St Johns College - Yearbook (Annapolis, MD)

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session of 1859 and 1860 and the session of 1860 and 1861, up to about May 1, 1861, when Cthen being in his Junior yearj the College was closed by tl1e breaking out of the Civil War. During the war he taught school and read law, and was admitted to practice in 1866. Shortly afterwards he removed to Montgomery County, and has resided at Rockville, practicing his Profession, ever since. Mr. Tal- bott has been Mayor 'of Rockville three terms. He was State Senator from Montgomery County for the session of 1894 an-d 1896. He was delegate to the Democratic National Convention which met in Chicago in 1884. He was a Pres- idential Elector for the Sixth Congressional district of Maryland on the Democratic ticket in 1888. He was one of the directors of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad from 1886 to 1890. He has been a director of the Montgomery County National Bank of Rockville since its beginning in 1884, and Vice-President of it for the last three years. He was chairman of the Democratic State Central Committee of Maryland for the years 1894, 1895 and 1896. Mr. Talbott is one of the leading men of Maryland, and is also a gentleman of recognized ability, and is fearless in the discharge of his duty. JAMES M. MUNROE, B. A. James M. Munroe was born on the third of April, 1856. He graduated from St. ,lohn's College June 30, I874Q studied law in the oliice of the Honorable Alexander B. Hagner Cnow Judge Hagner, of Washington, D. C.,J for two years, and went to the Law School of the University of Maryland at Baltimore, where he took the full two years' course in one year and graduated ,June 1, 1877. He commenced practicing law in Annapolis on State House Circle, opposite the Governor's mansion, on July 29, 1877, where he has continuously practiced ever since. During the absence of Mr. J. Shaaf Stockett, State Reporter, Mr. Munroe was employed in the fall of 1877 and winter of 1878 on the Maryland Reports, and reported Volume 47 and part of Volumes 48 and 49. He was elected State's Attor- ney of Anne Arundel County in November, 1883, and filled that position from January 1, 1884, to January 1, 1892. Mr. Munroe is one of the directors of the Farmers' National Bank of Annapolis and its attorney. He is also a director of the Annapolis Savings Institution and its attorney 3 also a director of the Annapolis Water Company, and one of the Board of Directors of St. J'ohn's College. He was mar- ried to Miss Chase, formerly of New Orleans, lately of New York, on February 25, 1885, the ceremony being performed in New York City by the Reverend Doctor Parkhurst. Mr. Munroe is one of the leading lawyers of Annapolis, and has won several very important cases by his diligence and tact. . M. CLYDE WIER, B. A., M. A. . Mr. M. Clyde Wier was born at West River, Anne Arundel County, Md., on January 15, 18725 He received his early education in the public schools of the county, and in the fall of 1888 matriculated at,St. ,Iohn's College, enter- ing the Freshman Class. He graduated in 1892, with the degree of B. A. After leaving St. Ioh'n's he was made commandant of the Bunker Hill Military Academy, Bunker Hill, Illinois, for the year 1892-93. He was professor of Greek and Latin and instructor in French at Centenary College, Palmyra, Mo., 1893-94, and the same year received the degree of A. M. from his Alma Mater. He was a graduate student in Greek and Latin at the University of Chicago in 1894-95. In 1895-96 he was classical miter and commandant at Kumper Hall, Davenport, Iowa, and the same year was married to Miss Lydia C. Dorsey of Louisville, Ky. He was a graduate student at the University of Chicago in Greek in 1896-97, and in July, 1897, received the degree of M. A. from the University. Mr. Wier is at present head master of the Worthington Military Academy, .Lincolnv Neb., and resident student in Greek and Latin at the Uni- versity of Chicago.

