COPYRIGHT, 1908, BY H. E. BUCHHOLZ. BASED BY PERMISSION OF JUDGE COMPANY UPON COPYRIGHTED EDWIN WARFIELD 269 governor and of his teachings as a political leader, one and all rest upon this dominant strain. Edwin Warfield was born at Oakdale, Howard county, on May 7, 1848. The place of his birth proved an important factor in the shaping of his character. For several generations his ancestors had owned and tilled the great expanse of lands upon which his eyes early learned to feast, and it was not long before he came to feel that the old Warfields, though long since dead, still lingered about the place. Of the deeds which these progenitors performed and of the virtues for which they are reputed Mr. Warfield is, indeed, exceedingly proud. But he is not a pensioner on the past; rather he has ever regarded the accomplishments of his forebears as placing an increased responsibility upon him, rather of freeing him entirely from any requirement for individual effort. His father was Albert G. Warfield, of a line of Warfields who for several hundred years had been prominent in the affairs of the Old Line State, winning distinction in time of war and of peace. Mrs. Warfield, the Governor's mother, was a daughter of Col. Gassaway Watkins, who served as a member of the Maryland Line in the Revolutionary War and was president of the Maryland Society of the Cincinnati at the time of his death, 1840. Mr. Warfield acquired his elementary training at the public schools of Howard county and also at St. Timothy's Hall, Catonsville. With the outbreak of the Civil War, however, and the subsequent emancipation of negro slaves, affairs at Oakdale took on a somewhat different aspect, and he had to close his books that he might bear his share of the farm labor and also contribute to the family income during those months when the fields needed least attention. It was in 1866 that Mr. Warfield, then just eighteen years of age and with no special training as a teacher, determined to look to the profession of pedagogy for a livelihood. He |