ancestor, Colonel Tench Tilghman, Washington's favorite aid-
de-camp, 100 years before for his services in bearing to the
Continental Congress in Philadelphia from the Commander-in-
Chief of the American armies the official news of the surrender
of Lord Cornwallis' army and the capitulation of the posts of
York and Gloucester.

He owns a valuable collection of Revolutionary relics, auto-
graph letters of colonial and Revolutionary worthies, and an
extensive library of books and papers relating to the history
of Maryland, and to the genealogies of many families of the-
Eastern Shore. He is the local annalist of his section of the
State.

Colonel Tilghman is a member of several patriotic and fra-
ternal societies, among which is the Ancient and Honorable
Society of the Cincinnati of Maryland, of which he is the pres-
ent president. He has for several years past represented
the State society in the General Society of the Cincinnati. He
was Senator from Talbot county in the Legislatures of 1894
and 1806, and chiefly through his efforts the State Bureau of
Immigration was established in 1896. He is president of the
Board of Development of the Eastern Shore of Maryland, and
was the Auditor of the Circuit Court of Talbot county for
over 20 years. He is commander of the Charles S. Winder
Camp, United Confederate Veterans, and also commands the
first brigade of the Maryland division of the United Confed-
erate Veterans. He was one of the commissioners to represent
the State of Maryland at the Pan-American Exposition at Buf-
falo, N. Y., in 1901, and at the exposition held at Charleston,
S. C., the following year. He was the first appointee of Gov-
ernor Warfield, who appointed him Secretary of State on the
day of his inauguration as Governor of Maryland, January 13,
1904. He resides at Foxley Hall, Easton, the colonial residence
of Henry Dickinson, whose son, Charles Dickinson, was killed
by General Andrew Jackson in a duel in 1806.

State Treasurer: MURRAY VANDIVER (Democrat), of Har-
ford county.

Mr. Murray Vandiver was born in 1845 at Havre de Grace,
Md. He is the son of the late Robert R. Vandiver, a descend-
ant of some of the first settlers of Delaware. He was educated
in the public schools of Harford county and Havre de Grace
Academy, and graduated from a business college in Pough-
keepsie, N. Y. in 1864. He early engaged in the lumber busi-
ness in Havre de Grace. He was elected a member of the
House of Delegates of Maryland in 1876, 1878, 1880, and was
Speaker of the House in 1892. He was a member of the