Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1909-03-16

the new cabinet, Frank H. Hitchcock,
Mr.. Taft's postmaster general, is prob
ably better known to the general pub
lie than any Of his colleagues by rea-
son of the prominence he obtained as
chairman Of the Republican national
committee in the recent campaign. Mr..
Hitchcock is only AZ years Of age, and
since he left school has been in the en-
ploy of the government. He Is a ma
tive of Ohio, but received his educa-
ton in Massachusetts,, to which state
his parents removed while he was quite
young. Graduating from Harvard In
1891, he obtained a clerkship In the
department Of agriculture. Later Sec
retary Wilson made him chief OF the
division of foreign markets, and when
the department of commerce and labor
was organized he was made its first
chief clerk. In Mr.. Roosevelt's first
campaign he was made assistant Sec
retary to the Republican national COM
mittee, and was later appointed first
assistant postmaster general. He re-
signed that position when the Taft
campaign was opened to take charge
Of Mr.. Taft's interests. Subsequently
he was elected chairman Of the Repub-
lican national committee, which post
he still holds. During his first years
as a government clerk in Washington
Mr.. Hitchcock found time to take a
law course at Columbian university,
and on graduation was admitted to the
bar in the District Of Columbia and
three years later was admitted to prac-
tice before the supreme court Of the
United States. Among other asso-
Citations he is a member Of the Amer
lean Economic association, the Amer
can Statistical association and the
American association for the Advance
ment of Science. Mr.. Hitchcock Is a
bachelor.
James Wilson.
II Secretary Wilson continues to hold
the agricultural portfolio until next
November he will have broken the
record for continuous cabinet service,
which Is now held by Albert Gallatin,
once secretary Of the treasury, who
served twelve years. eight months and
twenty-five days. Secretary Wilson
was appointed at the outset Of the NC
Kinley administration. He was born
in Ayershire, Scotland, in 1885, and at
the age Of II was brought to this
country by his parents. He was edu-
Gated in the public schools Of Iowa and
at Iowa college. He engaged in farm
ing and, entering state politics, was
member Of the 18th. 18th and 14th as
semblies of Iowa, being elected speak
er of the assembly in his last term. He
served three terms in congress. In
the forty eighth congress his seat was
contested and the opponents Of Gen.
Grant, who was then nearing his end
at Mount McGregor, used the seating
contest for a filibuster to defeat the
Grant retirement bill. Mr.. Wilson
saved the measure by resigning on the
stipulation that the Grant bill should
be Immediately passed.
Franklin Maeveash.
Franklin MacVeagh, merchant, who
will be the next secretary Of the treas
ury, was born on a farm near Phoenix
vile, Chester county, Pa. He was
graduated from Yale as B. A. in 1862,
and from Columbian law school, New
York, in 1862, and began practice with
his brother, Wayne MacVeagh, but. his
health failing, he abandoned law and
went west. Shortly afterward he es-
tablished in Chicago the wholesale gro
Gerry house of Franklin MacVeagh &
Co., which for many years has been
one of the largest in the country, and
from which 1t Is reported he has only
recently resigned. He Is also direc-
tor of the Commercial National bank
and other Chicago corporations.
Mr.. MacVeagh is distinguished In
Chicago not only as most successful
merchant, but especially for his active
work in behalf of civic progress and
reform. He became president Of the
Citizens Association Of Chicago in 1874,
and continued to hold the office sew
eral years afterward, making it the in
strument for many important political
reforms. At the head Of the bureau OF
charities he added greatly to the ef-
fectiveness Of that organization. and as
chairman of the Municipal Art league
and otherwise he has been a faithful
worker for the beautifying Of Chicago
by extension Of the boulevard system