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New Cathedral Cemetery
The New Cathedral Cemetery is a Roman Catholic cemetery, with 125 acres, located on the westside of Baltimore, Maryland, at 4300 Old Frederick Road. It is the final resting place of 110,000 people, including numerous individuals who played important roles in Maryland history. New Cathedral opened in 1871, replacing Cathedral Cemetery. The cemetery contains several players from the Baltimore Orioles, including four members of the Baseball Hall of Fame: John McGraw, Joseph Kelley, Ned Hanlon, and Wilbert Robinson. It is believed that no other cemetery has so many Hall of Famers. Other notable burials * Ephraim Francis Baldwin *John Lee Carroll *Charles Pearce Coady *Miriam Cooper *Edmund Francis Dunne *George Proctor Kane (1817–1878), Mayor of Baltimore and Marshal of Police in Baltimore * Otis Keilholtz (1838–1883), Speaker of the Maryland House of Delegates and ex-officio mayor of Baltimore * Ambrose Jerome Kennedy *John Lee * J. R. Malone *Bobby Mathews *Thomas Francis Mc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Baltimore
Baltimore ( , locally: or ) is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Maryland, fourth most populous city in the Mid-Atlantic, and the 30th most populous city in the United States with a population of 585,708 in 2020. Baltimore was designated an independent city by the Constitution of Maryland in 1851, and today is the most populous independent city in the United States. As of 2021, the population of the Baltimore metropolitan area was estimated to be 2,838,327, making it the 20th largest metropolitan area in the country. Baltimore is located about north northeast of Washington, D.C., making it a principal city in the Washington–Baltimore combined statistical area (CSA), the third-largest CSA in the nation, with a 2021 estimated population of 9,946,526. Prior to European colonization, the Baltimore region was used as hunting grounds by the Susquehannock Native Americans, who were primarily settled further northwest than where the city was later built. Colonist ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Newspapers
A newspaper is a periodical publication containing written information about current events and is often typed in black ink with a white or gray background. Newspapers can cover a wide variety of fields such as politics, business, sports and art, and often include materials such as opinion columns, weather forecasts, reviews of local services, obituaries, birth notices, crosswords, editorial cartoons, comic strips, and advice columns. Most newspapers are businesses, and they pay their expenses with a mixture of subscription revenue, newsstand sales, and advertising revenue. The journalism organizations that publish newspapers are themselves often metonymically called newspapers. Newspapers have traditionally been published in print (usually on cheap, low-grade paper called newsprint). However, today most newspapers are also published on websites as online newspapers, and some have even abandoned their print versions entirely. Newspapers developed in the 17th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Walt Smallwood
Walter Clayton Smallwood (April 24, 1893 – April 29, 1967) was a professional baseball pitcher from 1913 to 1931. He won 192 games in the minor leagues and also played two seasons in Major League Baseball for the New York Yankees. Smallwood was 6 feet, 2 inches tall and weighed 190 pounds."Walt Smallwood Statistics and History" baseball-reference.com. Retrieved October 20, 2011. Career Smallwood was born in , in 1893. He started his professional baseball career in 1913. The following season, he joined the South Atlantic League's |
Theodore Wells Pietsch I
Theodore Wells Pietsch (October 2, 1868, Chicago, Illinois – January 1, 1930, Baltimore, Maryland) was a well-known American architect, best remembered for a large body of work in and around Baltimore, Maryland. Among his best-known buildings are Recreation Pier at Fell’s Point (now a luxury hotel, the Sagamore Pendry Baltimore) at 1715 Thames Street, and the SS. Philip and James Catholic Church at 2801 North Charles Street, Baltimore. Education and early career After attending the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1885–1888), he returned to Chicago to begin his career with the architectural firms of Flanders & Zimmerman and of Burnham & Root, both of Chicago. On September 12, 1891, he left the U.S. for Paris and spent the next six years studying at the ''École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-arts'' where he received the French Government Diploma for architecture in December 1897, the ninth American to receive this award. In 1898, he received an honorary mention in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vincent Luke Palmisano
Vincent Luke Palmisano (August 5, 1882 – after January 12, 1953) was an American politician from Maryland. Born as Vincenzo Palmisano in Termini Imerese, Palermo in the Kingdom of Italy, to Cosimo Palmisano and Anna Maria Sansone Chiariano. Palmisano emigrated to the United States with his parents, who settled in Baltimore in 1887. He attended parochial schools and studied law at the University of Maryland, Baltimore. He was admitted to the bar in 1909 and commenced practice in Baltimore. Palmisano served as a member of the Maryland House of Delegates in 1914 and 1915, as a member of the Baltimore City Council from 1915 to 1923, as a member of the Democratic State central committee of Baltimore from 1923 to 1927, and as police examiner of Baltimore from 1925-1927. In 1926, he was elected as a Democrat to the Seventieth and to the five succeeding Congresses, serving from March 4, 1927 to January 3, 1939. His re-election in 1928 was very close, winning by only 330 votes and wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eugene O'Dunne
Eugene O'Dunne or Eugene Antonio Dunne (June 22, 1875 – October 30, 1959) was a judge of the Supreme Bench of Baltimore City. Personal life Born in Tucson, O'Dunne was the son of Judge Edmund F. Dunne, who was Chief Justice of the Arizona Territory at the time. His mother Josephine Cecelia Warner, though originally from Mississippi herself, was part of an old Virginia family. In 1894 he graduated from St. Mary's College (now Belmont Abbey) in North Carolina. Two years later he would receive an M.A. from St. Mary's as well. It was during this time that Eugene legally changed his last name to the ancestral family name of O'Dunne, while at the same time dropping his middle name of Antonio. This was done as to further emphasize his Irish heritage. He practiced law with his father in Jacksonville, Florida at the firm of ''Dunne and O'Dunne''. He later went on to receive a law degree in 1900 from the University of Maryland. In 1904, Judge O’Dunne was married to the great grandniec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Herbert O'Conor
