Judge Charles F. Holland

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1. 1890 · 1890-04-09

   The Atlantic Hotel is auctioned off at Snow Hill on April 9, 1890 to its own biggest creditor — and resold within ten weeks.

   'The Atlantic Hotel at Ocean City was sold at public auction here to-day by George W. Purnell and E. Stanley Toadvin, trustees,' ran the dispatch from Snow Hill on April 9. 'The sale included the hotel building and land upon which it was situated, with the furniture and bath houses. Judge Charles F. Holland of Salisbury was the purchaser... He was the only bidder. The hotel is the largest at Ocean City, and was built about fifteen years ago by a syndicate at a cost of over $35,000. Liens existed against the property amounting to over $12,000, and it was to satisfy these that the sale was made. Judge Holland, the purchaser, was the principal creditor. He has not announced what disposal will be made of the property other than that it will be continued as a hotel.' The price is reported as $15,000 by the Wilmington Evening Journal; the Delaware Gazette's figure is illegible in the surviving scan. Holland did not keep it. By mid-June the Smyrna Times was reporting that 'Judge Charles F. Holland, who purchased the Atlantic Hotel at Ocean City at its last sale by trustees, has sold [it] to a syndicate of Eastern Shoremen. It is stated that the price paid was $12,000' — a figure Baltimore's German daily Der Deutsche Correspondent repeated from Salisbury on June 5. The house Ocean City was founded to build had gone under the hammer for less than half its cost.

   sold for a reported $15,000

   Atlantic HotelAtlantic Hotel CompanyGeorge W. Purnell

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2. 1890 · 1890-07-17

   The Governor of Maryland and a sitting U.S. Senator both fall ill at the Atlantic Hotel, and the Governor is carried off the beach by steamer.

   'Gov. E. E. Jackson and family, Judge C. F. Holland and State Senator F. S. Toadvin are at the Atlantic Hotel, Ocean City, Md.,' the Evening Capital reported on July 15, 1890 — the Governor of Maryland, the judge who had just bought the hotel at auction, and the Wicomico senator whose name would go before the district convention two months later, all under one roof. It did not go well. On July 18 the paper reported that Jackson had been taken 'to Salisbury yesterday on the steamer McLane. His condition began to improve almost as soon as he started on the water. When the steamer arrived at Salisbury the Governor was driven at once to his home, whither Mrs. Jackson was summoned by telegraph from Ocean City.' A week later: 'Gov. Jackson, who has been confined to his room in the Atlantic Hotel, Ocean City, is much better... Governor Jackson and Senator Wilson are reported to be somewhat unwell at Ocean City, though both are improving.' The Delaware Gazette's Ocean City letter of July 31 found the sick list a roll-call of the Eastern Shore bench and bar: Judge L. T. Irving of Princess Anne, Judge Holland of Salisbury, Judge Goldsborough of Cambridge, Col. Thomas Hughlett of Talbot, L. E. P. Dennis, collector of customs at Crisfield, and George W. Covington, all 'being greatly helped by the salt air.' Senator Ephraim K. Wilson II, of Snow Hill, did not recover for long; he died in office on February 24, 1891.

   In 1890 the salt air was still sold as medicine — and the Governor of Maryland was the patient.

   Atlantic HotelElihu Emory JacksonEphraim King Wilson IIGeorge W. Covington

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3. 1892 · 1892-07-09

   The Sinepuxent Beach Company buys the Atlantic Hotel for $15,000 — the deed chain runs Holland to the hotel company to Waggaman to the beach company inside four months.

   Worcester County land records, printed week by week in the Democratic Messenger, settle a question campaign 1 and the 1890 pass both left open. In the week ending March 31, 1892: "Atlantic Hotel Company from Charles F. Holland all those tracts, lots and parcels of land with the buildings and improvements situate at Ocean City." In the transfers printed July 9, 1892, two deeds in sequence: "John F. Waggaman from Atlantic Hotel Company of Ocean City, Md., all those tracts, parts of tracts, lots and parcels of land together with the buildings and improvements... Consideration $15,000" and "The Sinepuxent Beach Company, from John F. Waggaman and wife, all those tracts, parts of tracts, lots and parcels of land together with the buildings and improvements situate in Ocean City, Md. Consideration $15,000." The company said so itself in a Messenger advertisement of May 21: "The Sinepuxent Beach Company, having recently purchased the Atlantic Hotel, Ocean City, Md., and intending to re-furnish the same throughout with new and modern furniture, will sell by public auction all the contents" — a sale held in the hotel on Tuesday, May 24, 1892 at 10 o'clock.

   Sinepuxent Beach CompanyAtlantic Hotel CompanyJohn F. Waggaman

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