BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES

—OF—

Members of the House of Delegates.

JANUARY SESSION, 1902.

ALLEGANY COUNTY— Five Members.

DAVID T. WILLIAMS, Republican.

Mr. Williams was born in Wales December 25, 1865.
When he was four years of age his parents moved to this
country, and at the age of eight and a-half years he began to
work in the mines, and since that time has been employed in
almost every capacity in connection with mining, conse-
quently he is well fitted to represent his section in the House.
He is a self-made man, acquiring most of his education by
night study after the hard labor of the day.

JASPER W. ROBINETTE, Republican.

Mr. Robinette is a well-known and honored citizen of Flint-
stone. He was born in 1854, and has always lived in the
county. His chief occupation is farming, though interested
in other enterprises.

NICHOLSON EILBECK, Republican.

Mr. Eilbeck was born in England in 1863. He is a coal
miner in the employ of the Maryland Coal Company. He is
an ardent Republican, and in 1896 was registration officer,
and one year judge of election. He is a trustee of the public
school.

FRANCIS J. DRUMM, Democrat.

Mr. Drumm, since the age of ten years, has worked in the
mines of the Consolidation Coal Company. In 1900 he was
blacklisted on account of the strike. He then became secre-