Rider photograph collection

The Rider family was owner of a Baltimore County tract of land known as Riderwood, in the vicinity of which the area known as Ruxton originated. The name Ruxton appears in connection with the area in the late 1880s, when the Northern Central Railway built a station by that name from which people traveled to Baltimore city for work, shopping, and entertainment. In 1906 the railroad ran 37 local trains each day between Baltimore and Parkton, Cockeysville, and Greenspring Junction, as well as Harrisburg and York, Pennsylvania. The line was later taken over by the Pennsylvania Railroad, and operated until 1959.

Around 1880, the Rider family had numerous plots in the area, including Edward Rider's estate called "Malvern", just east of the railroad tracks and slightly northeast of Lake Roland. On the west side of the railroad, and south of Joppa Road, the McConkey family had a place. Other families in the area included Ellicott, Finnan, Kapp, Meyers, and Hooper, as well as Haslup and Coale. William B. Rider, born in 1857 to Edward and Rebecca Anne McConkey Rider, married Kate A. Bateman.

Various members of the Bateman family resided at 1021 York Road in Waverly; during the 1880s and 1890s, Clinton, Clara, Ernest, Leonard and James are listed in the Baltimore Directory at this residence. In the 1870s and 1880s, James S. Bateman operated a grocery at 1023 York Rd., which was taken over by William Joesting in the 1890s. W. Ernest Bateman was a photographer with an establishment at 116 South 4th Street (this address may have been in Minneapolis, Minnesota).