The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-08-16
NOW THEY BEGANIN LIFE
MILLION AIRES STARTED
fAANE OTHER POOR 5Ofs'

.,.ages Except SUI
n-sins-A Fine object Lesson
and 6IH'n9 1e Nev York World
From w the declaration OF indie
II the au'p.'9 est asserted that "all men
fendence' WV In md equal" could gaze up
gre Am Nv the vistas Of Ne" ioiA If
end ao~ Gov would fad ample ]us,inoa nno :.
pa they ~ Occupying The highest
beiF oo0 ~ a1 structure of business ana pro
picheS III , .so ave men whose only neirlooln
fesslonai ll9 and whose only aids 70
was lnoepen onergy and brains. With few
Iuccess were cue e men are proud of their
,,rble beginnings ,os and downs
u mnrv Willard, whose ups anu 49,
III IN, power in the Nortne[a d re'
ea 'a ~" earned his first money d q
porter. -.-Si, worked on his fathers
Austln, -o IN for his first dollar.
farm, ~ ' huntington began his career as
Coils r lIu in this city when he was
small merchali' ~
IS years GU Brice's first labor was over law
Gavin :, ,o,,rtrv law Office in Ohlo
books ~ Dougherty. the sIlver-1ongueo
DsnleI .de his first bit Of money hanuhag
prato, h ll over his fathers BUS Teams Oh
1 rch street Philadelphia ,ou,- worth
Eugene Kelly, now v "a ne ne country
s5 00o 600, earned his passage " 'I his native
by driving Iaun.lne1 re ala
ace ACE n;jion whose name is always as
oluney 18th Could's and Sage's, was once
socla. .and how in the employ OF the New
Work Central railroad j.. III. ,rosa,+
" NJ. Depew rose TO MS present
;ll''a Tosition from law office. he was
omitted to the bar in 1900
90 III Gonld. it is we'll known, was sur
vev6r and school teacher III Doia"0ie
co Tn yifrdoe Noah Davis first felt the de-
-5stinp money of his own on his
iSG TY;bn Root is also a product of farm
life. ,r;u,.u, FrIIarton and
his brother Stephen.
nl n " n Mills was born on small farm near
,ibarv and worked there until the gold
fever look him to California in lS49.
ri Joel B. Erhart earned his first none
as member of the Seventh regiment OF
This state during the civil war. ne was
st n,J law when he went to the front
~. Wsvor William r. Grace was a
butcher in Calao, Peru, until ne became a
'" lanes Watson Webb started out to WOO
fortune as clerk in a coutry store.
CORPORATION Counsel Clark read law and
ran errands in W. Bourke Cochran's office
after graduating from the public schools of
Newark, n. j. -.
W Rourke Cochran himself was public
school teacher before he became porter
for A. T. Stewart.
coI s V. R. Cruger, after the usual life
of a college boy, entered the army at the
age OF IS
Inspector Williams began to earn his
living in a fish yard near Digby, n. S.,
spreading the fish on slakes to dry.
A. NJ. Palmer was once a lawyers clerk.
Manager John G. McCaull ran away
from Mount st. Mary's college, Emmitts-
burg, Md, to become a sergeant in the
Il confederate army at the age of Is years.
J. NJ Hill was a manager of a juven Q
NIL company in Lowell Mass, at the age o. IL
W years, and had well appointed play house
|a< Of his own
E Henry E. Abbey began as II cornet player
in a theater at Akron, 0.
Daniel Frohman was an erraud boy In
the New York Tribune counting room.
John B. Schoeffel was jeweler in Roch-
ester.
Manager Proctor of the Twenty-third
street Theater was an acrobat.
Augustiu DAILY was originally a news
paper man, John Stetson a professional
athlete Tony Pastor a clown, Harry Miner
a policeman, Managan Hammerstein a
cigarmaker.
J. S. I. Stranahan, the Brooklyn million
aire, at the age Of 10, started out for the
northwest on fur-trading expedition. HIS
trip was great financial success.
August Belmont began his career in O
contingencies.
Rufus Hatch raised and sold garden
sauce.
Judge Morgan j. O'Brien of the supreme
court was newspaper paragrapher.
Ex-Congressman T. j. Campbell set forth
Oh the struggle for existence as a printing
pressman.
|< j. Edward Simmons was a clerk in his
brothers country grocery.
VICE President Levi P Morton WAC as O
ooy clerk IN village dry goods store. and
aiueu us lather, poor clergyman, with 8
gooaly share Of his seven-dollar-a-w
salary. ooA
ngssell sage was taught frugality in hi.
0ig U grocery store at Troy, n. Y.
nenfy Clews, early life was spent as a
p9[Ier IN wooden house at SO O week.
ira ohatfer combined alternately this
duties Of clerk and farmers bow in ITlsta,
county wy III Ols1ei
or tAs.;yuqge Horace Russell became assist
' 'ai. oisIrct attorney not long after resign.
ing q clerkship in a country store
operator in Boston. Ueiesrapn
pa. n?nIS Hyde, the president of tbs
o1 1aJ.'aols Lille Insurance COMPANY was a
o o-1 ~ ~ Tue Office of the Mutual Life Tnsur-
he Colipaay thirty odd years ago whan
bic was founded ""''n ZIG Equlta-
Aaryelle W Cooper annrsisar 81 a..
poIG was public school taachas =; S q. otie
bridge Vt '044ooi 'eacner IN Stock
fo+ biHam h. Vanderbilt remained IN bis
~ larm until he was "a vesrs ia IA
inc -9 ~ we Oh commodore put him in traiu'
w LOT railroad career. Al VI aiu-
lawyer and Secretary of tho No
one with MY rraJy was a farmers boy. a nd
was horn born Inignty poor prospects at that. h
dropned fa q lew miles from Oswego. He
times stn ,ddiInIng aud taught school day
sor 80 A. udge Henry A. Gildersleeoa 90.
farm. ''pOii an career by working a
to e ess5 Roger 9Ye a. Pryor made enough money
on peT. INN % study law doing "locaIsi'
of an e1gin 1arnegie began life at the trade
egraphy. lhen he drlfted into tel
to tt66e the Gresham Mccarthy delivered naro.,
Erastus, W;s OF a country grocery.
neRsoov VIM y man made his first money &c 6
Charles T pusl. only years old. -
kings. Was taVI, one of the Standard nj
trade a. Waatpprentlced to the machin;sti
3D. 'o''o"n' Mass, when Is wear,
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