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A number of the leading business institutions of Frederick and adjoining counties stand as evidence of his inde- fatigable industry, among which is the Hagerstown and Frederick Railway system of interurban electric railway, light and power lines. These companies have played an important part in the transportation and commercial development of Western Maryland.
Mr. Coblentz was born in Middletown, Maryland, on November 5. 1869. He still has his residence there, although the majority of his business interests are centered in Frederick. His parents were Edward L., and Lucinda Bechtol Coblentz.
After leaving the Middletown High School. Mr. Coblenty entered the commercial world in 1886 in a clerical posi- tion In a general store of Middletown. When the Valley Savings Bank of Middletown was organized in 1SS7, he was made assistant treasurer and acting cashier. He remained in this position until 1898, when he was admitted to the Bar of Frederick County and began the practice of law. He was elected vice-president of the Valley Savings Bank in 1910. Mr. Coblentz has continued the practice of law since his admittance to the Bar, and developed probably the largest clientele of Western Maryland. His practice was composed in the most part of corporation affairs. He has associated with him several younger men, enabling himself to devote most of his time to the development of his com. mercial enterprises.
Mr. Coblentz was active in the organization of the Peoples Fire Insurance Company of Maryland and was elected Its first president in 1907. when it was incorporated, which position he has held since that time. When the Frederick and Middletown Railway Company was organized, Mr. Coblentz was one of the original backers of this enterprise and was chosen secretary and counsel in 18008. He was elected president of the lines in 1908 and hell this position until the consolidation with the Hagerstown and Frederick Railway Company in 1013, when he was elected president of the consolidated lines.
Hle was elected president of the Potomac Light and Power Company, of Martinsburg. West Virginia, in 1916, elected president of the C. G. & W. Street Railway Company and Waynesboro Electric Company in 1917: elected president of the Northern Virginia Power Company in 1919: president of the Central National Bank of Frederick in 190s and of the Central Trust Company in 1918: director and counsel of the Economy Silo and Manufacturing Company, Frederick : director and counsel Ox Fibre Brush Company : director and vice-president I'nion Manufacturing Company, Frederick : connsel Frederick Iron and Steel Company ; counsel and director of the Middletown Packing Company : director and chairman of the executive committee of the Continental Life Insurance Company. Washington, D. C., and director and counsel of the Jacob C. Shafer Company, Baltimore, Md.
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WILLIAM JARBOE GROVE.
William Jarboe Grove, president and treasurer of the M. J. Grove Lime Company, one of the largest concerns of its kind in the United States, a pioneer in good roads building in this country, and who operates several highly pro- ductive farms in Frederick County. was born in Burkittsville. Frederick County, May 24, 1854.
Mr. Grove comes of ancestry prominent in the history of Frederick Connty since 1772. His forebears were officers In the Continental Army, and returning to farming operations at the close of the Revolutionary War, acquired large land holdings. Their progressive ideas in agriculture are responsible for much of the farm wealth of the valley to-day. Mr. Grove's parents were Manasses Jacob Grove and Susanna darboo Grove. An uncle of the subject of this sketch went to California during the rush of 1849 and subsequently published the first newspaper in Sacramento, one of the first papers of San Francisco, and printed the laws of California. Mr. Manasses J. Grove because of his scholaristic tendencies, was prevailed upon to take charge of schools at different times in Frederick County, and it was under his tutorship that Mr. Grove received much of his education.
When fifteen years old Mr. Grove had taken over mich of the management of the extensive lime manufacturing operations started by his father. The company has increased its scope until now it is one of the largest real estate owners of Frederick County. The limestone holdings are practically inexhaustible. Mr. Grove was elected vice-presi- dent of the M. J. Grove Lime Company, when it was incorporated in 1989. He held this position until the death of his father, when he succeeded him as the head of the firm. The Company now has plants at Lime Kiln, Frederick and Grove. Maryland, and Stephens City, Virginia. Mr. Grove gives his personal attention to their large farm interests, and is one of the most ardent supporters of improved highways in the United States. His father instilled the better roads idea, and he has lost no opportunity to work along these lines.
The Lime Company has a capacity of more than 1,000,000 bushels a year. The plant at Grove has six iron-clad kilns for burning lime with wood, the only kilns of the kind in Western Maryland, and sixteen for burning agricultural lime. The plant also has a capacity of twenty carloads of crushed stone in a day. It employs several road experts and has constructed many miles of modern roads throughout the State.
