The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-04-06

New York City; the Lawyers Club, OF
| Philadelphia, and the Catalina CLUB, Oh
| Sandusky Ohio. For three years he has
been President of the Duquesne Club.
! and in 1897 he was President of the Penn
| sylvania Bar Association.
| Mr. Knox has had a pleasant home me-
and it is anticipated that his residence
IN 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 children-Rebekah rage
| Knox. the eldest, nearly twenty-one
years of age: Hugh Smith knox,, nine
| teen; Reed Knox, seventeen, ana Phl-
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. DIR. William
| f. 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 Pitlsburg.
An amusing incident is told in connec-
| ton with Mr.. Knoxs 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. DIR. 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 iroEclad faculty rule that
no students should attend theatricals,
which now and then were held in the old
academy building. One day a company
LYNNE 10 a
number of students, among them Mr..
Knox, decided to see the performance. DIR.
Martin heard of this and promptly sent
trusty professor to take the names of the
offenders. The professor saw the perfor-
nance throughout, and seemed to enjoy
II, but q bulletin full of names posted the
next morning, coupled with summonses
before the faculty, showed he had done
his work we'll
Twenty students faced Dr. Martin TO
receive hearing which ended in the ex-
pulsion of all of them. Among them were
MIR. Knox and a classmate, ID. c. Hoff-
man. All but Mr.. Knox and Mr. Hoff-
man, 1t is said, signed an agreement not
to offend again and We're reinstated. Mr..
knox left and went to Mount Union Col
lege, from which he graduated in 1873.
MIR. 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.
member of the famous family of print
ers in colonial New York and Pennsyl-
wanna, ana VINO was born at Philadel
phia in 1855. He left the study of the law
to join the Revolutionary Army, in which
he rose to 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 1850, and died in
1852 and held the position from 1914 to
1877 under President Madison. Henry d.
Gipin, born in England. and a member
of the Philadelphia bar, filled the position
in 1904. He died in 1860 jeremiah S.
Black, of York, was Attorney General
from 1881 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 had been in Pittsburg his appoint
ment was credited to Pennsylvania. He
was a native of Steubenville. Ohio. Wayne
MacVeagh. of Philadelphia, was Attor-
ney General in 1881, and Benjamin II.
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 native of Pennsylvania, but went
to California when quite young.