23.       The admission of Waring, Davis, Cummings, Johnson, Lane, Gibson, Dozier, Daniels,
Dickson, Hawkins, Lester and the Fitzgeralds are recorded in the Baltimore circuit court.
These files reflect only those attorneys who attended the official ceremony to take the
oath in the city court. White is recorded there as H. B. while A. Briscoe Koger reports
him as H. Rufus White in Koger, The Negro Lawyer in Maryland (1948). McGuinn's
name is not recorded in the city book, but Greene notes his presence in 1890 and he was
admitted to the Court of Appeals along with Cummings in 1892. Conway Sams, Bench
and Bar of Maryland: A History, 1634 to 1901 433 (Chicago: Lewis Publishing Co.,
1901). Koger notes King as a Maryland lawyer, but makes no mention of Charles Scales.
Scales is cited by Grace Hill Jacobs. The Negro in Baltimore 1860(c)1900 (Thesis), but
she takes it from an article in the Afro(c)American and it contains several errors such as
referring to Dickson as Dickerson.

24.      Brackett, supra note 8 at 66(c)67.

25.       Elaine Freeman, Harvey Johnson and Everett Waring 27-28 (1968) (unpublished M.A.
thesis at George Washington University).

26.       Waring graduated from Howard in 1885. Joseph Seldon Davis, another recent Howard
Law School graduate, was admitted to practice on March 1, 1886. Test Book Superior
Court 1880-1895. p. 205.

27.	Baltimore Sun, June 6, 1904.

28.	Catalogue of the Law School of the University of Maryland, 1888, p. 6.

29.	George Callcott, A History of the University of Maryland 34-38,47-54, 68-9 (1966).

30.       Poe's great-grandson, Edgar Allan Poe IJJ, told me of a family legend that union troops
ringed the church when John Prentiss Poe was married, fearing that the ceremony would
be a pretext for confederate plotting. Although Poe ended some discriminatory laws in
1888 by dropping racial classification respecting bastardy and admission to the bar from
the Maryland Code when he codified the laws at the request of the General Assembly, he
was also the author of an amendment to the state constitution which unsuccessfully
attempted to prevent blacks from voting. See Callcott. supra note 29.

31.       Eugene Fauntleroy Cordell, A History of the University of Maryland. VOL. I. p. 363-64
(1907). Venable was born in Virginia. He served in the army of Northern Virginia,
rising to the rank of major of artillery and engineers. After the war he taught at
Washington and Lee in the department of mathematics, receiving his LL.B. from that
institution in 1868. He moved to Baltimore in 1869 and became a professor in the law
school in 1870 where he served for thirty two years. Venable was also the senior partner
of Venable, Baetjer & Howard and was active in numerous civic endeavors, particularly
the development of the city's parks.

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