The morning news., 1898-11-20
WON FAME AND FORTUNE.
SAvANNAHIANs WHO HAVE Risen
TO PROMINENT SPHERES.

Born and Bred Here, They Have
Sought Play For Their Talents In
Wider Fields Men and Women
Who Have Won Distinction in Art,
in business and Upon the stage.
savannah Women Who Have Made
Their Fortunes, or Married Men
With Them.
Savannah has had fair share Of men
and women who have gone forth into the
world in search of fame, reputation and
wealth. and found them, sometimes one
and sometimes all. The germs Of genius
will spread in the proper field and there
are many former savannahians who have
made a successful search for it.
1t must not be understood that these Sa-
vannahlans had to leave home to find sue
| cess in life, but there Is always a field
for some talents which a native home
will not always supply and there are op-
portunitles which come to men and wo'
men which sometimes call them to the
other fields, if they would make the sue
! cess of life their talents merit. In some
of the instances here mentioned success
came as the result of individual effort; in
others through fortunate marriages.
Miss Odette Tyler. as she was known on
the stage, would scarcely have been known
at all, perhaps, had she remained in the
home of her nativity. She was the young
est daughter of Gen. Kirkland, who mar
red a Miss Hardee of Savannah, daugh,
ter OF Noble Hardee, who was
brother of Gen. Hardee AS Miss Odette
Tyler, Miss Kirkland made quite a repu-
tation in New York on the stage. Her
successes were the subject of frequent
comment. She was at one time addressed
by Howard Gould and was engaged 70
him, but the engagement was broken off,
and ii Is understood he settled upon her
100000. and a residence in New York city.
She afterward married a man named Shep-
pard, the divorced husband of Mrs. Leslie
Carter, the actress, and is now living with
him at Sheppardstown, Va. Mr.. Shep-
pard is considered by many the most fin
ished Shakespearean reader in the worl0
to-day, and his friends have been endeav-
oring 20 get him to go on the stage to
take Booths place. which, up to the pres
ent time he has refused to do,
Miss Jessie Mcintosh daughter Of Judge
Mcintosh, of the United States Court, in
vannah, went to New York unheralded
and unknown, but is now as the result
of her own talents and efforts, the pos
sessor of a most comfortable fortune She
became first an amanuensis for a New
York firm which was engaged in the busi-
ness of transporting taIlow She invent
ed an automatic device for draining the
accumulating water from tallow tank cars,
for which the company paid her $4,000 in
La~ ~ IL.
panys stock, then worth % cents on the
dollar. This stock she held until it went
up to $50, and disposed of il. She has
accumulated an independent fortune, and
| she and her mother reside in New York
| city in a fiat for which she pays 81 500 a
| year.
| Mrs. Minnie Allen, the eldest daughter
| Of Gen. Robert H. Anderson, Savannah's
| former chief of police, who married a New
| York lawyer, is easily one of the hand
| soonest and most brilliant women in New
| York. Her associates are among the
400 and she numbers among her close
| friends some of the most distinguished and
| wealthy people in the metropolis.
| among those who have achieved a world
| wide reputation in the field of art and let
ters are the Misses Goodwin, daughters
of Mr.. s. p. Goodwin of this city Their
mother was sister of Maj. Warren, be-
1 AOie MS dSdtl member OF the firm OF
| Warren & Axson. Miss Carrie Goodwin.
the eldest, resides in Paris. She has
| achieved an International reputation in the
| field Of art, and now illustrates some OF
| the leading fashion journals of the world
| The second sister married a leading New
| York artist, while Mss Nina Goodwin. the
youngest, is making a reputation through
| her writings, particularly in the field OF
fashion, and is emulating the talents OF
1 hA r11A -fe
! about ten years ago, and the career oi
each of them has been watched with much
| interest by their many friends at home.
Miss Mary Grayb.ll, daughter of James
| H. Graybill, who was a member/ of the
firm of Crane & Graybill went upon the
| New York stage, where she made quite
a reputation. She afterwards went tc
London with her company, and while in
England few years ago. met and married
a general in the British army.
Miss Stella Henderson, daughter of the
late Med Henderson of Savannah, married
man named Dinkinspiel, who became the
greatest insurance solicitor The world has
ever seen. In New York he made thou
sands of dollars every year. and he is now
the foremost man in his line in London
Mrs. Henderson, Mrs. Dinkinspiels moth
er, is living in London with them.
The mother of Col. Theodore Roosevelt
| SOOH 70 Dt MlduSuIdttQ NrONGEUOT OF new
| York, was a Miss Bulloch of Savannah
and as a child was a playmate Of Col
George a. Mercer.
More Savannah women who have
achieved prominence and fame might be
mentioned in the present generation, and
who are living to-day, might be mentioned
| There are men, too, from Savannah. upon
whom success has smiled in the metropolis
and elsewhere, where they have gone Mr.
Frank Anderson. son of Maj. George An
dersou, now with w. w. Gordon & Co.
holds a leading position in a New York
bank. He enlisted at the outbreak of the
war in a volunteer signal corps company
and the value of his services was soon dis
| covered by the war department. He was
delegated as one of the board sent 10 es-
tablsh signal stations all along the coast
a service of which much has been said
during the war.
Mr.. Thomas Savage Clay, son of Mr.
Joseph Clay of Savannah, went to New
! " e., nd aa a1,f fer