St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-04-15
PRESIDENTS SONS.

to England. He is good LAWYER, makes
a speciality of insurance law, and has
go0d practice when not in office. He is
thought 10 be tolerably swell OFF, as
fortunes 90 in these days, his invest
ments having usually turned out well,
says the New York Advertiser. His
wife, the daughter of James Harlem.
whose name sounds strange in the ears
of the present generation notwithstand-
ing he was United States senator from
Iowa and Grants first secretary of the
interior, is wealthy in her own right.
Mr.. Lincoln has several interesting,
bright children and pleasant home in
Chicago.
Gen. Garfeld'S sons are practicing
lawyers in Cleveland, where they have
an Office in the magnificent Perry-Payne
building. which was built by ex-senator
Payne, William c. Whitney's father-in-
law. The boys are doing tolerably
we'll. They enjoy the friendship and
good will of such, men as NJ. A. Hanna,
Amos Townsend and ex-senator PAYNE,
and will doubtless do well in time. One
of the sons lives with his mother i'll the
city, while the other keeps his home OH
the old place i'll Mentor. This latter
has political ambitions, was an uusuc-
cessful candidate for the state senate
recently, and has congressional aspira-
tons which his friends believe will be
gratitied in the near future.
The two sons of Rutherford B. Hayes
are quiet, modest, but good business
men. One of them, Rutherford, is the
cashier of the savings bank in which his
father was heavy stakeholder, in FIRE.
mont, .. He is successful in every
thing he undertakes, is not speculative
by nature or inclination, but inherits
his fathers caution and shrewdness.
He IS unmarried and lives with his Sis
ter, also unmarried, in the old home.
stead in Fremont, which village is the
site of the Croghan massacre in the war
of 1912, pleasant, clean, thrifty North
ern Ohio town, about thirty miles
from Sandusky and at the head of
navigation on the Sandusky river. The
other son, Burchald, is a successful
lawyer in Toledo, a member of the firm
which includes son of the late Justice
Swayne, of the United States supreme
court, and brother of Gen. Wager
Swayne, of this city. Burchard Hayes
is reserved in his tastes and habits and
genial and faithful in his friendships,
and has also inherited his fathers quiet.
forceful, but plodding, way of succeed.
ing with almost everything he puts his
han0 to. He IS happily married, and
has pleasant home in the thrifty and
wealthy little city on the Maumee.
Col. Fred Grant is known to his asso-
ciates as having developed into quiet.
modest, thoughtful man, who is best
liked by those most Ultimately ac-
quainted with him. He and Robert
Lincoln are alike in that while they
have held high office they have no taste
nor particular aptitude for politics.
Col. Grant enjoys life like an American
gentleman. He is neither obtrusive nor
snowy in any respect. He has a beau
tiful wife, nee HOnOre, of Chicago. Her
father was once very wealthy, and it is
believed he settled a comfortable dot on
Mrs. Grant in those days. Col. Grant has
a reasonable fortune, the income from
which Will probably enable him to live
comfortably i'll an transformations way.
He was educated for the army, and does
not show any particular liking or fitness
for civil business. He will make his
home in this city or Chicago. Buck
| Grant. who married the daughter of the
late Senator Chaffee, of Colorado. is
| very wealthy in the right of his wife,
who was her fathers only child, and
| occupies himself in the management OF
| the immense estate left by his father.
| in-law. Jesse Grant lives in Southern
| California, and his mother spends most
| of her time With him. He owns orange
| orchards and other paying real estate il
| that land of pomological wonders.