42 MARYLAND MANUAL.

Samuel Smith Ford.

Samuel Smith Ford, Republican, was born in Fairmount,
Somerset county, Maryland, in 1839; went to school for a few
months in that neighborhood. At the age of sixteen he was
taken out on the water. His father was a bay captain. For
twenty-eight years he was on the Chesapeake bay and its tribu-
taries. He represented Somerset county in the Legislature of
1876. He was appointed janitor of the United States Court
House in Baltimore city in President Harrison's administration.
Then he was appointed by William M. Marine to a position in
the Baltimore Custom House. He is now superintendent of
Pythian Hall, Gay and Lexington streets. He has always been
a Republican. He has been living in Baltimore nearly five
years. Mr. Ford has eleven children, four boys and seven girls,
all living, and all of the family are members of the Methodist
Church. During the debate on an order to cut down the salaries
of officers of the House, Mr. Ford made himself famous through-
out all Maryland, and gave a new name to political emoluments
by a witty petition to his Republican associates in the House,
"after trying thirty years to get in, not to destroy the vineyard
before they had tasted the grapes. "

He is a member of committee on Chesapeake bay and its
tributaries, on inspections, and chairman of committee on fed-
eral relations.

Charles W. H. Burns.

Charles W. H. Burns was born in Baltimore, September 28th,
1847. He comes of an old Baltimore family, well known in
Old Town. His paternal grandparent, an Old Defender, was
one of the garrison at Fort McHenry during the bombardment.
His father, John T. Burns, was at one time superintendent of
streets under Mayor Chapman He was educated in the public
schools, and was graduated in medicine at the Maryland Univer-
sity. After practicing medicine some years he abandoned it and
became an artist in stained glass, which is his present occupation.
He has always been a Republican. This is his first political
office.

He is a member of committee on federal relations, on public
hygiene, on insolvency.

John A. Janetske.

John A. Janetske, Republican, delegate from the first legisla-
tive district of Baltimore city, was born August 4th, 1858, in the
city of Dantzig, Prussia, where he was educated in the public
schools. He came to this country at the age of thirteen years,