with his father, he engaged in the grain business, which under
their progressive hustling grew to such dimensions that they
now handle over 1,000,000 bushels of grain annually, trading
as W. D. Roe & Son. This has caused Mr. Roe to neglect his
legal profession and he now resides in Barclay and devotes all
his time actively to business. In 1906 he married Miss Metcalfe
of Prince William county, Va. He is a member of the
Protestant Episcopal Church, is temperate in all his habits, and
has for a youth been remarkably successful in all his under-
takings. He has been a staunch Democrat, as have his ances-
tors for generations. This is the first office for which he has
been an aspirant. He is active, energetic, aggressive, wide-
awake and conservative, and should make a useful member of
the House.

JOHN P. ROE, Democrat—Chester.

Mr. Roe was elected to the House of Delegates from
Queen Anne's county at the election of 1907. He resides
at Chester.

SOMERSET COUNTY— Three Members.

LORIE C. QUINN, Democrat—Crisfield.

Mr. Lorie Clarke Quinn was born at Pocomoke City, Md.,
in 1864. He was educated at the public schools of Worcester
county and Baltimore. He is a direct descendant of Captain
John D. Long, a French Huguenot, who came to this country
during the persecution of the Huguenots in France and settled
on the Pocomoke River in what is now Worcester county.
The branch of the Quinn family from which Mr. Quinn de-
scended is prominently connected with the early history of the
Eastern Shore, many of its members having been well known
throughout that section as preachers, lawyers and doctors. He
is a newspaper man by profession, having begun his newspaper
career in 1888 as associate editor of the "Record and Gazette" in
Pocomoke City. In 1891 he moved to Somerset county and
located at Crisfield, where he established the "Crisfield Times,"
of which he is editor and proprietor. He was appointed School
Commissioner of Somerset county in 1900 by Governor John
Walter Smith, which position he held for seven years, resigning
in May of 1907. In June of 1906 he was elected a member of
the City Council of Crisfield for a term of four years.