BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES

Members of the Senate of 1898.

Allegany County—DAVID E. DICK, Republican.

David E. Dick was born in Lonaconing, Maryland, July
10,1869. As a boy he worked about the coal mines in
Allegany county. In 1890 he entered a business college in
Philadelphia, from which he graduated in 1891, and
returned to his employment in the mines. He subsequently
engaged in merchandising in the town of Lonaconing. In
1895 he was elected a member of the House of Delegates
from Allegany county, and in 1897 he was elected State
Senator from that county.

Anne Arundel County—JOHN WIRT RANDALL, Republican.

John Wirt Randall was educated at St. John's College
Burlington College and Yale University. He is a promi-
nent member of the Annapolis bar and is also president of
the Farmers' National Bank of Annapolis. His father was
the late Alexander Randall, of Annapolis, who was
Attorney General of Maryland, and held other important
State offices. Senator Randall is a member of the Board
of Governors of St. John's College, and has for over
twenty years been a vestryman and treasurer of St. Anne's
Protestant Episcopal Church of Annapolis. He has served
in both Houses of the General Assembly, and, in 1895, was
for a second time elected to the State Senate. He was
elected president of the Senate at the beginning of the
session of 1898, and was a most dignified and capable
presiding officer.

Baltimore. City, (First District)—GUSTAVUS A. DOBLER,
Republican.

Senator Dobler was born in Elizabethtown, Pa., in 1839.
His father, Daniel Dobler, was a native of Baltimore. In