Mr. Grove has always been progressive and alert in civic affairs. Hle has taken an active part in Democratie polities for the last several decades, and for twenty years he has been a member of the State Central Committee. Mr. Grove Is a member of St. Joseph's Church. Carrollton Manor. and of the Knights of Columbus.
Mr. Grove was married to Anule May, danghter of Dr. T. E. Hardey, on June 9, 1SSD. Address Lime Kiln, Maryland.
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THOMAS B. HAYWARD.
Thomas B. Hayward, now engaged in developing one of the finest farms and orchards in Frederick County, along scientific lines, to one of the beauty spots of this portion of the State. is a native of Maryland, having been born in Baltimore on September 11, 1870.
Mr. Hayward's parents were Thomas J. and Blanche Roberts Hayward. After finishing the public schools of Balti- more and taking a course in private schools of that city, Mr. Hayward entered Pennsylvania Military College, from which he was graduated with a degree in Civil Engineering with the Class of 1892.
Hle entered the firm of Bartlett-Hayward Company. of Baltimore, founded by his grandfather. the year of his graduation from college and continued until 1905 with the coffeern in extension work throughout the United States.
Mr. Hayward purchased the farm which he now is operating near Frederick in February, 1909, and has made extensive improvements which have made the place one of the show places of that district. lle also has taken an active interest in transportation and financial affairs of Frederick and now is a director in the Hagerstown and Frederick Railway Company, Central Trust Company of Maryland, Frederick Connty National Bank and Bartlett-Hayward Com- pany. of Baltimore.
Mr. Hayward is a Director of the Frederick Chamber of Commerce and a charter member of the Rotary Club of Frederick. lle is also a member of the Reserve Corps, U. S. A., retired. He is a Thirty-second Degree Scottish Rite A. F. M., Knight Templar and Shriner.
Ile was married to Miss Maria D. Tyler on Jannary 3, 1906. Postoffice. Harmony Grove, Maryland.
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EDWARD DERR SHRINER, SR.
Edward Derr Shriner. Sr .. banker, broker and operator of one of the most fertile farms of Frederick Valley, is a descendant of a pioneer family of western Maryland. A forebear was all Nide de L'amp to General Washington during the Valley Forge campaign. llis grandfather, Cornelius Shriner, was the insti. cator of an organization that built the hrst toll roads of hard maradan: after the Baltimore-Frederick turnpike was built. Mr. Shriner was born in Frederick County on January 13. 1502. soll of Edward A. and Margaret (Derre Shriner. He was educated in the public schools of his native county and at Frederick City Academy.
His first experience in the business world began when he entered the flour mill which his father had conducted at Cores- ville in the Mount Pleasant district of Frederick County for a number of years. The industry was then known as the Cores- ville Flonring Mills. After he had learned the milling business Mr. Shriner purchased it from his father and established the B. A. Shriner Milling Company. This mill was subjected to many improvements, including the first large gasoline engine used in Maryland. Ilis other flouring interests, the Coresville Rolling Mills, Linganore Flour Mills and the Monocacy Flon _- ing Mills, were the first to use cut iron gear machinery to per- form the work which had formerly been done by wood gear machinery in all mills.
In later years Mr. Sbriner became interested in other financial and commercial enterprises. He was a director of the Freder- ick County National Bank, the Frederick County Telephone & Telegraph Company. the Frederick & Woodsboro Turnpike. Liberty & Frederick Turnpike Company. Woodsboro & Frederick Turnpike Company, etc. He was president of the Frederick Starch & Manufacturing Company. He is now vice-president of the Central Srenrities Company of Minneapolis, Minn .. and is an extensive owner of farming lands of the middle West.
Mr. Shriner is a member of Mountain City Lodge No. 2. K of P., and of the Sons of the American Revolution. He is di- rector of the Y. M. C. A. of Frederick and an elder of the Evangelical Reformed Church. He married, December 17. 1500. Nannie May, daughter of Edward T. Getzendanner. member , of a pioneer family of western Maryland. They have ofte son. Edward Derr. Ar. The family residence is the old Shriner home on the east bank of the Monoracy river on the Frederick and Woodsboro Pike, where the family has resided for abont a century.
EDWARD DERR SHRINER, JR.
Edward Derr Shriner, son of Edward Derr Shriner. subje- of the accompanying sketch on this page, was born in Frederick. on November 1. 1894. His mother was Nannie Gotzendann." Shriner, a member of one of the pioneer families of Western Maryland, whose grandfather. Daniel Gotzendanner, was a larer Colonial landowner, possessing most of the land on the sunt. side of Pike from the now Frederick city limits to Braddock. (See page 1456, T. J. C. Williams History of Frederick County. 1910.)
