St Johns College - Yearbook (Annapolis, MD)

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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

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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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gf. 'ill'-f 11 1 i :.. re-elected to the same office two years later. He was also one of the Garfield Electors in 1880. From 1882 to 1888 he was engaged in the practice of law and was active as a polit- ical worker. Mr. Mudd was nominated on the Republican ticket as Representative from the Fifth Maryland District in Congress in 1888, running against Barnes Compton, the Democratic candidate. The election was very close, and, although on the face of the returns Mr. Compton was elected by a few votes, Mr. Mudd instituted a contest for the seat before the Fifty-first Congress and was seated. Mr. Mudd was the nominee of his party for re-election to the House of Representatives in the compaign of 1890, and Mr. Compton was again the nominee of the Democrats. This was the year of the great Democratic tidal wave, and Mr. Compton was elected by a large vote. i In 1893 Mr. Mudd was the Republican nominee for State Senator from Charles County, and prosecuted a vigorous canvass. At the local elections in Charles County that year there was much disaffection in both parties, growing out of the county-seat agitation, and nothing like a party vote was cast. Dr. L. C. Carrico, the Democratic candidate, was elected by eleven votes. In the compaign of 1895 Mr. Mudd succeeded in bringing order and harmony to his party, that had been so badly shattered by the county-seat fight, and with a united front, it gave the Democrats a bad defeat at the polls. Mr. Mudd was at the head of the ticket for the House of Delegates, and received the largest vote of any of the can- didates. He is chairman of the Republican County Com- mittee. Mr. Mudd was married to Miss Ida Grifiin, of Prince George's County, in 1882, and has four children. He resides in Bryantown. He was selected at the first ballot in the Republican caucus for Speaker of the House in 1896, and was elected the following day. Mr. Mudd made a prompt and impartial presiding officer, and this, together with his jovial manner, made him a favorite in the House and won for him a host of friends. CHARLES H. GRACE, B. A. Charles H. Grace was born February 13, 1869, on a farm in Talbot County, Maryland. At the age of twelve he entered St. Michael's High School, from which he grad- uated four years later. After spending a year on the farm, he entered the Sophomore Class at St. J'ohn's Col- lege in September, 1886. So well did he apply himself to his studies that he graduated in 1889 with first honors. Few men have left the old institution whose departure has been more regretted than his. His splendid' record and his high moral character left their impression upon all with whom he associated. Although an assiduous student, he took a prominent part in athletics, playing half-back on the famous football team of 1889. The following year after his gradu- ation he was appointed principal of a public school in Car- oline County, Maryland. From this place, in the summer of 1890, he was called to McDonough Institute to teach English, book-keeping and surveying, which position he still holds. His mental ability and keen insight into the characters of others, together with his high moral courage, make him a valuable acquisition to the ranks of those en- gaged in training the minds of the young. Mr. Grace was married September 20, 1894, to Miss Rowena Dodson, an accomplished young lady of St. Michae1's, Maryland. EDWARD MoR'r1M1zR HARDCASTLE, B. A., M. D.' Edward Mortimer Hardcastle, Jr., was born in Trappe, Talbot. County, Maryland, on December 10, 1867. He attended the grammar and high schools of that town, and in 1882 received a State scholarship to St. Iohn's College from Talbot County. Entering the Freshman Class, he completed the four years' classical course, and grad- uated as valedictorian in June, 1886. In the following autumn he accepted a position in the Easton High School as assistant teacher, where he remained one year. Deciding P f'72 fl1f 1- P- i t- .-' 1 ' iff: . ef -1L.f' ff1Px p 5' fs., . -gf ' :f,a.',j.QH'5,- '.i- , '1IMi- ' . . -'rms .J :,w.,wfQ. J1y. ,'if' 3.325 igliepg ,Y 1. if: use if 1. vu. 4 ..- lt-T ' '-1 ' Wi? XL . ' ixl-. l'f.i. . . fi Q Q. S id ii