Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-04-23
PROMINENT People

| Dh' MUSES. SMITH CROSS, prof,
scr and for some time acting presidart
OF the University of the Pacific NJ ~,
Jose, Cal, was born April S. 1SSt ''aL
Llghtsyille, III. He was graduated f,, 1
Northwestern university in 1881 "5
from the theological seminary Of ~. .I
same university the following wear
1884 he went to Europe, where he sr, ~
/ Ine next hYe years in study, principally
| at the universities of Leipzig and Do
| lin and the National UNIVERSITY
4 Greece. Prior to going abroad La h
1 served two years as professor of q, "44
/ Latin and Hebrew at Northwestern IN
versity and upon his return from Fm
! rope IN 1870 ne accepted a similar nos
! non at the University of the Pee
| In 1906 he became acting presidapt ~
| the university. In addition to his -
! taton as an educator, DR. Cross * YIN
known as clergyman and writer. VII
RT.-REy. HENRY JOSEPH p1,r,
| TER, bishop of the Roman CatL.H
diocese of Grand Rapids, Mich, v,"s
| born April 3, 1888, in the grand dp,E
/ of Oldenburg, Germany. After stndvi"a
! In the local schools and under a priy..r-
: tutor, he came to America in 1874 aoI
| Iof hVe years was a student at CatboIir
semlnaries at Cincinnati and at RgrJs
town, Ky. He entered the Amer,
college at Rome in 1860 and in iue-
! was ordained a priest. Returnin., ~
! Cincinnati the same year. he ioined tI.
| faculty of Mount st. Mary's seniIo,r
! and year later was made vice urr,i-
| dent of that institution. For s.tya,,l
years thereafter he was a member 81
the archbishop's council in Cincinnati
| and one of the committee of inyesti@,.
| ton of the diocese. When Popp L..
XIII. established the diocese of Grand
Rapids, May 10, 1882, Rev DR. Richrar
was elected to preside over the new. 500
[ m b,
Grated by Archbishop Elder of Cinrjn-
natl.
JOHN WINGATE WEEKS. ranra-
! sentative IN Congress from the Twelfth
| district of Massachusetts, was born in
Lancaster, \. H, April II, 1860 After
! attending a preparatory school h.. en-
| tered the United States Naval academy
at Annapolis and graduated in 1881 H.
! served IN the navy as midshipman until
| 1888, when he resigned to enter IuSi-
ness as a banker and broker in Rn,ton
and New York. During the war Win
! Spain he served as a lieutenant in the
volunteer navy. He was for three years
! an alderman and two years MAYOR Of
! the city of Newton, where he resides.
! lie was elected on the Republican ticket
/ to the tlfty-ninth Congress ami has heen
! twice reelected. In Congress Represen-
| tative Weeks has taken a prominent part
IN all debates relating to finance and the
currency and is regarded as az authority
ON those subjects.
REPRESENTATIVE JOHN
MARTIN, one of the three labor mem
! bers' of the Sixty-first Congress, was born
| in Cincinnati, April 10. 1868. He left hi.
native city in early life and his educa-
ton was secured in the common schools
of Missouri. At % he became a ire
man on the Santa Fe railroad. having
mr. NTfp
the railroad strike of 1894 he lost his
| position as fireman and studied law. sup
| porting himself in the meantime hy edit
ing a weekly newspaper. He was ad-
mitted to the bar in 1886 and removed
to Pueblo, Colo, where he has since re-
sided. In 1900 he was elected to the
| General Assembly of Colorado, and made
himself conspicuous by his work in he
| half of organized labor At the last cleo
ton he was elected to Congress from the
Second District of Colorado, overcoming
a normal Republican majority of 5000.
d. CADY HERRICK, a former JUS
tice of the supreme court of New YORK
and for many years one of the Demo
cratic leader in that state, was born in
Schoharie county, New York, April L.
1916, and was educated in the schools
of Albany. He studied law and was
admitted to the bar. Soon after be he
gan practice he became active in the
local politics of Albany and in 1880 BE-
was elected district attorney. -Four years
later Mr.. Herrick succeeded Daniel
Manning as the recognized Democratic
leader in Albany. In 1856 he was aI-
pointed to the supreme bench, but he
still retained his political leadership. In
1904 Judge Herrick was an unsuccessful
candidate on the Democratic ticket for
governor of New York.
CHARLES HITCHCOCK SHEER
RILL. the new United States minister
to the Argentine Republic, was born in
Washington. d. c., April IS, 1867 After
graduating from the Yale law school IN
1892 he began the practice of law in
New York city, where he soon established
a reputation as an able corporation law
yer. He became active in Republican
politics. and in the two Mckinley cam
paigns he organized the Lawyers Sound
Money club, and was one of the COM
mittee of five that conducted the monster
business parades of those two cam
paigns. Mr.. Sheriff. was a noted ath-
lete in his college days and after bis
graduation he continued his interest in
athletic sports. He was the originator
of the idea of International inter UNI
versity track athletic meetings, having
arranged the Yale-Oxford match in Lon
don in 1894, and the Yale-Camhridge
match i'll New York the following year.
DIR. DANIEL KIMBALL PEAR
SONS, the eminent phlanthropist vino
has been seriously i'll at his winter houl'
1T Pasadena, was born April II, Isl
al Bradford, VT. He graduated in med-
cine from Dartmouth college, aud for
time practiced medicine in ChicnHee
Mass, after having taught school n''
Yeas. In 1857 he decided to 90 west
He became a farmer in Ogle county
=! H.. but after three years gave IL hp
and went to Chicago, which city Aa>
been his home ever since. In re.ea'
years DIR. Pearsons has distributed moro
| rhan 100000 among the smaller cur
leees of the country. He acquired H->
wealth largely through Chicago reaI 90
tale.
HENRY JAMES, the we'll known ~
thor, was born in New York, AplH H.
1913. In his eleventh year his fanny
went abroad, and for several years 1[
| OF Id in Svri+g