The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1909-04-22
NOTES OF NOTABLES.

INC 1ActIouieC bplScOpdl cHurcn was
born in Lewis county, Va, March 49,
1915, and received his early education in
the schools OF Ohio. He was graduated
from Mt Union college in 1865. and
from the school of theology of Boston
university in 1871. In 1868 he was Civ
en- a license to preach and joined the
Pittsburg conference. After two wears
spent in the Newport circuit of Ohio, he
was transferred to the New England
conference of which he has ever since
been a member He was founder and
for nine years pastor of the PEOPLES
church in Boston. In 1892 he was elect
ed by the general conference corresnond-
ing secretary of the Freedman's Aid and
Southern Education society of the
church. In 1900 came his elevation to
the bishopric, since which time he has
resided for the most part i'll San Fran
cisco.
professor of invertebrate zoology in
Harvard university, was born in Mil
waukee, March 10, 1865, and was edu-
Gated in the public schools of that city
and in the German-American normal
college. From 1887 to 1890 he was
curator of the Milwaukee public mu--
scum; from 1890 to 1892, fellow and
assistant in morphology in Clark uni
versity; 1892 to 1897, instructor in em-
Ill luc OulFclolty VI ChiS"5Nt
and from 1897 to 1899 assistant pro-
fessor in the same department. He be-
came professor of zoology in the Unlver-
sity of Texas in 1899 and left there
in 1908 to go to the Museum of Natural
History in New York, where he occupied
the position of curator of invertebrate
zoology until he was called to Harvard
last year. In 1893 Prof. Wheeler spent
a year in Europe. He was a student at
the Universities of Wurzburg and Liege
and was the occupant also of the Smith
sonian table at the Naples geological
station.
LITTLE JOHN d. ROCKEFEL-
LER, the infant son Of John ID. Rookie.
his parents in West Fiftyfourth street,
New York city, March p, 1906. As
fine grandson and direct heir of John d.
Rockefeller, the Standard Oil magnate,
the child will inherit a fortune if he
lives that will place him among the rich
est persons in the world. The Rookie
Teller fortune, to which the baby will
succeed is estimated at $l,OOO,OOO,OOO.
which, at its present rate OF increase,
would amount to about $5,00O,O0O,OO0
when the grandson reaches his 50th year.
The child is also likely to inherit con-
siderable wealth on the maternal side,
for his mother was Miss Abbie g. Aid
rich, the daughter of United States
Senator Aldrich of Rhode Island, who is
several times millionaire.
f. w. BENSON, who by virtue of his
office of secretary of state succeeded to the
goyernorship of Oregon upon the resigna-
ton of Gov. Chamberlain several weeks
ago. was born in Santa Clara, CAL,
March 20, 1858. He attended. the public
schools of his native place and completed
his education at the University of the
Pacific at San Jose. At the age of %
he went to Oregon and located at Rose
burg. He taught school for a time and
at the same time studied law. With his
admission to the bar he took an active
interest in politics and two years ago
was elected secretary OF state on the
Republican ticket. AS Oregon has no
lieutenant governor the secretary of
state is the next highest officer to the
governor and when Gov. Chamberlain
resigned to accept his seat in the United
States Senate, Secretary of State Ben
son became governor.
GILBERT GEORGE REGINALD
.SACKVILLE, eighth Earl of De la
War;, for whose ancestor the American
state of Delaware was named, was born
March %, 1869, and was educated at
Charterhouse. No royal family in Eng
land can boast of a prOuder lineage.
The title dates from 1909 and the early
Lords de la War; were brave soldiers.
One of them fought bravely on the field
Of Crecy and another shared in the cap
ture of John of France at Poictiers;
The present holder of the title succeeded
to the earldom on the death of his father
in 1896. He has been a member OF
Parliament and during the last war in
South Africa he served with Bethune's
Horse. He is the possessor OF mag
nifcent estate of nearly $4,000 acres.
THE RT.-REv. THOMAS f.
KENNEDY, well known i'll Catholic
church circles as rector OF the American
college at Rome, was born in COnshock-
en-, Pa, March %, 1860, and received
his education at seminary in Norris
town. After graduating he took up the
study of law, which he soon abandoned,
however, to study for the priesthood.
After finishing his theological studies
abroad he returned to Philadelphia and
was appointed a professor at st.
Charles Theological seminary. Later he
was appointed to the chair of the higher
dogmatic theology. His next advance
ment was to the rectorship OF the North
American college at Rome, where from
the beginning of his service he dis
tinguished himself by his business abil-
ity, his governing power, his tact and
courtesy Ill uedlluS Win .lO ~ 81 hui'A
Der of visitors from the United States.
Bishop Kennedy is noted as dis
tinguished preacher.
CHESTER BUTTON, who has the
distinction of being the oldest living
graduate of Yale university, was born
in New York, March "a, 1914. Follow
ing the usual preparatory course he
spent four years at Yale and after his
graduation he taught school for three
Years. In 1912 he abandoned pedagogy
n v. where he lived until 1868, when
he moved to Riverside homestead, not
far from the town of Concordia, Kan.
He took up homestead while the In
dams were still in possession of that
country and has lived there ever since.
He is the oldest of the three surviving
Yale graduates of the class of 1888, and
received his diploma just forty years be-
fore President Taft graduated from the
same institution.
ed engineering experts who accompanied
President-elect Taft on his inspection
tour of the Panama canal, was born in
Clarke county, Va, March %, 1S4S.
Educated only by his mother and by a
few months attendance in the common
schools, Mr.. Randolph began his scien-
tific career as farmer boy of 20. in the
capacity OF an axe man N the survey
of the Baltimore & Ohio railroad. With
in four years, by the closest application
to his studies, he had risen from the
the same service. In 1880 he was called
to Chicago as chief engineer of the Chi
cage & Western Indiana railroad, and Ill
1891 he was appointed consulting engl-