Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-03-26
NOTES OF NOTABLES,

NOTES OF NOTABLES.
LOUIS J. FORGET, member of the
Canadian Senate and one of the fore
most of Canada's financiers. was born
at Terrebonne, Quebec, March IL. 1854.
At an early age he left school to engage
IN business. lie Joined the Montreal
Stock exchange at the age of p and in
1870 and for several years thereafter he
served as president of the exchange.
Senator Forget has been president of the
Montreal street railway since 1892, and
president of the Richelieu & Ontario
Navigation company since 1896. He was
called to the Senate by the Earl of
Aberdeen in 1896 and four years ago
was elected director of the Canadian
Pacific railway.
HILARY A. HERBERT, who was
secretary of the navy in the second adj
ministration of President Cleveland, was
born March II, 1884, in Laurensville, S.
G. His education was received in the
Universities of Virginia and Alabama.
In the Civil war he served as colonel of
the Eighth Alabama Confederate volun-
teers and was disabled at the Battle of
the Wilderness. Following the close of
the war MIR. Herbert began the practice
OF law at Greenville, Ala, removing to
Montgomery. In 1877 he was elected a
representative in Congress and continued
to serve for sixteen years, until his APP
polntment to cabinet position by PreSi-
dent Cleveland. After his retirement
from the cabinet he remained in Wash
ington and engaged in the practice of
law. Mr.. Herbert is the author of sew
eral very successful historical works
dealing with the Civil war and the pc
riod of Reconstruction in the south.
DIR. GUSTAV ALBERT ANDREEN.
president of Agustana college at Rock
island, H., was born in Porter, Ind,
March ID, 1864, He graduated from
Augustana college in 1881 and later
studied law. He abandoned his plan to
become a lawyer, however, in favor of
a career as an educator. In 1886 he
joined the faculty of Bethany college in
Kansas and remained with that institu-
ton seven years. From 1894 to 1900 he
was an instructor in German at Yale
university. The next two years he spent
as a student in European universities.
Upon his return to America he was
chosen president of Augustana college.
Recently he has been engaged IN
movement among the Swedish Lutherans
all over the country to raise the endow
ment fund of Augustana college to $780,
600.
DIR. PAUL EHRLCH, one of the
Noble prize winners of last year, was
born March IA, 1854, at Strehlen. Silesia.
His education was received in the uni
versities of Breslau, Strassburg. Fret
burg and Leipsic. For number of
years he has been a director of the
Royal Institution for Experimental
Therapeutics at Frankfort-on-the-M Main
He has contributed to various depart
ments of medical knowledge, including
the nature and treatment of tuberculosis
diphtheria, anaemia and cancer. For
his discoveries in medical science he
holds many offices and honors in Ger
many and is an imperial privy councillor
GEORGE COLBY CHASE. president
/ of Bates college, was born at Unity, Me-
March 10, 1914. After graduating from
Bates college in 1868 he attended the
Cobb Divinity school and later spent a
year as a student at Harvard. He was
a teacher of Greek and Latin in the New
Hampton Literary institution from 1868
to 1870, and was professor of rhetoric
and English literature from 1872 70
1894, and since 1894 has been president
and professor of psychology and logic of
Bates college. DIR. Chase is a member
of several prominent learned and scien-
tific societies of America and has been
given honorary degrees by Colorado uni
yersity, the University of New Bruins
wick Bowdoin college, Colby college
and several other institutions of learn
ing.
FRANK MOSS, who recently succeed
ed DIR. Parkhurst as president of thc
New \ ork Society for the Prevention of
Crime, was born in Cold Spring, n. Y,
March 16, 1850, and was educated in the
New York city public schools. For a
number of years he has been active in
city campaigns on reform issues He
was president of the New York City Po-
lice board in 1897, associate counsel in
the Lexow investigation and leading
counsel in the Mazet investigation. AS
president of the City Vigilance league
he directed movements fer the suppress
sion of crime and of alliances between
criminals and corrupt officials.
CLARA MORRIS, the retired actress
for whom it is proposed to give a benefit
performance in New York at an early
date, was born in Toronto, March II
1913. When an infant she was taken
nv her parents to Cleveland and in that
city she passed her childhood years. In
1861 she made her stage debut as a mem
Der of the ballet at the Academy of Mu-
sic in Cleveland. She made rapid prog
reSs as an actress and before she was
30 she had become a popular favorite
In 1869 she became leading woman at
Woods theater in Cincinnati While
there she came under the critical eve of
the late Augustin DAILY and that noted
manager and producer of plays gave her
leading part with his company at the
Fifth Avenue theater in New York.
Here she added 10 her fame as an emo
tional actress. During the years that
followed she was seen in all of the chief
cities of America and also appeared
with success on the English stage In
the early sos she was compelled by i'll