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Note: !BIRTH: October 25, 1831, Havre de Grace, Harford, Maryland [SOURCE(1)] !PARENTS' FAMILY MRIN: #17 Captain Charles PENDERGAST-129/Rosanna O'BRIEN-130 !MARRIAGE: MRIN277 to Eliza LYNCH-135 about 1852 (it could have been earlier since her name was not listed with the Syracuse family in the 1850 census). MRIN361 to Ella COLEMAN-1108 October 2, 1866 when he was 35 years old. !DEATH and BURIAL: Nov. 5, 1907 interred in lot #H-543, New Cathedral Cemetery, 4300 Old Frederick Road, Baltimore, Maryland 21229. See file folder #5 - CEMETERY for list and map of Pendergast graves in this cemtery. SOURCE(1): Data from Baltimore City Directory page 394 (year is missing from photocopy in compiler's great grandparent's file folder, Louise L. Lynch-15/Charles H. PENDERGAST-14 -Generation #4, numbers 14 and 15). However, since Charles PENDERGAST is listed, it had to be prior to 1867, the year of his death: PENDERGAST, Anthony laborer rear 604 Light PENDERGAST Bros. & Co. (Jas. F. and Chas. H. PENDERGAST) ship'g merchs, 77 Smith's whf PENDERGAST, Charles, 27 n Calvert PENDERGAST, Chas. H. (P.,Bros.&Co.) 26 w Eager PENDERGAST, Mrs. Hester, tavern, 54 York PENDERGAST, Jas. F. (P.,Bros.&Co.) 33 w Eager PENDERGAST, Michael laborer 211 Vine PENDERGAST, Thomas huckster 14 Front n of Foundry (Smith's wharf was located at the foot of Gay Street fronting on Pratt St. Records at the Baltimore Library show that in 1759 Smith's wharf was purchased by Messrs John SMITH and William BUCHANAN from Thomas HARRI- SON.) !CITATION: The following was copied from pages 193/194 BIOGRAPHICAL CYCLOPEDIA OF MARYLAND and DISTRICT of COLUMBIA 1879: "PENDERGAST, Jerome Aloysius, was born in Havre de Grace, Maryland, October 25, 1831, where his father, the late Captain Charles PENDER- GAST, who was born in Dublin, Ireland, in 1794, settled at the age of fifteen years. The latter led, for several years, the life of a marin- er, and then entered very extensively into the quarry business at Port Deposit. He was contractor for the furnishing of stone to the United States Government for various public works, during the long period of twenty years. He supplied all the stone for the construction of Rip Raps, as also for the Gosport Navy Yard, and the principal public buildings at Washington. Whilst conducting his business as a Govern- ment contractor, Captain PENDERGAST became the owner of several ves- sels, some seventeen in number, which he kept in active service. In 1838, he removed to Baltimore and entered into mercantile pursuits, as a shipping merchant and owner, establishing himself on Smith's wharf, where, for many years, he conducted business on his individual account and subsequently associated with him a son under the firm name of Charles PENDERGAST & SON. At the commencement of the American civil war, Captain PENDERGAST was running seven packet lines to vaious South- ern ports, and was also extensively engaged in the Rio trade. At the termination of the war, he retired from business with an ample fortune, and died, in 1867, in the seventy-third year of his age, esteemed by the entire community for his sterling integrity, enterprise, and use- fulness as a citizen. At the time of his death, his establishment was regarded as one of the oldest commercial houses in Baltimore. He left four sons and two daughters, all of whom are living except one daugh- ter. The surviving daughter is the wife of S. Hamilton CAUGHY, head of the extensive clothing establishment of Noah Walker and Company. James F. and Charles H., two of the sons, constituted the house of PENDERGAST BROTHERS & CO., of New York, and C. C. PENDEGAST, the youngest son, has been agent for Wells, Fargo & Company in California for twenty years. The subject of this sketch, Jerome A. PENDERGAST, is the only son of Captain PENDERGAST living in Maryland. He removed to Baltimore from Havre de Grace when he was at the age of eight years. After attending various schools, he was sent to the College of the Holy Cross, Wor- cester, Massachusetts. Whilst a student of that institution, he sus- tained a very serious injury by falling down a flight of steps, his spinal column being injured, and his confinement to his room being necessitated for many months. After leaving the College of the Holy Cross, young PENDERGAST entered Georgetown College, District of Colum- bia. He pursued his studies there for four years, or until his eighteenth year, when he became connected in a clerical capacity, with the importing house of J. F MILLER & CO., with which he remained for four years and a half when he entered his father's establishment, and remained therein until the termination of the American civil war. He then became the senior partner in the shipping house of PENDERGAST, FENWICK & CO., which firm continued in existence for two years. This house ran a line of six steamships between Baltimore and Charleston. After the dissolution of the concern, Mr. PENDERGAST established him- self in business on his individual account as a ship broker and whar- finger of Smith's wharf, in which he has been steadily engaged for thirteen years, his establishment being at No. 77 Smith's wharf within a few feet of where his father founded his mercantile house, forty years ago. Mr. PENDERGAST is also agent for a line of packets between New York and Baltimore. He married, October 2, 1866, Miss Ella COLE- MAN, daughter of the late Robert H. COLEMAN, of the old pharmaceutical establishment of COLEMAN & RODGERS. He has four children living, three of whom are daughters. Few merchants exhibit more business vim and energy than Jerome A. PENDERGAST. He may emphatically be styled a live and active man, ever on the alert to secure regularity and dispatch in his multifarious transactions. His general mode of conducting his commercial affairs has won for him the esteem of all who have been brought into personal relation with him. In manners he is a polished gentleman and in disposition, frank and generous. He possesses fine converational powers, and his personal appearance is strikingly attrac- tive." !ANOMALY(1):
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