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Portraits from the Darby, Shreeve and Grammer families. Benjamin Darby of Montgomery County, MD (b: Feb. 16, 1790 d: May 23, 1872) and Henrietta Kephart of Trevanion, Carroll County, MD (b: Aug. 14, 1803 d: June 3, 1876) married April 15, 1823. Mr. Darby went into business in 1823. In 1826, he moved to Fayettsville, Pa. In 1835 he formed a partnership with Col. Edward Colston in the erection of Honeywood Mills. In 1837, these mills burned with a loss of $45,000, but were rebuilt in 1840. Benjamin then sold out to his partner. In 1845 they moved from Missouri to Philadelphia, Pa & began a fruit business. The Darbys moved to Baltimore in 1846 and Benjamin formed a partnership with peter Kephart in fruit business which later changed to Darby & Co. Their children include Rebecca (b. 1824 d. 1825), Margaret (d. 1825), Caleb (b. 1827 d. 1833), David (b. 1830 d. 1896), Philip (b. 1832 d. 1899), George (b. & d. 1834), John (b. 1836 d. 1903), Benjamin Franklin (b. 1838, father of Ethel Darby), Eliza (b: June 11, 1839 in Martinsburg, WV, d: Aug. 28, 1905, New Windsor, MD), and Henrietta (b. 1843 d. 1844). Their daughter, Eliza Darby married Alfred T. Shreve on Oct. 16, 1876. They had one daughter, Henrietta (b. May 5, 1881 d. Nov. 30, 1912, mother of the donor). The Shreves lived in both Westminster and Baltimore. The Darbys were the great-grandparents Alfred S. Nusbaum, and Eliza (Darby) Shreeve was his grandmother. Mrs. Grammer is possibly the mother of Mary Grammer Shreve, mother of Alfred T. Shreve.