The times., 1901-04-06

New York City: the Lawyers Club, OF
Philadelphia. and the Catalina CLUB, OF
Sandusky. Ohio. For three years he has
been President of the Duquesne Club,
and in 1897 he was President of the Penn
syivania Bar Association.
Mr.. Knox has had a pleasant home life,
and il is anticipated that his residence
i'm this city will be the scene of many
ENJOYABLE occasions. He married MISS
Lillian Smith, daughter of Andrew ID.
Smith. of the Labelle Steel Works, ana
they have four chidren-Rebekah Page
Knox. the eldest. nearly twenty-one
years of age; Hugh Smith Knox, nine
teen: Reed Knox. seventeen. and Phi
lander Chase Knox, jr., aged ten years.
Mr. Knox has a brother, J. c. Knox, who
is cashier of the Bank of Commerce,
Pittsburg; another brother. DR.. William
+ Knox, of McKeesport, and a third, DR..
s b. Knox, of Santa Barbara, Cal. The
new Attorney General has been visiting
the latter recently and was there when
he was informed that the President
wished him to enter his Cabinet as At
torney General He has two sisters, Mrs.
Sarah J. Miller, OF Brownsville, and Miss
Harriet Knox, of PitIsburg
An amusing incident is told in connec-
ton with Mr. Knox's life at the West
Virginia University. and which led to his
leaving that institution and entering
Mount Union College, where he met Mr..
Mckinley.
Rev Dr. Alexander Martin, then Presi-
dent Of the university, did his best tD
inculCate the principle that some forms
OF amusement should be esChewed, and
there was an iTonclad faculty rule that
no students should attend theatrcals,
which now and then were held in the old
academy building One day company
playing East Lynne came along and
number Of students among them Mr..
Knox, decided to see the performance. Dr.
Martin heard of this and promptly sent "A
tTusty professor TO take the names of the
offenders. The professor saw the perfor-
nance throughout and seemed to enjoy
II, but bulletin fun of names posted the
next morning, coupled with summonses
before the faculty, showed he had done
his work well.
Twenty students faced DR. Martin to
receive hearing which ended in the ex-
pulsIon OF all of them. Among them were
Mr.. Knox and classmate, ID. c. Hoff-
man. All but Mr.. Knox and Mr.. Hoff-
man, it is said, signed an agreement not
70 onehd again and were reinstated. Mr..
knox left and went to Mount Union Col
Iege, from which he graduated in 1873.
Mr. Knox will be the eighth Attorney
General of the United States credited to
Pennsylvania. The first to fill that office
from that State was William Bradford,
a member of the famous family of print
ers IN colonial New York and Pennsyl-
Vania, and who was born at Philadel-
phia in ll55. He left the study of the law
TO Join the Revolutionary Army, in which
he rose to a lieutenant colonecy. He was
subsequently Attorney General of Penn
sylvania and a judge of the State Su-
preme Court on January S, 1894, he sue
ceedcd Edmund Randolph as Attorney
General Of the United States by appoint
ment of President Washington He died
in office, August %. 1875.
The next Attorney General from Penn
sylvania was Richard Rush, of Philadel-
phia, who was born in 1880, and died in
1859, and held the position from 1914 to
1917 under President Madison. Henry d.
Gilpin, born in England, and member
Of the Philadelphia bar, filled the position
in 1S40'41. He died in 1860. jeremiah S.
Black, of York, was Attorney General
from 1857 to 1860 In the latter year Ed
win VI. Stanton was appointed TO the po-
sition. AT the time he was living in
Washington but as his last previous res
idence bad been in Pittsburg his appoint
ment was credited to Pennsylvania. He
was a native of Steubenville. Ohio. Wayne
MacNeagh. of Philadelphia, was Attor-
ney General I'm 1881, and Benjamin H
Brewster, of Philadelphia, from 1881 TO
1885.
Mr.. Justice McKenna. who was Attor-
ney General during the early part of
President McKinley's Administration, was
also a native Of Pennsylvania, but went
to California when quite young