The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1902-01-02
CARPETS REPRESENTATIVES
Left Oakland Monday Night For the stats
Capital.

Senator Robert A. Ravenscroft IN
company with Assemblymen Finzel
and Ashby left Oakland Monday
evening for Annapolis, to be present
at the beginning of the Legislative
session yesterday at noon.
The three members from Garrett
county are creditable. worthy and
have the interests of their constitu
ents at heart.
Hon. r. A. Ravenscroft, lately cleo
ted and now serving his third success
sive term as Senator in the Maryland
Legislature, is a prominent figure in
Maryland politics. Barely thirty-five
years of age, he is the undisputed
leader of his party in this county and
is considered one of the leading lights
in his party's councils. The Senator
sprung from sturdy, stalwart Mary
land stock He was born in Allegany
county, where his parents now live,
receiving a public school education.
He commenced professional life as a
teacher, in the meantime taking UP
medicine and surgery. He graduated
at the Maryland University of Medi-
cine. He has practiced his profession
for thirteen years in Garrett county
with great success. He is as popular
among his patients as he is among
politicians. Clear, clean and con
sentative, he impresses you as man
of force and character. His first cleo
ton to the Senate by majority of
800, his last majority nearly 800, indi-
Gates the character of his leadership.
His mild, gentle, persuasive manner,
his thorough knowledge of men, wide
experience, tireless energy and thor
ough organization has made the party
in Garrett county invincible. Like
all strong men, he fights the enemy,
not his friends.
Patrick Z. Finzel, who is now sery-
ing his second term in the Lower
| House, was born near Frostburg,
where he resided all his life. In his
boyhood days he worked in the mines
of the Mount Savage Fire Brick com
pany during the summer and attend
ed the public schools during the win
ter. A number of years ago he gave
up mining altogether and went to
teaching school, afterward engaging
! in the mercantile business. When a
postoffice was established at his home
he was appointed postmaster the
name of the Office being Finzel. Dur
ing the session of the Legislature in
1898 Mr.. Finzel was chief engrossing
clerk in the Senate. He was mem
Der of the House in 1900, having been
elected by good majority.
Charles A. Ashby comes from among
the pioneer stock of the Allegheny
I Mountains. He was born ON the
| Ashby farm, near Oakland, on July
/ %, 1867, where he lived until grown
to manhood, receiving his education
in the public schools of Garrett
county. In his early career Mr.. Ashby
taught i'll the public schools, but later
/
Crellin, a manufacturing town few
miles southwest of Oakland. He was
married few years ago to Miss Allie
Frantz. Mr.. Ashby's family history
reads like page from the Colonial
times of Maryland. Indeed, at the
time his forefathers settled in what
is now Garrett county, and what was
then a wilderness, the Liberty Bell at
| Philadelphia had not tolled out the
! tidings of the independence of the
colonies. 1t was sometime prior to
the year 1855 that William Ashby,
Mr.. Ashby's great-grandfather in
company with his six brothers, their
wives and children, penetrated the
Allegheny Mountains, having trav-
eled here from Frederick county,
Maryland. William Ashby settled at
what is now known as the Swan
Meadows Farm, seven miles south of
Oakland, where he cleared out few
acres of land and made his future
home. AT Swan Meadows William
Ashby, the grandfather, was born in
a fort erected for the protection of
the whites against the Indians, and
was the first white man to be born in
what now constitutes Garrett county.
The family has continued to reside in
the immediate neighborhoodi in which
Mr.. Ashby's forefather settled and
raised his children. Mr.. Ashby's par
ents are both living, his father being
a patriarch of 90 years and his mother,
a sister of the late Ralph Thayer, re-
spected and loyed by all, is in her
seventy-eighth year.
Organization of the Senate.
The Senate of Maryland convened
yesterday at Annapolis with the fol-