Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1908-09-18
PROMINENT PEOPLE.

GEN. STEW ART L. WOODFORD. !
soldier, lawyer and diplomat who led
the tight to have Gov. Hughes nominated
for the presidency at the Chicago conven-
ton last June, was born in New York
city, September 3, 1885 and received his
education at Columbia college In 1861
he was United States attorney at New
York. which position he resigned to 20
to the front with the One Hundred and
| Twenty-seyenth regiment Of New York
Volunteers He served throughout the
war, rising to the position of chief of
staff of the Department of the South
He was elected lieutenant governor of
New York in 1866, and four years later
was an unsuccessful candidate for gov
ernor on the Republican ticket In 1872
he was sent to Congress and from 1877
to 1882 he again served as United States
attorney. In 1S979S he was the United
States minister to Spain.
REV. DAVID II. MOORE. ID. D..
bishop of the Methodist Episcopai
church. was born at Athens, o.. Septem-
Der 6. 1888, and received his education
at Ohio university. In 1862 he entered
the Union army as a private and served
I'LL the close of the conflict, rising to
the rank of lieutenant colonel Re-en-
tering the ministry iii Ohio. he filed pull
pits in prominent cities, including Co
lumbus and Cincinnati. Then for FIVE
years he was president of the Cincinnati
Wesleyan college for women. From
Cincinnati he went to Denver, where
he organized the University Of Denver
and served as its chancellor until 1889.
In that year he was elected editor of
The Western Christian Advocate and
returned to Cincinnati In 1900 he was
elected a bishop by the general confer
ence that met in Chicago and was sent
to Shanghai, with special jurisdiction
over the Methodist missions in China,
Japan ard Korea. At the time of the
Boxer outbreak in China and later dur
ing the war between Russia and Japan
Bishop Moore had many exciting ex-
periences. The general conference in
1904 transferred his headquarters to
Portland. Ore.
REAR ADMIRAL JOHN p. MER-
RlLI, who goes on the retired list of
| the United States navy today on account
of age, was born September !, 1876, at
Auburn. n Y. He spent his boyhood in
Marshall. Mich. and in 1868 entered the
United States Naval academy. After
leaving the academy he served with the
European fleet for three years. From
1915 to 1877 he served with the North
Atlantic fleet nj during the next two
years he was IA charge of the naval
ordnance proving grounds. For five
years he was an instructor at the An
napolis academy and then came another
period of sea duty ON the European sta
ton. In later years ADMIRAL Merrill has'l
served with the Asatic fleet. as a mem
Der of the staff of the Naval War col
lege, as commaadant of the naval station
at New Orleans. and as commander OF
the battleship Oregon.
THOMAS Il. WATSON. the candi-
date of the Peoples party for President
of the United States, was born in Co
lumbia county, Georgia, September .,
1886. After course in the district
schools he spent two years in study at
Mercer college. After leaving college he
taught school for several years and q
the same time studied law. He was adj
mitted 10 the bar in 1870 and in 1852
was elected 10 the Georgia Legislature.
In 1891 he WAS elected to Congress on
the Populist ticket. While IN Congress
be secured the first appropriation for
free delivery of mails in rural districts
that Congress ever passed In 1896 at
the Populist national convention in st.
Louis Mr.. Watson was nominated for
vice president on the ticket with William
H. Bryan. In 1904 he was the choice
of the Peoples party fer President and
at the convention in st. Louis last April
he was again accorded the same honor.
lii recent years Mr. Watson has aban-
loned the practice of law and has de-
voted much of his time 70 literary WORK. |
JAMES X. HACkETT the well
known actar-manager. was horn Septem- |
her q. 1863. ut Wolfe island, Ontario |
lie comes of family which has con
trihuted many brilliant players To the |
stage both in England and America. His |
father was james Henry uackett, who |
was said to be the greatest Falstaff that |
America has ever known. The younger |
Hackett spent his hoyhood in New York |
ana was graduated from the College # /
the City of New York in 1891. lie |
studied law. hut the attraction of the /
Stage proved stronger than his inclina- /
ton for the bar and in 1892, in Phila- /
delphia he made his debut with \. NJ. /
palmer's company. His rise in the pro- 1
fessien was remarkably rapid. At 26 he /
was the leading man at the New York /
I.vceuni. being tie Youngest leading man 1