Baltimore City MD Archives Obituaries.....Neilson POE, January 3, 1884 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/md/mdfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Kim Klein imp.gene@gmail.com June 8, 2008, 6:26 am The Daily News, Frederick, Maryland, 4 Jan 1884, Page 4 Hon. Neilson Poe, who until the expiration of his term of office last month had been for six years past chief judge of the Orphan’s Court of Baltimore city, died at his residence in Baltimore, yesterday morning at 7 o’clock, after an illness of several months, from general physical prostration. Judge Poe was in his 76th year. He was born in Baltimore in 1808. His father Jacob Poe, a wealthy citizen. The deceased was educated in Maryland schools. He was at one time editor of the Examiner of this city, and was afterward editor and proprietor of the Baltimore Chronicle. Subsequently, he practiced law for a number of years. For several years he was director on the part of the State in the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company, and afterward a member of the directory of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal. Mr. Poe was appointed chief judge of the Orphans’ Court, vice John A. Inglis,deceased, by Governor John Lee Carroll on the 10th of September, 1878. He was elected judge on the 25th of November, 1879, and held his office until the past year, when he withdrew from the political field on account of ill health. His wife was Miss Josephine E. Clem, a sister of the wife of Edgar Allan Poe. She died several years ago. Mr. Poe was a member of the Protestant Episcopal Church for over half a century, and for many years a vestryman of St. Luke’s Church, Carey street. The funeral will take place from Mount Calvary Protestant Episcopal Church, Madison avenue and Eutaw street, to-morrow. Ex-Judge Poe was a cousin of Edgar Allan Poe. Judge Poe was present at he closing scenes of the poet’s death. He was the first to find his cousin at the close of a municipal election, in a state of stupefaction, which resulted in the poet’s decease in a back room of the Fourth-ward polls. This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/mdfiles/ File size: 2.3 Kb This file is located at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/md/baltimorecity/obits/poe-n.txt