The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1903-07-18

| Pastor of II lcauing Methodist Episcopal
| Church of that city. Mr. Mcneil was
one of the munird men of his congrrga-
ton.
! The Importance of this fact does not
warrant possibly this DEPRESSION, but it
! is interesting to know that this success
ful ready made clothirr of Philadelphia
| was generally known here and had prop
crty interests in Cecil county.
| Later Thomas {. Crouch did an extern
! sivr shoe trade in the same huidng. II"
! like Mr.. Brown and Mr.. Calvert with
their hats, manufactured all he sold. \
ready made shoe. like Il ready made hat.
outside of hat factory. WAS an nm
| known commodity. Today. one extern
Sive hat manufacturer like John Strtson,
makes more hats in single week, or
possibly Singl" day, than all the local
hat factories in the State made in II
whole year. sixty years ago.
| Next to the building of which we are
speaking now Jointly used as Il bakery
and laundry. stood IN old log store
house. When first we can recall it. the
| MesSrS. Roe. afterwards the Nelson
! Brothers did business in it. They sold
twlncs and leather possibly shoe findings
generally rs Uncle Billy Knots did in
the building now occupied by Mrs. l..
| II. Bennett as II millner The Cecil
| Whig" occupied this building. having rt-
moved there from the old log cabin in
the Hollow" 1t was SucccSSvrly occu-
/ pied by several provision men. James
| WnlmSley. Howard Johnson. by tho
| Pryor Brothers aS Il stove store. unit,
finally torn down by Darius Burton. who
erected on the lot the store house once
| occupied by X. &. Lewis. and now ten
anted by J. T.. GOmce.
/ In lS49. DIR. Joseph Wallace succeeded
Col. Whann aS postmaster of Elkton.
and moved the office into the building re-
Gently occupied 10y DIR. II. Arthur Mitch
ell. That east end of this huildng had
| played IN interesting part in its history
| Two generations Of the Parker family
had been identified with it. before its
occupancy aS drug store by DR. Wal
lace. The Doctor was an unusually gen.
! ial gentleman. He WAS II retired Army
Surgeon, and half brother of Col. John
E. Groomr. He married Miss Ward. his
son DR. Joseph V. Wallace being 4
| prominent physician of this county. To-
Gated at Chesapeake City.
Old DR.. Caleb Parker. the father of
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occupied this drug store. j. Ferris Moore
was his clerk and compnundrr of pre-
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