The Topeka state journal., 1909-03-04

don in 1903. He was an assistant at
torney general of the United States
during Cleveland's administration, and
has been general counsel for the Illi-
no1s Central Railroad company for
some years spending most of his time
in Chicago. where the general offices
| of that company are located. Mr.. Dick
lnson is fifty eight years old, having
been born in Columbus, Mississippi. in
| 1851. He is a graduate of the Univer-
sity of Nashville, from which school he
| has degree as Master of Arts, and he
studied law at Columbia university, at
the University of Leipzig, and in Paris.
He is president of the American Bar
association. and belongs to the Chicago
club, the Onwentsia and the Iroquois
clubs, all Of Chicago. Mr.. Dickinson
| is the owner of the famous Belle Meade
stock farm in Nashville
George Won LengerIxe Meyer
George Won Lengerke Meyer, who
goes from the postmaster generals Of
f1ce to the navy department, was
brought into the cabinet in February,
Cortelyou. He was at that time am
bassador to St. Petersburg, to which
post he had been transferred from
Rome, where he had served five years
as ambassador. Mr.. Meyer is a native
| of Boston, in which city he was born
| in 1858. After graduating from Har-
! ward he entered the employ of a COM
! mission firm, and some years later be-
| & Meyer, East India merchants which
| had been established by his father. He
| is an officer or director in many large
| manufacturing and financial concerns
| and has always been active in politics,
| having been member of the Boston
common council, an alderman, mem
| Der of the state legislature, serving as
speaker OF the lower house Tor three
| consecutive years. Mr.. Meyer was elect
| ed a member of the Republican ma
tional committee in 1899, and on Nc
Kinley's election he was made ambas-
| sador to Italy. He is member of the
Athletic, the Somerset and st. Botolph
clubs of Boston. and among other
business offices is president of the
Old Colony Trust Co. and the Amos
keag Manufac cturing Go. Mr.. Meyer Is
| a sportsman and an angler, and is
| known as crack shot.
George w. Wickersham.
| New Iork's representative in the
new cabinet is George w. Wicker
sham. who becomes attorney general.
Mr.. Wickersham is a member of the
law firm in which President Taft's
brother, Henry w. Taft, is a partner,
road law. Although a resident of
New York city, Mr.. Wickersham is a
native of Pennsylvania, having been
born in Pittsburg in 1858. He first
| took civil engineering at Lehigh uni
versity, but later entered the law
school of the University of Pennsyl-
vania, from which he holds the degree
| of bachelor of laws. He immediate
but later went to New York and as
sociated himself with the firm of
Chamberlain, Carter and Hornblower-
A year later he became managing
| clerk of the firm of Strong and cad
walader, of which President Taft s
brother is a member, and eventually
was taken into partnership.
| Mr.. WickerSham is counsel for a
| To- I0nJ Of n Or
| them the Interborough railroad, and
as attorney for the railroads in the ia
nous Chicago traction case came into
considerable public prominence. He
is fond of travel, usually spending a
! portion of the year abroad and is a
| devoted equestrian He has a country
residence at Cedarhurst, Long Island,
and also a home in New York city.
Charles Nagel.
Charles NageI, of st. Louis, the new
| secretary of commerce and labor, is
better known among lawyers and edu-
| Gators than to-the public at large, al
| though he served as member OF the
| Missouri house of representatives and
| is a member of the Republican ma
tional committee. He is a native west
erner, having been born in Colorado
| county, Texas, nS1S49. He comes OF
| professional ancestors, his father, DIR.
Herman Nagel, being one of a family
| of four brothers of whom three are
physicians and his maternal grand
| father and OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES, were
clergymen. In the height of the civil
war the pronounced union sentiments
of DIR. Nagele compelled him to remove
from Texas to St.HLouis. Here Charles
NageI soon entered the st. Louis high
school Graduating from there he took
two years course in the st. Louis
law school and then went to the Uni
versity of Berlin, where. he took
special course in law, and political
| economy. Returning to St. Louis in
/ 1873 he was admitted to the bar and
soon took an active part in municipal
| affairs. In addition to being mem
ber of the lower house of state legisla-
ture, he was for four years president
of the city council of st. Louis. AL
! though he has taken an active part
| in politics and has an extended law
practice, he has found time to give
much attention to educational mat
| ters. He fills professorship in. the
st. Louis law school; is member of
| the board of trustees of the public IL
brary, of the board of trustees of
! Washington university and member
4 of the board of control of the st.
| Louis museum of fine arts. Mr.. Ma
tgel, as the Missouri member of the Re
| publican national committee, served
during the recent campaign as
member of the executive committee
and was in charge of the western head
/ quarters. Socially, he has been active
| in his native city, being member OF
club, the St Louis club, the Round
Table and Country clubs, and also OF
| the Metropolitan club in Washington
city.
Frank HI. Hitchcock.
/ A1ffa1foI1 nenber of