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The great wholesale dry goods company of which John E. Horst was the founder, is too well known to Baltimore. the Eastern States, and In fact, the entire country, to require description as to its accomplishment in the world of com- merce. As a director in numerous other business, manufacturing and financial institutions of Baltimore and else- where. Mr. Hurst was equally prominent as a substantial citizen. He was an active trustee of Johns Hopkins Hospital and the National Exchange Bank : was a director of the Maryland and Merchant's clubs, a member of the Elkridge Fox Hunting chib, and a liberal contributor to the Horse Show. His benefactions were numerons but unostentatious, he disliking notoriety in this connection. He was a director of the Samuel Ready School, and looked after the comforts of its inmates personally. Shortly before his death he donated twenty thousand dollars toward erecting the Hospital of United Charities at Cambridge, and was the guest of honor at the laying of the cornerstone. In the affairs of the company which bears his name. Mr. Hurst was not only head of the house, but took a personal interest in those in bis employ, and the love of his employes was evidenced on the occasion of his seventy-first birthday, when they pre-
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WILLIAM B. HURST.
In compiling the memoirs of those pioneer leaders of Baltimore's destinies who within recent years have passed on to their reward, we find the name of William B. Hurst written, as it were, indelibly in the memories of his former acquaintances and associates as deserving of unbonnded credit for his part in building np a great business institution and thereby contributing to the prosperity of his native city.
William B., son of the late lohn E. Hurst (founder of the great wholesale dry goods firm which bears his name) and Mary R. S. Hurst. William B. Hurst received his- education in Baltimore city, and upon its completion, he entered the dry good house of Hurst. Purnell & Company, of which his father was the head. A few years later. by constant application to his duties, and because of a marked ability in commercial life, Mr. Hurst was made a member of the firm, which was a short time later succeeded by the firm of John E. Hurst & Company, now known as John E. Hurst & Company, Inc.
On the death of his father on January 6. 1904. William B. Horst became the executive head of the large organi- zation. which position he maintained until a brief period prior to his death, which occurred on June 20, 1917. 1le being survived by his widow, who was Miss Fannie Baer, of Baltimore, and two sons, John E. Hurst, of W .. (who was at the time a lieutenant in the I'nited States Army, and William B. Hurst. Jr. He was also survived by a brother. John E. Hurst, and three sisters, Mrs. M. Cappellini, of Italy. wife of Lieutenant Commander Cappellini, of the Royal Italian Navy ; Mrs. Charlotte B. Miller, of Belmar. N. J .. and Mrs. Robert W. Smith, of Baltimore.
. For many years William B. Hurst was actively identified with practically every civic movement for the welfare of Baltimore. Despite the press of these matters and his wide connection in commercial and financial enterprises, he found time to devote to the work of the Protestant Episcopal Church, being one of the most active laymen of that denomination in Maryland, lle was also wed known for his charities, and his generous subscriptions to various funds for the relief of war sufferers have been widely noted. He was an active sportsman who loved hunting, fishing and yachting, being a member of a number of sportsmans' clubs, and a vice-commodore of the Baltimore Yacht Club. Ilis activities in commercial and financial affairs including directorates in many of the leading banks, hotel companies, and numerous other enterprises of Baltimore and elsewhere, his associates in these will never cease to recall the years when William B. Hurst was a leading spirit In the direction of the several activities.
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LOUIS VICTOR BAUGHMAN.
Louis Vietor Banghman, agricultorist and capitalist. was born in Frederick, Maryland. April 11. 1845, son of John W. and Mary Jane (Jamison) Baughman, His paternal great-grandfather was a sea captain who brought to Maryland many of the first settlers of Frederick County. His paternal grandfather was a substantial farmer of the county. On the distaff and maternal sides the subject was descended from many of the great figures of colonial days, among them Leonard Calvert, founder and first governor of the Maryland colony : Baker Brooke ; and Reverend Robert Brooke. deputy governor of the province: Governor Edward Diges, of Virginia : William Dices, deputy governor of Maryland : Captain James Neale. colonial legislator, and his family is allied with the Sewells, Lowes, Boarmans, Matthews, Piles and I'yes, names to conjure with in Maryland.
John W. Baughman. father of the subject, was a successful merchant and lawyer of Frederick. He became editor and proprietor of "The Royaldican Citizen." Frederick, which he changed to the "Frederick Citizen," and devoted the remainder of his life to the conduct of that newspaper.
