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He is a member of committee on library, on currency, on
insurance and loan companies.

James Cheston, Jr.

James Cheston, Jr., is a resident of West river and one of the
leading farmers of Anne Arundel county. He is a prominent
granger. He is sixty-three years old. Mr. Cheston married a
daughter of the late Dr. Charles Steele. One of his three sons
is a physician residing outside the State. Mr. Cheston was a
member of the Legislature, session of 1888. Mr. Cheston is a
man of vigorous thought and independent action. Although a
Republican he believed it wrong to vote for any other than an
Eastern Shoreman for United States Senator at this session. On
the final ballot he refused to bow to the voice of the caucus, and
voted for a man who had the statute qualification.

He is a member of committee on revaluation and reassessment,
on roads and highways, on Chesapeake Bay and its tributaries,
on part of House on the joint committee of section 24, article 3
of the Constitution.

BALTIMORE CITY-18 Delegates.

(Three Legislative Districts. )

First Legislative District—Six Members.
W. H. Schilling.

Mr. William H. Schilling, Republican, of the first legislative
district of Baltimore, was born in the eastern section of the city
August 29, 1863. He received his education in the public schools
and City College of Baltimore. He also attended Dickinson
College for a short while. He is at present employed at the
American office as superintendent, which position be has held for
several years. For eighteen months during the years of 1889
and 1891 he was employed on the Baltimore Methodist in the
capacity of associate editor, assisting the late Rev. J. W.
Cornelius, who was then editor in charge. He has never held
any public office, the present being his first venture in the
political arena. His friends, during the campaign, numbering
nearly 300, organized the William H. Schilling Republican
Association. He is married and has two children. His father is
Mr. J. Charles Schilling. Mr. Schilling was the selection of the
Baltimore city delegation for speaker of the House, and was a
prominent candidate for the same position before the Republican
caucus.

He is a member of committee on organization, on rules, chair-
man of committee on printing, on library.