Hugh Sisson.

About Hugh Sisson

Hugh Sisson III aka Marble King of Baltimore was a Baltimore, Maryland stone mason, whose work is found in much of the city's monumental architecture in the post-Civil War era. He established a business in Baltimore that grew into one of the largest and most technologically advanced operations of its kind on the East Coast. His firm, Hugh Sisson & Sons Steam Marble Works, was located at the corner of North Street and Monument Street. Sisson imported marble from Italy, the first in the city to do so, but also local marble could be just as good. He purchased quarries at Beaver Dam in Cockeysville, which produced stone of the highest quality known as Cockeysville Marble.