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Mr. Armstrong was formerly president of the Hagerstown Rotary Club. He is a member of the University. Press, and City Clubs of Baltimore.
On January 23, 1911. Mr. Armstrong married Miss Mary Rebekah Woods, daughter of Dr. and Mrs. Iliram Woods, of Baltimore. They have one son. Alexander. Junior.
Offices, 15 N. Jonathan Street, Hagerstown, and 633 Title Building. Baltimore.
Residence, 151 S. Prospect Street, Hagerstown, The Shirley, Baltimore.
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V. G. DUNNINGTON.
Few are the men who have achieved the fortieth milestone of life have a place in the world of finance and business which equals that attained by V. G. Dunnington, Baltimore banker. financier, and business executive.
V. G. Dunnington was born at Lynchburg, Virginia. on Feb. ruary 7. 18%0, the son of V. G. Dunnington. Senior, treasurer of the City of Lynchburg, and Alive V. Dunnington. Ilis parents removed to Maryland, where their son derived his education in the schools of MeDonough, Maryland.
Having displayed promise of a successful career in financial activities. Mr. Dunnington at the age of seventeen became connected with the Baltimore Trust Company, one of the large financial institutions of that city. After having occupied various responsible positions, he became a director of that company.
Mr. Dunnington is now president of the Manufacturers Finance Company of Baltimore, the oldest and among the largest credit companies in the East. llo is also president and was the organizer of the Commerce Trust Company, another financial stronghold of Baltimore. Mr. Dunnington recently purchased the four-story building which was the property of the Merchants & Miners Transportation Company, located at Redwood and Light Streets, Baltimore, in which are to be located the various enterprises in which he is interested as an executive and director. Two other great enterprises in which Mr. Dunnington is interested are the Manufacturers Finance Trust of Chicago. of which he is chairman, and the Central Teresa Sugar Com- pany, he being on the board of directors of the latter corpora- tlon.
Of social and business clubs, Mr. Dunnington is identified with the following: Merchants. Baltimore Country, and City ('lubs. Baltimore ; Bankers Club, New York City. Politically, he has heretofore been a Democratic adherent.
On line 2. 1900, Mr. Dunningtom married Roberta Martin Kenly, daughter of Major William 1. Kenly, of Baltimore. To the union has been born three children-Garland 11., Marion K .. and V. G., Junior.
Ills residence is at 200 Ridgewood Road. Roland Park, and Mr. Dunnington's offices are in the Commerce Trust Building, Baltimore.
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JAMES CAREY MARTIEN.
James Carey Martien, of the firm of William Martien & Company. real estate. Baltimore, was born in Baltimore County. Maryland. December 10. 1\75, son of William and Virginia C. Marilou, and was educated in the public schools of Baltimore.
Mr. Martien began his career at the age of eighteen in com- merejal lines, which he followed for four years, At the age of twenty-two he became a member of the firm of William Martien & Company, which was founded by his father in 1880.
The firm of William Martien & Company specializes in indus- trial and commercial properties, and it is due to the activities of this concern that numerous great industries and business enterprises have become located in the city of Baltimore. This is to be largely accounted for by the fact that William Martien & Company are at all times active in presenting the advantages of being located in Baltimore, to prospective out-of-town mann- facturers, and at the same time the sites at the command of Mr. Martion and his associates are at the disposal of Baltimore concerns which are in search of a location permitting expansion in their several fields.
Mr. Martien is a member of the Merchants, Baltimore Country. Mt. Washington, and Rotary Clubs, Merchants and Mannfactn- rers Association, and the Real Estate Board.
Ile married April. 1903. Anna May Mealy, and has four children. three girls and one boy.
Hls residence is at Mt. Washington, Maryland.
OCTWIE'S W. CLARK.
