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• Adler, Charles    b. June 20, 1899  d. October 23, 1980
  Inventor. He was granted 60 patents in his lifetime, and invented numerous innovations such as an electric automotive brake, a traffic-actuated signal light, and other locomotive and auto safety devices.
  Druid Ridge Cemetery, Pikesville, Baltimore County, Maryland, USA
   
• Agnus, Felix    b. July 4, 1839  d. October 31, 1925
  Civil War Union Brevet Brigadier General. Born in Lyons, France, he was a veteran of the Franco-Austrian War, fighting under Emperor Napoleon III. Just after the Confederate bombardment of Fort Sumter, South Carolina, he enlisted in the 5th New York Volunteer Infantry (known as "Duryee's Zouaves"), being mustered in as Sergeant in Company H on April 25, 1861. He saw combat on the first significant ground action of the war...[Read More] (Bio by: Russ Dodge)
  Druid Ridge Cemetery, Pikesville, Baltimore County, Maryland, USA
  Plot: Annandale Section, Lot 415
   
• Blalock, Alfred    b. April 15, 1899  d. September 15, 1964
  Scientist, Inventor. In 1949, he was the recipient of the Rene Leriche Prize of the International Society of Surgery as the world's outstanding surgeon in vascular (heart) surgery. He graduated from the University of Georgia in 1918, and that year entered the study of medicine at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. He earned his M.D. from Johns Hopkins in 1922. From 1923 to 1925 he was hospital physician and assistant resident surgeon at Hopkins. Unable to obtain a residency at Hopkins...[Read More] (Bio by: Paul Theodore Riegert)
  Druid Ridge Cemetery, Pikesville, Baltimore County, Maryland, USA
   
• Butler, John Marshall   b. July 21, 1897  d. March 14, 1978
  US Senator. Served in the United States Army during World War I. He served as a United States Senator from Maryland from 1951 to 1963, and as a Delegate to the Republican National Convention from Maryland from 1952 to 1960. (Bio by: K)
  Druid Ridge Cemetery, Pikesville, Baltimore County, Maryland, USA
   
• Clarke, William Jones 'Boileryard'    b. October 18, 1868  d. July 29, 1959
  Major League Baseball Player. Catcher and first baseman for the Baltimore Orioles from 1893-1898 winning two National League pennants from '94-'96. He was purchased by the Boston Beaneaters in 1899-1900. The next year, he went to the Washington Senators in the newly established American League playing until 1904 when he was released and picked up by the New York Giants. Over his 13 year career, he batted .256, 858 hits and 20 home runs. He was a coach for the Princeton University Tigers in...[Read More] (Bio by: Robert)
  Druid Ridge Cemetery, Pikesville, Baltimore County, Maryland, USA
   
• Kendall, Florence    b. May 5, 1910  d. January 28, 2006
  Physical Therapist and Author. Florence dedicated over 70 years of her life to physical therapy. In 1938, she and her late husband Henry O. Kendall wrote a US Public Health Bulletin on the aftercare of polio. She played a major role in drafting the original bill that was enacted into law in 1947, legally establishing the practice of physical therapy in Maryland. She was the author of eight books, including five editions of the text "MUSCLES testing and function with Posture and Pain" which has...[Read More] (Bio by: RosalieAnn)
  Druid Ridge Cemetery, Pikesville, Baltimore County, Maryland, USA
   
• Linthicum, John Charles   b. November 26, 1867  d. October 5, 1932
  US Congressman. He was admitted to the bar in 1890 and commenced law practice in Baltimore, Maryland. He was a member of the State House of Delegates in 1904 and 1905, served in the State Senate from 1906 to 1909 and as Judge Advocate General on the staff of Governor Austin L. Crothers, 1908 to 1912. In 1911, he was elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-second Congress and to the ten succeeding Congresses, serving until his death. (Bio by: John "J-Cat" Griffith)
  Druid Ridge Cemetery, Pikesville, Baltimore County, Maryland, USA
   
• Modell, Art   b. June 23, 1925  d. September 6, 2012
  Sports Team Owner. He was the proprietor of the original Cleveland Browns franchise from 1961 until following their relocation to Baltimore. His decision to move the team made him an unpopular figure in the Cleveland sports community. Born in Brooklyn, his father was an electronic retailer who would lose all his finances during "the depression". Since his family was in desperate need of funds, Art was forced to leave high school and lie about his age to obtain a job. During World War II, he...[Read More] (Bio by: C.S.)
  Druid Ridge Cemetery, Pikesville, Baltimore County, Maryland, USA
   
