Rock Hill College, and taught school in his native county.
Subsequently he read law and was admitted to the bar
in 1891. In October, 1892, Mr. Walbach married his
cousin, Eleanor L. Walbach, of Baltimore city, and resides
at Bryantown. On his first entrance into the political
arena he was a Democrat, but he changed his political
affiliations and has since been connected with the organi-
zation which is now doing him. honor.

FBANCIS ALBERT HICKS.

Francis Albert Hicks will represent the younger cle-
ment of the Republican party in the lower house of the
next General Assembly of Maryland as a delegate from
Charles county. He is a grandson of the late J. Levi
Hicks, who was one of the five voters in that county who
supported Abraham Lincoln when he first ran for the
Presidency, and was born on March 12, 1872. Delegate
Hicks was educated in the public schools of Charles
county, and at an early age was a clerk in a country
store. He has been an active Republican from the time
he obtained his majority. On October 14, 1896, Mr.
Hicks married Miss Edith T. Albrittain, eldest daughter
of John W. Albrittain, ex-Sheriff of Charles county. At
present he conducts a mercantile business in Waldorf.

DORCHESTER COUNTY—Three Members.
ALONZO L. MILES.

Alonzo Lee Miles is the youngest son of Southey F.
Miles, of Somerset county. He was born at Marion in
1864. He was educated in. the public schools of Somerset
and subsequently graduated with the highest honors at
Western Maryland College. He studied law under Chief
Judge Henry Page, and also took a course at the Mary-
land University Law School. During Grover Cleveland's
first term lie was appointed Collector for the Port of
Crisfield. He removed from Somerset to Dorchester in
1890 and opened a law office. From the very beginning
he had a flourishing practice. In 1891 he was nominated
and elected by the Democrats for the House of Delegates.
He made a good record as a young man of promise and
ability, and in 1892 he was a Presidential elector-at-large
on the Democratic ticket. He married, in 1892, Miss
Agnes Hooper, daughter of J. Henry Hooper, of Cam-
bridge.