Towson University - Tower Echoes Yearbook (Towson, MD)

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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

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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 Lycopodium T is a very easy matter to go to your favorite apothecary and ask for five cents' worth of lycopodium, which is often used as a dusting powder for chafed skin. Do you know What this lycopodium is, what its uses are, and where it is found? Lycopodium is a club moss known scientifically as a cryptogamous plant belonging to the pteridophyta or fern group. The powder, which the druggist sells, is the spores of the lycopodium plant. Each plant produces thousands of these spores-each one the same relative size. The individual spore contains 50? fatty oil Qoleinj SW to 6? nitrogen and 44? to 47 W2 of carbohydrates. A lycopodic acid found in the fatty oil crystallizes, becoming silky needles, and is doubly refractory like quartz. The spores are not wetted by water, yet when boiled they sink to the bot- tom of the container. I Formerly this interesting powder was used as a decoction and em- ployed in cures for rheumatism, and diseases of the lungs and kidneys. It is used now on chafed skin, even when better grades of powder are available. The pharmacist uses it to facilitate the rolling of pills. Often, in homeopathic medicines, when they are pellets, lycopodium powder is to be found in the container. The spores are used in rockets and fire works and light up the zenith with their glare. The inflammable quali- ties of this powder can easily be seen when a little is thrown upon the flame of a match or candle, it explodes with a brilliant lightning-like flash. As a result, it was often used back stage when a storm was in progress-you know-the crash of sheet tin, the din of rolling balls, the shriek of the wind machine, the lightning-like flash of the lycopodium! This interesting plant is to be found in Europe, Asia, and North America. It grows very abundantly in Maryland. Its dainty green adds color to many Christmas wreaths. The commercial lycopodium product is collected in Ukraine, Poland, Switzerland, and Germany, it is shipped in bags to us form Danzig, Hamburg, and London. Why buy it? Go collect it. Most of us will brush it from our clothes after a tramp through the woods, and promptly complain about the lack of rain to keep the fyellowj dust down. EARL H. PALMER, Senior III. Chemistry Prof.- What is the most outstanding contribution that chemistry has given the world? Frosh- Blondes ! -Cougar? Paw. 1 0