The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1901-12-27
Robert w. Brooke. Democrat.

Robert Wilson Brooke, son of the late
Robert Wilson and Elizabeth Berry
Brooke, of Kent district, Prince Georges
county, Maryland, was born April 10, 1860.
The whole of his life has been spent in
his native State He attended the public
schools of the county and of Washington
city. He has been farming in Kent dis
one OF the practical farmers and truckers
of his section. In September, 1889, he
married the second daughter of DR.. Charles
Oscar Lewis, prominent physician of
Bladensburg, Md, and has two children.
He hello position in the Maryland Legis
lature during the session of 1894. His
father was an active worker in the inter-
est of the Democratic party in the early
forties, and at one time held position
under the Governor of Maryland. Mr..
Brooke is the grandson of the late Elisha
Eversfeld Berry, of Springfield, Prince
Georges county, and nephew of the late
Henry H. Brooke, the we'll known real
estate broker of Baltimore city. He is
also nephew of the late Gideon Brooke,
who went to Arizona in 1914 and engaged
extensively in the mining business, where
made California his home.
Robert W. Wells, Democrat.
Robert Wesley Wells was born near
Bladensburg, Md, August 10, 1875. In
his youth he attended the Bladensburg
Academy and the High School of Wash
ington, D. C. In 1888 he made his first
extensive visit to the great West, return
ing to the East and remaining in Maryland
during the years 1889 and 1890. In the
fall of 1890 he again went West, and
though but 1G years of age embarked in
business with the firm of Wells Bros, of
Kansas and the Indian Territory. In 1898
he entered the University of Kansas and
spent two years in the study of political
economy, history and philosophy before
entering the law department. He gradu-
ated from the law department of the Uni
versity of Kansas in 1897 with high honors.
In the meantime he absented himself from
the University of Kansas to travel about
the Pacific Coast and over the great North
west country, stopping on his way back
to Kansas at the University of Minnesota,
near St. Paul, for a term of lectures. He
was chosen by the student body of the
University of Kansas to forestall adverse
legislation at Topeka in the Legislature
of 1897, and his work in this capacity con-
stitutes a permanent memorial of his name
at the university. He was an ardent
Democratic speaker from the Pacific Coast
to Kansas in the campaign of 1896 In
December 1897, he again went to Wash
ington, D. c., and in June following re-
ceived the degree of master of laws from
Columbian University. He is now the
junior member of the law firm of Wells &
Wells, with offices in Washington, d. c.,
Hyattsvilie, Md, and Upper Marlboro ,
Md. In law he has acquired consider
able name in the defense of three widely
| reported murder cases, being the associate
| in a case at Rockville, Nd, of Senator
Joseph S. G. Blackburn and in another at
| Washington, d. c., of Prof Tracy l.. JEFF
ford of Columbian University. Mr.. Wells
is son of DR.. Charles A Wells, of Hyatts-
vile, and his mothers maiden name was
Lucrctia Hyatt.