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lle is recognized as an orator of note and is in constant demand for public speaking. Has for a long while been prominent in the deliberations of the Grand Lodge of B. P. O. E. of America ; is a member Fidelity Lodge ( Baltimore) A. F. & A. M .. and is a Knight Templar and Shriner.
The public parks of Baltimore are his great hobby ; he spends mich of his time in the interest of the parks to benefit those who frequent them ; especially the children, for whom he advocates children's playgrounds in all public parks. Is an enthusiastic yachtsman, having served many years as Commodore of the Maryland Yacht Club, and golfer.
Mr. Boyd was married in 1898 to Miss Hallie Antoinette Smith, of New Haven, Conn. He is the father of two children-J. Cookman, Jr., and Kathelyn Antoinette Royd, and is a devoted family man.
Offices, 2 East Lexington Street, Baltimore, Residence, Garrison and Forest Park Avenues, Forest Park, Baltimore.
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HON. WILLIAM PURNELL JACKSON.
Honorable William Purnell Jackson. banker, business executive, Republican National Commit- teeman from Maryland and former United States Senator, was born in Salisbury, Maryland, January 11, 1868, and comes of that historic family of Jackson, which has made history in Maryland. He is the son of William Humphreys Jackson, who in his time was prominently identified with many great business enterprises in the State of Maryland, and is the nephew of the late Governor E. E. Jackson.
He was educated in the public schools of Wicomico County. Maryland, and at Wilmington Con- ference Academy. During his vacations he spent his time in familiarizing himself with the details of his father's various business interests. and in 1887 he became a partner in the firm of E. E. Jack- son & Company. When the Jackson Brothers Company was organized in 1893, he became its Secre- tary and Treasurer. and in 1915. its Pre-ident. He was formerly Secretary-Treasurer of the Jackson Lumber Company. Alabama. another large concern which was founded by his father and uncle.
He has been Maryland's representative on the Republican National Committee since June. 1908. (and was unanimously re-elected at the 1920 convention). In 1912 he was appointed by the then Governor of Maryland to fill the unexpired term of the late Isadore Raynor, as a member of the United States Senate, which position he filled with honor and dignity.
Senator Jackson is President of the Salisbury National Bank. the Jackson & Gutman Company, business enterprises of Salisbury, Maryland, and a director of the Equitable Trust Company, of Baltimore. He has lumber interests in North Carolina. He is President of the Board of Directors of the Peninsula General Hospital, and an official of the Methodist Episcopal Church of Salisbury; a member of the Maryland, Union League of Philadelphia, and of the Manufacturers' Club.
Address, Salisbury, Maryland.
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J. LINDSAY CLARK.
J. Lindsay Clark, of the firm of J. Lindsay Clark & Company, general insurance agents and brokers, was born in Baltimore. His father. Matthew Breckenridge Clark, was the founder of the old Rockland Mills on Falls Road at Green Spring Valley. His mother was Martha Bigham Clark.
Hle attended the Baltimore Public Schools and entered the employ of the Western Maryland Railroad as messenger. After serving in various departments of that company, he accepted a position with the Baltimore & Washington Car Demurrage Bnrean, serving in the capacity of chief inspector until the Bureau was closed in September, 1910. MIr. Clark then organized this firm, and has built up a very substantial business. In 1918 he purchased the four-story bullding at 40-42 South Street, now known as the Clark Building, his offices occupying the lower floor. llis firm represents strong companies, and does a general insurance business, being one of the principal insurance offices in Baitimore.
Mr. Clark was married in 1903 to Mand Elsie Rice, of Towson, Md .. and their residence is on Cromwell's Bridge Road, Long Green Valley, Baltimore County, Md.
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CLINTON OAKLEY RICHARDSON.
In the city of Baltimore is located the oldest fire insurance agency in the entire United States, namely, the firm of E. J. Richardson and Sons, established in 1847. and continuously operated by the descendants of the original founders. Our subject, Clinton Oakley Richardson, and his brother. James A. Richardson, represent the third generation of the famlly in the firm, and are now bringing up a fourth generation to follow in their footsteps; the former has oue grandson, one of the fifth generation. E. 1. WV. age three and a half years.
Clinton Oakley Richardson was born in Baltimore, October 28, 1864, son of Edward A. and Marcelina Richardson, and was educated in the public and private schools of Baltimore and vicinity.
