The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-07-22
y y Sons Of the Eminent VITO Are Winning For Themselves
Living Reached Manhood
Practically All 81 Them We'll III Life

fE- Are YOU among those VINO DelleVe 3tIat
3the sons OF met, who have made I, an
exceptional mark II lie are not likely
+ 40 be Of much gconsequ Among tlelr
y fellows 4a s IL & Ii III y Il a, N * . al.
We'll, the truth Is that az lnrge "a per-
+ centage of Sons OF big men ns OF any
FL others do well III Tito; probably d larger
percentage, though that would be sh)h l1.
s5 to prove. lSS i sa4fss3 "a III 3s E.8
Take tho sons 8of the Presidents for cx-
e atnrles. There nre now living fourteen
III presidents sons who have grown to
et,nf's estate. Tfere are three Grants.
General Frederick d, Ulysses 81 and
Jesse r.; one Lincoln Robert J. i,ss four
Z sIayeses, webb CT, r. ( b., Burchard8 md md
p Scott I'll; n one Harrison, Russell d. one
Arthur. a Ian, and four Garfe1ds, Henry
4 A.,SSJnmes r., irwin Med. and Abraham.
II -Four OF the fourteen are men OF excep-
tonal prominence, and prac tlcnlly " Y AT AT
the others are successful In W no nteVerS
walks OF life they have ctoser, TO enter r
Il Possibly one has made a q; Y failure but I
one ut the most. S35 Tx la
The second and third SONS of President
n Grant ore both business men, without out
ambition for public or military u fe. anu ~
also apparently without the mad desire Ire
i to become rnllionarcs, which is supposed
Ny our friends across the Aen to be char
ncteristic OF mos Amt rlcails. the ne
1Iayeses are Ill lawyers, ebb O.. and nd
Burchard nS Ohio stiles; 7. u 2. In iAsliesT
vile, N c, !. and Scot a. In 'lttsburg.
A RUSSELL Harrison Is III sbuBlness5 ma S{{S
Garfield's eldest son. Henry a., y s pro-
lessor Of politics at r inceton where he
succeeded John Finley. no W president Of
a thsf5C College OF the City OF ew5S ork. h
a Henry "a. & Is very well TO do IN this
worlds goods and his acceptance OF the
post a few years agl caused general sur
3tf,So
r and high honors III his profession, the
" law, and was booked for high place Ia !
a public Iife,s IL he cared to take It. Carr
fields third son. Irwin Mel oWell, Is y o
Il lawyer In Boston. ~ When last tho public
4 heard about the fourth son, Abraham
5.'baby Of the White Hou Sc" when ], HIS
& father occupied, It. ne was a 8 tudentS In
4 the Boston School OF Technology. He has
probably been graduated by this time
and entered some branch OF engineering
& life. IS
ciarficld,s second son, James r.. Isl
larger In the eyes Of the world ut this
4 time than any other Presidents son, Ny
& reason Of his investigations az head OF
II the Bureau or Corporations In htfe De-
y is President Roosevelt right hand man.
& in the pleasant game Of trust hunting,
and moro prominent than y ictor5 II. Met
5&cslf, the Cabinet head OF u the Depart
ment There have been different opin-2
ions as to Mr. Garfields a bllityA as q trust
IL hunter. s Some u recent s83 u develo pnents
\ strengthen the notion that It isn't fair
to accept the unfavorabe opinion as yet.
8 His Job as laid out by the Pres dent
h seems only to have been begun
Robert (, Ltncol 2, ss n on. b sixt three,
and president Of II II Pullman Palace Car.
Company, n IS undo teddy the n richest
Presidents son lying, and VI far richer
y than any OF the earlier P Presidents sons
Il ever became. But he doesn't owe all his
r distinction to his wealth. He began snc-
n tive life ms a5n lawyer. contrary to his ,
mothers wishes. She wanted him to Join
$the army. enter public life after q while.
\ and wi the presidency us his father had
II done before him. Robert silaw3 prac-
4 tice, S begun In Chicago. was very profit
able ;fit had largely TO- III real estate
tiles and was hel ped IN nen sci ~ by the
n q VA alrcady iT IA rich man when Car
i J1eId de him Secretary OF War in II i,
4 and In 4 Ss9. when Harrison; sent him to-
A England as minister, he had an ncome
big enough Is make The place q possible
ono to him, socially spcak king. 3Bl rs Joined
the Pullman enterprise after leaving Eng
land. on Cleveland s ssion h to the
presidency. isSf si5 M
@ General r. d. Grants career has been
rather more yariyd than Tr. Line oln, s..
He was on General dge' g II taff when
The latter was surv he the first Pacific
Il railroad /; he wentsto 1Anstria during Hnr-t
Y,son's administration as min he
served police commissions % u y New
York along with Theodore Roosevelt Sc
& differed widely and often with him about
! tho way police business should b DO done,
too, 10 got back int. the army when =
- cuba through no ia ult OF his 9 Wn but
later got to the Philippines, where his
son. Ulysses S. Grant Sd, " now serving
asa lieutenant. 5s 3, y !,
at Afty-six the General is still eight
years away from, retirement He looks
much MS hi. father did before him. e 2
fact OF which he, is par onably proud c'llt+
Famous Son Of a Famous
| General.
Frederick 3, Grant is the son Of 9
Rreat 5soldicr II, the Civil War as well as
a President. He has risen to sa higher
4. grade In the army than the son OF any =;
Civil War lighting man, though the Tolls
81 ~ hot 4 ID the army b and the navy are