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FOLLOWING
ARE Great Grandsons of
EDWARD & MARY LeCOMPTE CATOR and three sons of JOSEPH & HANNAH BROHAWN
CATOR
(1) Joseph Edmondson Cator
(2) Capt. William Whitfield Cator
(3) Robinson Wesley Cator
(1)
JOSEPH EDMONDSON
CATOR (1812-1898) d. @86 years old
and Elizabeth Jane Dove Cator
Parents:
Joseph
Cator (1778 - 1852)
Hannah Brohawn Cator
(1786 - 1853)
JOSEPH
EDMONDSON CATOR married
ELIZABETH JANE DOVE
b. Harford County, MD 1818. Joseph was born in Baltimore,
MD April 28, 1812 .
They wed in Dorchester County, MD on 30 May 1836. In the 1880 Census, Joseph
lived with his brother Robinson Cator. Joseph died in 1898. Elizabeth died
in 1856.

CHILD:
WILLIAM DOVE CATOR
William Dove Cator was born Sept 17 1839 in Maryland;
he died Dec 14, 1885 in Guilford County, NC. William married Annie
Street born on Feb 25, 1852 in Cordele, GA. She died on April 25
in 1923 in Greensboro NC. Annie suffered an embolism of her brain
which caused paralysis to her left side. She lived 5 days.
This was complicated by chronic mitral valve disease which plagued her
for 5 years. William and Annie are
buried at Green Hill Cem. in Greensboro NC. She is in Plot:
Section:2 Lot:24 Grave:7 and he is in Grave 5.

William and Annie had several children:
SPANISH AMERICAN WAR and
WORLD WAR I veteran:
John Street Cator:
Born Nov 30, 1875 in Greensboro NC; died Jan 15, 1958 at age 82.
John Street Cator married
LUCY BRANCH,
b. Feb 4, 1883; d.
July 20, 1952. John and
Lucy married May 18, 1910. John served in the Army
during WWI; 1 lt QMC 301 Water Tank Tn; Motor Sec Hq Bn 1 Army
1/7/1919; MTC Hq SOS 3 Army 4/22/1919; MTC Unasged 9/7/19l
Honorable Discharged 10/2/1919. Overseas from 9/25/1918 to
Discharge, Meuse-Argonne.
John Street Cator and Lucy
Branch Cator had one known child, LUCY MORTON BRANCH CATOR who married Minthorne Wails Reed.
John died at the Naval Hospital in Charleston, SC. Cause of
death arteriosclerosis leading to bronchopneumonia.
CHILD:
BENJAMIN WESLEY CATOR
Benjamin was born in 1843 and died in 1911 and he is buried at St.
Johns Episcopal Church Cemetery in Kingsville, Baltimore County, MD.
He married a Florence LNU and had one known son, Roland W. Cator.
Following is his obit.
 
CHILD:
MARY JANE CATOR
Born in 1845 in Maryland; died in 1926. She married Benjamin F.
Taylor and had two children, Joseph and Carrie. No other
information available.
Other possible children are
SAMUEL W. CATOR, b.
1840; age 10 in 1850 Census (b. abt. 1840)
MARTHA CATOR, b.1850
HARRY L. CATOR,b.1862;
d. 1890
(2) CAPT. WILLIAM
WHITFIELD CATOR
(1818-1865 d. @ 47 yrs) and Mary Ann August Travers Cator
Parents:
Joseph
Cator (1778 - 1852)
Hannah Brohawn Cator
(1786 - 1853)
Capt. WILLIAM WHITFIELD CATOR
b.
3/20/1818 Taylors Island in Dorchester County, MD.
His wife
MARY ANN AUGUSTA TRAVERS
b.
June 3, 1839 at Taylors Island. They married on Nov. 21, 1856.
She was the daughter of
Mary
and Thomas Broome Travers, Jr.
Capt.
William Whitefield (Whitfield) Cator was Master of the Bark 'Rainbow', a sea
going vessel.
Note: William was listed as a
"sailor" in the 1850 Census at age "30".
Capt. WILLIAM WHITFIELD CATOR
died
2/3/1865. Buried
at Grace Church, Taylor's Island.
1880 Census:

