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BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES

Members of the House of Delegates,

JANUARY SESSION, 1906.

ALLEGANY COUNTY—Five Members.

JAMES CAMPBELL, JR., Republican—Allegany Mines.

James Campbell, Jr., was born at Barton, Allegany County,
Maryland, May 14, 1870. Attended the public schools until
he was seventeen, when he learned the carpenter's trade. Was
a son of James Campbell, Asssistant United States Appraiser
at the Port of Baltimore, and a page in the House of Dele-
gates during the session of 1898. He was married and has been
living with his family at Allegany for a number of years, and
is employed at present as carpenter foreman for the New York
Mining- Company.

ROBERT M. HUTCHESON, Republican—Lonaconing.

Mr. Hutcheson was born in Lonaconing, Allegany County,
on the 6th day of December, 1876, and obtained his education in
the public schools of the State. At the age of thirteen years
he accepted a situation in the mines, and has been since that

time actively engaged in the mining business.

JOHN MACKIE, Republican—Westernport.

Mr. Mackie was born in Airdrie, Lanarkshire, Scotland,
October 15, 1851. He came to this country when a young
man, settled in Pennsylvania, later moved to West Virginia,
and located in Westernport, Allegany County, Maryland, over
fifteen years ago.

He is the Secretary and Treasurer of the well-known and
prosperous firm of the Mackie Lumber Company, manufac-
turers and wholesale dealers in hardwood lumber, Piedmont,
W. Va.