Mr. Shriner attended the public schools of Frederick and Franklin and Marshall Academy of Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Mr. Shriner entered the Frederick County National Bank in 1913. Ile continued with this institution until 1917. when he entered the army. Upon his return from military service over- seas, he re-entered the bank as a trusted clerk.
lle is a director of the Woodsboro and Frederick Turnpike Company.
He served as an enlisted man with the 5Sth Regiment of Coast Artillery. He was stationed at Fort Howard, Maryland. from July of 1917 until May of 1918, when he sailed for France. arriving in Brest on May 30th. He saw action with his battery when they were moved onto the front in the Belleau Wood -. When the armistice was signed he was in the Toul Sector. just outside of Metz. After a detention in a hospital camp for some weeks he received an honorable discharge from the army and was attached as secretary to the anditing department of the Y. M. C. A. in Paris for six months. He returned to the United States in September of 1919.
Mr. Shriner is a Notary Public.
Residence, Ceresville, Maryland.
Business address. Frederick County National Bank.
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CHARLES FREMONT GOODELL. M.D.
Dr. Charles Fremont Goodell, present State Senator from this district, and one of the leading physicians of Frederick County. was born in Southbridge, Mass, on August No, 1876.
His parents were losen B. and Harriet Fiske Goodell. He was graduated from the North Brookfield (Mass) High School. completed a portion of the course at Tufts College. Mass .. Class of 1\\2. and then entering the Medical Department of Howard University, Washington. D. C., was graduated the same year with the degree of M. D. He took post-gradnato course in Hahn Medical College during the following year and received his degree.
Dr. Goodell began the practice of medicine in Washington in 1884. Ile removed to Lincoln, Nebraska, practicing there for several years, and came to Frederick in 1891. He has lived here and practiced medicine continuously since that time.
Ile was elected to the State Senate of Maryland in 1919 by a flattering vote. Previous to this position he was County Health Officer for four years,
Dr. Goodell is a member of Columbia Lodge, Masons. Enoch Royal Arch Chapter and Jaques de Molay Commandery, Fred- erick County Medical Society, Medico-Chir Society of Maryland and the American Medical Association.
Ile was assistant physician to the Frederick County Exemp- tion Board and a representative to the State Council for Defense for Frederick County.
Dr. Goodell was married to Miss Ada Virginia Graham on May 15, 1883. They have two children. Robert F., and Charles Graham Goodell.
Address, 26 Sonth Market Street.
STERLING GALT.
Sterling Galt. for many years editor and publisher of "The Weekly Chronicle." of Emumitsburg, Maryland, who is known throughout the State for the strong way in which he handled various topics in his editorial columns and whose writings have been copied widely in Baltimore and New York papers, is a resident of Emmitsbirg. Frederick County, where he is promi- nent in business and civic circles.
Mr. Galt is born in Washington, D. C., on December 11. 1865. His parents were M. W. and Mary Jane Galt.
Ile attended Emerson Institute in Washington, later Pensyl- vania College at Gettysburg, Columbia University Law School. University of Virginia, and received the degree of LL. D. at St. Mary's College.
Mr. Galt was manager of the art department of the Gorham Manufacturing Company, of New York, from 1592 to 1896. In the latter year he became manager of the retail department of R. Wallace & Sons Manufacturing Company, New York, which position he held for two years,
Mr. Galt became owner, editor and publisher of "The Weekly Chronicle." of Emmitsburg, in 1906, and continued its editorship until 1918, As the editor of the "Chronicle" Mr. Galt was recognized as one of the strong newspaper men of the State and his views on State and National subjects, expressed editor. ially, were read by thousands of readers of the metropolitan press. llis paper was looked upon as one of the best outside of Baltimore.
Mr. Galt is a member of the Board of Visitors of the Mary- land School for the Deaf, having been appointed by Governor Warfield to succeed the late Judge MeSherry : was a member of the State Library Commission under Governor Crothers and was appointed a member of the State Board of Education by Governor Harrington.
Ile is a member of the Maryland Club and the Baltimore Club, of Baltimore.
Mr. Galt has been married twice, his first wife being Harriet Virginia Wingerd, whom he married in 1890. Ile was married to Harriet Lney ligbee in 1896, They have two children, Ster- ling Galt, Jr., and Harriet Virginia Galt.
