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Dr. Elisha Warfield held the chair of Surgery and Obstetrics in Transylvania University, Lexington. In 1809, he married Mary Barr, daughter of Robert and Rebecca Tilton Barr. Her mother was a Bourdenot. They lived at "The Meadows." Their children were Rebecca Tilton, Thomas Barr, William Pollock, Elisha, Anne Eliza, Mary Jane, Caroline Barr, Julia Genevive and Laura Ruth. Rebecca Tilton-Charlton Hunt, first Mayor of Lexington. Issue, Elisha, Mary, Catherine, Rebecca Charlton. Catherine-John Reid, of Maysville, Kentucky, and Rebecca Charlton was the wife of Ben Johnson, of Lexington. Thomas Barr Warfield-Alice Carneal, of Cincinnati. Issue, Sallie Carneal, Mary, Carneal, Thomas, Kate, Alice. Sallie Carneal-Sidney Clay, of Bourbon County. Issue. Alice, Isabel, Annie, Sidney and Katherine; Mary died early. Carneal was twice married-first wife, Alice Speed, of Memphis; second, Miss Nelson, of New Orleans. Thomas did not marry. Kate-J. Esten Spears, of Paris, Kentucky. Issue, Thomas Carneal, Henry, Esten, Warfield and Howell. Alice-Shelby Kinkead, of Lexington. Issue, William, Warfield, Carneal, Shelby and Sidney.
William Pollock Warfield married Maria Elizabeth Griffith, daughter of John T. Griffith, of New Jersey, who, when that State was made free, with his brother, William Thomas Griffith, moved their slaves to Natchez. They were direct descendants of Griffith ap Griffith, the last native Prince of Wales. John T. Griffith was a prominent lawyer of Mississippi and married Harriet Abercrombie, daughter of Dr. James Abercrombie, who was sent to the State of Pennsylvania by King George III., to establish the English Church. He was the younger son of Lord Abercrombie.
Mrs. William Pollock Warfield had a sister, Rosa Vertner John- son, the poetess, also of Kentucky. The children of William Pollock Warfield are Harriet Griffith, who married Noah Davis Bell, of Lexington, Kentucky. Issue, Maria Griffith, wife of John Allen, of Boonville, Missouri, whose son is Henry Bell Allen. By a second marriage, to Mr. Joseph Binford, of Los Angeles, California, has one child. Clara Davis Bell-Henry Thompson, of Boonville. Issue, Henry, Noah and William.
Elisha, of William Pollock Warfield, married Mary Carson, of of Natchez. Issue, Lilly, Florence, Maria, Henry, Mary, Guey, Allen, Fairfax, Rosa and Vertner.
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John Griffith, of William Pollock Warfield, married Henrietta Blackburn, niece of Senator Blackburn. Issue, John, Joe and Church.
Thomas Barr, of William Pollock, married Mrs. Moore, of Miss- issippi. William Pollock, Jr., married Hattie Blackburn, niece of Senator Blackburn's second wife. Issue, Florence, Rosa and William.
Mary Barr, of William Pollock Warfield-first, Andrew Jackson Martin, of Grenada, Mississippi, nephew of President Jackson's wife. Issue, Maria Griffith; George W. Martin, First Lieutenant in Eigh- teenth Infantry, U. S. A .; William P. W., who-Montie Roberts, of Los Angeles, California; Hattie Warfield, who-Charles J. Meadow- croft, of Chicago. By a second marriage, to Colonel William C. Bayley, great-grandson of Lord Bayley, born in Melbourn-issue, Warfield Beal and Charles Abercrombie Dunbar. By a third mar- riage to Alvaro F. Gibbens, of Charleston, West Virginia, there is no issue.
Charles Abercrombie Warfield, of William Pollock and Marie E. (Griffith) Warfield-Miss Sellers, of Arkansas. They have three children, Dunbar, Warfield and Robert Barr Warfield.
