Identifier: baltimoreitshist03hall (find matches)
Title: Baltimore : its history and its people
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Hall, Clayton Coleman, 1847-1916 Lewis Historical Publishing Co
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Publisher: New York : Lewis Historical Pub. Co.
Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
Digitizing Sponsor: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center

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h in Maryland and Pennsylvania. His father was Dr. EdwardPainter, a noted physician, who married, September i, 1834, Louisa Gilpin,born December 11, 1814, died May 16, 1896, daughter of Joseph Gilpin,who was born May 17, 1780, died March 29, 1858. He married, in 1802,Sarah Pierce. Joseph Gilpin lived at Sandy Spring, Montgomery county,Maryland. Joseph Gilpins father was Gideon Gilpin, who married, De-cember I, 1762. Sarah Gregg; he was born December 4, 1738, died August20, 1825. (A full account of the genealogy of the Gilpin family, togetherwith the Gilpin coat-of-arms, is to be found in sketch of the late BernardGilpin, elsewhere in this work). William Painter was born at Triadelphia, Montgomery county, Mary-land, November 20, 1838, died at the Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore,Maryland, July 15, 1906. His boyhood days were spent on the homesteadfarm, and it was owing to the health and strength he gathered in theseearly days that Mr. Painter was enabled to endure the great mental and
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HISTORY OF BALTIMORE 885 physical strain that he was subjected to during his later life. Even in hisboyhood he evinced a decided genius for inventive and mechanical work.In addition to his inventive ability, he was endowed with a remarkabletalent for business methods, a combination rarely met with, which enabledhim to reap the benefits accruing from his labors. He paid the most ex-traordinary attention to the details of whatever engaged his attention, andthis persistence was probably the mainspring of the success which attendedhis efforts. He knew not what it was to feel discouraged; any trial whichdid not bring to perfection the idea with which his mind was busied wassimply regarded by him as a bit of experimental work which it had beenabsolutely necessary to perform in order to attain the desired result; dis-couragement was an unknown word to him. An idea of the magnitudeof his labors may be gained from the fact that he received almost onehundred patents from the United States, in a

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