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5. Minnie W. Gay.
Children of Mary B. Gay, wife of Gideon A. Strange :
1. Charles Windham Strange, C. S. Army, killed in battle.
2. Henry Erskin Strange.
3. Frances B. Strange. Married (1875) R. II. Catlette.
4. Lizzie E. Strange.
5. William Strange.
6. Agatha Estelle Strange.
7. Caroline Scott Strange. Married William M. Allen. Children of Rolfe Eldridge and Mary, née Moseley :
1. Susanna Eldridge. Married Dr. James Austin.
2. Lucy Eldridge. Married Rev. James Fitzgerald.
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3. Elizabeth Eldridge. Married B. Austin.
4. Delia Eldridge. Married Robert Kincaid Irvine, Virginia Senator and Clerk of Buckingham Co., Va.
5. William Eldridge. Married Miss Nixon.
6. Mildred Kidder Eldridge. Married Win. M. Cabell.
7. Benj. Eldridge. Married Elizabeth Perkins.
8. John Eldridge. Married Sarah Moseley.
9. Frances Eldridge. Married Samuel A. Glover. Children of Susan Eldridge and Mr. Weber:
1. Thomas Weber. Married Mary Ayers.
2. Courtenay T. Weber. Married John Williams. Children of Bolling Branch and Rebecca, née Graves :
1. Mary Susan Branch. Married John W. Wylie; member of State Council and Governor of Virginia.
2. William Branch.
3. Sally Branch. Married Edward Gregg.
Children of Mathew Branch and Martha, née Cox:
1. Polly Branch. Married Thomas May.
Children of James B. Ferguson, who married, first, Jane Boll- ing, born Payne; second, Sally Gay :
1. Jane Elvira Ferguson. Married Peachy R. Grattan, re- porter of the Court of Appeals. For the other children, see Sally, née Gay's children.
Children of Elizabeth Murray and Edward Yates :
1. M. Yates. Married E. Hamlin.
2. Elizabeth Yates.
Children of Margaret or Nancy Murray and William Gordon :
1. Nancy Gordon. Married Henry Embrey Coleman, Senator from Virginia.
Children of Peggy Gordon, who married, first, William Knox; second, Grief Green :
1. Mary Ann Knox. Married Dr. Thomas Goode.
2. Sophia Knox. Married John Buford.
3. John F. O. Knox.
4. Henry Green.
Children of Mary Ann Davies and Fortescue Whittle. Fortes- que Whittle was the first of the name who emigrated to America. He came about 1799 or 1800, with Thomas Addis Emmet and
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others who had been engaged in the Irish troubles under the patriot, Robert Emmet, who was beheaded. Whittle was a Protestant and went into business in Norfolk, Va., with his elder brother, who came to Virginia soon after the close of the Revolutionary War in 1:83. His son William Conway Whittle, U. S. Navy, later of the C. S. Navy, commanded at New Orleans, when the city sur- rendered in the Civil War. Issue :
1. William Conway Whittle, commander U. S. Navy, later of C. S. Navy. Married Elizabeth Sinclair, daughter of Com. W. Sinclair, U. S. Navy.
2. Fortescue Whittle.
3. James M. Whittle, member of Virginia Convention, 1850, and Senator from Virginia. Married, first, Mary Coles ; second, Cornelia L. Skipwith.
4. Conway D. Whittle. Married Gilberta Sinclair, daughter of Com. William Sinclair, U. S. Navy.
5. John S. Whittle, surgeon in U. S. Navy. Married, first, Jane Patterson ; second, Anne Southgate.
6. Lewis Neale Whittle. Married Sarah M. Powers.
7. Stephen Decatur Whittle, Secretary Virginia State Con- vention, 1849-50. Married Nannie Taylor, daughter of George Taylor and granddaughter of John Taylor, of Hazelwood, Caroline County, Va., U. S. Senator and author of able works on Agriculture, Political Economy, etc., under the nom de plume of "Orator."