Elisha Warfield, Jr. married Catherine Percy Ware, the authoress. Issue, Nathaniel Ware, Ellinor Ware, Percy, Mary Ross, Kittie and Lloyd. Nathaniel Ware-Miss Estel. Issue, Estel-J. Quitman Munce. Issue, Quitman and Warfield. Elinor Ware-first, Daniel Davis Bell; second, Erastus Wells, of St. Louis. Issue, Clara Davis and Henry. Mary Ross-Mr. Clemens, of St. Louis. Issue, Lilly and Bryon. Anne Eliza of Dr. Elisha-Major Edward Ryland; no issue, Mary Jane of Dr. Elisha-General Cassius M. Clay, U. S. Minister to Russia. Issue, Warfield, Green, Mary Barr, Sallie, Cassius, Brutus, Laura and Anne Warfield; Warfield and Cassius died unmarried. Green married Cornelia Walker, of Richmond, Kentucky; no issue. Mary-Major Herrick, of Cleveland. Issue, Clay, Frank and Green. Sallie-James Bennett, of Richmond, Kentucky. Issue, Mary, Elise, Helen, Laura and Warfield. Anne became Mrs. Crenshaw. Caroline Warfield (of Elisha)-Dr. Llewellyn Tarlton. Issue, Elisha and Llewellyn. Elisha-Gertrude Smith and had one daughter, Josephine. Llewellyn-Mrs. Hunt Reynolds, of Frankfort; no issue. Julia Genevieve (of Dr. Elisha)-Francis Key Hunt, of Lexington. Their daughter, Maria Barr-Dr. B. W. Dudley. Issue, Clara, Benjamin and William. Laura Ruth (of Dr. Elisha)-Christopher C. Rogers, no issue.
Dr. Nicholas Warfield, of Lexington, Kentucky, second son of Elisha and Ruth (Burgess) Warfield, married Susan Orr, of Bourbon County, Kentucky, by whom he had Mary Ellen, Rebecca, Ruth and Caroline, only one of whom is now living, Mrs. Rebecca Thornton, of Lexington, Kentucky, who has no children. Mrs. Sellers and Mrs. Gratz and their children are the only living representatives of this son.
Benjamin, third son of Elisha and Ruth (Burgess) Warfield, married, first, Sallie Caldwell, of Paris, Kentucky. Issue, Elisha Nicholas, William, Ruth, Sarah and Benjamin. Elisha Nicholas, of
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"Forest Home"-Elizabeth Brand, of Lexington. Issue, Harriet and Sallie Sutherland Warfield. Dr. William Warfield was a noted stock raiser of the blue-grass region. He married Mary Breckinridge, sister of Mrs. General Wade Hampton. Issue, Sophia, Benjamin Burgess, Ethelbert Dudley, Ruth and Sarah. Sophia and Ruth died unmarried.
Professor Benjamin Burgess Warfield, of Princeton, graduate of Oxford University, England-Annie Kinkaid. Professor Ethelbert Dudley Warfield, graduate of Oxford University and now President of La Fayette College, Easton, Pennsylvania, married Miss Tilton, of Massachusetts. They have several children. Sarah-Dr. J. Rockwell Smith. Issue, Sallie, Amy, Ruth, Benjamin and J. Rockwell. Ben- jamin Warfield, Jr .- Clara Cochrane. Issue, John, Sallie and Mary.
The second wife of Benjamin Warfield, Sr., was Nancy Barr; no issue.
Dr. Lloyd Warfield, fourth son of Elisha Warfield and Ruth (Burgess) Warfield, was a practicing physician in Lexington, Ken- tucky, for fifty years and attained a high reputation in his profession. He married Mary Barr, by whom he had a number of children, only five of whom arrived at maturity. Rebecca Pollock, Mary Jane, Lloyd, Edward R., and Henry N .; Rebecca Pollock married her cousin, Dr. Lloyd Warfield Brown, of Jacksonville, Illinois, a son of Harriet Burgess (Warfield) Brown and Colonel William Brown. Three children survive her, William B. Brown, of Colorado, Edward Warfield Brown, of Morgan County, Illinois and Rebecca C., wife of Dr. E. J. Brown, of Decatur, Illinois. The second daughter, Mary Jane, married B. F. Bassett, of Missouri, by whom she had several children. Lloyd, Edward R., and Henry were never married and are no longer living. Each of them served in the Confederate Army with credit to themselves. Lloyd and Edward were under General Forrest, and Henry N., under General John H. Morgan, with whom he was captured on his Ohio raid and imprisoned in Camp Douglass, at Chicago. He escaped by digging out and was returned to prison by his brother-in-law and cousin, Dr. L. W. Brown, who then procured his parole by personal effort from President Lincoln, without, how- ever, taking the oath, which he declined to do.
