde- pendent. During the war he was a Union man.
By Dr. Howard's marriage to Miss Lydia Rob- ertson, who died in 1883, he had three sons and one daughter. The eldest, Flodoardo H., is de- ceased. Robertson is an attorney-at-law in St. Paul, Minn. Edwin, the third son, is engaged in the practice of dentistry in Washington. Laura R., deceased, was the wife of George Her- bert, then of Rockville, but now a resident of Washington. In July, 1885, Dr. Howard mar- ried Helen A. Newlin, daughter of Artemus and Mary (Orme) Newlin, of Brookeville, Md. Mrs. Howard's father was a farmer and miller and was a member of the Society of Friends. During the war he was a stanch Union man and prior to that was identified with the Whig party.
ON. FRANK C. NORWOOD, a prominent attorney of Frederick, and president of the First National Bank, was born in Liberty, Frederick County, Md., September 12, 1855, and is a son of R. Nelson and Rachel ( Wagner) Nor- ·wood. He is of English ancestry. His great- great-grandfather, James Norwood, settled in the vicinity of Kemptown, on the border of Frederick and Montgomery Counties, about 1772. His son, Belt Norwood, resided on the homestead there. Joshua, his son, removed in early life to Liberty village, and there the father of our sub-
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ject passed the greater part of his life. He fol- lowed agricultural pursuits during his lifetime, and was prominently identified with the growth and development of that section. He was a firm supporter of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and highly esteemed as a citizen. Politically he was a Republican, becoming a member of that party on its formation. His death occurred in 1891.
Frank C. Norwood received his early education in the public schools of Frederick County, later attending the Maryland Agricultural College, from which he was graduated in 1874. Sub- sequently he began the study of law in the office of Bernard Carter, of Baltimore, and later entered the law department of the University of Mary- land, being graduated therefrom in June, 1879. On completion of his legal education he located in Frederick City, where he established himself in practice. He has been eminently successful in his profession, and has attained a prominent position among the practitioners of his county. He has always been a Republican and ever con- cerned in the advancement of his party's interests. In 1883 he was nominated by his party for the office of state's attorney, and was elected by a large majority over his Democratic opponent, leading the entire state and county ticket. This position he filled for four years. In 1889 he was nominated and elected on the Republican ticket for the house of delegates, and again led his party ticket by a large vote. While serving in this capacity he was a member of the committee on judiciary and on inspections.
In 1895 he was nominated and elected to the state senate, and during the session of 1896 served as a member of the committees on judicial proceedings, on militia, on contingent expenses of the senate, on public buildings in Annapolis and on roads and highways. During the session of 1898 he was chairman of the committees on corporations and on militia, and served on those' of federal relations, railways and canals, public buildings in Annapolis and library. During his incumbency of these several offices, he has per- formed his duties with marked ability, and has won the esteem and good will of his constituents.
He is an easy, logical and graceful speaker. As a lawyer he is thoroughly trained and cultured in the law, and is recognized as one of the ablest practitioners at the bar of western Maryland. While filling the office of state's attorney he was a strong and able prosecutor. He presents his cases with marked ability both before court and jury. Aside from his professional interests he is identi- fied with many of Frederick's most important industries, and is at present serving as president of the First National Bank, and also as its counsel.
OHN BUCHANAN BREWER, assistant postmaster of Rockville, has occupied this position for a number of years and is one of the leading citizens of the town. He is a native of this place, his birth having occurred here De- cember 4, 1850. Politically he gives his support to the Democratic party, and though interested in its success, has never been an office seeker.
