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Frederick County Characters:: Innovators, Pioneers and Patriots of Western Maryland

Frederick County Characters:: Innovators, Pioneers and Patriots of Western Maryland

Frederick County Characters:: Innovators, Pioneers and Patriots of Western Maryland
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Frederick County Characters:: Innovators, Pioneers and Patriots of Western Maryland

Frederick County Characters:: Innovators, Pioneers and Patriots of Western Maryland

Overview

Since its founding in 1748, Frederick County has been home to some of the nation's most celebrated and dynamic historical figures. The quaint towns and farmlands with their serene mountain vistas of the Catoctin Ridge have played host to the likes of the famed Francis Scott Key and Thomas Stone, one of Maryland's signers of the Declaration of Independence. Later, Dr. John Tyler—Frederick's pioneering oculist—established his practice on the town's West Church Street and performed the first cataract operation in the region. Burkittsville's Outerbridge Horsey gained fame by producing over ten thousand barrels a year of America's finest rye whiskey from his warehouse distillery. In the twentieth century, beloved local educator Emily Johnson helped cultivate generations of young minds. With this collection of the best of his articles from Frederick Magazine," local author John W. Ashbury profiles the most remarkable and fascinating figures in the history of Frederick County."

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781626192669
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing SC
Publication date: 10/08/2013
Pages: 160
Sales rank: 1,083,321
Product dimensions: 5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

John W. Ashbury is a contributing history columnist for Frederick Magazine and a member of the Historical Society of Frederick County. He has written for The Glade Times & Mountain Mirror in Walkersville, Maryland, and The Gazette Newspapers of Frederick County. He is a volunteer with the Francis Scott Key Association and lives in Thurmont, Maryland. Christopher Haugh is a documentary filmmaker and the Scenic Byways and Special Projects Manager for the Tourism Council of Frederick County. Haugh is the producer for Up from the Meadows: History of African Americans in Frederick County, Maryland.

Table of Contents

Foreword Christopher Haugh 9

Acknowledgements 13

Introduction 17

Authors

Thomas John Chew Williams 21

Bankers

Holmes Davenport Baker 25

Emory Lorenzo Coblentz 27

Criminals

The Murder of Constable John R. Lloyd 31

The Newey-Markley Murders 33

Educators

Joseph Henry Apple Jr. 37

John Casper Henry Dielman 39

Miss Emily Johnson 41

William Osborn Lee Jr. 43

Margaret Byrd Rawson 46

Gamblers

Charles J. Remsburg 49

Industrialists

James H. Gambrill Jr. 53

Manassas Jacob Grove 56

Outerbridge Horsey II 58

Henry A. and Henry J. Knott 60

Louis McMurray 62

Inventors

McClintock Young 65

Journalists

Louis Victor Baughman 67

Folger McKinsey 70

Lawyers

Francis Scott Key 73

Luther Martin 75

James McSherry 78

Thomas Stone 80

Milton George Urner 82

Leo Weinberg 85

Glenn H. Worthington 87

Merchants

Casper Ezra Cline 91

Charles Baltzell "Broadway" Rouss 94

Military Men

Lawrence Everhart 97

David Geisinger 99

Bradley Tyler Johnson 101

Winfield Scott Schley 103

Russell Randolph Waesche 106

James Wilkinson 108

Otho Holland Williams 110

Ministers

William Nelson Pendleton 113

Robert Richford Roberts 115

Physicians

Victor Francis Cullen 119

Bernard Oscar Thomas Sr. 122

John Tyler 124

Philanthropists

John Loats 127

Samuel H. Rosenstock 129

Politicians

Daniel Dulany the Younger 133

Enoch Louis Lowe 135

Successful Families

Roger Nelson and John Nelson 139

The William Schnauffers 141

Public Servants

William Tyler Page 145

Just Plain Folks

Mother Ambrosia Elizabeth "Rose" Clarke 149

Martin Franklin Grove 151

Uriah Shockley 154

Selected Bibliography 157

About the Author 159

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