The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-05-28

was assistant United States attorney
at San Francisco, from which oflce
he now comes to congress by dint OF
economy and untiring energy.
The typical leap from plowboy to
congress was made by a number of
the new representatives, notably Frank
3. Keeper and William 7. TYndall.
both OF Missouri Both grew TO man.
hood in the fields. taught school, stud
led law at spare hours. the former
reaching congress by way of a prose-
cutting attorneyship and the latter
pOstmastershiD.
As a manual laborer their colleague.
Csssius NJ. Shartel. earned his money
to 90 TO school and become a teacher.
and as a teacher he earned enough to
enter the law. While practicing he
built uD a good clientele in the farm
lean business. and at the age Of forty
five he now comes TO the house without
having held any previous political Of
fee
Rocky. indeed was the road over
which Thomas Z. Scroggy. new mem
Der from Xenia. O., reached the goal.
From plOWbOy he became carriage
builder at fifteen. At eighteen he. with
his FIVE brothers. enlisted in the civil
war as a private. was promoted to cor
poral. then wounded through the right
shoulder and lung at Nickajack creek
Forty-two pieces of boue were then
extracted from his body. al told. and
he returned home to open a grocery
Then he branched cut into millinery.
and while selling groceries and bon
nets nut i'm his spare time at reading
law, becoming justice of the peace.
city clerk. city solicitor common pleas
Judge and. after contested nominal
tiCn. representative in congress.
How a Morsvian Immigrant Climbed.
To the Moraviar colony at BethIe-
hem, Pa, IN 1854 there came over from
Neusalz one SChnecbeli Prussian
with his wife and 11-vear-oId son, Gus
tav AdoIph The little family were of
the MOrarian faith. and after remain
ing year at Bethlehem moved over to
Nazareth. near by. where the father
found better work Here the boy Gus
taV vent TO school. then entered a
store then was sent TO Reading to rep
resent a big RColen firm Learning
this business and now having money Of
his own, he returned to Nazareth. es-
tablished a knit goods factory of his
own, added to this a lace factory: be
came also q banker and a trolley mag
nate. He says that he comes to con-
grsss with the distinction of never
having previously held any political
ONCE Wnat SOeTeI.
Slate Picker, Drug Clerk, Doctor.
From slate picker to congressman is
the record of another new Pennsylvania
member, Z. W. Samuel His parents.
poor English immigrants, came over
to this country ir 1889 the future rep
Tesentative being then d robust tot of
? years. They settled in the coal min
ing town of Ashland. Pa where. at
nf Ia -tu CH hi
as a slate picker in a coal breaker His
youth was spent doing various chores
about the anthracite mines during the
summers. and at school during the win
tiers, until, at tine age of II. he became
a drug clerk While learning the drug
business he put by sufficient money to
enter the Jefferson Medical college.
Philadelphia. where he was graduated
al the age of % Returning to Mount
Carmel he hung out his single built
up large practice. financed a drug
business on the side. and now comes to
congress At the age of As.
Blacksmith, Lawyer.
As bIaeksu it'll MiaI +. Lilley. new
representative from TOvanda. Pa.
commenced his career. He was a Penn
sylvania boy born in Canton. Bradford
county, and after attending the county
schools for awhile decided that the vii
lage smithy was to be his future field
Of action. The civil war had begun
when he was a lad Of II, and now in
early manhood he often paused at the
forge to read of the rebuilding Of the
nation. the need Of strenuous men to
take the places of the thousands moved
down in battle One day, with suffi-
cient savings 10 warrant the risk, he
hung up his sledge and entered a law
office. After being admitted to the bar
he had me conf dence Of the poor as
we'll as the rich. and became the chair
man of the county committee. Later
he became DrOthOnotarv and then as
sistant United States district attorney.
from which Office he comes To the house.
Such are the boys. Of these four
score and two, whose pilgrimages to
the congressional goal we're made
through byWays nut of the beaten
trail.