A staunch Democrat in his political convictions and in full sympathy with the South in the stormy days prior to the Civil War, he boldly criticised the conduct of that war and drew upon himself the wrath of the Federal Government. which, after first imprisoning him and confiscating his property, finally banished him beyond the Federal lines. During the remainder of the war he served in an official position in Richmond and after the war resumed publication of his newspaper, which he continued nntil his death. in isty.
Lonis Vietor Danghman received his preliminary education at Rock Hill (Maryland) College, and at the outbreak of the war between the States was a student at St. Mary's College, Emmitsburg. Maryland. At sixteen he entered the Confederate Army as a private in the First Regiment Maryland Infantry and while with this command participated In the battles of Malvern Hill, and Gaines' Mill. Ile was then transferred to Company D. First Regiment Maryland Cavalry, served nnder Early and Breckenridge in their raid through Maryland and to Chambersburg. Pennsylvania, in 1864. lle was captured at Moorefield, Virginia, in midsummer, 1864: was imprisoned at Camp Chase, Ohio, for nine months. and in March. 1865, was exchanged, just prior to the fall of Richmond. While in the Federal prison he refused all overtures to take the oath, though worn and wasted almost to a skeleton by long continued illness.
Ile read law under the preceptorship of Enoch Louis Lowe, sometime governor, then residing in Brooklyn. N. Y. He had previously been in the service of the Narragansett Steamship Company, New York, leaving that corporation of Colonel "Jim" Fisk its proprietor. When his father died he returned to Frederick and in association with J. William Banghman, a brother, assumed charge of the "Citizen." then one of the most inthential and best edited newspapers in the State. This journal had been founded in 1821 and had supported every Democratic nominee for President. From the outset he was a dominant factor in Democratie polities in county and State. His commanding personality, wide acquaintance and unnsnal grasp of public questions and all matter political, amonuting almost to genins, caused his connsel to be in great demand by his party, and he served for several years as a member of the National Democratie Committee, as well as upon the State and Connty Committees, of which he was for years chairman. He represented Frederick county at many State conventions. For four years he was Comptroller of the State Treasury. He had once been a candidate in the convention for the nomination for governor of Maryland, and was several times thereafter mentioned for that post.
In 1896 he was nominated for Congress against Lonis E. MeComas, who had been elected previously from this western Maryland distriet by an overwhelming majority. Although defeated, General Baughman reduced greatly his op- ponent's majority. Formerly a strong Republican stronghold, it was largely through his efforts that Frederick Connty was placed in the doubtful, and very frequently in the Democratic cohmn.
Ile served on the staffs of Governors Grooms, Carroll and Smith, being inspector-general during the Smith ad- ministration.
Hle sneceeded his friend. Senator Arthmr P. Gorman, as president of the Chesapeake & Ohio Canal, in 1884. His administration was remarkaldy successful, the concern paying about $100,000 in back debts. For years he served with . Gorman as State Director of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company. He was a communicant of the Roman Catholic Church. He held membership in the Society of Colonial Wars. I'nited Confederate Veterans Association. Maryland Historical Association, and the Maryland Jockey. Maryland Journalists. Baltimore County, and Bachel- or's Cotillion Clubs. Baltimore, also in many Democratie clubs throughout the country.
"Popular Terrace." his Frederick home, is one of the show places of the county. His stock of fine horses and Jersey cattle were numbered among the best in the country, and he built a splendid half-mile conrse on his farm home.
He was bold and outspoken in his advocacy of all public measures and was known as a high-mannered and hon- orable man, devoted to his friends. He had been called to many other honorary positions of trust and was chairman of the board of commissioners for Maryland of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, St. Louis. It was difficult to find a man of higher degree of personal popularity, or one who more richty deserved it.
Any cause which he espoused could command his strength to the limit, and these qualities attracted men to him. Ilis dominating personal characteristic was loyalty. In his younger days he was a great sportsman, excellent horseman, and fond of riding to hounds,
He was married in Baltimore, Md .. September 27. 18SI, to Helen, danghter of Vranab S. Abel, founder and proprietor of the Baltimore "Sun." Helen Abell Banghman comes from sturdy New England stock. Her forbears came to America from Kent, England, and settled in Rehrboch, Mass,, and Providence, Rhode Island. Ils widow and two children sur- vive him. E. Austin, who married Caroline Kitroy, and Helen, who became the wife of Doctor C. H. Conley.
Generat Baughman died in Frederlek, Maryland, November 30, 1906.
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ALEXANDER C. R. WILSON.
Alexander C. R. Wilson was, during a long and unusually active career, numbered among the leading business men of the city of Baltimore, not only as regards his ability as a business exeentive, but also in view of the fact that he gave freely of the fruits of his success from both a material and personal standpoint. in the furtherance of the many philanthropic and religious works to which he was deeply devoted.
