Taney and the Keys (Taney's in-laws) ran in the same social circles. (If I'm not mistaken, wasn't it Taney's nephew who Dan Sickles offed in a lover's triangle?) The Baltimore elites hung together. We aren't talking about 169,000 people.
You're delving into speculation and innuendo, capitan. If you want to prove your contention you'll need sterner stuff than that.
May I make a suggestion to anybody with access to a US census database? If you can get ahold of the Baltimore County census from 1860 you should be able to figure out exactly where Taney lived and where Merryman lived. If they're on the same census block then they were indeed neighbors. If they're not then the NY Times and capitan are, as usual, lying.
Lt. John Merryman was not a citizen of Baltimore, he lived some 15 miles away from Baltimore. Please provide documentary evidence of his claimed social standing and close association with Chief Justice Taney.
Merryman was not from Baltimore at all. He was from Cockeysville, 23 miles away.
[capitan_kerryfugio #2092] Taney and the Keys (Taney's in-laws) ran in the same social circles. (If I'm not mistaken, wasn't it Taney's nephew who Dan Sickles offed in a lover's triangle?) The Baltimore elites hung together. We aren't talking about 169,000 people.
Francis Scott Key did not live in Baltimore.
Dan Sickles murdered Francis Barton Key. The son of Francis Scott Key was not a nephew of Chief Justice Taney. A nephew is the son of a brother or sister, not the son of a brother-in-law.
Taney was 47 years older than Merryman.