The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1876-03-25
PORT Deposit:

LETTER No. 8.

preceded thlS, nave given some remlnlS
cences of Port and it's surroundings, as
was thirty to forty years ago. AS may hav
been noticed, have made but slight men
ton of the Improvements of the last twenty
five years, or Of the men who have bee
prominent then and since. OF these
might mention J. J. Heckart, John P
Nanneman u Co., Tome & Rinehart, Whit
& Gilmore, Rowland & Philips, Wilmer 1
Davis, Davis & Rinehart, Abrahams 1
Strann-all lumber merchants then. No
one of said firms in existence to-day
Tome, Rowland & Davis, of the number, al
still here and in the lumber business. Th
York State and Pennsylvania lumbermen
who used to spend Spring and Fall at Por
for the sale of their lumber, were Rine
hart, Flemmings, Benjamins, Ransoms
Trumans, Fitchs, Stockham, Ripley, Hunt
Boynton, Hawley and others. How man,
of these are shippers from there nowo Il
those days it was common sight, to Sc,
from one to two hundred acres of the rive
covered with RATS and arks, and from fifty
to one hundred sail vessels loading at thu
same time.
The grain, fertilizer, and agriculture
trade was done by Rowland & Philips
Jacob Tome, Wilmer & Davis, afterwards
Davis & Rinehart. The merchants wer,
Samuel & Gordon, Nesbitt, VIM. Parker
Andrew Kidd, Theo. H. Knight, Wesley
W. Wiley, Lumsden & McClenahan, JOSEPH
w. Abrahams, A. Gotschalk, Snow & Poul
son, Geo. Kidd & Sons, John Vannort
Carson & Steel, J. r. Coulson & Co. How
few of those firms exist? John D. Marsh
bank, who started little foundry up the hol
low, afterwards formed partnership will
E. d. McClenahan and Robert Christy auc
they built large foundry where the sasl
factory now stands. This foundry was
burned down, and from its ashes (Ph9niS
like has arisen the Armstrong works, now
one of the industries of which Port NAV be
justly proud.
OF the quarrymen named in previous
letter, none Of them are now in the bust
ness. One only is represented by his sons
In those days, perhaps Heckart, Rine.
hart & Wilmer built more wharves, ware.
houses, stores and dwellings, and did more
in this way to improve the town and give
employment to labor, than any other of hel
citizens. The town got the benefit and they
each suffered loss. Wilmer and Michael
Herr, Thomas Wilson and others, of Bal.
timore, got up new steamboat line-the
Lancaster and Juniata-to run between
Port and Baltimore. This line was after
wards merged into Taylor's line, Mr.. Tome
becoming one of the firm. Wilmer also
got up steam propeller line between Port
and Winners Point, on the Sassafras river,
and Philadelphia. Philadelphia was then
better market for grain than Baltimore.
Let me call to remembrance the medical
men who have practiced in Port within the
last forty years, and your readers will, am
sure, be surprised to recall the mortality
among that profession. Some of them did
not then, and do not now, reside in Port,
but all of them practiced there regularly,
or as consulting Observation-Disclosures Mil
Ter, Physic, John and Robert Archer,
Broughton, William Norris, Tindall, Muir
ply, Evans, Sappington, Rowland, Brom-
well, Samuel Norris, Glacken, Shorer,
Miner, lamar, &c.
In my third letter, devoted consdera-
BILE space to the Methodist E. Church-its
three edtices. need not, therefore, refer
to it now, except to give it denominational
prominence among the five different sects
that now have church buildings of their
own. Its pastors have been changed from
time to time, in accordance with the timer
ant system Of that church.
In 1886 the Presbyterians determined to
build a church in Port. On the 18th of
August of that year, meeting was held
in the cold factory" and committee con-
sisting of Washington Hall, James C. Ma
graw, Samuel X. White, Allen Anderson,
Robert Thompson and James Evans were
appointed to select site for the church
building. Query:-Did they not make a
great mistake in the location selected I?
The church was built in 1887, and the Rev.
George Burrows, D. d., then pastor of the
lower West Nottingham Church, preached
in this Crock Rum Church once in three
weeks. 1t was not to be expected that
under the disadvantages of location and
services but once in three weeks, that the
would increase very rapidly.
DR.. Burrows left West Nottingham in
the Fall of 1850 to accept professorship
in Lafayette College. n. Bit may be
to your Nottingham readers to
mention the fact that the first Mrs. Bur-
rows, who lies buried in that cemetery,
was sister of the Hon. Joel Parker, who
was taoice Governor of New Jersey. Gov.
Parker was Democratic Governor of the
State of the New Jersey at the time of the
breaking out of the civil war, and was the
only Democratic Governor who sustained
Mr.. Lincoln in his call for troops, ard
actively interested himself to fill New Jer-
sey's quote.
After DR.. Burrows resignation, the con-
at Rock Run decided to call
pastor. The church building was repaired
and improved, and was reopened in the
Spring of 1851. The Rev. VIM. Finney
Of Churchville, Hartford county, and the
Rev. John NJ. Dickey, D. D., of Oxford,
Pa, conducted the reopening services.
During that year the Rev. John Squier
a graduate of Princeton Seminary, was
ordained aud installed pastor, and contin-
led in that relation until the Fall of 1861,
when Mr.. Squier resigned to accept call
to the Springfield Church, Carroll county,
Maryland.
In June, 1862, Rev. w. II. Cooke, now
Of Havre de Grace, was ordained and in
stalled pastor, and remained until March,
1865, when he left for New Orleans. The
Rev. Henry Branch, of St. Louis, Mo, was
next called, and continued pastor from
1865 until 1869, when Mr.. Branch resigned
% accept a call to the Reformed Dutch
Church Of New Haven, Connecticut. Mr.
Branch's popularity and usefulness was
demonstrated in the fact, that in 1870 he
was recalled, but declined, and is now pas