The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1890-08-26
|0LUT|0N Of CR0EsUS..
" Many Of the Rich Non Of the
Land Got :
Start
nth Few Receptions They Were
Poor Boys, But Fun
Of Energy.
rifsy in Small Things and 0smefimes
Unscrupulous, They Buildod Profit
kifty in Small Thinss and 0smetime
DESCRIPTIONS, They Builded PROFIT
ably for the Future.

rifky in Small 1hings and 0smetlmes
Unscrupulous. They Builded Profit
ably for the Future.
& the authors Of the declaration Of indie
hdence. who asserted that ssall men were
IN free and equal" could gaze mp and
IN the vistas Of New York life to-day,
y would find ample justification Of their
brine, says the New York World. Occu-
M tho highest inches in the structure Of
illness and professional life are men
oss only heirloom was Independence and
ose only aids to success were energy and
Inns, With few exceptions these men are
bud Of their humble beginnings.
Henry Willard. whose ups and downs leave
q power in the Northern Pacific rail-
Ia, earned his first money as reporter.
austin Corbin worked on his fathers
Ia in Vermont for his dollar first.
Eollis P. Huntington began his career a.
mall merchant in this city when he was
|een years old.
Jalvin s. Brice's first labor was over law
bks in country law Office in Ohio.
Daniel Dougherty, the silver-tongued
tor, made his first bit Of money hand
the ribbons over his fathers bus
ms OF Arch street, Philadelphia.
eugene Kelly. now banker worth s. co.,
earned his passage to this country by
wing jaunting car in his native place,
nnty Tyrone, Ireland.
oswald Ottendorfer was was bookkeeper
the Stats Zeitung when Hermann Uhl
htrolled it.
Kidney Dillon, whose name is always as
lated with Gould's and sage's, was once
errand boy in the employ of the New
TX Central railroad.
,hauncey M. Depew rose to his present
que position from q Law Office. He was
nitted to the bar in 1868.
ay Gould, it is we'll known, was sur
or and school teacher in Delaware
Ix-JudQe Noah Davis first felt the de-
hts of making money of his own on his
hers farm.
Ilihu Root is also product Of farm life:
10 are ex-Judge William Fullerton and
brother Stephen.
b. o. Mills was born on a small farm near
bany and worked there until the gold
er took him to California in 1649.
rol. Joel B. Erhardt earned his first
ney as member of the Seventh r0gi-
mt of this state during the civil war.
WAS studying law when he went to the
Sx-Mayor William R. Grace was a
cher at Callao, Peru, before he became
hip chandler.
ames Watson Webb started out to WOO
tune as clerk in country store.
,orporation Counsel Clark read law and
errands for w. Bourke Cockran's Of
!, after graduating from the public
ools of Newark, n. j.
". Bourke Cochran himself was a count
school teacher, before he became q por-
for A. T. Stewart.
FOL. 8. v. II. Cruger, after the usual life
college boy, entered the army at the
of eighteen. s.s.s...s
Inspector Williams began to earn his liv.
in a fish yard near Digby, N. S., spread.
the fish on Stakes to dry.
NJ. Palmer was once lawyers clerk
Ianager John A. McCaul ran away from
unit st. Mary's college, Emmittsburg
4. to become sergeant in the confeder-
army at the age Of fifteen years.
III. Hill was o manager Of juvenile
npany in Lowell, Mass, at the age o,
rteen years and had well-appointei
y-house of his own.
a theater at Akron, Ohio.
Daniel Frohman was an errand boy in tn
N York Tribune counting room.
ohm B. Schoeffel was jeweler il
chester.
lanager Proctor, Of the Twenty-thir,
set theater, was an acrobat.
Augustin DAILY was originally newspape
n. John Stetson professional athlete
ny Pastor q clown. Harry Miner pc
ker.
|. s. T. Stranahan, the Brooklyn million
70, at the age of nineteen, started out 70
northwest on fur-trading expedition
trip was great financial success.
ohm King, the railroad man, began az Al
and boy in hardware store in Balti
re-.
.ugust Belmont began his career in
,nting- house.
rudolph Aronson was an enthusiastic
,otee Of music in his youth and earned
sufus Hatch raised and sold garde,
ICE.
udge Morgan O'Brien, of the suprem
lrt. was newspaper paragrapher.
Sx-Congressman T. J. Campbell se
tn on the struggle for existence a.
ntlng pressman.
/. Edward Simmons was clerk in hi
,ther's country grocery.
Vice President Levi P. Morton was q
|, clerk in q village dry goods store, an
ed his father, poor clergyman. with
IDLY share of his seven-dollar a-wee
ary.
eussell Sage was taught frugality in hi
,ther's grocery store at Troy, N. Y.
ienry Clews' early life was spent a.
ter in WOODEN house at g week.
ra 6ha6er combined alternately til
lies Of clerk and farmers boy in Ulste
lnty.
ixJudee Horace Russell became assist
district attorney not long after resign
clerkship in country store.
,homAs A. Edison was once q TELEGRAPH
.rator in Boston.
Ienry B. Hyde, tho president Of th
a in the Office Of the Mutual Lite Il
enoe company thirty odd years 80
IN he conceived the idea on which Is
aitable was founded.
IarveffS W. Cooper. appraiser of tn
{, was public school teacher in Stock
ige, Vt.
William 81. Vanderbilt remained ON hi
hers farm until he was thirty years old
IN the commodore put him in trainin
railroad career.
lawyer and Secretary Of the Navy Benja
j 81. Tracy was farmers boy and on
b mighty poor prospects at that. ii
born q few miles from Owego. b
ppped farming and taught school day
aes, studying Law nights.
sx-Judge Henry A. GildeTSleeve set OF
his cosmopolitan career by working
m.
3en. ROGER A. PRYOR made enough none