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Thus we have travelled over the Eastern Shore and have seen a few of its high points and have gotten-I hope-at least a faint idea of its life. The whole shore is alluvial. all fertility and this soil renews itself almost endlessly, so that its bounty in crops becomes a heritage to every generation. It has a priceless asset in the Chesapeake Bay. The Eastern Shore moves onward and upwards. It is being tied more closely to Baltimore by steamers, ferries, aeroplanes and automobiles. And yet with all these crops and these means of communication and everything, the finest value is the charm of the people living a life removed from the excitement and bustle of cities and yet playing their full part in the business and progress of their times.
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ORLANDO HARRISON.
Senator Orlando Harrison, head of the largest fruit tree mirsery in the world and of the largest fruit orchard in the United States, was born in Roxana, Delaware. Jannary 27th. 1867.
His parents were Joseph G. and Katherine Harrison. He attended the public schools of Maryland.
With his father and brother. George A. Harrison, Senator Harrison started the nursery and orchard business which has grown to its present gigantic proportions, thirty-five years ago upon a very small scale. Less than one acre was devoted to the nursery and the orchard covered but a few more acres. The entire farm embraced but 175 acres. Now Senator Harrison and his brother operate more than 5,000 acres in nurseries and orchards.
To give an idea of the colossal scale upon which the Harrison Nurseries are conducted, it may be stated that more than 10,000,000 trees are grown each year, making them the largest growers of fruit trees in the world. Of the or- chard business, explanation of it is contained in the statement that more than 100,000 bearing trees are contained on the properties near Berlin and that the Harrison Nurseries operate orchards in Delaware, Virginia, West Virginia and Western Maryland.
Senator Harrison is specializing in the Norway maple for shade purposes, having found that this tree is most de- sitable in the Eastern States, He made a trip to Holland, eight years ago, for the selected trees and since that time has Imported more than 100,000 trees for sale throughout the l'united States. Senator Harrison also made a trip to France for the selection of apple seedlings, and millions of these have been imported, the nurseries now having or- ders for more than four million in France and the P. S.
Senator Harrison has found the planting of vegetables in connection with his orchard highly prolitable and is one or the largest vegetable growers in that section of the State.
lle has been active manager of Harrison's Nurseries since the first tree was planted, especially since the death of his father.
Ile has found time from his business to serve his city and connty, having been elected to the lower honse of the Maryland legislature in 1906 and serving as senator in the State Senate since 1914 and has been active as Chair- man of the Roads and Highways committee in improving Maryland roads and securing appropriations for the Ocean City Bridge across the Sympext Bay. Ile was Mayor of Berlin from 1002 to 1914 and his efforts gave that city its paved streets, electric lights and municipally owned water supply system.
lle is a member of the Masonic orders, Odd Fellows and Red Men. Member of the Methodist church and takes an active part in church work. Senator Harrison is president of the Exchange and Savings Bank of Berlin, director in the Berlin Building and Loan Association, ex-president American Association of Nurserymon, ex-president Southern Nur- serymen's Association, ex-president Maryland State Horticultural Society and ex-president of the Peninsula Horticul- tural Society.
Senator Harrison was married to Ada Long. of Sussex county, Delaware, on Jannary 15th, 1893. They have four sons. G. Hale, Henry L., Orlando. Jr., and John Long Harrison. As a means of interesting his sons in the nursery business, Senator Harrison has provided each of them with n farm for their individual operations.
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COL. ALBANUS PHILLIPS.
Albanus Phillips, one of the founders of the largest fruit and vegetable packing interests of the Eastern part of the United States, and of the largest oyster packing business in the United States, and who is recognized as one of the leading business men of Maryland, was born in Golden Hill. Dorchester county, Maryland, on Aug. 31st, 1971. Ills parents were George W. Phillips (of B., and Mary E. Leonard Phillips, He attended the public schools of his native county.
He was engaged in farming and oyster trade until 17 years old, when he became commander of a large Chesa- peake Bay schooner, which he operated in the bay trade until 1894.
In the latter year he accepted a position with Webster Ford & Co. Wholesale Oyster Merchants of Baltimore. Maryland, lle remained with this company until 1899, when he resigned to engage in the oyster packing business for himself in Cambridge. In 1902, he organized, together with his brother, Levi B. Phillips, and W. G. Winterbot- tom, the Phillips Packing Co.
