Edward Lloyd Howard and Laura Maynard Howard first, in 1894. Many members of the family have died at 79 Alder Street, the little daughter of Dr. In 1897 she died there, and again I remember the American Flag in red, white and blue flowers which covered the coffin, sent by “Doctor McComas.” (I have her letter written to an absent member of her family which also, with her picture, will go to the Garrett County Historical Society.) In the evening, a large dinner party was given and I vividly remember the long table decorated with ferns and with ninety candles blazing. All day a stream of visitors poured in, people from Oakland and Deer Park. Charles Howard (Elizabeth Phoebe Key) celebrated her 90th birthday in Oakland. Unknown men lined up on Alder Street, Memorial Day 1903 He and his cousin, Charles McHenry, were great rattlesnake hunters and amassed a trophy of rattles which I still own. Thomas Hunt Morgan, winner of the Nobel Prize for biology in 1933, and known before his death several years ago as the greatest living biologist in the world, received his first schooling in what I understand was a log cabin schoolhouse in Oakland. Cal Crim, Henry McComas, Charles McHenry Howard and Thomas Hunt Morgan. Charlton Morgan and their children spent several winters in Oakland, one at least at 79 Alder Street.Ī notable group of boys played together in Oakland in those days. Charlton Morgan (Ellen Key Howard) of Lexington, Kentucky. Edward Lloyd of Wye House, Talbot County, spent much time with her mother in Oakland, as did Mrs. His diary, illustrated in part by his own sketches, is immediately destined to the Garrett County Historical Society.Īnother granddaughter of Francis Scott Key’s, Mrs. James McHenry Howard, went by horseback, or by horse and buggy, over then all but impossible roads, on month long fishing trips to the Cheat and Elk Rivers. Howard, was a passionate fisherman, and with his first cousin, Dr. One grandson, John Ross Key, a notable painter, especially of mountain scenery, was a frequent visitor, and one of his paintings of “The Old County Bridge” was long in the possession of an Oakland family. Howard, its present owner, it was for eighty years the summer home of many of Francis Scott Key’s grandchildren and great grandchildren.
Willed by Alice Key Howard to her niece, Elizabeth B. Several additions and wings were built before the original four room lodge became the low rambling red structure, now known as 79 Alder Street. The paths were made of tan bark.Įven in my memory there was an oak grove with a path through it where the present Shafer house now stands.
This picture, “The Foot Paths Through The Glades,” is a reprint of a painting, artist unknown, made for the American Bank Note Company of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
0 kommentar(er)