8. Francis McNeel Whittle, Bishop of the Protestant Epis- copal Diocese of Virginia. Married Emily Fairfax.
9. Powhatan Bolling Whittle, colonel in C. S. Army. Children of - Buchanan and - Cross :
1. Miss Cross. Married Robert Guillee.
Children of Anne Murray and Dr. Thomas Robinson :
1. William Murray Robinson, b. 1807; d. 1878. Married Sarah A. Mills.
2. Robert Emmet Robinson, M. D. Married, first, Adeline Dewels, of Philadelphia ; second, Indiana Henly ; third, Virginia E. Stainback.
3. Powhatan Robinson. Married Ann Eason.
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Children of Mary Murray and George Skipwith:
1. Robert Skipwith. Married, first, Jane Rolfe Bolling ; second, Eliza Bolling.
2. William M. Skipwith.
3. George N. Skipwith, M. D. Married Maria L. Brooks.
4. Cornelia Lotta Skipwith. Married James M. Whittle.
5. Thomas Bolling Skipwith. Married Emma Daviaux.
Children of William Murray :
1. Rebecca B. Murray.
?. Matoaca Murray. Married C. L. Gifford, Newark. N. J.
3. Nanny L. Murray. Married Dr. J. B. Wyley.
4. Louisa S. Murray.
ɔ̃. Marry Murray. Married Rev. Mr. Tongue.
6. Cornelia S. Murray.
7. Gay Bernard Murray. Married Lewis E. Rawlins. Children of Anne Gordon and Henry E. Coleman :
1. Elizabeth Ann Coleman. Married Charles Baskerville.
2. Mary Margaret Coleman. Married Richard Logan, Senator from Virginia.
3. John Coleman. Married, first, Elizabeth Clark; second, Mary Love.
4. Thomas Gordon Coleman, member of the Virginia House of Delegates. Married Mary Turner.
5. Ethelbert Algernon Coleman, M. D. Married, first, Eliza- beth Sims; second, Fanny Ragsdale.
6. Sarah Coleman. Married David Chalmers, member of the Virginia House of Delegates.
Charles Coleman. Married, first, Sarah Eaton; second, Alice Sydnor.
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CHAPTER XIII
HITE, MADISON, FONTAINE AND MAURY FAMILIES.
HITE COAT-OF-ARMS
THE HITE FAMILY IN AMERICA.
In 1710, Hans Josh Heydt, or Yost Hite, as his name is spelled in English documents dated at the time of his emigration, a native of Alsace, Germany, came from Strasburg to New York, with his wife, Anna Marie, née du Bois, and their little girl, Mary. He came in his own ships, Brigantine Swift and Schooner Friendship, bringing with him sixteen (some say more) Dutch and German families, as tenants for lands he expected to settle.
Hite remained in Kingston, New York, until 1215, when he came south to Germantown, Penn. In 1717, we find him on the Schuylkill River, where he bought lands, and in 1720 built a mill at the mouth of Perkiomen Creek, and a dwelling house, which is at present the country home of Gov. Samuel Pennypacker, of
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Pennsylvania, and became a thrifty, enterprising farmer and manu- facturer. The mills are now called Pennypacker's Mills.
At this time the Indians, maddened by the encroachments of the whites, took revenge by making raids upon the colonists in both Pennsylvania and Maryland, ruthlessly murdering settlers and destroying property. In 1728, a petition signed by Yost Hite and many others, for protection against the Indians was presented to Gov. Gordon of Pennsylvania, who ignored the petition and the atrocities became more frequent and more cruel. Hite became disgusted by the culpable indifference of the government and in- augurated a scheme to re-emigrate to the wilds of the then un- known Shnandoah Valley, Virginia, and in January, 1230, sold his holdings on the Schuylkill and with his family and followers once more turned his footsteps southward.
In 1730, John Van Meter went to Williamsburg and obtained a contract from Gov. Sir William Gooch, for forty thousand acres of land in the Shenandoah Valley, and in 1731 sold this contract to Yost Hite, which sale was afterwards confirmed by Gov. Gooch, and the tract was known as "Hite's Grant."
October 31, 1731, Hite took as partner a young Quaker, named Robert McKoy, and obtained an order of council for one hundred thousand acres of land on the west side of the mountain on con- dition he would settle one hundred families on it in two years. Afterwards the time for making these settlements was extended to Christmas, 1:35.
