Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-11-26
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DR.. Lyu,aI Abbott editor and divine, d the
son Of Jacob Abbott, the historian and
member Of New England family that has
made good for generations Peter Cooper
Hewitt. son Of Abram g. Hewitt, pubHcist
and osptain Of industry, made good at
thirty or whereabouts most remarkably IN
the yet infant service OF electricity He
bids fair to enroll his name on the list OF
inventors along WIN Wall ana Morse ana
mick. whose name has been in the fore
front good deal Of late because Of his
delicate position at the Russian court, Is
a son of one OF the AcCogmfckS made Ia
nous by the reaper.
Alexander Agassiz, sem OF Louis Agassiz,
the scientist has made good in more than
one way. Because he knew his geology so
well, he has made big fortune in copper,
and this has enabled him to prosecute his
scientific researches with absolute independ-
ence Though a modest man-as most,
though not all, scientists archie is not UNI
mindful of his own fame, and the other day
when Andrew Carnegie offered to share
with him the expense of the latest Aga SSH
expedition on condition that it should be
known as the Carnegie-Agassiz expedition.
he declined the offer with spirit and final
ity.
Holmes and Mitchell.
InOuSn most VI tHC IueH SOHS
who have made good have done SO along
lines similar or akin to those marked out
by their fathers, others have followed lines
entirely new to the family genius. Oliver
Wendell Holmes, the SON Of the '.Autocrat
of the Breakfast Table, is a case in point
His father devoted himself to medicine and
literature; the son preferred law, and by
reason of his legal acumen and profound
knowledge has been made a member OF
fhn Cav ro,yrf nj wi cd tot
DIR. g. Weir Mitchell, eminent physician
and novelist, belongs to both classes. His
father was famous physician in his day.
and the son was divided for time between
medicine and literature. Finally, he de-
termined to work for success with an eye
single to literature, and. curiously enough,
it was Oliver Wendell Holmes the poet
physician. who induced the young man to
do so.
You cannot win success in BOTH" said
Holmes to him one day when breakfasting
at the Mitchell home in Philadelphia, APP
parently forgetting his own case. win in
one or the other first, medicine preferred.
After you have won. take to literature and
win in that" Weir Mitchell took the
poets advice, made himself one of the
worlds greatest nerve specialists, and then
at fifty set out to win in literature
To mention the sons of American military
and naval heroes who have made good, and
tell how they have done 1t. would fill pages
of newspaper space. General Fitzhugh Lee.
Lieutenant ]. L. Worden, son of Admiral
Worden; Lieutenant Cushing. son of the
Gushing who distinguished himself in the
civil war, are among them. and the army
and navy registers brimful of such
names as Rowan, Perry. Winslow and
Crowinshield, that recall the deeds of faith
ers and forefathers which shine with i'm
perishable light on the pages of our national
history
Strenuous Boyhood Days.
1t is worth noting that many of the sue
cessful sons of great Americans have had
in their youth the equivalent of the training
that comes to the young man without
money or influence who sets out to win.
When, as told above, the lad Fred Grant
was with his father before Vicksburg he en-
dured hunger, thirst and all the discomforts
that come to the men insthe ranks. Though
forbidden, on one occasion. to leave the
comparative safety of a gunboat on the
Mississippi river near the, Grand gulf. he
slipped ashore on pretense of chasing rab-
bit, followed the sound of, the guns and
watched the battle, well within range of the
confederate shot and SHE'LL lodging behind
a tree tSat his father should not see him
when the general rode up. u
George Gould never went out and got a
job as Cornelius the Second! had to- but he
was made his fathers assistant when only
seventeen or eighteen, land had to work
harder than any clerk. He learned teleg-
raphy then and sat at his, desk in his shirt
sleeves a habit which he, has never given
up. Young Rockefeiier1 had to work, too,
going into HIS fathers, office as soon asf:he !
was out of college, and Spfugging away. for
dear life hours and hours every day. Young
Morgan had to do likewise, and, of course.
the sons of naval and military heroes who
have followed in their fathers footsteps
have had to stand upon the same footing,
both at Annapolis and West Point, as the
sons Of the most obscure citizen in the land.