MARYLAND MANUAL. 21

DORCHESTER COUNTY.

Senator Joseph H. Johnson.

Senator Joseph H. Johnson, a hold-over Senator of Dorches-
ter, is one of the best known public men of the Eastern Shore.
He served in the House of Delegates in 1878, and again in 1882.
He was elected to the upper house in 1885, and was again called
to serve his people in the Senate in 1894. Mr. Johnson has
never been defeated before the people. He is an ardent demo-
crat, but is independent of all rings and cliques, and follows the
dictates of his own good judgment in all public matters. He is
one of the most enterprising citizens of Dorchester county, and
all measures and enterprises designed to benefit his people and
develop the resources of his town and county receive his cordial
support. At present he is proprietor of the Cambridge Marine
Railway, and is largely interested in the boating business. As a
member of the General Assembly he can always be found at the
post of duty, and looks upon his "public office as a public trust, "
and loses no time in idleness while at the State capitol, and
attends promptly as well as faithfully to the duties of his
position; always in and about the State House during the hours
of business. He is one of the accessible members of the Gen-
eral Assembly, a fact to be highly appreciated by those who
have business at the session.

He is chairman of committee on pensions, on committees on
civil service reform and election reforms, on public institutions,
on railroads and canals, chairman of committee on Chesapeake
bay and tributaries, on committees on printing, on sanitary con-
dition of State, on library.

FREDERICK COUNTY.

Senator Frank C. Norwood.

Frederick county will be represented in the State Senate for
the next four years by Frank C. Norwood, a lawyer practicing at
the Frederick county bar. Mr. Norwood is a native of Frederick
county, where his ancestors have lived for more than a century;
his birthplace is the village of Liberty. His family comes of
English stock, and has been identified with Maryland since the
early history of the State. He was graduated from the Law
School of the University of Maryland in the class of 1879, after
having previously spent several years in the study of the law
under the guidance of the Hon. Milton G. Urner, at that time
representing the sixth district of Maryland in the House of
Representatives. A short time after his graduation he located in
Frederick city for the practice of his profession, and has con-
tinued there in the practice ever since. He has always been a