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HONORABLE, WALTER WILLS PRESTON, B. A., M. A., LL. B. The Honorable Walter Wills Preston was born in Har- ford County, Md., January 14, 1863, and has throughout his life been a resident of that county. Mr. Prestontreceived his early education in the county schools, and at a very early age graduated from the Bel Air Aca'demy. After leaving the Academy, Mr. Preston matric- ulated in St. John's College at Annapolis, Md., where he passed through the Junior Class. Leaving St. John's at the end of the Junior year, Mr. Preston entered Princeton College, New Jersey, where he graduated in 1881, receiving the degree of A. B. Mr. Preston received from the Law Department of the University of Maryland in 1883 the degree of LL. B., and in the following year the degree of A. M. from Princeton. In 1883 Mr. Preston began to prac- tice law in Bel Air, and by diligent application to his busi- ness soon acquired an extensive and lucrative practice, and such popularity in his community that in the fall of 1887 he was elected a member of the Maryland General Assembly, and was re-elected in 1889. Mr. Preston was a very active and energetic man in the House and gained for himself many friends. In 1891 Mr. Preston was elected State's Attorney for Harford County, and performed the duties of his office so well that in 1895 he was again called to the same position, which he continues to hold. In 1893 Mr. Preston was hap- pily married to MisswM. Elizabeth Hall. At present Mr. Preston is past master of Mt. Ararat Lodge, Masons, at Bel Air, and one of the most prominent members of the Harford County bar. CHARLES E. DRYDEN, B. A., B. S. Charles Early Dryden was born of English parentage near Snow Hill, Worcester County, Md: He was educated in the public schools and later in the Snow Hill High School, taking, in 1889, the honor of salutatorian from that institution, in a class whose valedictorian was E. K. Wilson, Jr., the son of the late United States Senator, E. K. Wilson. In the fall of 1889 he entered St. John's College and started out with the Freshman Class. He graduated from St. Jolm's in 1893, with the degrees of both B. A. and B. S., a feat which is accomplished only by great intelligence and close application to studies. He was also valedictorian of his class, and his valetclictory address was one of the best ever delivered at St. John's. After graduation, Mr. Dryden taught from September to December in a military school in Illinois, resigning that position to accept the principal- ship of the Middletown High School in Middletown, Md. This school he taught until the fall of 1895, when he re- signed in favor of his classmate, S. M. Wagaman, to accept the voluntary offer of the principalship of the Buckingham High School of Berlin, in his native county. This position Mr. Dryden still holds. While at college Mr. Dryden took an active interest in baseball and football, and was one of the leading athletes in college. He is also a teacher of recognized ability, and has brought the school of which he is principal up to its present high position. HONORABLE HATTERSLEY W. TALBOTT. Hattersley Worthington Talbott was born in that portion of Anne Arundel County now forming Howard County. Md., on August 26, 1842. His ancestors had lived in Anne Arundel County for two hundred years. Richard Talbott, the first of his family in the Province of Maryland, having settled on West River in 1648 or 1649. ' As a boy Mr. Talbott attended schools in Howard County, principally a school known as The Howard Latin School. Among his teachers at said school was Hon- orable A. Leo Knott of Baltimore City. He also attended a private school in Ellicott City kept by Reverend Cyrus Huntington, the pastor of the Presbyterian Church at that place. Mr. Talbott attended St. John's College during the

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REVEREND CLINTON T. WYATT, B. A., M. A. Mr. Clinton T. Wyatt was born on a farm near Golds- borough, Caroline County, Md., April 2, 1863. He was educated in the public school of his native county, and for awhile taught school in Kent County, Delaware, and subsequently at Ridgley, Maryland. In the fall of 1882, having received a Senatorial scholarship from Caroline County, he matriculated at St. Iohn's College, entering the Freshman Class. He took the regular classical course, and graduated in June of 1886, with the degree of B. A. In March of 1886 he joined the Wilmington Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, with permission to remain at school for graduation. In 1888 he was ordained deacon in the Church, and in 1890 received'elders' orders. He has served the following charges : Chincoteague Island, West- over, Berlin, Roxana, Deal's Island, and is now pastor of Asbury Methodist Episcopal Church, Crisfield, Maryland. In 1890 his Alma Mater honored him with the degree of M. A. HONORABLE A. LINCOLN DRYDEN, B. A. A, Lincoln Dryden was born at Fairmount, Maryland, February 18, 1865, on his grandfather's farm, where he re- mained until eight years of age. In 1873 he removed with his father to Crisfield, where he attended the public schools, and at the same time was manager of his father's oyster- packing house in that town, which gave employment to one hundred men. Having always cherished a desire for a col- lege education, young Dryden had been accordingly eco- nomical, as well as industrious in business, and in the fall of 1884 was successful in a competitive examination for a scholarship from Somerset County to St. John's College at Annapolis. Here he remained for two years, and at the expiration of that time he entered Dickinson College, at Carlisle, Pennsylvania, where he graduated on the honor list in 1888. Mr. Dryden's last year at college was an eventful one. His funds were insuiiicient to defray his college expenses and to complete the course, and to reach the goal toward which his youthful ambition had ever been directed, he was compelled to tutor under-classmen, teach afternoons in the preparatory school and solicit rates for oysters in the near-by Pennsylvania towns. After graduating Mr. Dryden returned to Crisfield, and in 1889 was nominated by the Republicans for the House of Delegates, to which he was elected, with the entire Repub- lican county ticket. In 1894 he was named by the Repub- lican Convention at Ocean City as its candidate for the Fifty-fourth Congress from the First Congressional Dis- triot, and succeeded in reducing the Democratic majority in this district to one thousand. I In July of 1895 he was nominated by his party for the State Senate, and was elected, with the entire Republican ticket, bya majority of two hundred and fifty. Mr. Dryden was married in the fall of 1894 to Miss Effie Venables, daughter of S. D. Venables, the proprietor ofthe Eastern Shore House at Crisiield. ' Mr. Dryden is a liberal man in legislation, and believes in broad methods when good is to be achieved. HONORABLE SYDNEY E. MUDD, B. A. Sydney E. Mudd, a son of the late Jeremiah T. Mudd, a prosperous farmer of Charles County, was born on his father's farm, near Bryantown, February 12, 1858. He was educate-d at Greenwood University and St. John's College, Annapolis, and graduated from the latter institution in 1878, receiving the degree of B. A. Mr. Mudd then took a special law course at the Univer- sity of Virginia, and was admitted to the bar in 1880. He was scarcely of age when he began to take a prominent part in the local Republican politics of Charles County, and was elected on the Republican ticket to the House of Dele- gates in 1879, when only twenty-one years of age. He was o