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For four years he was a member of the Town Council of
Westernport, and for two years was President of that body.

In December, 1903, he was appointed a member of the Board
of Trustees of the Allegany County Almshouse and Insane
Asylum, and has been a very careful and competent official.

He is a director of the First National Bank of Piedmont, W.
Va.; also a director of the First National Bank of Lonacon-
ing, Md.

He has devoted much of his time and talents to public affairs,
is a practical business man and one of the substantial citizens
of Western Maryland.

WILLIAM McL. SOMERVILLE, Republican—Cumberland.

Mr. Somerville was born in Barton, Allegany County, Mary-
land, November 6, 1879. Is a graduate of Allegany County
Academy, LL.B. University of Maryland, 1901. Member of
the bar of Allegany County.

JOHN W. STUMP, Republican—Cumberland.

Mr. Stump is one of the prominent young business men of
Cumberland. He has been a member of the City Council of
that city for two terms and was re-elected to the House of Dele-
gates in 1905, having'served n that body at the Session of 1904.
Was born at Oldtown in 1873.

ANNE ARUNDEL COUNTY—Four Members.
CHARLES ASHBY DUVALL, Democrat—Parole.

Charles Ashby Duvall, the eldest son of Daniel Duvall, who
for three years during the Civil War saw service as a member
of the Second Maryland Infantry, Confederate Army, and Bet-
tie Waters Duvall, was born on his father's farm near Parole,
Anne Arundel County, Maryland, on March 24, 1874. He was
educated in the public schools and later entered St. John's Col-
lege, from which he was graduated in June of 1896. After
graduating he taught the school he attended when a boy for
six years. Having a desire to follow his father's occupation,
he gave up teaching and began farming. He is now farming
his father's farm. On January 28, 1903, he married Miss Susie
A. Scible, the daughter of Mr. John H. Scible, of Annapolis
Neck. He is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church,
South. This is the first office that he has ever held.