He was tirst associated with Johnson, Sutton and Company, wholesale dry goods dealers, lle then entered the firm founded by his forebears, the offices of which are in the Richardson Building. 13 Guilford Avenue, Baltimore, Mr. Richardson has been very active in matters tending to improvement and expansion of Baltimore ; served as president of the Fire Board, president of the Board of Public Safety, and was an untiring member of the Baltimore Electrle Commission, Ile also served as treasurer of the City Republican Committee, and handled all campaign funds for the past ten years. The improvement and upkeep of the fire department through his position on the Fire Board has ever been his hobby.
Of social organizations and clubs Mr. Richardson is a member of the following : Merchants, Baltimore Country. Athletic, and Yncht Clubs, Press Club. Masonic Order. 32nd degree, and various others,
On the 19th of October, ISS6, Mr. Richardson was united in marriage to Miss Grace Johnson, granddaughter of the late J. J. Abrahams, noted shipbuilder, and former president of the Second National Bank of Baltimore. They have one son, Edward J. Richardson, a graduate of Princeton I'niversity and associated in the firm with his father.
Offices, Richardson Building, 13 Guilford Avenne, Residence, Algonquin Apartments, Baltimore.
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ROBERT CRAIN.
Although more widely known. perhaps, as a highly successful corporatien lawyer and a political leader in his State. Hon, Robert Crain must be recorded as one of the foremost farmers of the country, certainly the foremost farmer of Maryland. And it is as a scientific and practical agriculturist that he prefers to be regarded by the people who know his love for broad acres, for blooded stock and for growing crops. Mr. Grain was born in Charles County, Maryland. November 12, 1865, the son of Dr. Robert and Nellie Morgan Crain. He received his education at Charlotte Hall Academy, St. John's College, Annapolis, and the degree of LL.B. from the I'niversity of Maryland in 1886. Ile formed a law partnership with Omer E. Hershey and continued said partnership, under the firm name of Crain & Hershey. until October 1. 1916. This law firm grew to be one of the largest firms in the city of Baltimore, devoting special attention to corporation practice.
For more than twenty years Mr. Crain has served as General Counsel for the United States Brewers' Association. a New York corporation comprising 95 per cent. of the brewers of the country.
Always a Democrat. Mr. Crain was a delegate at twenty-one years of age to the Democratie National Convention at St. Louis, where he organized the National League of Democratie Clubs, which played a very important part in the election of President Cleveland. As a young man he managed the campaign of his close friend. Frank Brown, who was elected Governor of Maryland by tomoa majority. He has never sought political other, but has served as a Super- visor of Elections and also a member of the Excise Board for Baltimore City.
In 1911, at a largely attended meeting in the Mayor's office, Mr. Crain was unanimously chosen to represent Balti- more In its efforts to secure the Democratic National Convention of 1912. The press of the country laughed at the Idea of holding a National Convention in Baltimore, but Mr. Crain quietly went about the country, and when the National Committee met in Washingion to select the Convention City, it was found Mr. Crain had succeeded in raising $100,000, which was handed over to the Committee and Baltimore was selected. I'nder Mr. Crain's personal super- vlsion the Fifth Regiment Armory was transformed into the most beautiful Convention llall in the history of the country.
Mr. Crain attended the San Francisco Convention In 1920 as a delegate-at-large from Maryland.
Born at Mt. Victoria, the ancestral home of the Crains for tive generations, thronghont his life Mr. Crain has been Identlfled with agriculture. For more than thirty years he has been acquiring gradually the colonial estates adjacent 10 Mt. Victorla, and now owns and operates on the most scientific scale a ten thousand acre farm -- the largest agricul. tural enterprise east of the Ohio River. He has sneceeded in bringing back to life a section of Maryland which for thirty years after the Civil War was a wilderness. While his farming has been diversified. he has given special atten- tion to the breeding of registered Shorthorn cattle, and his herd is now recognized as second to none in the country. A few years ago at the International Show at Chicago his great yong bull. Mt. Victoria Stamp :48623h was sold for $9,000.
Appointed first by the late Governor Wartield as a member of the Board of Directors of the Maryland Agrienliural College, Mr. Crain hus served consecutively to the present time. As the chairman of a committee on reorganization, he
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RICHARD BENNETT DARNALL.