Mr. Brewer is a grandson of Dr. William Brewer, who was born in Anne Arundel County, Md., in 1778. He was an exceptionally bright student, and by the time he was twenty years of age he graduated from the University of Penn- sylvania with the degree of Doctor of Medicine, and was made professor of obstetrics in the in- stitution. He resigned this position, however, on account of poor health and located at Medleys Hill, Montgomery County, Md., where he fol- lowed the practice of his profession for years. In time he became very well-to-do, and owned slaves and large tracts of land, some of his prop- erty being in New York state, and a portion of it being the site of the present city of Buffalo. The last-mentioned land he willed to his son William, who united with the Quaker sect at that place. Dr. Brewer married Miss Mary Chiswell, of an old Maryland family, and fifteen children were born to them. Of these William, Jr., as already said, lived in Buffalo; John was the father of the subject of this narrative; Joseph remained in the neighborhood of Dawsonville, Md .; James,
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a very successful attorney, was secretary of the the city at one time, and was made a judge by United States mint, and was a sheriff and judge in New Orleans; Dr. Nicholas took up his father's practice, and twice represented his county in the state senate, and was also a member of the constitutional convention of 1867; George, the only survivor of the family, is now living on the old homestead and has devoted his life to agri- culture; Mary became the wife of A. M. Moore, of Clarke County, Va., and their son, A. M., Jr., is a successful lawyer of that locality; Eleanor married James Birch, of Prince George County, Md., and her son is living in Anne Arundel County, Md.
The parents of our subject were John and Elizabeth (Stewart) Brewer, whose family num- bered five children. Two died in infancy, and the others are Ellen, wife of Spencer C. Jones; William, deceased, formerly an attorney and editor of the Montgomery Advocate, and for several years chairman of the Democratic State Central Committee, and John B., of this sketch. The father was born in this county, September 13, 1804, near Poolesville, and read law in Frederick with William Ross. Then he commenced prac- tice in Rockville and was associated with George Peter for some years. He was active in the legal profession until his death, July 7, 1866, and was a citizen of high standing in every respect. In 1850 he was a member of the Maryland constitu- tional committee, being the first Democrat to carry this county. During the war he was kept in prison at General Bank's camp, at Darnestown, Md., for twenty-two days, on account of his political opinions. In 1856 he was counsel for the government on the Chesapeake & Ohio Canal, and continued to serve in that capacity up to the outbreak of the war.
John Buchanan Brewer was reared in the town of Rockville, and received his higher education in the academy here and in Washing- ton (now the Washington and Lee) University. At the end of three years of collegiate work his health failed, and he was compelled to return home. In 1871, when he had recovered, he took up the study of law with the firm of Brown & Brune, in Baltimore. Mr. Brown was mayor of
acclamation. In 1873 Mr. Brewer graduated from the iaw department of the University of Maryland, and the following year was married. Soon after that event he removed to St. Louis, Mo., and began the practice of his profession. The climate did not suit his wife's constitution and they accordingly returned to this state, where Mr. Brewer commenced farming and finally spent about twelve years in that occupation. Since the expiration of that period he has been assistant postmaster, and has given entire satis- faction to ail concerned. He has filled many official positions in Montgomery Lodge No. 195, A. F. & A. M., and is one of its valued members.
In 1874 Mr. Brewer married Virginia F., daughter of W. W. Russell, a major in the United States marine corps, and a resident of Alexandria, Va. Mrs. Brewer's mother was a Miss Virginia Fletcher in her girlhood. The ten children who biess the union of our subject and wife are named as follows: Virginia R., Ellen, John, William R., Mary M., Lloyd A., Nicholas, George, Elizabeth S. and Lucy B.
SAAC S. HENDRY, of Bethesda District, Montgomery County, resides upon a farm that lies near the electric car line running from Washington. He was born near Urbana, Frederick County, in 1845. His father, Charles Hendry, was born near Berryville, Va., and re- moved from there to Ohio, but later settled in Frederick County, Md. While in Ohio he en- gaged in the mercantile business and also operated a large mill that he owned. He laid out the town of Hendrysburg, in that state. Until sixty years of age he made merchandising his principal business, but after that he turned his attention to farming. He owned over one thousand acres, seven hundred of which were in Montgomery County, and the remainder in Urbana Dis- trict, Frederick County. His mother also owned
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large tracts of land, all of which still remain in the possession of the family. He and his mother owned over one hundred slaves at the time they were set free, but, although they had so many, he would never consent to sell one. In politics he was originally an old-line Whig, and later an adherent of the Democratic party. In religion he was identified with the Methodist Church. At the time of his death he was sixty-five years of age.
