Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-04-09
NOTES OF NOTABLEs

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United States senator from Aississipni
was born at Brandon. Miss. March 3G
1918, and spent his youth on farm in
Smith county in the same state. At tl,
age of 1G he entered SummerviIIa H..
stitute, but before he had finished hi.
first term he left school to enter tha
Confederate army. After the close nf
the war he began the study of law and
was admitted to the bar il 1865. He
began the practice of his profession in
the town of Raleigh, and in 1871 he was
elected tc his first public Office that of
district attorney. In 1876 he removed ia
Brandon, which city he has since made
It's home. He served SUCCESSFULLY as
a member of the Legislature in 1879 as
n presidential elector in 1888, as a Nom
Der of the state constitutional convention
III 1890. and as a United States Senate.
for one year beginning in February
1894. to fill an unexpired term. In 1885,
he was elected governor of Mississippi
and upon the expiration of his foul
years term he was elected to the Unit
ed States Senate, where he is now sery-
ing his second term.
AUGUST f. BRUSKE, president nf
Alma college, was born in Rachen. Pru,
STA. March 81, 1S41, and came to Amer
lea as an emigrant boy. After two win
tiers in a district school college he ioined
LDe army, Receiving the pOOO bounty then
paid to volunteers. When the war ended
he used this money to gain an education
During his five years in college he lived
almost wholly on simple diet of bread
and butter. with a baked potato once -
week as his only luxury. In 1869 he fin
ished his course at Adrian college ana
then followed two years in theological
seminary. From 1878 to 1891 he occu
pied pulpits in Charlotte and Saginaw
Michigan, and since the latter wear he
has been president of Alma college nj
Alma, Michigan.
HAROLD KYRLE BELLEW. fine
well known actor was born in Prescot
England, March %, 1865, the son of =
clergyman of prominence. After a time
in a ship brokers' office, when I6 Years
old, he went to Australia, where he
prospected for gold and also did newspa-
per work. He made his first stage an
pearance at Solferino, Australia, in 1871
playing small part in a one-act farce.
He made his first appearance in Eng
land the following year at the Theate,.
Royal, Brighton, and on October Ii.
1875, he first appeared in London He
was then with the Haymarket company
for three years and in 1873 joined Hen
ry 1rvings company. He first visited
America in 1882, but did not act here
His American debut was made at Wal
lacks theater. New York. October 70.
1885. In 1888 he formed a partnership
with Mrs. James Brown Potter and to-
gether they toured India and Australia
for three years. During the past few
years Mr.. Kellew has remained in the
United States and has been seen in n
number of successes.
PROF. GEORGE GRAFTON VII
son, a noted authority ON international
law and particularly on the laws of
naval warfare. was born at Plainfield
Conn, March %, 1863 and in 1885,;
graduated from Brown university. Al
the early age of % he received an an
pointment as professor at Brown. Pre-
vious to entering upon his career as an
educator he had studied several years
at Oxford. Heidelberg, Paris and other
universities in Europe. For eight years
Prof. Wilson has been a lecturer on in
ternational law at the Newport naval
war college, and since 1906 has lectured
ON that subject at Harvard university.
In addition to his lectures Prof Will
son has written number of valuable
works dealing with his chosen branch of
knowledge.
FREDERICK WILLIAM HAMII.-
TON, president of Tufts college at Med
ford, Mass. was born March 30 at Port
land. Me- and received his early educa-
ton in the public schools of that city
He began his career as a clerk in the Of
road. He continued at the work nine
years and at the same time acquired
technical education and studied for the
ministry. In 1889 he became a clergy
man of the Uniyersalist church and dur
ing the succeeding years he occupied
pulpits in various New England cities
He continued in the ministry until 1908.
when he was called to the presidency of
Tufts college. DIR. Hamilton, in add
ton to his educational work, is the au-
thor of number of religious works.
JOHN LA FARCE, the noted artist
and author, was born in New York
March 81, 1885. In his youth he studied
architectural decoration and later de
voted himself to painting He began
| painting with religious subjects and deco
rative work. Later he painted flowers
| landscapes and a few portraits He then
/ devoted himself TO rural painting, most
ly of religious or ecclesiastical character
| OF late years he has devoted himself To
the making of stained glass windows.
| The American methods now so p0pu
| lar in England originated with Mr.. La
Fargo, whose wonderful windows may
| be found in many large churches of New
York, Washington, Boston, Chicago.
| Philadelphia and elsewhere. Mr. La
Fargo has written several books dealing
! with the subject of art, among them
| being IAN Artists Letters from Japan
and THE Higher Life in Art
EDWIN AUSTIN ABBEY, the IA
nous artist. was born in Philadelphia.
| April /, 1852, and was educated at tne
| Academy of Fine Arts in that city. IN
| 1871 he was engaged as an Illustrator by
a firm of New York publishers and in
1878 he was sent by the firm to England.
where he has continued to reside. His
| first picture was exhibited at the Royal
academy in 1890. In 1895 he painted the
| frieze, The Quest of the Holy Grail,
| for the Boston Public library. In 1892
he published illustrated editions of Her
rick's poems, in 1901 THE Crusaders,
| and in 1906 Columbus in the New
| World" In 1901 he painted the official
picture of the coronation scene, and also
The Crusaders Sighting Jerusalem.
which was exhibited at the Royal acad-
envy. Mr.. Abbey is member Of the
leading societies of artists in both Eng
land and America and honorary degrees
have been bestowed upon him by Yale
university and the University of Penn