Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-04-16


pied similar position at the University
of Chicago Prof. Laughlin was lead
ing promoter of the monetary conference
held at indianapolis in 1897 and was
a member of the monetary commission
created by that conference. In 1884 he
prepared for the government of San Do
mingo scheme Of monetary reform
which was afterward adopted He is
a member of the international institute.
of statistics and has written extensively
on the subject of finance and monetary
reform.
JOHN BURROUGHS, famous as an
cssayist and naturalist, was born in the
town of Roxbury, n. Y. April g. 1897
and received his education in the acad-
envy of his home town. After leaving
the academy he taught school for some
years and in 1864 he became a clerk in
the treasury department at Washington
Here he remained until 1873, when he
resigned his position in the government
service to satisfy his natural longing
for outdoor life. After quitting Wash
ington he bought farm in New York
and here he has continued to live ever
since, studying nature and animal life
from first hand observation, and deyot-
ing himself to literature and fruit cul-
ture. He has written more than score
of successful books, the most of them
treating of the habits of wild animals.
REPRESENTATIVE ADOLPH ].
SABBATH. who has introduced in Con
gress a bill providing for an appropri-
alton of S250.000,000 for the erection of
national tuberculosis sanitarium in
Colorado, was born in the town of Ia
bori, in Bohemia, April 4, 1866. At the
without funds and with little knowledge
of the English language. He went to
Chicago, where he lost no time in setting
about to gain a livelihood and securing
an education. The most of his learning
was obtained in night schools. When
he had mastered the English language
and learned the ways of his adopted
country he began the study of law and
before he was 80 years old he was
admitted TO the bar and began the prac
tice of his profession. He became
political leader in the Bohemian colony
of Chicago and in 1906 he was elected
to Congress on the Democratic ticket.
elected by an increased majority.
PETER M'NUTT. member of the ex-
ecutiye council of Prince Edward Island
and one of the leading public men of
that province, was born in Darnley, P
e. l., April s. 1884, and received his
education at Prince of Wales college,
mercantile life and he established a lob
ster packing plant which eventually be-
came one of the largest concerns of it's
kind in the world. Mr.. McNutt was
elected to the provincial Legislature i'll
1882 and was several times reelected.
He has held a seat in the executive coun-
! Gil since 1897. when he became a mem
Der of the Warburton administration.
His name was prominently mentioned in
connection with the governorship in
1904. and with the premiership OH the
death of the late Hon. Arthur Peters.
WILLIAM BAYARD HALE, the.
| author of the suppressed interview
given by Emperor William H. and
which aroused an international discus
sion last fall. was born in Richmond
| Ind. April 6, 1869. He is a graduate
of Boston university Harvard university
and the Episcopal Theological seminary
at Cambridge. Prior to taking up the
study of theology he had developed
was engaged in newspaper work in Chi
cago. In 1894 he was ordained as a
rector of the Episcopal church. He oc-
cupied pulpits in Boston and vicinity
and soon attracted widespread attention
| by his attacks on modern church meth
DDS. His opposition to church fairs and
similar entertainments was particularly
marked. In 1900 he retired from the
pulpit and took up magazine and news
paper work. For a time he was editor
of a New York magazine and later of
leading newspaper in Philadelphia
! During the past five or six years
he has been a writer and traveller
PROF. JACQUES LOEB, head of
the department of physiology at the
| University of California, was born in
Germany, April Z, 1859, and received
his early education at the Ascanisches
gymnasium in Berlin. Subsequently he
studied medicine IN Berlin. Munich and
Strassburg. From 1856 TO 1888 he was
assistant III physiology at the University
| of Wurzburg and during the two years
following he occupied a similar position
at the University of Strassburg Com
ing to America in 1891, he became a
member of the faculty of Bryn Mawr
college. He remained at Bryn Mawr
until 1900. when he went to the Uni
versity of Chicago. Since 1902 he has
been professor of physiology at the Uni
versity of California. A number of the
leading medical and scientific societies
of America and Europe have conferred
honors upon Prof. Loeb in recognition
| of his contributions to biology and physi-
ology through his experiments in artiii-
| cial Darthen0opnpSiS