Bisbee daily review., 1907-01-24
GEORGE B. RYAN VISITING IN
 DOUGLAS
Is a Member of Guggenheim Family Which Has Acquired Vast Wealth in the United States,

DOUGLAS, Jan. 23.-(Special )-
 George B. Ryan, of Chicago and Fl Paso, is making one of his periodical visits to Douglas.
 The newest member of the future trio-Guggenheim- addition to be- ing known by reputation from one end of this country to the other as a mem Der of the Guggenheim family of sev- en brothers, all of whom count their individual wealth in the tens of mil lions, will also enjoy the distinction of being the youngest member of the most august legislative body of the new world he having only recently passed his thirty-ninth birthday. He has for years been ambitious to achieve renown in public life and he has equipped himself by earnest study for his coming duties. He has given to the people of his state the pledge that he will serve them and the ma tiop unselfishly to the very best of his ability and no one, who knows the high value he and his brothers and their father before them place on their words will doubt that he will be truly a representative Of the state that has honored him.
 The Guggenheim family, it may also be noted, is one of the best of the hundreds of thousands that have come here as lowly immigrants and won wealth and honors for themselves by industry and native shrewdness. The founder of the family came to the United States from Switzerland in 1853 and began life as peddler d stove polish, but soon branched out
 aytd lat m an importer. To him, seven sons, all of whom are now living, and all null ti-mfllionaires, were born. All of the boys were thoroughly educated and all were trained by the father in business. The eight chung closely together while the father was living ana later, to this day. the brothers are as one in all business matters. When the cid CT Gggenheim embarked first in min ing and then in smelting in Colorado, the sons were with him and it was not many years before they became the acknowledged masters of the lat ter industry.
 Senator-elect Guggenheim has been marked by nature and by inclination for politics. As long ago as 1896 when he was not 30 years old, he was nominated for lieutenant-governor of Colorado by the then powerful silver republicans. but his lack of constitu' tional number of years forced him to decline. In 1898, he was offered the silver republican nomination for gov ernor but, foreseeing sbrewdly the decadence of that movement, he de- clined to run and also rejected the popuIist nomination. He was among he early silver republicans to return o their old party and he set himself D achieve the senatorship as soon as -ormer Senator E. O. Wolcott died -Ie has now reached the goal of his ambition.
 It is significant of the advancing interest that the Jewish people have again begun to take in public life that during the preceding 130 years of the life of the senate, only four other Hebrews have ever been elected to that body-Benianin and Jonas of Louisiana, YuIee, of Florida, and Si' mon, of Oregon. That the new ele- ment will be welcomed is undoubted and that all of it's representatives will be worthy statesmen the history of their race insures.