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and resident of his home county,
and they now have Il Rooscveltian
family OF nlnc children"
Frank Mellin Nyc. Fifth Minnesota
district. SAYS no was In the Wiscon.
sin state legislature and made the
nominating speech when ]. C. Spoon.
or was first elected to the United
States Senate.
Charles A. LIndbcrgh. Sixth Mime.
sofa district. wns bonn In Sweden. and
spent his boyheod on farm near
Mclrose. MINI. "School advantages"
saws his biography. TAT that time were
so limited that Mr. Lindbergh's early
education WIS neglected: ana much
OF his boyhood l'fe was given 30 hunt
ing and trapping
Madison r. Smith. Thirteenth Min
nesota district, Is lawyer and lis
devoted TO his profession not merely
for the cmoluments, hut because Of
an msclflsh love of Its study"
Frank o. Briggs. Senator from New
Jersey. Is graduate of West Point
and served five years In the army.
iMi ItSiEitu stilu NNillE Il Itblu'nttI
of thirty years In Trenton. Mr.. Briggs
has taken a deep interest in all mat
tors which tended t. promote the well
fare OF the city and state. As pub
lic-spirited citizen he enjoys high
degree OF popularitv." He was chair.
man of the Reprblican state commit
toe in 1904 and che Displayed great
oy.l la, 1,n
ment OF the successful campaign of
that year.
L. Gage Pratt OF the Eighth New
Jersey district. has had a career of
journalism and life insurance. and
Established weirearned repn.a'
ticn" In Texas lie married "a lady
connected with many leading families
of the southland, and known to every
member of the Southern Society of the
Oranges"
Samuel Mcmillan. Twenty-flrst New
York district, says his fathers meth
cr was Watson descendant of
Commodore Watson OF the British
navy"
George winthrop Fairchild. Twenty
fourth New York district. "is n direct
descendant of Thomas Fairchld who
settled in Connecticut IN 1853. His
mother was granddaughter of
Thomas Moranus. revolutionary sol
, der of historic renown. and daugh-
ter of Jeremiah Morenus, II veteran
of the war of 1912" After mention
Ing his marriage his biography says:
"Their residence In Oneonta is one
fthe most attractive in that part OF
the Empire State He has been
ever ready with substantial aid to
assist every, enterprise for the good
of the community and public well
fare"
Peter A. Porter, Thirty-fourth New
York district. he man who defeated
Jim Wadsworth, in telling of his ca
reer saws: "as member of the leg
islature he introduced and passed the
first bill for the great water power
of development of Niagara Falls
inst now there are a grod many per-
sons who do not approve of what has
lheen dine at the great falls.
James S. Davenport of the Third
Oklahoma district, "was twice mar
ried. both w9men citizens by blood
of the Cherokee Nation
Charles D Carter, Fourth Oklahoma
district, IS "a descendant Of Northern
Carter Sr.. who was captured tw
Shawnee Indians at the Lackawanna
massacre. afterwards traded to the
Cherokees and married n full blood
| Cherokee woman" He is a son of
pentomjn wisnor.' cap'ain IN the Con-
federate army. who married one
| fourth bred Ch'ctasaw woman" He
wos born In n little log cabin in 1859.
His nationality rs seven-sixteenths
chickreaw and Cherokee and nine
sixteenths Scotch-Irish He worked
IN his fathers ranch "as a farm
hand. cowboy and broncho-buster"
Thomas d. Nichols. Tenth Pennsvl'
Ivania district. began life as n break
or hoy and from to 10 years Ct age
worked as n slate picker, and then
obtained employment inside of the
mines until he was 90. He Is dis
trict president of the United Mine
Workers.
William 3. Wilson. Fifteenth Penn
svlvania district. also began work In
the ccal mines at years of age. H
IS secreinrv-treasurer of the United
Mine Workers of America. These two
miners ought TO be able to tell some
thing about child lator.
Joseph Grant Beale, Twenty-seventh
PENNSYLVANIA district, relates that
''hs forefathers came to this c"unirv
with William Penn. so he claims thai
he is thoroughbred Pennsylvania
rs his forefaihers as well as himself
have been born in PENNSYLVANIA unti'
the memory of man does not rcmem-
her to the contrary"
william J. Cary Of the Fourth Wis