Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-03-06

his parents removed while he was
quite young. Graduating from Harvard
in 1891, he obtained a clerkship In the
department of agriculture. Later Sec
rotary Wilson made him chief of the
division of foreign markets, and Wheh
the department of commerce and la
| Dor was organized he was maze us
! first chief clerk. In Mr.. RooseVelts lfst
campaign he was assistant secretary
| to the republican national committee,
and was later appointed first assistant
postmaster general. He resigned that
/, position when the Taft campaign was
opened to take charge of Mr.. Tafts IN
,lerests Subsequently me was elected
| chairman of the republican national
committee, which post he still holds.
, During his first years as q govern
mcnt clerk in Washington Mr. Hitch
cock found time to take a law course
at Columbian University. and on
graduation was admitted to the bar
in the District of Columbia and three
years later was admitted to practice
before the supreme court of the I'M
| tied states Among other associations
he is a member of the American
erican Association for the Advance
bachelor.
GEORGE Won L. MEYER.
George Won Lengerke Meyer who
goes from the postmaster generarsof-
flee to the navy department. was
brought in February. 1907. to succeed
Postmaster General Cortelyou. He was
at that time ambassador to st. Pet
ersburg 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 1853 After grad
uatng from Harvard he entered the
employ of a commission firm. and some
years later became amember of the
| firm of firm of Under & Meyer, East
India merchants, which had been es-
| tabished by his father. He is an OFF,
GER or director in many large manu-
featuring and financial concerns, and
has always been active in politics, hav-
ing been a member of the Boston COM
mon council. an alderman. q member
of the state legislature. serving as
I speaker of the lower house for three
CONSECUTIVE yeats. AhSSCi Nos'
elected a member of the republican ma
tional committee in 1899, and on Nc
1Sinley's election he was made ambas-
i sador to Italy. He is a member of the
! Athletic, the Somerset and ST. Botolph
clubs of Boston, and among other bus
mess offices is president of the Afnes
Pillow Company and director of the
| Old Colony Trust Company and the
Amoskeag Manufacturing Company.
/ Mr.. Meyer is sportsman and an an
gler, and is known as a crack shot.
CHARLES NAGAL.
Charles Nagel of ST Louis, the new
secretary of commerce and labor, is
better known among lawyers and edu-
Gators than to the public at large. all
! tho he served as member of the Mis-
souri, house of representatives and is
a member of the republican national
committee. He is a native westerner.
having been born in Colorado county,
Texas, in 1S49. He comes of profess
sionaf ancestors, his father, DR.. Her
! man Nagel being one of a family OF
! four brothers of whom three are ply
sicians and his maternal grandfather
| and great grandfather were clergymen.
In the height of the civil war the pro-
nounced 5union,sentiment 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 two years
course in the st. Louis Law School
and then went to the University of
Berlin, where he took special course
in law and political economy. Return
| ing to st. Louis in 1873 he was adj
mitted to the bar and soon took an
active part in municipal affairs. In
addition to being a member of the low
er house of state legislature, he was
for four years president of the city
! council of st. Louis Attic he has talk
en- an active part in politics and has
an extended law practice, ne has found
time to give much attention to educa-
| tional matters. He fills professorshfp
| In the st. Louis Law School: is a
member of the board of trustees o. the
public library, of the board of trustees
of Washington University and MEM
Der of the board Of control Of the st.
Louis museum of fine arts. Mr.. Nagel,
as the Missouri member of the republic
can national committee, served during
/ the recent campaign as member OF
the executive committee and was IN
charge of the western headquarters.
Socially, he las been active in his ma
tive city, being a member of the Uni
versity Club, the Commercial Club, the
st. Louis Club, the Round Table and
Country clubs, and also of the Metro
! politan Club of Washington City,