Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-12-25

furnished similar information 1872 are
college graduates, siXty-five have at
tended universities or colleges without
graduation, 233 closed their education
in academies, seminaries and other sec
ondary schools; thirty-five have only
the common Or public school education;
and none We're self-taught. Most OF
these women, however, were educated
in the days when womens and co-edu-
cational colleges We're much less nu-
merous than they are at present, and
the college graduates are therefore
found chiefly among the younger wo-
men. The great majority both of men
and women gained their earlier educa-
ton in the public schools.
Concerning birth and residence, 1873
of these notable Americans are native
born, 1884 foreign born, s born at sea,
and 558 not born anywhere. All the
American states and territories, from
Colorado, the birthplace of a single not
able, to New York, the birthplace of
2G40 of them, appear in the birth COL
umn except the barren and inglorious
regions of Alaska, Idaho, Montana, Ok
lahoma and Wyoming. The list Of
birthplaces includes sc foreign coun-
tries: England, Germany, Canada, Ire
land and Scotland leading the list
China has furnished us with six nota-
bles and France. Sweden, Switzerland,
Italy and Turkey with 46, 81, %, "a and
90 respectively. In regard to present
residence 14.O1G live in the United
States 391 abroad and Sc nowhere: of
those living abroad SO are in England,
to - 81,
Philippines, 10 each in Germany and
Italy, IA in Porto Rico, 13 in Turkey, II
in Poland, II in Japan, 10 each in Chi
ma and Mexico and less than 10 in any
other country. In New York State
there are resident 1916 well known men
and women. or rather over 1000 more
than We're born there, while in Massa-
chusetts 1921 notables We're born and
only 1897 are now resident; and in the
general shifting of our better known
population Colorado. which had but
one notable born to her has acquired a
family of l26 by residence. New Eng
land as whole contributes 974 more
names to the birth than to the resi-
dence column, while in every State
west of the Mississippi and in the Dis
trict of Columbia, Florida, Illinois,
Louisiana, Michigan, New Jersey, New
York and Tennessee the residents out
number the natives. There is a ten
dency toward concentration in large
cities especially New York, Boston,
Philadelphia and Chicago, and also a
very apparent trend. of mental activity
from the East to the. West.
In discussing the ages of those who |
i,,t Sc, ,,,f -
densed biographies the 316 men and |
365 women who absentmindedly omit |
ted their first birthdays naturally cut |
no figure. OF the total number, how
ever, more than IS per cent. have given |
the desired information, reticence on |
the matter being distinctive femi- |
nine characteristic in that more than !
a quarter of the women in the volume
refused to give evidence. If the 1880 |
men could combine their ages, the re-
suit would far outclass Methuselah. for
the resulting man would have reached |
the green old age of 6S7,9S4 years; ow-
ing to the smaller number of women
and the larger proportion of reticence
among them, the woman resulting from |
Il similar combination would be
young thing of but 44,199 fleeting sum-
merS.
The average age of the men and
women is almost identical, the average
man being about fifty-three and the
average woman about fifty Out of 49,
lG2 persons who are thus considered |
fitted for biographical notice, less than
two per cent are under thirty years of
age: and among these are counted
about one in every hundred of the men,
and between four and five in every
hundred of the women. The year 1856
has the distinction of having produced
the greatest number of them, 800 or
more than one a day having been
brought forth during that happy
period 1858 follows a close second, and
only two notables behind the record.
Seven were born at the beginning of
the War Of 1912, and four were already
living, although not yet old enough to
have made any percep;ibie impress
upon history. The Oldest birthdate
goes back to 1909, the latest comes
down to 1881. when three females We're
added to the future pages Of who's
Who in America" although the young
est male in the list is year older.
There are eighteen men and no women
between the ages of ninety
and twenty-four years; 146 men and So
women between twenty-five and
twenty-nine; 1877 men and 1873 women
between fifty and fifty-nine, and 1894
men and 240 women between forty and
forty-nine inclusive. From these fig
ures it does not appear that the success
of the average successful person comes
as much earlier in life nowadays as one |
has sometimes been led to imagine.
1t is an interesting fact that while 1865
women refused their ages only 134 re-
fused to discuss their msntal status;
and that while only 316 men modestly
smiled and shook their heads at the
first query, the much Crater number Z
of 1924 evidently considered their mar
riages either unimportatt or nobody
else's business. OF the entire number | I
Of those who responded over So per cent |
are married, 91.S1 per cent of the men
being in the married column and 62.90
per cent of the women. Nearly two
thirds out of about thee quarters of
he American women with careers
l.