WICOMICO HISTORICAL SOCIETY DONATES THREE SIGNIFICANT OIL PORTRAITS
TO COUNTY
On behalf of the citizens of Wicomico County, County Executive Richard M. Pollitt, Jr., recently accepted a gift of three historic oil portraits from the Wicomico Historical Society. The subjects are Elihu Emory Jackson, Governor of Maryland, 1888-1892; Nannie Rider Jackson, First Lady of Maryland, 1888-1892 and William P. Jackson, United States Senate, 1912-1914. All were residents of Wicomico County and their descendants are still in the county. Prominent among them is Circuit Court Judge W. Newton Jackson III.
Other governors and U. S. Senators from Wicomico County include Senator Paul S. Sarbanes, 1977-2006 and Governor Levin Winder, 1812-1816.
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#1- First Lady Nannie R. Jackson Portrait, Judge Newton Jackson, Senator Jackson Portrait, Cameron Jackson, Governor Jackson Portrait
#2 – Judge Jackson, Governor Jackson Portrait, Cameron Jackson, County Executive Pollitt
Didn't you post something on this a few days ago?
ReplyDeleteI did but the County chose to put out a Press Release on it and I always put out their Press Releases.
ReplyDeleteDon't you also talk about having a rule against old news -- this has been all over the media, too, already.
ReplyDeleteHow about something on the land on Levin Dashiell Road that the County wants to buy for $13,000 per acre -- much more than its's worth. See today's Daily Times for details on that breaking news.
"Other governors and U. S. Senators from Wicomico County include Senator Paul S. Sarbanes, 1977-2006 and Governor Levin Winder, 1812-1816."
ReplyDeleteJoe, Check the County seal in your post. There was no such thing as a Wicomico County when Levin Winder was the governor.
I have a hard time accepting the fact that he was from Wicomico County when he died before there was such a county. My research tells me that he was from Somerset County. Although parts of Wicomico County came from Somerset County I can't find where he was from what would now be Wicomico. I believe the leadership in Wicomico County should get their facts straight before making these kinds of statements.
See the following link for a small piece of history concerning the Governor.
http://nabbhistory.salisbury.edu/resources/wroten/wroten_lwinder.html
IMHO -- T'was a mistake to carve Wicomico County out of what at the time consisted of part of Worcester County and part of Somerset County -- the "county line" between them was Division Street.
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ReplyDeleteYou are correct.
On another note if you look at old maps you will see that Somerset County went way up to Laurel Delaware. Now that was a good idea letting that go, lol.
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