Richard Bennett Darnall, son of Frank H. and Eleanor Carroll Darnall, was born at the family home, "Portland Manor," Anne Arundel County, on January 9, 1877. He received his collegiate education at Georgetown University and graduated in law at the University of Maryland, in 1899. He entered the practice of law in Baltimore in 1900 and was formerly associated with Judge Walter I. Dawkins. In September, 1919, a partnership was formed with Mr. Harry E. Karr and Mr. Edward M. Hammond, the firm style being Karr, Hammond & Darnall. Mr. Darnall is a member of the University, Baltimore, Merchants and L'Hirondelle {of Ruxton) Clubs, also the Maryland Historical Society. He married Frances Hopkins, of Cecil County, Maryland. He resides at Ruxton, Maryland. and his law offices are in the Fidelity Building, Baltimore.
Mr. Darnall comes of very distinguished ancestry. Henry Darnall, of Birds' Place, Parish of Essenden, England, counselor at law of Gray's Inn, London, left at his death in 1607 seven children. (The portraits of Philip the fourth, son, and that of his wife are at "Poplar Hill," one of the Dar- nall estates.)
John Darnall, Esq., a Secondary of the Pipe, married (first) Susan, daughter of John Mynne, secondly, Susan, daughter of Roger Lawrence and Elizabeth Mynne. As Sir George Calvert married for his first wife Anne Mynne of the same family, the relationship between the Darnalls and the Calverts is apparent, proofs of lineal descent being accessible in England. Hence it is not surpris- ing to find two young scions of the Birds' Place Darnalls emigrating to Maryland, in 1672, to fill high and confidential offices under the Calverts. John, younger brother of Colonel Henry Darnall, was secretary to his Lordship, while Colonel Henry was made Collector of the Port of St. Mary's, Justice of Provincial Court, Member of Council, and Colonel of Horse. Later he was agent for the Proprietary and one time Deputy Governor of Maryland.
John Darnall located at Portland Manor. Anne Arundel County. He married Susannah. grand- daughter of Governor Richard Bennett, of Virginia. the forbear of so many prominent Marylanders. This is the same Portland Manor, a large portion of which remains in the possession of Mr. Darnall and his father.
Upon the death of John Darnall in 1681 his widow became the wife of Colonel Henry Lowe. a nephew of Lady Jane Baltimore. Colonel Henry Darnall, who outlived his younger brother. was called "The Woodyard." the rather peculiar name of his great estate in Prince George's County. In addition to "The Woodyard." Colonel Henry Darnall owned other large estates, notably "My Lord's Kindness" and "The Girl's Portion." At the time of the Protestant Revolution, Colonel Henry Darnall, a strong adherent of his kinsman, the Proprietary, was active in raising a large force of men from up the Patuxent, with whom he hoped to go to the assistance of Col. William Digges. Deputy Governor of the Province, in his defense of St. Mary's. Unfortunately, Col. Darnall's men did not reach the capital in time to render the much-needed service for which they had taken up arms. and the little city had to be surrendered to Coade and his followers. St. Mary's was the social centre for the high Colonial officials and their families in the winter season. Here lived Col. Wm. Digges, Attorney-General, Charles Carroll and evidently the Darnalls part of the year at least.
For his second wife the dashing Colonel Henry Darnall, possessed of many dignities and wide- spreading acres, married the widow of Col. Thomas Brooke, of Brookfield, the erstwhile clrarming Elinor Hatton, by whom he had a large family.
That social lines were not relaxed in Provincial Maryland is strikingly illustrated in the marriage of the Darnalls, all of whom for four generations at least married representatives in the Province of titled English or Irish families, so descendants of the two early settlers could easily outrank in their quarterings many of tlie peerage of to-day.
Three beautiful Darnall women became wives of distinguished Carrolls, of Maryland, the men winning for their brides daughters of the early lords of the manor and their descendants. Henry Darnall, fourth of his name in Maryland, continued the family custom of marrying ladies of high degree by taking to wife the niece and ward of George, fourteenth Earl of Shrewsbury. Henry Darnall built for his son Henry, Jr., on the occasion of this marriage, "Poplar Hill." which has con- tinued in the family. but curiously Iras not descended from father to son, and is now owned by Henry Dangerfield, who inlierited it from an aunt, who in turn inherited it from an uncle, Robert Sewell, nepliew of Robert Darnall.
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RICHARD BENNETT DARNALL.
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ALFRED JENKINS SHRIVER.
