the practice of his profession, In the fall of 1893, he
was nominated by the Republicans for State Senator,
and was elected by a handsome majority. Dr. Raven-
scroft has built up a large practice in his profession, and
never took any special part in practical politics, and was
elected to the Senate before he had ever attended a
primary meeting. He makes a conscientious, industrious,
painstaking representative, capable in every department
of his legislative duties. He was a member of committees
on corporations, on pensions, on railroads and canals, on
sanitary condition of State, of the last Senate.

Harford County.—STEVENSON A. WILLIAMS.

Stevenson A. Williams was born at the Brooklyn Navy
Yard during the residence of his father, Dr. Louis J.
Williams, as United States medical director at that place,
He is connected with the most prominent families of
Harford county, his mother having been a daughter of
Stevenson Archer, Chief Justice of the Court of Appeals
of Maryland, and his paternal ancestors dating' prior to
the Revolution, the family originating in Wales. Mr.
Williams was born in 1851, and upon arriving at man-
hood espoused Republican principles. In 1895 he was
selected by Governor Lowndes for Secretary of State,
but declined the offer. After carrying on his studies in
private schools for some years, he matriculated at Prince-
ton, and from that institution graduated in 1870,
receiving the degrees of A. B. and A. M. from his alma
mater. In 1872 he entered the law department of the
University of Maryland, from which he graduated in
1873, with the degree of LL. B. Returning to Belair \w
began to practice law. He was the organizer of the Har-
ford National Bank, of which ho is now president, and
was one of the organizers of the Second National Bank
of Belair, of which he also is a stockholder; and was
mainly instrumental in the introduction of water into the
town. Mr. Williams in 1875 married Miss A. E. Street,
daughter of the late John Rush Street, of Harford
county. Mr. Williams was the only successful candidate
on the Republican ticket in Harford.

Hotoard County—GEOROE D. DAY.

George Dorsey Day has lived all his life in that county,
where lie was born, June 22, 1848. He first took an