Pedigrees of Thomas, Chew, and Lawrence : the West River register, and genealogical notes . AEMS OF POULTNEY. 93 GENEALOGICAL NOTES. ARMS OF HOPKINS. Arriving at manliood, lie went to Baltimore, then a town of only 15,000 inhabitants, andwas received into the store ofhis brother-in-law, Thomas Poult-ney. In 1800 he commenced bus-iness on his own account, as ahardware merchant, on BaltimoreStreet, afterwards taking intopartnership his wifes brother,Wm. E. George, and finally hisbrother Evan. He early tookan interest in municipal affairsand public charities, and wasthe first President of the Mar
Pedigrees of Thomas, Chew, and Lawrence : the West River register, and genealogical notes . AEMS OF POULTNEY. 93 GENEALOGICAL NOTES. ARMS OF HOPKINS. Arriving at manliood, lie went to Baltimore, then a town of only 15,000 inhabitants, andwas received into the store ofhis brother-in-law, Thomas Poult-ney. In 1800 he commenced bus-iness on his own account, as ahardware merchant, on BaltimoreStreet, afterwards taking intopartnership his wifes brother,Wm. E. George, and finally hisbrother Evan. He early tookan interest in municipal affairsand public charities, and wasthe first President of the Mary-land Bible Society, and theMechanical Fire Company, one of the founders of theBaltimore Library Company, for many years Presidentof the Mechanics Bank, and advanced the first 125,000to begin building the Washington Monument. During the Fall of 1826 Philip E. Thomas had hismind directed to the loss which Baltimore had sustainedby the diversion of a large part of its Western trade toPhiladelphia and New York through the Erie Canal, andsimilar facilities for internal navigation and traffic in theStates of New York and Pennsylva
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