Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-11-26

the civil war as colonel He fought IN
the early Virginia campaigns, was then
Mississippi and in 1864 was made Heuten-
ant general. 1t was too late then to do
much, though more than one northern gen.
eral officer had reason to remember him.
Like Robert Tyler, Dick" Taylor was
not able to rejuvenate himself after the
close of the war.
President Pierces only son was killed
when lad in railroad accident. Millard
p. Fillmore never rose to prominence,
though for many years he was clerk or
the United States court at Buffalo, and
died rich man, the contest over his will
having only lately been closed.
Lincoln and Grant.
President ~Lincoln's surviving son, Rob-
ert Todd Lincoln-"Tad," his fathers idol
In civil war days, died when only a boy
has won higher honors than fall to the lot
of many men in the law, in the public
service and in business.
His mother wanted him to go to West
Point. win distinction as a general and then
be President, like his father The young
man didn't like this program; neither did
his father, and though, at Mr.. Lincoln
request, he served for a time on General
Grants staff, as captain he finally carried
his point and went to Harvard, where he
studied law. He was twenty-five when his
father was shot and soon afterWard went TO
Chicago where he speedily built up prac-
tice in chancery and other cases involving
careful search and profound knowledge of
land titles. The destruction of large pro-
portion of the real estate records of the
city in the big fire made such practice
very valuable and he had an exceptionally
good income for years before he was made
Secretary of War by President Garfield in
1881. He returned to the practice of law
when Cleveland assumed the presidential
chair, but in 1889 was made minister to
England by President Harrison. After his
l<I do tod rrytf y,
the Pullman Palace Car Company; on Mr..
Pullman's death he was made president of
the corporation, and now, at sixty -one, Is
a great captain of industry.
OF President Grants sons, the eldest,
Gen. Frederick Dent Grant, is now In COM
mand of the department Of the east at
Governors Island, Ulysses S. Grant SPENDS
some of his time near Purdy Station, NJ u,
where he has a farm and where he says
he would rather sit on the fence and
white in the sunshine than be the en-
peror of the whole earth He spends much
time. too. in California; and Jesse r. Grant,
the third brother, also lives IN the golden
state Like Ulysses s.. he has never made
a prominent place for himself But both
have always been solid, reliable citizens, a
credit alike to themselves and their country
men.
The present Gen. Grant was educated at
West Point was an assistant engineer in
the survey of the first Pacific railroad, was
sent as United States minister to Austria
Inv President Harrison, and served as police
commissioner of the city of New York with
Theodore Roosevelt. Benjamin Harrison
made him minister to Austria, and Cleve-
land wanted to continue him in the place,
but he declined. When the war with
Spain broke out he volunteered his serv-
ices, and was at once made colonel or the
14th Regiment, equipped 1t In record time,
and started for the front few days later.
That he didn't get there wasn't his fault.
Later he went to the Philippines, and Is
now undoubtedly confirmed in the military
career.
The sons of President Hayes are all en-
gagged In the law business. Webb c., who
attained brief prominence as volunteer
captain in the Spanish war, is located in
Cleveland; R. B. Hayes is citizen of Ashe-
vile, n. c.; Burchard is in Toledo and Scott
A. is In Pittsburg Neither Alan Arthur
nor Russell b. Harrison has ever essayed
to shine in public life.
Sons of Martyred President.
Two OF Garfleld's sons have made good.
and there is time Cor the other two to forge
to the front. Henry Abram Garfield, the
eldest, Is now professor of politics at Prince
ton, where he succeeds John H Finley, the
first incumbent. Although 1t is an honor
able thing to be professor of politics at a
great university, his acceptance of the chair
was a surprise to many of his friends and
admirers. for he had had many opportunt-
ties to enter public life, and had made both
reputation and wealth at the practice Of his
profession, the law, and as banker, being
president of big trust company and con-
nected with several other financial institu-
tionS in Cleveland.
In 1902 he was offered place as national
civil service commissioner by President
Roosevelt. but declined it; the post was
then given to his brother. James Rudolph
Garfield. This young mamie Is still under
forty-seems to have inherited the political
tendencies of his father. He has been a
senator in the Ohio legislature. and was the
author of particularly stringent election
law, which possibly was the cause of his
defeat when he sought the nomination for
Congress from his fathers old district. He
still cherishes the ambition to serve the
district In the House as his father did be-
fore him. He is now commissioner of cor
poratiOns I'm the Department of Labor and
Commerce.
Irwin Mcdowell Garfield the third son, is
| a lawyer in Boston Abram. the fourth son.
''the baby of the White House when his
! father was President, is of a scientific and
practical turn of mind He was educated
| at the Boston School of Technology and
may be heard from by and by.
Practically all of the Presidents sons who
have grown to a mans estate, then, have
been good citizens: their lives have beer
| clean. wholesome ard credit alike to theiI
| parentage and their country. while ten oil
the twenty have won unusual distinction.
Sons Of Congressman.
1t would be hard to find any other class
| VI prominent Americans whose sons have
done as well as those of the Presidents
Certainly, no such proportion of the sons
OF eminent senators and representatives In
Congress have won distinction.
| Simon Cameron's son, Don Cameron, sue.
! ceeded his father DIS the political primate
Of Pennsylvania. Blaine's son, Walker
would have made a noteworthy place fol
himself probably If he had lived.
The first Bayard to sit in the Senate from
Delaware James W., was succeeded by his
sons. James A. and Richard H. The lat.
| ter's grandson, Norman F., was also a sen.
| ator for many years. The Stockton farnily
| of New Jersey furnished five senator's, the
| term of the first, Richard. who was one OF
the .signers." being preceded by service In
! the Continental Congress, and the term OF
i the last. John p, concluding in 1878. The
| Frelinghuysens, also OF New Jersey, gave
three senators to the country; the CoIquits
J or Georgia as many, and members of all
four of these families have served the coun.
| try In other ways with distinction, though
no member of any of them Is now In public
| service. The son OF the late Speaker Crisp
! has done better than any speakers son
having succeeded his father in Congress-
4 Uncle Joe Cannon has no son; neither has
Thomas Bracket Reed. Colonel Hender-
sons son has not made an appearance In