In the spring of 1731, Yost Hite with sixteen families left York, Pa., and crossed the Potomac River at what was called Parkhorse Ford, afterwards Mechlenburg, now Shepherdstown, and entered the fertile and beautiful, but unexplored Valley of the Shenandoah River. He made his first settlement at New Mechlenburg, just one hundred and twenty-five years after the first settlement on James River, in 1607. "To Hans Yost Hite, therefore, belongs the honor of having planted the first standard of civilization in the mountainous region of Virginia."
Yost Hite proceeded down the Valley to a place called by the natives and traders, "Red Bud," on the Opequon Creek; there he located his eldest son, John Hite, who built the first colonial stone house in the Valley, just where the turnpike now crosses the creek, and called it "Springdale." These settlements were on
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the west side of the Shenandoah River, hence were in no county, as Spottsylvania extended only to the river. The county of Orange was made August, 1734, and "extended to the utmost limits of Virginia," to-wit: "from sea to sea." Hite surveyed the land, marked out farms, and the old records of Orange County show many deeds from him. In June, 1734, an order of council stated, "Yost Hite" had complied with the terms of the grant, and had settled his land with more than the requisite number of families," and directed patents to be issued to him and his assignees, upon the surveys then returned to the secretary's office. This same year, Lord Fairfax, without making any investigation of Hite's claim, entered a general caveat against all orders of councils, deeds, patents, entries, etc., issuing from the crown office, for lands lying in his proprietary and gave Hite preëmptory notice to purchase or vacate.
The first of January, 1736, Hite and McKoy had fifty-four families on their one hundred thousand acres of land. Some sur- veys were made, which were returned to the secretary's office, in due time, but the caveat was served before the patents on the sur- veys were issued. Lord Fairfax arrived in 1736, and a survey of the Northern Neck was made, by which it appeared part of the contested lands did lie within the boundary of his priprietary. This condition of affairs gave rise to certain petitions made to the governor and council, who confirmed the Fairfax surveys on ex- press condition he establish all the grants made by the crown, and, December 31, 1738, an order was issued to that effect. Lord Fair- fax gave his word the deeds should be made to the grantees under the crown, particular mention being made of Hite and his asso- ciates, who had threatened to remove to some other part of the country. This promise was to be redeemed, as soon as Lord Fairfax could open his office, thereupon Hite withdrew twenty-seven sur- veys and fees from the secretary's office, and lodged them with the proprietor for patents, and the claimants remained on the lands. Lord Fairfax opened his land office, and then refused to give the promised patents to Hite and his associates, and even conveyed part of the land to others. Hite and parties now filed a bill against Fairfax and those claiming under him, setting forth all the facts and prayed his Lordship be decreed to make the deeds to the plaintiffs for the surveyed lands, etc., etc. On October 13,
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1769, the court decreed that Hite and MeKoy were entitled to the lands surveyed before Christmas, 1735, for which patents had been issued before August 11, 1745, and that Fairfax must issue deeds for said lands, and appoint a committee to examine and state a memorial for all such surveys claimed by the plaintiffs, and that his lordship deliver the said commissioners all the original surveys lodged in his office, by Robert Green, Gent., deceased.
Thomas Marshall and other commissioners reported twenty-seven surveys, containing forty-seven thousand two hundred and seventy- eight acres, showing the Van Meter elaim more than satisfied. In 1:41 there was a final deeree, which gave Hite forty thousand of the Van Meter claim and to Hite and MeKoy fifty-four thousand acres of the one hundred thousand acres in the order of October 21, 1731. Lord Fairfax appealed to the King in council. but never prosecuted the ease. Hite and others appealed from parts of the decree, which confirmed grants made by Fairfax since the commencement of the case. This went to the Court of Appeals of Virginia. Fairfax died in 1781. Gabriel Jones was one of his exeentors. Randolph argued the case in Appellate Court for Hite et als., Baker for Appellees, John Taylor for Hite et als., Marshall for tenants.
