The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-12-26
Grand Old Men of Nineteen Ten and Grand Old Women Too

brated French pulpit orator, who be-
came priest and then Carmelits
monk. His marriage in 1872 TO Emile
Butter6eld Merriman Of New York
brought him into international fame.
and afterward he became a curate Of q
congregation Of liberal Catholics in
Geneva. His wife died in Paris only
this month-December 4.
Age eighty y-four-Eugenic, ex.emprcss
OF the French and widow of Napoleon
III 1t has been ffty-seven years since
she changed her title from Countess of
Teba; thirty.seven years since she was
widowed. and thirty-one years since her
only child, Napoleon Eugene Louis. was
killed in Zululand. George H.. Duke OF
Sake Meiningen and ruler of this in
dependent member of the German en-
pire. Ernest, duke OF SAKE Altenbnrg
another of the independent German
states
Age eighty,ave-Maior General Dan
lel f, Sicllles. U. S. A.; D. Ogden Mills.
Andrew March. philologist-to whom
the seniors Of Lafayette give as many
American beauty roses rs he has years,
upon each Of his birthdays; Cyrus Thom.
as. entomoIogist and ethnologist, still ar
his desk in the bureau of American
ethnology
Age eighty, ,six-Levi P, Morton, cx-
WV Pltoli'Il VI IlC IuSlI1 bNLdlt5 ana
former governor of New York; and Pro.
fessor William Higgins, the British as
tronomer, who became famous by ana.
| lying the solar spectrum.
Age eighty tyseven-Thomas Went
worth HIgginson aud Goldwin Smith,
authors; Major General p. !. Osterhaus
| Y. 5. a.; Lieutenant General Simon
Dental candidate; ex-senator Henry
| Gassaway Davis, another former vice.
presidential candidate, whom | saw step
ping out like n STRIPPING last week al
though some deemed him "'too old to
run y five years and half ago; Robert
| Collyer, noted blacksmith preacher ot
President Taft's faith; Dr. Robert
Fletcher still editing the Index Medicus
and still running the great medical il
brary al Washington, and Ri Rev. Ber
nard John MeQuaid, first Roman Cath
| Ollie bishop of Rochester
Age eighty ight-Alfred Russell Wal
lace, the naturalist, who, simultaneously
with Darwin, announced the theory ot
| natural selection.
Theo Ledyard Cuyler. D. D.. Presby
terion minister and author, who wa,
graduated at Princeton sixty.n nine year,
ago, come next commencement day. III
has published 1000 articles in religion.
papers.
Age eighty -nine-Sir Charles Tupper
eX-prlme minister of Canada,
Clara Barton, founder of the Amcri
can National Red Cross She was fort,
at the outbreak of the Civil war. il
which struggle she nursed the sick anC
organized the search for missing men
She laid out the grounds for the Ander
sonville cemetery; worked through tn
Franco-Prussan war aud secured tn
adoption of the treaty of Geneva b,
the United States. She was seventy
: seven when President Mckinley sen
her TO Cuba TO take care of the relic
work there, in 1898, and the same yea
she did personal field work in the Span
American war. Moreover. she wa
busy upon the scene OF the Galveston
Hood when in her eightieth year.
Mary Baker Eddy. the founder o
Christian Science, Will enter her nine
tieth year July l6.
But there is yet the inner shrine, tha
Of the nonagenarians, and the initiates
Of 1910 will be:
Florence Nightingale, philanthropist
angel of the battle field; born MAY I2
1920, 1t was before President Taft wa
: born when she came into fame in tht