Ortavins Warner Clark, member of the real estate firm of William Martien & Company, was born in Baltimore. May 31. 1SS6, son of Robert M. and Amelia K. Clark. In 1903 Mr. Clark became associated with William Martien & Company and was admitted to membership in the firm in 1915. As a member of this firm he has been active in bringing to Baltimore many large industries and has been prominently identified with the remark- able industrial growth of the city.
Several years ago Mr. Clark attracted national attention in his profession through his thorough study of the governmental appraisal of the real estate holdings of the railroad interests throughout the country, acting as the representative of the National Association of Real Estate Boards, when testifying before the Interstate Commerce Commission at Washington, on this subject.
In 1915 Mr. Clark was treasurer of the Baltimore Real Estate Board, and its president in 1916. Imring the World War he served the Government as a "Dollar a year man," accepting appointment as a special representative in the real estate division of the Department of Labor ; his duties involving the selection and purchase of sites throughout the entire country. for improvement with dwellings for war workers, and for the building of plants necessary to carry out the war program.
Always interested in national affairs, Mr. Clark has been particularly active in connection with legislation affecting the realty interests of the country.
Mr. Clark is a member of the Baltimore Country Club, the Maryland Country Club, the Baltimore Athletic Club, and Mer- chants ('Inb. He is a Mason and Knight Templar.
Offices, William Martien & Company, 1413 Lexington Building.
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JOHN C. MAGINNIS.
John C. Maginis, president of the Eureka Life Insurance Company. Baltimore, was born near Mt. Carmel. Pa., March 12, 1879, son of James A. and Anna V. Maginnis,
Ile was employed at the coal mines at an early age, as slate picker, assistant machinist. machinist. pumping engineer, station- ary engineer and finally locomotive engineer. He was in the cigar manufacturing laisiness at Mt. Carmel. 1901-1902 : agent for the Prudential Life Insurance Company at Mt. Carmel. 1902-1904 : assistant superintendent Prudential Company at Mit. Carmel. 1904-1908 : special agent for same at Boston. Mass .. 1908-1909 : ageney organizer. Boston, Mass .. 1909-1910; was general manager Reading Mutual Life Insurance Company, 1910- 1912 ; general manager Home Life Insurance Company, Phila- delphia, Pa., 1912-1916 : he organized the Conservation Company in Baltimore, Md., 1917-1918. This company purchased the Eureka Life Insurance Company in 1918 and Mr. Maginnis was vice-president and general manager of the company in 1918- 1920, then being elected its president.
Ile was married in 1901 to Mary L. Tobin, of Mt. Carmel, Pa .. and has six children-Bertha V .. Catherine 1., John C. 3rd, Panl T .. Marie and James,
Offices, 9 East Franklin Street. Baltimore.
Residence, Ellicott City, Maryland.
JOSEPH IL. LEISHEAR, JR.
Joseph II. Leishear, Ir., secretary and treasurer of the Eureka Life Insurance Company. Baltimore, was born in Howard County. Maryland, in 1878, son of Joseph II. and Sallie Hunt Leishear. Ile attended private and public schools, Manpins University and Rock Hill College.
Mr. Leishear was in the merchandise business at Ellicott City from 1893 mutil 1918: then came to Baltimore as one of the officers of the Eureka Life Insurance Company. being elected secretary and treasurer December 7. 1918.
Ile has been vice-president of the School Board of Howard County since 1914 and was Mayor of Ellicott City for one term. Ile was married to Bessie M. Scaggs of Howard County, in 1903. Offices, 9 East Franklin Street. Baltimore.
Residence, Ellicott, City, Maryland.
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JAMES W. DENNY.
Hon. James W. Denny, prominent Baltimore lawyer and ex- Congressman, has long been actively identified with the progress of Baltimore. Born in Virginia, einented in ber University. he. as a young man, enlisted in her defense in the 20th Virginia Battalion of Cavalry and from that command transferred to the Army of Northern Virginia at General R. E. Lee's headquarters. where he remained in active service until the surrender on the 9th of April, 1865, when he returned to the homestead of his father. Robert L. Denny, a prominent citizen of Clarke Connty.