In 1904 he was associated with his two brothers, Levi B. and Ivy 1 ... and W. B. Winterbottom. in the organi- zation of Phillips Hardware Co. He established the firm of A. Phillips & Co., oyster and fruit packers in 1907. and with his brother and Mr. W. G. Winterbottom, organized the Phillips Can Co., manufacturers of fruit, oyster and vegetable cans in 1914.
Hle Is first vice-president of the Peoples Loan, Savings and Deposit Bank. of Cambridge, Md., a director in the National Bank of Cambridge, and Vice- President of the Cambridge-Maryland Hospital.
Mr. Phillips is one of the organizers and Rear Commodore of the Cambridge Yacht Club, is a member of the Masonic Fraternity and Boumi Temple Mystic Strine, and the Cambridge Lodge. B. P. O. E.
Ile is a Republican in politics and was appointed a colonel on the staff of Governor Goldsborongh.
Col. Phillips was married to Miss Daisy Alma Lewis, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. M. O. Lewis, of Baltimore, Mary- land, on Oct. 10th. 1900. They have four children. Albanns Phillips, Ir .. Alma. Theodore and Frances.
Ile was active in all the war work in Cambridge, was chairman of the War Savings and Y. M. C. A. Drives for Dorchester County, and is always recognized as one of the leaders in every progressive movement for the betterment of his City, County and State.
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LEVI B. PHILIPS.
Levi B. Phillips, one of the leading factors in the oyster. fruit and vegetable packing industries of the United States, one of the leading men in financial and business circles of the State, and who is a member of the largest oyster packing business of the country, was born at Golden Hill. Dorchester County, Maryland, on Nov. 21st, 1568. Ifis parents were George W. Phillips (of B.) and Mary E. Leonard Phillips, He attended the public schools of Dorchester County.
Leaving school in the carly eighties, he engaged in sailing, and the oyster business, and followed various lines until March of 1892, when he had built his own vessel. He was 24 years old, when the schooner named for him- self, was launched in Cambridge. He sailed in the British West Indies, Pineapple. Coastwise and oyster trade on the Chesapeake Bay for six years.
In 1898 he sold his ship and started in the packing business, organizing the parent company of which he is still sole owner. His brother, Albanus Phillips, entered into the business with him in 1900. Since the latter date he has organized, together with Albanus Phillips and W. G. Winterbottom, the Phillips Packing to .. which company has the largest payroll south of Wilmington, and is the largest tomato packing company in the United States : Phillips Hardware Co., the latter being the largest hardware store on the Eastern Shore, and the Phillips Can do. Through the efforts of these three men, Dorchester County has become one of the largest producers of tomatoes in the United States.
In addition he is President of the National Bank of Cambridge, having been elected to this office in 1909 to sneceed the founder of this institution, the late W. HI. Barton. upon the death of the latter. lle is a director of the Dorchester Water Co., Cambridge Ice Co. and the Cambridge Manufacturing co.
He is a member and one of the trustees of the Zion M. E. church, is Pastmaster of the Cambridge Lodge No. 66. A. F. & A. M., and is a trustee of Cambridge Lodge No. 1272. B. P. O. E. Mr. Phillips is a former vice-president of the American Bankers Assn., striving in that capacity for the State of Maryland. Ile is also a member of the Travel Club of America and the Automobile Club of Maryland. le was a member of the board of governors of the Cambridge Yacht Club. He also served as a member of the Dorchester County State Conneil of Defense. Mr. Phillips is a Republican in polities.
Mr. Phillips was married to Florence T. Brannock, on July 23rd. 1895. They have three children. Florence M., Vlola I ... and levi B. Phillips, Jr.
Ils business and residence address is Cambridge, Maryland.
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WILLIAM GRASON WINTERBOTTOM.
Wiliam Grason Winterbottom, associated in the largest pack- ing of oysters, fruits and vegetables on the Atlantic svalbard. and affiliated with the largest oyster industry in the entire United States, was born in Cambridge, on Sept. 27th. M.
llis parents were Harrison T. and Mary Ellen Winterbottom. IIr attended the public schools of Cambridge.
Mr. Winterbottom left school when 16 years old. and entered the employ of George W. Woolford & Co., and Mace. Woolford & Co., which two companies were engaged in the oys- tor packing. wood and coal business. After seven years with these two companies he was made a partner and continned in this connection for nine years.
In 1900 he severed his connection with the Woolford inter- est and organized the firm of W. G. Winterbottom & Co., and engaged in the oyster business. He was associated with Levi B. Phillips, and Albanns Phillips, in the organization and own- ership of the Phillips Packing Co., and the Phillips Hardware Co. and the Phillips Can Co.
