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Franklin E. Cox.

Franklin E. Cox, Republican, is a successful oysterman, resid-
ing in Fairmount district, in Somerset county. He is thirty-
three years of age, and has been active in the councils of his
party since reaching his majority. He has been frequently a
member of the Republican county conventions, and was a mem-
ber of the Congressional convention of 1894 that nominated A.
Lincoln Dryden for Republican nominee for the First Con-
gressional District. Mr. Cox's ancesters were among the first to
settle in Somerset county, and he belongs on his mother's side,
as well as his father's, to the oldest colonial stocks. His
mother was Miss Leach. Mr. Cox's people on both the paternal
and maternal sides, as well as himself, have always been identified
with those interests that protect and propagate the products of
the water, as the inhabitants of his section are all engaged in and
dependent upon, the fish and oyster for their living. He is,
therefore, pre-eminently interested in good legislation for the
Chesapeake bay and its tributaries.

He is a member of the committee on printing, on expiring
laws, on the Chesapeake bay and its tributaries.

TALBOT COUNTY—3 Members.
H. S. Hall.

H. S. Hall, Republican, was born in Columbia county, N. Y.,
and was brought up on a farm. He received a common school
education. When about eighteen years of age he was appren-
ticed to a carpenter at Cornwall-on-the-Hudson. After learning
his trade he was employed for a year on the government works
at West Point. In 1852 he removed to Jamestown, Chautauqua
county, and for several years followed his trade. He cast his
first vote for General Scott, voted for Fremont in 1856, and for
every Republican Presidential candidate since. In 1862 he en-
gaged in the manufacture of woodenware, which he continued
for twenty-two years. In 1882-4 Mr. Hall invented and patented
some machines for making furniture springs. He held a number
of offices in his town. His health being somewhat impaired, he
deemed it prudent to seek a milder climate, and in 1886 removed
to Talbot county and purchased a small farm, upon which he
now resides. Two years ago Mr. Hall was a candidate for the
House of Delegates on the Republican ticket, but was defeated.

He is a member of committee on federal relations, on manu-
factures, on agriculture.

H. C. Dodson.

Henry Clay Dodson, Republican, was born in St. Michael's,
Maryland, October 5, 1840, in the same house that had been the