BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES

Members of the House of Delegates

JANUARY SESSION, 1908.

ALLEGANY COUNTY— Five Members.
WILLIAM J. FORD, Democrat—Lonaconing.

Mr. Ford was born in Lonaconing, Md., June 30, 1869;
went to the public school until be was 17 years of age;
started to work in the mines up until the strike of 1900,
when he was compelled to leave on account of being a union
man. He worked in Ohio and West Virginia; came back to
lonaconing, and in 1903 he was elected Secretary and
Treasurer of District No. 16, United Mine Workers or
America, which position he now holds. He was Registra-
tion Officer for six years, and was Census Enumerator.

FRANK LEE CARL, Republican—Cumberland.

Mr. Frank Lee Carl, elected to the House of Dele-
gates from Allegany county, was born in Hancock, Wash-
ington county, Md., on May 11, 1871, his parents being
Daniel A. and Annie E. Carl, both natives of Pennsylvania.
His father served four years in the Union army during the
civil war as infantryman and cavalryman, and was wounded
in the battle of Antietam. He attended the public schools
at Hancock and worked in the shop of his father, who was a
harness maker by trade. He managed the postoffice for his
father, who was postmaster at Hancock during President
Benjamin H. Harrison's administration. He later par-
chased "The Star," a weekly newspaper published at
Hancock. and commenced his newspaper profession, which
he has since followed. He published this paper until offered
a position on the reportorial staff of "The Morning Herald,"
published at Hagerstown, Md., which he accepted, disposing