Born in the city of Baltimore on October 7. 1847. he died in that city on January 14. 1910. He was a son of the late Joseph and Sarah E. Wilson, and the son inherited from his father the combined characteristics of large ability and a noble personality.
Alexander C. R. Wilson received a common school education in the city of his birth, and engaged in the active concerns of life at the very early age of fifteen years, as an employee of the firm of Hurst & Company, which company was, even at that time, one of the largest wholesale dry goods concerns in the city of Baltimore. The business quarters of Hurst & Company were at that time located at No. 241 West Baltimore Street. the members of the firm being John E. and William R. Hurst, and dlateri Littleton B. Purnell. From stock clerk. the young man was promoted to the responsible position of buyer, and to his services in this capacity is largely due the present great proportions attained by the notion department of the company, which now takes rank with similar departments as one of the largest of its kind In the entire country. For eighteen years preceding his death Mr. Wilson was a member of the firm doing busi- ness under the style of John E. Hurst & Company. He was highly esteemed both by his business associates and fe- qunintances for his masterly business ability, as well as for his personal characteristics-strict fidelity to every trust, and unimpeachable integrity.
Mr. Wilson was a life-long member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. In early manhood he came into the service of the West Baltimore Station Methodist Church as recording steward. Later he became identitied with the Grace Methodist Episcopal Church, which he served most usefully and faithfully as a member of the board of trustees, and his connection therewith continued during the remaining period of his life.
Mr. Wilson married, in 1874. Laura E., daughter of B. F. and Ellen C. Ray, of Baltimore City, To this union were born ten children, all of whom have grown to happy and vigorous man or womanhood. They are as follows : Miss Mabel Ray Wilson, S. Charles Wilson (of whom a sketch appears elsewhere in this volumes : Robert P. Wilson. Lawrence R. Wilson, Mrs. John C. Tolson, Mrs. J. R. Swindell, Jr., Mrs. T. J. Watts, Miss Dorothy Wilson, Mr. Donald Hurst Wilson and Mr. Leslle Stewart Wilson.
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JOHN HUBNER.
In reviewing the achievements of Marylanders to whom in great mirasare belones the credit for the present wellbeing of the State, we know of none who is entitled to not receives greater commendation for services unobtrusively rendered to the commonwealth than does that pioneer citizen. John Hubner. whose death occurred on September 9th, 1929.
Born in Bavaria, a province of Germany, on December 26. 1840, son of Michael and Mary Hubner. John Hubner was brought to Baltimore in 1855, and after completing his educa- tion, he beenme, during the years 1863-64-65, the proprietor of the Relay House on the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, and made the acquaintance of many of the most prominent generals in command during the latter period of the Civil War.
In 1868, Mr. Ilubner engaged in the manufacture of brick. and in 1869 he also took on a real estate interest. Directly and indirectly, he had in the past fifty years built thousands of homes in Baltimore and its suburbs.
A lifetime Democrat and always active in politics, Mr. Hubner was sent to the General Assembly as a member of the House of Delegates in 1886 and served six years therein. During the latter part of his term he was made speaker of the House. He was sent to the State Senate in 1592. and served four other years : in the last two terms being president of the Senate.
Mr. Hubner was one of the best known men in the work of the Lutheran Church in the United States, and was a lay mem- ber of its national governing board. In fraternal societies, he belonged to the various Masonic bodies from Blue Lodge to Temple.
His greatest contribution to the welfare of the State was undoubtedly the Springfield State Hospital at Sykesville. Mr. Hubner was recognized as the father of this, one of the best equipped asylums in America, of which for more than twenty years he was the practical head. serving as vice-presidem from 1895 until his death. The Governor of the State is ex-oficio president, and npon the shoulders of Mr. Hubner largely rested the responsibility of the institution's welfare.
Mr. Hubner married in September, 1863, Miss Mary A. Harken. of Anne Arundel County. Of the fourteen children born of this marriage: five are now living. II. and William R. are attorneys. practicing in Baltimore. Grace is the wife of Reverend L. M. Enter. Helen and Rachel are nnmarried.
