Peter Gorman

[2] Gorman married Elizabeth Browne, daughter of John Riggs Browne who owned the farmstead called Good Fellowship dating back to the original land grant by Cecilius Calvert, 2nd Baron Baltimore.

[3] After completing his railroad contract, he purchased the 500-acre estate Fairview in North Laurel from Dr. Charles Griffith Worthington.

Fairview stayed in the family until the 1970s where a Healy painted portrait of young Peter Gorman hung.

[8] Gorman was a contractor for the portion of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad between Ellicott Mills and Woodstock, Maryland.

[9] In 1850, William T. Hamilton and General Edward Hammond were called upon to give 11-year old Arthur Pue a page position in Washington D.C. Gorman and his younger son William Henry Gorman (1843–1915) were said the proprietors of several quarries in Laurel that supplied granite for the U.S. Treasury Building and the United States Capitol, and bridges for the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad[2][10] although no primary sources were found to support this.