The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1903-07-18
MARYI.ANp RAR Assoc1ATIoN.
Sketch of Mr.. Whitelock, of Baltimor
City, the New President.

Sketch of Mr.. WhitelOck, or Baltimore
City, the New President
George WhiteIock, the new president of the
Maryland State Bar Association, is the second
president of the body from Baltimore city.
John P. Poe is the only other city lawyer who
has held the position. Immediately after
graduating from the Maryland University
Law School Mr.. Whitelock formed, in 1876
copartnership with Hon. Samuel ID. Schmuck-
er, which was soon recognized as Leading law
firm. This firm terminated in 1875, upon the
elevation of Judge Schumacher to the Dencn OF
the Court of Appeals. Since that time Mr..
Whitelock has continued individually the
practice of the law with unabated vlgor ana
success. He ranks as one of the foremost law
yers in the State.
Endowed with robust strength of mind and
body, and possessed of an aggressive ana
marked capacity for work, the new president
of the State Bar Association has in his pro-
fessional career covered wide and compre-
hensive field, extending in equal degree ana
with notable success to numerous branches OF
the law. A cursory glance through the mary
land Reports for the last twenty years SHOWS
that Mr.. Wbitelock has during that period
tried in The Court of Appeals many leading
cases. upon a great variety of subjects. includ-
ing questions in reference to the law of trusts,
wills and legacies, titles, insolvency attach
ments, libels, commercial contracts, insurance,
banking and corporations. His practice in
the federal courts has embraced admiralty,
equity and common law, extending to the
Circuit Court of Appeals and the United States
Supreme Court.
In his legal arguments Mr.. Whitelock COM
mands attention by his eloquence and by the
harmony and purity of his diction. 1t is not
merely as successful trial lawyer that he has
attained high professional standing. His in
tegrity, clear Judgment, deep insight into and
promptness to grapple with business detail and
his systematic methods are well known Il.r e
commercial and corporate interests intrusted
to his professional care and skill both at home
and abroad.
Despite the exactions of large practice he
has given much time to committee work in
the American Bar Association and in the City
and State Bar Associations having always
strenuously advocated the simplification and
undermining of procedure.
The new president of the Bar Association is
an accomplished linguist, speaking German,
French and Italian with fiuency and express
sion, and being conversant with literature Of
those languages, in which he takes an inter-
est second only to that for his mother tongue.
Always All ardent lover of healthy outdoor
sports, Mr.. Whitelock was an early member
of the Maryland Bicycle Club, and is now
president of its successor, the Maryland Coun-
try Club.
Politically Mr. Whitelock is Republican.
His name has been recently mentioned IN con-
nection with the ensuing nomination for At
torney General. Mr.. Whitelock is democratic
in manner courteous and approachabe. He
has been active in the State Bar Association
since its organization, in 1896, and was for a
number of years its treasurer.
Mr.. Whitelock is the only son of the late
William Whitelock, who was a prominent
Baltimore merchant in his day and who was a
resident of Baltimore county. He once repre-
sented the county in the House of Delegates,
having been elected on the independent ticket
which was successful in 1875.