Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1907-11-23
MEN OF PRoMINFN -E.

and received ills education at Hamilton
college and the Columbia law school
| After being admitted to the bar in 1892,
he entered upon the practice of his pro-
/ fession at Auburn, y. y. From 1899
until 1908 he was the president of the
New York civil service commission.
| His work in this connection attracted the
favorable attention of President Roose-
welt and in 1908 Mr.. Collier was APP
pointed special assistant attorney general
of the United States department of com
meree and labor. The following year he
was appointed solicitor OF the depart.
ment, which position he continued to fill
until March, 1908, when he was made
minister TO Spain. MIR. Collier is re-
garded as an authority ON the law of
bankruptcy. ard has written extensively
on this and other financial topics.
j. II. LAMONT, attorney general Of
the province of Saskatchewan and con-
spicuous among the young men who
have come TO the front in the public life
of western Canada, was born in On
tario of Scottish parents ON November
II, 1St5 a public school education was
followed by a university course at To-
ronto, where he graduated rs a barrister
in 1895. After three years he went
west, settling in Prince Albert. His
tastes soon drew him into politics. and
by 1904 he was successful candidate
for the House of Commons After one
year as Il legislator at Ottawa he was
called upon to take the position OF at-
torney general in the new province of
Saskatchewan. In the absence of Pre-
mier Scott Mr.. Lamont was called upon
10 lead the Saskatchewan Legislature
last winter and accredited himself to the
satisfaction of all his colleagues.
I TIsTvut f4nI ny . N.tNr,n
BR0DIE. ". 5. A.. famous as Rough
Rider" ani at present adjutant general
of the department of Dakota, was born
November 13. 1910, at Edwards. n. Y.
He graduated from West Point in 1865
and was appointed to the First cavalry,
with which command he saw much nc
tive service iii Arizona, California and
Washington. In 1877 he resigned from
the army and was successfully in the
cattle trade IN Kansas, n miner in Da-
kota and Arizona, and superintendent of
a water storage company at Walnut
Grove, Ariz. When the war with Spain
broke out he organized the Arizona vol
unteers in Roosevet's famous Rough
Riders and was appointed major of vol
untecrs When the war was over he
returned 70 Arizona and in 1902 was
appointed governor of the territory
Three years later he returned TO the
army, and for a year or more did duty
in the Philippines.
BRIG. GEN. ALBERT l.. MYER,
II. $, A.. commander of the department
of Texas was born in New York, No
vember IA. 1916 His army career be-
gan as a private in the Eleventh infan-
try. in which he enlisted IN the closing
year of the Civil war. For gallantry in
action he was promoted to sergeant,
and by 1867 he had advanced TO the
grade of second lieutenant. He was
promoted successfully through the
grades of first lieutenant, captain. lieu
tenant colonel. aud colonel which rank
he reached in 1908. During the more
than forty years he has spent in the
army be has seen service III nearly all
parts of the United States and in Cuba
aud the Philippines
GEORGE w. VANDERBILT, prob
| ably the least known of the members Of
the Vanderbilt family so far as the gem
eral public is concerned. was ~ years
November IA. Mr. Vanderbilt has al
ways displayed n stronger liking ~ rural
life, for art and for books than fos the
pleasures Of so-called society. Some
years ago he laid out his magnificent
Biltmore estate Of 100000 acres near
Asheville n. c., and there he has con-
tnued 70 spend a large portion Of his
time. When he comes TO New York 10
look after his great financial interests he
frequently drops in at the Free Circulat-
ing library on Thirteenth street and the
free Vanderbilt art gallery, both of which
he presented to the city.
TIE GRAND DUCHESS OLGA,
eldest child Of the Gar and Czarina of
Russia was born in the royal palace at
1T. Petersburg on November 10, 1899.
Her mother, who WIS known before her
marriage as Princess Aiix, is the daugh-
ter of the late Grand Duke Of iesse aud
a granddaughter Of the late Queen Vic
toria Of England. She was married to
Nicholas III. in 1894, two weeks after he
had succeeded his father on the Russian
throne Besides the Grand Duchess
Olga, the Car and Czarina have been
blessed with three daughters and one son.
The latter Is the little Grand Duke
Alexis. now three years old and who will
some day be called upon to rule the great
empire Of Russia. The little Grand
Duchess olga is said to have inherited
much Of the ffmnoss of character pos
sessed by her mother and also the more
graceful qualities Of her disposition. She
lis Of the refined, fair haired blue eyed
type Of beauty, with finely chiseled
features a clear complexion, and fine,
bright, laughing eyes.
HENRY GASSAWAY DAVIS, who
was the nominee for vice president on
the Democratic ticket in 1904, was born
III IAItlHlOThs November ~, 1870. a
the age Of 10 he obtained position as
a brakeman on the Baltimore II Ohio
railroad. He was quick TO realize the
possibilities of what was then Western
Virginia. and he took advantage OF his
insight. SO that when the Civil war
broke out he was n man Of means. lie
accumulated large fortune in coal, oil
and timber, IN railroad building and 9th
er enterprises. He then turned his at
tention to politics. In 1856 he was elect
Ell to the West Virginia Legislature as
a Union-C Conservative and two years lat
or was chosen state senator as a Demo-
Graf. la 1871 he was elected United
States senator from West Virginia, and
before the expiration of hig second term
he had become one Of the Democratic
leaders in the Senate. dr. LAWS served
as a delegate to seven Of tie national
Democratic conventions. He was also
one Of the United States delegates who
formulated the scheme for bringing the
republics Of North, Central and South
America together, which resulted in the
establishment Of the bureau Of American