After his admission to the bar, as a graduate of Judge Richard Parker's Law School in Winchester, Virginia. he located in Baltimore in the office of Hon. William Pinkney Whyte in 1868. and has ever since been engaged in the practice of law in this city. Ile has filled various positions of public trust. president of the first branch of the City Council. member of the School Board, the House of Delegates, and Congress.
In 1888 he introduced a bill to extend the boundaries of Baltimore and was appointed chairman of the special committee to whom it was referred and which bill was passed. Governor Jackson sent him a commission as Colonel on his staff for his service as chairman of the Military Committee. In 1900 he was elected as a Democrat to the 56th Congress and again in 1904 to the 58th Congress, On November 11, 1903, he introduced a bill, II. R. No. 1214, appropriating a large sum to deopen the main ship channel for 19 miles from deep water to Baltimore Harbor to a depth of 35 feet and it was largely through his persistent and well directed efforts that the bill appropriating $3,500,000 was passed. For this service to the port of Balti- more, the Board of Trade. Chamber of Commerce and the Merchants and Manufacturers Association, through Mr. Robert Ramsey, chairman, presented him with complimentary resolu- tions.
He Is a director of the Fidelity and Deposit Company, a mem- ber of the Beauseant Commandery, University (hb and the Society of the ('incinnati.
SHIRLEY CARTER.
Shirley Carter, member of the law firm of Bernard carter & Sons, was born in Baltimore. February 8. 1801. a som of Bernard Carter and Mary L. (Rideleyi Carter.
After attending Major Hall's Private School. and College of St. James, ipreparatory , in Washington County, Maryland. he entered Trinity College. Hartford. Conn .. there receiving his A. B. in 1894, and M. A. in 1896. He completed his legal educa- tion at the University of Maryland Law School. graduating in 1896 with the 1.1 .. B. degree.
Mr. Carter immediately entered the law partnership founded by his father, and has continued as a member of this firm, which. aside from general law practice. is representative for the Penn. sylvania Railroad, the Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Com. pany and the American Telegraph and Telephone Company.
Ile is a member of the Maryland Club, Doyle Club tathletic !. Bachelor's Cotillion, and Alpha Delta Phi Fraternity.
Mr. Carter served during the recent war as a member of the United States Legal Advisory Board. on draft issues.
lle was married to Miss Jessie S. Murchison. November 3. 1898.
Business address, Central Savings Bank Building.
Residence. S East Biddle Street, Baltimore.
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GENERAL EDWARD MILLER ALLEN.
Edward Miller Allen. Brigadier General on the staff of Gov- ernor Goldsborongh, capitalist, lumberman, manufacturer, and extensive farmer. was born near Parlington, Maryland. March 31. 1865, son of Edward Miller Allen and Sarah & Wilson) Allen. Ilis education was received in the Public Schools at Darlington Academy, at private school Rev. Mr. Coulburns, Churchville. and in a private school under the tutorage of a former professor of the I'niversity of Virginia.
From 1883 until 1885 inclusive, he engaged in farming and canning, and was in the grain, hay and fertilizer business under the firm name of Smith & Allen from 1886 until 1890 inclusive : this concern being located at Gleneove. Stafford, and Lapidum. Harford County, Maryland. In this connection he was also engaged in a note and bill brokerage business. From 1890 until 1900 inclusive. he was interested in manufacturing. grain and Inmber business, operated the Stafford Flint Mills, and was Treasurer of Harford County. He was president of the Tygarts River Lumber Company, president Glady Fork Lumber Company, president of the Laurel River Lumber Company of West Virginia. and president of the Holston River Lumber Company of Virginia since 1902, and continues to operate the two latter named companies.
General Allen is now largely interested In farming, and aside from this and his himber interests, takes a leading, though not an active, part in the politics of the State. In addition to having served Harford County as Treasurer from 1898 until 1900, by appointment of Governor Lowndes, he was elected Treasurer of the county in 1900 for two years.
