The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1909-03-12


1907, to succeed Postmaster General
| Cortelyou. He was at that time am
bassadOr to st. Petersburg, to which
post he had been transferred from
Rome, where he had served five years
as ambassador. Mr.. Meyer is a native
OF Boston, in which city he was born
IN 1888. After graduating from Har-
ward he entered the employ of com
mission firm, and some years later be-
came member of the firm of Under
| & Meyer, East India merchants, which
had been established by his father.
| He is an officer or director in many
large manufacturing and financial con-
Germs, and has always been active in
politics, having been member of the
Boston common council, an alderman,
member of the state legislature,
serving as speaker of the lower house
for three consecutive years. Mr.. Mey-
er was elected a member of the Re-
publican national committee in 1899,
and on McKinley's election he was
made ambassador to Italy. He is a
member of the Athletic, the Somerset
and st. Botolph clubs, of Boston, and
among other business offices is presi-
dent of the Ames Plow company and a
director of the Old Colony Trust COM
pany, and the Amoskeag Manufacture
ing company. Mr.. Meyer is sports
man and an angler and is known as a
crack shot.
George w. Wickersham.
New York's representative in the
new cabinet is George w. Wicker
sham, who becomes attorney general
Mr.. Wickersham is member of the
law firm in which President Taft's
brother, Henry w. Taft is partner
and he is known as an expert in rail-
road law. Although resident of New
York city, Mr.. Wickersham is native
of Pennsylvania, having been born in
Pittsburg, in 1858. He first took civil
engineering at Lehigh university, but
later entered the law school of the
University of Pennsylvania, from which
he holds the degree of bachelor of
|
tice in Philadelphia, but later went to
New York and associated himself with
the firm of Chamberlain, Carter &
HornblOwer. A year later he became
managing clerk of the firm of Strong
& Cadwalader, of which President
Taft's brother is member and event
ually was taken into partnership.
| Mr.. Wickersham is counsel for a
large number of corporations, among
them the Interborough railroad and
as attorney for the railroads in the
famous Chicago Traction case came
into considerable public prominence.
He is fond of travel, usually spending
a portion of the year abroad and is 4
devoted equestrian. He has a country
residence at Cedarhurst, Long Islanad
and also a home in New York city.
Charles Nagel
| Charles Nagel, of st. Louis, the new
SECRETARY of commerce and labor is
better known among lawyers and edu-
Gators than to the public at large, al
though he served us a member of the
Missouri house or representatives and
is a member of the republican national
committee. He is a native westerner
having been born in Colorado county
Texas, in l849 He comes of profess
siOnal ancestors, his father, DIR. Mer-
man Nagel, being one of a family of
four brothers of whom three are phys
icians and his maternal grandfather
and great grandfather were clergy
men. In the height of the civil war the
pronounced union sentiments of DR..
Nagel compelled him to move from
gel soon entered the st. Louis high
school, Graduating from there he took
a two years course in the st. Louis
Law school and then went to the Uni
versity of Berlin, where he took a
special course in law and political
economy. Returning to st. Louis in
1873, he was admitted to the bar
and soon took an active part in num-
cipal affairs. In addition to being a
member of the lower house of state
legislature he was for four years presi
dent of the city council of st. Louis.
Although he has taken an active part
in politics and has an extended law
practice, he has found time to give
much attention to educational matters.
He fills professorship in the ST. Louis
Law school: is member of the board
of trustees of the public library, of
the board of trustees of Washington
university and member of the board
! of control of the st. Louis Museum of
Fine Arts Mr.. Nagel, as the Missouri
member of the republican national COM
mittee, served during the recent cam
paign as member Of the executive
| committee and was in charge of the
western headquarters. Socially, he has
been active in his native city, being u
member of the University club, the
Commercial club, the st. Louis club,
the Round Table and Country clubs,
and also of the Metropolitan club in
Washington City.
Frank H. Hitchcock.
Although the youngest member of
| the new cabinet, Frank H. Hitchcock,
Mr.. Taft's postmaster general, is prob
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