Quartermaster Sergeant Ellsworth D. Dryden
Maryland State Police
Maryland
End of Watch: Friday, October 7, 1938
Cause: Automobile accident

Biographical Info
Age: 37
Tour of Duty: 10 years
Badge Number: Not available

Quartermaster Sergeant Dryden succumbed to injuries received in an automobile accident five years earlier. He was escorting the Maryland governor home from the Presidential Inauguration when he was involved in an accident at Rhode Island Avenue and 34th Street in Mount Rainier, Maryland. He was seriously wounded in the accident and died after contracting a bloodstream infection.

Sergeant Dryden had been with the agency for just under ten years.