LYBRAND THOMAS, JR., Democrat—Deal's Island.

Mr. Lybrand Thomas, Jr., is a native of Deal's Island, in Som-
erset county. He is 53 years of age, married, and has quite a
large family circle. He is the son of Lybrand Thomas, de-
ceased, and the grandson of Joshua Thomas, "Parson of the
Island," of historic fame, having preached to the British Army
while they were encamped on Tangier Island, Va., in 1812.
Captain Lybrand Thomas, Jr., is a sailor by occupation, engaged
in the oyster carrying trade during the season, and trading
between Baltimore and the West Indies in the late spring and
summer months. Captain Thomas, as he is familiarly known
by the boatmen, has always been a regular Democrat, active
in politics but never holding a political office. In his boyhood
he attended the private school kept by his half sister, leaving
school at an early age to engage in the catching of oysters, and
later became the good sailor that he now is.

HENRY L. D. STANFORD, Democrat—Princess Anne.

Mr. Henry Laurenson Dashiell Stanford was named tor Rev.
Robert Laurenson Dashiell, a prominent clergyman of the
Methodist Episcopal Church. He was born October 2, 1856,
in that part of the city of Salisbury formerly Somerset county,
but now Wicomico county. He attended public school in Salis-
bury until 12 years old, when his widowed mother removed
to Baltimore, where he resided until January, 1877, in which
year he accepted a clerkship in the Washington Hotel, Prin-
cess Anne, Md., and served in such capacity under the late
William P. Rider, father-in-law of Hon. Joshua W. Miles.
In Baltimore he attended old No. 6 Grammar School, then
located on Druid Hill avenue, and of which Prof. Wardenburg
was principal at the time. His widowed mother being poor,
he was compelled to leave school and begin work for himself
at the age of 14. His first employment was in a newsdealer's
store in Baltimore, and he pleasantly recalls the experience
of those days in selling the "Sun," the "American" and other
city publications. In 1888 he began the study of law in the
office of Page & Miles, at Princess Anne, and was admitted
to practice in the Circuit Court for Somerset county in 1890,
and the same year located in Salisbury and began practicing
law with Hon. Robert P. Graham, under the firm name of
Graham & Stanford. When Hon. Joshua W. Miles, with
whom Mr. Stanford had studied law, was elected to Congress,
in 1894., Mr. Miles proposed a partnership to Mr. Stanford,
and since then Mr. Stanford has been a member of the well-