Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1913-09-26
DR.. j. W. Herring Dead.

DR.. Joshua Webster Herring, until Sep
TENDER 18th a member of the Maryland
Public Service Commission, for several
terms Comptroller of the State Treasury,
once Senator for Carroll county in the Gen.
eral Assembly, and for many years con-
spicuous in the Democratic politics of the
State, died shortly after noon on Tuesday
day last at his home at Westminster. Md,
aged 80 years. Death was due to an
affection of the stomach from which he
had been suffering several months.
Short and slight of statute, but possessed
when past middle age of the energy of one
half his years, quick and keen of mind,
with an almost inexhaustible knowledge
of the affairs of his State from politics to
religion, witty and magnetic of manner. he
was the familiar of preacher, lawyer, judge,
banker, politician, farmer, oysterman-all
the men who make Maryland-for years.
DIR. Herring was the son of Daniel S. and
Margaret Herring. He went to the public
schools in the country as boy and when
he had finished there entered a country
store. But mercantile life didn't suit him
and he turned to the study of medicine
He began with DIR. VIM. A. Matthias. then
a prominent physician of Westminster, the
Herring family having moved to that town.
Then he went to Baltimore and entered
the University of Maryland.
At the same time he studied privately
under DIR. George W. Miltenbereer. of Bal
timore. He received his degree from the
University of Maryland in 1855, and re-
turned to Westminster. There he took up
the life of the old-time country doctor, a
life not likely to make mans faculties
atrophy from lack of use.
In 1867 he abandoned medicine and be-
came the cashier of the National Union
Bank of Westminster. Ever since his name
was associated more with banking and
finance than with medicine.
He was elected to the State Senate from
Carroll county on the Democratic ticket in
1895, receiving the support of some of the
strong independents who had previously
voted the Republican ticket. He had been
much interested in politics before this, but
had not held office.
He served in the sessions of 1896 and
1898. He was twice elected State Comp
trOller.
In 1908 he declined the nomination, but
in 1907 was elected again. On June |,
1910, at the request of the late Governor
Crothers, he resigned from the Comptroller
ship and accepted an appointment to the
Public Service Commission, his term being
for four years.
During this time he was always cOnspicu-
GUS at the conferences of the Methodist
Protestant Church, In 1892 and again in
1896 he was elected president of the Cen
eral Conference.
He always attended the conferences as
a lay delegate. He was a member of the
board of governors of the Westminster
Theological Seminary and of the Methodist
Protestant Church Home.
Western Maryland College, of the board
of trustees of which he was president, con-
ferred the degree of master of arts on him
in 1885. and St. Johns College the degree
of doctor of laws in 1900. He was elected
president of the Maryland Bankers Asso-
citation in 1899.
DIR. Herines first wife was Margaret II.
Trumbo, daughter of Louis Trumbo. of Car
roll county. She died in 1888, leaving two
Sons and two daughters. His second wife,
whom he married in 1888, was Catherine
f. Armacost, daughter of John Armacost,
of Carroll county.