ried and had several children, as appears by his will on record
in the Northampton County Court House. His son, Donnock
Dennis, was born in 1645, moved to Maryland and settled in
Somerset County. Colonel George Roberston Dennis in early
life was engaged in farming and in later years was elected
President of the Central National Bank of Frederick. In pro-
tecting the property of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad he
became a warm personal friend of the late John W. Garrett
and was a Director in the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Com-
pany from 1862 until his death in 1902. The mother of John
M. Dennis is Fanny McPherson Dennis, whose mother was a
granddaughter of the late Governor Thomas Johnson, the first
Governor of Maryland in the year 1877.

John M. Dennis was educated in the public schools of Fred-
erick County and for two years attended Milton Academy at
Philopolis, Baltimore County, Maryland. At sixteen years of
age he left Maryland and was employed by the C. W. & B.
Railroad Company in Cincinnati, Ohio, and remained West in
different railroad positions until June, 1890, when he returned
to Baltimore and formed a connection with the firm of Tate,
Muller & Company, grain merchants, which was succeeded by
the firm of Louis Muller & Company, of which Mr. Dennis be-
came President and remained President until December 1st,
1914, when he was elected President of the Union Trust Com-
pany of Maryland, Baltimore.

In 1899 Mr. Dennis married Mary Chiles, of Independence,
Jackson County, Missouri. He has two children—John McPherson
Dennis, Jr., and Mary Frances Dennis.

Mr. Dennis is a large land owner in Frederick County and
also in Baltimore County, where he resides on his farm near
Lutherville. He was elected President of the Maryland State
Dairymen's Association in November, 1915, and is an exten-
sive breeder of Holstein-Friesian cattle.

At the 1916 Session of the General Assembly of Maryland,
Mr. Dennis was elected Treasurer of Maryland, succeeding the
late Murray Vandiver, and went into office during the month
of February, 1916.

Clerk of the Court of Appeals: CALEB G. MAGRUDER (Demo-
crat), of Prince George's County.

Caleb Clarke Magruder, of Prince George's County, son of
Caleb Magruder, lawyer, and Mary Sprigg Belt, was gradu-
ated A. B. and A. M., Georgetown University. Studied law