The second wife of Dr. Lloyd Warfield was Elmira Burbank, who descended from the good old English and Welsh families of Burbank and Church, from Old Town, Maine. Their children were Robert, Elisha, Charles Chase, Elizabeth Church and Burgess Barr Warfield. Robert Elisha Warfield, who is engaged in cotton planting near Tchula, Mississippi, married Laura C. Mosby, of Mississippi, by whom he has two children, Robert Mosby and Lloyd Burgess.
Charles Chase Warfield, who is engaged in the banking business in Fergus Falls, Minnesota, married Ellie C. Runyen, of Lexington, Kentucky, a granddaughter of Dr. Church Blackburn, a relative of the Kentucky Blackburns, by whom he had two children, Sallie R., and Lloyd Burgess. The second wife of Charles Chase Warfield is
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Amy Rarey, of Ohio, by whom he has one son, Hunter Rarey. Eliza- beth Church Warfield married Dr. W. C. Bedford, of Minnesota, but died without children.
Burgess Barr Warfield, who is engaged in the banking business in Battle Lake, Minnesota, married Grace Lane, of Manchester, New Hampshire, by whom he has two children, a daughter, Leela Howerton, and a son, Lane.
Henry Warfield, fifth son of Elisha Warfield and Ruth (Burgess) Warfield, was a promising lawyer, but died young. He married Eliza Millar, of Cynthiana, Kentucky, by whom he had two children, Henry Warfield, Jr., and Eliza (Warfield) Magee.
Harriett Burgess (of Elisha and Ruth [Burgess] Warfield) married Colonel William Brown, of Cynthiana, Kentucky, whose Cavalier ancestry traces back to James Brown, of Virginia, 1746, a successful lawyer, officer in the War of 1812, and colleague of Henry Clay in the National House of Representatives. They with all their children emigrated in 1833 to Central Illinois. Their children, all born in Kentucky, were James Nicholas, Ruth, Mary, William, Elisha Warfield, Rebecca P., Eliza Coleman, Lloyd Warfield and Harriett S. James Nicholas Brown, a noted breeder of short-horn cattle, was for several terms a member of the Legislature of Illinois, and was the chief founder of the State Agricultural Society, of which he was the first president,-Mary A. Smith. Their children are William, Charles S., Mary and Benjamin Warfield. Ruth Brown- James D. Smith, who was a member of the last Constitutional Con- vention of Illinois. Their children are William B., John P., Harriett B., James D., Patty, Ruth W., and Lloyd B. Mary Brown-Barton Stone Wilson, merchant of Boonville, Missouri. Their children are Rebecca, Joseph and John. William Brown, lawyer, judge, legislator and banker, married Susan, daughter of Rev. J. Finley, of New Jersey, one of the founders of the American African Colonization Society. Their children are Mary, Annie, William, Jr., and Susan.
Elisha Warfield Brown, merchant and banker, married Mary Brent. Their children are William, lawyer and Solicitor-General of the Chicago and Alton Railroad; Elizabeth, James N., Harriett, Wyatt, Mary and Washington.
Rebecca P. Brown married Charles W. Price, merchant and farmer. Their only child is Dr. William B. Price, of New Berlin, Illinois. Eliza Coleman Brown, now of Jacksonville, Illinois, married Washington Adams, late Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Missouri. Their children are John, Elisha Brown, Harriett and James N. Lloyd Warfield Brown, physician-Rebecca Coleman, daughter of Dr. Lloyd (of Elisha and Ruth [Burgess] Warfield) and his first wife, Mary Barr. Their children are Harriett Burgess, William Barr, Edward Warfield, Rebecca Coleman and Lloyd. William Barr Brown, now of Manzanola, Colorado, married Frances E. McCoy. Their children are William Barr, Jr., May, Lloyd War- field and Emiline. Edward Warfield Brown-Ruth Smith. Their children are Anna and Edward Warfield, Jr., Rebecca Coleman
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Brown-Dr. Everett J. Brown, of Decatur, Illinois. Their children are Rebecca, Alice and Lloyd Warfield. Harriett S. Brown -James T. Johnson, merchant of Boonville, Missouri. Their children are Harriett B., Caroline, Eliza and Ruth. Ann Warfield (of Elisha) died single. Ruth-Dr. Joel Frazier. Nancy Dorsey-Dr. Samuel Theobald, from whom comes Dr. Theobald, of Baltimore.
