Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1907-12-14
MEN OF PROMINFNGE.

JOHN KEAN. the senior United States
I senator from New Jersey. was bora in
! Union county y. j.. December 4. 1852
/ He is lawyer by profession, having Ieft
/ Yale, where lie was member of the
class vi T6 to eater the Columbia Law
school, from which he was graduated.
He was admitted 20 the bar of New
Jersey in 1877. He never practiced. pre-
ferring rather TO follow his father in an
active business career. As result II
his industry and ability, the large for
tune he inherited from his father grew
to such an extent that Mr. kean is
known as one of the multi-milicnaires
of the United States Senate. He is EN-
gagged in numerous manufacturing, rail-
road, financial and mercantile enter
priSes. He was elected a member of the
Forty-eighth Congress. He was defeated
for reelection TO the Forty -ninth Con-
gress, but was successful two years
later He was the unsuccessful candi-
date of the Republican party for gov
ernor of New Jersey in 1892. In 1899
he was elected to the United States
Senate.
Il. AUGUSTUS HEINZE, whose ex-
tensive interest in copper mines and mir
ing property and more recently in
New York banks have kept him promi-
nently in the public eve. was born in
Brooklyn. December :, 1869 He was
educated in the polytechnic institute in
Brooklyn, and subsequently was grad
uated from the Columbia school Of
mines. Beyond displaying a marked APP
titu,le for miner,logy, there was nothing
in his college course to indicate that
within decade he would become one of
the mining magnates of America. Ills
first work was n mining engineer in the
mines of the Boston and Montana COM
M W. pe In ha
turned east to receive a hequest of S5O.-
600 left by his grandfather. His broth
ems had received similar legacies and he
persuaded them 70 join with him in some
copper mine investments in the west
lie returned wesr and soon was engaged
in the warfare with the Amalgamated
company that filled columns of news
paper space for several years. Through
il all the young engineer managed to
prosper and accumulate wealth and he
was reekoned in the multi-milli0nnire
class when the recent financial crash
caught him. For Il number OF years
Mr. Heinze has found il necessary 10 his
interests to take a hand in politics, and
has been on the Democratic side of all
sub questions.
REPRESENTATIVE HENRY III.
BINGHAM of Pennsylvania, the "fa-
Their of the House." received many CON
CALCULATIONS Dec. 9th his Goth birthday.
Although TAR from being the oldest mem
Der SO far as age is concerned. MIR. Bing-
ham is the senior member of the House
in point of service, He has just egtered
upon his fourteenth consecutive term.
Speaker Cannon has served longer IN
the House, but he missed the Fifty-sec-
ond Congress, thus making a gap in his
record of sixteen terms.
EDWARD II. SoTHERN, the well
known actor, was born in New Orleans
December 6. 1889. His father was Ed
ward A. Sothern the popular English
comedian. and the younger Sothern's
boyhood was spent in England. In 1875
he returned TO America, and again In
! 1879. On the latter occasion he made
his debut at the Park theater, New
York, in support of his father. After
| that he spent several months in the Bos-
ton Museum stock company, then one
of the most famous organizations of its
kind in America. The following season
| he returned to England with his father.
John Mccullough there engaged the
young man. and he returned with that
| tragedian to tile United States. After
his mothers death in 1882 he Travelled
| with his brother Lytton. in England.
/ playing Tow comedy parts The follow
! ing year found him again in America
and during the several seasons that fol-
| lowed he played IN number of different
companies. lie first took n leading role
| in the I.yceum theater stock company
| Of New York IN 1887 Since then he
plays, among the best known Of them
being Lord Chumley.' The Dancing
Girl Captain Lettarblair" THE
! Prisoner Of Zenda.' "Cnder the Red
Robe" and IF ! Were King"
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