MARYLAND Hisorical Magazine SPRING/SUMMeR 2017 Maryland Blood: An American Family in War and Peace, the Hambletons 1657 to the Present Martha Frick Symington Sanger At the dawn of the seventeenth century, immigrants to this country arrived with dreams of conquering a new frontier. Families were willing to embrace a life of strife and hardship but with great hopes of achieving prominence and wealth. Such is the case with the Hambleton family. From William Hambleton’s arrival on the Eastern Shore in 1657 and through every major confict on land, sea, and air since, a member of the Hambleton clan has par- ticipated and made a lasting contribution to this nation. Teir achievements are not only in war but in civic leadership as well. Among its members are bankers, business leaders, government ofcials, and visionaries. Not only is the Hambleton family extraordinary by American standards, it is also re- markable in that their base for four centuries has been and continues to be Maryland. Te blood of the Hambletons is also the blood of Maryland, a rich land stretching from the shores of the Atlantic Ocean to the tidal basins of the mighty Chesapeake to the mountains of the west, a poetic framework that illuminates one truly American family that continues its legacy of building new genera- tions of strong Americans. Martha Frick Symington Sanger is an eleventh-gen- eration descendant of pioneer William Hambleton and a great-granddaughter of Henry Clay Frick. She is the author of Henry Clay Frick: An Intimate Portrait, Te Henry Clay Frick Houses, and Helen Clay Frick: Bitter- sweet Heiress. Friends of the Press of the Maryland Historical Society In our latest offering, The Road to Jim Crow: the African American Expe- rience on Maryland’s Eastern Shore, 1860–1915, C. Christopher Brown has broken new ground and flled a long overlooked gap in Maryland history. Here is the story of African Americans on Maryland’s Eastern Shore, from the promise-flled days following the end of slavery to the rise of lynch law, segregation, and systematic efforts at disenfranchisement. Resisting, as best they could, attempts of the Democratic “White Man’s Party” to render them second-class citizens, black communi- ties rallied to their churches and fought determinedly to properly educate their children and gain a measure of political power. Cambridge, guided by savvy and energetic leaders, became a political and cultural center of African American life. The Maryland Historical Society continues its commitment to publish the fn- est new work in Maryland history. Next year, 2017, marks twelve years since the Publications Committee, with the advice and support of the development staff, launched the Friends of the Press, an effort dedicated to raising money to be used solely for bringing new titles into print. The society is particularly grateful to H. Thomas Howell, past committee chair, for his unwavering support of our work and for his exemplary generosity. The committee is pleased to announce the following new title, funded in part through the Friends of the Press. The Press’s titles continue the mission frst set forth in 1844, of discovering and publishing Maryland history. We invite you to become a supporter and help us fll in the unknown pages of Maryland history. If you would like to make a tax deductible gift to the Friends of the Press, please direct your donation to Develop- ment, Maryland Historical Society, 201 West Monument Street, Baltimore, MD 21201. For additional information on MdHS publications, contact Patricia Dock- man Anderson, Director of Publications and Library Services, 410-685-3750 x317 or [email protected]. Maryland Historical Society Founded 1844 Ofcers Louise L. Hayman, Chair Lynn Springer Roberts, Secretary Richard C. Tilghman Jr., First Vice Chair Robert M. Cheston, Assistant Secretary Mark B. Letzer, President Timothy Chase, Vice Chair M. Willis MacGill, Treasurer James W. Constable, Vice Chair Robert Hopkins, Assistant Treasurer Page Nelson Lyon, Vice Chair Trustees Justin A. Batof Charles W. Mitchell Presidents Emeriti Richard Bell Keifer Mitchell Alex. G. Fisher Andrew Brooks Robert W. Schoeberlein John McShane Tomas A. Collier John H. Tracey Brian Topping Clinton Daly William C. Whitridge, Jr. Russell C. Dashiell Jr. Chairpersons Emeriti Chandler B. Denison Jack S. Griswold William M. Gore Barbara P. Katz Henry H. Hopkins Stanard T. Klinefelter Teodore Mack Robert R. Neall Eleanor Shriver Magee Henry Hodges Stansbury Ex-Ofcio Trustees Te Hon. John P. Sarbanes Te Hon. Catherine E. Pugh Drucilla Null, Maryland Genealogical Society Historian in Residence Burton Kummerow Te Maryland Historical Magazine Patricia Dockman Anderson, Editor Deborah L. Harner, Associate Editor Christopher T. George, James Singewald, Joe