270 MARYLAND MANUAL.

WASHINGTON COUNTY—Five Members.
HARRY E. BAKER, Republican.

Mr. Baker is a descendant from one of the oldest families-
in the county. He was born November 30, 1869, at Boons-
boro, and educated in the public schools. At twenty-one
years of age he began farming, but in 1898 he started a build-
ing and monumental stone business, in which he is now
engaged.

ABNER B. BINGHAM, Republican.

Mr. Bingham, member of the House from Weverton, was
born at that town on May 13, 1871, and educated in the pub-
lic schools of Washington and Frederick Counties. He is a
successful merchant.

BENJAMIN F. CHARLES, Republican.

Mr. Benjamin F. Charles, a native of Washington County,
was born in 1850. After completing a course at a commer-
cial college in Baltimore, in 1867 he entered the milling and
grain business. Mr. Charles was elected to the House in the
fall of 1901 by nearly six hundred majority, and was renomi-
nated in the fall of 1903 by acclamation, and elected by a
handsome majority.

BENJAMIN MITCHELL, JR. , Democrat.

Mr, Benjamin Mitchell was born March 10, 1850, at Han-
cock, and received his education in the public schools of that
town. He was a boat builder on the Chesapeake and Ohio
Canal until 1889, and since that time has conducted a busi-
ness dealing in musical instruments.

PALMER TENN ANT, Democrat.

Mr. Tennant is one of the rising young men of the county.
He was born in Norfolk in 1869, and graduated from Bethel
Military Academy. For ten years he was connected with the
New York, Philadelphia and Norfolk Railroad Company.
After this he was employed by the Seaboard Air Line Com-
pany at Augusta, but later returned to Hagerstown and studied
law. He was admitted to the bar in 1900. He is secre-
tary of the Washington County Fair Association and presi-
dent of the Antietam Fire Company.