Family of John P. and Mary E. Towson

John Philip Towson was born July 5th, 1837 to Joshua Towson (1793-1842) and Mary Ferrel (1795-1884), according to Ancestry.com user judyflash. He was the younger brother of James Franklin Towson. According to the same family tree, his wife was Mary Parsons, born 1833 in Harford County, Maryland. The couple had at least two sons and four daughters, whose birth dates are provided from judyflash's public family tree: Joshua Joseph (born 31 Jan 1860), Virginia "Jennie" (born Oct 1862), Elizabeth "Lizzie" (born Jan 1865), Rosalia "Rose" (born 2 Sep 1867), Helen (born 2 Mar 1870), and John P., Jr. (born 4 Jul 1875).

Towson Households in Baltimore City Directories

A select number of Baltimore City Directories have been made available through the University of Maryland library system, which you can access them yourself here. For the sake of myself and my fellow Towson family researchers, I have put together a list of all the Towsons listed in the available  Machetts and Woods' Baltimore City directories.

Italicized names are direct relatives of mine.