Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1908-11-19
Sons of Presidents Attain
Prominence In
Many Walks Of Life

work. quitting Harvard at the end oil
his third year. The Presidents eldest
son, now Just attained his majority, |
has a Job In the clerical department OF
the great Higgins carpet mill at
Thompsonville, Conn. There he Is
going to learn the business. After
ward he will go to the woollen room
and eventually he expects to master
every detail Of the manufacture OF
carpets. which is prosaic Thompson
villes sole industry.
He will get Sc week and live in a
boarding house. He will work ten and
. half hours day. Some day he VIII
be promoted.
Now comes the question-what oil
the sons of the Presidents of the
United States who have gone before?
How many people know which Presi'
dents have sons living today? How
many of us could tell off.hand the
number of those sons. or what their
names are? Who Is the Oldest sur.
viving son of any President and who
the youngest? And what are they
doing in the world?
"Few sons achieve the praise OF
their great sires," nrotc the poet. but
is this so?
There are no living eS.Presidcnts
of the United States. Mr. Cievelands
death took away the last one. But
seven Presidents have sons still sur
viving-Lincoln. Grant, Hayes, Gar
field, Arthur, Harrison and Cleveland.
Between them they have thirteen Nv.
ing sons. And President Roosevelt,
who Is very much alive, has four sons
Theodore jr, Kermit, Archie ana
Quentin.
Farthest back of all goes Robert
Todd Lincoln, son Of the martyred
President of the civil war.
To-day he is sixty.fve years old
older than his distinguished father
was when he was assassinated. He
Is multi.millionaire: his father the
President, was poor He Is president
of the great Pullman Company ana
director In many corporations,
Robert T. Lincoln is the only direct
male descendant of Abraham Lincoln.
He lives in Chicago, but he has many
New York interests. He has also
summer willie at Manchester, VT. He
was born In 1S43 and was graduated
| from Harvard in 1864, ut. once into the
| army, where he served as aide on
! Gen. Grants STAFF. Afterward he
studied law and went into politics
He was Secretary Of War under Presi.
dent Garfield and Minister to England
under President Harrison. When he
returned he became head OF the $780,.
100000 Pullman Company.
President Grants three sons come
Lext-Frederick Dent Grant, who was
born in 1850; Ulysses S. Grant jr.,
born IN 1852, and Jesse r. Grant. born
in 1865. All three have been In poiiti'
cal lie at one time or another.
Frederick Dent Grant has been as
much in the public eye as any son of
President of this generation. As a
boy young Grant was with his father
much during the war. He was grad
uated from West Point in 1871, AM
eventually became first lieutenant
lie resigned in 1881.
In 1874 Grant married Miss Ida
Honorc. sister of Mrs. Potter Palmer
Of Chicago.
After resigning he entered several
business enterprises and helped his
father, soon doomed to death. In pre-
| a,tr 10 In IN
nominated by the Republicans fol
Secretary of State of New York, bu
was defeated. President Harrison
however, soon afterward appointed
him Minister to Austria. On his re
call he was named, together with
Theodore Roosevelt, as Police Com
missioner OF New York. which plac,
he held throughout the administration
OF Mayor Strong.
Then came the Spanish War. Fred
erick Dent Grant, as an old Yves
Pointer, at once offered his services
and went out as Colonel of the Four
tcenth New York. Later the ole
yearning for army life seized him an'
lie entered the regular service, be
coming brigadier.general, and after
ward major.general, the position h
now holds. Gen. Grant IL In command
of the Department of the East, will
headquarters at Governors Island
His daughter, Julia, Is now the Prin
cess Cantacuzene of Russia, and hi
son, U. S. Grant Sd, is an officer II
the army.
U. s. Grant jr., born In 1852, tn
second son of the great General, live
in San Diego, Cal. There he has en-
| tered Republican politics and ha
| been at times candidate for the Unite
| States Senatorship and the Vice-Pres
| dency. He was graduated from Han
| ward In 1874
Jesse Grant, the youngest brother
| in 1896 formally foreswore the Part
| that twice put his father in the Whit
| House and came out for Bryan, be
| cause he believed in tho IS to !. issu,
| He is still Democrat, with occasion
Il al leanings toward the IndeDendenc