The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1885-09-12
DIR. VIM. BLACK ROWLAND.
A long and Useful Life Closed.

Cecil county has sustained loss III the
death of this prominent physician and
influential citizen, which occurred in the
city of Philadelphia on Saturday last.
For several years past DR.. Rowland has
been in failing health, attributable di-
kidneys. After consultation with sew
eral eminent physicians, among them
Prof Alan Smith, of Baltimore, and DR..
Hayes Agnew, the celebrated surgeon of
Philadelphia, he determined to undergo
surgical treatment and for that purpose
left his home at Rowandsvllc on We'd
ncsday of last week. The operation was
performed on Friday the 18th inst, by
Doctors Agncw and White, assisted by
DR.. s. Il. Roman who accompanied him
TO Philadelphia. He was, however, too
feebled to recover from tn lie shock of the
operation, and death terminated his suf-
! fering as stated on saturday morning.
Few men shared in larger measure the
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unpretcntious and modest man, devoting
himself quietly and assiduously to his
professional and business pursuits. He
was w,Il read physician, dispensing his
professional services as readily without
the hope OF pccuniary reward among the
| lowly rs among the atlluent and wealthy.
lie will be often recalled by the recollec-
ton of his kindnesses to the poor of his
ncig!rborhood, and by the readiness with
which he responded to the calls of the
needy and suffering. Outside of his pro-
fessjonal work, Dr. Rowland had engaged
successfully in his business undertakings.
| Under the firm name of Rowland & Tosh
he carried on for many years a general
merchantile business at Rowlandsville.
| Many years ago, under the administra-
ton Of James Buchanan he was commits
stoned postmaster there, and which COM
mission remained in his name until very
recently. y Democrat in politics he
has en- sc,c ral occasions been honored by
unsought nominations at the hands of
his party, his conservative and non-parti-
san character commencing their popu-
larty. His unsuccessful candidacy for
the State Senate against his personal
friend Jacob Tome of Port Deposit in
1866 will DC readily recalled, and his re-
cent election in 1889 to the House of
Delegates of Mary land, in which position
he rendered acceptable service to his
constituents. 1t was not in the field of
politics, however, where DR.. Rowland
earned the name by which he will be best
remembered. In the quiet and unseen
walks.of private and professional life,
where his large hearted charities and his
generous acts proved him to be sincere
Chr stan and Il man who loved his fellow.
men, he showed to the best advantage
his generous and manly qualities.
For many years he was consistent
member Of West Nottingham Prcsbyter-
ian church, in the cemetery OF which lie
the remains oc his respected father, and
near which now repose the remains of
the equally rcspe cted son.
DR.. Rowland married Miss Rebecca n.
Sappington, daughter of the late DR..
John L. Sappington, Of IIavre de Grace,
who survives him. His son DR.. Samuel
Rowland is q respected physician living
at the family homestead, another brother
| William recently deceased was a promis-
| g a..
daughters one, the eldest, IS the wife of
| II. c. Hopkins, Esq cashier of the Cecil
National Bank, the younger being un-
married.
DIR. Rowland was native of Cecil
county, his birthplace being Rowlands-
vile which town was so named in honor
of his father the late Samuel Rowland.
The latter was also a conspicuous and
| prominent citizen Of this county who was
born in 1850 at the family homestead near
Liberty Grove. His parents William and
Sarah Rowland, the grandparents Of the
late Dir. William Black Rowland, emf
| grated TO America in the latter part of
| the eighteenth century, and settled first
in Delaware, but AFTERWARDS removed 10
Cecil county. They had eight children
| of whom Samuel was the fifth. He was
raised a farmer, but his tastes seeking a
more stirring life lie very early engaged
in merchandising with George Kidd, at the
stand known as "Kidd's Purchase about
two miles east of Port Deposit. After
wards, he started business on his own
account at the upper end of Port Deposit
known as Brock Run" In the mean
time he prosecuted other enterprises sue
cesstu'y, such as shad and herring fish
cries on the Susquehanna, and about the
year 1911 opened store on the Octorara
associating with him first Mr.. Cathcart
and afterwards his nephew John Carson
of Baltimore. This partnership Rowland
Il Carson continued until the year 1880,
they in the meantime having extensively
engaged in the lumber business at Port
| Deposit, where another son James Harvey
Rowland is now and has for years past
been a prominent and successful lumber
merchant.
Samuel Row land made money and ex-
tended his business connections III many
directions. He had at one time associated
with him the now venerable John S.
Everist father OF School Commissioner
Frank S. Everist. With Cornelius Smith
he built the first wharf for steam boats
and vessels at Port Deposit, and erected
large warehouse on it. They owned
jointly the principle hotel of the town of
which Mr.. Smith was the landlord, this
same firm being also leading one in the
lumber trade of that Chem great lumber
| depot.
| Mr.. Rowland's business connections
extended to Baltimore city, he having
been for many years a director of the
| Marine Bank of Baltimore. lie was a
staunch Presbyterian, and worshipped at
Nottingham until the erection of Pres
byterian church at Port Deposit. He
married Mary Black of Geneva. New
York in 1912, their married life lasting
nearly half a century, her death occurring
in 1856, at the homestead on "Octorara
Heights" They had three sons and four
daughters; Samuel, who died in infancy;
Sarah Rowland, who married Sanders
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