Towson University - Tower Echoes Yearbook (Towson, MD)

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THE TOWER LIGHT Some Eastern Shore Families T is very noticeable that in the more southern counties of the Eastern Shore, estates, manors, and grants are connected more conspicuously with families even than in the upper counties. t Dorchester county is the largest county in land area on the Eastern Shore. This section has several old families and family manors surviving. In 1740 'Henry Hooper built a home at the junction of the Choptank and Warwick Rivers. He called it Warwick Manor. The home- stead was inherited by Henry Hooper, the son. He divided the estate and sold it outside of the family. The original Col. Henry Hooper who built Warwick Fort Manor House, as it is now called, is the ancestor of the Maryland families of that name. Above Cambridge on Shoal Creek, Col. Thomas Ennalls was given a tract of land. He called his property Eldon. Descendants of Thomas Ennalls are branches of the Goldsborough, Hooper, Steele and Bayard families. The oldest dwelling remaining in Cambridge is The Point. It has been added to by people who have lived there. For many years it was in the Goldsborough family. James Steele bought it from W. Goldsborough. It passed into the hands of Mrs. Eliza Hayward, widow of William Eccleston. Glasgow has been the ancestral home of the Tubman family. The old estate is now owned by Mr. Robert E. Tubman of Baltimore. Hambrook is the tract which was given to one branch of the Henry's. Families of Dorrington, Hambrook, Caile and Steele have been associated with the property. In 1662 Stephen Gary received a grant which he called spogot. It has been continuously in the family and it is now owned by three Radcliffe brothers, the eighth generation descended from Stephen Gary. In Wicomico county the Ben Davis house is noted. The manor is said to have been the parsonage of Green Hill Church. The property of course was in the Davis family. Next oldest to the Ben Davis house and the Green Hill Church is property belonging to members of the Handy family. Cherry Hill has been the home of the Somers and Gunby families. These families have intermarried and retained the old homestead. Col. Isaac Handy was a very prominent gentleman of his day. He was the forefather of the Somerset family of that name. Somerset, Worcester and Wicomico were considered originally as the Eastern Shore. Beckford,', in Somerset, is on the tract patented to William Stevens. It was sold many times. It was in the Dennis- Jackson family for many years. In 1886 H. F. Lankford bought the place. 8

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THE TOWER LIGHT Why Should I Think I'm Great? I can stand up tall on tiptoe Arms stretched very high But I cannot reach the sky. I hear the organ's full rich tone And know my voice is but a reed Which cannot reach another's need. I feel the sod beneath my feet. Within that sod there's wealth untold I have no power to unfold. Why should I think I'm great? ELIZABETH MCINTYRE. oze Maturity A child I Was, and full of faith in life, Real faith in God, and man, and you, who held Unknowingly, the strings to open up my heart To all the beauties of a golden world. With soul as trusting as a mother's eyes, I placed into your waiting hands my love. Real love it was, pure, true, and full of hope That I might make my very life your own. You smiled and all my baby dreams came true. I breathed those days of ecstasy unknown Since that sad night so many years ago, When you kissed my cheek and left me there alone. She's just a childf' I think I heard you say- But God was kind-for I grew up that day. AN ALUMNA. 9:0 Writing is like laughter. To be genuine it must come from within a man. The power to write well cannot 'be handed over to us by the best teachers, it cannot be extracted from any or all of the books in the library. It is simply the expression of ourselves, the externaliza- tion of our minds, imaginations, hearts. 7

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THE TOWER LIGHT Teakle Mansion at Princess Anne is on a part of the Beckford grant. It was bought by Judge Teakle from George Jackson. This home is the mansion referred to in The Entailed Hat. The old brick house, Makepeace, housed the progenitors of the Roache, Gunby, Atkinson, Sterling and Cullen families. Worcester is the most eastern county in the south of the Shore. Dannock Dennis who settled here was the first Maryland settler of this name. His grant of Beverly has never been out of the family. Mr. and Mrs. P. C. Dennis make the old manor their home. A little south of Berlin is the birthplace of Stephen Decatur. Although his parents were not Maiylandefs, he was a most patriotic son of the state as history reveals. There were vestrymen at Snow Hill Parish delegated to establish Protestant religion. Members of this group were Mathew Scarborough, Thomas Selby, Edward Hammond and others. The Chase Housel' is accepted as the birthplace of Samuel Chase. Kingston Hall was the home of the King-Carrol family. The estate was bought by a member of the Somerset branch of the Dennis family. His descendants have held the property for many years. These families are of colonial heritage. The scions of the old names are more prevalent in these counties however than they are in the upper five counties. E. WESON, junior VI. The Social Calendar N Thursday, September 6, the Freshmen were entertained at a Tea Dance in Newell Hall Foyer. We might say we hoped it helped them recover from the effect of the morning entrance tests. We would like to thank a male member of the Freshmen Class, who helped this occasion to be a successful one, by furnishing the music. The Campus Frolic, or Newell Hall Foyer Frolic, on September 12, was a big success in spite of old man weather's obstinacyf' We hope the Freshies enjoyed it as much as we upper classmen did. We feel that Campus Play Day on September 26 brought us all closer together. A fine school spirit was indeed evident. Although some of the results of the day were stiff legs and sore arms, we enjoyed it. E. G., Senior VI. 9 1353 J