Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-05-14
NOTES OF NOTABLEs

DORADO TAFT. the noted scr,..
who was recently awarded a cop Gtp,os
Tor q statue OF columbus, to be erecTsS
Washington, ID. c., was born. in 4, IN
wood, ILL.,, April %. 1860. Aftn- I'm
uating from the University of Il,:,.aiqi'
in 1879 he studied art in Paris and , r+Slss
cities of Europe. Since 1886 he ''Isef
been an instructor in the Arr InS+.r--Latss
OF Chicago and lecturer on art in H.
university extension department Of "a, .re
University of Chicago His worls eLe
numerous and he has received set ~lg
medals of honor from the inference la
expositions held in Paris. BuffaIn oti
st. Louis. Among his other works NJ M
Taft has written an extensive Lista,.l,.
of American sculpture.
WILLIAM H. CRANE, the ,r.r
known actor, was born April 30. III
at Leicester, Mass. He received his eJ2'
| cation in the public schools. He maT.
his first appearance on the staga a.,
Utica, n. Y, July 10, 1863. For eirSr
years thereafter he was with Mrs. Har
riet Holman's company, and next he
became the comedian In the Alice 0a+es
| Opera company. In 1875 he became r6o
leading comedian with the stock com.
pany at Hooley's theater in Chicago His
| first experience as a star was in part
nership with the late Stuart Robson
! In 1877 the two appeared ia a comedy
/ entitled ''Our Boarding House." at the
Park theater in New York. This was
followed by numerous successes, the
most notable of which was ''Tbe Hon
rietta," with which play the two co
medians achieved an unusual degree Of
fame. Robson and Crane parted in
1899, since which time Mr.. Crane has
devoted himself exclusively to the nro.
duction of American plays.
THE DUKE, OF CONNAUGHT
| third son of the late Queen Victoria and
VII, was born at Buckingham palace
May /, 1850. He entered the military
academy at Woolwich as a cadet in
1866 and has continued to follow mill
| tary career. In recent years he has oc.
cupied some of the most important posts
in the British military service. In his
| youth he travelled extensively and Wis
| tied India, Canada and other parts of
| the British empire. In 1874 he was
created Duke of Connaught and Strath-
harm, and Earl of Sussex, and Yin the
same year he took his seat in the House
or Lords. The duke was married in
| 1879 to Princess Louise Margaret of
Prussia. They have three children, two
daughters and son. The eldest daugh-
ter. Princess Margaret Victoria, is the
wife of the crown prince of Sweden.
CHARLES GUSTS HARRISON
provost of the University of Pennsyva-
mia. was born in Philadelphia, May 3.
1914. and was educated at the Episcopal
academy and the University of PennsyI-
vania. He studied law, but at 10 years
| Of age he abandoned his plans in that
! direction in order to engage IN business
With other members of his family he
established sugar refinery in Pai!ade-
| phia and in the course of time ire en-
terprise became one of the largest saf its
| kind in the country. Mr.. Harr sons
connection with the University of Penn
| sylvania dates from 1876, in which year he
was elected a trustee of the institution.
In 1880 he was installed as provost. He
has been a liberal contributor to the
university and during his administration
| he has raised over $6,000000, which
have been applied greatly to the advan-
tage and development of the university.
HUGH ]. CHISHOLM, one of the
most widely known among American
capitalists, was born at Niagara-on-the-
Lake, Ontario, May 2, 1S47, and was
| educated in the local schools and after
ward at a business college in Toronto.
AT the age of is he entered practical
business life as train BOY in the serv-
vanCed steadily and before his thirtieth
year he was a publisher and dealer in
railway literature at Portland, Me-
and a manufacturer of paper and pulp
/ In the early sos he became impressed
| with the vast unused water power Of
| the AndroscOggin river at Rumlord
Falls, Me, and organized the RumfoTd
Falls Power company. He took an ac-
| tive part in the formation of the Inter
panpr ~
of about thirty of the leading eastern
newspaper and pulp mills with a ca,
| pacity of over 100 tons of finished
| product, daily. Mr.. Chisholm has been
president of this concern since 1898 and
| is heavily interested in a number of
other large industrial enterprises.
PROF. CHARLES ZUEBELTN.
noted sociOlogist and an instructor and
| lecturer on sociology at the University
of Chicago for nearly twenty years. was
born at Pendleton. Ind. May 4, 1866.
| He is a graduate of the University Of
PENNSYLVANIA and the Northwestern uni
versity. For three years he studied at
the University of Leipzig. after which
he entered actively upon sociological
work In 1892 he founded the North
| western University Settlement in Chi
cago, and from that time ON he was ac-
| lively interested in number of move
mentS along the same line. lie also mas
done much lecturing. and in 1898 was
lecturer at the Edinburgh summer
school. From 1901 to 1902 he was presi-
dent of the American League for Civic
Improvement, and he is a prominent
member of numerous other societies
which have for their aim the betterment
Of the masses
CAPT. ROBERT NJ. DOYLE. [. S
N. who commanded the battleship Mis-
souri, in the recent cruise of the American
battleship feet around the world, was
born in Tennessee. May 5, 1858. After
graduating from the Annapolis academy
he served on the Minnesota, the Van
dalia and the Galena of the old navy.
From 1889 to 1896 he was on the cruiser
Baltimore and the battleship Texas
During the war with Spain he saw ae,
tive service on the cruiser Dixie ana
after the close of the war he returned to
the Texas. His next assignment was 70
the battleship Wisconsin. His hrs'
command was that of the supply snip
Culgoa, and prior to reaching the grace
Of captain in 1908 he commanded tae
cruisers Philadelphia and Chicago,