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HOWARD COUNTY 1893
Sudden Death of Samuel Hopkins - Arrested
for an Alleged Assault.
ELLICOTT CITY, MD. Feb. 16. - Mr. Samuel
Hopkins, one of the best-known citizens and
land-holders of Howard county, died Wednesday
morning at his home, "Whitehall," near
Highland, aged fifty-five years. His death
was entirely unexpected and is supposed to
have been from heart trouble. He was a son
of the late Joseph Hopkins of Anne Arundel
county, and a nephew of the late Johns
Hopkins. Mr. Hopkin's surviving brothers
are Lewis N. Hopkins, city collector of
Baltimore, Joseph S. Hopkins, of Baltimore,
and Gerard T. Hopkins, a land-owner and
agriculturist of Gloucester county, Va.
He leaves a widow, a daughter of the late
John Smith, of Montgomery county, and
five children, three daughters and two
sons. Mr. Hopkins had lived in Howard
county for about thirty years.
About twenty years ago he was president of
the board of county commissioners. He was
always identified with and interested in
public movements for the general welfare.
He was especially well known in matters pertaining
to the granze or other farmers' organizations.
In politics he was a democrat.
His death occasioned all the more surprise
because of the excellent health and splendid
physique which he always seemed to enjoy.

Robert R. Moore, one of the oldest citizens
and an elder of the Friends' meeting
was laid to rest in the old burying-ground
near Sandy Spring village Wednesday
last. He had been a resident of this
place since 1843, and had identified himself
with most of the progressive enterprises
of the community, from the founding
of the Montgomery Mutual Fire
Insurance Company in 1847
to the recently formed telephone company, and
he served the insurance company as active
secretary for some forty-five years.
His wife, formerly Hadassah J. Townsend,
of Baltimore, survives him, after a
wedded life of more than sixty years
spent together. He also leaves
three children - Joseph T., William W. and
Esther T. Moore; ten grandchildren
and ten great grandchildren. /2 [Mo?] 95

The venerable Mrs. Robert R. Moor
died on Tuesday morning, at her home,
Plainfield. She was a native of Baltimore,
the youngest daughter of the late
Joseph and Esther Townsend, but had
been a resident of Sandy Spring for some
sixty years and was much beloved by old
and young in this vicinity. To the poor
her hand was always open and she will
long be remembered for the many acts of
kindness to her lowly neighbors. She
survived the husband of her youth little
more than a year, and they had lived
together more than sixty-two years at
the time of his death. Two sons, Archibald
D. and John Wilson, died in early
life, and three children are left, Joseph
T., William W. and Esther T. Moore.
The interment took place on Wednesday
afternoon, at Friends' burial ground,
near Sandy Spring. April 1897.

Mrs. Buelah L. Thomas Dead.
[Special to The American.]
Sandy Spring, Md., December 10. - Mrs.
Buelah L. Thomas, wife of Dr. Francis
Thomas, a well-known farmer of Ednor,
Montgomery county, and a conspicuous
figure in financial circles in Washington
city, died at the Homeopathic Hospital,
Washington, last night, where she had
benn under treatment for chronic heat
disease for six weeks. She had been in
delicate health for about two years, but
the malady assumed a fatal aspect only
about two months ago. Mrs. Thomas was
of a prominent Carroll county family, her
parents having been the late Bueben and
Sarah Haines, of Union Bridge. One son
and one daughter - William F. and Miss
Ellen Thomas - survive her, and one brother
- Joseph L. Hained, of Union Bridge - and
three sisters. 1899. -

Death of An Octogenarian.
Mrs. LYDIA THOMAS.
Mrs. Lydia Thomas, widow of Edward
Thomas and daughter of Joseph
Gilpin, who was prominent in the early
history of Sandy Spring, died at Ashton
on Thursday morning, the 5th instant.
She moved to this county with her
parents from Pennsylvania more than
fifty years ago. Mrs. Thomas' illness
dated back only a few weeks, previous
to which time her health was quite vigorous,
considering her advanced age of
87 years. Mrs. Thomas was the oldest
member of the Society of Friends at
Sandy Spring. Her children surviving
are Alban Gilpin Thomas, of the Sandy
Spring Savings Institution; Richard
Thomas, of Baltimore; Mrs. Dr. Roger
Brooke and Mrs. Mary P. Jackson, of
Sandy Spring, and Mrs. Emily T. Massey,
of Baltimore.

THOMAS. - At Tanglewood near Ashton, Montgomery
county, SUSANNA LEGGETT THOMAS,
wife of Alban F. Thomas, in her sixtieth year.
Funeral from residence 2 o'clock Sunday. Interment
at Friends' Meeting-House, Sandy Spring.