Per
the 1880 Census Mary A. Cator
is listed as the Head of Household
at age 41 and “farms” in Parsons Creek,
Dorchester County, MD. Others in her household are Ella W. Cator,
daughter, age 19, Charlie B. Cator, son, age 17 who works on a farm, perhaps with
his mother, and Willie W. Cator, son, age 15 (b.
abt. 1865; he attended school during the census year) who also works on
a
farm. She inherited her father’s home farm on the Bay at Taylors
Island. Henry Armstrong,
age 73, is also living in her household as a "servant" and "farm
laborer".
1891
April 15 TAYLORS ISLAND: Mary Ann
Travers Cator
dies.
Following her death, her farm was sold in 1895 to William B. Barnes
of NY City. WILLIAM
& MARY ANN TRAVERS
CATOR
buried at Taylors Island's Grace Church Cemetery.
Note that the tombstone
for Capt William M. Cator is in the background of this stone.
Perhaps the one for Mary A Cator includes Wm. W. Cator's information due
to the severe crack in the older stone.
I love the anchor on his tombstone, but recognize the fragility of this
stone!


Children of CAPT. WM WHITFIELD CATOR and MARY ANN
AUGUSTA TRAVERS CATOR
1st Child:
SHERIFF
THOMAS BEAUREGARD CATOR,
born
Aug 1857 on Taylors Island, MD; died March 2nd, 1930, at the
Cambridge Hospital at about 9 pm. He had been there for about 5
weeks prior to his death.
(See
Generation
Five for further information)
2nd Child:
SAMUEL B. CATOR,
b.
May 13, 1860 Taylors Isl and; d.
August 18, 1922 Dorchester County,
MD at the age of 62. Samuel is buried at Grace P.E. Church Graveyard
on Taylors Island.
His
career involved books; he worked in a bookstore of "his own
accord...owner in Baltimore. By 1920 he was a book agent. Note:
This may be the Samuel B. Cator that provided a gift to the Enoch Pratt
Free Library, Baltimore (Mencken Collection) of the manuscript of A BOOK OF
PREFACES (Published 1917). He presented a library of 7000
books to Taylor's Island.

3rd Child:
ELLA WARFIELD CATOR, b.
May 11, 1861, Taylors Island, MD; d. Aug. 28, 1952; m.
HARRY PATTISON SPILMAN,
a farmer,
on Dec. 11, 1906, at "The Pines" Taylor's Island.
Harry was b. September 24, 1860; d. January 15, 1933. Ella and Harry are
buried at Grace Church Graveyard, Taylors Island, MD. Harry was the
Supervisor of Elections for Taylors Island with his term expiring June 1933 (not
known when term initiated). Note: Ella
(Mrs. Harry P. Spillman) and "Vee" (Elmira Valorie Mace Cator, or Mrs.
Charles Bragg Cator) lived together in their later years on Taylors
Island.

4th Child:
HARRY LEE CATOR,
born 1862 and died 1890. He married Florence Emma Marshall.
He is buried at Kingsville Cemetery. He did most of the planning
for Johns Hopkins Hospital! While working at the hospital, he
suffered a severe cold and ultimately died of catarrhal affection of the
stomach. He was just 28 years old and had one daughter also named
Florence who was born in 1884.
2
5th Child:
CHARLES BRAGG (Charlie
B.)
CATOR,
b. Jan. 15, 1863, Taylors Island, MD; d. Oct. 23, 1922. He
married Elmira Valeria "Vee" Mace. They are both buried at Grace Cemetery
on Taylors Island. He died of Bright's Disease (kidney disease).
He was a farmer and they had three known children: Benjamin F. Cator born Jan.
1893; Catherine Cator born April 1898 and Charles Jr. born 1911
From
Washington Post:

6th Child:
WILLIAM (WILL) WHITFIELD CATOR (JR.)
b. Nov. 24, 1864, Taylors Island, MD died on Sunday, Nov. 10, 1946 at
Cambridge Hospital following an auto accident at age 81.
While driving to C ambridge from his home in Baltimore on Sunday 11/3/1946 he
lost control and overturned his car a few miles North of Easton. He was
brought to Cambridge MD Hospital where he died 11/10; He was 81 yrs 11 mos and 15 days old. Buried in same cemetery as his parents, Grace
P.E. Church Graveyard, on Taylors Island. He was a member of the
University Club and Baltimore Country Club and worked as a Southern Sales
Rep for Johnson-Sutton Co., which later was named R. M. Sutton Co. Per
the following obituary, this William Cator was a bachelor!
Obituary
in The Baltimore Sun (1837-1985) Nov. 12, 1946, pg. 11:



Abbey Hotel
(3) ROBINSON WESLEY
CATOR (1826-1902) d.@ 76 yrs. old
and Mary Caroline "Carrie" Hooper Pattison
Parents:
Joseph
Cator (1778 - 1852)
Hannah Brohawn Cator
(1786 - 1853)
DORCHESTER
MARYLAND
August
16, 1826:
ROBINSON WESLEY CATOR
born
on Taylors Island. At
56 years of age, per his passport application, Robinson was grey haired, 5' 8"
tall, with a high forehead, brown eyes, and a straight nose. He had a fair
complexion, medium mouth and chin and a round face.
Maryland
17 Dec 1828: MARY CAROLINE
"Carrie"
HOOPER
PATTISON
born 1828.
DORCHESTER COUNTY, MD Dec. 5th, 1849:
Robinson married "Carrie". Per
Records of Great Choptank Parish, Cambridge MD on Ancestry.com, it is Dec. 5,
1849.
BALTIMORE,
MD 1850: Robinson's
occupation per the 1850 census was "merchant", which was his
career field always.
He and his wife were residing then in the Waverly area of
Baltimore.

Feb 14, 1902 Baltimore MD : Robinson died.
29 Jul 1899: Mary
Caroline "Carrie" Cator
died.


Robinson
Wesley Cator was one of the Armstrong, Cator and Company members.
A member of the Protestant Episcopal Church and a staunch Democrat
politically, he chose to stay out of public life...perhaps influencing behind
the scenes, but not publicly.
He and Mary Caroline were the parents of 11 children (10 known).
He was a member of the Board of Trade, organizer of the Merchants and
Manufacturers Association, and a director of the Merchants Bank and Eutaw
Savings Bank. Armstrong, Cator and
Company was established in 1805 by Thomas Armstrong and became a very prominent
Baltimore business. When
Armstrong moved his company to Baltimore's Market Street, Robinson served as
Thomas Armstrong's confidential adviser and as a manager. Two years later
Robinson became a partner with equal rights and the company changed its
business name to Armstrong & Cator. This was when Armstrong and Cator
added a wholesale business along
with its established retail business; it flourished.
For excepts from the Google Book,
Baltimore: Biography by Lewis Historical Publishing Co. regarding
Robinson Wesley Cator, click on the following:
  
Saturday, February 15, 1902. Baltimore Sun.
Volume CXXX, Issue 91, Page 7
Mr. R.W. Cator is Dead. One of
Baltimore’s Leading Merchants Passes Away. Paralyzed
Two Months Ago. Head
of the Great House of Armstrong, Cator & Co. and Interested in
many lines of Business.
Mr. Robinson W. Cator, head of the firm of
Armstrong, Cator & Co. died yesterday at his home 600 Cathedral
Street, after an illness of two months, during the greater part
of which he was unconscious.
Mr. Cator had been in bad health for some time,
but shortly before Christmas he was stricken with paralysis, the
attack first coming on while he was in his store. Since that
time he had been gradually sinking, with only temporary
improvement. The end came about 12 p.m. after a night of
watching, surrounded by the members of his family. The
funeral arrangements have not yet been completed. Mr. Cator was
attended during his last illness by Dr. P.H. Retche.
Mr. Cator was of English descent and was born in Dorchester
county in 1826, on an old homestead, which in early Colonial
times, was granted to Moses LeCompte, and has ever since
remained in the family. He
removed to Baltimore in 1838 and in 1841 secured a position with
Hollingsworth & Weller, remaining there until 1843. Then he
began to clerk for Mr. Thomas Armstrong, whose business had been
founded in 1806. In 1847 Mr. Armstrong took Mr. Cator into
partnership and the firm was known as Armstrong & Cator. In 1852
the late Mr. Benjamin F. Cator, brother of Mr. Robinson W.
Cator, joined the firm, the style of which was changed to
Armstrong, Cator & Co. Under
this triple management the firm had an exceedingly prosperous
career, and, at the time of the Civil War was famous for the
large business which it did in the South.
Children of ROBINSON WESLEY CATOR and MARY CAROLINE PATTISON CATOR
JAMES
HOOPER
CATOR, born abt 1851, MD.
Per
1880 Census, James lived in Waverly District, Baltimore MD.
He married
JEANIE BAYLY; born
Dec. 18, 1854; died
Feb. 25, 1935.
James died on July
28, 1903.
In
1874 JAMES
H.
CATOR
was admitted to Armstrong, Cator and Company, two years after the death of
Benjamin F. Cator who died in 1872.
Daughter,
Jeanie Elizabeth Cator,
born
January 10th, 1882; died 6 months later on July 24th 1882; died in
infancy. Click
right for infant's grave:

For James Hooper Cator stone, click below:
Note 3/17/1911
Washington Post:
Mrs. James Cator, of Baltimore, “is the guest of her sister,
Mrs. William B. Smoot, at the home in Prince Street.”
Mr. and Mrs. William B. Smoot were among the guests Thursday at a
dinner given by Mrs. Smoot’s brother and sister-in-law, Mr. and Mrs.
James Cator, at their home in Baltimore, in honor of Gov. and Mrs.
Goldsborough.