The marriage of General Allen and Miss Grace Allender Thomas took place June 2. 1896. Of three daughters born to the union. bnt one is now living. Virginia Thomas Allen. General Allen transaets his business and has his residence at Darlington, Harford County, Md.
STEVENSON A. WILLIAMS.
Stevenson A. Williams, lawyer. Bel Air, Maryland, was born in the Naval Hospital. Brooklyn. L. L. May 6. 1851. the son of Dr. Lewis A. Williams. P. S. N., and Harriet (Archer) Williams, Ile was educated at Thomas Archer Academy. (1858-1861 : Collegiate and Claymont Institute. (1861-1863): by Rev. John B. Clemson. D. D., Claymont, MJ .. (1863-1866) : by Rev. W. F. Brand. Emmorton, Md .. (1866-1867) ; at Princeton I'niversity. (1867-1870), and University of Maryland Law School, 1872 and 1873.
Since 1873 Mr. Williams has been engaged in the practice of law, being now regarded as one of the leading members of the Maryland bar. Ile has always taken an interest in public affairs, and m 1880-1882 he was a member of the School Board of Harford County by appointment of the Circuit Court. In 1898, 1900 and 1901 he served as a member of the Maryland State Senate. In 1903 he was Republican candidate for Gov- ernor of Maryland, being defeated by Edwin Winfield. From 1917 until 1920 he has acted as a member of the Maryland Council of Defense.
Mr. Williams married March 31. 1875, Ariel E. Street. The children are Elise W. Close, Harriet A. Webster, Elizabeth Rush Williams, and Lewis J. Williams.
Business and residence address. Bel Air. Maryland.
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ROBERT GARRISON HILTON.
Robert Garrison Hilton, president of the Farmers Banking & Trust Company. Rockville. Md .. was born wear Clarksburg. Montgomery County, Maryland : son of Robert S. and Sarah (. ( Miles) Hilten.
lle was Clerk and Treasurer of Montgomery County. Mary- land. from 1896 to 1910, and served as chairman of the ltemo- cratie State Central Committee for Montgomery County from 1906 till 1910, and again from 1913 till 1917. He became president of the Farmers Banking and Trust Company of Rock- ville, in May. 10010. Ile has been assistant treasurer of the United States at Baltimore from July 1. 1915, to date ; served as chairman of the Liberty Loan Committee for Montgomery County for all five loans, and served as a member of the Maryland Council of Defense.
He is a member of the Montgomery Country Club of Rockville. Md., and of Montgomery Lodge No. 195, A. F. & A. M. : Almas Temple, Mystic Shrine. District of Columbia.
Business and residence address, Rockville, Montgomery County, Maryland.
JOSHUA WELDON MILES.
In historie Somerset County, near the thriving town of Marion. was born on December 9. 155%, Joshua Weldon, son of Southes F. and Christiana (Roach) Miles. The public and private schools of the county afforded him his carlier education. bing supplemented by a course of studies at Marion eademy in preparation for his admission to Western Maryland College. In 1878. the Bachelor of Arts degree was conferred myon him by the latter institution, and in 1880, he was the recipient of the Master of Arts degree. He subsequently pursued his legal studies at the Maryland University School of Law, and was admitird in July, 1550, to practice in the State and Federal courts of Maryland.
Mr. Miles has been actively engaged in the practice of law in the State and Federal courts since his admission to the bar. having for more than thirty years participated in the trials of many leading civil cases before the courts of the first and second judicial districts and in the Court of Appeals of Maryland. Since 1894 he has been solicitor for the New York. Philadelphia & Norfolk Railroad. Ile is now a member of the law firm if Miles & Myers of Princess Anne, one of the most prominent legal partnerships in that section of the State.
