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Mothers of tie Senators

Cherokee. Her sons. DIR. William L.
and Robert Latham. are. therefore, one
thirty second Cherokee, although il
has been enormously stated many
times that the proportion Of Indian
blood in them was as high as one
fourth and eighth.
Practically all along the line. Mrs.
Owen can boast of an unusual ancestry.
Her father. Thomas Chisholm, who
died about 1884, was picturesque
national character, who had dealings
with Thomas Jefferson in behalf Of the
Cherokees, and one Of Mrs. Owen 5
most treasured possessions-in fact,
family heirloom-iS a large silver
medal on which her father is described
by Jefferson as the last hereditary
Cherokee war chief. Another national
character with whom Mrs. owen is
connected was John Wharton. who took
a commanding part in the French and
Indian wars and still another of her
ancestors was John Beamer, mis-
, siQnary Of note.
Like Mrs. Owen, Mrs. Caroline Wingo
Gore, the mother Ct Senator Thomas
Pryor Gore of Oklahoma has distinct
recollections of pioneer days, and espe-
/ ciallv she has vivid memories of how
/ the panthers "would scream o nights y
| in the woods Of Alabama. Her father
settled early in that State going there
from South Carolina, and his daughter
! CarOlne's love of nature, which is 50
strong today, was unquestionably
strengthened by her early life spent in
/ the southern wilderness, with the virgin
/ forests and clear brooks making their
/ poetic appeals to her day after day and
month upon month.
On her fathers side Mrs. Gore is
English, and though there is more than
/ ordinary interest about the peculiar
name. Wingo, the full details regarding
its origin have never been traced. On
the maternal side this senate mother is
of the Hawkins family, 1t was il
memory Of Joshua Hawkins that the
I Daughters of the American Revolution
of the state of South Carolina erected
an imposing monument. \ Firginian,
I he was noted for his oratOry and his
patriotism in colonial days. He settled
in Spartansburg, South Carolina, where
/ his monument stands. All the Hawkins
/ stock known to history has been intel
lectual and ambitious, and as a rule has
/ IiQ more imam OftlHaEN ora tOIICdt ldA-
emf. From the branch of the family of
which Mrs Gore is a member have come
I college presidents, preachers and we'll
/ known political leaders. As Caroline
. Wingo, Mrs. Gore spent much Of her
/ childhood in her Grandfather Hawkins
library, his large collection of books
being the marvel Of his locality.
No better representative of the plain
. German people, the sturdy middle-class
stock that has done so much for Amer
lea, could be found than Mrs. Magda-
lena NJ Dick, the eighty yearold
mother Of Senator Charles Dick of Ohio
She was horn in Wurtemburg, 4 Haen-
del; her father was a shoemaker, and in
/ childhood she was grounded in all those
domestic virtues for which the Germans
are famous-virtues that she continues
! to practise regularly, despite her years
For example. she persists in dong all
her own homework, and is proud of the
fact that time has not been able to rob
! her of the power to keep her three story
and basement residence i'm Washington
/ scrupulouslv neat and tidy from cellar
! TO garrett, after the manner of the ira
dtionaI Observation-Disclosures Star.