& Stratton Business College and the Baltimore Law School.

June 1st, 1908, Mr. Ogle came to the Clerk's office of the
Court of Appeals as stenographer to the late C. C. Magruder.
Later, he became a deputy clerk, and in 1928 was named Secre-
tary to the Court. In November, 1942, when under the con-
stitutional amendment the Court was empowered to name
its Clerk, it chose Ogle for the position.

In 1910, Mr. Ogle married the late Amy M. Werntz of Anna-
polis, and has two sons, Robert Wertnz Ogle, attorney, and
Staff Sergeant Maurice Chapman Ogle, who enlisted in the
Marine Corps, February 9th, 1942.

DEPARTMENT OF MILITIA

The Adjutant General: MILTON A. RECKORD (Democrat),
Harford County. On Military leave, Federal service.

Major General Milton A. Reckord, the twenty-second
Adjutant General of Maryland, was born in Harford
County, December 28th, 1879. He is the son of the late
John H. and Lydia A. Reckord.

General Reckord's connection with the Maryland National
Guard dates from February 15th, 1901, when he enlisted
as a private in Company D, 1st Infantry. He served as an
enlisted man until December 28th, 1904, when he was com-
missioned Captain of that company.

On February 3, 1941, General Reckord was ordered to
active duty in command of the Twenty-Ninth Division,
National Guard. He was transferred from command of
the Twenty-Ninth Division, U.S.A., to command of the
Third Corps Area, later the Third Service Command, on
January 6,1942.

The Adjutant General: FRANCIS PETROTT (Democrat),

Frederick, Md.

Francis Petrott, born in New York City, New York,
April 6, 1896. He is married and has one child, a daughter.
His preliminary education was obtained in private and public-
schools of New York and Connecticut. In 1914 he moved
his residence to Washington, where he entered Georgetown
University and continued his studies until April 6, 1917,
on which date war was declared. He enlisted in the Air
Service and was ordered to the School of Aeronautics, Prince-
ton University, from which he graduated, and served in the
armed forces until 1921. Only recently resigned his commission
in the Officers' Reserve Corps.