Ilis address Is Emmitsburg, Frederick County, Maryland.
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WILLIAM WARREN DOUB.
William Warren Doub, one of the leading insurance men of western Maryland, identified with financial interests in this part of the State for two decades and active in the work of the United Lutheran Church, was born in Mversville. Maryland, on April 19. 1.65.
Mr. Dont's parents were Jonas Abraham Doub and Ann Frances Waters Donb. He attended the public schools of Fred. erick county and assisted his father on the latter's farm near Middletown nmiil he was twenty-one years olil.
In 14st. when Mr. Doub was twenty-one, he entered the gen- oral mercantile business in Middletown and continued in this line until March of ISS9. On March 4th. 1859. ho accepted a position as discount clerk in the Valley Savings Bank in Mid- dletown and served in various capacities with the bank for eighteen years. On January 1. 1907. he accepted a position as deputy county treasurer of Frederick County. In December of this year he was elected secretary of the Peoples Fire Insur- ance Company, of which he now is secretary and manager.
Mr. Donb is also a director in the Valley Savings Bank. of Middletown. the Continental Life Insurance Company of Wash. ingion. I !. ( .. and the Jacob C. Shafer Company, of Baltimore. and is identified with a number of other corporations of the County and State.
Prominently identified with the United Lutheran Church. Mr Doub is a member of the Lutheran Brotherhood Committee. secretary and treasurer of the Brotherhood Committee of the Maryland Synod, president of the Lutheran Brotherhood of Frederick County, director of the music of the Sunday School and for eighteen years was treasurer of the Zion Evangelical Lutheran Church, of Middletown.
Ile is a member of Columbia Lodge No. 58. A. F. & A. M .. Jacques De Nolay Commandery No. 4 Knights Templar, and Frederick Lodge No. 100, I. O. O. F.
He is a member of the Republican State Central Committee of Frederick County.
Mr. Doub was married to Miss Harriott Remsberg. of Middle- town, on October 3. 1594. They have three children. Virgil Warren. John Wilfred and Donald Joseph.
Ilis residence is in Middletown.
Business address : Peoples Fire Insurance Company, Fred- erick.
HOLMES DAVENPORT BAKER.
Holmes Davenport Baker, banker and director in business enterprises of Frederick and the State of Maryland, was holt in Frederick, Maryland, on April 11, 1884, the son of Joseph Ix. and Emma (Cunningham) Baker, His cartier education was acquired in the public schools of Baltimore and of Frederick County, being supplemented by studies at Frederick Academy Frederick. He then entered the Western Maryland College. Westminster. Maryland, graduating in the Class of 1599.
The year following his graduation Mr. Baker was elected clerk of the Citizens National Bank, of Frederick, and in 1905 he was elected vice-president of that institution, which position he still holds. Ile is also a director of the Citizens National Bank : director, assistant secretary and assistant treasurer of the Standard Lime & Stone Company, and of the Washington Building Lime Company : director and assistant treasurer of the Buckeystown Packing Company : president and director of the Berlin & Lovettsville Bridge Company. Brunswick. Mary. land : president and director. the Londonn Company and the Frederick Bridge Company. Point of Rocks, Maryland ; manager of the Baker Orchard Company.
Mr. Baker entered the Officers Training Camp at Plattsburg. N. Y .. for the month of July. 1916, and on May 15. 1917. he entered the First Othcors Training Camp at Fort Myer. Va .. being commissioned Second Lieutenant. Quartermaster Corps. in August, 1917. Ile was promoted to First Lieutenant in December, 1917. while on duty at Camp Lee, Virginia. Ile was discharged because of physienl disability in February. 1918. and was appointed Chairman of the Selective Service Board No. 1. Frederick. Md .. in May, 1918, serving until the end of the World War.
Ilis residence is "Waverly Farms." and Mr. Baker's offices are at the Citizens National Bank, Frederick, Maryland.
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GEORGE LINCOLN KAUFMAN.
George Lincoln Kaufman, former State Senator of Maryland. leader in Republican polities for a number of years, operator of several of the most successful farms of the county and now the head of a large automobile business of Frederick, is a native of Maryland, having been born in Braddock. on October 80. 1865.
llis parents were John C. and Marie Dutrow Kanfman. Ile attended the public schools of Braddock and was a student for three terms at Frederick College.