The Appellate court gave Hite all he asked, with rents of the land from January, 1:49-50, and costs. Fairfax was a "Royal pet," and it was almost as daring in Hite to enter suit against him, as it was to go into the wilderness of the Shenandoah Valley to settle. for the influence of Lord Fairfax, with the King and the Colonial government, was quite equal to that of any other man in this country at that time. The suit was delayed fifty years. both contestants were dead, foreign influence was lessened and courts were learning to act independently and according to the merits of the case. (Reference 4 Col. Va. Reports, 42. 83.)
Of Yost Hite's private life there is but little known. He was honest and taciturn, and his public career marks him as a leader among men, possessing good judgment, fine executive ability, and indomitable will. Obstacles only aroused his ardor, and he feared no man ; he also must have had large means at his command. His wife, Anna Maria du Bois, was of Huguenot extraction. Among the descendants of her son, Isaae, there is a tradition that at the time of her marriage, neither she nor her bridegroom understood
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more than a few words of their respective languages. "Tis said, "Cupid laughs at bars," but in this instance he laughed at words, for there was no difficulty about the courtship; all went smoothly until the question of a marriage settlement by Yost on his bride arose, then papa du Bois was determined there should be no mis- take. They were married in Germany and emigrated in 1710, bringing one little daughter with them. While living at Kingston, New York, the baptism of two others were recorded. Yost Hite made his will in 1757 and died in Frederick Co., Va., in 1760.
FAMILY RECORD.
Yost Hite died 1760, Anna Maria du Bois died 1736. They were married in Germany. Issue :
I. Mary Hite, b. in Germany. Married George Bowman.
II. Elizabeth Hite, baptized in Kingston, N. Y., Nov. 4, 1711. Married Paul Froman, of New Jersey.
III. Magdelene Hite, baptized in Kingston, N. Y., Sept. 13, 1713. Married Jacob Chinmann.
IV. John Hite, d. 1792. Married Zara Eltinge, daughter of Cornelius Eltinge and Rebecca, née Van Meter.
V. Jacob Hite. Married Catherine O'Bannon, in Ireland. She died and he married second, Frances (Madison) Beale, widow of Col. Tavener Beale and daughter of Col. Ambrose Madison and Frances, nec Taylor, of Orange Co., Va.
VI. Isaac Hite, b. 1723; d. 1795. Married (1745) Eleanor Eltinge, daughter of Cornelius Eltinge and Rebecca Van Meter.
VII. Abraham Hite, b. May 10, 1729; d. Jan. 17, 1790. Mar- ried (Dec. 3, 1751) Rebecca Van Meter, daughter of Isaac Van Meter and Annetjie, née Wyncoop, of Hampshire Co., Va.
VIII. Joseph Hite, b. 1729. Married Elizabeth - -. Issue four children, 1Joseph Hite, Jr., b. 1761, 2John Hite, William Hite, and +Ann Hite.
I. Mary Hite, the eldest child of Yost Hite, born in Germany, d. in Virginia. Married (in Pennsylvania, about 1731) George Bowman and accompanied her father when he entered the Shen- andoah Valley. They were given a homestead not far from her
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father, in what is now Shenandoah County, on Cedar Creek Here, some years later, they built a substantial brick house, which is still standing. Their eldest child was the first white child born in the Valley. Several of their sons were soldiers of rank and importance, one was with Gen'l S. R. Clarke in the Illinois cam- paign, and another was Colonel in the 8th Va. German Regiment in the Revolution. Some of his other sons became prominent in civil life in Virginia and Kentucky, where most of them removed. Issue :
1. John George Bowman, b. April 21, 1232; d. young.
2. John Jacob Bowman, b. Dec. 2. 1733.
3. Emma Maria Bowman, b. Nov. 9, 1735.
4. Elizabeth Bowman, b. March 18, 1131.
5. Johannes Bowman, b. Dec. 19, 1738.
6. Sarah Bowman, b. Feb. 9, 1741.
7. Regina Bowman, b. Jan. 13, 1743.
8. Rebecca Bowman, b. March 23, 1745.
9. George Bowman, b. March 24, 1747.
10. Abraham Bowman, b. Oct. 16, 1749.
11. Joseph Bowman, b. March 8, 1752.
12. Catherine Bowman, b. Nov. 17, 1754.
13. Isaac Bowman, b. April 24, 1757.
II. Elizabeth Hite, second daughter of Yost Hite, married Paul Froman, a Quaker, who belonged to the well known Fro- man family of New Jersey. For some years they remained in the Shenandoah Valley, but finally removed to Kentucky, where they died, leaving a large family.
