FREDERICK COUNTY— Five Members.
JOHN R. ROUZER, Republican.

John R. Rouzer was born near Thurmont, Frederick
county, Md., May 7, 1889. He was educated in the public
schools, and at the Mechanicstown Academy. He learned
the trade of saddle and harness maker, and carried on busi-
ness in Mechanicstown up to the time he enlisted in the civil
war. He enlisted in the Union Army August 19, 1862, and
Gov. A. W. Bradford commissioned him first lieutenant of
Company D, Sixth Regiment, Maryland Volunteer Infantry.
In May, 1863, he was promoted captain of Company B of
the same regiment. He was wounded at the battle of the
Wilderness, and was a prisoner of war four months in
Libby, Danville and Salisbury prisons. At the close of the
war he was breveted major and lieutenant-colonel for gallant
and meritorious services. In 1866, he was elected on the
Union ticket to represent Frederick county in the Legisla-
ture. In 1869, Postmaster-General John A. J. Creswell
appointed him postmaster at Mechanicstown, which office
he resigned after he was nominated by his party for register
of wills. He was elected to that office. He was a member
of the House during the session of 1884. He was elected
member of the House of Delegates in 1895, and re-elected
in 1897.

HARRY E. CHAPLINE, Republican.

Harry E. Chapline is in his 29th year, and is a resident
of Frederick City. He was born in Shepherdstown, W.
Va., his father being 1. Thomas Chapline, a prominent and
well-known Republican. He is a nephew of the late Judge
Joseph Chapline, who came east during the late war, and
took an active part in the organization of the Republican
party in West Virginia. Mr. Chapline is a journalist,
having been on the reportorial staff of the Frederick Daily
and Weekly News for the past eight years. He was elected
member of the House of Delegates in 1897.

J. FRANK BUTTS, Republican.

Mr. Butts comes from a family well known in Western
Maryland. His father came to Maryland from West Vir-
ginia when hut a youth, and has ever since lived in Freder-
ick county, conducting a successful business. The subject
of this sketch was born in Petersville, on "Merry Land,"
tract, and has spent most of his life in Middletown Valley.