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| | Maryland Historical Society Library: John Upshur Dennis Papers 1851-1888, MS. 2677 - Finding Aid |
 | | John Upshur Dennis (1846-1916) was born on the family estate at Kingston, Somerset Co., Md., the son of lawyer and U.S. Senator George Robertson Dennis (1822-1882). |
 | | The Honorable John Upshur Dennis, who died shortly after six o'clock in the evening of Tuesday, September 12th, 1916, at the home of his son in Guilford, Baltimore County, was from 1887 to 1908, a period of more than twenty-one years, a Judge of the Supreme Bench of Baltimore City, respected, honored and beloved. |
 | | Donnoch Dennis, the son of John Dennis, located in Somerset County in 1664, and was high sheriff (an office at the time, of high rank and dignity) of Somerset County, which then embraced the district at present comprising Somerset, Worcester and Wicomico Counties. |
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