FARQUHAR. On Monday, April 11, 1904, at 11
o'clock a.m., at her home, Rock Spring, Montgomery
county, Md., CAROLINE MILLER,wife
of Roger B. Farquhar. (Alexandria and Baltimore
papers please copy.)

DEATH OF MRS. CAROLINE H.
MILLER
A Prominent Educator of Montgomery
County.
Mrs. Caroline Hallowell Miller,
widow of Mr. Francis Miller, a well-
known attorney of this county, died
last Saturday at her home,
Stanmore, near Sandy Spring,
aged 74 years, after a lingering illness.
She was the daughter of Benjamin
Hallowell, the popular educator
and scientist, who died a number
of years ago. She was born in
Alexandria, Va., where her father
conducted one of the most popular
schools of his day. Indeed for a
period of more than a generation or
two the Halloweels were the leading
educators of this part of the country.

REV. DR. FISHER'S SUDDEN DEATH.

Whilst Sitting at the Table He was Stricken
with Heart Disease - His Long and
Usefull Career as Clergyman, Editor and
Publisher.

Rev. Charles G. Fisher, D. D., editor of
the Reformed Messenger, died suddenly at
his residence, 1614 Wallace street, Philadelphia,
at noon Tuesday. He was at the
publication house during the morning and
returned to his house at noon for lunch
He and the members of the family had
just seated themselves at the table. Nothing
was noticable in his actions or manner
until the family, perceiving a long pause
just before the customary blessing upon
the meal, and, looking up, they found that
he had expired. He had not uttered a
sound or made a movement. A physician
who was hastily summoned pronounced
death to be due to a clot of blood arising
from rheumation of the heart.
Chas. G. Fisher was a son of the Rev.
Dr. Samuel R. Fisher and was born Dec.
28, 1837. His youth and early manhood
was spent in Chambersburg
academy he entered Franklin and
Marshall College, Lancaster, from which
he graduated in 1858. After a short connection
with the Chambersburg Academy
as one of its teachers, he entered the Theological
Seminary at Mercersburg, from
which he graduated shortly after the war,
and he was licensed to preach by Mercersburg
classis in 1866. Grindstone Hill was
his first charge, after which he served five
years as pastor of the Boehm's church,
in Montgomery county. He then became
pastor of the Reformed church in Winchester,
Va. In 1880 he became associated
with the Reformed Publication House in
Philadelphia, and at the time of the death
of his father in June, 1881, who was editor
of the Messenger and general superintendent
of the publication establishment, his
son became his successor. Upon the resignation
of Rev. Dr. Davis as editor in
chief of the Messenger, in 1887, the publication
interests of the church were committed
to his charge under a lease, by
which he became the proprietoy. He has
managed the affairs of the establishment
with success and a profit to the church.
At the time of his death, Dr. Fisher was
treasurer of the Educational Society of
the Reformed church, a member of the
Board of Visitors of the Theological
Seminary at Lancaster, and a member of the
Board of Directors of the Daniel Stine
Home for ministers at Myerstown, Pa.
He received his degree of Doctor of Divinity
from Franklin and Marshall College.
Dr. Fisher, like his father, was widely
known throughout the Reformed church.
He was familiar with its history, and interested
in all its enterprises. He had
a large circle of friends, and his death will
be deeply regretted by all who knew him.
He was very genial and companionable.
He had large experience as a publisher,
and a wide acquaintance among newspaper
men.
He leaves a widow and four children, a
daughter, Mrs. William Clark, of Asbury
Park, Nellie, Samuel and Charles.
Whilst a student in Mercersburg he was
editor, for a time, of the Journal, and he
was the prime mover in reviving Mercers-
College, having successfully re-opened the
institution as its principal.
Dr. Fisher was in Chambersburg on the
17th inst., and in Hagerstown on the following
day attending to business in the
settling up of the estate of Miss. Wilhelmina
May, of which he was an executor and
one of the heirs. He was a great grandson
of John Gruber, the founder of the
Hagerstown almanack, and was the owner
of one-third interest in that annual. Miss
Frederica Gruber, grand-aunt of Dr. Fisher,
died in Hagerstown on Tuesday night,
about nine hours after the death of her
nephew. Her death removed the last
member of the Gruber family. By these
two deaths, happening almost simultaneously,
and only a few weeks after that of
of Miss. Wilhelmina May, the ownership
of the old and well known journal passes
into the hands of distant relatives, after
having been in the Gruber family for
many years.
The funeral of Dr. Fisher takes place
to-day at 2 p.m. Interment private.

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