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Islands, employing during the canning season between 3, 000 and
4, 000 hands, and doing a business of over $1, 000, 000 a year.

After he sold out his business Mr. Jones came to Baltimore
and started a business in this State, and is now president of the
J. Winslow Jones Packing Company, organized under the laws
of the State of Maine, with a paid-up capital of $150, 000. He
is also president of the Highland Packing Company, the Patuxent
Canning Company, and of the Riverton Live Stock Company.
He has always been a Republican. His present residence is at
Portland, Anne Arundel county, Md., Patuxent postoffice, and
his main office is in the Equitable Building, Baltimore. Mr.
Jones has lately had reverses, and endeavored to have the House
take notice of the injury done to the laboring element of his
neighborhood by the processes of the court. The House referred
the matter to the committee on labor.

He is chairman of committee on manufactures, member of
committee on amendments to the Constitution, on committee on
inspections.

J. Frank Krems.

J. Frank Krems is a trucker and a resident of the third district
of Anne Arundel. He was a member of the Legislature of
1890, being the only Republican member elected from Anne
Arundel county at that session. Mr. Krems was born in Phila-
delphia in 1832, but has lived in Maryland since he was ten
years old. He learned the machinist's trade with Poole & Hunt,
of Baltimore, but never followed it after reaching his majority.
During the war he served in the Eleventh Pennsylvania Cavalry,
under Col. Samuel Spears. Before entering the trucking busi-
ness, he was employed as clerk in the Ericsson Steamship Line.
Mr. Krems is prominent in Masonic circles, being past master of
Joppa Lodge of Baltimore, and is a Knight Templar. He is
also a member of the Lobby Social Club of Baltimore. He is a
32d degree Mason. He was appointed State Wharfinger in Bal-
timore by Governor Lowndes.

He is a member of committee on organization and on the com-
mittee on public buildings.

Thomas M. Cole.

Thomas M. Cole was born in the fifth district of Anne Arundel
county, where he now resides, fifty-nine years ago. He is a
trucker and fanner. He has served two terms as county com-
missioner, being elected in 1887 and again in 1889. He has
always taken considerable interest in local politics and has fre-
quently served as delegate to county and other conventions. He
is a reliable, courageous man, who acts steadily up to his convic-
tions of duty.