Herbert Romulus O'Conor (November 17, 1896March 4, 1960) was an American lawyer serving as the 51st Governor of Maryland from 1939 to 1947. He also served in the United States Senate, representing Maryland from 1947 to 1953. He was a Democrat. O'Conor was born in Baltimore, Maryland to James P. A. O'Conor and Mary Ann (Galvin) O'Conor. He received his B.A. degree from Loyola College and graduated from the University of Maryland School of Law in 1920. While in school, O'Conor was a reporter for the Baltimore Sun and Baltimore Evening Sun from 1919 to 1920. On November 24, 1920, O'Conor married Mary Eugenia Byrnes (1896–1971) and they had five children, Herbert R. Jr., Eugene F., James Patrick, Robert and Mary Patricia. From 1921 to 1922, O'Conor served as the assistant state's attorney for Baltimore. In 1923, he was elected State's Attorney of Baltimore City, and served there until he was elected as the Attorney General of Maryland in 1934. O'Conor also served in the National ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Mullan (road Builder) (born 1981), Irish Gaelic footballer
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John Mullan may refer to: *John Mullan (academic), professor of English at University College London *John Mullan (Australian politician) (1871–1941) *John Mullan (road builder) (1830–1909), American soldier, explorer and road builder * John B. Mullan (1863–1955), New York state senator *John Eddie Mullan (1923–2008), Irish Gaelic footballer See also *John Mullane John Mullane (born 28 January 1981) is an Irish hurler who played as a right corner-forward for the Waterford senior team. Mullane joined the team during the 2001 championship and immediately became a regular member of the starting fifteen. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hugh Allen Meade
Hugh Allen Meade (April 4, 1907 – July 8, 1949) was a U.S. Congressman, representing the second district of Maryland from 1947 to 1949. Born in Netcong, Morris County, New Jersey, Meade attended the public schools. He moved to Baltimore, Maryland in 1923 and graduated from Loyola High School in 1925, and from Loyola College in Maryland in 1929. He later graduated from the University of Maryland Law School in 1932 and was admitted to the bar in 1933 Meade served as secretary to Albert Ritchie, Governor of Maryland, in 1934. He was later a member of the Maryland House of Delegates from 1934 to 1936, supervisor of assessments of the city of Baltimore from 1936 1938, and Assistant Attorney General of Maryland from 1938 to 1946. During World War II, Meade served in the United States Navy as a lieutenant in 1944 and 1945. He resigned from the attorney general's office in 1946 to enter the private practice of law. He was elected as a Democrat in 1946 to the Eightieth Congress, but w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Francis McNulty
Thomas Francis McNulty (September 10, 1859 – May 25, 1932) was an American Democratic political operative and epithetist. He was at one time sheriff of Baltimore, Maryland. McNulty is most remembered, however, as the composer of the children's song "The Old Grey Mare". Early life Thomas Francis McNulty was born on September 10, 1859, in Baltimore, Maryland, to Thomas Francis McNulty. He attended St. John's Parochial School, but left at the age of 12. He started work as an errand boy.''1900 United States Federal Census'' He then worked as a house and sign painter. He was an organizer and singer at St. Paul's Catholic Church in Baltimore. Career McNulty worked at the Government Printing Office in Washington, D.C., from 1884 to 1886. In 1884, McNulty sang for the campaign of William Hinson Cole. After working at the Government Printing Office, McNulty returned to Baltimore and was appointed to assist with the mayoral re-election campaign of Ferdinand Latrobe in 1887. McNulty ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bobby Mathews
Robert T. Mathews (November 21, 1851 – April 17, 1898) was an American right-handed professional baseball pitcher who played in the National Association of Professional Base Ball Players, the National League of Major League Baseball and the American Association (19th century), American Association for twenty years beginning in the late 1860s. He is credited as being one of the inventors of the spitball pitch, which was rediscovered or reintroduced to the major leagues after he died. He is also credited with the first legal pitch which Breaking ball, broke away from the batter. He is listed at 5 feet 5 inches tall and 140 pounds, which is small for a pro athlete even in his time, when the Human height#Average height around the world, average height of an American male in the mid-19th century was 5 foot 7. Career Mathews was born in 1851, in Baltimore, Maryland, and he played as a teenager with the Maryland club of that city, and he made the team a dangerous one. Mathews ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Lee (Maryland Politician)
John Lee (January 30, 1788 – May 17, 1871) was a U.S. Representative from Maryland, son of Thomas Sim Lee. Born at "Needwood", near Frederick, Maryland, Lee was educated by private tutors and at Harvard University. He studied law, but did not practice, and rather engaged in the management of his estate "Needwood". Lee was elected as a Jackson Federalist to the Eighteenth Congress (March 4, 1823 – March 3, 1825). He served as chairman of the committee of the House of Representatives appointed to escort the Marquis de Lafayette from Frederick City to Washington in 1825. Later, Lee served as member of the Maryland House of Delegates and in the Maryland Senate. He was one of the proponents of the Chesapeake & Ohio Canal, and of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad. Lee retired from public life, and resumed management of his estate. He died while on a visit to his son in New York City, and is interred in New Cathedral Cemetery, familiarly called "Bonnie Brae," of Baltimore, Maryland ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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