The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-05-27
In the Eye OF the World
Modern millionaire Lapvver.
no IS THIS Samuel inter
myer? This lawyer, who not
long ago, us counsel for the In
transitional Policy Holders'
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IS7YI tcrnational Policy Holders
vU Committee, which Is doing It's
full share OF lighting In the insurance
war Unlimited that Charles a, Peabody,
new president Of the Mutual Life, was
q mere flglrehead and the representative
OF the Standard OILS interests; who was
counsel for II. II. Rogers and the Rookie.
felers in their Frenzicd Finance f1ght
With Lawson, Of Boston and whose name
is constantly In the news dispatches.
IS. w." MS he Is sometimes called Dy
those In his Office and those out Of It who
know him WE'LL to distinguish him from
M. U.'-Maurce tntermycr, his younger
biothcr-is OF compact build, heather tall
nor short, neither slender nor fat; with
strongly featured face, gray eyes set far
enough apart, rather long, bristling hair,
nearly black, which he wears po,npadour.
and big dropping rustachc, of rather
sandy shade.
His voice lends itself equally we'll TO
thunderoiis denunciatons before n iurv
or cool. 'inimpnssloncd argument before
q fun bench of Judges: to the nersliusivc
and insinunting or the compelling sln,l
clarifying cross-questioning of a victim
on the witness stand. or the unctuons
telling OF n cracking good story. His
conversation shows that lie Is keen
judge of human nature. Though Demo-
GRAFT he believes In Federal jurisdiction
over two things now controlled by tho
lStates-corporations and divorce. Ills
age Is forty-eight. Sometimes he looks
1t; sometimes he doesn't. He was born
IN Lynchburg, Va. His father wns his
mothers second husband: her first hus-
bands name was Guggenhcimer. and
Randolph Guggenhcimer. OF the law firm
OF Guggenhcimcr, Unter,nyer and Mar
shall Is Samuel Untermyer's half
brother.
Untcrmycr. the father. was tobacco
planter. Like the Guggenhcimcrs. who
served in the Confederate army, he was
devoted to the Confederate cause, and
had showed his faith In 1t by investing
heavily in Confederate bonds. He was
on the street in Lynchburg when the
news Of Lees surrender was told TO
him: he had a weak heart, and the
shock killed him then and there. Mrs.
Untermyer and her boys were left al
most pennlcss.
Alanifcstly Lynchburg. half ruined by
the war. It's business demornlized and It's
commerce gone for the time. was no
place In which to bring up her boys, no
place for them to begin the battle which
they would have TO fight II they would
make place among men for themselves
after they had reached mans estate. SO
she realized on what little property she
had left and removed to New York, where
her alf-brothers-studicd law; they
are now OF the law firm Of Guggcnheimer
Untcrmyer and Marshall prominent. pros
porous and progressive. They had plcn-
~ of hard work TO do before they were
ready to practice law, and they have
never got out OF the habit Of working
which they acquired then.
IS u was II when the family reach
ed New York. He attended public school
two years. and entered the College OF
the city OF New York at 49,; at Is he was
out of the institution and at work in
downtown law Office as an errand boy.
Before he was II he was representing the
firm In the Justices courts In little cases,
of which lie handled hundreds before he
was OF age.
The habit OF working was being fast
ened upon him for life in the years or
his later teens, for besides doing his al
lotted work In the law Office to which
he was, attached. he went through the
Columbia law school. OF which Theodore
w Dwight was then the head
In those days IS u used to get to
work In the Office bright and early every
morning: from to 5 P. NJ. he attended
law school and, to make up for the time
thus taken away from the Office. returned
TO 1t every night at : and worked until
10. Sundays he worked as hard as other
days
He was graduated from the law school
at 90. In 1878, was admitted to the bar