The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-03-06
JULIAN HAWTHORNE.

entered the firm founded by his pater-
nal grandfather. and was displaying
his genius as a financier, when. at the
age Of thirty-four, Secretary Taft
chose him as member Of the Philip
pine Commission and made him also
Secretary OF Commerce and Politics for
the island His case and that OF Mr..
Justice II dimes are similar, in that both
went TO Harvard and neither of them
chose the calling Of their noted fore
bears, yet seemed to inherit from the
latter the germ of attainment. The
younger oliver Wendell Holmes had
barely received his sheepakin In 81
when he heard his duty calling him
TO war. He entered the struggle as
lieutenant and rose to lieutenant-col-
oners rank. although wounded In the
breast the first year in the neck and
In the foot the third After the close
of the conflict he returned to Harvard
for the law course. practiced In Bos-3
ton, married. taught constitutional law
al Harvard while still in his twenttes,
became Justice of the State Supreme
Court while In his thirties, and chief
justice three years before president
roosevelt placed him on the Supreme
bench at Washington.
Lonsfellow's Son Painter.
: , 8 T
And what Of the Longfellows. Whit
tiers, Bryants, HawthoInes, etc, OF to-
day? Ernest Wadsworth Longfellow.
son OF the great poet, seems TO nave
fallen heir to much OF his fathers ar
tistic genius. although he chose the
career of painter rather than poet HIS
father sent him to Paris to study art
under tiebert, Bonnat and Couture. and
after finishing with them he travelled IN
Italy and the Alps, where he made his
well-known painting OF the Alatterhorn.
THIS winter he celebrated his sixty
fourth birthday at his home in Mag.
nolia, Mass.
The artistic streak in this blood has
brewed success also in the case OF
William Pitt Preble Lonsfellow, son OF
the great poets brother. stephen, Tic
| has been an art writer and architect
| az note: is q trustee Of the Boston Mu-
scum OF Fine Arts, and was the original
editor OF the American Architect. AS
| q Young man he was assistant to the
| chief architect OF the government ser.
1 vice. and at the Worlds Fair in Chi
/ sago he was chosen chairman OF thu
\ architectural section. He is also tn
! author OF textbooks and cyclopedia'
ION art and architecture. Els home u
4 in Cambridge. and he was seventy
\ three last fall.
The Whittier of To-day.
The Whittier. of today is Charlie
Fra nix lin, son of the Quaker poet
/ brother. Matthew. Although he wa
4 educated In the Friends College, Prov
! idence. he left it to serve in the8Civi
War. but after peace had dawne
! again he chose tile tools the chic
i genius Of his family with which 7
! tl,s 7 I,aSr N =,
1.-The staff of the Portland (Mc.l Tran
i script, later became editor of tn
4 Westbrook (Me.) Gazette, and is no,
editor OF the Portland Advertiser. II
Z lis a. bachelor of siSty-siX. WI lillian Gu
lien Bryants son, Of the same nam'
also pursued tournalism. In the cas-
+ i5of Washington Irving. also,
nephew contracted the itch fc
writing. This was Pierre Muir
roe Irving, who, although edt
Gated for the law, acted as his W ",
q l5cle's literary assistant, managed y,
business affairs. attended him IN 7,
last illness and was chosen as :,
biographer. a younge r.nepheW,E 10 :,
Treat Irving, combined the law WI
Iliterature. lie wrote q NUMBER 9
stories under tile nom de plume ion
sltOuod." and died In New .Yo rls IN ! 9N
at tho venerable age Of ninety-four, II
rhree Gcncrntions of Iin,vtl'orncs.
we are better acquainted with tn
hawthorne Of >sataf=-ssaeneration tina
with any Of these descendants. dlref
and collateral, OF the country's ma:
& ters OF literature. Nathaniel HaW
thorne married q woman We, q genus =
phia Peabody, whom he met while 81
vas illustrating 1.-THE Gentle Boy" III
Il who after their marriage developc
J: literary as well as artistic talents. AZ
! ar Ills death she not only edited h
I mote Book" but published q volun
!, of her own. Thus Julian Hawthorn
Inherited his aptness for writing fro
) both parents. This hereditary gem,
,, cropped out after an engineering q
u reer had been hosen for him, ! I WI
! while he was working under Gle
i George p, Mcclellan in 1.-THE New Yol
department OF decks that he began
Il swrlte for the magazines an indust
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