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Quartermaster Sergeant
Maryland State Police
Pikesville, MD
Date of Death: 10/07/1938
| Dryden, Ellsworth D. - Quartermaster Sergeant, 37 years old, 9 years and 7 months of service from February 26, 1929 to October 7, 1938. Quartermaster Sergeant Dryden was seriously injured in a collision with a bakery truck in Mount Rainier, Maryland (intersection of Rhode Island Avenue and 34th Street) while escorting Governor Ritchie home from the first Roosevelt inauguration. After a five year battle against infections caused by the injuries, Dryden died of septicemia (streptococcus in the bloodstream). |
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