been employed as bookkeeper and travelling salesman. He
is married and is a member of various societies. He was
a member of the committee on elections, on temperance
and regulation, of the liquor traffic, chairman of commit-
tee on insurance and loan companies, on railroads and
canals, of the last House.

CHARLES R. SCHIRM.

Charles R. Schirm is a member of the law firm of Wal-
raven & Schirm. He was born in Baltimore and is 32
years of age. He was educated in the public schools,
Washington and Jefferson College and the Baltimore
University School of Law. As a boy he served an ap-
prenticeship in the iron foundry of Isaac A. Sheppard &
Co. At college he twice represented the Franklin and
Washington Literary Society in public. At the university
he was the banquet orator and valedictorian of his class.
Before entering the university Mr. Schirm taught school
for several years and was at one time in the employ of
Swift & Co., the meat packers of Chicago; later lie en-
gaged with law firms in Pittsburg and Baltimore. In
1891 he married Miss Anna M. Chariton, of Washington,
Pa., who died the following year. He is the second vice-
president of the Republican Lawyers' League.

LOUIS SHAEFER.

Louis Shaefer is a member of the Shaefer Hardware
Company, 319-321 West Pratt street. He is 33 years of
age and was born in. Baltimore. He was educated at the
City College. He is a member of the Independent Order
of Mechanics and the Junior Order United American
Mechanics, and of the Columbian Club. He is married.

WILLIAM L. JAMES.

William L. James was born in Baltimore county in 1863.
He has lived in Baltimore city most of his life. He is a
bookkeeper by profession. He is well known in fraternal
societies, being a member of eight orders. He is a mem-
ber of the Sixteenth Ward Republican Association. He
is married.
BENJAMIN L. TURNER.

Benjamin L. Turner was born in Olive, Ulster county,
N. Y., January 29, 1842, and was educated at the district
schools and Roxbury Academy, Delaware county, N. Y.
He enlisted in the Fourth New York Cavalry on October
17, 1861. During the second battle of Bull Run he was