Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-09-17

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NOTES OF NOTABLES.
! JOSEPH HOLT GAINES. represent
alive IN Congress from the Third district
/ of West Virginia, was born in the Dis
/ trict of Columbia, September 3. 1864,
/ and at the age of years was taken by
| his parents to Fayette county. West Nir-
| ginia, where he grew to manhood. He
| was educated at the University of West
| Virginia and at Princeton college, grad
uating from the last-named institution il,
/ 1886. The following year he was admit
| ted to the bar and began the practice of
| law His first public Office was that of
| United States district attorney for West
| Virginia, to which he was appointed by
| President Mckinley in 1897 After
| holding the office of district attorney
| four years he resigned TO accept the Re
| publican nomination for representative
| in Congress. He was successful in the
| election and took his seat in the Fifty
seventh Congress, where his ability soon
won him recognition from the Repub-
| lican leaders. Representative Gaines has
| been honored with reelection regularly
! since he first went to Congress, and is
now serving his fifth term.
THOMAS WAKEFIELD GOOD
| SPEED, clergyman and secretary and
| registrar of the University of Chicago,
was born in Glens Falls, n. Y, Septem-
| Der T. 1912. After spending three years
| Mt the old University of Chicago, he We
graduated from the University of Roch-
| ester i. 1868, and at the Rochester The
| illogical seminary two Years later. He
was pastor of the Second Baptist church,
| Chicago, from 1872 to 1876, resigniug in
! the latter year to become secretary of
| the Baptist Union Theological seminary
| Mr., Goodspeed remained secretary of the
| theological seminary thirteen years. He
| has been secretary of the University Of
| Chicago since 1890, and its registrar
! since 1895.
RICHARD ARBUTHNOT jack
| SON, president of the Chicago, Rock
| Island & Pacific Railway company. was
born in Richmond, Ind, September ).
| 1858. After graduating from Earlham
! college in 1875 he took Il four years
| course in law at the University of Nir-
| ginia. In 1880 he was admitted to the
bar and began the practice of law in his
| native city. From 1856 to 1890 he was
| prosecuting attorney of Wayne county,
| Indiana. In 1902 he became connected
| with the Rock Island railway system in
| the capacity of general counsel and two
years later he was made first vice presi-
| dent of the company. Last spring, upon
| the resignation of President Mather Mr.
| jackson was elected to succeed him in
| the presidency of the railway company.
| MISS JANE adams, one of the
| foremost social reform workers in Amer,
| lea and founder of Hull House. Chica.
| COS famous social settlement, was born
! III Cedarville, ILL.,, September g. 1860.
| AS Il girl she attended "A country school
] D. I'D fh,E, ,..,1 l.
| ford college, from which she was grad
uated iii 1881 She began the study Of
medicine in Philadelphia, but i'll health
1 caused her to abOndon her plan to be-
| come a physician, and for several years
4 she travelled in Europe While abroad
She became interested in the work that
/ was being done to better the condition
of the poor Of London. In 1888, when
! she returned to America, Miss Addams
decided TO try the London experiment on
! a small Scae among the poor of Chicago.
! With several associates she secured an
| old residence in the midst Of a foreign
and poverty-Stricken section of the city.
| The first activity of the settlement was
| devoted to caring for the children of the
neighborhood The institution was sue
| cessful from the beginning. New build
| ings have been added to Hull House
| from time to time, including coffee
house, a chldren's building and a gym
| nasium.
| REPRESENTATIVE CHARLES
| FREDERICK SCOTT of Kansas, who,
| it is reported may be the next Secretary
of Agriculture of the United States, was
| born on a farm in Allen County, Kan
| sas. September Z, 1860 He was grad
| dated from the University of Kansas in
| 1881 with the degree of b. S.. reveiv-
| ing his masters degree some years later.
| In the latter part of 1882 he bought
| small interest in a weekly newspaper in
the town of lola. Later he acquired en-
| tire control of the property and con-
yerted into n successful daily. In 1892
| Mr.. Scott was elected as a Republican
! to the state senate of Kansas and served
| Congressman-at-lar and in 1906. the
| state having been redistricted, he was
| elected to the SiXtieth Congress as Re
| preventative from the Second district.
| Representative Scott has devoted parti-
cular attention to agricultural matters
| and is regarded as well qualified to fill
| the Office of Secretary of Agriculture.
MRS. RUSSELL SAGE who is eugaded
| in distributing for the benefit of man
kind the colossal fortune left by her late
| husband. was born September s, 1928. in
! Syracuse. n. Y. Her father was
merchant in that city. and she was edr.
/ y
| in Troy. After graduating from that in
| stitution she taught school for several
| years. She was married to Mr.. Sage in
| 1869, two years after the death Of his
| first wife In the three years that have
passed since the death of the great
! inancier Mrs. Sage has spent more than
! SO 100000 for philanthropic purposes.
| This vast sum has been distributed in
| aid of the causes of education and re-
/ ligion and for the amelioration of human
misery. To educational institutions Mrs.
! Sage has recently given nearly 5000.
! coo 10 religious work something like
| S2.500.00O. to the Sage Foundation $40,
! 100000, while the remainder has gone to
! works Of semi-reIigious and educational
/ character.
PROF. J. HENRY POINTING, who
was one of the presiding officers at the
/ recent meeting in Winnipeg Of the Brit
/ ish Association for the Advancement Of
/ Science, was born near Manchester.
England. September Q, 1852, and re-
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