The Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans: Volume IX
Biographies of Notable Americans, 1904
SCHARF, John Thomas, historian, was born in Baltimore, Md., May 1, 1843; son of Thomas G. Scharf, a merchant of that city. He left school in 1858 to become a clerk in his father's store, and in 1861 joined the 1st Maryland artillery, taking part in the battles on the Peninsula and in the Shenandoah valley in 1862. He was wounded in the battles of Cedar Mountain, second Bull Run, and Chancellorsville. He transferred his services to the Confederate navy, June 20, 1863, having been appointed midshipman; and acted under Col. John Taylor Wood, Feb. 1, 1864, in the capture of the steamer Underwriter, near Newberne, N.C. In February, 1865, he again joined the Confederate artillery, was taken prisoner in Maryland while en route to Canada with dispatches to the Confederate emissaries, and imprisoned in the Old Capitol of Washington, D.C., until the end of the war, when he resumed business with his father. He married, Dec. 2, 1869, Mary, daughter of James McDougall of Baltimore, Md. He assisted in reorganizing the state militia, and was a member of the staff of Gov. Oden Bowie with the rank of colonel, 1869–72. He was admitted to the bar in 1874, became editor of the Baltimore Evening News in 1876, and subsequently an editor on the Telegram, Herald and Sun. He was a representative in the Maryland legislature in 1878, commissioner of the land office of Maryland, 1884-92, and U.S. commissioner of Chinese immigration at the port of New York, 1893-97. He was a member of the executive committee of the sesqui-centennial celebration of Baltimore in 1880; of the Maryland committee to the Philadelphia centennial in 1876; associate U.S. commissioner from Maryland to the World's Cotton Centennial exposition, New Orleans, La., 1884–85, and manager of the Maryland exposition in 1889, and of the Maryland state exhibit at the Columbian exhibition in 1893. He received the honorary degree A.M. from Georgetown college, and that of LL.D. in 1885. He was president of the Bureau of American History, Genealogy and Heraldry, and in 1891 presented Johns Hopkins university with his collection of rare Americana. He is the author of: Chronicles of Baltimore, Town and City (1874); History of Maryland (3 vols., 1879); History of Baltimore, City and County (1881); History of Western Maryland (2 vols., 1882); History of St. Louis (2 vols., 1884); History of Philadelphia (3 vols., 1884); History of Westchester Country, N.Y. (2 vols., 1886); History of the Confederate States Navy from the Laying of the First Keel to the Sinking of the Last Vessel (1887); History of the State of Delaware (1888); History of the Natural Resources and Advantages of Maryland; and he left in manuscript several valuable works on subjects connected with the history of the Southern Confederacy. He died in New York city, March 28, 1898. [sic -- this date should be February 28, 1898]
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CSA 1st Maryland artillery later CSN
Midshipman CSN 1863
Resigned from the Navy in 1864 entered Confederate secret service as a Currier. He was assigned to take important dispatches to Canada. His arrangements were made, however he was captured at Port Tobacco and imprisoned at Carroll Prison in February 1865. Paroled in March 1865 later pardoned by president Johnson.
Parish School of St. Peter the Apostle School Baltimore
Graduate of Calvert Hall private Catholic college preparatory high school for boys
Graduate Georgetown University
His accumulated papers on the city of Baltimore were published in his first major work, The Chronicles of Baltimore.
Democrat Served one term as a delegate to the Maryland Legislature from the 2nd district of Baltimore city.
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Obituary: Baltimore Sun, March 4, 1898
Funeral of Col. Scharf
Relatives from Baltimore Present - Low Mass Celebrated at Church of Ascension, New York
[Special dispatch to the Baltimore Sun]
New York, March 3 -- Funeral services were held over the body of Col. J. Thomas Scharf, formerly of Baltimore, today.