From 1883 until 1887, inclusive, Mr. Miles was States attor- hey for Somerset County. From 1895 until 1897. he was a member of the 54th Congress : was a delegate to the Democratic National Conventions of 1904 and 1912. and delegate-at-large to the conventions of 1900 and 1920. He was a member of the commission of two appointed in 1905 to formulate laws regulat- ing the State banks of Maryland, a responsibility which could be intrusted only to one of his great knowledge of both law and banking requirements.
Mr. Miles is a member of the American and State Bar Asso- ciations and of the Maryland Bankers' Association, and at the annual meetings of these two organizations he has taken a prominent part in the matters pertaining to their respective activities. lle was president of the Maryland Bankers' Associa- tion In 1910. He is a trustee of Western Maryland College ; has been president of the Bank of Somerset Princess Anner since 1900; Is a director of the Bank of Marion, of the Itvals Island Bank, Somerset County, and also of the Continental Life Insur- ance Company, of Wilmington, Delaware, Since July 13. 1913. Mr. Miles has been Collector of Internal Revenue, District of Maryland, Address, I'nited States Customs House. Baltimore, and Princess Anne, Maryland.
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EDWIN AUSTIN BAUGHMAN.
Edwin Anstin Banghman, Commissioner of Motor Vehicles. Baltimore, was born in Frederick, Maryland, October 10, 1982. son of Lonis Victor and Helen M. LAbell, Banghman.
He was educated at Georgetown University. Washington. D. C., 1998 : Fordham College, New York. 1 09-1900; Mt. St. Mary's College, Emmitsburg, Md .. 1900-1901.
He was associated with the Honorable John T. MeGraw in the Grafton Coal and Coke Company, of Grafton . West Virginia. for about one year. He was passenger solicitor in Baltimore for the Baltimore & Ohio R. R., being later transferred to Washing- ton as traveling passenger agent, remaining with this company for a period of four years.
lle was chairman of the Democratic County Central Com- mittee in 1914: assumed his present office of Commissioner of Motor Vehicles in 1916.
Ile Is a member of the Society of Colonial Wars. Knights of Columbus, and B. P. O. Elks. He was in Company "A." 5th Regiment, Maryland National Guard, for three years, and was Colonel on the military staff of Governor Warfield during his administration.
Mr. Banghman was married to Miss Caroline J. Kilroy, of Philadelphia, in 1910.
Business address. 300 St. Paul Street, Baltimore.
Residence. Frederick, Maryland.
JOSEPH P. KENNEDY.
Joseph P. Kennedy, president of the Kennedy Corporation. Baltimore, was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on June 2. 1.887.
Mr. Kennedy became vice-president of the Kennedy Foundry Company in 1908, and in 1912 became its president. He was also elected to the presidency of the Baltimore Malleable Iron and Steel Casting Company in 1913. Mr. Kennedy has been a director of the Fidelity Trust Company of Baltimore for the past six years.
Ilis club affiliations include nearly all of the clubs of the city of Baltimore, Mr. Kennedy is a Democrat in politics. He was a delegate to the National Democratle Convention at San Francisco in 1920. On July 22. 1920, he was appointed a member of the Maryland Racing Commission.
Residence, St. Panl Bonlevard and Charlote Road.
Offices, Charles and Wells Streets, Baltimore.
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JACOB W. HOOK.
Jacob W. Hook, banker and director in numerous business and financial institutions, was born in Baltimore, Maryland. Iwrember 7. IND, son of JJacob and Catherine look. Ilis farber was prominent in business and financial circles in Balti- more and elsewhere.
Jacob W. Hook lived in the suburbs of Baltimore during his boyhood and attended private schools until his fourteenth year. after which he entered the employ of a wholesale grocery, com- mission and brokerage house. From this time, when he accepted the position of shipping and general clerk for Wilson, Son & Co .. Mr. Ilook supported himself. Having taken up the study of commercial law, he was enabled through knowledge thus gained to apply himself efficiently to the constantly increasing respon- sibilities of his business interests.