In 1917 Mr. Winterbottom bought the interest of Mace, Woolford & Co., Oyster Packers. He also bonght Mr. Wool- ford's interests in the firm of Goo. W. Woolford & Co .. wood. coal and lime business, which now is operated under the firm title of Orem & Winterbottom.
Hle is vice-president of the Peoples Loan. Savings & Deposit Bank of Cambridge, is a director of the Dorchester Water Co .. the Cambridge Ice Co .. and is President of the Eastern Shore Land & Improvement Co., of which company Gov. Harrington is secretary and treasurer. Mr. Winterbottom has been engaged in the real estate business for many years, and has owned and sold some of the finest farms in Dorchester conuty.
Mr. Winterbottom is a Democrat in politics and was a delo. gate to the Democratic National Convention in Denver in 1908. when Governor Crothers and Senator Blair Lee were members of the Maryland delegation. lle was appointed a colonel on the staff of Governor Harrington, but was unable to serve on account of his large business interests.
Mr. Winterbottom was married to Nannie Elizabeth Davis, on Feb. 24th, 1909. They have three children, W. G. Win- terbottom, dr., Betty Elizabeth and Jeanne.
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L. ATWOOD BENNETT.
1. Atwood Bennett, champion of every measure for the moral betterment of the state during his years of service in both houses of the Maryland legislature, and one of the lead- ing attorneys of the Eastern Shore of Maryland. is a native of Somerset county. He was born on October 25th. 1873.
Mr. Benneti's parents were James 1 .. and Mico K. Bennett. He attended the public schools of Somerset county and later catering Western Maryland College in Westminster, was grad- nated with the degree of A. B., in 1894. He lator studied law in the Law School of the University of Maryland and received the degree of L.L. B., in 1997.
Mr. Bennett established his practice in Salisbury immediate- ly after his graduation and since that time has built up one of the largest clienteles of the Eastern Shore. He was city so- licitor for Salisbury for eight years, was a member of the State legislature in 1904 and served in the Maryland senate during the sessions of 1916. 1917 and 1918. During his terms in the legislature, and more particularly in the Senate, Mr. Bennett led the fight for the adoption as state laws of the several moral measures introduced. among these being the fight for the rati- tication by Maryland of the Eighteenth Constitutional Amend- ment. Under his leadership the exponents of woman suffrage gained an 18 to 9 victory in the Senate.
Ile is actively associated with the Asbury Methodist Epis- copal church, being a member of the official board : member of the General Conference which met in Des Moines during 1920. at which more than 1.000 delegates were present, and at which seventeen bishops were chosen : was appointed by the confer- ence as a member of the Home Missions and Church Extensions Board and of the Council of Benevolent Boards which has charge of all finances of the chorch. He has been superintendent of the Sunday School of the Church in Salisbury for seven years. Mr. Bennett also is a director of the Peoples Naional Bank of Salisbury : Farmers and Planters Company : Mitchell and Goslee Hardware Company and the Salisbury Lime Company. Ile also is actively engaged in farming and operates two farms near Salisbury.
Ile served for a number of years as an officer of Company I. First Maryland Infantry.
lle is a member of the Masonic Orders, including Bonmi Temple, Mystic Shrine ; Knights of Pythias, Red Men, Odd Fel- lows. Moose and Modern Woodmen of America.
Mr. Bennett was married to Miss Alice C. Catlin on Febru- ary 28th. 1902.
Ills address is Salisbury, Md.
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EARLE W. OREM.
Earle W. Orem. Mayor of Cambridge and Editor of the Dem- oerat and News, the oldest paper in Dorchester county, having been established in ISAs, was born in Dorchester county, near Cambridge, on August 2rd. 1\77.
llis parents were Calvert and Emma Orem, His mother is living. llis father died in 1909. He attended the public schools of Dorchester county, and the High School at Cam- bridge.
Shortly after leaving school he formed a partnership with Sowell M. Johnson for the purchase of the Democrat and News from John G. Mills. The paper was published by the part- nership of Orem and Johnson for seven years. In December of 1908. Mr. Orem purchased the interests of Mr. Johnson and since that time has been the sole owner and publisher.
Ile was elected Mayor of Cambridge in July of 1916. de- feating Congressman William N. Andrews, and was re-elected. without opposition, in July of 1920. His torm expires in July of 1924.
He is Past Master of Cambridge Lodge No. 66. A. F. & A. M .: is a charter member of Cambridge Lodge No. 1272. B. P. O. E .. and Dorchester Lodge No. 19. I. O. O. F.