Relatives and friends followed the coffin containing the body from Mr. Scharf's home on Manhattan Avenue to the Church of the Ascension where Father Reinhardt celebrated a low mass for the dead. The appointments were extremely simple in accordance with a wish of Col. Scharf.
The Empire State Society Sons of the Revolution, of which Colonel Scharf was a member, send six of its members each wearing a badge of the society to act as pallbearers. They were: Brig Gen Thos. Wilson, United States Army; William A. Marble; Columbus A. Pugsley; Walter R. Benjamin; William W. Kenly and Edward Payson Cone.
After the services the body was put in Calvary vault where it will remain until Mrs. Scharf determines upon its final resting place.
Among those present were Mrs. C.B. Bowers of Baltimore, a sister-in-law of Col Scharf, and his four sisters from the same city, Mrs. H.L. Spicer, Mrs. J.A. Sayler, Mrs. Thomas A. Campbell and Mrs. J. Wilbur Hoff. Representatives of the New York Custom House, where Colonel Scharf was Inspector of Chinese immigration under President Cleveland and of the Catholic Guild were also present.
Biographies of Notable Americans, 1904
SCHARF, John Thomas, historian, was born in Baltimore, Md., May 1, 1843; son of Thomas G. Scharf, a merchant of that city. He left school in 1858 to become a clerk in his father's store, and in 1861 joined the 1st Maryland artillery, taking part in the battles on the Peninsula and in the Shenandoah valley in 1862. He was wounded in the battles of Cedar Mountain, second Bull Run, and Chancellorsville. He transferred his services to the Confederate navy, June 20, 1863, having been appointed midshipman; and acted under Col. John Taylor Wood, Feb. 1, 1864, in the capture of the steamer Underwriter, near Newberne, N.C. In February, 1865, he again joined the Confederate artillery, was taken prisoner in Maryland while en route to Canada with dispatches to the Confederate emissaries, and imprisoned in the Old Capitol of Washington, D.C., until the end of the war, when he resumed business with his father. He married, Dec. 2, 1869, Mary, daughter of James McDougall of Baltimore, Md. He assisted in reorganizing the state militia, and was a member of the staff of Gov. Oden Bowie with the rank of colonel, 1869–72. He was admitted to the bar in 1874, became editor of the Baltimore Evening News in 1876, and subsequently an editor on the Telegram, Herald and Sun. He was a representative in the Maryland legislature in 1878, commissioner of the land office of Maryland, 1884-92, and U.S. commissioner of Chinese immigration at the port of New York, 1893-97. He was a member of the executive committee of the sesqui-centennial celebration of Baltimore in 1880; of the Maryland committee to the Philadelphia centennial in 1876; associate U.S. commissioner from Maryland to the World's Cotton Centennial exposition, New Orleans, La., 1884–85, and manager of the Maryland exposition in 1889, and of the Maryland state exhibit at the Columbian exhibition in 1893. He received the honorary degree A.M. from Georgetown college, and that of LL.D. in 1885. He was president of the Bureau of American History, Genealogy and Heraldry, and in 1891 presented Johns Hopkins university with his collection of rare Americana. He is the author of: Chronicles of Baltimore, Town and City (1874); History of Maryland (3 vols., 1879); History of Baltimore, City and County (1881); History of Western Maryland (2 vols., 1882); History of St. Louis (2 vols., 1884); History of Philadelphia (3 vols., 1884); History of Westchester Country, N.Y. (2 vols., 1886); History of the Confederate States Navy from the Laying of the First Keel to the Sinking of the Last Vessel (1887); History of the State of Delaware (1888); History of the Natural Resources and Advantages of Maryland; and he left in manuscript several valuable works on subjects connected with the history of the Southern Confederacy. He died in New York city, March 28, 1898. [sic -- this date should be February 28, 1898]
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CSA 1st Maryland artillery later CSN
Midshipman CSN 1863
Resigned from the Navy in 1864 entered Confederate secret service as a Currier. He was assigned to take important dispatches to Canada. His arrangements were made, however he was captured at Port Tobacco and imprisoned at Carroll Prison in February 1865. Paroled in March 1865 later pardoned by president Johnson.
