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to the Continental Congress in Philadelphia from the Com-
mander-in-chief of the American armies the official news of
the surrender of Lord Cornwallis' army and the capitulation
of the posts of York and Gloucester.

He owns a valuable collection of Revolutionary relics, auto-
graph letters of Colonial and Revolutionary worthies, and an
extensive library of books and papers relating to the history
of Maryland, and to the genealogies of many families of the
Eastern Shore. He is the local annalist of his section of the
State.

Colonel Tilghman is a member of several patriotic and fra-
ternal societies, among which is the Ancient and Honorable
Society of the Cincinnati of Maryland, of which he is the pres-
ent Vice-President. He has for several years past represented
the State Society in the General Society of the Cincinnati.
He was Senator from Talbot County in the Legislatures of
Maryland 1894 and 1896, and chiefly through his efforts the
State Bureau of Immigration was established in 1896. He is
President of the Board of Development of the Eastern Shore
of Maryland, and has been Auditor of the Circuit Court of
Talbot County for over twenty years. He is Commander of
the Charles S. Winder Camp, United Confederate Veterans,
and also commands the First Brigade of the Maryland Division
of the United Confederate Veterans. He was one of the Com-
missioners to represent the State of Maryland at the Pan-
American Exposition at Buffalo, N. Y., in 1901, and at the
exposition held at Charleston, S. C., the following year.

He was the first appointee of Governor Warfield, who ap-
pointed him Secretary of State on the day of his inauguration
as Governor of Maryland, January 13, 1904.

He resides at Foxley Hall, Easton, the Colonial residence of
Henry Dickinson, whose son, Charles Dickinson, was killed by
General Andrew Jackson in a duel in 1806.

State Treasurer: MURRAY VANDIVER (Democrat), of Har-
ford County.

Mr. Murray Vandiver was born in 1845 at Havre de Grace,
Md. He is the son of the late Robert R. Vandiver, a descend-
ant of some of the first settlers of Delaware. He was educated
in the public schools of Harford County and Havre de Grace
Academy, and graduated from a business college in Pough-
keepsie, N. Y., in 1864. He early engaged in the lumber busi-
ness in Havre de Grace. He was elected a member of the
House of Delegates of Maryland in 1876, 1878, 1880, and was
Speaker of the House in 1892. He was a member of the Na-
tional Democratic Convention of 1892, which nominated Cleve-
land; of 1896, which nominated Bryan the first time; a Dele-