St Johns College - Yearbook (Annapolis, MD)

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of the array of jurists of the country. They adorned the bench of their own State, compeers of Marshall, Taney, B. R. Curtis and Storey. Judge Dorsey died in 1855, and Judge Brewer, like him, was gathered to the sleep of the valiantand just in 1864. The triumvirate of M1aryland's judiciary among the older alumni of St. Iohn's would be incomplete without here adding the name of that learned, wise and good man, Judge Alexander Contee Magruder, an alumnus of 1794, a member of the Executiev Council, State Senator and Judge, and official reporter of the Court of Appeals. ' Since the closing of the hiatus in the work of the College, 1866, the sons which St. Iohn's has given to the world have well fulhlled their missions. The Church, the Law and Medicine, and various other departments of human effort and industry have been enriched by their presence and energies. The survivors are yet young enough to reach the summit of their several vocations or ambitions. One of the Class of '72 already adorns the Supreme Bench of Baltimore City, Henry David Harlan, and another of the Class of ,73 is an eloquent divine, who, as the orator of the day by request of the Alumni, will address you, and upon whose time I fear I have already too long intruded. Another son, Commander Dennis Mullan, of th Navy, bearing at the time St. John's honorary degree M. A., was on duty with his brother heroes in the recent Samoan hurricane, and, of her dead, Lieut. James Lockwood, of the Army, died after extending the boundary of know land twenty-eight miles nearer the pole, reaching the most northerly point on land that ever has been attained by man. Jaap Dr. Winfield Scott Schley, B. A., M. A., M. D., ' 93 Dr. Winfield Scott Schley, Ir., son of the Maryland hero of the battle off Santiago, was born at the United States Naval Academy, Annapolis, Md., on August 1, 1873. The early part of his life was a transitory one, having made Boston, Vlfashington, and then Philadelphia hisihome. At each of these cities he attended public and private schools, and in Philadelphia he attended a military boarding school. In Qctober, 1889, he entered St. Iohn's Co-llege where his illustrious father was destined to have attended, but was prevented by his insatiable desire for a career in the navy. While at college Dr, Schlev was actively connected with all the athletic, social and literary functions of the school and in his senior year was president of the Philokalian Society. He graduated 11? gi11e,.I.893, with the degree of B. A. In October, 1893, he entered the College p iysliciaqns and Surgeons, New York, QColumbia University, Medical Dept.j, Sion?-JLTLQE 155288 he graduated In June: 1396- Nearly a year later he entered - pltal, where he served two and a half years on the house staff 'l l - - . , , 1 HHH lu Y: 1399- Then, f0H0W111g UP hls profession as a physician, he became con- nected with Sloane Hospital, being on the staff. But in November, ISQQ, he 36