The mother of our subject was Eleanor Bur- gee, a daughter of Singleton and Jane (Ijams) Burgee, natives of Maryland. Ijamsville, in Frederick County, was named after the Ijams family, whose members have long been promi- nent in that section. Mr. Burgee was a large land owner, having one thousand acres in Ur- bana District. Mrs. Eleanor Hendry died at seventy years of age, a few years after the death of her husband. They were the parents of three sons and six daughters.
Educated primarily in the district schools, our subject later attended St. Timothy Hall, at Catonsville, near Baltimore, where he completed his studies. At the age of twenty he secured employment as a clerk in Riggsville, but after one year went to Virginia and opened a sash factory and a shoe factory in partnership with his brother, Burwell. They carried on a large business and employed many hands, continuing together ten years, when our subject sold out to his brother and went to Baltimore, there engag- ing in the manufacture of brushes. He continued in that business until 1888, when he purchased his country home near Bethesda, and has since resided here.
In 1872 Mr. Hendry married Annie, daugh- ter of Hon. Moses Walton, a prominent lawyer of Virginia and a member of the state legislature and of the Confederate congress during the Civil war. She has a brother, L. M. Walton, who was a member of the state senate of Virginia for sev- eral terms, and author of the Walton election law; he is a very prominent officer in the Knights of Pythias. For many years he was president of the Sunday-school convention of the Methodist Epis- copal Church South, of which he is a prominent
official member. Another brother, Samuel Wal- ton, is practicing law in Luray, Va., and David is a merchant of Woodstock, Va .; her sister Mary married Judge E. D. Newman, of Virginia; and another sister, Alice, is the widow of Charles Haslett, of Pennsylvania.
Four sons and two daughters blessed the union of Mr. and Mrs. Hendry, four of whom are now living, viz .: Alma L., who graduated from the Western high school of Washington, D. C., class of 1896, and two years later graduated from the Washington normal school; Moses Walton, who graduated from the Western high school of Washington, D. C., class of 1898; Ernest S., who is now a member of the graduating class of 1900 of the same school; and Leland M. Hendry.
Politically Mr. Hendry votes the Democratic ticket in national issues, but in local matters supports the best man. While in Baltimore he united with the Methodist Episcopal Church and still holds his membership with a congregation in that city.
INFIELD SCOTT MAGRUDER, who is a well-known resident of Darnestown Dis- trict, Montgomery County, is a member of an old Scotch family, whose first representative in this country was his great-grandfather. .. War- ren, the grandfather, was born in Bethesda Dis- trict and engaged in farm pursuits. Of his five children only two are living, William, who lives in Bethesda District, and Mrs. H. Lyddane, living near Rockville., The second in order of birth was Samuel Wade Magruder, born in 1812, and father of our subject. He received his edu- cation in the public schools and Rockville Acad- emy, and studied `with a view to taking up the practice of medicine, but decided finally to follow farm pursuits. As an agriculturist he was suc- cessful. In early life he was a Whig, but after the war he took an active interest in the success of the Democratic party. For many years he served as a magistrate, and has the remarkable
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record of never having had a case appealed. He suas a man of excellent judgment and succeeded in settling many cases by his good advice and friendly interest. Religious enterprises secured his support; and especially the work of the Pres- byterian Church.
The marriage of Samuel Wade Magruder united him with Martha Riley, daughter of Isaac Riley, of the same neighborhood. Eight chil- tren were born of their union, all still living, viz .: Virginia, who married Riley Landon and resides in Somerset County; America, Mrs. John Fontaine, also of Somerset County; Winfield Scott; Amos William, who is engaged in farming near Bethesda; Samuel Wade, Jr., a merchant and farmer at Travilah; Rosa, Mrs. Mayhew Ruark, of Somer- set County; Julia; and Elmer Ellsworth, who is A merchant at Hunting Hill. The father of this family was an energetic and capable man. He started for himself without assistance, and by his perseverance and good management became the owner of a good farm comprising more than two hundred acres. To the cultivation of this prop- erty he devoted his entire time.
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