land National Guard. He was elected member of the
House of Delegates in 1897.

B. ABNER BETTS, Democrat.

B. Abner Belts was born in Chewsville, Washington
county, Maryland, January 8, 1852, and received his edu-
cation in the common schools of that village. At sixteen
years he began to clerk in his father's store, and at the age
of twenty be became a full partner with his father. He
owns and operates four large grain elevators at Chewsville,
Fairfeld, South Hampton and Shippensburg. He was
was elected to the office of County Commissioner in 1889.
He was elected member of the House of Delegates in 1897.

NEWTON E. FUNKHAUSER, Democrat.

Newton E. Funkhauser was born near Winchester, Va.,
in 1861, and was educated at Shenandoah Institute. Day-
ton, Va., and taught school for two years in Georgia. He
located at Sleepy Creek, W. Va., and engaged in the mer-
cantile and lumber business. After seven years of success-
ful business, the firm dissolved, and Mr. Funkhouser
removed to Cherry Run, the same year and engaged in
business tor himself. He purchased a tract of land at Big
Pool, in Washington county. He is at present doing busi-
ness in the mercantile and lumber line at Big Pool, and is
also agent for the Western Maryland Railroad and Adams
Express Company at that point. He was elected member
of the House of Delegates in 1897.

HARVEY S. BOMBERGER, Republican.

Harvey S. Bumberger was the only Republican elected
to the Legislature from Washington county. He is a resi-
dent of Boonsboro, and is one of its successful business
men. He is thirty-seven years old, and was educated at
Franklin and Marshall College, Lancaster, Pa., from which
institution he graduated with the honors of his class in
1882. He was elected member of the House of Delegates
in 1897.

WICOMICO COUNTY-- Three Members.
JOHN E. TAYLOR, Democrat.

John E. Taylor was born in 1850, near the place where
he now resides, in Riverton, on the Nanticoke river. He