Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-08-20
PROMINENT PEOPLE

:, PROMINENT PEOPLE
ALFRED NOBLE, one Of the fore
; most of American civil engineers. was
. born in Livonia, Mich. August 4 1874
and received his education at the Uni
verSity of Michigan. graduating ia 1870
: few wears later he went TO New
ork clty and began practice as a civil
engineer, IN which profession he soon.
became eminent. In 1895 he was a
member of the Nicaragua canal hoard
and from 1897 To 1900 he served on fbe
United States board of engineers on
deep waterways To Mr., Noble belongs
the credit for the successful completion
of the Pennsylvania railroads tunnels in
New York city, one of the greatest en-
IgInecrinS undertakings of modern times
| lie w"R also member of the minority
division of the board of consulting engi-
Ineers which recommended the lock canal
now IN course of construction at Panama
and was the first of the distinguished
engineers to be invited To accompaov
President Taft on his trip of inspection
to the isthmus year ago
+ K + y + Il ICK WALLINGFORD
| WHIIItlDGE, noted as an authority
/ on politic>5 economy was born i'm New
Bedford, Mass, August $, iS52' He
| graduated from Amherst college in 1874
and from the Columbia Law school four
years laser After being admitted 10
| the bar he began the practice of law i'm
New York city and soon attained promi-
hence as a corporation lawyer In re-
cent years Mr.. Whitridge has been prom
lnent in the promotion and deveIopment
! of railroad and Industrial enterprises i'm
the west. He has written extensively ON
political and economic subjects and in
recognition of his work along these lines
! he was given the honorary degree of Ii.
/ ID. by Amherst college ut the commence
| ment last June.
CHARLES NAGEL. secretary Of
commerce and labor, was born in Colo
RADIO county, Tex, August 8, lS49. His
early education was secured in the p,1b-
lie schools of st. Louis. He took a two
| years course in the St Louis Law
school and then went to the University Of
| Berlin, where he took special course
in law and political economy. Returning
70 81 Louis IN 1873 he was admitted To
the bar and soon took an active part in
municipal affairs. In 1891 he was elect
ed to the Missouri Legislature. He
served ms president of the st Louis CITY
council from 1898 to 1897, and during
the last presidential campaign he was in
charge OF the western HEADQUARTERS of
the Republican national committee.
HORACE WHITE, noted as an editor
and as an authority ON finance. was born
in COlebrook, n. H., August 10 1924
In his y2uth he removed with his family
! to Wisconsin and his education was re-
celved at Beloit college He began
journalism in Chicago in 1854. When
| che Kansas war broke out two years
| later he was appointed assistant secre-
tary to the National Kansas committee,
whose headquarters were in Chicago. In
| 1893 he accompanied Abraham Lincoln
| iii his political campaign against Stephen
A. Douglas for the office of United States
senct0r, and the notable features of this
| campaign were given To the public chief
| ly through Mr.. Whites letters to the
Chicago press. After a term as a Wash
| ington correspondent during the Civil
war period he became part owner and
chief editor of the Chicago Tribune,
with which paper he remained until 1874,
| when he removed to New York. In the
| latter city he became associated with
| Henry Willard in western railroad en-
| terprises and in 1881, when Mr.. Willard
| assumed ownership of the New York
| Evening Post, Mr.. White was made
| chief editor. He remained in this posi-
| ton until 1903, when he retired from
| active business. Recently MIR White
| headed the New York commission APP
| pointed by Gov. Hughes to investigate
| the Wall street exchanges.
BURR M1NTOSH, actor writer aud
| lecturer. was born in Wellsville. O..
August IL, 1862, and was educated at
the Western University of Penusylva-
mia, Lafayette college and Princeton uni
versity. After being engaged in news
paper work in Philadelphia for several
years, he decided to go on the stage and
III 1880 he made his debut at the -Four
teenth street theater in New York Aft
er one season on the stage he returned
to newspaper work for two years. In
1883 he again took up acting He was
with Miss Kate Claxton in Called
Back" and then joined the company of
the late Arthur Rehan. acting in the
farces and light comedies produced by
Augustin DAILY in New York. In sue
cecding years Mr. Mcintosh supported
E. II. Holland, II. :. Willard and other
noted players one of his greatest sue
cesses was as Taffy in the first "Trilby"
cast, which also included such well
known players as Wilton Lackaye. Miss
Virginia Harmed and Leo Dietrichstein
When war with Spain was declared Mr..
Mcintosh went to the front as a war
correspondent Subsequently he spent
some time in the Philippines. In late
years he has been engaged chiefly as a
photographer, magazine editor and pub
lie lecturer.
THOMAS EMMETT ELLISON. yaw-
La Grange. Ind, August II, 1852. aud
received his education at Notre Dame
college and the University Of Michigan
In 1874 he was admitted to the bar and
began the practice of law in Fort
Wayne. In 1894 he was elected to the
Indiana state Senate, where he interest
ed himself particularly in legislative
measures looking to The reform Of the
methods in vogue in the penal and cor
regional institutions of the state As
| result Of his efforts the Legislature en-
acted a law changing the then existing
system of imprisonment and Introducing
a parole system and the indeterminate
sentence. Mr.. Ellison also brought
| about the establishment in Indiana Of
| the first ref0rmatory for youthful Grim
inas and was made it's president. He
was one of the founders Of the national
| prison congress and has represented the
| United States al several sessions of the
international prison congress.