Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1938-06-09
Two Candidates For
David Lewis Seat
In U. S. Congress
Sen. Byron, of Williamsport,
And Samuel Schell, OF Fred
erick Make Announcements

Two prominent Western Maryland
men are seeking to fill the seat in the
House following Congressman Lewis
announcement for the U. S. Senate.
Lewis will fight it out with the pres
ent Senator Willard E. Tydings. Tyd-
lngs is known as partial anti-New
Dealer, while Davy Lewis is running
with the unofficial but tacit support
of the Roosevelt Administration.
The two men who have filed for
Lewis job are State Senator William
d. Byron, of Washington county and
Samuel Duvall Schell, of Frederick.
1t is understood that Montgomery
county leaders will support the form
Ell although no definite announcement
has been made by responsible county
leaders. By the same token it is also
believed that Senator Tydings has the
majority following among Montgom-
cry county old-line Democrats, as well
as the backing of various anti-Ncw
Dealers and generous number of in
dependent Democrats.
Mr.. Byron is vice president of w.
d. Byron and Sons, Inc, leather man
ufacturers of Williamsport, where he
resides.
He served three terms as mayor Of
Williamsport, being unopposed and in
1880 was elected to the State Senate
and served on the Senate finance COM
mittee. He was appointed by the late
Governor Albert C. Richie as a men,
Der of the State Roads Commission in
1884.
Born at Danville, Va, in 1896, Mr..
Byron is the son OF Mrs. Jane Wilson
Byron and the late Col. Joseph C.
Byron, and has resided in Washing
ton County for SO years.
He was educated at Phillips Extcr
Academy and at Pratt Institute, en-
tering the leather business in 1915. He
enlisted in the aviation corps in 1917
serving until the end of the war as
hrst lieutenant and instructor in fly
ing and aerial gunnery.
Mr.. Byron married Miss Katherine
McComas Edgar, daughter of Mrs.
Mary McCamas Edgar of Washing
ton and Detroit, and the granddaugh-
ter of the late United States Senator
Louis E. McComas, of Maryland. They
have five children.
Mr.. Schell has never sought an
elective Office, but has long been ac-
tive In Maryland politics. He was edu-
Gated in the public SCHOOLS of Fred
erick, Md, and has continuously main
tanned his residence there. He is the
sonof the late Mayor John Edward
Schell of Frederick.
In the 1916 Wilson Presidential
campaign he was in charge of the
Frederick County Campaign head
quarters, but since the World War has
been less active in politics because Of
service in the Federal Government in
Washington. In his youth he was en-
ployed in canning factories in Fred
erick and also for a wholesale groc-
cry. He was engaged in railroad traf-
fic and transportation work in West
ern Maryland just prior to his en-
listment in the Corps of Engineers,
United States Army. He served over
year in France with the Engineers
during the War and upon returning
entered Georgetown University Law
School from which he was graduated.
He is member of the Maryland Bar
Association, For approximately nine
Ceen years he has served in various
capacities with the United States
Shipping Board and the MARITIME
Commission.