The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-06-20
copyright, 1909. by John Elfreth Wat
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Copyright, 1909. by John E,lfreth Wat
kins.)
Mrs. Julia Ward Howe's entering the
nonagenarian class the other day sug-
gests an inquiry TO who's who at the
top OF the chronological list OF men and
women OF attainment.
The worlds stock Of noted centenarianS
has been exhausted by the recent deaths
OF Manuel Garcia. the British larynga-
scopist and David Wark, the Canadian
senator Since these patriarchs passed
out no notable has succeeded in sharing
their coveted distinction. although Charles
Haynes Haswell, our distinguished engi-
neer' reachfd ~ before his recent death.
John Bigelow at Ninety One.
But In the nonagenarlan class which
she now enters. Mrs Howe finds a num-
Der OF congenial spirits. Notable mone
these is her fellow author, John Bigelow,
VINO ON the 25th OF November coming
VIII celebrate his ninety birthday
and whose works are indeXed as appear
Ing, as late as his nlnetieth year Monroe
had Just entered the White House when
tnis remarkable man was born ND In
Ulster county. New York Indeed most
OF our grandfathers were as yet unborn
when, seventy-four years ago this spring
ne received his shcopskin from Union
college The New York Evening Post
was commencing To chronicle the onrush
OF the "forty-nincrs" TO California when
he became It's editor 10 remain as such
and help. with his VIrlle pen, TO shape
northern sentiment during the twelve
years preceding the civil war During
- mo- 'Hiee years OF that struggle he
WaE our consul 10 France, whore he was
made minister, thus serving for three
years more. II has been nfty-sevcn wears
now since his hrst book was published
Hihtant work In favor OF abolition.
Mrs Howe Still Writing.
He and Mrs. Howe were both working
with their pens Tor abolition at :hc same
tmc' She had been born when he was a
year and sin months old, and her anti
sha,,sl slavery iiSht S was wased shoulder to
nhiianthropist, Dr. Samuel Gridley Howe.
Together they conducted the Boston
Commonw wealth. and after the slavery
question was settled she became n prisou
rcformer. peace agtator lecturer. Uni
tartan preacher. suffra gist and author. 1t
has been nearly nifty years now since she
lie. Which President Roosevelt suggested
should be authorized by congress as the
national anthem, And the latest report
from her home In Boston is that she is
industriouSly a work upon n new lyric
poem. But 1t Is difficult TO realize that
one whose pen Is still active saw the
nght shine on this land OF ours before
Grant or Hayes was born.
VIM. Mathews Nearing Ninety-Two.
Then We have another nonseenarian
author, William Mathews OF Boston, who
VIII be ninety-two next month, which
ranks him just between Mr.. Bigeow
and Mrs. Howe. Three score years anl
ten ago ho had not only been graduated
from Waterville college. now Colby u:.i-
versity, but finished four years additional
at the Harvard law school and had been
admitted TO the bar. It was soon after
ward that he started the Yankee Blade
UP in his native sta te OF Maine, which
he united with the Portfolio" back in
Pierce's administration. Before tho war
was over he had been married TO his third
wife. He was ffty-five when his first
work Getting On in the World" ap-
peared. This was back in 1878, and his
twelfth book, "Conquering Success" was
published when he was eighty-flve, Since
he WAS seventy he has not only produced
four books, but has contributed to maga-
zines and cyclopedias. and has written
the critical and photographed notes to a
forty-volume edition Of Bulwer.
DR.. Hepburn at Ninety Four.
Outranking all OF these venerable au-
thors in point OF age is DR. James Curtis
Hepburn OF East Orange, y. j., the man
who compiled the first English dictionary
of the Japanese language, and who also
wrote the grammar OF Japanese, into
which tongue he translated the Bible.
When this sage was born. March 12, 1915
Madison was president and our second
war with Great Britain had been over
but a few weeks. This month occurs the
seventy seventh anniversary OF his grad
uation at Princeton, In 1882. ana or his
alma mater he is the oldest alumnus
After being graduated In medicine at the
University of Pennsylvania in 1895 he