Eliza Warfield (of Elisha and Ruth [Burgess] Warfield) married General James Coleman. Their son, Lloyd R. Coleman, of New Orleans, is now represented by Miss Eliza Warfield Coleman, of New Orleans. Sarah Warfield (of Elisha) became the second wife of Colonel William Ford. Rebecca Ridgely Warfield-William Pollock.
WELSH.
One of the descendants of Samuel and Rachel (Griffith) Welsh was Warner Welsh, who married Marab Scott and had issue, Luther Warner, Elizabeth and Rachel.
Luther located in Upper Howard and married Juliette Moxley. Their oldest son was Captain Warner G. Welsh, who was a dashing soldier of the Confederate Army. He and his brother Luther are both dead. Milton Welsh, their youngest brother, is a resident of and was a candidate for Mayor of Kansas City, Missouri. His sisters, Rachel, Ruth, and Elizabeth, are all dead.
Warner Welsh, brother of Luther, was a successful merchant of Hyattstown, Montgomery County. His wife was Mary Ann Hyatt. Their sons are William Wallace, Warner Wellington, Asa Hyatt, Luther Warfield, Turner Wootten and Frank Welsh. One daughter, Mary Ann Welsh (now deceased), became the wife of Mr. C. C. Rhodes, attorney of Baltimore.
Mr. William Wallace Welsh is a successful merchant of Rock- ville and Warner Wellington Welsh a popular merchant of Olney, Maryland. Professor Luther W. Welsh is the genealogist of the family.
POPLAR SPRING.
Here the old Frederick Road crossed the National Pike and con- tinued on a parallel upon the south of it. A large spring, surrounded by poplars, here offered a halting-place for travelers, and when the highway was completed, a road-side tavern, with extensive stables, was opened. Two successive Allen Dorseys came into possession of it. From it an extensive view, reaching down to Glenelg, may be obtained. Poplar Spring Hotel afterward acquired a reputation as a summer resort; picnic parties assembled in its groves and dances were held in its large dining-room. It has passed to other owners.
Upon a long stretch of level land, a mile in length, upon the Old Frederick Road, west of Poplar Spring, John Wayman (of Leonard and Ann Rutland), coming up from Virginia at the close of the Revolution, seated himself and built an extensive brick house in the centre of his expansive survey. It became the resort
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of eligible young patriots many miles distant, and on Sunday after- noons the fence along the Old Frederick Road in front had a horse standing at each corner.
John Wayman's daughters by Ann Warfield, of "Warfield's Range," were Mary, Rachel, Sarah, Amelia and Milcah Wayman.
Mary was selected by Joshua Crow, of Montgomery, and carried out West. Her descendants are now applying, from Pennsylvania and the West, for information of her progenitors; General Thomas Hood, Commander of the Militia of Howard District, captured Rachel and took her to his quaint brick homestead, still standing on " Hood's Manor;" Rev. Benjamin Hood, of Bowling Green, took Sarah to be a neighbor to her sister; Colonel Lyde Griffith bore Amelia to Mont- gomery, to hand down a line still there; Milcah could not choose a husband from her many admirers, and remained at home with her bachelor brothers, Henry Wayman and Charles. Her brother John married in the West and sent one of his descendants to the United States Senate.
The old estate, under Henry Wayman, was gradually reduced, by successive sales to Allen Dorsey and other neighbors, and after his death it was bought for a nominal price.
Messrs. Kuhn and Bunn came up from Baltimore, bought lime by the carload, and made it a valuable estate.
TRACEY AND WHALEN.
Opposite the Wayman homestead, upon the Frederick Pike, are seated two bachelors upon an estate worthy of record. They are Tracey and Whalen, cousins, descendants of Mr. John Stackhouse, of the Delawders, Welshs and Warfields, all pioneers in that immediate section.
Mr. John Stackhouse's heirs were John, Hammond, Mrs. Tracey, Mrs. Whalen and Miss Margaret Stackhouse, who presides over the bachelor home. His grandsons, by dint of persevering industry, have reached out and finally embraced in their estate all the Wayman property north of the Old Frederick Road. Lime, clover, grain, corn and cattle, aided by well-directed management, have made a beautiful estate that is an object lesson in farming.
