St Johns College - Yearbook (Annapolis, MD)

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October of that year, where he is now stationed. His ability was soon recognized, and he was appointed engineer 'officer of the regiment. aide-de-camp to the brigadier commander, chief engineer of the staff of General Funston, in succession. He was also in command of the United States gunboat Napindan,,' armored vessel for river navigation. Then he was the depot commissary ordnance officer, in charge of Vicker's-Maxim rapid-fire gun in the mountain engagements. He accompanied General Lawton's northern expedition as engineer oflicer, doing reconnoissance. He has been recommended for promotion on four occasions, and was .commended in orders for excellent conduct in action. He was appointed superintendent of public work of the Province of Nuevaecija, Luzon, upon the inauguration of civil government, but he declined in order to accept a commission in the United States Regular Army. He was in IQOI appointed second lieutenant, Twelfth United States Infantry. Later he was appointed quartermaster and commissary of the first battalion of that regiment, which battalion went to Samar to quell the recent insurrection there. During his service in these far-away islands he has had a variety of work, constructing roads and bridges. He accompanied General Funston on nearly all his expeditions and in many engage- ments. He is a close personal friend of General Funston. Upon his recommenda- tion Mr. Lyles was appointed to the regular army. Mr. Lyles is now in his twenty-fourth year. He was a Philomathean while at St. Iohn's. JJ ' Honorable Walter Wilkes Preston, B. A., M. A., LL. B., ex. ' 81 The Hon. Walterw Willces Preston was born in Harford County, Maryland, january 14, 1863, and has throughout his life been a resident of that county. Mr. Preston received his early education in the county schools, and at a very early age graduated from the Bel-Air Academy. After leaving the Academy Mr. Preston matriculated at St. john's College, where he passed through the junior class. Leaving St. John's at the end of the junior year, Mr. Preston entered the senior class at Princeton, where he graduated, receiving the A. B. degree in 1881. Mr. .Preston received from the Law Department of the University of Maryland, in 1883, the degree LL. B., and in the following year the degree of A. M. from Princeton. In 1883 Mr. Preston began to practice law in Bel-Air, and by diligent application to his business soon acquired an extensive and lucrative practice. Mr. Preston has been twice elected to the House of Delegates, in 1887 and 1889. 39.

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having tried a number of important cases in the Supreme Court of the United States, During the agitation of the present few years at Chicago over the subject of municipal taxation and the granting of street railway franchises, Mr. Ritchie took a very active part and was a prominent member of the Anti-Yerkes forces, which in the State Legislature defeated Mr. Yerkes' corrupt measures. A high compliment was paid to Mr. Ritchieis standing as an authority upon these questions by the Legislature, which after hearing a discussion by him before its special committee, requested his attendance later before a joint session of the House and Senate, which was called for the sole purpose of hearing Mr. Ritchie discuss these various issues again. At a subsequent session of the Legislature, when similar measures were brought before that body by the corporate interests. the committee summoned Mr. Ritchie again by special invitation to hear his criticisms of the pending measures. In deference to his judgment upon that occasion, the Legislature rejected the propositions of the interested parties and the interests of the public were thereby safeguarded. In consequence of his course in these matters Mr. Ritchie was urged to enter political life, and Was, in fact, nominated for the Legislature at the succeeding session as a candidate on the reform ticket, but his disinclination for political life and pressure of his private business prompted him to decline the honor. Mr. Ritchie when at St. Iohn's was a member of the Philokalian Society, and his interest in his Alma,lVIater is as lively novv as the day he received his diploma. J Q55 De Witt C. Lyles, B. S., '98. Graduated from St.ljohn's in 1898 with a first-grade distinction, with the degree of S. Immediately after his graduation he enlisted in the Fifth Regi- ment of Maryland Volunteers, where he savvl six monhs of Spanish-American War service. From that time until the present day he has been in the United States Army. 9 IQ, 0C'f0bC1', 13955, he became associated with the staff of the Baltimore NEWS, Ellid later resigned to accept a position as assistant engineer on the construction of the Chesapeake Beach Railroad. In the fall of I899 he was a candidate for the Maryland Legislature.. from Anne Arundel countv, and was sent as a delegate to the county and State conventions of that year. J He accepted a commission as a second lieutenant in the Thirty-fourth Unitgd States Volunteers In Augugf, 1399. He arrived in the Philippine Islands in 38

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W1 'l there he was chairman of the VVays and Means Committee. In 1891 Mr. n e Preston was elected State's Attorney for Harford county, and re-elected in 1895 I 18 Mr. Preston was married to Mrs. M. Elizabeth Hall. Mr. Preston isupast n . masteagof Mt.iArarat Lodge, Masons, at Bel-Air, and is one of the most prominent members of the Harford county bar. JJ Edwin H. Brown, Jr., B. A+, '90 Mr. Edwin H. Brown, Ir., was born in May, 1877. He spent his boy- hood days in Centreville, Maryland, and entered St. Iohnis College at the age of eighteen years. He graduated, having taken the entire course in three years. The degree of B. A. was conferred upon him at the day of gradua- tion, June, 1898. For the space of one year he studied law with his father, judge Edwin H. Brown. Then he entered the University of Maryland, where he studied law for one year more. He was afterward admitted before the xCourt of Appeals in the fall of IQOO. Since that time he has been actively engaged in the practice of law at his home at Centerville. Wliile at St. Iohn's Mr. Brown was a member of the Philokalian Literary Society. Ja' I. Royal Rosebury, BQ A., '96 Royal Rosebury was born on his fatliefis farm, in Kent County, on July 2, 1876. Mr. Rosebury attended the public schools of Kent County and King' William County, Virginia, until 1890, when he entered the Stillpont Academy, where he graduated. He entered St. Iohn's in September, 1892, where he was graduated in 1896, having been captain of Company A, president of the Philo- kalian Society and the orator at its June cleebration. After graduating, Mr. Rosebury traveled for a New York firm for a year and then took an agency with the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company. In June, 1898, Mr. Rosebury resigned his position to enlist in the Fifth Mary- land Volunteers. After the war Mr. Rosebury again accepted an agency of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, and in August, 1899, was promoted to assistant superintendent of the VVoodbury Branch, Baltimore. Mr. Rosebury married Miss Burton, of Laurel, on February 1 5, IQOO, 40 .