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DISTINGUISHED MEN OF ANNE ARUNDEL.
Distinguished Marylanders Who Claim St. John's College as Their Alma Mater.
Daniel Clarke, Associate Judge First District; John Done, Judge of General Court, Judge of Fourth District and the Court of Appeals; Clement Dorsey, Judge of First District; Benjamin Ogle, Governor; Ninian Pinkney, Clerk of Executive Council, Class 1793. Richard Harwood, Adjutant-General; John Carlisle Herbert, Member of Congress and Speaker of House of Delegates; Alexander Contee Magruder, Judge of Court of Appeals, Reporter of the Decisions of the same Court; John Seney and John C. Weems, Members of Con- gress, class 1794. Robert H. Goldsborough, United States Senator; Francis Scott Key, author of "Star Spangled Banner ;" John Ridgely, Surgeon United States Navy; Washington Van Bibber, Member of Congress, Class 1796. John Leeds Kerr, United States Senator; John Taylor Lomax, Judge of Court of Appeals, Virginia, Class 1797. Alexander Hammett, Consul at Naples; Thomas U. P. Charlton, Chancellor of South Carolina; William Rodgers, United States Navy; Tobias Watkins, Auditor United States Treasury and Assistant Surgeon United States Army; John Wilmot, Adjutant-General of Maryland, Class 1798. Thomas Beale Dorsey, Attorney-General of Maryland and Chief Judge of Court of Appeals; Dennis Claude, M. D., Treasurer of Maryland; George Washington Park Curtis, Class 1799. Nicholas Harwood, M. D., Surgeon United States Navy; George Mann, Lieutenant United States Navy; James Thomas, Governor of Mary- land, Class 1800. James Murray, Examiner-General; Charles W. Hanson, Judge of Sixth District; Alexander Contee Hanson, Editor of "Federalist" and United States Senator; David Hoffman, Professor of Laws, University of Maryland; Charles Sterrett Ridgely, Speaker of House of Delegates, Class 1802. John Contee, Lieutenant United States Marine Corps; William Grason, Governor of Maryland; Christopher Hughes, Charge to Sweden; Thomas Williamson, Surgeon United States Navy, Class 1804. George Mackubin, Treasurer of Maryland; John Wesley Peaco, Surgeon United States Navy and Governor of Liberia; Daniel Randall, Deputy Paymaster-General United States Army; Hyde Ray, Surgeon United States Navy; John R. Shaw, Purser United States Navy; Seth Switzer, Consul to Guayquil; William T. Wooten, Secretary of State, Class 1806. Thomas Randall, Judge of District Court of Florida; John Ridout, Visitor and Governor; John Gwinn, Captain United States Navy; William Latimer, Admiral United States Navy; William H. Marriott, Collector of Port of Baltimore, Class 1810. Nicholas Brewer, Judge of Circuit Court, Anne Arundel; William Caton, Surgeon United States
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Navy; Reverdy Johnson, United States Senator, Attorney-General, Minister to England; David Ridgely, State Librarian, Author of " Annals of Annapolis;" William Greenberry Ridgely, Chief Clerk in Navy Department at Washington; John Nelson Watkins, Adjutant- General of Maryland, Class 1811. Thomas S. Alexander, L. L. D., United States Navy; John Johnson, Chancellor of Maryland; Landon Mercer, Lieutenant United States Navy; John Denny, Surgeon United States Navy; Richard Randall, M. D., United States Army ; Governor Francis Thomas, Member Congress; Ramsey Waters, Register in Chancery; John B. Wells, Surgeon in United States Army; George Wells, President Maryland Senate, Classes 1811 and 1821. Alexander Randall, Member of Congress and Attorney-General of Maryland, Class 1822. Nicholas Brewer (of John), Adjutant-General of Maryland; Burton Randall, Surgeon United States Army; John Henry Alexander, L. L. D .; William Harwood, State Librarian, Professor at Naval Academy, School Examiner of Anne Arundel; William Pinkney, Bishop of Protestant Episcopal Church of Mary- land; William H. Tuck, Judge of Court of Appeals; John Bowie, Lieutenant United States Navy, Class 1827. John Randall Hagner, Paymaster