Mr. Hook established himself in the hide and tallow business after severing connections with Wilson. Son & Company. and continues his interests in this business. Ile is also interested in the following business concerns and financial institutions : Ile Is President of the Old Town National Bank, of the Provident and the Western Maryland Building and Loan Associations. President of the Old Town Merchants and Manufacturers Asso- elation, Vice-President of the Peerless Boiler Co., of Pittsburgh, P'a., and connected with the Peerless Foundry Co., of Latrobe. Pa. ; was Director on the Valley Railroad Company of Virginia np to several years ago, also the B. & O. R. R., and in a mim- ber of other industrial and financial institutions ; and was City Collector for the years 1911 to 1015. He is a member of the Brown Memorial Presbyterian Church. He has labored inces- santly for the welfare of the city, and enjoys the utmost respect and contidence of his fellowman. He married March 18. 1578. M. Annie, daughter of Michael and Martha Miller. They were the parents of four children, two of whom are living, namely : Charles Howard, President of the Peerless Boiler & Heater Co., of Pittsburgh ; Katherine Edna, married Mr. John M. Regnarde, attorney at law.
Mr. Charles Howard look is also president of the Peerless Foundry Co., Latrobe, Pa.
FRANK SURADDON CHAVANNES.
Frank Straddon Chavannes, organizer, and president and treasurer of the Chesapeake Iron Works. Baltimore, was born at Kingston, Jamaica, West Indies ?. December 4. 1870; son of Lino 1 .. Chavannes and Julia Ann (Henderson Chavannes. lle came to this country and entered Newton Academy, Bali- more. in 18:3. taking a general course and leaving in 1886 to attend the Maryland Institute, department of mechanical engi- neering. In 1859 he entered the service of Bartlett, Hayward & Company as time-keeper and receiving clerk, and worked his way up through various departments, acquiring an invaluable fund of knowledge and a reputation for integrity and efficiency which won for him the appointment as purchasing agent for the company.
This position he held until 1902, when he organized the Chesapeake Iron Works and occupied the large factory at Severn and Bayard Streets, Mr. Chavannes has been president and treasurer of this concern since its organization : was president of the Baltimore Builders' Exchange from 1909 to 1911 inclui- sive ; is now vice-president of the Baltimore Credit Men's Association ; vice-president of the Merchants and Manufacturers Association, a member of the Merchants Club and president of the Rotary Club.
Mr. Chavannes married ( first) November 17. 1594, in Balti- more. Kate Clara, daughter of George E. Probest, who died October 3, 1S97 ; (second) October 17, 1900, in Baltimore. Alma M., daughter of Charles L. and Laura V. (Pearson) Applegarth, Business address, Westport, Baltimore, Maryland.
Residence, 4214 Greenway, Guilford, Baltimore.
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HARRY E. KARR.
Harry E. Karr, member of the Baltimore law firm of Karr. Hammond & Darnall, was born in that city July 31. 1876. the son of Harry Clay Karr and Jane (Mckenzie, Karr.
After acquiring his primary education in the public schools of Baltimore, he entered the Baltimore Law School and gradu. ated in INOS with degree of LL. B .. being admited to practice at the Baltimore Bar in 1898.
Mr. Karr ocenpies an enviable position in legal circles. Hle has participated in much important litigation, especially in casos which require an authority on corporation law, and he is the legal representative for various large corporations and in- dustries of Baltimore and vicinity.
In social affairs of the city, Mr. Karr is known as a member of the Baltimore Country Club, the University Club, the Balti. more Athletic Club, and Kiwanis Club. Hle was honored by the later organization in 1919 by being elected vice-president of the International Kiwanis ('lub, which office he now holds.
On the twenty-seventh of December. 1913. Mr. Karr was united in marriage to Miss Beulah Hoge, of Paoli, Pa. Their chlidren are Jaqueline II and Harry E. Karr, JJunior.
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