The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1908-09-10
TALES OF PUBLIC MEN

TALES OF PUBLIC MEN.
CHARLES NOBLE GREGORY,
prominent as a lawyer and educator,
WAS born in tnadilla. y. y. August ~,
| 1851. He was graduated from the
| classical department of the University
of Wisconsin i'll 1871. and from the law
school Of that institution in 1872 In the
latter year he was admitted to the bar
and entered upon the practice of law in
! Madison. Wis In latter years he filled
| several public offices in the city govern
mcut Of Madison. From 1894 To 1901
he Was associate dean of the college Of
\ law of the | University of Wisconsin, In
/ 1904 he h"cam" dean of the college Of
/ law of the State University of Iowa.
I Prof. Gregory was one of the organizers
Of the American Association of Law
/ Schools, aud presided ut the meeting ut
Saratoga 1T which it was formed. and
was vice president of the Antwerp con
fcrcucr of the International Law as.
sociation.
/ FRANCIS g. NEWLANDS. one of
/ the two Democratic United States sen
/ Iturs from the far west. is Il son of Ne
vuda, which he represents, by adoption
only. He was horn at NatcHcz, Miss,
ON August 2S. ISIS aud received his
.
college Of law in Washington, -. G.
. After his admission to the bar he went
. to san Francisco. whore hc met with
great success in his profession Ia lNSS
, he moved to Nevada, where h" was
/ elected member Of Congress to the Eff
I tN-thlrd Congress. IL" was reelected
/ four times and finally became the sue
/ ccsSor of Senator John J. ZONES on
March /. 1908. He is greatly Interested
! III transportation matters AMI WAS ap-
/ pointed hy President Roosevelt Il mem
her of the inland waterways commits.
sion.
! DAVID KENNETH HILL former
/ United States senator from New York
! and for number of years one of the
most influential Democratic leaders in
that state, was born in Havana. y.
Y, August -, 1913. lie was educated
at Elmiru academy, admitted to the bar
] in 1864. and i'll the same year became
city attorney of Elmirn. \ few years
later he was fairly launched upon an
active political career and IN 1870 he
, was elected to the General Assembly,
To which body he was several times re
elected. Ia 1850 Mr. Hin was elected
alderman Of Elmira and two years later
he became mayor of that city. His next
public office was that of lieutenant gov
crnor of New York, to which he was
elected in lSS2. and III 1881 he succeed
eel Grover Cleveland in the governor
ship. GOV. lltll was reelected in 1850
aud lSNS, and WAS elected TO the Unit
ed States Senate in 1881. Since his re-
tircmcnt from the Senate in 1891 he has
taken little active part in public affairs
SIR DENTII. lRBETSON who has
been regarded for many years ms ono of
tn" ahlcSt members Of the Indian civil
service, and who only recently resigned
the lieutenant goyernorship of the Pun
lab was born in GanshorOugh, Eng.
land. August 30, 1917. He received his
education in schools in Australia ana mt
ST Johns college, Cambridge. In 1870
he entered the Indian civll service aud
received rapid advancement. He served
almost entirely in the punjah and his
census report and gazetteer of the Pun
lab have made his name familiar to all
students of Indian affairs, In India
hc WAS famous as an authority on agri-
culture and irrigation. He had charge
for several years of the department of
revenue aud agriculture in the viccroy $
council and his was the stroke which
sent l.ajpat Raj aud Rajit Singh into
exile ut the time of the punjab dietnr-
Dances a year or two ago, and which
was Tia" beginning of the state Of unrest
throughout the Indian empire that for
some tim" caused the British officials
great uucasucSs.
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BltlG.-iEN, .ANSON MILLS, L. $.
y, retired, was born on Il farm in Boone
county, Ind, August ~, 1881, but spent
his youth in Texas. lie was appointed
II cadet at the military academy AT West
Point IN 1880, ana after leaving that in
StItutiOn engaged IN engineering and
land surveying IN Texas. lie laid out
the first plan of the clt} of ri lasu and
in lN'1b WAS surveyor T." the boundary
commission establishing the boundary
between New McNlco, Indian territory
and I"NuS. ~ the beginning of the
civil war Ice hecnm" first lieutenant OF
the Eighteenth lmtrd states infantry
and ~ INbJ II" reached the grade Ui
captain. During the war he mad" re-.
marEahlr record 10y never being absent
from lls regiment "a sIugl" day either ON
leave ur from 81, kn"Ss Nilrr the war
lac participated u, most of the conflicts
with tn" Indians ANA ID" commanded the
troops at the haiil" Of slim liutto~,
Dakota September =, 1876 Gen. Mills
IS ON" Of the W"nllhl"Sl OF Ia" retired
army officers ana his fortune comes from
tiuuF The most notable IS I'll" Mills cart
ridge belt, nov used 10y the armies ut
nearly all civilized countries.
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