United States Navy; Thomas Kavney, Professor of Ethics and Librarian United States Naval Academy; Ninian Pinkney, Medical Director United States Navy; Augustus Bowie, Surgeon United States Navy; Sprigg Harwood, Clerk of Circuit Court; John H. T. Magruder, State Librarian; Richard Swann, State Librarian, Class 1830. Rev. Orlando Hutton; John Green Proud, poet before the Alumni; F. W. Green, Member of Congress; Peter V. Hagner, United States Army, Class 1834. Abram Claude, Professor of Chem- istry, St. John's College, Mayor of Annapolis, Class 1835. William R. Hayward, Commissioner of Land Office; Rev. Samuel Ridout, Class of 1836. William Tell Claude; Henry H. Goldsborough, Presi- dent of State Convention of 1864, Comptroller, Judge of Eleventh District; William H. Thompson, Professor of St. John's; Marcus Duvall, Medical Director United States Navy; Frederick Stone, Judge of Court of Appeals; Luther Giddings, Major United States Army; Richard Grason, Judge of Court of Appeals; Llewellyn Boyle, State Librarian; John Thomas Hall, Lieutenant United States Army ; James Kemp Harwood, Purser United States Navy; John Scheff Stockett, State Reporter Court of Appeals; Nicholas Brewer, State Reporter Court of Appeals; Richard M. Chase, Secretary Naval Academy; James Munroe, Mayor of Annapolis, Class 1846. James Shaw Franklin, Clerk of Court of Appeals; John Mullan, Captain United States Army; Charles S. Winder, Captain United States Army and Brigadier-General of Confederate Army; James Revell, State's Attorney; Thomas J. Nelson, Paymaster United States Army; Charles Brewer, Surgeon United States and Confederate States Armies; William Sprigg Hall, Judge of Court of Common Pleas of Minnesota; Daniel R. Magruder, Judge of Court of Appeals; John H. Sellman, Paymaster United States Navy and Collector of Revenue; Andrew G. Chapman, Member of Congress; John W. Brewer, Assist-
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ant Surgeon United States Army; William Hirsey Hopkins, Vice- President of St. John's and President of Female College of Baltimore; Samuel Mccullough, Lieutenant Confederate States Army.
Some Prominent Men Who Have Gone out of Anne Arundel and Others Who Still Live There.
BRASHEARS.
The popular Representative of Anne Arundel in the Legislature of 1902, who refused to be Speaker when he might have secured that honor, comes from the Huguenot Benjamin Brasseurs, Commissioner of Calvert County, in 1660. Our Archives contain an interesting record of his naturalization. It reads:
"Cecilius Calvert-Whereas, Benjamin Brasseurs, late of Vir- ginia, have sought leave to inhabit as a free Denizen, to purchase lands, I do hereby De Clare that said Bendjs. Brasseur, his wife and children, to be full Denizens of this our Province and that he be held, treated, reputed and esteemed as one of the faythfull people."
The Brasseurs homestead upon the Patuxent shows its antiquity in the ancient graveyard. It is known as "Brashears Purchase."
Mr. Brashears, attorney-at-law at Annapolis, married a daughter of Joshua Browne, former President of the Annapolis and Elk Ridge Railroad.
HOPKINS.
There seems to have been four distinct Hopkins families in Anne Arundel and Montgomery Counties. The first is that of William Hopkins, of "Hopkins' Plantation," Greenberry Point. He came up with the Virginians to the Severn in 1649, but left no descendants of his name.
Gerard Hopkins was here as early as 1658. His will of 1691 names his children Gerard, Anne, Thompsin and Mary. Thompsin was the first wife of Captain John Welsh, of South River. The second Gerard married Margaret Johns, and their issue were Joseph, Gerard, Philip, Samuel, Richard, William and Johns Hopkins, all born between 1706 and 1720. The founder of Johns Hopkins University was a descendant of this family.
In 1742 Matthew Hopkins, of County of Ayr, Scotland, came to Rock Creek, now Montgomery County. His widow, Mary, became Mrs. Henry Thralkeld. No issue of his name is known.
