. Baltimore : its history and its people . ds a verbal promise as an absolute obligation even in trifles; at workearly and late, he always comes out right in practical results. Mr. McGawis descended from early Colonial settlers of Maryland. (I) John McGaw, the first of the line here under consideration, mar-ried and had a son, Robert; see forward. (II) Robert, son of John McGaw, married Sarah Lester, February 2,1758, and had a son, Robert; see forward. (III) Robert (2), son of Robert (i) McGaw, was born March 2,1763, in Harford county, Maryland. He was a tanner by occupation. Hemarried Elizabe
. Baltimore : its history and its people . ds a verbal promise as an absolute obligation even in trifles; at workearly and late, he always comes out right in practical results. Mr. McGawis descended from early Colonial settlers of Maryland. (I) John McGaw, the first of the line here under consideration, mar-ried and had a son, Robert; see forward. (II) Robert, son of John McGaw, married Sarah Lester, February 2,1758, and had a son, Robert; see forward. (III) Robert (2), son of Robert (i) McGaw, was born March 2,1763, in Harford county, Maryland. He was a tanner by occupation. Hemarried Elizabeth Armstrong, and had children: John, see forward; Rob-ert, Samuel, James, Jane, Elizabeth. (W) John (2), son of Robert (2) and Elizabeth (Armstrong) Mc-Gaw, was born March 18, 1797. He was occupied variously as a merchant,farmer, and tanner, and served both as first and second lieutenant in themilitia from 1812 until 1815. Politically he was a Whig, and his religiousaffiliations were with the Presbyterian church. For forty years he was a. HISTORY OF BALTIMORE 671 squire in Harford county. He married, November 28, 1828, Mary Bartol,born June 8, 1808, daughter of Timothy and Harriet (Bayless) : WilHam E., John Robert, Timothy L., Harriet E., Henry M.,Albert B., George Keen, see forward. (V) George Keen, son of John (2) and Mary Bartol (Keen) Mc-Gaw, was born at Bush, Harford county, Maryland, January 8, 1850. Hiseducation, which was an excellent one, was acquired at the Abingdon Acad-emy, Bel Air Academy and West Nottingham Academy. Immediately aftercompleting his education, in 1868, he accepted a clerkship with Hon. JacobTome, of Port Deposit, Maryland, and then held various clerical positionsin banks, warehouses and steamship offices. He served three years as cashierand bookkeeper in the offices of the Baltimore & Susquehanna SteamboatCompany, at Baltimore. Having decided to establish himself in a businessof his own, Mr. McGaw, May i, 1875, opened a grocery busine
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