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JAMES ROBERT MCCLELLAN ADAMS,
James Robert Mcclellan Adams, former prominent hardware merchant of Baltimore, whose death occurred on the 9th of March, 1920, was born in Baltimore, November 25, 1861, son of James M. and Elizabeth J. Adams,
Ile was educated in the Public Schools of Baltimore and fir-t engaged in business at Hast and Ensor Streets, handling lin's of hardware. In September. INGA, he moved his business tu 404 North Gay Street. and sometime in 1893, started a new and separate business at the corner of Eutaw and Franklin Street>. Ile carried on the two stores for a time and then moving the stock from his Gay Street store to the Eutaw and Franklin Street location, he developed that business to its present. capacity and progressive condition,
Mr. Adams was married to Alice Henrietta Bonnett on Jannary 19. 1887, and was survived by his wife and three sons -- 1. Lonis. J. Mcclellan and R. Lamar Adams, who are all members of the firm.
The family residence is at Reistertown, near Ford Lane, and the business continues to operate under the name of J. R. M. Adams, Incorporated, at 400 Franklin Street, Baltimore.
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LUCIUS P. SHEPHERD.
The death of Lucins P. Shepherd in July. 1920, at Atlantic City, N. J .. has deprived the city of Cumberland, Maryland. of one of her most promising young business executives and financiers. Born in Cumberland on June S. 1594. son of Lucins M. Shepherd. (president of the Cumberland Dry Goods Company and one of the organizers of the Second National Bank, and of Mary L. (Parsons Shepherd, ta daughter of Colonel Parsons, who was identified with the Davises of West Virginia for many years), Lucius P. Shepherd attended Allegany County School for three years. Staunton Military Academy for two years. Mercersburg College from 1910 until 1913, and entered Columbia University in 1914.
Always active in local financial affairs since becoming engaged In business in Cumberland. Mr. Shepherd has also extended his business activities to New York City and throughout the New England States. He was president of the Mutual Investment Company and also agent of the L. M. Shepherd Estate at Cum- berland : was secretary and treasurer of Shepherd and Wanner. 505 Fifth Avenue. New York City, and successfully financed the Service Operating Corporation of Bridgeport. Conn., operators of stamp-vending and of money changing machines, which are mannfactured by the Service Machine Corporation of Chicago, Illinois.
Mr. Shepherd served with the First Maryland National Guard as a non-commissioned officer during the time that the regiment was in service on the Mexican border. He was a member of the Cumberland Country Club, the Pittsburg Athletic Club, the New York Athletic ('Inb, the Anto Club of Maryland, the Marshall .
Club, and was a life member of the F. O. E.
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THOMAS HERBERT SHRIVER.
one of the State's foremost citizens, Thomas Herbert Shri- vor. son of William and Mary M. J. Shriver, was born in I'nion Mills, Maryland, on February 19, 1846. and died at his home in I'nion Mills on December 31. 1916.
Educated in the local schools and under private tutors, he was preparing for college at the outbreak of the Civil War. On June 28. 1863 (in his seventeenth years. he enlisted in the Confederate army and took part in many great battles. After the battle of Gettysburg. he was detailed as a student in the Virginia Military Institute, and then became a mem- ber of the famous cadet corps which won undying glory in the last year of the war. Years later, in 1882. he received the diploma from the Institute conferred upon all who had par- ticipated in the battle of New Market.
Returned home. he took up commercial and business life : was a traveling salesman, a farmer, and a miller and banker. being successful in every undertaking. The B. F. Shriver Company, of Carroll County, canners of fruits and vegetables, is among the largest concerns of its kind in Maryland and the United States, and owes in great measure its success to his direction.
Mr. Shriver married, in 1880. Miss Elizabeth R. Lawson. of Baltimore.
Politically, Mr. Shriver was a life-long democrat. In 1908. he was a delegato to the Democratie National Convention : in 1878-80. he served in the General Assembly, Lower House, and in 1884, he was a member of the State Senate. In 1888, he breame depnty collector of the Port of Baltimore, and prior to his death he was frequently mentioned as Democratie nominer for Governor of Maryland.
He was a devoted friend of Cardinal Gibbons, Primate of the Catholic Church in America-who spent weeks at a time with him In his country home at Union Mills, At his death in his seventy-first year. Mr. Shriver was survived by his four chit- dren : Hilda. Joseph N. Robert T .. and William 11. Shriver. His death was mourned by friends and admirers without num- ber, whose esteem he had won by his splendid relations with every one with whom he came in contact.
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I. E. P. DENNIS.
L. Edward P. Dennis, boru July 12th. 1843. at Dennis' Mills, Worcester county, now Williards. Wicomico County, Ma- ryland. Son of Henry and Hester Truift Dennis.
Married Rebecca Smith Benson, daughter of Capt. Nathaniel R. and Margaret Irons Benson, of Wilmington, Del .. Jan. 7th. 1869.
