The Columbus journal. (Columbus, Neb.) 1874-1911, 1908-12-09
Grants cabinet. His three sons have

Grants cabinet. His three sons have
inherited their fathers ability. One
of the brothers IL 1t the head of IN
institution Of learning in Rhode
Island. Charles TAFT is . capitalist
and publisher and .. man Of promi-
nence in Ohio politics and business,
and his election to the senate to sue
coed Foraker would displace . man
who has violated his trust, and give to
Ohio an able representative in the
upper branch of congress.
Sons of prominent men in national
affairs have become prominent in the
past, and the TAFT boys are numbered
among those who are making good at
the present day.
John Adams eldest son, John
Quincy Adams, alluded to early in his
public career as q man who was court
ing public favor on his fathers ability
and prominence. The elder Adams
had served as q member of the Colo-
nial Congress, and Was one Of the
members of the committee appointed
to draft the Declaration of Independ-
ence; he represented the Colonial Gov.
eminent as Commissioner to France,
and succeeded Washington Is Presi-
dent and on his retirement from that
Office represented the United States At
the Court of St. James. The son,
John Quincy, had even q more dis
tinguished career, and no man since
his time can approach him in the
number of responsible positions filled
at home and abroad. He served Is
minister to the Hague, minister to
Berlin, minister to st. Petersburg,
negotiated the treaty of Client in 1914
by which peace with England was de-
clared, represented his state in the
United States Senate, was Secretary of
War under Monroe, and in 1924 was
elected President. In 1881 he was
elected to congress and served continu-
ously in that body until he dropped
dead on the floor of the house on the
2srd day Of February, 1S4S.
Another family of boys whose name
was once . household word through.
out the country were the Washburns.
One of this celebrated family of four
brothers was minister to France when
that nation and Germany were At
war, and for the part he took in pro-
tecting Germans in Paris at the time
of the siege will ever be remembered
with kindness by Germans throughout
the world. Another one of the Wash
burn brothers served in congress from
Wisconsin, was . general in the army
during the War of the Rebellion, was
elected Governor of his state. A third
brother represented Minnesota in the
senate and was prominently identified
with the milling interests of the
northwest.
Sons of prominent men are frequent
ly alluded to with sneer, yet the past
has produced men of prominence
whose sons achieved distinction. Al
though it is we'll known that Wash
ington's wife bore him no children, yet
it was understood and accepted as a
fact that he had a son living at the
time of his marriage to the widow
Gusts. It is said that Washington
educated the child. When the Revo.
luton commenced the child had grown
to manhood and received a commission
in the army. He fought through the
war and saw the British commander
surrender to his father at Yorktown.
Later he saw military service in the
west under General Wayne. The son
was known as Thomas Posy. There
is a county in Indiana of the same
name. Posy settled in Louisiana, and
was one of the first senators from that
state when it was admitted into the
Union. 1t is said that he bore q
striking resemblance to the Father Of
His Country.
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