The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1908-02-20
NOTES OF NOTABLES.
ROBERT ARMSTRONG

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cation at Harrow and Oxford
After his graduation he entered the
profession of law, but politics appealed
to him more strongly, and he was elected
a member of the House of Commons III
1886. He was elected Conservative
member for Chester, and his success was
generally admitted to be remarkable, for
lprevious to his election, Chester had been
a Liberal stronghold. Mr.. Yerburgh $
interests have been many and varied
To begin with he is man of vast
| wealth and has been able to give free
rein to his tastes and inclinationS. lie
was known for years as one of the best
dressed men in English public life. He
is president of the Agricultural Organl-
cation society and has written much on
agricultural topics. He is also the author
of a number of books and pamphlets on
the system OF British home defense,
on British imperial interests in China,
on agricultural banks and other ques-
| known as a thorough, all-around sports
man, and finds his chief recreation in
hunting.
SETH LOW, former mayor of New
| York city, was born in Brooklyn, Jan
uary IS, 1850, and received his educa-
ton at the Brooklyn Polytechnic col
lege and Columbia university. After his
| graduation from the latter institution
in 1870 he took an extended foreign
tour, and upon his return home entered
mercantile life. He was elected mayor
of Brooklyn in 1881 and reelected two
years later. In 1889, by unanimous vote
| of his fellow trustees, Mr.. Low was
chosen president of Columbia college,
and it was mainly through his efforts
| that the institution was removed to its
present commanding site on MOrningside
| heights, to the fund for which he per-
sonally contributed a million dollars.
Mr.. Low was an independent candidate
for mayor of Greater New York in
1897, but was defeated. Three years
later he was elected to the office on the
Fusion ticket, and served until 1908.
| In 1899 he had served as one of the
American delegates to the first peace
conference at The Hague.
THE RIGHT HON. AUGUSTINE
BIRRELL, chief secretary for Ireland,
was born near Liverpool, January 10,
| 1850, the son of a distinguished non
conformist clergyman. He was gradu-
ated from Oxford university in 1872,
became barrister in 1875, and a few
| years ago was made a bencher of the
Inner Temple. He has been in politics
since 1885, and has by no means been
| always successful, in fact in three out
of his five contests he has seen the
other man win. 1t was not until 1889
that he first entered Parliament. With
| the organization of the Campbell Banner
man cabinet Mr. Birrell was made pres
ident of the board of education. When
James Bryce was chosen to be British
ambassador to the United States Mr..
| Birrell succeeded Mr. Bryce as chief
secretary for Ireland. Mr.. Birrell has
distinguished himself in literature and
also is well versed in the law, having
been Quain professor of law in Univer-
| sity college, London, for several years.
lives of HaZlitt and Charlotte Bronte
and his edition Of Boswells Johnson.
| FURNIFOLD INTENDED SIM
MONS. United States Senator from
North Carolina, was born January 20,
1854. in Jones county, North Carolina.
After graduating from Trinity college he
studied law and was admitted to the
bar in 1875. His first political honor
came in 1886. when ne was elected a
representative in Congress from the
Second district of North Carolina. From
1893 to 1897 he served as collector of
internal revenue for the Fourth district
of North Carolina. He was chairman
of the Democratic executive committee
of his state during the campaigns of 1892,
| 1898 and 1900 In 1901 he was elected
to the United States Senate to succeed
Marion Butler, Populist, and last year
he was elected for a second term, which
will not expire until March, 1913.
SIR GEORGE CRESPIGNY BRA
BAZON VIVIAN. whose name recently
figured in the cable news from across
the Atlantic, was born January 81,
1878. and comes of one of the oldest
families in Cornwall. He succeeded to
the title in 1893 on the death of his
father. Hussey Crespigny, who held
several important places in the diplo-
matte service and was British ambassa-
dor to Rome at the time of his death.
Baron Vivian was educated at Elton,
and was formerly a lieutenant in the
Seventeenth Lancers. lie served in the
South African campaign and was sever
~ wounded. Two of his sisters, Lady
Violet Mary and the Hon. Dorothy
Maud are maids of honor to Queen
honor to the late Queen Victoria. Baron
Vivian possesses a handsome house in
Cadogan gardens, London, besides an
estate of over 5000 acres in Cornwall.
SIR CHARLES ALPHONSE PAN
TALEON PELLETIER, one Of the
best known public men of Quebec and
at present judge for the superior court
Of that province, was born at Riviero
Gated at Laval university and admitted
to the bar in 1860. He was for several
years major of the Ninth battalion,
which he commanded during the Fenian
raid in 1866. He was a prominent fig
ure in the Quebec legislative Assembly
minister Of agriculture in 1877. He was
president of the Canadian commission
to the Paris Universal exhibition of
1873 and speaker of the Senate from
1896 to 1901. In 1905 he resigned his
seat in the Senate to accept a place on
the bench. In recognition of his long
and important political career he was
knighted in 1893.
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