LIFE & TIMES


Maryland Will Miss... Harry de Leyer, owner and rider of the famous


show jumper Snowman, died on June 29 at the age of 93. A Dutch immigrant who lived in New York, de Leyer’s rags to riches story was depict- ed in the book T e Eighty-Dollar Champion by Elizabeth Letts. De Leyer competed Snowman at all the major East Coast shows including the Washington International Horse Show.


Harriet Stokes Iglehart Submitted by her son Tom Iglehart Harriet Iglehart died peacefully at her home


on Carroll Branch Farm in Monkton on July 1 at 94 years of age, surrounded by the love and care of all generations of her family. A fi gure prominent in social, equestrian, agricul- tural, art, justice, and environmental activities throughout Baltimore County, she remained active in all of them to the end of her life. She was ever committed to the people in whom she believed and the causes they shared, and leaves a community and family long sustained by her example of grace, command, and purpose. She was renowned for her humor, kindness, and generosity. In her book of poetry Happily, her niece Joan Allan Aleshire described her as “a woman fi lled with sun.” Born Harriet Austen Stokes, and raised in Glencoe by her parents John and Elaine Lord


Stokes, she grew up helping with their family dairy oper- ation, named Hillside, which adjoined Filston Farm Dairy and Oldfi elds School. Later, she would take off her mud- dy boots for social events, and was soon engaged to Francis N. Iglehart, Jr., of the Green Spring Valley.


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riet and “Ike” were, respec- tively, 19 and 21 years of age at their marriage, which lasted 60 years until his death in 2007. When pressed, she would tell stories of her


childhood, during which she caught the train from Glencoe every morning to attend Green- wood School in Ruxton. Between schoolwork, farm work, and creating handmade cards for friends and family, she quickly be- came an accomplished rider, going on nearly daily adventures through- out the countryside with young friends such as the late Celie Van Hollen, Betty Bosley, Nancy Sehl- horst, and Frances Gould. “I was a little older,” once reminisced her lifelong friend, the late Sarah Bo- sley Secor, “but I tell you they were all over the place, like wild Indians! And that Harriet, she was just a natural with a horse.” From age 10 and up, her performance


at pony and horse shows made her one of the East Coast’s top child riders. Some of these events she helped organize as fund- raisers leading up to World War II, once successfully writing to the then-governor of Maryland for his support. T is sense of civic duty never left her. After the war and marriage, she and Ike


acquired Carroll Branch Farm and be- stowed similar happy and hard-working childhoods on their fi ve children.


Colonel Orville Hughes celebrated his 100th birthday at Wellspring of Life Farm in Monkton on June 15. In attendance were Maryland’s First Lady Yumi Hogan and Secretary George Owings of the Maryland Department of Veteran Aff airs, as well as family and friends. T e Baltimore Polytech ROTC Color Guard and National Guard Band were also part of the celebration.


Col. Hughes is a lifelong horseman who also served in the US Army during World War II, the Korean War and the Vietnam War.


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often joked with them that he forgot his promise beforehand not to make her a farmer. But the promise was kept none- theless in their vibrant social, sporting, political, and philanthropic lives together, along with their many friends throughout Monkton, Baltimore County, and beyond. Harriet was a tireless supporter of many


cultural causes, such as Ladew Gardens and the newly-emerging Center Stage. Her work with Planned Parenthood spanned twenty years. As a volunteer and


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eventual board member, she often took directly to the streets of Baltimore to raise awareness of free health services available to those who often had access to no health care at all. Amid these and all other pursuits, she earned


Harriet Stokes Iglehart


her bachelor’s and master’s degrees in English and literature at Johns Hopkins night school, wrote 48 articles for magazines, most notably for the Maryland Horse, and wrote for and edited the Elkridge-Harford Hunt Club newsletter for 23 years. She spent much time in the hunt fi eld and on her farm riding her chestnut geld- ing, Shannon. She also served on the committees of the Elkridge- Harford Point-to-Point and My Lady’s Manor steeplechase races, handling race publicity and trophy presentations. Her published work


resulted in delightful profi les of a wide range of people from all walks of life, often far from her own. She simultaneously kept Carroll Branch Farm in continual livestock or crop production for a total of 63 years, as it is today.


Elizabeth Allman Brinkley Sponseller,


“Liz”, of New Market, died July 11, after a nine-year battle against brain cancer. She was the wife of Michael J. Sponseller and the daughter of the late Dr. George Ross Brinkley, Jr., and the late Mrs. Jean Tonkin Brinkley, of New Market. She is survived by sisters Norma Brinkley-Staley (Patrick Staley) of Monrovia, Dr. Susan Brinkley-Gowl (Wade Gowl) of Mt. Airy, and brother Secretary David Brinkley (Bethany Beam), of Mt. Airy; step-children Jennifer Sponseller Webster (Chauncey Web- ster) of St. T omas, Pennsylvania, and Michael A. Sponseller, of Washington, DC; and step- grandchildren, George and T omas Webster. Sponseller was born in Baltimore with her


family moving to Frederick and then Marly continued ...


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Dr. Kelly Quesinberry (pictured) of Huntingtown has joined the veterinary staff at Bay Equine Service. Former Chief of Staff for Sagamore


Racing Jocelyn Brooks is the new Director of Sales for Brereton C. Jones’ Airdie Stud in Kentucky. We wish Brooks all the best in her new endeavors!


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