Boyhood days spent on the farm, after which he taught school for one year. At this time removed to Salisbury, where he spent a year under private instruction. From this time until his marriage was a traveling salesman, after which he farmed two years in Pennsylvania. thence moving to Cris- field in 1872. and engaged in the mercantile business until 1880, when he also engaged in the Menhaden Fishing Indus- try which formed the basis of his business for his remain- ing years.
In 1875 to 1884 was deputy collector under Col. Thos. S. Ilodson and 1884 to 1888 under Capt. Hance Lawson. In 1892 was delegate to National Convention and voted for Harrison, and in 1893 was appointed Collector by President Harrison.
Eleced to State Senate in 1899 for four years to represent Somerset County.
Died at St. Petersburg, Florida, Jan. 27th, 1920, and in- terred at Crisfield, Md.
Survived by his wife, Rebecca. and three children, E. Ben- son Dennis, Margaret Dennis Sterling. Eleanor Dennis Wooster ; four grandchildren : E. Benson Dennis, Jr., Rebecca Jane Den- nis, Lemuel Franklin Dennis and Eleanor Wooster.
FRANK MARTIN, M. D.
Frank Martin, M. D. Professor Surgery, University of Mary land ; born Brookville. Montgomery County. Md., October 21. 1863. Parents. Dr. James Stansbury. Lucretia Griffith War- field, Martin.
Educated : Brookville Academy ; Maryland Agricultural Col- love (graduate 1884) : University of Maryland (M. D. 150%. Served as interne for one year prior to graduation.
Professional Career : Resident Surgeon, University of Mary. land Hospital. 1887-1892: chief of elinie to Professor of Sur- gery, later lecturer on practice of surgery ; since 199 was Clin- ical Professor of Surgery and Professor of Operative Surgery. Elected to Chair of Surgery, Faculty of Physics, University of Maryland, May. 1920.
Military Career: Volunteered for service at beginning of World War ; Commissioned Major in Medical Reserve Corps. C. S. Army. May 31, 1917. Called to active duty. September 26. 1917. and first assigned Chief of Surgical Service. Base Ilos- pital, U. S. Army, Fort Des Moines, lowa.
Assigned (November. 1917), Chief Surgical Service. U. S. Army Base Hospital, Camp Dodge, Iowa (with SSth Division. Reassigned (February 1, 1918), U. S. Army Base Hospital. Fort Des Moines, lowa, as Chief Surgical Service.
Assigned (May 6. 1918), Chief Surgical Service. U. S. Army Base Hospital. Fort Riley, Kansas (under command General Leonard Wood. Continued latter station crepairing and re- constructing returned overseas wounded of a large section of the Middle West). Honorably discharged from service. June 28. 1919. Promoted (July 1. 1919) to Lieutenant Colonel. Medical Reserve Corps, U. S. Army. Returned to University of Maryland and private practice, October. 1919.
Member, etc. : Follow. American College of Surgeons ; member American Medical and Southern Surgical Associations ; Medical and Chirurgical Faculty of Maryland : Baltimore Clin- Ical Society, Maryland. Bachelors' Cotillion. Elkridge Fox Hunt- ing. Kennel Clubs, etc.
Married (first ) June 2, 1897. Anna Rachel idaughter Dr. Charles E. Coates), who died November 6. 1913. Married (second), March 1. 1916, Elizabeth Prescott Bigelow (daugh- ter Prescott Bigelow, of Boston). Children (by second mar- riage) : Elizabeth Prescott Martin (born March 20. 1917. died January 11, 1920; Frank Martin, Jr., born September 17. 1918. Residence, 1000 Cathedral street. Baltimore, Md.
Dr. Martin died December 7th, 1920, at 2:12 P. M.
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WILLIAM A. MECLEARY.
William J. MeCleary, Commissioner of Street Cleaning. City of Baltimore, was born at Sharksburg. Maryland. March 26. 1509 ; son of John 11. and Catherine MeCleary, and was educated in the Public Schools of Hagerstown, Maryland. He began his career as a brakeman and dagman on the Shenandoah Valley Railroad in June, ISS7, and in Angust, 1889, became brakeman and conductor on the Baltimore & Ohio Railread : being pro- moted to yardmaster Detober 1. 1894. He occupied the position of general yardmaster, then train master and superintendent of terminals, having entire charge of both the Baltimore & Ohio and the Western Maryland Terminals at Baltimore during the recent war. Ilis ability as an exeentive having been brought to the attention of Mayor Brooning and other Baltimore officials through his successful administration of Terminal affairs, Mr. MeCleary was prevailed upon to accept the position of Commis- sioner of Street Cleaning for the City of Baltimore, and he entered this office on April 27, 1920.
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