FRANKLIN
PATTISON CATOR,
born
March 11th 1854, in Baltimore. Per the 1880 Census, Frank lived in the district
of Waverly, Baltimore and was listed as “at home” at “age 25”.
Educated in private schools; graduated from Merillat Institute, Govanstown,
MD. Entered
the employ of Armstrong, Cator & Company, was a
member of the firm until 1880, and was head of the firm in 1912. He was
director of Western National Bank and Central Savings Bank and Vice
President of the Merchants’ and Manufacturers’ Association; also a member of
the Board of Trade of Baltimore. His club affiliations: Maryland
Merchants, Baltimore County, Maryland County and Baltimore Athletic.
Member and Vestryman of Emmanuel Protestant Episcopal Church. Democratic
supporter; never chose to run for office. On the Board of Directors
of the Church Home and Infirmary and a member of the Young Men’s Christian
Assn. and of the Maryland Tract Society. His maternal grandparents were
Jeremiah and Nancy LeCompte (Hooper) Pattison.
He married Annie Baen, daughter of
Annie
and William Richard Hurst, in Baltimore
on January 18, 1882.
A sister of Annie Baen is
Mary Jane Hurst.
NOTE:
Item from The Washington Post, July 17, 1910:
“Mr.
and Mrs. William B. Smoot left Thursday for New York and sailed yesterday,
accompanied by Mrs. Annie Hurst and Mrs. Franklin Cator, of Baltimore, to spend
the next two months traveling in Europe.”
Click
for excepts from the Google Book,
Baltimore: Biography by Lewis Historical Publishing Co. regarding
Franklin Pattison Cator.
HISTORY OF BALTIMORE
Franklin Pattison Cator, the present energetic head and
guiding spirit of the well known firm of Armstrong, Cator & Company, is
a man of exceptional ability in many directions. It was owing to his
indefatigable efforts that, after the destructive fire of 1904, the firm
was enabled in so comparatively short a time to resume its operations
with undiminished and even increased vigor. A history of this firm is
given in detail in connection with the history of Robinson W. Cator,
which precedes this.
Franklin Pattison Cator, son of Robinson Wesley and Mary
Caroline Hooper (Pattison) Cator, was born at Baltimore, March 11, 1854.
His education was acquired at private schools and he was graduated from
Merillat Institute, Govanstown, Maryland. In 1869 he entered the employ
of Armstrong, Cator & Company, becoming a member of the firm in 1880 and
is now at the head of the house, and under his capable management it
looks forward to a long era of prosperity. In addition to his manifold
responsibilities in connection with this business, he is a director in
the Western National Bank and in the Central Savings Bank. He
is also a vice-president of the Merchants’ and Manufacturers’
Association and a member of the Board of Trade of Baltimore. His
club affiliations are with the Maryland Merchants’, Baltimore Country,
Maryland County and Baltimore Athletic. He has been a consistent
supporter of Democratic principles.”
Wednesday, July 9,
1919, Baltimore Sun:
FRANKLIN P. CATOR
HONORED. Employees Surprise Him on fiftieth Anniversary with Firm.
Franklin P. Cator of
Armstrong, Cator & Co. was given a surprise yesterday morning when he
entered his office, the occasion being the fiftieth anniversary of his
connection with the firm. Mrs. Cator, his wife, and Mrs. Sallie Cator
Hopper, a sister, had been let into the secret and were present.
Mr. Cator found his
office banked with flowers and later he was escorted to the showroom,
where all the employees were gathered, and was presented with an
engraved silver loving cup inscribed with a facsimile of his signature
and bearing his monogram in raised gold letters. After recovering from
his surprise, Mr. Cator formally accepted the token and was
congratulated by the 300 employees and officials of the company.
 

MOLLIE CATOR,
born about 1856.
No other
information known to me.
ELIZABETH P. "LIZZIE"
CATOR,
born Oct 1857. Per 1880 Census, Lissa or "Lizzi" lived in the district
of Waverly, Baltimore Maryland and was listed as “at home” at “age
21”.
In the 1900 census
(bottom of page), she is still a single woman at 42 years of age
and lives with her father. She died two years later on June 3,
1902; single.

