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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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nd literature. Mr. Taylor married MaryjVIartha, daughter of Richard and Martha Thorndike Parker, of Beverly,.jVIassachusetts. Mrs. Taylor shares her husbands studies and pursuits,being especially devoted to charitable work. E. WALTER GILES The man who achieves success solely by the well-directed efiforts ofhis own natural abilities and strength of character is a type which has everappealed with peculiar force to the Anglo-Saxon race on both sides of thesea. Baltimore, in common with every other great city, owes much to thoseof her business men who belong to this honorable class. Conspicuous among them stands E. Walter Giles, widely known, gen-erally beloved, and justly honored for his sterling worth, high principle,and unswerving integrity. He was first associated with John E. Potter &Company, publishers, of Philadelphia, then Scribners and later, for manyyears, identified with the Esterbrook Steel Pen Company. Mr. Giles, having been the architect of his own fortune, is now enjoy-
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HISTORY OF BALTIMORE 621 ing in well-earned leisure the results of a long period of successful en-deavor. Although withdrawn from the activities of business life, he is stillin spirit a young man, and keenly and earnestly wide-awake and energeti-cally interested in the religious, commercial, political and social life of hisnative city. Walter Giles, father of E. Walter Giles, was born February 5, 1800, inPlymouth, England, and was a seventh son. He was educated in London,traveled on the Continent, and in 1830 came to New York City, thence toHalifax, Nova Scotia, having letters of introduction to Levi Wells, a promi-nent man of Halifax. He soon fell in love with Alice Ann Wells, daughter of Levi andCatherine (Wilson) Wells, and in a few months married her. The cere-mony was performed at the residence of her uncle, Thomas Wilson, hermothers brother, by the Rev. Dr. William Jackson, the apostle and founderof the First Methodist Protestant Church of Nova Scotia in Halifax.Thomas Wilson wa

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