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He is chairman of committee on civil-service reform and elec-
tion reforms; on the committees on elections, on executive nom-
inations, on re-valuation and assessment, on finance.

BALTIMORE CITY-First District.

Senator Gustavus A. Dobler.

Senator Gustavus A. Dobler, Republican, of the First Legis-
lative District of Baltimore, is the senior member of the firm
of Dobler & Mudge, wholesale paper dealers. He was born in
Elizabethtown, Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, October 11,
1839. His grandfather was a native of Germany, and his father,
Daniel Dobler, was a native of Baltimore. Senator Dobler was
educated in the public schools, His connection with the paper
trade began in 1858, in the store of A. L. Knight. In 1860 Mr.
Dobler found employment in the firm of Wheelwright &
Mudge, of which firm he became a member in 1868, and upon
the death of Jeremiah Wheelwright, in 1875, he became its head.
He has been twice married, and is a member of St. Peter's
Lutheran Church, and is active in works of charity. Since 1875
he has been a Republican, and is a member of the Civil Service
Reform Association. Senator Dobler is a man of convictions,
and, at the last, though the pressure was great, refused this
session, to vote for any other than an Eastern Shoreman for the
United States Senator.

He is on the committee on civil service reform and election
reforms, on committee on education, on committee on executive
nominations, on committee an printing, on committee on
retrenchment of expenses in State government, on committee on
contingent expenses of Senate.

BALTIMORE CITY—Third District.

Senator Frank S. Strobridge.

Frank S. Strobridge, the Senator from the third legislative
district of Baltimore, was born in the city of San Francisco,
California, February 17, 1857. He comes of New England
stock, his parents being Massachusetts people, whose fathers and
grandfathers were living in this country before the American
Revolution. Mr. Strobridge received his education in the public
schools of Philadelphia and graduated from the High School at
the age of nineteen. In 1875, his parents moved to Baltimore
city, where he began his business career in the insurance
business. In 1881, he was one of the incorporators of the Balti-
more Mutual Aid Society, and was at once elected to fill the