active interest in local politics in 1887, when he was
elected Sheriff of the county, being the only successful
candidate on the Republican ticket that year. During the
Harrison administration he held a position in the internal
revenue service, and was afterwards promoted to the im-
portant Indian agency at Anadarko, Indian Territory.
Into the campaign of 1895, in Howard county, Mr. Day
threw a surprising amount of energy. Besides being a
practical "worker" in politics, he became an effective
stump speaker. Because of the bolt in the Republican
county convention, he lost not a few votes, but-he knew
them all, and where he found it impossible to win back
to the support of the ticket his party followers, he got
out and hustled for the votes of anti-Gorman Democrats.
He made good use of the opportunity for carrying the
county for the entire Republican county and State ticket.
Mr. Day'a majority was 323, reversing the normal Demo-
cratic majority in the county. The Senator has large
business interests in. the fourth district, being engaged in
storekeeping, and also running a saw and grist mill, a
creamery, and two or three farms. He has been quite
successful in all his enterprises. He is married. All his
life he has been known as a temperance advocate. Senator
Day did not fare so well in the appointment^ of the Gov-
ernor. He expressed his ill-fortune in an epigrammatic
way: "He had been locked out of the State House." He
was very independent in his votes in the Senate. He was
on committee on inspections, on committee on agriculture
and labor, on committee on pensions, on committee on
temperance, on committee on roads and highways, of the
last Senate.

Kent County.—CHARLES T. WESTCOTT.

Charles T. Westcott was born at the old Westcott
homestead in Chestertown, on January 8th, 1848, his
father being the late George B. Westcott, a successful
merchant, and for many years president of what is now
the Chestertown National Bank. As a boy Mr. Westcott
attended the public school of Chestertown and later
entered Washington College, from which he graduated
in 1866. After graduating from a business college in
Baltimore, in 1867, he entered the law office, of the late
Richard Hynson, and in 1869 entered .,the Law School of
Columbia College, New York, graduating in 1871, and
the same year returned to Chestertown and entered upon