Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1909-02-04

anniversaries are thrown In for good
measure. They are the four hundredth
anniversary of the birth of John
Calvin, the two hundredth anniversary
of the birth of DIR. Samuel Johnson
and the centennial of the death of
Josef Haydn.
The first anniversary was that of
Poe, who was born on January 10, in
Boston. Among the plans for the Poe
celebration in New York was the dedi.
cation of bronze statue in Poe park,
opposite Fordham college.
The second anniversary is that of
Felix Notwithstanding who was
born on February 8, at Hamburg.
Nine days after the famous son of
the Jewish-Christian family of Ger
many was born in Hamburg two men
whose names will long be borne on
the roster of the worlds great ones
first saw the light on opposite sides of
the Atlantic. One was Abraham Lin
coin, born in a settlers cabin in
Hardin county, KY, and the other
was Charles Robert Darwin, who was
born in the home of an English rector
in Shrewsbury. 1t Is probable that
congress will provide for national
memorial of Lincoln, and that the one
hundredth anniversary of his birth
will be observed as national holiday.
His birthplace is to be preserved In
New York city commemorative exer-
cises will be held in churches, halls
and schools. A general committee, In
Guiding among it's members many per-
sons associated with Lincoln and his
assassination in n personal manner,
mas been appointed to arrange for an
appropriate celebration, of which Jo-
seph H. Choate is chairman. Hugh
Hastings is chairman Of the executive
committee of this body.
Among the members are Mayor Mo
Clellan, Frederick w. Seward, assis.
tant secretary of state from 1861 to
1869, who was nearly murdered while
defending Secretary Seward, his fa-
ther, on April IA, 1865; Judge A. J.
Dittenhoefer, the only surviving Linz
coin elector of 1864; DR.. Charles A.
Leale, who was the first surgeon to
reach the president after he was shot;
Maj. Gems. Sickles and Stahel and
Gen. James r. O'Beirne, who was pro-
vost marshal of the District of Co
lumbia when the president was assas-
sinated
At Springfield, ILL.,, where Lincoln
was buried, there will be addresses by
Ambassador Bryce of England. Am
ha of
tor Dolliver of Iowa, and william J. |
Bryan on February IL.
The first day of the lively month of |
March will mark the one hundredth |
of the gentle-flngered and
pianist and com.
poser, Frederic Francois Chopin. He
was born in Zelazowa VIOLA. near
Warsaw, Poland.
1t was on the tenth day of July,
1909, at Noyon, in Picardy, France,
that John Calvin first saw the light.
Alfred Lord Tennyson, like Darwin,
was son of rector of the Established
Church of England. He was born ON
August 6, 1909, at Somersby, in Lin
colnshire.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, the third
American of the great group of 1909,
was born on August 29 beneath the
classic shades of Harvard, at Cam
bridge, Mass. Two different classes of
persons can celebrate his birth with
special interest. They are the prac-
Litioners of medicine, who owe him
for his essay on a medical
subject which had not received proper
attention before his time, and the
guild of authors.
DR.. Samuel johnson was born in
Aichfield September 1S, 1903. He was
another of the geniuses of recent CEN
uries who have found that the arts
ire poor paymasters.
The last of the group of 1909 to en-
er the scene, and also the last to
cave it, was William Ewart Glad.
tone. He came very near not get
ing into this great year, for he was
ff.rt on H.. ~