engrossed bills, on committee on public institutions, on
committee on Chesapeake bay and tributaries of last
session. Senator Wilkinson makes a high minded legis-
lator.

Somerset County.—-A. LINCOLN DRY DEN.

A. Lincoln Dryden was born at Fail-mount, Maryland,
on the 18th of February, 1865. In 1873 he removed with
his father to Crisfield, where he attended the public
school, and at the same time was manager of his father's
oyster-packing house in that town, which gave employ-
ment to one hundred men. Having always cherished the
desire for a collegiate education, Mr. Dryden had accord-
ingly been economical as well as industrious in business,
and in the fall of 1884 was successful, in a competitive
examination for a scholarship from Somerset county to
St. John's College, at Annapolis. Here he remained for
two years, and at the expiration of that time he entered
Dickinson College, at Carlisle, Pennsylvania, where be
graduated on the honor list in 1888. Mr. Dryden's last
year at college was an eventful one. His funds were in-
sufficient to defray his college expenses, and to complete
the course, and to reach the goal toward which his youth-
ful ambition had ever been directed, he was compelled to
tutor under-classmen, teach afternoons in the preparatory
school and solicit sales for oysters in the near-by Penn-
sylvania towns. After graduating, Mr. Dryden returned
to Crisfield, and in 1889 was nominated by the Republi-
cans for the House of Delegates, to which he was elected
with the entire Republican county ticket. In 1894 lie
was named by the Republican convention at Ocean City
as their candidate for the Fifty-fourth Congress from
the first congressional district, and succeeded in reducing
the Democratic majority in this district to 1000. In
July, 1895, he was nominated by his party for the
State Senate, and was elected with the entire Republi-
can. ticket by 250 majority. Mr. Dryden was married in
the fall of 1894 to Miss Effie Venables, daughter of S. D.
Venables. He is a liberal man in legislation, and believes
in broad methods where good is to be achieved. He was
on committee on Chesapeake bay and tributaries, on
committee on printing, on committee on library, on com-
mittee on insurance, fidelity, security and loan companies
of last Senate.