The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-06-11
LEADING MEN OF NETWORK
Few of Them Are Natives of the
City They Now Inhabit.
HAIL FROM SMALL TOWNS
Rule Holds Good OF Notables in All Walks
of Life. - Many Yankees Are
Among Those Who Have
Attained to Eminence,
From the New York Press.

From the New York Press.
With so few exceptions that thew
might also be counted on the fingers of
one hand, New York's biggest men in
nearly every walk Of life were born
somewhere else and came here to
achieve. In finance the admitted lead
er is John Pierpont Morgan, who was
born in Hartford and came to New
York at the age of ~. Joseph Hodges
lawyers of the age, was born in Salem,
Mass, and came to this city at the age
of "a. One of MI ChOates rivals for
the leadership of the bar is James C.
Carter, native of Lancaster, Mass,
who settled in this city at the age of 2e.
The leading physirlan-ah he is a
family matter, and to name him is an
impossible task. In surgery DR.. Lewis
Albert Sayre stands at the top. He was
born at Battle Hill, n j., and began
practicing here at the age of % He
was intended for the church, but got to
be such a swearer that the cloth would
not fit him. He wears the decoration
VI lliC >1tVl VI W '0l ouI greatest
after dinner orator, a politician, rail-
road man, a lawyer and United States
senator, Chauncey Mitchell Depew, was
born in Peekskill, n. Y, and was not
a New Yorker until 30 years old. De-
pew had at least one rccUrd-he carried
in his pocket for several months a pres
idential appointment as minister to
Japan and then declined it.
Russell Sage, whose name has been
heard in every hamlet, who is sui gen.
eriS if ever man was, came from NerOn
of which he may have been one of the
gentlemen-and has been New York
err since 1868. Addison Cammack, the
greatest of bears, came from Kentucky
Roswell Pettibone Flower, whose
word has put stocks up higher and
faster than the word Of any other man
who ever inhabited Wall street, was a
native of Theresa, jefferson county, n.
Y, and did not become a New Yorker
until he had attained his 35th year. The
leading retail merchants are Siegel-
Cooper and John Wanamaker-all from
other cities. The leading wholesale
merchants: Dry gOods-CIatlin & Co.
of course. Horace b. Clatiin was a ma
tive of Milford. The present head of the
house, John Claf1in was born in Brook
Ign. In groceries Francis H. Leggett
is admittedly the leader and strange to
say, he was born in New York! We all
agree that the late Charles A. Dana
was our greatest editor; he was born in
in Hinsdale, N H. The president of the
leading bank in New York, the Chemi-
cal, is George G. Williams, a native of
East Haddam. IlFar and away the
biggest bank in New York is the City
National. Its president. James Still
man, was born in Brownsville, Tex,
and was a cotton merchant long before
he thought of being a banker.
The bishop of our Episcopal church,
Ri. Rev. Henry Goldman Potter, is a
native of Schenectady. The supreme
head of the Roman Catholic church in
this city, Most Rev. M. A COrrigan,
archbishop of New York, is a native, I
believe of Newark, N. j. Nearly every
one of our leading clergymen is an i'm
portation. Our pOliticians-Well, Croker
was born in County Cork, Ireland, and
Mr.. Platt is native of OsWego, n. Y.
There is no other local politician worth
considering. Augustin DAILY, theater
manager, came from North Carolina
and is proud of being a genuine tar
heel. The former dean of managers,
Albert Marchman Palmer, was born in
StOnington, Conn. The Frohman broth
ers came to New York from Sandusky,
Ohio. The Napoleon of theater con-
struction, Oscar Hammerstein, was
born in Berlin. Richard Mansfield was
born in Heligoland Ned Sothern was
born in England
Our leading railroad magnate--I
mean surface roads-is William Collins
Whitney, a native of Conway, Mass.
The richest man in the city, and in the
world, is John D. Rockefeller, a native
of Tioga county, n. Y. Our leading
sculptor-at least who divides the place
of honor with Wards Saint Gaudens,
a native of Dublin. Ward came from
Urbana, Ohio
Eastman johnson, our most distin-
guished genre and portrait painter, was
born in Lowell, Me. William NJ. Chase,
founder of the Chase school, is native
of Franklin, Ind. Thomas and Edward
Moran were natives of Bolton England;