Mulford collection of Blick family photographs

Adelaide Fehr Miller was the daughter of Jacob Henry Miller, Esq. of Allegheny, Pennsylvania. She married Baltimore builder, real estate broker and banker Carroll Bates Blick, and was the mother of twin girls in 1900: Emilie Bates Blick and Mariana Miller Blick. At that time, the Blick family lived at "Rosemere" overlooking Lake Roland in Ruxton (Baltimore County), a house built in 1897. That home was destroyed in a 1902 fire caused by an ember from the Northern Central Railroad running along Bellona Avenue. However, the family continued to live at the site, as well as at hotel and other addresses in Baltimore City, through the 1920s. A third daughter born to the family circa 1910 was Adelaide Carroll Blick.

The Blick family also spent time in Atlantic City, New Jersey and at a farm in Saint Mary’'s County, Maryland. The family may have had contact with the Catholic community of Saint Mary'’s County, as both Emilie and Adelaide would later correspond with Father John LaFarge (1880-1963), a Jesuit priest whose concern with interracial ministry led him to work with the black population of Saint Mary’'s County from 1911-1926. Adelaide Blick became a nun named Sister Mary Saint Jude. Emilie Bates Blick married Rowland Hall Mulford and in the 1950s returned with her husband from out of state to live at the Rosemere property in what was formerly the coach house, now on Wagner Road in Ruxton.