The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-05-22


OF Mr.. Hobart and to Mr.. Roosevelts
succession to the presidency. None OF
his predecessors has held his office for
SO great number OF successive Con-
gresses
Away down in western Maine and
nearly against the New Hamshire line
starts the town OF Fryeburg. This and
considerable OF the county round was
public grant to General Joseph Frye
In recognition OF his military services
during the Revolutionary War. This
patriot father was the Maine Senator's
great-zreat- grandfather, and 1t Is
somewhat OF coincidence that he. too,
was the colleague of Hale-Robert
Hale, who commanded British regi-
ment in the capture Of Louisburs in
1745. This Hale, In whose regiment
Joseph Frye was an ensign, was not,
however. an ancestor OF Senator Hale.
but of the late Edward Everett Hale.
Killed His Indian Captor.
This Joseph Frye was captured in the
French and Indian War. where he
fought as a colonel. and the French
placed him IN charge OF an Indian, but
he killed the red man and made his es-
cape. living to receive the commission
OF major general In the revolution
about eighteen years later. Upon his
grant of land he built a homestead. but
some OF his descendants found their way
yp
was here that Senator Frye was born
and when he first saw the light. Shell
by IL Cullom, next in line for the man
tie Of the Senate's Nestor, was child
OF a year and ten months; James G..
Blaine, an infant OF year and seven
months, and Chester A. Arthur, a babe
of eleven months. James G. Garfield
was born when young Frye was seven
weeks old, and Benjamin Harrison
when he was two years old. Joseph G..
Cannon. when he was nearly four, Eu-
gene Hale when he was nearly five.
Grover Cleveland when he was Ave and
half. Tom Reed when he was eight,
Aldrich when he was ten and McKtn-
ley when he was eleven.
Senator Frye admits that he was not
very good boy at school, He was too
full OF animal spirit in those days to
make student. although he retained
a fair enough standing in class to get
into Bowdoin and get his sheepskin
there when only nineteen. Traditions
OF his infractions of college discipline,
OF his valiant leadership Of the college
forces in battles royal against gangs
Of untutored town boys and Of his
part in personal encounters with his
schooimates still linger about the halls
Of his venerable alma mater and are
quoted to his discontinue by his num-
erous grandsons, who in succession.
have been there in recent years.
Apprendced to Fessenden.
It was a fortunate thing for William
P. Frye that after leaving college he
was placed under the apprenticeship Of
Senator William Pitt Fessenden. the
great anti-slavery Wing, in whose Of
fee he commenced his study Of. Black
stone and the other text books OF the
law. When he read or heard Fessen-
denis stirring speeches he dreamed Of
going to the Senate himself some day.
but these dreams were as yet but vague
and hazy.
He began his practice when twenty
one and the same year married Miss
Caroline Frances Speare. who had been
his companion and helpmeet for near
" forty-eight years, when she died
in 1900. The same year that young
Frye first hung out his single, Cullom
went to Springfield to begin the study
of the law, and Cannon--a lad OF sew
enteen--was spending his third year
behind the counter of a Hoosier coun-
try store.
Young Frye was blessed with a fine
voice. which carried we'll in the capa-
cious supreme courtroom of Andres
coggin county. He also had the gift of
eloouence, and increasing crowds came
to hear the arguments In the cases III
which lie was OF counsel. $50 In 1851.
when he was barely thirty, his neigh
bors sent him UP to the legislature. He
Went back the next year and again III
1867, when Hale made his entry. Mean
while Frye had been a. presidential cleo
tor in 1854, and had been elected mayor
of Lewiston in 1866. Within these same
half dozen years, since 81. Cannon had
been distinguishing himself as States
attorney in Illinois. Aldrich had been
fighting with Union army. aud Cullom.
after making his mark In tho Illinois
Legislature, with one term as speaker,
had gone to Washington to sit In the
national House,
Within the year 1867, Frye held the
three offices OF State legislator, mayor
and attorney general. The last ap-
pointn,ent was big thing for young
man only thlrty-siS. He held 1t for
three years, when still greater honor
was TO DO in store for hlm
This was an election to Congress, and
he got it while still on the sunny side
OF forty. When he entered the House
his Maine neighbor, Hale, was lust be.
ginning his second term, and Cullonn
OF Illinois, had lust retired from Con-
gress after serving three years. Can
non was practicinE law In Illinois and
was not 10 come to the House until two
years later. while Aldrich had Just COM
menced Il term as president OF the Pros
violence common council.
Was Blainc's underktMdy.
Blaine had been Speaker in the pre-
vious Congress and FrYe's frst fact in
the House was to vote for the re-elec-
~at.Hk a.. II. rrE1f rVHl.