Parish School of St. Peter the Apostle School Baltimore
Graduate of Calvert Hall private Catholic college preparatory high school for boys
Graduate Georgetown University
His accumulated papers on the city of Baltimore were published in his first major work, The Chronicles of Baltimore.
Democrat Served one term as a delegate to the Maryland Legislature from the 2nd district of Baltimore city.
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Obituary: Baltimore Sun, March 4, 1898
Funeral of Col. Scharf
Relatives from Baltimore Present - Low Mass Celebrated at Church of Ascension, New York
[Special dispatch to the Baltimore Sun]
New York, March 3 -- Funeral services were held over the body of Col. J. Thomas Scharf, formerly of Baltimore, today.
Relatives and friends followed the coffin containing the body from Mr. Scharf's home on Manhattan Avenue to the Church of the Ascension where Father Reinhardt celebrated a low mass for the dead. The appointments were extremely simple in accordance with a wish of Col. Scharf.
The Empire State Society Sons of the Revolution, of which Colonel Scharf was a member, send six of its members each wearing a badge of the society to act as pallbearers. They were: Brig Gen Thos. Wilson, United States Army; William A. Marble; Columbus A. Pugsley; Walter R. Benjamin; William W. Kenly and Edward Payson Cone.
After the services the body was put in Calvary vault where it will remain until Mrs. Scharf determines upon its final resting place.
Among those present were Mrs. C.B. Bowers of Baltimore, a sister-in-law of Col Scharf, and his four sisters from the same city, Mrs. H.L. Spicer, Mrs. J.A. Sayler, Mrs. Thomas A. Campbell and Mrs. J. Wilbur Hoff. Representatives of the New York Custom House, where Colonel Scharf was Inspector of Chinese immigration under President Cleveland and of the Catholic Guild were also present.
The Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans: Volume IX
Biographies of Notable Americans, 1904
SCHARF, John Thomas, historian, was born in Baltimore, Md., May 1, 1843; son of Thomas G. Scharf, a merchant of that city. He left school in 1858 to become a clerk in his father's store, and in 1861 joined the 1st Maryland artillery, taking part in the battles on the Peninsula and in the Shenandoah valley in 1862. He was wounded in the battles of Cedar Mountain, second Bull Run, and Chancellorsville. He transferred his services to the Confederate navy, June 20, 1863, having been appointed midshipman; and acted under Col. John Taylor Wood, Feb. 1, 1864, in the capture of the steamer Underwriter, near Newberne, N.C. In February, 1865, he again joined the Confederate artillery, was taken prisoner in Maryland while en route to Canada with dispatches to the Confederate emissaries, and imprisoned in the Old Capitol of Washington, D.C., until the end of the war, when he resumed business with his father. He married, Dec. 2, 1869, Mary, daughter of James McDougall of Baltimore, Md. He assisted in reorganizing the state militia, and was a member of the staff of Gov. Oden Bowie with the rank of colonel, 1869–72. He was admitted to the bar in 1874, became editor of the Baltimore Evening News in 1876, and subsequently an editor on the Telegram, Herald and Sun. He was a representative in the Maryland legislature in 1878, commissioner of the land office of Maryland, 1884-92, and U.S. commissioner of Chinese immigration at the port of New York, 1893-97. He was a member of the executive committee of the sesqui-centennial celebration of Baltimore in 1880; of the Maryland committee to the Philadelphia centennial in 1876; associate U.S. commissioner from Maryland to the World's Cotton Centennial exposition, New Orleans, La., 1884–85, and manager of the Maryland exposition in 1889, and of the Maryland state exhibit at the Columbian exhibition in 1893. He received the honorary degree A.M. from Georgetown college, and that of LL.D. in 1885. He was president of the Bureau of American History, Genealogy and Heraldry, and in 1891 presented Johns Hopkins university with his collection of rare Americana. He is the author of: Chronicles of Baltimore, Town and City (1874); History of Maryland (3 vols., 1879); History of Baltimore, City and County (1881); History of Western Maryland (2 vols., 1882); History of St. Louis (2 vols., 1884); History of Philadelphia (3 vols., 1884); History of Westchester Country, N.Y. (2 vols., 1886); History of the Confederate States Navy from the Laying of the First Keel to the Sinking of the Last Vessel (1887); History of the State of Delaware (1888); History of the Natural Resources and Advantages of Maryland; and he left in manuscript several valuable works on subjects connected with the history of the Southern Confederacy. He died in New York city, March 28, 1898. [sic -- this date should be February 28, 1898]
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CSA 1st Maryland artillery later CSN
Midshipman CSN 1863
Resigned from the Navy in 1864 entered Confederate secret service as a Currier. He was assigned to take important dispatches to Canada. His arrangements were made, however he was captured at Port Tobacco and imprisoned at Carroll Prison in February 1865. Paroled in March 1865 later pardoned by president Johnson.