John S. Tracey has for many years been a man of political influence in his district. He has made it a rule to stand by his promises and, therefore, he is a trusted leader. He never has cared for political honors, but prefers home life, and though he has several times yielded and become a delegate to the Legislature he has as often declined the honor. Mr. Tracey's last speech was made in nominating Governor Warfield. Open-hearted, charitable, always trying to do good, his home is a happy one.
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DORSEYS OF UPPER HOWARD.
Nicholas Dorsey (of Henry and Elizabeth Worthington) took up lands in the neighborhood of Shafersville and Poplar Spring. He married Lucy Belt Sprigg; issue, Dr. Frederick Dorsey, of Hagerstown; Roderick, Dennis, and Samuel Dorsey.
Dr. Frederick-Sallie Clagett.
Roderick-Rachel Hobbs (of William). Issue, Mrs. Winder and William Roderick Dorsey, who married Miss Brashears and died from the result of a railroad accident, leaving Frank, Lucy, Henrietta Sprigg, Kate and William Roderick Dorsey, of New York. Henrietta Sprigg Dorsey-Benedict T. Keen.
Dennis Dorsey (of Nicholas)-Maria Owings (of Samuel). Issue, Samuel Owings Dorsey, Gustavus, Roderick and Nicholas Dorsey, the bachelor. Samuel Owings Dorsey-Mary Riggs Griffith; issue, Colo- nel Gustavus Dorsey, C. S. A .-- Margaret Owens; Maria-L. J. G. Owings; Carrie-Richard Dorsey; Samuel and Mary G. Dorsey. Their homestead is upon "Griffith's Range," in Montgomery.
Gustavus Dorsey (of Nicholas) married Miss Buzzard, of Mt. Airy, and resided near there. The late Captain William H. Dorsey, of the C. S. A .; Byron Dorsey, Mayor of Mt. Airy, and his brother, Frank Dorsey, are his heirs. The daughters are the wife of Rev. Mr. Glover and Mrs. William Griffith.
Roderick Dorsey (of Dennis) resided in Carroll County. Nicho- las Dorsey (of Dennis) died a bachelor.
Samuel Dorsey (of Nicholas) owned a large estate between Lisbon and Poplar Spring. He daily rode over his estate and seldom failed to visit Poplar Spring or Lisbon at least once a day. He rode splendid horses and was commanding in person, dignified and much esteemed. He died a bachelor. His estate has been greatly improved by James Warthen, Mr. Barnes, and others.
ALLEN DORSEY OF POPLAR SPRING.
After passing three-score and ten years, Allen Dorsey, command- ing in person and popular with all, has made his last trip over the old National Pike. He died in Baltimore and left his estate to his stepson, Mr. Henry Holt, of New York.
Mr. Dorsey was the son of Allen Dorsey, born 1779, son of Ely Dorsey (of Edward and Sarah Todd). Ely married his cousin, Ruth Dorsey, daughter of Michael and Ruth Todd. They removed to Frederick County. Her will of 1815 named her children, Polly, Edward, Michael (of Baltimore), Allen and Edward. Allen settled at Poplar Spring and built the hotel, which still stands. His wife was Elizabeth Smith. His son John was a merchant of Lisbon, married Nancy Warfield (of Azel) and left Allen, of Washington; John W. Dorsey, of Baltimore; Hamner, of the West.
Presley W. Dorsey (of Allen) settled in Washington and married Mary H. Worthington; issue, Worthington Dorsey, Thomas Dorsey, Frank Dorsey, Virginia and Mary Eliza. William N. Dorsey (of
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Allen)-Sarah Worthington and left one daughter, Henrietta. Allen Dorsey (of Allen), late owner of the Poplar Spring estate, married Mrs. Holt, of Baltimore. He was long connected with Baltimore and Cumberland Turnpike Company. Her sons are at the head of a publishing house in New York. The recent death of both Mr. and Mrs. Dorsey leaves them executors in Howard County.
Edward Dorsey (of Ely and Ruth) removed to Waterford, Loudoun County, Virginia; married Mary Klein. Their son, Captain Allen Dorsey, married Matilda Polton and in 1840 removed to Maryland. Their son is Charles W. Dorsey, President of the Manu- facturers' National Bank, of Baltimore. He married two daughters of the late William J. Dickey, of Wetherdsville. President Dorsey's daughter is the wife of Rev. F. F. Kennedy; his son is Edgar A. Dorsey, of Wetherdsville; they were litigants in a recent will case of Mrs. Dickey.
