Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1910-06-10
PROMINENT PEOPLE.

SIR DANIEL MORRIS, who has
served for the past twelve years as 1ln-
perial commissioner of the West Indian
agricultural department., was born in
Ireland May 20, 1914, and was educated
at the Royal College of Science South
Kensington, and Trinity college. Dublin.
Besides being an expert botanist and
scientific authority on West Indian plant
life Sir Daniel has had extensive expert
ence in connection with trade matters
concerning the British possession in the
West. Indies. He it was who organized
the Canadian reciprocity conference two
years ago. lie was director of the royal
botanic gardens in Ceylon in 1877 and
two years later occupied similar posi-
ton in Jemaica In 1882 he conducted
extensive explorations in British Hondu-
ras. He visited the West Indies on
special mission in 1890 and six years la
ter was appointed by Joseph Chamber
lain scientific adviser to the Royal East
Indian commission. Sir Daniel has
large number of works to his credit ON
botanical and relative scientific subjects.
REPRESENTATIVE EDGAR d.
CRUMPACKER of the Tenth district
of Indiana, who is mentioned as Il pos
sble successor to Speaker Cannon. was
| born in Laporte county, Indiana, May
81, 1851, and spent his early years ON
| his fathers farm. After graduating
| from Valparaiso academy he studied law
! and was admitted to the bar in 1876 In
| 1882 he entered political life as Re
| publican and was elected city attorney
| of Valparaiso. After several years in
| public office he resumed his law prac
| tice, and III 1891 he was made judge
| of the Indiana appellate court Two
years later he retired from the bench and
! again resumed his law practice. Mr.
| Crumpacker was first elected to Com
| gress in 1897 and has since been six
| times reelected. In Congress he early
showed himself fine debater and man
| of deep and broad information in all
matters relating to public affairs.
| "
SIR ROBERT ANDERSON, who has
recently created something of asensation
| by admitting the authorship of the IA.
/ nous Parnell articles which appeared in
! the London Times some years ago. was
born in Dublin, May 20, 1S41, and was
| educated at Trinity college in that city
For some years he engaged in the prac-
tice of law, which he quit in 1868 TO be-
: come adviser of the home office in mat
! tiers relating to political crime. For more
! than thirty years, until he resigned in
/ 1901, Sir Robert was chief of the Grim
/ inal investigation department of the
| British government and head Of the de-
/ tective bureau at Scotland Yard In his
J
! clearing up the Parnell matter, he has
raised the veil of mystery which for near
1 ly two decades enveloped the identity Of
! the perpetrator of the atrocious crimes
| known as the Whitechapel murders Ac-
/ cordng to Sir Robert, who personally
directed the investigation Of the ease.
/ the murderer was an insane Russian
Jew. resident in the east end of London
who was arrested and sent to an asylum
for the criminal insane, where he died
! shortly afterward.
! REV COLLINS DENNY. who has
| just been elected a bishop of the Method
| list Episcopal Church South, was born
| in Winchester, Va. May 2S, 1854. and
received his early education in the Shen-
andoah valley academy of that place
! Subsequently he was graduated from
! Princeton university and the University
] of Virginia. He practiced law for n
! time in Baltimore. but i'm 1880 abandoned
! the legal profession for the ministry.
| In 1856 he made tour of inspection Of
4 the Asiatic missions of the VI. T.. church
south, and in later years he was made
/ chairman of the hook committee of the
church. From 1889 to 1891 he served
as chaplain at the University of Vir-