Parish School of St. Peter the Apostle School Baltimore
Graduate of Calvert Hall private Catholic college preparatory high school for boys
Graduate Georgetown University
His accumulated papers on the city of Baltimore were published in his first major work, The Chronicles of Baltimore.
Democrat Served one term as a delegate to the Maryland Legislature from the 2nd district of Baltimore city.
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Obituary: Baltimore Sun, March 4, 1898
Funeral of Col. Scharf
Relatives from Baltimore Present - Low Mass Celebrated at Church of Ascension, New York
[Special dispatch to the Baltimore Sun]
New York, March 3 -- Funeral services were held over the body of Col. J. Thomas Scharf, formerly of Baltimore, today.
Relatives and friends followed the coffin containing the body from Mr. Scharf's home on Manhattan Avenue to the Church of the Ascension where Father Reinhardt celebrated a low mass for the dead. The appointments were extremely simple in accordance with a wish of Col. Scharf.
The Empire State Society Sons of the Revolution, of which Colonel Scharf was a member, send six of its members each wearing a badge of the society to act as pallbearers. They were: Brig Gen Thos. Wilson, United States Army; William A. Marble; Columbus A. Pugsley; Walter R. Benjamin; William W. Kenly and Edward Payson Cone.
After the services the body was put in Calvary vault where it will remain until Mrs. Scharf determines upon its final resting place.
Among those present were Mrs. C.B. Bowers of Baltimore, a sister-in-law of Col Scharf, and his four sisters from the same city, Mrs. H.L. Spicer, Mrs. J.A. Sayler, Mrs. Thomas A. Campbell and Mrs. J. Wilbur Hoff. Representatives of the New York Custom House, where Colonel Scharf was Inspector of Chinese immigration under President Cleveland and of the Catholic Guild were also present.
