The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1902-01-04
AN OLD BALTIMORE DIRECTOR"
Some of the Men Who Did Business There
Nearly Seventy-Five Years Ago-The
City at That Period-Some Corpo-
ration Officials Some of the
Banks and Their officers.

Some of the Men Who Did Business There
Nearly Seventy-Five Years Ago-The
City at That Period-Some Corpo-
ration Officials = Some of the
I Banks and Their officers.
Justice Joseph B. Herbert, of Towson re-
ceived this week, as a present from friend
in Baltimore, a book one inch thick, four
inches wide and seven inches long upon the
back of which is printed the following: MAT
chett's Baltimore Director, Corrected up to
June, 1929, Containing an Engraved Plan of
the City, with References to the Public Build
! ings," etc. Upon the f1y-leaf of the book is
written in bold hand the following: 1.-THE
property of Thomas Whitridge. No. 10 Bow
| ley's Wharf, Baltimore, Augu 9th, 1929"
The first twenty-six pages of the director"
are devoted to advertisements of different kinds
! of business then being carried on in the city,
including amusements, shipping, etc., viz
Washington Museum, John P. Paul 81 Co.,
] Steamboat Line for Philadelphia, William Nc
Donald & Son, agents; John H. Shortt's bot
thing cellar Charles McCann's General City
Intelligence Office Edwin S. Tarr, cabinet
furniture; J. l. Cohen & Bros, lottery and
exchange; J. NJ. Larouque, chymist and drug
gist; Philip Boyer & Co., lumber dealers;
Stockton & Stokes stage line to Philadelphia,
office in the City Hotel; Richard Mason, bis
cult and cracker baker; George Mcdowell d
| Son, booksellers and stationers; Robert Brown,
clock and watch maker; Hilton & Sutton,
merchant tailors; RObb d Donaldson, ship
builders; Firemen's Insurance Company,
James Hewes president, Thomas g. Rutter,
secretary /; Charles Carter & Co., type founders
Sinclair & Moore, implements of husbandry
Dan'l r. Brewer, Coffee House Hotel, 38 South
street; ]. G. Petherbridge, dentist and bleeder;
William H. Morling, saddles, harness and
trunks James Lovegrove, book binder Foun-
tain Inn, Light street, NJ. Barr, proprietor
John j. Harrod & Son, booksellers and sta
TONERS, and number of others.
The firm of Taylor q McNeal, coopers and
proprietors of scows, is mentioned in the di.
rectory. Robert Taylor, Jr.. the senior men,
Der of the firm was the father of ex-CouEty
Commissioner B. F. Taylor, of this county.
BALTIMORE CITY IN 1929.
Then follows the publishers address ITO
the Public" and three page description of
Baltimore, from which we copy the following
1T was near one hundred years after the land
ing of the first colonists in Maryland, and justa
hundred years ago, that the settlers on the Pa
tapsco river applied for a law to erect town at
the head of the northwest branch of that river,
which, in honour of the Calvert family, they
named after the town of Baltimore in ireland,
from whence their title to the peerage of that
kingdom was derived and where they held con-
siderable estates, though born and generally
Baltimore has a harbour which admits of
frigates and merchant ships of the largest class,
and is secure in all weathers, being distant about
200 miles from sea and not much more from the
Ohio river; near the temperate latitude of SO
north, and centre OF the state and country; sur
rounded by land and water furnishing every
means of subsistence, enterprise and enjoyment
required by an extensive and enlightened popu-
la tI1pc s,,+ uuoa, ,o;a o,,+ co., .ho town 90
sixty acres only, was part of tract called Coles
Harbour and purchased in 1923 of Mr.. Carroll,
the father of the signer of the Declaration of
Independence, of the same name. at the moder-
ate price of 1888 per acre, by Messrs. Toley,
Hamilton, Buckner, Walker. Gist, Buchanan and
Hammond, commissioners named in the law.
There were as many lots as acres, though not
exactly regular in size or form, to be taken at
the rate of the purchase money, and only three
streets, which were those called Baltimore run
ming from east to west, and Calvert and Charles,
crossing the first at right angles and the town
was extended from time to time nearly equal
in every direction, from the intersection of Bal
timore and Calvert streets.
1.-THE Parish Church of st. Paul, in PatapSco
Neck, was discontinued and new one directed
| to be built in the new town in 1731 and stood
very near the site of the present church Of that
name. having been twice rebuilt.