III. Magdelene Hite, third daughter of Yost Hite, like her two older sisters, married before she came to Virginia. Her husband. Jacob Chrismann, was a German and came to America from Swabia. They also settled near Yost Hite and their home became known as Chrismann Spring, where they died, leaving a large family of children.
IV. John Hite, eldest son of Yost Hite and Anna Maria du Bois, was born about 1715. He was a man of unusual cultivation for his times, wrote a good hand and became very successful as a business man, possessing much of his father's energy and execu- tive ability. He was given lands on Opequon Creek, at a place
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called by the traders and natives, "Red Bud." In 1753, he built the colonial stone dwelling still in good repair, at the point where the Valley turnpike now crosses the creek, and called it "Spring- dale." The date, with the builder's initials, "J. H.," is cut on a dressed stone in the front of the house. In 1787, he built the first brick house in the Valley; it stands at the northern side of New- town, now Stephen's City, and is still in good repair. Two years later he built the first merchant mill in the Valley. (Reference, Kercheval's "History of the Shenandoah Valley.") Col. John Hite was vestryman in Christ Episcopal Church in Winchester, Va., in 1752. Captain in charge of a precinet and member of a "Council of War," 1744; Colonel in the French and Indian war, 1756, and Justice of the Commonwealth of Virginia, 1756. He evidently took a warm interest in the affairs of church and state,
. and soon became prominent in all publie movements. Schmidt, in his "History of the German Element in Maryland and Virginia," speaks of him as "Col. John Hite, son of Yost Hite, distinguished for his bravery in the Indians Wars," p. 82. Col. John Hite mar- ried Zara or Sara Eltinge, daughter of Cornelius Eltinge and Rebecca (Van Meter) Eltinge, in Maryland. Issue :
1. Anna Maria Hite, b. Dec. 25, 1738.
2. Rebecca Hite, b. 1740. Married Maj. Charles Smith.
3. Margaret Hite, b. ; d. 1770. Married Isaac Brown.
4. Elizabeth Hite, b. ; d. 1812. Married, first, Maj. Hughes ; second, Rev. Elijah Phelps.
5. John Hite, b. June 28, 1751 ; d. June 21, 1808. Married, first, Susanna Smith : second, Cornelia Reagan.
2. Rebecca Hite, daughter of Col. John Hite, of "Springdale," married Capt. Charles Smith, first owner of the site of "Berry- ville" (then "Battletown"), Clarke Co., Va., and ensign under Col. George Washington, in Braddock's war, losing a hand at "Great Meadows." Their daughter, Sara Smith, married Lieut. Philip Eastin, who served as an officer in the Revolutionary War in the 4th and 8th Va. Regiment, Continental line. Their daughter :
Mahala Eastin married Maj. Elisha English, a prominent citizen of Indiana; a member of the Legislature for twenty years and U. S. Marshal in 1860. Their- only child, William Heyden English, was distinguished as statesman, historian and financier,
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Speaker of the Indiana House of Representatives, member of Congress, and, in 1880, was candidate on the National Democratic ticket with Hancock, for Vice-President of the United States. Judge William H. English married Emma E. Jackson, of Vir- ginia. Their son, Hon. William Eastin English, ex-member of the Legislature, ex-member of Congress, served in the Spanish- American War, with credit, on Gen'l Wheeler's staff, in the Santiago campaign. Capt. English never drew any pay, and after the close of the war a cheque for the amount due him was sent by the government; he returned the cheque saying, "I served my country, for my country's sake, not for money." The amount was turned into the United States treasury and became part of its miscellaneous receipts. This is said to be the only instance of the kind on record, excepting that of Gen'l Washington, who never received pay for his services. Capt. English married Helen Orr. They have one child, Rosalind Orr English, aged two years and a half, August, 1905.
