The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1903-09-26
SKETCHES OF THE NOMINEES.

SKETCHES OF THE NOMINEES. 4,
Mr.: Stevenson Archer Williams whose ances-
tors have been prominently connected with the
political and judicial life of Maryland since the
settlement of the colony, was born in the Naval
Hospital in Brooklyn, N. Y, on May 6, 1851.
where his father naval officer was stationed 9q
Williams returned to Hartford county, where
the Republican candidate for the Governorship
has since lived. His early education was re-
ceived in private schools, and he completed the
collegiate course at Princeton University, where
he graduated in 1870. Two years later he began
the study of law at the University of Maryland,
and completed the course in one year. Mr..
Williams has the privilege, therefore, of writing
the initials A. b., A. M. and LII. b. after his
name.
In the practice of his profession Mr.. Williams
has been unusually successful. His ability has
been recognized in the United States Courts and
in the Maryland Court of Appeals. 1t was, how
ever his four-year course in the State Senate
to which he was elected in 1897, that brought
and has kept him before the public so promi-
nently. His love of justice and fair play and
the earnestness with which he performed his
duties attracted the attention of everyone. His
popularity, which enabled him to be elecetd to
the Senate from Hartford, where the normal
Democratic majority is 400, extended to every
portion of the State, and since the expiration of
his term his friends have persistently advocated
him as the most available candidate for the
Governorship. In the State Senate party lines
are often strictly drawn in the discussions.
During the four years Mr. Williams served his
party was once in the majority and once in the
minority. AS the leader of the Republicans, he
took prominent part in every discussion, but
in the most heated arguments he never forgot
to be courteous and considerate to his political
Mr.. Williams succeeded Col. Edwin H. Web
ster as president of the Hartford National Bank
of Belair. The Republican candidate is essen
TALLY q business man, and every enterprise that
has had for its object the advancement and pros
perity of the State has always received his hear
ty support. He is at present interested in the
project of building an electric road between
baltimore and Beiar, and was chosen as one
nf no n
that purpose.
Mr.. George Whitelock, the Republican cand-
date for the Attorney Generalship, was born in
Baltimore 40 years ago. Most of his early life
was spent near Mount Washington, in Balti-
more county, where his mother still lives. Mr..
Whtelock received his primary education in
the schools of Baltimore city and Baltimore
county. and was later graduated from the Penn
sylvania Military College at Chester Pa. He is
an alumnus of the Maryland University law de-
partment, class of 1875. Mr.. Whitelock has taken
much interest in the study of languages, and is
member of the Modern Language Association
of America. He speaks German, French and
Italian.
MIR. Samuel D. Schmucker. who is now a.
member of the Court of Appeals formed with
Mr.. Whitelock many years ago the law firm
of Schmucker & Whitelock, which continued
bench of the Court of Appeals. At the last
meeting of the Maryland Bar Association. in
July, 1908, Mr. Whitelock was elected its presi-
Association, the international Law Association,
the Maritime Law Association and the Bar Asso-
citation of Baltimore city. Mr.. Whitelock Isl
president of the Maryland Country Club, and is
a member of the Baltimore Country Club, the
Maryland, the Germania and Merchants Clubs
the Baltimore Chamber of Commerce and the
Merchants and Manufacture Association of Ball
timore the Union League Club of New York
and the Metropolitan Club of Washington.
Mr. Lemuel Edward Pitts Dennis, the nominee
for Comptroller, is So years old He was born in
that part of Worcester county which is now
attached to Wicomico county. He was edu-
Gated in the public schools, and when Crisfield
emerged from marshy settlement to town of
promising proportions Mr.. Dennis took up his
residence there and became general merchant,
continuing in this line of business for 30 years.
serving in the meantime as collector of the
port of Crisfeld Mr.. Dennis is now engaged in
the fsh-fertilizer industry. He is a member of
the Methodist Episcopal Church.
For many years Mr.. Dennis was memberand
later president. of the Board of Town Commits
sioners of Crisfield. In 1895 he was prominent
for the Republican nomination for
the State Senate, and was defeated by Mr. Rob-
ert p. Graham by narrow margin. Four years
ate to represent Somerset county. He received
2 ,S12 votes, while his Democratic opponent, Mr.
S. Frank Dashiell, polled 1896 votes. Mr.. Dem
mis- was offered the Republican nomination for
the State Senate by the Somerset County Con-
vention, but he declined to accept.
ACCORDING TO thelatest national census, the
Germans in the nineteen largest American
cities number 2,S73,5S2, or more than a third
of all the Germans in fhe counfrv MiIuau