robertcrain

See www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/2535981129/ where Harry Angstrom indicates that Crain is a Baltimore democrat. January 10, 1912, NYT, query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9C04E0D8163CE633A... gives him a role in getting Baltimore as the location for the 1912 Democratic convention. He headed the "Baltimore boom" -- any ideas what "boom" means in this context? According to Wikipedia, "Robert Crain Highway is the designation given to the former alignment of U.S. Route 301 from Bowie, Maryland, USA, to Baltimore."

@ swang – Baltimore as well as Charles County, Maryland, experienced tremendous increases in population and commerce after the opening of the Southern Maryland Trunk Line in 1922 – later renamed the Robert Crain Highway after it's most ardent supporter. The changes in the economic development as a result of this highway, and other factors, have been called "transformational". Perhaps the use of the term in the article referred to the beginning of this boom. (?)

NY Times article Jan 12, 1912, identifies the official call for the Democratic National Convention to be held at Baltimore, the call was issued by Norman E. Mack Chairman of the party and Urey Woodson Secretary of the Democratic National Committee. Urey Woodson was from Kentucky, where he ran a newspaper, the Owensboro Messenger. Norman E. Mack was from Buffalo and a long time Democratic party official. Robert Crain appears to be a Democrat from Baltimore.

Also see Robert Crain of Baltimore.

I started a Wikipedia entry: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_Edward_Mack en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urey_Woodson

Two of their husbands: Harriet B. Taggart Mack (d. 1954) daughter of Isaac Taggart of Buffalo NY, was married to Norman Edward Mack (1858-1932), a Buffalo newspaperman who served as chairman of the Democratic National Committee in 1908; Harriet was also active with the party for decades, and served as a delegate to various national conventions. www.buffaloah.com/a/forestL/mack/index.html politicalgraveyard.com/families/13642.html Thomas Taggart (1856-1929) was the Irish-born mayor of Indianapolis, and DNC chair: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Taggart More Tom Taggart in the Commons:

Another Bain/LOC photo, taken on the same occasion, also shows these three ladies:

Taken at the Democratic Convention, Baltimore, June 1912. Compare to the scanned illustration in query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9900E5D91E3CE6...

The version in the New York Times is from a Baltimore news service.




en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urey_Woodson
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Charles_Sullivan
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_Edward_Mack
Edwin O. Wood
Robert Crain

Richard Arthur Norton: Thanks for providing us with the fuller names here. We'll add these names to the description next time we update.

Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Old men are beautiful, and we'd love to have this added to the group!

Another Bain/LOC photo from the 1912 Baltimore Democratic Convention: