Smyrna times., 1925-03-11
DEATH RECORD OF THE WEEK
Samuel H. Baynard, a Native Smyr-
nian, and Frequent Visitor, Dies in
Wilmington After Lingering Illness

Odlnuel II. DdyndfQ, naJlVe Smyr-
nian and prominent citizen of Will
mingtOn, died peacefully Wednesday
of heart disease in his home, Eigh-
teenth and Jefferson streets, Will
mington, in the 18th year of his age.
Ill since Christmas, he at no time had
appeared better during that time than
Wednesday morning. He had arisen
from bed and after breakfasting was
seated in a chair by a window over
looking the Boulevard when death
came instantly and apparently pain
lessly. The news of his death was a
shock to his old friends in Smyrna
where he was born, raised and spent
his bOyhOOd days. He was a son of
the late John Baynard and Mrs. Susan
Hardcastle Baynard, and went to Will
mington when a boy, learned the
trade of matchmaker in the shop of
Benjamin Clark, starting in business
in 1883 as the head of the firm of
Baynard & Dawson, in Market street,
near Third, and in 1888 moving to the
southwest corner of Fifth and Mrket
streets, where he has maintained his
establishment for years. For 25
years, up to six years ago, Mr.. Bayn-
ard was a member of the Wilmington
Board of Education, and for the latter
ten years, president of that body. He
was a member of City Council for
several terms soon after establishing
his business at Fifth and Market
streets, and of the lower branch of the
State Legislature in 1901. He was a
member of Eureka Lodge, Delta Chap
ter and st. Johns Commandery of
MasOns. How many thousands of
dollars Samuel H. Baynard has given
for civic betterment can at present
only be estimated. The Baynard Field
including a stadium seating 5000,
turned over to the municipality in
June, 1922, meant a gift of 100000,
and four churches in the northwestern
section of Wilmington that he helped
to build are regarded as representing
a figure in excess of that. The church
es, of four denominations, are: Han
over Presbyterian, McCabe Memorial
Methodist Episcopal, Peninsula Meth
odist Protestant and Trinity Lutheran.
While a member of the Wilmington
Board of Education he gave a $4,000
/ lot for the erection of School No. 30.
i "Do it while you live" was one of Mr..
Baynard's notices, and in giving he
was impelled by belief that educa-
tiOnal, religious and recreational facil-
! tiles are most essential in the making
of good citizens. Mr.. Baynard be-
came interested in development of the
land north of the Brandywine, and in
1892, in conjunction with William
LawtOn bought the Elliott farm of 6t
acres, developing all that section
along and adjacent to what is now the
Boulevard. He formed the NortF
Side Improvement Company, prime
movers in the erection of the frs
Washington street bridge. Owing Il
the importance and extent of this de-
velopment, Mr.. Baynard, who had or
ganized the firm of Baynard, Bank!
& Bryan, jewelers., at the Fifth anC
Markets streets establishment, with
drew and formed the Baynard Optica
Company of which he was president
Mr.. Baynard is survived by his wife
Mrs. Cora Price Baynard; his son
Samuel H. Baynard, Jr., a member O
the Wilmington bar; his daughter
Mrs. Nettie Baynard Davis; and tw,
brothers, Charles Wesley Baynard o
Smyrna, and Joseph A. ,Baynard o
Clayton. Funeral services were he'll
from his late residence on Saturda.
afternoon at 2.30 o'clock, with Rev
Charles B. Bonner, pastor of HanOve
Presbyterian Church, officiating. In
terment was made in Wilmington an
Brandywine cemetery.
DIR. T. ii. Streets, Native Smyrnian
Captain Thomas Hale Streets, a re
tired United States Navy Phpsiciar
and captain of the first hospital shi
in the Spanish-American war, tn
Solace, died Tuesday, March 4, at hi
home 1856 Fernbrook avenue, WyI
cote, Pa. He was in his seventy-seV
enth year. DR.. Streets was born
Smyrna, and received his education
! the public schools here, later going
Philadelphia, where he studied med
cine at the University of Pennsy
vania. He. retired from the govern
= ment service about IL years ago an
had been enjoying excellent health u
y until four months ago, when he wa
o stricken with a heart ailment tn;
= caused his death. His widow, Mr.
d Princilla Walker Streets, survive
0 DR.. Streets was a member of the We
S Grams of Foreign Wars and kindrt
S organizations. Funeral services we
IS held Thursday afternoon at his la
e residence. Interment was private.
k Sudden Death of Howard JOsephs
"a Howard Josephs, aged 65, who en-
p ed his life suddenly Monday night
N last week in an apartment house