The citizen., 1914-11-27

club, comprised OF the most representa-
tive women in the State, is named the
Caroline Sharpe Club in honor of the
memory of Mrs. George W. Sharpe, a
Frederick and Taneytown woman.
Mr.. and Mrs. George W. Sharpe
were the parents ofsseven children, two
of whom rose to places of considerable
distinction. A daughter, the late Mrs.
Virginia Sharpe Patterson, became
widely known the country over as an
author, lecturer and naturalist.
The other, the youngest son, Colonel
Alfred c. Sharpe, U. S. A., won much
notice for bravery in the early Indian
wars in the Dakotas and Wyoming and
later at San Juan and Fl Caney. Dur
ing the reconstruction period of Porto
Rico be was appointed judge advocate of
the island by President Mckinley. For
a portion of the Taft administration he
was military governor at Zamboango in
the Philippines. He is now detailed at
Denver in charge of the department of
the Colorado.
Among the well known grandchildren
of George w. Sharpe, aside fTom Am-
bassador Sharp, are Rev. Howard Nc
Ayael, of Akron, Ohio his sister, Mrs.
Carolyn McAyael Ogilvie, of Des
Moines, Ia, editor and publisher of
The Midwestern magazine; and Miss
Virginia Patterson, of Kokomo, daugh
ter of Mrs. Virginia Sharpe Patterson,
whom Governor Ralston, of Indiana,
has named to succeed her late mother as
head Of the Indiana rivers and harbors
The new ambassador to France is the
son of the late George S. Sharpe, elder
son of THE FREDERICK CITIZEN S
early publisher and editor. He was
born at Nt. Gilliad, Ohio, in 1859, and
graduated from the University of Mich
igan. After seeking location in the
northwest, he returned to Ohio where
he settled in Elyria.
In 1884 he was elected prosecuting
attorney of Lorraine county, Ohio, in the
Democratic landslide of that year.
Later he gave up his practice and en-
barked in the manufacture of chemicals
and pig iron. and his business developed
until twenty years later it became the
lapgest of its kind in the country.
In 1892 he was presidential elector
on the Ohio Democratic ticket. In 1900
he was nominated for Congress but was
defeated. In 1904 he was elected
delegate-at large from Ohio to the Dem
ocratic National Convention at St. Louis.
In 1908 he made second race for
Congress and that time was elected by
majority of 1925. In 1910 he was
reelected by majority of 6, 1923. And
in 1912 he was reelected for third
consecutive term by plurality of IL, 3S1.
In 1910 he was defeated in the Ohio
Democratic caucus for United States
Senator by small vote by Senotor Pom
crime. At the last Democratic State
Convention at Toledo in June, 1912, he
was deferted for the gubernatorial nomi-
nation to succeed Governor Harmon by
james Cox, the present Governor.
In his appointment to the American
ambassadorship in France, President
Wilson has made no mistake. Mr..
Sharp is man of marked ability, in
heriting much of the brilliance which
characterizes the entire Sharpe family.
In addition to his many other pursuits he
has found time to devote much study to
astronomy and is one of the foremost
authorities on the subject in the coun-
try.
In his commission to the French re.
public he succeeds Myron 7. Herrick,
of Cleveland, former Governor of Ohio,
who is the last of the old Mark Hanna
faction of Ohio Republicanism.
Early in life Mr.. Sharp changed the
spelling of his name from that of the
Sharpe family in general, by dropping
the final Sc !" His claim for this, it is
said, Is that 1t was the original spelling
of the name which is somewhat substan-
tiated by the fact that on the tomb
stones of his grandfather $ George w.
Sharpe, of Frederick), mother and sis
ter, Mrs. Anne Sharp and Miss Mary
Sharp, in Mt. Olivet cemetery in Fred
erick will be found the spelling of the
Sharpe name as the new ambassador
spells it, without the final ''e.