• Modell, Patricia    b. March 17, 1931  d. October 12, 2011
  Actress, Philanthropist. A noted television performer of the 1950s and 1960s, she left her own career behind when she married pro football owner Art Modell. The child of a judge, she was raised in New York, attended a Convent School in New Rochelle, and later earned a degree from New Rochelle College. As 'Patricia Breslin' she made her small screen debut in 1949 as Juliet in a "Philco Television Playhouse" production of "Romeo and Juliet" then was to gain theatrical experience while in college...[Read More] (Bio by: Bob Hufford)
  Druid Ridge Cemetery, Pikesville, Baltimore County, Maryland, USA
   
• Motton, Curt   b. September 24, 1940  d. January 21, 2010
  Major League Baseball Player. For eight seasons (1967 to 1974), he played at the outfield position with the Baltimore Orioles, Milwaukee Brewers and California Angels. Born Curtell Howard Motton, he attended the University of California before making his big league debut with the Orioles on July 5, 1967. He was a member of three American League Pennant-winning teams (1969 to 1971 Orioles), including the 1970 World Champion Orioles' squad. He appeared in 3 American League Championship Series (...[Read More] (Bio by: C.S.)
  Cause of death: Stomach cancer
  Druid Ridge Cemetery, Pikesville, Baltimore County, Maryland, USA
   
• Painter, William    b. November 20, 1838  d. July 15, 1906
  Inventor. Maryland native William Painter invented the crown cork sealing system for bottle topping. Painter patented his invention in 1892 which was widely credited with the increase of home sales for beer. In the same year, he founded Crown, Cork and Seal which later evolved into Crown Holdings Inc., a Fortune 500 company. He held over 80 patents for his inventions including those for the home bottle opener, and automatic machinery to crown bottles. (Bio by: Kelt Smith)
  Druid Ridge Cemetery, Pikesville, Baltimore County, Maryland, USA
   
• Ponselle (Ponzillo), Carmela Anna    b. June 7, 1887  d. June 13, 1977
  Opera mezzo-soprano. Born Carmela Anna Ponzillo; the oldest of three children of Maddalena and Bernardino Ponzillo. She sang with her sister Rosa as "The Ponzillo Sisters" until Rosa joined the Metropolitan Opera in 1918. She made her Metropolitan debut in 1925 as Amneris in "Aida." (Bio by: Jan Franco)
  Druid Ridge Cemetery, Pikesville, Baltimore County, Maryland, USA
   
• Ponselle (Ponzillo), Rosa    b. January 22, 1897  d. May 25, 1981
  Opera Singer. A dramatic soprano, she was the Metropolitan Opera's reigning prima donna for almost 20 years. Born Rosa Melba Ponzillo into a musical family, she learned to sing at home and in church, took to the stage at an early age, and at 15 teamed with her older sister Carmela to form a popular vaudeville act, The Ponzillo Sisters. There are various versions of what happened next but in substance Rosa was invited to sing at the Metropolitan by tenor Enrico Caruso after he heard her in...[Read More] (Bio by: Bob Hufford)
  Druid Ridge Cemetery, Pikesville, Baltimore County, Maryland, USA
   
• Sheridan, Carl Vernon    b. January 5, 1925  d. November 26, 1944
  World War II Congressional Medal of Honor Recipient. He served as a Private, Bazooka Gunner in the US Army in Company K, 2d Battalion, 47th Infantry, 9th Infantry Division. He was awarded the Medal of Honor for action at Frenzenberg Castle, Weisweiler, Germany on November 26, 1944. His citation in part reads "The only approach to the heavily defended position was across the courtyard and over a drawbridge leading to a barricaded oaken door. Pfc. Sheridan, realizing that his bazooka was the only...[Read More] (Bio by: Don Morfe)
  Druid Ridge Cemetery, Pikesville, Baltimore County, Maryland, USA
   
• Young, Hugh Hampton    b. September 18, 1870  d. August 23, 1945
  Medical Pioneer. A surgeon and urologist, he taught at Johns Hopkins University from 1895. He devised many surgical instruments, including the "boomerang needle" for sewing deep incisions. With his associates he discovered mercurochrome, an antiseptic.
  
  His parents were William Hugh Young and Frances Michie Kemper.
  Druid Ridge Cemetery, Pikesville, Baltimore County, Maryland, USA
  Plot: Annandale Section, Lot 505, Grave 9
   

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