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with the entire Republican ticket by 250 majority. Mr. Dryden
was married in the fall of 1894 to Miss Effie Venables, daughter
of S. D. Venables, the proprietor of the Eastern Shore House,
at Crisfield. He is a liberal man in legislation, and believes in
broad methods where good is to be achieved.

He is on committee on Chesapeake bay and tributaries, on
committee on printing, on committee on library, on committee
on insurance, fidelity, security and loan companies:

TALBOT COUNTY.

Senator Oswald Tilghman.

Oswald Tilghman, the hold-over Democratic Senator from
Talbot, was born March 7, 1841, at "Plinhimmon, " near Oxford,
Talbot county. He is a son of General Tench Tilghmon, of
Talbot, and a lineal descendant of Lieut. -Col. Tench Tilghman,
General Washington's aide-de-camp, who carried the news of
Cornwallis' surrender from Yorktown to Philadelphia. Oswald
Tilghman was educated at the Maryland Military Academy, at
Oxford. In the spring of 1859 he went to Texas, and at the
beginning of the war enlisted in the first cavalry regiment that
left the. State—Terry's Texas Rangers. He fought at Shiloh,
and through the seven days' fighting around Richmond, where
he had an artillery command; and was appointed aid on the staff of
Gen. Lloyd Tilghman. He was at the seige of Port Hudson as
lieutenant in the Rock City artillery. All the other officers of
the battery were killed. At the surrender of Port Hudson he
was sent to Johnson's Island, where he was twenty-three months
a prisoner.

When the war was over Mr. Tilghman returned to Talbot.
He studied law in the office of Charles II. Gibson, and settled
down to the practice of his profession in Easton. He is auditor
of the court. He is engaged also in the real estate business.
He was elected to the State Senate as a Democrat in 1893.
His unsuccessful competitor was Dr. Isaac A. Barber, who was
this year elected to the House of Delegates. Senator Tilghman
is a member of the Society of the Cincinnati.

He is the author of the memoir of Gen. Tench Tilghman.
He believes in a liberal policy towards preserving the archives
and history of the State of Maryland.

He is chairman committee on public buildings in Annapolis,
on committee on judicial proceedings, on committee on
pensions, on committee on Chesapeake bay and tributaries, on
committee on amendments to Constitution.