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298 MARYLAND MANUAI..

St. Mary's County—FRANCIS F. GREENWELL, Fusionist—
Leonardtown.

Dr. Greenwell was born on a farm near Leonardtown in 1868.
His early education was received in the public schools, after
which he attended Rock Hill and Mount St. Mary's colleges,
being graduated from the latter in 1889.

In the fall of the same year he entered the Medical Depart-
ment of the University of Maryland, graduating in 1892. Be-
gan the practice of medicine in Cumberland, Md., where he
remained two and one-half years, and in which city he married,
in 1897, Miss Margaret Linehan.

After the death of his wife's father Dr. Greenwell returned
to St. Mary's county in 1905 and continued the practice of
medicine at Leonardtown. With the exception of County
Health Officer, he has held no official position nor been a can-
didate for office. In 1905 he was the candidate of the Inde-
pendent Democrats and Republicans for the State Senate, and
was elected by a large majority.

Talbot County—JOSEPH B. SETH, Democrat—Easton.

Joseph Bruff Seth was born on November 25, 1845) in Bay
Hundred district of Talbot county, Md. His father was Alex-
ander Hamilton Seth, a farmer, also a member of the House
of Delegates of Maryland in 1844, and his mother was Martha
A. Haddaway, daughter of William Haddaway and Ann Ker-
sey. Mr. Seth's parental ancestor was Nicholas Harvey, who
came into the Province in 1634 with Leonard Calvert. He was
granted a patent for land on the Patuxent River, opposite Point
Patience, called "St. Joseph's Manor." Nicholas Harvey was
a member of the First Assembly held in the colony; he was
also one of the first to receive a military commission, having
received a commission from Leonard Calvert on the 3d of
January, 1639, to raise a company to go against the nation
called the Maquantequants, a tribe of Indians who were com-
mitting sundry insolences upon the English inhabitants.

Nicholas Harvey died in 1641, leaving a wife and one daugh-
ter, Frances, who married Captain George Beckwith. Augus-
tine Herman, in his map made in 1670, shows the position of
a town called Harveytown, named for this Nicholas Harvey,
which was probably the second town laid out in the Province.
Barbara Beckwith, the youngest daughter of George and Fran-
ces, married Jacobus Seth in 1676. In 1684 Jacobus Seth

 

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