SARAH "SALLIE"
CATOR,
born
10 years after her parents' marriage on July 16, 1859 in Baltimore MD. She
married
Samuel
Wright Thomas Hopper, Jr.
with whom she has one known son,
Stuart Cator Hopper, born 02 Feb 1884
who
married Henrietta
Stewart on 23 Apr 1921. Her
husband,
Samuel
was
born 21 June 1852 and died 12 Apr 1885.
In
the
1880 Census she was listed as “at home” of her father
Robinson W. Cator.
SALLIE
CATOR
died April 30, 1920 at St. Paul Apts.,
Baltimore; buried at Greenmount Cemetery.
She lives with her
father, Robinson Cator, during the 1900 Census, as she is a
"widow."
(bottom of page)


Photo of Stuart Cator Hopper on Debate Team at
Johns Hopkins in 1903, the year he graduated with a Bach. of
Arts:
Stuart received Order of St. Sava from WWI. He served from
1917-1919.
ORC 7/3/17 capt QMC, Hq Camp Lee Va. 7/31/17; 2 Intermediate QM
Dep 2/22/18; QM Dep Camp Pontanezen 5 Base Sec 5/14/19; Casual
6/10/19, Hon disch 6/19/19, Overseas 3/4/18 to 6/18/19
Daughters: Anne and Henrietta Hopper

CHARLES R. CATOR,
b.
Nov
24, 1860, Baltimore City , Maryland. Per the 1880 Census, Charles lived in the
district of Waverly, Baltimore and was listed as “at home” at
“age
19”. Per
his passport application he becam e a merchant in the family business.
Charles (signature below) was: 40 years old, 5'8" tall, had a high forehead,
blue eyes, and a straight nose. He had light hair, a medium mouth and
chin, a long face, and a fair complexion. His father signed as his
witness. Passport application in
left column. In
the 1900 census (bottom of page), he is still single at 39 years of
age and lives with his father and is working as a clerk for a
millinery store (Armstrong/Cator?)
Portion
of his passport request in 1901 provides description and signatures:

MARGARET
“Maggie” LeCOMPTE CATOR,
born
about 1862, Baltimore. Per the 1880 Census, Margaret lived in the
district of Waverly, Baltimore Maryland and was listed as “at home” at
“age 18”.
She
married WILLIAM Breerwood SMOOT (b. 1
Jan 1858) on 13 October 1886. William was the brother of
Henry Smoot,
and the son of John Bryan Smoot and
Sarah
A. Breerwood
(died
1863) and the grandson of
Mayor of Alexandria, Charles Calvert Smoot,
and
Sarah Waters Bryan
Smoot.

Maggie Cator Smoot's husband's Washington Post Obituary, 6/16/1930
Maggie Cator Smoot's Washington Post Obituary
5 years later of a cerebral hemorrhage:

LUCY HOPPER CATOR
married Wm. Pitt Robinson on Nov. 6, 1890

Lucy died on Feb. 11, 1946 in DC.
She was a 79 year old widow.
She and William had the following children: Andrew
P. Robinson, R. Cator Robinson, Mrs. Nancy Dulany, Mrs.
Margaret Sutton and Mrs. Sophia Passano.

Her daughter Margaret was a voice and piano teacher:


St. David's Episcopal Church in Roland Park, MD
TO GENERATION 1 Moses
Cator; Edward and Mary LeCompte Cator; Levin and Aney Cator
TO GENERATION SECTION 2 Family
of Levin Cator (son of Edward and Mary LeCompte Cator) including
Joseph and Hannah Brohawn Cator, son/daughter-in-law of Levin Cator.
GENERATION SECTION 3 Not
an active page - combined info with other Generations 2 and/or 4
TO GENERATION SECTION 4 Families
of Joseph E, Capt Wm., & Robinson W. Cator
TO GENERATION SECTION 5 Family of Capt. Wm. Whitefield Cator
and Mary Ann Augusta
Travers Cator.
TO THOMAS BROOME TRAVERS +dau.
Mary and spouse WILLIAM CATOR
TO
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN CATOR ARTICLE
FROM BOOK
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Grace Episcopal Church Complex (formerly Grace PE
Episcopal Church, Taylor's Island, MD
First Schoolhouse on Taylor's Island, MD

Hoopers Island Sign

Enoch Pratt Free Library where George Cator donated the
Cator Print Collection
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