General Reckord has always taken a keen interest in all
military matters. He is in business in Bel Air, where his
home is located. He is a member of the Baltimore Chamber of
Commerce, of the Baltimore Club, the Baltimore Athletic Club,
and Harford Boat Club.

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

Caleb Clarke Magruder, son of Caleb Clarke Magruder and
Mary Sprigg Belt, was graduated A.B. and A.M., Georgetown
(1). C.) University. Studied law at the University of Vir-
ginia and admitted to practice in 1863.

Member of the House of Delegates, 1867; candidate for
State Senator, 1881; and for Associate Judge, Seventh Judicial
District, 1897; elected Clerk of the Court of Appeals in 1907,
and re-elected in 1913 and 1919.

Married Elizabeth Eice, daughter of Dr. Richard Thomas
Nalle and Ellen Anne Hooe of Virginia.

Five sons, Caleb Clarke, 3rd, attorney at law, Maryland
and District of Columbia; Thomas Nalle, farmer; Mercer
Hampton, attorney at law, Maryland and District of Colum-
bia ; Arthur H. S„ merchant and farmer; and Ernest Pendle-
ton Magruder, Surgeon, Unit No. 2, Red Cross, District of
Columbia, who' passed away April, 1915, during the typhus
epidemic at Belgrade, Serbia.

State Treasurer: JOHN M. DENNIS (Democrat), Riderwood.

John M. Dennis was born February 23, 1866, at Frederick,
Maryland. He is the son of the late Colonel George Robert-
son Dennis and Fanny McPherson Dennis. Colonel George
Robertson Dennis was born on a farm named "Essex," in
Somerset County, Maryland, March 16th, 1831, he being a
direct descendant of John Dennis who sailed from Gravesend,
England, July, 1638, at the age of 22 years, in the ship
Merchants Hope. He settled in Accomac County, Virginia,
married 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