Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-03-04
souTnERNERs IN NEW YORK.
Nlen who Have Become Famous
for Brains and Courage

i The development Of the South
which for the past few years has chal
Ilenged admiration, has been led ant
maintained almost entirely by South
ern men. Not only have they taken
|, hold in the South, but many have
migrated North, where their pronoun'
ced individuality has made them q
quickly recognized power, and there
| is nothing, by the way, that stimulates
this recognition SO readily as gener
ous amount of self-assertion. The
leverage business man respects and
admires a man who has the temerity
mot only to express his opinions, but to
maintain them against all odds. II
| is, to say the least, forceful, and some
times acts as a good substitute for a
solid bank account.
Among those whose pronunciami-
ento carries with it weight sufficient to
send Wall street mercury from zero to
boiling point, or vice verse, we find :
Victor Newcomb OF Kentucky, the
Garetts of Baltimore, Addison Cam
mack, James Il. Keene, the .Inmans
of Tennessee, General 7. M. Logan Of
South Carolina, President of the Rich
mond and Danville road; DIR. Norvin
Green of Kentucky, President of the
Western Union, and others.
Not only has the Southerner shown
himself a compeer with his Northern
brethren in the financial line, but he
made for himself an honored name in
the professions. Among the list of
Gotham's celebrated physicians We
find the South occupying foremost
rank. DIR. John Metcalf is Ken
tuckian; DR.. T. Gaillard Thomas, DR..
Wiley, DR.. Arnold, DR.. Jones and
DIR. III. Marion Sims are South Caro-
linians. DR.. Polk is from Kentucky; /;
DR.. Melrose Pallen from st. Louis.
DR.. Emmett, DR.. j. Wyeth and
DR.. Bozeman are also Southerners.
DIR. Benjamin Simmons, who for
his skill in medicine and surgery was
known as the American Sir Ashley
Cooper, was South Carolinian.
At the Bar the South is represented
in New York by Roger A. Pryor, of
Virginia, John r. Fellows, Of Arkan-
sas, John C. Calhoun, of South Caro-
lima, Burton H. Harrison, of Virginia,
A. H. H. Dawson, of Kentucky, and
until called before another and higher
bar, Judge A. j. Requier, of South
Carolina; and Algernon f. Sullivan,
of Virginia, shone conspicuously
among the legal lights of the metrop-
oils.
To Southern physician living in
Columbus, Ga, Professor Morse was
indebted for the conception of the
electric telegraph, the suggestion
having been given him while riding
in stage coach during terrific
thunderstorm, the Georgian remark
ing, as huge trees were blasted by
the roadside that he saw no reason
why this powerful agent could not be
util zed for the benefit of mankind.
Morse seized the idea and nourished
it until it brought forth fruit, for
which the whole civilized werld now
owes debt of gratitude.
1t is also one of the national tradi-
tions that South Carolina had finger
in the architectural pie of the Bunk
er Hill Monument. 1t is singular
and noteworthy fact that this same
little State OF South Carolina has fur
nished to its country's history as
many intellectual lights as any state
in the Union, the Declaration of In
dependence alone showing as many
signers from that State as from the
great State OF New York, and others
Of equal ratio.
Among the wealthy New Workers
who have married Southerners may
be mentioned John Jacob Astor, who
married Miss Gibbes, of South Caro-
lima; Miss Carrie Astor, who married
Orme Wilson, of Tennessee; Commo-
dore Vanderbilt, whose wife was an
Alabamian; William X. Vanderbilt
also married lady from that State.
Mrs. Commodore Garrison claims st.
Louis as her home; Mrs. Van All
ken, Kentucky. DR.. Octavius White,
of South Carolina, married Miss
Chandler, granddaughter of John
Jacob Astor Miss Wilson OF Tennes-
see is now Miss Ogden Goelet; And
rev Carnegie found his wife in Wash
ington; John Stevens and Henry
Clews married Virginians; Bently
Hazel OF South Carolina, Miss Jones
of New York; the late President
Arthur's wife was Herndon, of Vir-
ginia; James Brewn Potter married
Miss Cora Urquhart of New Orleans !;
Miss Potter, Clarence Carey of Vir-
ginia; Mr.. Roosevelt married Miss
Bullock Of Savannah.
Inmany OF the trades and mercan-
tile pursuits the Southern man finds
himself not far behind his energetic
Northern brother. Many who came
North directly after the war, with no
other capital than willing hands and
wits sharpened by necessity, find
themselves to-day possessed of a
competency, the result of energy well
applied. Y. Press.
A KURDISH SEMIRAMIS.