Ellsworth D. Dryden

Maryland State Police — Pikesville, MD

Accident

End of Watch October 7, 1938

Age 37

Tour of Duty 10 yrs

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Gender Male

Incident Service The Sacrifice Department 41

Incident

Quartermaster Sergeant Ellsworth Dryden succumbed to injuries received in a motorcycle crash on March 4th, 1933 He was escorting the Maryland's Governor Albert Ritchie home from the President Franklin D. Roosevelt's inauguration when his motorcycle collided with a bread tuck at the intersection of Rhode Island Avenue and 34th Street in Mount Rainier, Maryland. He was seriously injured in the crash and died after contracting a bloodstream infection. Sergeant Dryden had served with the Maryland State Police for just under 10 years.

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I never knew you. I am standing here anyway.
Quartermaster Sergeant Dryden gave the Maryland State Police 10 years.
Thank you for your service to the people of Maryland. Gone but never to be forgotten.
Rest easy, Quartermaster Sergeant Dryden.

— S. Vincent Anthony, U.S. Army 1985-1993

Agency

Department Maryland State Police

Location Pikesville, MD

Platform Identity msp.md.us.gov.nw

Service Record

End of Watch October 7, 1938

Tour of Duty 10 yrs

Age 37

Gender Male

Incident Details

Cause Accident

Quartermaster Sergeant Ellsworth D. Dryden is one of 10,088 officers lost to accidents in the line of duty across the full record of this memorial — 31% of all 32,508 officers honored here.

In MD, 140 of 377 officers were lost to accidents in the line of duty — 37.1% of this state's fallen. That is 6.1 percentage points above the national rate of 31%.

At Maryland State Police, 28 of 42 officers on record were lost to accidents in the line of duty — 66.7% of this agency's fallen.

Maryland State Police

of 42 officers

66.7% Accident

MD — Statewide

140

of 377 officers

37.1% Accident

Nationwide

10,088

of 32,508 officers

31% Accident