Mr. Orem was married to Louise Birdsel Drain, daughter of Louise Creighton Drain and the late William F. Drain, on September 23rd. 1903. They have two sons and one daughter. Ilis address is Cambridge, Ma.
GENERAL JOSEPH BREFE SETH.
General Joseph Brat Seth, oldest member of the Talbot con- ty bar in point of admission, and who has been one of the lead- ing members of his profession in Baltimore and the Eastern Shore for the last several decades, was born in Talbot county on November 25th. 1845.
His parents were Alexander H. and Martha A. (Haddaway, Seth. General Seth attended select schools as a boy and this private tuition extended through the time he was preparing for the practice of law. He was admitted to the bar on Novem- ber 21st. 1867. in Baltimore, and continued his practice there until 1900 when he removed to Easton, where he has continued since that time.
lle is now associated in partnership in the practice of law with William Mason Sheehan.
General Seth was appointed Judge Advocate General with the rank of Brigadier General by Governor Robert M. Mebane and continued through the administrations of Governors Lloyd and Jackson.
General Seth served in the Legislature of Maryland in 1874. 1882. 1884 and 1886. being Presiding Officer of the House of Delegates in 1886. He was elected to the Senate in 1905 and served in the sessions of 1906 and 1908, having had the unique position of presiding over that body during his whole term of service and being the first and only member who had ever been elected to preside over the Senate upon his first entrance to that body. In 1890 he built the Baltimore, Chesapeake & At- lantie Railway from Claiborne to Ocean City and was Presi- dont of that Company for six years.
General Seth has been married twice, his first wife being Sollie Goldsborongh Barnett, whom he married on December 10th, 1879. Mrs. Seth died in 1881. One son, who died in in- fancy, was born of this union. General Seth was married to Mary Rhett Walker on June 22nd, 1892.
Ilis address is Easton, Md.
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SENATOR GEORGE LAWS BARTLETT,
Senator George Laws Bartlett, senator from Talbot county. and one of the leading farmers and also engaged in the mill- ing industry on Eastern Shore, was born in Talbot county on August 29th, 1573.
His parents were John C. Bartlett, judge of the Orphans Court for several terms, and Mathilda J. Woodall. of Kent county. Delaware. He attended Friends School and the public schools of his native county.
Senator Bartlett comes from a family of farmers and mill- ers. He worked on farms of his father until 1903 when he entered the milling business, llis father died two years later and he has operated mills for the manufacture of four and stock feed since that time. HIe has recently completed the construction of a new elevator which is the largest and finest in its appointments on the Eastern Shore.
He is a great lover of horses and breeder of Jersey cows and keeps much valuable stock on the farm which he owns near Easton. He recently acquired by purchase one of the finest bulls in the state and all of his cows are pure bred.
Senator Bartlett was appointed by Governor Goldsborongh as Colonel on the staff which represented the state at the San Francisco exposition. Ile was elected to the legislature in 1917 as Senator from Talbot connty, being the first Republican mem- ber elected to the Upper House since 1900.
His address is Easton, Md.
THOMAS MATTHEWS BARTLETT.
Thomas Matthews Bartlett. cashier of the Easton National Bank, and one of the leading men in financial circles of the Eastern Shore of Maryland, stands high in the ranks of Re- publican leaders of the State and is one of the strong men of his party in his portion of the State. He has been elected a delegate to three Republican National Conventions.
Mr. Bartlett was born near Easton on December 31st. 1\60. His parents were John C. Bartlett and Matilda J . Woodall Bart- lett. Ile attended the Friends School and the public schools of Easton.
Ile entered the employ of the Easton National Bank on December Sth. 1855, and has been with that institution con- tinuously since that time. He is president of the Gazette Pub- fishing Company, which company published the Easton Ga- zette, and he also is a director and treasurer of the Emergency Hospital, Easton.
Mr. Bartlett was particularly active in all of the work in- cidental to the world war in Talbot county, having been treas- urer of the first and second Red Cross drives, on the exec- ntive committee of all the Liberty Loan drives and director for Talbot county in the War Savings Campaign.
lle was a member of the Board of State Aid and Charities during the Goldsborough administration, and while occupying this position was elected president of the Maryland Confer- ence of Charities and Corrections. Ile is a governor of the Talbot Country Club.
Ilis address Is Easton, Md.
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CHARLES O, CULVER.
