The Amiable Baltimoreans

By: Francis F. Beirne

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Paperback | 14 December 1984

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400 Pages

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The first umbrella in America and a Washington monument that predates the one in the nation's capital were raised in Baltimore. A renowned beauty of the city, Betsy Patterson, married Jerome Bonaparte, but was forbidden by her brother-in-law, Napoleon, from ever setting foot in France. A century later, Wallis Warfield, another Baltimorean, made her own assault on European royalty. Baltimore is the city of Babe Ruth and H.L. Mencken and the final resting-place of Edgar Allan Poe. "The gastronomic metropolis of the Union," according to Oliver Wendell Holmes, it is also the home of Bromo-Seltzer.

First published in 1951, The Amiable Baltimoreans presents 250 years of anecdotal history about the city--its buildings, its institutions, its customs, and most of all, its people. Informative, amusing, and sometimes discomforting, it offers an incomparable look into the city's past and revealing insight into the way it seemed to one informed observer thirty years ago.

Industry Reviews

The eighth volume in Society in America Ser?? chronicles the temperate course of this city of ??serenity and homely comforts both as a sightseeing and tourist guide and as an unhurried introduction to people and events in her past. The story of the railroads, martial events, of the statues, and of Baltimore beauties in international and domestic circles: the background of the churchmen and of the days when the city was known as "Mobtown", of medicine and education, of the theater, conventions, firefighters, the weather, sports, food: the part that Germans, Jews and Negroes have played: the many firsts in its story: its newspaper and literary worlds and the blood lines of its large families: -this makes a lively record which has more continuity than most because of the heritage of the first merchant princes - Peabody, Hopkins, Pratt and Walters - which contributed much to the city's development. A friendly account proving how many have gotten to be Baltimoreans by way of other birthplaces, and making the most of the color and accent that distinguishes this city from all others. (Kirkus Reviews)

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