The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1879-05-31
CECIL NAM ES.
PROMINENT LOCAL SKETCHES.
Sketch Of Capt. Woodward Abrahams and
His Descendants in Cecil.

Joseph Abrahan>, the progenitor of the
family in America, emigratcd from Eng
land to the colonies about the year 1860.
His son (William) was born in Charles
town, Massachusetts, in 1854. In 1919 Will
liam married Martha Boylston. Their son
(Woodward) was born in 1927. In 1851 he
married Tabitha Smithurst In 1851 he re-
moved to Marblehead, Massachusetts,, and
continued 10 reside there until his death.
He was 4 nan of much prominence: Tiled
various public positions: among others, that
"f POSTMASTER and collector OF customs. He
was Il lay reader of the Church of England,
a man of exemplary religious life, and faith
full i'll all public trusts He died at the age
of eishty-six, leaving large family of chill
dren His son, Captain Woodward Abra-
hams, by his first wife, Miss Gibson, was
in the three-gun battery that guarded the
mouth of the north branch of the Patapsco
river during the war of 1872
Marbehead was 4 place of maritime i'm
portance, and - sailors life was the ambi-
ton of the boys of that place. Captain
AbrahamS entered it a cabin boy at thirteen
years of age, and passed through all the
stages on >hipboard, until he came to be
commander and owner.
In 1902 he entered the port of Baltimore,
and there made the acquaintance of Miss
Hannah Wooley, of Hartford county, to
whom he was married in December, 1908.
She was the daughter of Isaac Wooley, an
Englishlnan, and "a sister of the wife of Col.
John Creswell, the grandfather of Gen. j.
\. }. Creswell. After Captain Woodward
Abrahams' marriage, he located his resi-
dence in Baltimore city. In 1918, on voy-
age from London to Baltimore his ship
and was lost. He then determined to aban-
don the sea, and purchased and removed to
Il farm on the SuSuuelanna, near Port De
post, known as Lucky Mistake, and re-
sided there until 1927 when he removed
into the town of Port Deposit, where he
died ON the 10th of December, 1927, at the
age of siXty-two years. He was, for many
years, n member of the NJ. +. Church The
children of Capt. Woodward and Hannah
Wooley AbralamS are Joseph W., the eld-
est, merchant and prominent citizen of Port
Deposit. Joseph has three surviving sonS
Cornelius Smith, Millarl f., and John L.,
and two daughters, Mrs. Henry {. Nesbitt
and Mrs. Charles ID. Martin, by his first
wife, Maria Reynolds, all living in Cecil
county, except Mrs. Martin, who resides in
he has three daughters The second son,
John j., (Shipbuildcr) is extensively known,
and is the owner of some valuable proper
ties in this county. He has Il large family
of children, of whom Lewis and Wesley,
(farmerS) and Mrs. johnson reside in Cecil.
Mr.. AbralamS and the other members of
his family live in Baltimore. Capt. Abra-
hams eldest daughter, Tabitlla Smithurst,
married Prof. II. q. buckingham, at one
time principal of the Academy at Port De
posit. They reside i'll Baltimore, and have
two married daughters. The third son,
Charles H., (mariner) married Mary Graft
and left children. The second daughter,
Caroline F.. married Theodore Il. Knight,
formerly a merchant in Port Deposit. He
deceased. leaving one child, Virginia. now
the wife of Il. X. Hawley. Elizabeth c.,
the third daughter, married Thomas Ben
nett at one time druggist in Port De
poSit Mr.. Bennett left one daughter
Woodward. the fourth son, resides in Balti-
more He is of the firm of Cochran X Co.,
ice dealers. They have extensive Ice houses
on the StlSuuehanna and ut other places.
Mr. W. .Abrahams is well known to the
business community, and his prominence ill
the Masonic fraternity has made his name
familiar throughout the United States. He
has six living children-H. Kate who mar
riel Thomas i. Stran, of the fra of Il. X.
Hawley x Co.; Mary Lucy, who married
\. X. Cathcart, Nicc-PreSilent of the -Ameri-
can Fireman's Insurance Company of Balti-
more Margaret Shatfer, who married j.
Sumner Parker, Nice-PreSident of the Ly-
brant Mcdowell Co.; Fanny C., who mar
ricd William ID. Jamison, coal dealer: and
Marion, unmarried His only son, Willie
Woodward married Eva San,lrrSon. He
is one of the firm of Cochran Il Go. The
fifth son, Edmund F., resides i'll New Or
leans