Alfred Jenkins Shriver, a most brilliant and progressive member of the Baltimore bar, was born in Baltimore on June 5, 1867 : son of Albert and Annie (Jenkins) Shriver, members of prominent and old families of Colonial times. Mr. Shriver was named for his grandfather, Alfred Jenkins, who died in 1874, one of the most prominent and opulent citizens of Baltimore's history.
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Mr. Shriver attended private schools nntil 1882. when he entered Loyola College, graduating in 18SS with highest honors from faculty and from his fellow students. In his last two years he received medals in all his classes, and the "Whelan" medal for general excellence in all studies. In a contest in which more than twenty-tive hundred students of seven colleges were entered, he was awarded the prize of one hundred dollars in gold for the best answers to certain questions on the Ten Commandments submitted by the com nitter of judges in New York City. In 1859 he entered Johns Hopkins University, gradnating in 1891 with the B.A. degree in the largest (until 1920), and most distinguished class ever graduated from that university. In his senior year, he also led his class, receiving, with one exception, the highest obtainable scholarship mark in every subject : in the excepted subject he received second highest mark. He won both the "Hopkins" and "l'niversity" scholarships, and was president of his class. In 1892 he took a post-graduate course, and the following year, as president of the Hopkins 1891 Class Alumni Association, he edited, with Professor George Lefevre, the first publication compiled by a post-graduate class of this university. During this period Mr. Shriver attended also the law department of the I'niversity of Maryland, being there secretary of his class, and graduated Bachelor of Laws in June, 1893, standing second in scholarship in his class, and second in the thesis contest -lils thesis on "Res Gestae" being specially recommended. In 1594 he received from Loyola College the M.A. degree ; and later began the practice of law in Baltimore.
Mr. Shriver has had sole charge of some of the most important litigation in the legal annals of the State, a notable case being the "Riordon Wills," in which by his legal mastery, large amounts were secured by varions philanthropic Institutions. For his successful services in this case the Orphaus Court of Baltimore awarded him the highest fee over awarded by it to any lawyer. Cardinal Gibbons in an antograph letter to the Court thow on file among the records of the case) expressed his highest appreciation and enlogy of Mr. Shriver's valued services in the case. Mr. Shriver enjoys the general reputation of winning his cases in court and of carefully preparing them for trinl.
Mr. Shriver is the author of various important legal publications, viz., "Res Gesta as a Rule of Evidence." "The Law of Wills of Personal Property in Maryland Prior to August 1, 1884." "Status of the Preferred Stock of the Balti- more & Ohio Railroad Company," ete .. ele,
The following are the clubs, societies, etc., with which Mr. Shriver Is adiliated : Charter member of the Phi Beta Kappa Fraternity of Johns Hopkins University : the Johns Hopkins (mnb, of which he was a founder and for many venrs an otheor : General Alumni Association of Johns Hopkins University, of which he has for ten years been secretary ; vice-president and ex-president of the 1591 Class Alumni Association of Johns Hopkins University ; member and one of the Board of Governors, of the I'niversity Club : member Maryland Club; Baltimore Country Club : Municipal Art Solety : Bachelor's Cotillion : Baltimore Assembly ; Merchants and Manufacturers Association ; City Club; Old Colony Club: Proctor of St. Mary's Orphan Asylum, Roland Park ; member (and member of Council) Society of Colonial Wars : and of the War of 1812; Archeological Tustitute of America, Baltimore Soclety : member Baltimore Clty. Maryland State and American Bar Associations. llis biography appears in the "Who's Who in America."
Mr. Shriver Is unmarried. He resides nt the University Club, and hits offices are In the Munsey Building, Baltimore.
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WALTER BAYARD SWINDELL.
Walter Bayard Swindell, oxeentive head of Swindell Brothers. Baltimore, manufacturers of glassware, was born In Baltimore, Maryland, on July 21. 1850, a son of William and Henrietta tMullard, Swindell. He received his education in the public schools of his native city, and after engaging in various occupations, he determined, when at the age of eighteen, to enter the business which had been followed by both his grandfather and father before him.
The firm of Swindell Brothers was organized in 1873 by William Swindell, (whose life career is recounted in the memorial section of this volumey our subject, Walter Bayard Swindell, and his brothers. They entered the Crystal Window Glass Works, the first unit of this great industry. shortly after organization of the company, and in 1880. a factory was added to mannfacture green bottles. In 1853 another factory was erected, for the purpose of making flntware.
