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Emanuel W. Herman.

Emanuel W. Herman, Republican, is a resident of the ninth
election district. He is a son of Capt. Emanuel Herman, who
was an officer in the Union Army, and who for seventeen years
was the superintendent of the Sheppard Asylum, near Towson.
Mr. E. W. Herman was born at Wrightsville, York county, Pa.,
on April 30, 1871, and has resided in Baltimore county f6r the
past eighteen years. He attended the public schools and after-
ward attended Pennsylvania College at Gettysburg, where he
graduated in 1892, receiving the degree of B. A., the same col-
lege conferring upon him the degree of. M. A. in 1895. After
his graduation he entered the law offices of Schmucker & White-
lock and attended the law school of the University of Maryland,
where he graduated with honors in the class of 1894 and received
the degree of LL. B. Since that time he has been practising
law at Towson. Mr. Herman is unmarried and lives with his
father at Sherwood, on the Northern Central railroad. In poli-
tics Mr. Herman, while a pronounced Republican, has studiously
avoided the factions existing in his party, and is conservative and
liberal in his political views. He is a fluent public speaker.

He is a member of the committee on elections, on judiciary,
chairman of committee on amendments to the Constitution.

Samuel H. Dehoff.

Samuel H. Dehoff, Republican, was born in the fifth district
of Baltimore county on January 9, 1871. He is a farmer and
an active Republican. He was educated in the public schools.
He is a member of the Baptist church, and is now superintend-
ent of the Sunday-school of the Forest church. He never held
any office before.

He is a member of the committee on labor, on contingent
fund, on claims, on engrossed bills.

Frederick C. Birkefeld.

Frederick Charles Birkefeld, Republican, was born in Ger-
many, August 20, 1859, and arrived in this country on the four-
teenth anniversary of his birth. He became an apprentice in
the composing room of the German Correspondent, where he
served six months, and then was apprenticed to a barber. He
conducted a barber business at Canton, Baltimore county, for
sixteen years. He had always been an active Republican, and
was secretary of Canton Permanent Building and Loan Associa-
tion. He was a member of the Knights of Pythias and Shield
of Honor and adjutant of the First Maryland Regiment, U. R.
Knights of Pythias. He attended night schools of Baltimore
city.
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