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Among this array of learning and worth it will not be invidious to mention the name of one of the Class of 1802, David Hoffman, LL. D., author, historian and jurist, a citizen of Maryland, eminent in his own and a neighboring State, as well as broad, and upon whom degrees were conferred by the Universities at Oxford and Gottingen. Dr. Hoffman was both a patron and a Visitor and Governor of St. John's. Of the pupils of St. John's in its early days, the 'fMaryland Collegian -of March, 1878, states: We find from an examination of the old matriculating register that between the years 1789 and ISOS it shows not only representatives of every county of Maryland and the city of Baltimo-re, but also from the States of Pennsylvania, Delaware, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia and Louisiana. -VVe' find there representatives from no less than nine counties of the State of Virginia, and the followng well-known Virginia names: Washington, Custis, Dulany, Alexander, Thompson, Clark, Herbert, Comax, Taylor, Benson, Gibbon, Lore, Blackburn, Burwell, Mercer, and others. Theisame authority finds the names of two students from England, one from France, three from the West Indies, one from Portugal, and, omitting as many quite as distinguished, the 'following Maryland names of Jennings, Dulany, Carroll, Stone, Pinkney, Lloyd, Chase, Ogle, Harrison, Thomas, Murray, Ridgley, Key, Dorsey, Snowden, Harwood, Sewart, Lee and Howard. The Custis above named among the Virginians refers to George Washington Parke Custis. the step- son and ward of Washington, who, it is said, took a great interest in St. John's, which he manifested by sending there his own ward as a pupil. The genial old gentleman, Mr. Custis, was at one time a member of the Class of 1799, and survived long enough to be personally known to several of my brother Alumni present. Memorable among the distinguished names of graduates during the peri-o-d above named, stands the names of Francis Scott Key, B. A., and John Shaw, B. A., M. D. It is said that Mr. Higginbottom took great pride' in exhibiting before visitors the accomplish- ments of these students and others, who with them formed the graduating class of 1796. From the next year, 1811, to 1830, inclusive, among the graduates and Alumni of St. John's appear names of men distinguished in the State and nation, and of these, in the order'of class years, the names of Reverdy Johnson, United States Senator, Attorney- General of the United States and Minister to England, Thomas Stockett Alexander, LL. D., John Johnson, Chancellor of the State, Hon. Alexander Randall, M. A., member of Congress and Attorney-General of Maryland, John Henry Alexander, LL. D., Right Rev. William Pinkney, LL. D., Episcopal Bishop of the Diocese of Maryland and the District of Columbia, the Hon. William H. Tuck, M. A., Judge of the Court of Appeals of Maryand, and Surgeon Vivian Pinkney, LL. D., medical director, United States Navy. The versatile genius of John Henry Alexander, distinguished in the church, in letters, science and the muses, who was graduated in 1827, when less than fifteen years of age, has illumined both Europe and America. The mere mention of these names shows that St. John's can boast of more jewels than did Cornelia. The Gracchi were but a single pair, but their Alma Mater, in the persons of the two brothers Johnson, the brothers Alexander and the brothers Pinkney, has given the State a diadem of brilliants as a crown forever. The name of another alumnus must be added to this period and linked with that of one of the Class of 1799. I allude to Judges Nicholas Brewer and Thomas Beale Dorsey, citizens respectively of Annapolis and of the county. Judges Dorsey and Brewer were so long associated on the bench, their faces, for years, were so familiar to the citizens of this judicial circuit, that their names are indissol- ubly associated together by its bar and citizens. These gentlemen belong among the brightest 35

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entered the practice of medicine, at which he prospered for one year. In january, 1900, he yvas appointed assistant surgeon at St. Luke's Hospital, outdoor depart- ment. Rising higher and higher in his noble calling, he Was, in Qctober, 1900, appointed assistant attending surgeon of Trinity Hospital, New York City. JJ The Rt. Rev. Cleland K. Nelson, B. A., D. D., '72 Bishop Nelson, the great-grandson of General Thomas Nelson, ex-Governor of Virginia, was born near Cobham, Albemarle County, Virginia, May 23, 1852. Having graduated at St. John's College in 1872, he received theological instruc- tion partly from his uncle, the Rev. C. K. Nelson, D. D., and partly from the Berkeley Divinity School, at Middletown, Conn. He was ordained to the deaconate in 1875, by Bishop Pinkney, of Maryland, and to the priesthood in 1876 by Bishop Stevens, of Pennsylvania. From this time until 1891 he was rector in several of the churches in Pennsylvania. On November 12, 1891, he Was elected Bishop of Georgia, and on February 27, 1892, he was consecrated in St. Luke's Cathedral, Atlanta. Bishop Nelson's entry upon the episcopate has been marked by great spiritual blessings upon the diocese of Georgia. 9 J Q29 William Ritchie, B. A., ' 73. ' I William Ritchie, born at Frederick, Maryland. His late home place is almost next door to that of old Barbara Fritchie, and near by-resided Admiral Winfield Scott Schley. Mr. Ritchie's father, Dr. Albert Ritchie, was exec- utor of Mr. Fritchie's estate. Mr. Ritchie graduated from St. John's in the class of 1873, studied law in the office of his elder brother, the late Hon. John Ritchie, Judge of the Court of Appeals. Later on he removed to Chicago, succeed- ing the Hon. John IS. Wirt, now oi Elkton, Maryland, as a member oi the law iirm of Judd 81 VVhitehouse, of-Chicago. On the death of the senior member of the firm, Mr. Ritchie succeededto that position, his firm being now Ritchie, Esher 81 Knobel. Mr. Ritchie took a very prominent part at the bar in Chicago, A 37