At the time of the organization of Swindell Brothers. Walter B. Swindell was junior member and his father senior member of the firm. Since the death of his brothers, John W. and George E .. (in 1876 and 1885 respectively), and of William Swindell, his father, cin ISDID. Walter Bayard Swindell has been the active head of this great company, which owes its present position in business to the ability and powers of directorship possessed by its leader.
In Mr. Swindell one finds the wonderful personal traits of his late father, one of which is the power to make himself beloved by all with whom he comes in contact-acquaintances, friends, and employees. One need not have known him for a great length of time to appreciate the sterling character and lofty ideals which are cherished by this gentleman, whose conception of his every transaction is based on an unalterable standard of honor.
Not alone In the industrial development of his city and State has Mr. Swindell been active. Ile has been a foremost advocate in all matters of civic advancement, and has on various occasions ocenpied responsible offices of public trust where his keen powers of discernment and efficient supervision have been of benefit to the public. 1le served the City of Baltimore in 1893 as a member of the Second Branch of the City Council from the 19th and 20th wards : was secretary of the Water Board during Mayor Hooper's regime, and was'a member of the Harbor Board in 1904 under Mayor Mebane. For six years he served the State, under Governor Lowndes, as a member of the board of the Maryland House of Correction, an office which requires of its occupant the closest application and ntmost etheleney.
Mr. Swindell is a member of the Merchants & Manufacturers Association, the Baltimore Country Club and the Merchants Club of Baltimore. In politics he is a stanneh believer in the policies of the Republican party. Ilis church athillatlons are with Grace Methodist Episcopal Church, of which he is one of the trustees.
On August 1, 1877. Mr. Swindell married Miss Margaret Ould. To this union were born five children, four of whom are now living : Marion O., born May 19, Ists, having died in December, I>>4: Walter Bayard, Junior, born April 1. 1880, Is netive in the management of Swindell Brotlors; She is the wife of C. C. Nuckols, of Albany, N. Y. : Jane the wife of Charles I. Smith, of Short Hills, N. J. : Margaret the wife of Robert Q. Baker, of Coshocton, Ohio.
Upon men of Mr. Swindell's type, devoted alike to family, friends, and the welfare of the general public, rests the present and future prosperity of our city. State and country.
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OSCAR BECHTOL COBLENTZ.
Oscar Bechtol Coblentz. President of the Melean Contracting Company, Baltimore, was born in Frederlek County. Md., on November 24, 1878, the second son of Edward L. an Lucinda F. Coblenty. The Coblentz and allied families of Frederick County and throughout the State have occupied a prominent place in Maryland affairs since the earliest days of the colonies.
Oscar Bechtol Coblentz was a student at elementary and high schools of his native county, and was graduated from Middletown High School in 1597. In 1901 he was graduated from St. John's College, Annapolis, Md., and in 1906 from Maryland I'niversity School of Law. He was a leader in a number of college activities, having served as presi- dent of his Literary Society, business manager of the college athletic association, president of the Y. M. C. A., and business manager and editor of the college monthly paper.
Mr. Coblentz began his career as assistant postmaster at Middletown in 1895, in which office he served for sls months. The following sixteen months he acted as chief clerk in a leading general store. During his high school and college courses, and intermittingly thereafter, he took up and practiced land surveying and civil engineering. From 1901 to 1903 he was principal of the Middletown High School. For two years thereafter he engaged in land surveying and civil engineering, and as chief engineer of the City of Frederick. Ile was superintendent of Schools of the connty from 1906 to 1908, practiced law thereafter for several years, principally corporation law, and at the same time was chief engineer for the railroad interests of Frederick County, which are now merged into the Hagerstown & Frederick System. During this period the Frederick Railroad System developed handling of standard railroad freight equipment on an interchange basis with the steam railroads, being one of the first electric roads to accomplish this end. Mr. Coblenty, as general contractor, constructed the Security Power Plant and Transmission Lines for the Hagers- town & Frederick Railroad Company. He was president and a director of several industrial and development projects in Frederick, and designed and built the Walker-ville Water Works and the Braddock Heights Water System. For three years he was general manager of a foundry and machine shop known as the Morris Iron & Steel Company. In 1916 he became president of the Mebean Contracting Company. of Baltimore, specialists in the construction of bridges, docks, bulkheads, foundations, railroad construction and other work of similar character. The offices of this company are in 1415 Fidelity Building, Baltimore City.
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