Mr. Kaufman's first business experience was gained in 1986. when he purchased the meat market which his brother had been conducting at 53 E. Patrick Street. le subsequently resold the business to his brother and engaged in farming, his operations as an agriculturist extending to 1918. In 1902 he became a Rural Route Inspector and established several systems of rural mail delivery in Pennsylvania. He was transferred to the Post- office Inspection Service in 1905. His present antomobile bnsi- ness, known as the Frederick Antomobile Company. is one of the most progressive businesses of its kind outside of Balti- more.
Mr. Kantman was elected County Treasurer in November of 1907. Ile served for two years. lle was Treasurer of the Republican County Central Committee for three years. In 1889 he was defeated for re-election as County Treasurer. when the entire Republican ticket failed. lis election to the Senate of Maryland came in November of 1915, and while in Annapolis he participated in passing the prohibition Federal amendment. causing Frederick to vote as a unit, thus making the county dry. Mr. Kantman aspired to Congress in 1916 and was defeated in the primary. He was again defeated in 1919 for the Senate of Maryland, when he ran on an Independent ticket.
Mr. Kaufman is a member of Lynch Lodge, A. F. A. M., and Bommi Temple of Mystic Shrine.
Ile has been married twice, his first wife being Fanny May Hauck, whom he married on Jannary 18, 1888, Three daugh- ters were born of this union : Mrs. D. Murray Stauffer, Mrs. Frank M. Dertxbangh and Violet Roberts Kaufman. Mrs. Kanfman died in 1902. His second wife was Sarah Miller, of Coatesville, Pa., whom he married on April 15, 1915.
Address, 223 E. Patrick Street.
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GEORGE LLOYD PALMER.
George Lloyd Palmer, president of the Maryland State Teach ers' Association, County Superintendent of Frederick County Schools and one of the leading men in educational work in western Maryland, was born on Woodvale Farm on Detaber 9. 1869.
His parents were Jacob E. and Matilda C. Palmer. Mr l'aimer attended the public schools, was graduated from the Maryland State Normal Short Course at St. Johns Coller . attended the Teachers College at Columbia University and studied for two years in the Extension Course at Johns Ilor- kins and two summers at the same institution.
Mr. Palmer became a teacher in the public schools of Freder- ick County mpon the completion of his educational work, which position he held from IS91 to 1895. He was made principal of the Emmittsburg High School in 1896 and served in this posi- tion until 1910. Mr. Palmer was appointed Assistant Superin- tendent of County Schoofs in 1911, and served in this capacity until 1914, when he was made Superintendent. He has hekl this position continuously since that time. During his year- of teaching. he was appointed equity clerk in the Clerk's office of Frederick County, but declined the position because he pre- ferred to continue in educational work.
Mr. Palmer is a member of Acacia Thurmond Lodge. R. A. M .. of Frederick, and Frederick Commandery, Knights of Pythias and Odd Fellows.
lle aspired to the office of Register of Wills of Frederick County in 1909, but was defeated by fifteen votos.
Mr. Palmer was married to Mamie Delaplaine Miller, danghter of the late Dr. T. E. R. Miller.
They have one son, George Miller Palmer, eight years old. Residence, lewistown. Maryland.
Business Address, Court House, Frederick, Maryland.
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WILLIAM ALAN RIDDELL.
William Alan Riddell, head of one of Frederick's leading man- nfacturing industries, and a leader among the younger business men of the city, was born in Sharon. Pa .. on October 18. 1883. His parents were Joseph and Katherine Riddell.
Mr. Riddell attended the public and high schools of Sharon and later the Westininster College, of Wilmington. Pa.
After leaving college. Mr. Riddell entered the iron and steel business in the shops of one of the companies of his native city. lle worked through the successive steps of this industry. in- cluding draftsman, chemist. salesman. general superintendent. works manager. vice-president and general manager and finally owner of his own business.
Mr. Riddell built the National Foundry Company of Erie, Pa., when he was 23 years old. The plant manufactured steel and iron castings.
Hle then went to Cleveland to become works manager of the Otis Steel Company, and returning to his native State he was engaged as vice-president and general manager of the Zug Iron and Steel Company, of Pittsburgh, to liquidate that concern. After two years all debts of the company had been paid and a profit of more than half a million dollars shown.
Mr. Riddell came to Frederick in 1916, when he purchased the Frederick Iron and Steel Company, of which he now is the president. In 1919 he organized and became president of the Frederick Engineering Company and in 1920 organized and became president of the Frederick Co-operative Grocery Com- pany.
Mr. Riddell is a member of the Bankers Club, of New York.
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