The Washington bee., 1907-11-23

harrison became TEeSlQent, president OF
the Kensington Electric Railway, and
one of the builders of the Baltimore
Line and lexington Railways. He has
also served upon hundreds of commit
tees and delegations.
He was, for many years, president Of
the Central Dispensary and Emergency
Hospital, and under his administration
the building it now occupies was erect
ed; and since president of the Indus
trial Home School. He served as
member of the board of directors of
the American Surety Company of New
York.
He is now president of the Presby-
terian Allianse; president Of the Pres
byterian Home of the District of Colum-
bia; trustees of the Reform School |
trustee of the Church of the Covenant;
and has teen chairman of the Board
of Trustees of National Park Seminary |
at Forest Glen, Maryland, since its
| foundation. He was the first Worship |
full Master Of Kensington Lodge, F. and
A. NJ; a member of Lafayette Chapter |
and DeMolay Commandery and Almas
Temple
For more than twenty years he has
been interested in Maryland politics and
a prominent member Of the Republican
party, whose interess he has advanced
by active participation in campaigns in
different sections of the State. He was
proprietor of the Montgomery Press for
several years, and also president of the
Maryland Editorial Association. He
was also one of the original proprietors
and developers of Takoma Park, Wood
side, Forest Glen, Hyattsvllle, and sew
eral other suburbs and secretary of the
committee of five on the Rock Creek
Park
In 1901 he founded the town of Ken
sington, Montgomery county, which very
largely through his instrumentality has
grown to be an attractive suburb Of the
National Capital. Here he built an at
tractive house. where he has since re-
sided, and here he built the Warner
Memorial Presbyterian Church, in men,
ory of his father, and also the Noyes
Library, which he presented to the
town.
He is a member of the Bar of Mont
gomery county; of the Court of Appeals
of Maryland, and of the several courts
of the District of Columbia.
The degree of LID. was conferred
upon Mr. Warner by Eskins College,
South Carolina. Mr.. Warner is a mem
Der of Burnside Post Grand Army of
the Republic; a member of the Repub-
lican Club of New York, and an hon
orary member of the American Club Of
Pittsburg; was one of the vice presi-
dents of the League of Republican
Clubs.
He was a warm, personal friend Of
the late President Mckinley, and is an
ardent admirer of President Roosevelt
and his policies.
In politics he is a thorough Repub-
lican. though not an intense partisan"
He has been frequently mentioned for
Congress in the Sixth District of Mary
land but thus far has preferred business
to politics.
Now that he has retired from active
participation in business he has, at the
suggestion of many friends announced
himself as a candidate for Congress
sional honors.
The foregoing sketch has been pre-
pared by his campaign committee, 10
better acquaint the voters of the Sixth
District of Maryland with the unusually
active career of Mr.. Warner and the
large experience he has had in many
lines of business and professional life
While he has been successful in busi-
ness he has for many years given large
part of his time to the service Of the