Next year part of the same tract of land,
| divided on the west from the former by the
stream called Jones's falls was laid out for an
other town. by the name of Joness town, which
was long called Old Town. but united in 1745 with
| the first town by bridge where Gay street
bridge now is, and by act of Assembly, which
also secured to settlers the property in grounds
I'm the year l75l transcription was got up for
| building market house, in which is found, be-
| sides the names of some IF the commissioners,
| those of Messrs. Sheredine, Harrison, Philpot,
| Lyon, Chase, Gay, Lawson, Rogers, Sleigh. Ran
| dali and Lux. and the market first erected was
| at the northwest corner of Baltimore and Gay
! streets. About the same time public lottery
! was drawn to defray the cost of a wharf at the
! south end of Calvert street, near which was cree
| ted tobacco inspection house In 1853 Fell's
Point, on the east of the first addition, and the
! intermediate grounds we're added to the town,
and it was extended on the west and south of
the first town by the Messrs. Howard in 1865 and
| 1852. In 1T6S the justices of the county were
authorized to transfer the seat of justice from
| Joppa, ON the Gunpowder river, to the town,
and until the first court house was erected,
| courts met over the market. where also town
meetings and assemblies were held. The first
| fire company, called the Mechanical Company
| formed the next year.
"Great fears were excited in the town by the
encroachment of the Indians in the war of 1885,
when a number of French neutrals arrived from
| Nova Scotia, (who principally settled towards
| the south end of Charles and Light Streets called
| French t0aOn now intersected by the opening of
| Lombard street, and the inhabitants, become
| about 5OO0in number, were frequently threaten
| ed but not attacked by the British in the war of
independence. During that war the citizens of
| in forming companies of horse and foot, who
| were in active duty, but in contributing to re-
| lieve those who were reduced from want of
trade; but, Notwithstanding, the population in
| creased rapidly and before the peace custom
| house was opened, upon which event the paving
| and lighting streets commenced. Refugees from
| ST. Domingo and emgrants from Europe had so
multiplied the wants of local government that
| the city was incorporated in 1895.
1.-THE first Bank of the United States opened a
branch in this city in 1892. but the State had in
| corporated company in 1890, by the name of the
1.-THE falls water was brought in pipes through
the city and the turnpike roads were authorized
by law in 1904 and the Maryland penitentiary in
1.-The war of 1872 was more affective on Balti-
more in its consequences than the former; but
were unable to reduce the fort, which was part
ly made in the war of 1776 and completed in 1895,
and on the return of peace, when the number of
| inhabitants amounted to about go, 600. including
| the precincts then added, court of criminal
| jurisdiction was established, separate from the
| county, and the present Exchange Building was
| being near S0,0O6."
Then follows $50 pages of names and adj
dresses an entire line across the page being
devoted to each.
OFFICIALS OF THE CITY,
In the back of the book is given Register"
of the officers of the corporation of the City
of Baltimore, as follows: Mayor, Jacob Small !;
Register Emil Kent members of the First
| Branch ofthe City Council, James W. Mitchell,
John Mallory, William Hubbard, Thomas
Curtain, Hugh McElderry, Charles Diffen.
derffer, Elijah Stansbury, Lambert Thomas,
William Meeteer, Benjamin q. Ross. Jacob j.
Cohen, John B. Morris, Joseph K. Stapeton,
John j. Donaldson, Samuel Moore Daniel
Schwarzour, Noah Ridgely, Alex. Russell,
Robert Nelson, Dennis McHenry Jr., Thorn
as 7. Meredith, McClintock Young, George
Keyser and Joseph Branson; chief clerk,
| Thomas Phenix; assistant clerk, H. D. Evans.
| Members OF the second Branch OF the City
! Council, William Inloes, Philip Moore, Will
liam Reany, Thomas Kelso Baltzer Schaeffer,
Philip Laurenson, Fielding Lucas, Jr., Will
liam ]. Wright, Joseph W. Peterson, John
Reese, Henry Stouffer and Samuel Mcclellan !;
clerk, T. II. Belt.
SOME OF THE BANKS.
Bank of Marland-J. B. Norris, president
r. Wilson, cashier. Capital, S300,000
Bank of Baltimore-William Lorman. presi-
dent; James Cox cashier. Capital, 81 200, 900.
Union Bank of observation-disclosures Elicott,
president; Jonathan Pinkney, Jr., cashier.
Capital, S3,000,0O0.
Mechanics Bank-George Brown, president;
William II. Murray, cashier. Capital, 81, 900,
000
Franklin Bank-Philip Moore, president
| James L. Hawkins, cashier. Capital, 5000, 900.
! Commercial and Farmers Bank-William
W. Taylor, president George T. Dunbar,
cashier. Capital, 81, 100000.
Farmers and Merchants Bank-Nicholas
Brice, president; John Duer, cashier. Capt.
tai, S500,0
Marine Bank-Hezekiah Waters, president
Jacob Bier, cashier. Capital, 100000.
Savings INSTRUMENTATION H. Freeman,
president Thomas Phenix, secretary.
! Evan POultnev's Bank 162 Baltimore street