John Hopkins, said to have come from Scotland, was also located upon the Maryland side of the Potomac, about 1775. He married Eleanor Wallace, daughter of James Wallace, of Montgomery County. They left Herbert Hopkins, William, Richard, Alexander, James and John Hopkins. The affable Chief Clerk of the Comptroller's office, Mr. Harry Hopkins, comes from Talbot County.
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PROFESSOR ROBINSON.
The most popular agriculturist of the North Severn section of Anne Arundel is Professor Robinson, of the Horticultural Depart- ment of the Agricultural College. He has long been a Granger and lectured throughout the State during the life of that order.
Professor Robinson's family have long been located upon the Broad Neck of the Severn. The family came from the Eastern Shore. His grandfather was a privateer in the War of 1812. Professor Robinson is a connection of Judge Robinson, of the Eastern Shore.
DR. JOSEPH MUSE WORTHINGTON.
Dr. Joseph Muse Worthington, son of Professor Nicholas Brice and Sophia Kerr (Muse) Worthington, of Annapolis, is a grandson of Brice John and Ann Fitzhugh (Lee) Worthington, and a great- grandson of Major Nicholas Worthington, First Major of the Severn Militia Battalion, commanded by Colonel John Hall. Dr. Worthington's uncle, Brice John Worthington, was a lay reader at Crownsville Church for a number of years. He married Matilda Pue, daughter of Henry, of Howard County.
Dr. Worthington has corresponded extensively in tracing the genealogy of the Worthingtons of Maryland, and is thoroughly posted on all the facts that can be secured in this country. He also found traces of a William Worthington who came to the Severn with Richard Moss, but left no records here.
Beale Worthington, of Anne Arundel, is the son of Thomas Beale and Margaret Sellman Worthington, grandson of Richard and Eleanor Watkins Sellman, and great-grandson of Jonathan and Anne Eliza Howard Sellman. He is also grandson of Dr. Beale Worthing- ton and great-grandson of Brice Thomas Beale Worthington, member of the Maryland. Convention.
RICHARD PARRAN SELLMAN.
Richard Parran Sellman, of Anne Arundel, is a son of Alfred and Ann Parran Sellman, grandson of Jonathan and Ann Elizabeth Howard Sellman.
Major Jonathan Sellman was Second Lieutenant of Captain Henry Ridgely's company. In 1777 he was commissioned Captain of First Maryland Regiment, commanded by Colonel O. Holland Williams, and he became a member of the Cincinnati.
GEORGE H. SHAFER.
George H. Shafer, late of the Land Office, Annapolis, who was thirty-eight years in its service, was the son of George and Mar- tha Bond Van Swearingen Shafer, grandson of John and Elizabeth B. Van Swearingen, great-grandson of Charles and Susanna Stull Van Swearingen. Charles was Second Major of the Maryland Militia under Samuel Beall.
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THE SWEARINGEN FAMILY.
Feudal tenants under the lords of Dillingen, Garrett Van Swear- ingen, a descendant of the old Bavarian family, was born in Holland, 1636, died 1712; married Barbara De Barrette, of Norman-French lineage, in 1660. By her he had Thomas, born 1665. He married Jane. Their son Van, born 1695, died 1785; married Elizabeth Walker, of Patuxent, Maryland. Their son Charles-Susannah Stull. Their son John-Elizabeth Bond, third daughter of John Van Swearingen, born 1805, died 1887, married George Shafer-issue Elizabeth Susan Shafer-Rev. John Beck.
Arms of Bond: First and fourth sable, a fesse, or. Second and third quarters, argent, on a chevron sable three bezants.
Crest: A demi-pegasus azure, winged and semi of estailes. The colors shown in the sketch.
JUDGE NICHOLAS BREWER.
Judge Nicholas Brewer, of the Second District of Maryland, came down through a line of sturdy men commencing with John Brewer, a Justice of Calvert County. "Brewerton" and "Larkin- ton," near London Town, were the early surveys of his son, John Brewer, son-in-law of Colonel Henry Ridgely. Dying early, Colonel Henry Ridgely became the executor for his two sons, John and Joseph and one daughter, Elizabeth, named for her grandmother, a Pierpoint. Colonel Henry Ridgely made these grandsons his heirs. John Brewer, third in line, through his wife, Dinah Battee, left four sons and four daughters.
