The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1888-01-14
men OF MARK.
Some Of Our Great Men-.-How They
Got Their Start.

Got Their Start.
Speaker Carlisle was country
school teacher.
Judge Kelly, father Of the house,
was a jeweler.
Senator Pasco was school
teacher at $40 month.
Dougherty, of Florida, was q
sailor before the mast.
Anderson, of Kansas, was Pres
byterian clergyman.
Judge Chapman, of Michigan,
was mine prospector.
Leland Stanford was a country
lawyer in Wisconsin.
Senator Kenna was once q coal
miner at 81 20 day.
Senator Dawes was a school
teacher and country editor.
Ben Butterworth used to be a
plantation boss in Virginia.
Senator Morrill,, of Vermont,
kept country grocery store.
Delegate Caine, of Utah, was
many years a theatre manager.
Taulbee, the tall Kentucky mem
ber, was divinity student.
Robertson, the new Louisiana
member, was college professor.
James B. White, Of Indiana, was
a calico printer and tailor.
Congressman Outerwaite was
principal of city school for five
years.
Civil Service Commissioner Oberly
was a Chicago Times reporter.
Judge Tarsney, Michigan con-
gresham, was steamboat engi~
neer.
Justice Blatchford was Governor
w. H. Stewards private secretary.
Senator Plumb, of Kansas, was
type-setter.
Hit, of Illinois, was a steno-
grapher.
Senator Sawyer "bought his
time" when Is years old and ran
sawmill.
Senator Stewart, of Nevada,
mined with a pick and shovel in
California.
Senator Cullom was famous as a
corn husker in early days in Illi
nois-
w. H. F. Lee, son Of Robert Z.
Lee, and congressman, is far
mer.
Darlington, a Pennsylvania mem-
ber, was a reporter on Philadelphia
dailies.
Clifton r. Breckenridge, of the
ways and means committee, was a
bookkeeper.
Senator Allison was an abstract
clerk.
Guenther, of Wisconsin, was a
druggist.
Boutelle, of Maine, was a sea
captain.
Plumb, of Illinois, wos a grocery
clerk.
Secretary Bayard was a clerk in
New York.
Pidcock, of New Jersey, was a
civil engineer.
John McShane, the millionaire
Omaha congressman, was a cow
boy without a cent in 1871.
FELTON,, the multi-millionaire, was
a chore boy on a farm in Erie
county, New York.
Bancroft, the historian, once
thought of entering the ministry,
and preached several sermons.
Solictor-General jerks used to
be a surveyor.
Pennington, of Delaware was a
school teacher.
Samuel J. Randall, whom no
body supposed had a war record,
was private in company of
Senator Jones, of Nevada, was a
gold prospector in '49 and sheriff
of Trinity county later.
Silas Hare, Texas member, was
a jayhawker chief justice Of New
Mexico under the Confederate gov
Congressman Farquhar was .
type setter, and was the first presi-
dent of the firsttypographical union
in the United State
Justice Bradley taught district
school every winter from his 10th
to his 21st year and was for some
time a surveyor.
Senator Blodgett, of New Jersey,
was a locomotive engineer. His
General Sewell was
once sailor before the mast.
Senator Dolph was an orderly
sergeant in a company raised to
protect settlers crossing the plains
in 1852 from attacks of Indiana
George West, now a millionaire
from New York, and
a journeyman paper maker in the
times when paper was made by the
old fashioned hand process. He
recently bought the mill in Eng
land where he learned his trade.
President Cleveland once COM
piled the Ainerican Herd Book and
received $50 for the service. Fora
time he managed q hotel.