Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1907-07-06
MEN OF PROMINENCE.

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GEORGE Won l.. MEYER. the pres
ent postmaster general o. the United
! States, WAS. born in Boston, June ~,
! 1893, and is a graduate of Harvard with
the class OF 1879. His debut in politics
was made in Boston in 1889 when he
was elected a. member Cf the common
| council He next served with diStnc-
| tion in the Massachusetts Legislature,
acting as speaker of The house for three
of the five years he spent ut the state
capital. Gov. Wocntt appointed him
chairman of the MasSa chusetts board of
managers for the Paris exposition and in
| 1899 he was elected Massachusetts mem
Der of the Republican national commit
| tee From 1900 to 1905 he was the
| American ambassador to Italy. In 190.
| he was transferred to Russia, where nc
/ represented the United States at st. Ir-
| tersburg until chosen by President Roose-
| welt as member of his cabinet. Mr..
| Meyer is Il man of great wealth and
! controlling factor in many large indus
| tries in New England
! JOHN DILLON. member of the Brit
! ish Parliament and one of the leaders of
| the Irish Nationalist, was born in Ire
! land. June %, 1851 and was educated
at the Catholic university in Dublin,
where he distinguished himself in mathe-
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member of the Royal College of Surgeons
| in ireland. His father before him was
one of the leaders of the Young Ireland
move which resulted in the rebel
| lion of 1913. Ever since he was old
enough to take an interest in politics
and the welfare OF ms native country
| Dillon the younger has been an ardent
disciple of home rule. In the interest
of this movement he has been heard OF
| the platform in America. Australia and
other parts of the Engl.sh-speaking
world Mr.. Dillon first entered Parlia-
ment in 1880 as member for County Tip
perary, and has held his present seat for
Fast County Mayo since 1885.
WILLIAM THOMSON. Lord Kelvin,
who is regarded as the greatest living
scientist in Great Britain today. was
born in Glasgow June %, 1924. He re-
ceived his early training from his father,
who had raised himself from a humble
position to professor of mathematics
Vt GLASGOW university. William art
erward studied at st. Peters college,
| Cambridge. where he won the highest
mathematical honors. At % years of
age he became professor at Glasgow
university and for over half a century
natural history at that institution. Among
| Lord Kclvin's great works may
| be mentioned his invention of the
siphon recorder for ocean tele-
graphy; his fathering of the ocean cable;
| his practical application of the time,
| limits within which biologists and biolo-
| gists should confne their evolutionary APP
plcation, which limited the age of the
| earth to a million years, a period of time
| formerly regarded as a second in the
geological day; his invention of the mir
| ror galvanometer and his navigational
sounding machine and depth recorder.
ALPHEUS BEEDE STICKNEY,
president of the Chfc6g0 Great Western
railway, was born at Wilton, Me, June
| u. 1910. After common school educa-
ton. he began teaching school at the age
of II. Later he studied law and was ad
mitted to the bar He soon
afterward went west. where he
abandoned the law for the large
and commanding field of the rail
road. In 1871 he organized and built
! the first section of the Northern Wiscon-
sin railway, now a part of the Chicago,
st. Paul and Omaha system. From 1879
| to 1881 he was superintendent Of con
l-structiun on the Great Northern and
Canadian Pacific roads. Another road
which he organized and built was the
| Wisconsin. Minnesota and Pacific rail-
way, since merged into one of the larger
systems. In 1888 he began the organiza-
| ton and construction of the Chicag
| Great Western road. with which he has
since been connected and which he has
maintained independently of all the
greater mergers and combinations that
| have since joincdShe most of the western
railroads into a few great systems An
other enterprise which stands as monu-
ment to Mr. Stickney's marvellous energy
and powers of orga nization are the St
| Paul Union stockyards and packing
houses, which he organized and built in
| 1882. "a
| LYMAN JUDSON GAGE, who was
secretary of the United States treasury
from 1897 to 1902 was born in Madison
county, n, y, June %, 1896. His
schooling was received in the academy at
Rome, n. Y, and after his graduation
from that institution he began life as an
Office boy in Il bank at Oneida Here he
remained until 1855, when he decided
that the west offered a more promising
/ field for his energies. He went to Chi
cago and his first employment in the
western metropolis was as 4 clerk in
"A planning mill. This he soon gave up,
however, to accept a position as book
keeper in Il bank. realizing that the husi
ness of finance was his real vocation.
From the position of an assistant book
keeper he rose until he became presi-
dent of the First National bank of Chi
cage one of the greatest financial insti-
! buttons in the country. Mr.. Gage con-
tinued with the First National bank uu-
til invited to accept the seeretaryship of
the United States treasury. In 1902 he
resigned his portfolio in the cabinet to
accept the presidency of the United
States Trust company. Mr.. Gage has
taken an active interest in many public
welfare movements and was three times
president of the American Bankers as
soCiation.
SENATOR WILLIAM T.. BORAH of
Idaho. who has conspicuous part in the
prosecution of the Haywood case at
Boise, was born June ~. 1860, at Fair
field. III He was educated AZ the nj
versity of Kansas. aud afterward read
law at Lyons in that state. In lSSN L.
was admitted to the bar, and in 1881 Ec
settled 1T Boise where lac has since made
his home. Mr. Borah is tlre!eSs sra
dent He gives the closest attention TO
his profession. and never neglcctS any
possible line of investigation 70 strength
IN a case which may have been placed
IL his hands. But he does not permit the
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