John, the elder, married Eleanor Maccubin, in 1727; five sons and four daughters were their issue. The youngest, Rachel, became the wife of the artist, Charles Wilson Peale, father of Rembrandt Peale, of Philadelphia; Joseph, her brother, through his wife, Mary Stockett, left Joseph, with others, who married a relative, Eleanor Brewer, daughter of John and Eleanor Maccubin. Their son, Nicholas Brewer, married Fanny Davis, daughter of the Revolution- ary Robert Paine Davis. Their daughter, Mary Jane Brewer, married Richard Ridgely, Judge of the Orphans Court and Register of Chancery. He was the son of Absalom Ridgely, the merchant, by Anne Robinson, and grandson of Henry Ridgely and Catharine Lusby -coming down from Charles and Eliza Ridgely (of Colonel Henry).
Of this line of Absalom Ridgely was Dr. John Ridgely of the Tripolitan war, and David Ridgely, the merchant, the State Librarian, and Ridgely, the historian, herein often quoted. Another descendant is our honored historian, Elihu S. Riley.
ยท The obituary notice of Nicholas Brewer, father of Judge Nicholas Brewer, in 1839, written by the editor of the "Maryland Gazette," pays this tribute: "Thus, in his sixty-eighth year, closes another of the most active, firm, steady and undeviating politicians of the State or age. A man who, as an opponent, was always a man, open, undis- guised, straightforward and high-minded. As a friend, no man was
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ever more ardent, whole-hearted and sincere. For many years he represented this city in the House of Delegates. He seldom spoke, but never failed to command attention when he did speak. He was twice an Elector of the Senate. As a next-door neighbor and most intimate friend, as an associate for the third of a century, in peace and in war, in sickness and in health, I can testify that Nicholas Brewer was a man of inflexible integrity."
Colonel Nicholas Brewer, born at Marley in 1789, known as "the mill-boy of Marley," removed to Baltimore in 1815. He was the son of Captain Nicholas and Julia Brewer. Their ancestors came to Massachusetts with the Puritans in 1644; went to Virginia with the one hundred invited northern Puritans. Four years later they were driven out of Virginia and came to South River. The pioneer was John Brewer. Captain Nicholas Brewer was with Smallwood in the Revolution. He was an extensive planter. His wife was the daughter of Colonel Psalter, of Braddock's army.
Colonel Nicholas Brewer was a member of the "Old Defenders" of Baltimore in 1840.
Hon. Nicholas Brewer, Judge of the Second District, was born 1795. Graduating at St. John's College, he studied law. His wife was Catharine Musser Mediary, a descendant of John Bauer, who lived in and took the name of the Isle of Madeira.
Judge Brewer had ten children. Of his legal record, Hon. Reverdy Johnson has said: "As an equity pleader he had few super- iors. As a judge he possessed the entire confidence of the legal fraternity. His influence was great and his decisions just."
CHIEF JUSTICE ROGER BROOKE TANEY.
In front of the State House at Annapolis, upon a pedestal far below the height of his fame, sits the heroic form of a Marylander whose name is world-wide. Born only a few miles south of the Anne Arundel line, upon Battle Creek, he goes back through Roger Brooke to the first commander of the Patuxent, Robert Brooke, of "Brooke Place." Roger Brooke Taney belongs to the history of a stormy period. From a little leather-covered pocket book, dated 1710, written by Roger Brooke, grandson of the commander and progenitor of Roger Brooke Taney, let me quote the following: "At the close of the month of June, 1650, there landed on the Patuxent, twenty miles from its mouth, a family of forty persons, the body- guard, male and female, of Mr. Robert Brooke and his wife, Mary Mainwaring, and ten children, born in England." "Dela Brooke" was their first homestead.
In 1654 the family removed to "Brooke Place," on Battle Creek, a name given by Mr. Brooke in honor of his first wife, Mary Baker, of Battle. Her two sons, Baker and Major Thomas Brooke, of " Brookfield," accompanied the immigrants. The former became a member of the Provincial Council. The latter commanded the Provincial forces and was the founder of the present village of T. B., taken from a landmark bearing his name.
