John Smith Hollins (1786-1856)
MSA SC 3520-2829
Biography:
The following essay is in Wilbur F. Coyle, The Mayors of Baltimore (Reprinted from The Baltimore Municipal Journal, 1919), 85-86.
John Smith Hollins was Mayor of Baltimore from November 8, 1852, to November 13, 1854.
A loan to the Northern Central Railway Company, heretofore arranged,
was consummated; the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad was completed to the Ohio
River, and a loan of five million dollars, by the municipality to this
company, was authorized by Act of Assembly. In consequence of the
political separation of Baltimore City and Baltimore County, a division
of the City and County Courthouse and Almshouse properties was made.
Ordinances were passed providing for the erection of the Hanover Market
House, and eight school buildings, as well as for bridges across Jones
Falls Canton Avenue, at Eager Street and at Swann Street. Large sewers
were placed in the bed of Broadway from Monument to Gay Streets.
Culverts were built for Chatsworth Run at its intersections with German
(Redwood)
Street and at St. Peter Street. A sewer was completed along the
course of the Run through Penn Street from Pratt to Haw Streets.
Provision was made for leasing lots of ground now occupied by part of the
City Hall, and also for the purchase of the site of Madison Square, and
an addition to Riverside Park. Legislation to open Fulton Avenue
from Franklin to Pratt Streets was passed. An Act of Assembly authorizing
the erection of a dam at Loch Raven for the water supply of Baltimore was
approved. A market house to replace one destroyed by fire, at Fells
Point, foot of Broadway, was built.
Mr. John Smith Hollins was First Lieutenant in Captain Sterrett's Company, also known as the First Baltimore Hussars, which was a part of the Fifth Maryland Cavalry. This troop served during the attack on Baltimore September 12-13, 1814. Mr. Smith died November 28, 1856, (in his 70th year).
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