The Cecil Whig., 1881-01-01
The Late John J. Abrahams.

/ Although jonn y. AbrahanS was At the
time of his DEATH which occurred on Thurs
! day, Dec Ord resident of Baltimore city,
1 vet a considerable portion of his life had
| been spent in Cecil county, where his fam
! lily connection was extensive and iutiu-
! ential. He was descended from sturdy
/ New England stock, from which the de-
! ceased Inherited the many qualities that 60
/ to make up robust manhood. Joseph
| AhrthamS, the prngentor of the family in
/ America, einigraf,'d from England about
| the year 1850. His son William, born in
! ChestertOwn, Mass, in 1854, was married
! on Nov 10, lTl9, to Martha Boylston. He
! died in 1863, aged 81 years. Their son Wood
ward was born i'll 1927, and was married in
/ 1I:1i to TahIthr Snithhurst, who died IN
I 1898, leaving Il large family of children. In
/ liJI he removed to Marhiehead, where he
/ continued to reside until his death in 1873
! For many years he was postmaster, roilec-
/ tor of customs, and filed various other pub
I lie positions. His son Waodwa was born
at Marblehead, on July II, 1902. On June
| /, 1890, he married Miss Gallson, by whom
he had one son, William. born June 10, 1872
This son was ON the three-gun battery that
guarded the mouth of the north branch of
the PatapS2o river daring the war of 1872.
Mrs. GalliSon AbrahamS died Nov 16, j 500
At the age OF thirteen wears, young Wood
ward was apprentced on board n merchant
ship, and passed through all the grades,
from cabin boy to commander and owner
In 1902 he entered the port of Baltimore
and there met Miss Hannah Woollev, of
Hartford county, Md. This acquaintance
continued and resulted III their marriage on
Dec t, 1S03 This caused Captain Abra-
hams to make Baltimore his home, where
he continued to reside until 1918. Having
lost his ship -1dridnnd, bound from London
to Baltimore, loaded with iron-he being
sole owner of ship and cargo,-hy the YES
sci springing Il leak when near the end of
the voyage, he determined to abandon the
sea, purchased and removed to a farm in
Cecil county, on the Susquehanua river,
known as Lucky Mistake" aud resided
there until 1927, when lie removed to Port
Deposit, where, on Dec. III, 1927, he depart
ed this life, aged 81 years. He had long
been an exemplary mem ber of the Method
iSt Episcopal Church. The children of Cap
tain WOODWARD, and Hannah Woolley y bra
hams are Joseph w. -i5rahams, II merchant
of, and still residing in, Port Deposit: John
James (the deceasetl); Tabitha S., who mar
ried Prof. p. &. Buckingham, of Baltimore:
Charles II. Mariner, who married Mary
Graft; Caroline f., who married Theo lore
B. Knight; Edmund T., unmarried: and
Elizabeth C., who married Thomas Ben
nett.
john j. Abrahams was born in Baltimore
in 1899. He was, for many years, promi-
nently identified with the ship building in
terestS of hat city, and in 1913 and 80, when
Baltimore clipper ships attained such celeb
rity in the California trade, Mr. AbrahamS
built many of the finest of that class of YES
sells. He was one of the orignators of the
Old Fells Point Saving Institution, now
the Second National Bank. He was one of
the organizers of the Peoples Bank, and up
to the time of his death stakeholder. He
was Il director in the Merchants and Ma
rine Fire Insurance Company, and incor-
porator of the Maryland Fire, American
Fire, and Union Insurance Company. He
leaves 4 family of eleven children. seven of
whom are boys: Woodward, w. H., Joseph,
Wesley, Charles, John, and Winter Davis;
four daughters-MrS. W. II. johnson, ,Jr,
Mrs. y. \. johnson, Mrs. DR.. Womble, and
Miss Addie Abrahams. Mr.. Abrahams had
Il stroke Of paralysis about three years ago.
and has been a sufferer ever since. He re-
tired from the ship-huiding business some
years ago, and the business OF the firm has
since been carried on by his sons.
His funeral took place in Baltimore on
Sunday last. The pall-hearerS selected were
as follows: .Active-Messrs John S. Gill
man, Alexander Jones, Robert Ashcroft,
George W. Corner, James Bates, Jacob
Tome, j. c. Wheeden, and j. Harvey Row
land. Honorary-Messrs. w. f. Hooper,
James = Whedbee, Henry James, Andrew
Lyon, j. f. Etrhberger, Horace Abbott,
Jefferson Ramsey, and j. j. Turner