Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1845-07-31

THOMAS STONE, signer of the Declare
ton of American independence, was born
in Charles County, Maryland, l743, and
was educated to the profession of the law.
He was delegate to the Continental Con-
gress of 1776, and was again member OF
that body when Washington resigned the
office of Commander-in-chief He died In
1857.
WILLIAM TILGHMAN, an eminent jurist,
was born in 1856, in Talbot county, on the
Eastern Shore of Maryland. In l772 he
began the study of law in Philadelphia, but
was not admitted to the practice of the pro-
fession till 1888. In l7SS, and for some
successive years, he was elected represen-
lative to the Legislature of Maryland. In
1898 he returned to Philadelphia, and pur-
sued the practice of law in that city till
1901, when he was appointed Chief Judge
of the Circuit Court of the United States
for the third circuit. After the abolition of
this court, he resumed his profession, and
continued it till 1906, when he was APP
pointed President Of the Courts of Com
mon Pleas in the first district of Pennsyl-
vania. In the following year he was COM
missioned as Chief Justice of the Supreme
Court of that State. He died in 1922.
OHIO HOLLAND WILLIAMS, an officer in
the American army, was born in Maryland
in l74S, served IN various capacities during
the revolutionary war, and fought at the
battles of Guilford, Hobkire's Hill and Eu-
Jaws. Before the disbanding of the army
he was made Brigadier General. For seve-
raj years he was Collector at Baltimore
He died in 1894.
WILLIAM H. WlNDER, an officer in the
American army, was born in Maryland in
IT'S, was educated for the bar, and pursued
his profession in Baltimore with great sue
cess. In 1912, he received Colonies COM
was promoted to the rank of Bril-
gadier General, and served with reputation
during the war with Great Britain. He COM
handed the troops at the battle of .Bladens-
burg. On the declaration of peace he re-
sumed the practice of his profession. He
died in 1924.
WILLIAM Writ, was born at Bladensburg,
on the 9Th of November, I772
and was the youngest of six children Of
Jacob and Henrietta Writ. His father was
a Swiss, his mother German. At,an early
age he lost his parents, and was taken under
the protection of his uncle, Jasper. Writ, at
eight years of age, who caused him to be
in the rudments of a classical
education. In 1890 he commenced the
study of the law with Mr.. w. P. Hunt, the
son of his tutor, at Montgomery Court
House; and subsequently, pursued his studies
with Mr.. Thomas Swan, of the District of
Columbia, through whose aid he was ad
mitteJ to the bar in 1892. In the autumn
Of that year he commenced his professional
career at Culpepper Court House, in Vir-
ginia, being then only twenty years of age.
He was eminenty successful in his profess
sion, and in 1895 married the daughter Of
DR.. George Gilmer, of Albemare, and took
up his residence at the seat of that gentle
man, near Charlottesville Here Mr. Writ
bocanIS au.t ..aiH tetI.s -RIF.J efierson, Mr
and Mr.. Madison. The inestima-
Bile worth of these men certainly impressed
his mind with many of their writes In
1899 he sustained severe loss in the death
of his amiable wife, and the same year was
appointed clerk to the Virginia House of
Delegates, post which he honored for two
years, at which time he had conferred on
MIN the CHARACTERISTIC of the eastern dis
rict oetf1e STATE, which was unsolicited and
In 1902 he married his Sc
;ond wife, resigned his CHARACTERISTIC, and
pursued the practice of the law at N orfolk.
He removed to Richmond in 1906 and in.
1908 was elected member of the Virginia.
House of Delegates, which was the first and
asst seat he ever held in any legislative body,
'referring rather the profession Of the law
O that of politics. He was appointed to-
he Attorney Generalshlp by Mr.. Monroe,
which office he filled with distinguished "a
'ility during the administration under which
he was appointed, together with that of
Ir. Adams. In 1929 he took up his resi-
lence in Baltimore, where he pursued his
profession the remainder of his life.-Ray.,
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