General Superintendent Eastern Shore Gas & Electric Co. Charles O. Culver, one of the leading young business men of Salisbury, is general superintendent of the Eastern Shore Gas and Electric Company, one of the principal enterprises of the Maryiand Peninsula.
The Eastern Shore Gas & Electric Company was incorporated in 1915, to take over and operate a number of plants serv- Ing several towns In lower Delaware, and Wicomico, Dorches- ter und Caroline comities of Maryland.
The companies operating in Salisbury. Cambridge. Federals- burg and Denton have been merged into a corporation known ns "The Eastern Shore Gas & Electric Co. of Maryland," which furnishes electrle service in sixteen towns on the Maryland Peninsula. The above company is a subsidiary of the Eastern Shore Gas & Electric Company, which operates in lower Del- aware, and serves fourteen towns in that section.
During the five year period since its organization, the com- pany has discontinued the use of the original plants, and all current Is now furnished from one central generating station and is carried to the various towns by means of high voltage transmission lines, thereby insuring continuous twenty-four hour service to all of these towns.
In addition to the many towns in Southern Delaware and Maryland supplied with electric and gas service, electric eur- rent also is wholesaled to independent companies furnishing a number of other towns. Among the industries served by the company are canneries, flour mills, planing mills, ice plants, brick yards, water plants, and shirt factories.
The company also condnets a general electric contracting business and sells electrie supplies and appliances.
Offices and display rooms are maintained in Salisbury, Cam- bridge, Federalsburg and Denton, Maryland, and several Dela- ware cities. The general offices of the company are in Salis- bry.
More than 5,800 customers are served by the company and this number is being greatly increased each year because of the excellent service furnished. More than 75 persons are em- ployed regularly by the company and share in the benefits of an Employes' Welfare Association.
A steady increase has been shown in the earnings of the company during the last five years and more than 4,000 11. P. in motor load has been added to the system.
Mr. e'niver was born in Laurel. Delaware, on October 22nd. 1886. His parents were Mathias and Amelia V. Culver.
lle attended the public and high schools of Harrington, Pel- aware, and Inter was graduated from Wharton school of the University of Pennsylvania.
Upon completion of his course. he was employed by the Bald- win Locomotive Works and remained with that company five years. lle later went with the Du Pont company of Wil- mington. Delaware, and remained with this concern for two years, coming to the Eastern Shore Gas and Electric Company in October of 1916.
Ile is a member of Masonic Orders, including Boumi Temple. Mystic Shrine, Tau Delta Phi Fraternity. Robert Morris Chb of Philadelphia. Elks, Rotary Club of Salisbury and the Salis- bury Chamber of Commerce.
Mr. Culver was enrolled in U. S. Naval Reserve forces dur- ing the recent war.
HOOPER S. MILES.
Hooper S. Miles, member of the House of Delegates from Wicomico county, and one of the leaders among the somtiger members of the bar of the Eastern Shore of Maryland. was born in Cambridge, Maryland. on January 27th, 1895.
His parents were the late Alonzo I. Miles and Agnes 11. Miles. Mr. Miles attended the public schools of Baltimore, later studied at the Law School of the University of Maryland and was admitted to the bar in the summer of 1916.
lle began the practice of law with his father in Salisbury in 1916, under the firm name of Miles and Miles. Upon the death of his father in November of 1917. he continued prae- tice alone until the spring of 1920, when he formed the part- nership of Miles, Whealton & Miles, of which he is the senior partner. His partners are Clarence W. Whealton and Clar- ence W. Miles, his brother.
Mr. Miles served in the House of Delegates during the sos- sion of 1920 and was a delegate to the Democratie State Convention the same year.
He was married to Miss A. Frances Williams, daughter of L. Ernest Williams, on February 20th. 1919. They have one daughter, Mary Francis Miles,
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WILLIAM NEAVITT PALMER. D. D.
Dr. William Neavitt Palmer, one of the leading surgeons of the Eastern Shore of Maryland, and a member of the staff of surgeons of the Emergency Hospital of Easton. Talbot coun- ty. was born in Chester. Maryland. on September 11th. 19-3.
Ilis parents were William L. and Laura J. Palmer. He at. tended the public schools of Queen Anne county, was gradu- ated from the Tome Institute of Port Reposit and received his degree of M. D. from the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Mercy Hospital in 1905. He did post-graduate work in Mercy Hospital and the Richard Gondry Home in Catons- ville, Md.
Dr. Palmer established his practice in Hinten. W. Va., in 1906 and was a member of the hospital staff there. lle ro- moved to Easton in 1912, and has practiced since that time in that city.
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