Judge Norris S. Barratt papers

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Judge Norris S. Barratt papers

1911-1915

http://hdl.handle.net/1903.1/1428

Judge Norris S. Barratt was a Philadelphia lawyer and author of Barratt's Chapel and Methodism. The Judge Norris S. Barratt papers consist of fourteen letters Barrat received from James H. Preston sent during Preston's first term as mayor of Baltimore, Maryland, (1911-1915) and three of Barratt's letters sent to Preston. The letters are both political and personal in nature. Also included are an invitation to a Symbolic Silver Service for James Cardinal Gibbons, Archbishop of Baltimore, at Baltimore's City Hall and two pamphlets on Baltimore and Mayor Preston.

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University of Maryland (College Park, Md.). Libraries

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University of Maryland (College Park, Md.). Libraries

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Preston, James H., 1860-1938

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James Harry Preston was born in Harford County, Maryland, on March 23, 1860. He attended St. John's College in Annapolis and the University of Maryland Law School, from which he graduated in 1881. While he was practicing law, Preston was elected to the Maryland House of Delegates in 1889, winning re-election in 1893. He became Speaker of the House in 1894. After becoming involved in Baltimore City politics, he was appointed to the Board of Police Commissioners in 1904. He ran unsuccessfully for ...

Baltimore (Md.). Mayor (1911-1919 : Preston)

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Barratt, Norris S. (Norris Stanley), 1862-1924

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Norris S. Barratt was a Philadelphia lawyer and author of several books, including Freemasonry in Pennsylvania, 1727-1907 and Outline of the History of Old St. Paul's Church, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Perhaps most notably, he wrote Barratt's Chapel and Methodism, published in 1911. Barratt's great-great grandfather, Philip Barratt, of Kent County, Delaware, donated the land in Frederica, Delaware, on which Barratt's Chapel, known as the "Cradle of Methodism," was built...