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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n political matters he is an Inde-pendent Democrat and will not allow himself to be influenced in forming apersonal opinion by partisanship. His religious affiliations are with thePresbyterian church, and he is a member of the University and Merchantsclubs. Tennis and aquatic sports are his favorite form of recreation, in-cluding motor-boating, fishing and swimming. In his personal appearancethe nervous, energetic determination of the man is shown in every line andexpression, his character being clearly indicated by his features. His per-sonal influence has always been given to those interests which further cul-ture in lines of art, and which recognize the common brotherhood of man. WILLIAM MAURICE MANLY It has been alleged against the American whose life is devoted to com-mercial pursuits that his nature becomes narrow through undue absorptionin business, and that upon retirement from its activities he finds himselfdestitute of interests. This cannot be said of William Maurice Manly.
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//^ /// ///^ HISTORY OF BALTIMORE 529 Identified with the social Hfe of the city, devoted to the occupations andsports of a country gentleman and with a large-minded interest in currentevents, few lives are as many-sided as his. Mr. Manly is a representativeof a family the members of which in a number of instances achieved dis-tinction in arms and in the learned professions and indelibly stamped thename of Manly on the pages of our national annals. (I) Basil Manly, grandfather of William Maurice Manly, was a nativeof St. Marys county, Maryland, but while still a young man removed toBladen county. North Carolina, and during the Revolutionary War wasan active and zealous officer in the Patriot army. As captain of a companyhe was engaged in many daring enterprises of which North Carolina wasthe scene. When a hazardous expedition was to be undertaken CaptainManly was expected to lead it, and always were his spirit and ardor fullyequal to the occasion. Some years after the war he removed f

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