LISBON.
The earlier surveys in this neighborhood were upon the Old Frederick Road, a-half mile north of the village. Here was located " Warfield's Forest."
Caleb Pancoast built the first house in the village. It still forms the rear of the old hotel property in the centre of the place.
Judging by the street-like regularity of the houses on both sides of the National Pike, which passes through it, the village must have been laid out after the surveys of the pike were made.
In 1820 a deed was made by Caleb Pancoast, witnessed by Samuel Hopkins and Edward Warfield, to Lloyd Selby, Beni Warfield, Dr. Gustavus Warfield, Hammond Welsh and Nicholas D. Warfield, to hold perpetually for public worship or education, as a Union Church of all denominations.
It especially provided that any surviving member may call a meeting of interested neighbors and appoint a board of succession.
Dr. Gustavus Warfield, as the last survivor, called such a meet- ing and perpetuated the board, but it is doubtful if such now exists.
A few years ago Mr. Cornelius Mercer was the only survivor, and he was not then a resident.
Upon this grant was built a solid stone church, which fully carried out its purpose, the only one, perhaps, of such so-called Union Churches. Here the Elder Plummer Waters long held his Baptist Congregation, riding on horseback each month from Sandy Bottom.
Herein Reverend William Crapster organized his short-life Uni- tarian Church; here the "old-side Methodists" held their meetings, but all have now deserted it. Even its lofty pulpit has tumbled and its walls, which endured as a monument to the solid men who built its solid foundation, have been removed. Nearby a new Methodist Church takes its place, close to the High School of the village. Upon the northern entrance still stands in good preservation a Presbyterian Church, fully half a century old.
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An Odd Fellows' Hall, more recent, stands in the village proper, close by the old Welsh homestead, wherein I early learned that it is not safe to tease a monkey. It was from this house, too, Mr. Ringgold brought out three chairs in answer to the call, "Three Cheers for General Lafayette," with the assurance he could have a-half dozen cheers.
Two stores and quite an avenue of substantial dwellings make up the present village, which now boasts of seven retired men of means. It, also, has an enterprising newspaper correspondent, several doctors and one or more ministers.
Bounded on the west by the Montgomery and Woodbine high- way, now a macadamized road throughout, stretches out from Lisbon to Woodbine a well-developed and fertile body of land, once known as "Warfield's Forest." The National Pike and the Baltimore and Ohio Railway both pass through it. Its eastern limit is "Shipley's Adventure."
Five brothers, Seth, Beni, Bela, Elie and Azel Warfield, born on " Warfield's Range," came up the Old Frederick Road and seated themselves here to grow tobacco.
Not an original house stands, but upon their sites are modern homes of comfort and modern grain-growers of means.
They took for their wives a Welsh, three Dorseys and a Welling, and from their old pioneer cottages sent out descendants now in Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washington, Cumberland, Pittsburg and the West, with a few still remaining on their old camping-grounds. Many of them have become distinguished.
Seth has a grandson and a great-grandson of his name still residing in Howard and others in Philadelphia and Baltimore, one of whom is William Martin Warfield, of Hollins Street.
Beni, through his sons, Charles D., Daniel and Nicholas Dorsey Warfield, has numerous descendants in Howard County, Baltimore, Cumberland and Pittsburg.
Charles Alexander Warfield, of Pittsburg; Gustavus, Arthur, Peregrine, Miss Emma Warfield, of Cumberland, and Henry Ridgely Warfield, of Elkins, West Virginia, are the representatives of Charles D. Warfield, Jr., of "Bushy Park."
Daniel Warfield (of Beni) resided at White Cottage, afterwards the homestead of the late Thomas Rowles, long a political leader in Howard.
Daniel was residing there in 1825, and breakfasted with General La Fayette at Roberts' Tavern, Cooksville, that year. Removing later to Baltimore, he entered into the milling firm of Francis Mactier, the Scotch immigrant, and married his daughter.
Henry Mactier and Daniel Warfield, Jr., both became prominent in the history of the city. The former was the popular Reform leader and candidate for Mayor. His wife was Anna (Gittings) Emory, of . "Manor Glen" on "My Lady's Manor."
The three sons of Hon. Henry Mactier Warfield are Richard Emory Warfield, of the Royal Fire Insurance Company, of London
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