Tropea, Editorial Associates Editorial Board Charles W. Mitchell, Chair John S. Bainbridge; Jean H. Baker; Robert J. Brugger; Suzanne E. Chapelle; Jack G. Goellner; Elizabeth Gray; Peter B. Levy; Edward C. Papenfuse; Lawrence Peskin; Jean B. Russo; James F. Schneider ISSN 0025-4258 © 2017 by the Maryland Historical Society. Published biannually as a beneft of membership in the Maryland Historical Society, spring/ summer and fall/winter. Articles appearing in this journal are abstracted and indexed in Historical Abstracts and/or America: History and Life. Periodicals postage paid at Baltimore, Maryland, and at additional mailing ofces. Postmaster: Please send address changes to the Maryland Historical Society, 201 West Monument Street, Baltimore, Maryland 21201. Printed by Te Sheridan Press, Hanover, Pennsylvania 17331. MARYLAND Historical Magazine VOLUME 112, NO. 1 (Spring/Summer 2017) CONTENTS Sculpting Memories of the Slavery Confict: Commemorating Roger Taney in Washington, D.C., Annapolis, and Baltimore, 1864–1887.................................... 6 COREY M. BROOKS General Amos W. W. Woodcock of Salisbury, Maryland: Gentleman, Soldier, Scholar, Good Citizen ............................................................................................36 STEPHEN C. GEHNRICH “Happy Play in Grassy Places:” Baltimore’s Playgrounds in Photographs, 1911-1936 .................................................86 DAMON TALBOT A Prickly Pairing: Mistresses and Maidservants in the Colonial Chesapeake ......... 102 ALEXA B. SILVER Te Bromo Tower Arts and Entertainment District: Ten and Now......................116 JACKSON GILMAN-FORLINI Marianne Caton Patterson and those Wellesley Brothers: a Surprising Maryland Reference in Shaw’s Most Famous Play ..............................130 JESSE M. HELLMAN Lost City: Te Burning of Oriole Park ..................................................................138 RICHARD HARDESTY Lloyd Graveyard at Wye House, Talbot County, Maryland....................................148 MCHENRY HOWARD Maryland History Bibliography, 2016: a Selected List ........................................... 162 Cover: Charles and Elizabeth Phoebe (Key) Howard’s children, c.1845–1851. Standing, Edward Lloyd Howard; left to right seated, Charles Howard, Mary Lloyd Howard, Alice Howard; kneeling, McHenry Howard with the family dog “Pinch.” (Bequest of Julia McHenry Howard, 1959. Maryland Historical Society.) In Memoriam John Bailes Wiseman (1938–2017) Professor Emeritus at Frostburg University and former regional editor of the Maryland Historical Magazine, John Bailes Wiseman passed away on January 23, 2017. John was born in Alliance, Nebraska and spent his early years in the western part of the country hunting, fshing, and playing baseball before graduating from Linfeld College in McMinnville, Oregon. In 1960, John traveled east to join a Masters and Doctoral program combined with a teaching assistantship in US History at the University of Maryland, Col- lege Park. In 1988 John’s dissertation, Te Dilemmas of a Party out of Power: Te Democrats, 1904–1922 was published as part of the Garland Series, ModerN American History. His teaching career spanned forty years, early work at Morgan State University in Baltimore where he ac- cepted a one year teaching position, followed by a postdoctoral fellowship in Black Studies. He then went to Frostburg State University where he taught African American History, Twentieth Century World, Maryland History and elective courses such as Baseball in American Life and was chosen to develop the university’s frst history internship program. Dr. David Dean, FSU colleague and friend refects that, “When the department opted for an internship program, he was the perfect person to create and run it. He was so at ease with picking up the phone to talk to folks.” Gregory Wood, current Associate Professor of History at FSU, recalls that “John was proudest of the fact that he placed students at the Babe Ruth Birthplace and Museum, as well as the Sports Legend Museum in Baltimore. He was also very proud of the fact that he helped students secure internships at Fort Necessity in Pennsylvania, the National Museum of Civil War Medicine in Frederick and Maryland’s C&O Canal site.” Tim Baker, a former student and current Maryland State Archivist, remembers that “John took particular interest in state and local government internship opportunities for history majors.” John’s work lives on in every intern he placed and those the university continues to place in their ongoing history internship program. Caroline Wiseman Brady (John’s daughter) Editor’s Notebook Summer in Maryland: it’s Not the Heat, it’s the Humidity Heat waves typically ripple across Maryland from May through September. As of this