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of Anne Arundel county, Maryland, organized in 1742. He is the senior warden of St. John's Episcopal church, of which his father was one of the founders in 1816. On the thirty-first of March, 1903, he resigned his official position as Justice, to take effect on June 1, following. On the last day of his appearance in court in general term, the members of the bar presented to him, as a testimonial of their regard, an elegant silver vase. A. S. Worthington, Esq., in the presentation address, said: "The men who have been practising before you here for so many years, asking for and abiding by the judgments which you have rendered, have for you the highest possible regard. They recognize the fact that the ambition with which you entered upon the practice of that profession which you followed so many years at the bar, and have ornamented here so long upon the bench, has been gratified; that in the practice of that profession your life has been a success."