Dr. Joseph R. Owens, class of 1859, mayor of Hyattsville, Md., and
treasurer of the Maryland Agricultural College, died at his home, in
Hyattsville, March 15, 1909, after a lingering illness of six months.
Death came peacefully, and at the bedside were his wife, who was Miss
Gertrude E. Councilman, of Worthington Valley, Baltimore county, Md.;
his daughter, Mrs. Geo. B. Luckey, and his son, Charles C. Owens, of New
York. Besides these he is survived by his mother, Mrs. Percilla Owens,
90 years of age; a son, Mr. L. Owens, of New York, and a daughter, Mrs.
A. A. Turbeyne, of England.
Dr. Owens was born in Baltimore, February 20, 1839, and was 70 years
old. His parents removed to West River when he was seven years of age.
When he was ten years old he entered Newton Academy, Baltimore, and in
1859 was graduated from the Medical Department of the University of
Maryland. Immediately after leaving the University he was appointed
resident physician at the Baltimore City Almshouse, and served in this
capacity to 1861, when he returned to Anne Arundel county and began
farming on West River. In 1885 he removed to Hyattsville and accepted
the position of clerk of the Claims Division of the Treasury Department,
Washington. He held this office until 1890, when he was named as
treasurer of the Maryland Agricultural College, which position he filled
until death. For several years Dr. Owens was collector of taxes in Anne
Arundel county. When the municipal government of Hyattsville was changed
from a board of commissioners to a mayor and common council, Dr. Owens
was elected councilman from the Third ward, and served with marked
ability until May, 1906, when he was elected mayor.
He was elected for three consecutive terms without opposition, and was
foremost in every move tending to the advancement of the town. As
treasurer of the Maryland Agricultural College he became acquainted with
many of the leading men of the State, by whom he was held in the highest
esteem. He was secretary of the Vansville Farmers' Club for many years,
a director of the First National Bank of Hyattsville. Interment was in
the cemetery adjoining Old St. James' Protestant Episcopal Church, near
West River, Anne Arundel county. The coffin was borne from his late
residence, Hill Top Lodge, by seven cadets of the Agricultural
College--Cadet-Major Mayor, Captains Burrough and Jassell, Lieutenant
Jarrell and Sergeants Freere, Saunders and Cole. A squad of 25 cadets,
five from each class of the College, under command of Captain Gorsuch,
escorted the body to Pinkey Memorial Church, where the Episcopal burial
service was read by Rev. Henry Thomas, rector of St. Matthew's Parish,
of which Dr. Owens had been registrar and a member of the vestry for
several years. The body, preceded by the college cadets, was taken to
the Chesapeake Beach Railway Station and shipped to Lyons Creek, and
thence to St. James' Church. Rev. Henry Thomas officiated at the grave.
The pall-bearers were: Messrs. Wirt Harrison, Harry W. Dorsey, E. B.
Owens, O. H. Carr, T. Sellman Hall and E. A. Fuller. A special meeting
of the Mayor and Common Council was held in Heptasophs' Hall March 22,
1909, to take action upon the death of Dr. Joseph R. Owens, late Mayor
of Hyattsville. Acting Mayor John Fainter Jr., was chairman and Town
Clerk G. H. Carr was secretary. Former Mayor Dr. C. A. Wells eulogized
the late Mayor, both as a public official and a private citizen. Dr.
Joseph A. Mudd, W. P. Magruder, R. E. White, J. W. Aman and Edward
Devlin, all members of the Council who served with Dr. Owens, and R. W.
Wells, M. J. Smith and S. J. Kelly, the last named as members of the
present Council, also made appropriate addresses. It was resolved that
in the passing away of Dr. Joseph R. Owens, Mayor of Hyattsville, we
have lost a conscientious official, a valued associate and a personal
friend, and the citizens of Hyattsville at large, as well as his
official associates, have experienced a bereavement, the effects of
which they will ever feel.
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Dr. Asa S. Linthicum, class of 1852, a former member of the Board of
County Commissioners of Anne Arundel county, died at his home, in
Jessup, Md., Sunday, March 28, 1909, from apoplexy, aged 78. About 25
years ago Dr. Linthicum retired from the active practice of medicine to
engage in iron ore mining.
Dr. Linthicum's wife, who died about five years ago, was Miss Nettie
Crane, of Clifton Springs, N. J. Interment was in Loudon Park Cemetery,
Baltimore.
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Dr. John Bailey Mullins, class of 1887, of Washington, D. C., a member
of the American Medical Association and the American Society of
Laryngology and Otology, formerly of Norfolk, Va., died at his home, in
Washington, D. C., from cerebral hemorrhage, February 11, 1909, aged 42.
Resolutions on the death of Dr. John Bailey Mullins:
WHEREAS, It has been God's purpose to suddenly call hence one of our
most useful and beloved members; be it
_Resolved_, By the Washington Branch of the General Alumni Association
of the University of Maryland, that we are deeply grieved by the
premature death of our honored associate. By his death the public,
especially those worthy of charity, whom he was ever ready to serve,
have lost a most useful citizen, the medical profession a skilled and
painstaking physician and surgeon, and the University of Maryland an
able and active worker. And be it further
_Resolved_, That the sympathy of this Association be extended to his
daughter, whom he loved before all else on earth, and to whom he was
ever a dutiful father. And be it further
_Resolved_, That these resolutions be spread upon the minutes of our
Association and a copy of the same be sent to the parent Alumni
Association in Baltimore.
Committee--I. S. Stone, William L. Robbins, Harry Hurtt, Monte Griffith,
president; W. M. Simpkins, secretary.
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Dr. Samuel Groome Fisher, class of 1854, of Port Deposit, Md., died at
the home of his son, in Port Deposit, February 22, 1909, aged 77. For
more than 50 years Dr. Fisher was a practitioner of Chestertown, Md.
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Dr. Charles Brewer, class of 1855, of Vineland, N. J., died at his home,
in Vineland, March 3, 1909, aged 76. From 1858 to the outbreak of the
Civil War he was a member of the Medical Corps of the Army, and during
the war a surgeon in the Confederate States service. Under President
Cleveland he was postmaster at Vineland, N. J., and resident physician
at the State Prison, Trenton, from 1891 to 1896.
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Dr. William F. Chenault, class of 1888, of Cleveland, N. C., a member of
the Medical Society of the State of North Carolina, died at his home, in
Cleveland, N. C., February 24, 1909, from cerebral hemorrhage, aged 46.
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Dr. James B. R. Purnell, class of 1850, of Snow Hill, Maryland, died at
his home, in Snow Hill, March 7, 1909, from senile debility, aged 80. He
was vice-president of the Medical and Chirurgical Faculty of Maryland in
1900-1901, formerly physician to the county almshouse and health officer
of Worcester county.
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Dr. Benjamin Franklin Laughlin, class of 1904, of Kingwood, West
Virginia, died at the home of his father, in Deer Park, Md., from
paralysis, March 9, 1909, aged 31.
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