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I quote again: "My father, Roger Brooke, Sr., second son of Robert Brooke, by Mary, his second wife, daughter of Roger Main- waring, D. D., Dean of Winchester, lived at Battle Creek and lies buried in the graveyard betwixt his two wives."
Dorothy Neale, sister of Henrietta Maria (Neale, Bennett) Lloyd, was the mother of Roger Brooke, Jr., the Recorder of 1710. The latter took for his wife, Eliza Hutchins, sister of Mary, wife of Samuel Thomas (of Philip). Their son, Roger Brooke, the third, was the progenitor of the Pennsylvania Brookes, represented by General Brooke, United States Army. James Brooke, second son of Roger and Eliza Hutchins, through Deborah Snowden (of Richard), became the progenitor of a large and progressive Brooke settlement at Sandy Spring. His survey of "Brooke Grove" covered 33,000 acres, ten miles in extent. His pioneer house, built in 1728, still stands near Sandy Spring. At that date it was the first frame house of his forest home. From it, with a button pulled from his coat, Mr. James Brooke shot a panther.
Two daughters of Roger Brooke married and remained upon the Brooke estate. They were Mrs. Walter Wilson, mother of Walter Brooke Wilson; and Monica, wife of Michael Taney, High Sheriff of Calvert, and mother of Roger Brooke Taney.
Walter Brooke Wilson married Mary (Dalrymple) Rawlings, widow of Captain Thomas Rawlings, and daughter of Hon. James Duke Dalrymple, of Calvert-issue, one son, William Wilson. After the death of Mr. Wilson she married Dr. Septimus J. Cook, of Prince George, and had one daughter, Margaret, wife of Professor J. D. Warfield. Dr. Cook and his wife both descended from two daughters of John Clare, of Calvert County.
To write the life of Chief Justice Taney would only duplicate his own modest autobiography, but the words of S. Teackle Wallis, in unveiling the statue which now stands at the State House, may be of interest. Said he:
" In the Chamber where we meet to-day to do him honor he sat for years a Senator of Maryland, the peer of the distinguished men who sat around him, when no legislative body in the Union surpassed that Senate in dignity, ability or moral elevation.
"In the Chamber there, above us, at the zenith of his reputation as advocate and council and in the very ripeness of his powers, he shone, the leader of the Bar of Maryland.
"The artist has chosen to present us his illustrious subject in his robes of office as we saw him when he sat in judgment; the weight of years that bent the venerable form has not been lightened, and the lines of care, and suffering, and thought are as life traced them.
"The figure has been treated in the spirit of that noble and absolute simplicity which is the type of the highest order of greatness.
"The State of Maryland here silently and proudly presents to posterity her illustrious son. Already the waters of the torrent have nearly spent their force, and high above them, as they fall,
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unstained by their pollution and unshaken by their rage, stands, where it stood, in grand and reverend simplicity, the august figure of the great Chief Justice."
COMMODORE MAYO OF SOUTH RIVER.
Commodore Isaac Mayo, who distinguished himself in the Mexican War, married, in 1835, Sarah Battaile Fitzhugh Bland, daughter of Chancellor Theodoric Bland, Consul to Brazil by his wife, Sarah Glen, widow of Mayor Jacob Davies, of Baltimore. The mother of Chancellor Bland was Sarah Henrietta Thornton, daughter of Admiral Thornton, of the British Navy.
Commodore Mayo's only daughter, Sarah Battaile Mayo, is the wife of Thomas Henry Gaither, of Baltimore, only surviving son of the late George R. Gaither. They have one son, Thomas Henry Gaither, Jr., and one daughter, Georgiana Mayo, wife of Lawrence Bailliere. They are residing in the historic "Peggy Stewart" house in Annapolis.
Commodore Mayo descended from Joshua Mayo, of South River, who, in 1707, married Hannah Learson. One son, Joseph, and four daughters, were all baptized at "All Hallows." Joseph, through his wife, Sarah Mayo, left Thomas and Joseph Mayo, Jr .; Mrs. Sarah Waters was a daughter.
