Frank Brown
governor of Maryland · active 1892-1896
Governor of Maryland 1892-1896. He signed the 1892 acts that rewrote the Ocean City charter, re-chartered the Isle of Wight Inlet and Oyster Planting Company, let Worcester County spend its tonging licences on a canal to the sea, and conditioned Baltimore's rescue of the Baltimore & Eastern Shore Railroad on summer express trains to Ocean City. He spent the weekend of July 23-24, 1892 at Ocean City with his family before boarding the state steamer McLane for a cruise of the oyster grounds.
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1892 · 1892-08-17
Three United States senators, a former governor and the Gridiron Club at Ocean City in one August week.
The Washington Evening Star, August 17, 1892: "Senators Blackburn of Kentucky, [Squire] of Washington, Gray of Delaware, ex-Gov. Jackson and others now sojourning at Ocean City will meet the Gridiron Club at dinner Friday." Senator Joseph C. S. Blackburn of Kentucky summered there — the Star noted in July that "Mrs. William P. Hall and son will spend August with Senator and Mrs. Blackburn at Ocean City" — and Delaware's Senator George Gray "just returned from Ocean City, Md., where he has been visiting Senator Blackburn in company with Senator White, of Louisiana." The Snow Hill paper had seen the same traffic in June: "A large party of Washingtonians visited Ocean City last Sunday, among them being Senator Blackburn and other notables." Governor Frank Brown and his family spent the weekend of July 23-24 at Ocean City before boarding the state steamer McLane at Salisbury for a cruise over the oyster grounds; ex-Governor Elihu E. Jackson reopened his Ocean City cottage on August 10.
Joseph C. S. BlackburnElihu Emory Jackson
Source · checked 2026-08-06
1893 · 1893-08-18
Vice-President Adlai E. Stevenson comes to Ocean City as a guest of the Sinepuxent Beach Company, and the train from Claiborne beats every record on the line.
On the afternoon of Friday, August 18, 1893 a chartered steamer, the Governor Thomas, cast off from the foot of South Street, Baltimore at 3:40 with a party of Washingtonians and Baltimoreans "brought to Ocean City as the guests of the Sinepuxent Beach Company." On board were Vice-President Adlai E. Stevenson; United States Senators J. S. C. Blackburn of Kentucky and Charles H. Gibson of Maryland; Charles Goldsborough, president of the Sinepuxent Beach Company; Robert Goldsborough Keene; George M. Upshur, ex-Speaker of the Maryland House of Delegates; W. Sidney Wilson, mayor of Ocean City; the bankers John Gill and Edwin Warfield; and James Bates, a director of the Beach Company. Governor Frank Brown joined them at the beach. "It was a flying train that came from Claiborne to Ocean City and the time made beat all previous records. The distance is eighty-seven miles, which was covered in a trifle over one hundred minutes," with stops only at Easton and one other point. Stevenson was met by crowds of ladies, escorted to the Atlantic Hotel by R. Goldsborough Keene and into the supper-room by Mayor Wilson, who introduced him to Mrs. Wilson "as the mayoress." On Saturday the 19th the party was shown over the Beach Company's property, took a dip in the ocean and watched a shooting tournament; the special train back to Washington on Sunday night ran the 87 miles in 100 minutes again. Senator Blackburn had spent the whole summer in Worcester County and owned land in Ocean City, "and that gives him the right to vote and hold municipal office. Some of his friends have started a boom for him for mayor of Ocean City in opposition to W. Sidney Wilson."
Sinepuxent Beach CompanyBaltimore, Chesapeake & Atlantic RailwayAdlai E. StevensonWilliam Sydney WilsonCharles GoldsboroughCharles Hopper GibsonRobert Goldsborough Keene
Source · checked 2026-08-06