Los Angeles herald., 1909-03-05
E. H. HARTMAN

having been born in Colorado county,
| Texas. in 1S499. He comes of profess
| sional ancestors, his father, DR.. Her
man Nagel, being one of a family of
| four brothers, of whom three are phy-
| sicians, and his maternal grandfather
| and grandfather were clergymen.
| In the height of the civil war the pro-
| nounced Union sentiments of DR.. Nagel
compelled him to remove from Texas
to st. Louis. Here Charles Nagel soon
! entered the st. Louis high school. Grad
uating from there he took a two years
| course in the st. Louis law school
| and then went to the University or
Berlin, where he took special course
! in law and political economy. Return
ing to st. Louis in 1873 he was ad-
| mitted to the bar and soon took an
active part in municipal affairs. In
addition to being a member of the
| lower house of state legislature, he was
for four years president 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 10
educational matters. He fills pro-
fessorship in the st. Louis law school,
is a member of the board of trustees
of the public library, of the board OF
trustees of Washington university, ana
a member of the board of control of the
st. Louis museum of fine arts. Mr..
Nagel as the Missouri member or the
Republican national committee, served
during the recent campaign as MEM
Der of the executive committee and was
| in charge of the western headquarters.
| Socially he mas been active in his ma
| tive city, being a member OF the Uni
yersity club, the Commercial club, the
| ST. Louis club, the Round Table ana
Country clubs, and also of the Metro
politan club in Washington city.
Frank II. Hitchcock
Although the youngest member of the
new cabinet, Frank H. Hitchcock, Mr..
Tafts postmaster general, is probably
better known to the general pubic
than any of his colleagues, by reason
Of the prominence he obtained as chalr-
man of the Republican national COM
mittee in the recent campaign. MI;
Hitchcock is only AZ FEARS of age, and
since he left school has been in the
employ of the government. He is
native of Ohio, but received his educa-
ton in Massachusetts,, to Whlch state
his parents removed while he was quite
young. Graduating from Harvard IN
1891, he obtained a clerkship in the de-
partment of agriculture. Later Secre-
tary Wilson made him chief or the
division of foreign markets, and when
the department of commerce and labor
was organized he was made its first
chief clerk. In Mr.. RooseVelts nrst
campaign he was assistant secretary
to the Republican national committee,
and was later appointed first assistant
postmaster general. He resigned lhal
position when the Taft campaign was
opened to take charge of Mr.. Tafts
interests Subsequently he was elect
ed chairman of the Republican national
committee, which post he still holus.
During his first years as a govern
ment clerk In Washington Mr.. Hitch
cock found time to take law course
at Columbian university, and on grad
uation was admitted to the bar in the
District of Columbia and three years
later was admitted to practice before
the supreme court of the United States.
Among other associations he is men,
Der of the American Economic assoc
citation, the American Statistical asso-
citation and the American Association
for the Advancement of Science. Mr..
Hitchcock is a bachelor.
James Wilson
If Secretary Wilson continues to hold
the agricultural portfolio until next
November he will have broken the rec
ord for continuous cabinet service,
which is now held by Albert Gallatin,
once secretary of the treasury, VINO
served twelve years, eight months and
twenty-five days. Secretary Wilson was
appointed at the outset of the Mckinley
administration. He was born in Ayr
SHIRE Scotland, in 1885, and at the age
of II was brought to this country by
his parents. He was educated in the
public schools of Iowa and at Iowa
college He engaged in farming and,
entering state politics was a member
of the twelfth, thirteenth and four
teenth assemblies of Iowa, being elect
ed speaker of the assembly in his last
term. He served three terms in con-
gress. In the forty-eighth congress his
seat was contested, and the opponents
of General Grant, who was then near
ing his end at Mount McGregor used
the seating contest for a flibuster to
defeat the Grant retirement bill. Mr..
Wilson saved the measure by resign
ing on the stipulation that the Grant
bill should be Immediately passed.
Franklin MacVeagh
Franklin MacVeagh, merchant, who
will be the next secretary of the treas
ury, was born on a farm near Phoenix
vile, Chester county, Pennsylvania He
was graduated from Yale as b. A. in
1862, and from Columbia law school,
New York, in 1864, and began practice
with his father, Wayne MacVeagh, but,
his health failing, he abandoned law
and went west. Shortly after he es-
tablished in Chicago the wholesale groc-
cry house of Franklin MacVeagh & Co.,
which for many years has been one
of the largest in the country, and from
which it is reported he has only re-