3. Margaret Hite, daughter of Col. John Hite, of “Spring- dale," married Isaac Brown, b. March 4, 1746, in Frederick County, Va., son of Daniel Brown and Susanna, née Oldham. Daniel Brown was a minister of the Society of Friends. He came to Frederick Co., Va., from Chester Co., Pa., in 1774. His great- grandfather, William Clayton, had been President of the Council and acting Governor of the Colony.
It was at the house of Isaac Brown that the Friends exiled by Gen'l Washington, from Philadelphia, during the Revolution, were entertained. Their life in Virginia has been described in a very interesting way in a Journal called, "Friends Exiled in Virginia." The exact date of Margaret Hite's marriage is not known, but as Isaac Brown was disowned in 1970 by the Friends' meeting for marrying out of the Society, it is probable the marriage took place that year or in 1769, as Friends were very prompt in those days in punishing violations of the "Discipline." Margaret died at the birth of her only child, John Brown, b. 1:21: d. 1840. He was an extensive landholder, and at one time, a man of large means, but towards the end of his life he met heavy losses. He married Elizabeth Richardson, daughter of Richard and Mary (Pierpont ) Richardson, of Maryland.
Elizabeth Richardson's ancestors are among the earliest Puritan
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and Quaker settlers of Maryland. They came with the Chews, Coles, Thomases, Ewens, Sparrows, Hutchens and Pierponts. Some of her immediate ancestors were prominent men in the early history of the Colony. Among them was William Richardson, a leading citizen of Anne Arundel Co., for many years a member of the General Assembly. He came to Maryland with Maj. Richard Ewen, before 1650. He was Major in the forces of the Colony: Speaker of the Assembly several times; member of the Council, and one of the "High Commissioners," to govern Maryland under Protector Cromwell. Maj. Ewen was one of the first to take up land on the Patapsco River. On November 19, 20, 21, and 22, 1655, Lord Baltimore, Surveyor General, laid out tracts of land on the Patapsco River for several persons, including Maj. Ewen and Thomas Sparrow, also an ancestor of Elizabeth Richardson. The land taken up by Thomas Sparrow has since been known as "Sparrow's Point." John Chew and his son, Samuel Chew, were also members of the General Assembly and among the most promi- nent men in the Colony. Both left large estates for their day.
Lieut. Thomas came to Maryland in 1650. Originally he was a Puritan, but he afterwards (as did a number of other Puritans) became a Friend. Lieut. Chew was also one of the High Com- missioners under Protector Cromwell. Lieut. Thomas was at the battle of Severn, on the side of the Puritans, and was member of the Court Martial, held after the battle, that condemned Governor Stone and others to death.
Dr. Thomas Wynn, the friend and companion of the good William Penn, came with him to Pennsylvania in the Welcome, and was Speaker in the first three assemblies held in Pennsylvania.
John and Elizabeth (Richardson) Brown, had six children, viz .: 1Mary, 2Sarah and 3Margaret, who never married; #Rebecca, mar- ried, but left no children; 5Elizabeth and "Richard.
5 Elizabeth Brown married George Sharp. He was the son of Samuel and Martha Sharp, who came to Frederick Co., Va., from Chester Co., Pa. George Sharp's ancestor, John Sharp, came to Pennsylvania in 1711. He brought a certificate which he presented to the Kenneth University meeting in Chester Co., "from ye Kingdom of Ireland." It is said he came originally from York- shire, England.
Alpheus P. Sharp, son of George and Elizabeth (Brown)
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Sharp, was the founder of the firm of Sharp & Dohme, of Balti- more. He was born August 5, 1824, and married (January, 1851) Anna Mathews, daughter of Joshua and Mary Mathews, of Balti- more. Their son, George Mathews Sharp, also of Baltimore City, graduated from Yale Law Class in 1885 and received the honorary degree of Master of Arts from Yale University in 1889. From 1889 to 1899 he was a lecturer in the Yale Law School, and in 1891 and '92, in the Law School of the University of George- town. In 1897 he was elected one of the Judges of the Supreme Court of Baltimore City. Judge Sharp was one of the original members of the "American Bar Association," and has been for a number of years Chairman of the "Committee on Education and Admissions to the Bar."
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