The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1866-01-06

State Constitutions Convention, and in 6!
he was elected by the Union party Rep
resentative from Maryland TO the Thirty
ninth-Congress. to fill the vacancy causeS
by the resignation Of E. II. Webster. :
THIRD DISTRICT.
@Hon Chas. f. Phelps was born in Gull
ford, Vermont. May |. 1888 removed with
his parents to Pennsylvania in 1885, anG
to Maryland in l84l graduated at Prince
ton College in 1853 studied law and
came to the Maryland bar in 1855; admit
ted to practice in the United States' Su.
preme Court in 1859. In 1860 he was u
member Of the City Council Of Baltimore
In 1861 he was commissioned a Major oil
the Maryland Guard, which post he resign.
ed. In 1862 he was made Lieutenant Col
Of the 7th Maryland Volunteers, was pro.
NOTED to the Colonelcy captured by the
Rebels near Richmond afterwards recap
tured during one of Sheridan's raids, and
then honorably discharged on account oI
wounds in 1864. and was soon afterwards
elected by the Union party Represents.
tive from Maryland TO the Thirty-ninth
Congress.
FOURTH DISTRICT
Hon. Frantis Thomas, Of the Fourth Dis.
trlct, was born in Frederick county, Mary
land, February 3, 1899; was educated at
ST. Johns College, in that State studied
law and was admitted to the bar in 1920
was member Of the House of Delegates
in 1922, 1927 and 1929. and was Repre-
sentative in Congress from Maryland from
1881 to l84l. During one term he was
Chairman OF the Judiciary Committee, and
a report made by him led to the settlement
of the boundary difficulties between Ohio
and Michigan. From l84l to 1874 he was
Governor of Maryland was elected for
the sixth term Representative to the
ThIrty.seventh Congress, and reelected to
the 'Fhirty-eighth Congress, serving on the
Judiciary Committee also re elected to
the Thirty-eighth Congress by the Union.
lists Of his district.
FIFTH DISTRICT.
Hon. Benjamin Gwinn Harris was born
near Leonardtown, ST. Mary's county, Nd,
December 13, 1906. After receiving an
he spent few months at ST. Mary's Col.
lege, and went to Yale College, from which
he was dismissed, with one hundred and
forty others, in 1929, on account of their
seeding from Commons Hall and al.
though a compact was entered into that
they would not return unless their wishes
were respected. all Of them did return ex-
cepting himself and one other, Georgian
subsequently, spent fourteen months at
the Cambridge Law School, and then set.
tied in his native county as lawyer In
1882 he was elected to the House of Dele.
gates of Maryland, and reelected in 1888,
1886, 1849, 1852 and 1856. In 1863 he
was elected by the Democrats" Repre-
sentative from Maryland to the Thirty
eighth Congress, serving on the Committee
on Manufactures. He was delegate TO
the Chicago Convention in 1864, and was
reelected to the Thirty. y.ninth Congress-
In May, 1865, he was arrested and tried by
court-martial for violating the ffty-sixth
Article Of War, and, although declared
guilty, President johnson, on account oi
additional testimony, ordered the sentence
of the court to be remitted in full.>
Adam j. Glosbrenner, Representa-
tive from Pennsylvaaia. was born in Ha
gerstown, Nd, John FL. Farquhar, q Rep.
resentative from Indiana, was born in Fred
erick county, Md, H. T. II. Bromwell, g
Representative from Illinois, was born iu
Baltimore, and John Hogan, a Represents
tive from Missouri, was for many years 8
resident of Baltimore.