Joseph Mayo, the second, through his wife, Henrietta, had Henry, John, Isaac, Edward and James Mayo. Isaac Mayo and Captain John Mayo and wife, were parishioners of "All Hallows" in 1845 when Isaac Mayo took the oath to "demean himself in the office of vestryman thereof according to the best of my skill and judgment and without Favor affection or Partiality."
Commodore Mayo held a historic tract, once the home estate of Captain Nicholas Gassaway, upon the Neck of South River, now known as "Mayo's Neck." This estate is now held by his daughter, Mrs. Thomas Gaither.
The daughters of the early Mayos of South River, married into the families of Jonathan Waters, John Ridgely, John Wilmott and Francis Linthicum.
HENRY WINTER DAVIS, THE WAR CONGRESSMAN.
Hon. Henry Winter Davis, the war Congressman, was the son of Rev. Henry Lym Davis, Rector of St. Anne's Church and at the same time President of St. John's College. Young Davis was born in Annapolis in 1817. His mother was Jane Winter Davis, a lady of intellectual attainments and elegance of person. Her sister was Henry Winter Davis' first teacher.
Graduating from Kenyon College, Ohio, in 1837 and taking a law course in the University of Virginia, Mr. Davis began practice in Alexandria, Virginia. There he married Constance Gardiner, of Virginia. He came to Baltimore in 1850, and soon became a leader of the new Know-Nothing party. Upon the outbreak of the war he represented the Union party, becoming its Congressional delegate.
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His chaste, fervid diction always attracted attention. His eloquence and power as an orator soon brought him to the front. Always, when speaking, in full dress, with kid gloves, handsome in person, dignified in manner, he became the shining light of his party. Although dealing in controversial subjects, his addresses showed considerable literary ability.
He married in Baltimore, for the second time, Nancy, daughter of John B. Morris.
He died at the close of the war, in the full vigor of his manhood and fame, December 30, 1865.
C. IRVING DITTY.
C. Irving Ditty, born at West River in 1838, was the son of George T. Ditty, of Virginia, and Harriet, daughter of Benjamin Winterson. His only sister became Mrs. Jacob W. Bird. His father was a descendant of Sir Jeremiah Jacob, one of Lord Baltimore's immi- grants.
C. Irving Ditty entered Dickinson College in 1854 and graduated in 1857. He entered the Confederate service with Colonel Ridgely Brown, and rose to Captain, and when the war was ended at Appo- mattox, his company refused to surrender, but cut through the ranks, and when attacked checked the charge. This was the last firing of of the war.
Mr. Ditty married Sophia, daughter of Henry Swartze, sister of Captain Swartze, of the same Confederate army. Irvington, a suburb of Baltimore, takes its name from Mr. Ditty. He entered into the reform movement of 1875, which ended in his joining the Republican party. He was sent to Louisiana to review the Presiden- tial count of that State and reported that both parties were about equally guilty, but the evidences were in favor of Hayes.
Mr. Ditty died in Baltimore in early manhood.
Dr. MARIUS DUVALL.
Dr. Marius Duvall, Medical Director United States Navy, was born in Annapolis in 1818. He is the son of Lewis and Sarah (Harwood) Duvall, and was the youngest of eleven children. His grandmother was Miss Callahan, from the North of Ireland. His father represented Annapolis in the State Legislature for ten years. His name is among the students of St. John's College.
Dr. Duvall married a sister of Professor Lockwood. After filling many important stations, he was transferred to the Naval Hospital at Annapolis.
HON. MICHAEL BANNON.
Hon. Michael Bannon, was born in the County Tyrone, Ireland, in 1827. His grandfather was an officer in the Rebel Army of 1798.
At eighteen years of age young Bannon set out for America. His own account of his struggle is interesting. Reaching Baltimore, in 1847, with a capital of ten cents, he expended it for his first night's
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lodging. Having been well taught, he soon secured a position with a relative to teach his children. With his savings he branched out into other side speculations and succeeded in securing a college education. After graduation he succeeded his friend who had helped him. After teaching for a season he removed to Anne Arundel County and there continued teaching near his home at Jessups. Then studying law, he opened an office in Baltimore. In this last venture he succeeded in building up a large business in real estate exchanges. He built the Bannon Building.
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