East New Market
Notable People and Families
Notable People and Families
East New Market has been the home to many notable people and families over the past 230 years. Families and people who established themselves or had an important presence in the area in the 1700s and 1800s are featured below.
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William V.M. Edmondson Family^
Diary, ENM Sketch, & correspondence
Governor William Grason
briefly lived in the Edmondson House
Samuel Green
Freeman
Thomas Henry, Nathan Collins, & Mary Ellen Collins, his wife
From "The Underground Railroad" by William Still
Governor Thomas Holliday Hicks
Civil War Governor of Maryland
John Hillis, John Pinket, and Ansal Cannon
From "The Underground Railroad" by William Still
Charles & Stephen Lecompte Family*
Major Anthony Manning Family
Bibles, Wills, Poetry, Correspondence & other documents
Major Thomas John Marshall Family
Cyrus Mitchell
Saxton Family
Sherman Family
Waterloo, Sherman's Wharf, Sherman's Institute
Standley Family
Stevens Family
Major Daniel Sulivane Family
Friendship Hall, creators of New Market
Robert Traverse
First Postmaster
Henry Trippe
Waggaman Family
Portrait & Presidential Connection
Willis Family
Willoughby Family
Ambrose A. Wilson
One time owner of Rose Hill