250 MARYLAND MANUAL.

Queen Anne's County—JAMBS E. KIRWAN, Democrat.

Mr. Kirwan was born in Baltimore City, June g, 1848. His
father was Capt. Lemuel Kirwan, of Dorchester County.
For two j'ears he was department commander of the oyster
navy, and was one of the most active men in the service.
While stil! commander of a bay vessel he engaged in mer-
cantile business in Stevensville, Kent Island, and made him-
self one of the most successful business men in the county.
He is a large real estate owner on Kent Island, and is a
director in the Centreville National Bank. He is connected
with Arcana Lodge of Masons in Baltimore, and is also a
member of the Improved Order of Heptasophs and Knights
of Pythias on Kent Island. He was re-elected to the Senate
this fall.

St. Mary's County—JAMES J. GREENWELL, Democrat.

Senator Greenwell was born in 1863, and educated at
Mount St. Mary's College and Fordham, N. Y. In 1871 he
was nominated and elected Clerk of the Circuit Court, and in
1897 was renominated, but defeated. In 1899 he was nomi-
nated for the House of Delegates, but declined. In 1900 he
was appointed chief clerk in State Tobacco Warehouse. In
1901 he reluctantly accepted the nomination for the House,
and successfully defeated the "tall sycamore of the Patuxent,''
thereby earning the title of the "tall hickory of the Poto-
mac." Senator Greenwell rendered important service in the
session of 1902.

Somerset County—STEPHEN FRANK DASHIELL, Democrat.

Mr. Dashiell, one of the new members of the Senate, was
born at Dame's Quarter, Somerset County, October 29, 1862.
He is a merchant and canner, but has held the position of
postmaster and Deputy Collector of Internal Revenue for the
Eastern Shore of Maryland and Virginia. Senator Dashiell
was elected November, 1903.

Talbot County—ROBERT B. DIXON, Republican.

Senator Dixon was born in Baltimore, August 22, 1834. A
few years thereafter his father, James Dixon, moved to Talbot
county, settling on land that has been in his wife's family—
the Bartletts—for over two hundred years. Here the subject
of this sketch was educated by a private tutor, then the pub-
lic schools, and afterwards graduated, in 1852, from West
Town Boarding School, in Chester county, Pa. He then
commenced farming on Miles river—same farm he still resides