Biographies of Notable Americans, 1904
SCHARF, John Thomas, historian, was born in Baltimore, Md., May 1, 1843; son of Thomas G. Scharf, a merchant of that city. He left school in 1858 to become a clerk in his father's store, and in 1861 joined the 1st Maryland artillery, taking part in the battles on the Peninsula and in the Shenandoah valley in 1862. He was wounded in the battles of Cedar Mountain, second Bull Run, and Chancellorsville. He transferred his services to the Confederate navy, June 20, 1863, having been appointed midshipman; and acted under Col. John Taylor Wood, Feb. 1, 1864, in the capture of the steamer Underwriter, near Newberne, N.C. In February, 1865, he again joined the Confederate artillery, was taken prisoner in Maryland while en route to Canada with dispatches to the Confederate emissaries, and imprisoned in the Old Capitol of Washington, D.C., until the end of the war, when he resumed business with his father. He married, Dec. 2, 1869, Mary, daughter of James McDougall of Baltimore, Md. He assisted in reorganizing the state militia, and was a member of the staff of Gov. Oden Bowie with the rank of colonel, 1869–72. He was admitted to the bar in 1874, became editor of the Baltimore Evening News in 1876, and subsequently an editor on the Telegram, Herald and Sun. He was a representative in the Maryland legislature in 1878, commissioner of the land office of Maryland, 1884-92, and U.S. commissioner of Chinese immigration at the port of New York, 1893-97. He was a member of the executive committee of the sesqui-centennial celebration of Baltimore in 1880; of the Maryland committee to the Philadelphia centennial in 1876; associate U.S. commissioner from Maryland to the World's Cotton Centennial exposition, New Orleans, La., 1884–85, and manager of the Maryland exposition in 1889, and of the Maryland state exhibit at the Columbian exhibition in 1893. He received the honorary degree A.M. from Georgetown college, and that of LL.D. in 1885. He was president of the Bureau of American History, Genealogy and Heraldry, and in 1891 presented Johns Hopkins university with his collection of rare Americana. He is the author of: Chronicles of Baltimore, Town and City (1874); History of Maryland (3 vols., 1879); History of Baltimore, City and County (1881); History of Western Maryland (2 vols., 1882); History of St. Louis (2 vols., 1884); History of Philadelphia (3 vols., 1884); History of Westchester Country, N.Y. (2 vols., 1886); History of the Confederate States Navy from the Laying of the First Keel to the Sinking of the Last Vessel (1887); History of the State of Delaware (1888); History of the Natural Resources and Advantages of Maryland; and he left in manuscript several valuable works on subjects connected with the history of the Southern Confederacy. He died in New York city, March 28, 1898. [sic -- this date should be February 28, 1898]
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CSA 1st Maryland artillery later CSN
Midshipman CSN 1863
Resigned from the Navy in 1864 entered Confederate secret service as a Currier. He was assigned to take important dispatches to Canada. His arrangements were made, however he was captured at Port Tobacco and imprisoned at Carroll Prison in February 1865. Paroled in March 1865 later pardoned by president Johnson.
Parish School of St. Peter the Apostle School Baltimore
Graduate of Calvert Hall private Catholic college preparatory high school for boys
Graduate Georgetown University
His accumulated papers on the city of Baltimore were published in his first major work, The Chronicles of Baltimore.
Democrat Served one term as a delegate to the Maryland Legislature from the 2nd district of Baltimore city.
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Obituary: Baltimore Sun, March 4, 1898
Funeral of Col. Scharf
Relatives from Baltimore Present - Low Mass Celebrated at Church of Ascension, New York
[Special dispatch to the Baltimore Sun]
New York, March 3 -- Funeral services were held over the body of Col. J. Thomas Scharf, formerly of Baltimore, today.
Relatives and friends followed the coffin containing the body from Mr. Scharf's home on Manhattan Avenue to the Church of the Ascension where Father Reinhardt celebrated a low mass for the dead. The appointments were extremely simple in accordance with a wish of Col. Scharf.
The Empire State Society Sons of the Revolution, of which Colonel Scharf was a member, send six of its members each wearing a badge of the society to act as pallbearers. They were: Brig Gen Thos. Wilson, United States Army; William A. Marble; Columbus A. Pugsley; Walter R. Benjamin; William W. Kenly and Edward Payson Cone.
After the services the body was put in Calvary vault where it will remain until Mrs. Scharf determines upon its final resting place.
Among those present were Mrs. C.B. Bowers of Baltimore, a sister-in-law of Col Scharf, and his four sisters from the same city, Mrs. H.L. Spicer, Mrs. J.A. Sayler, Mrs. Thomas A. Campbell and Mrs. J. Wilbur Hoff. Representatives of the New York Custom House, where Colonel Scharf was Inspector of Chinese immigration under President Cleveland and of the Catholic Guild were also present.
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