The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1910-03-10

enlisted in Il Tennessee regiment y
short time later he was discharged on ;tc-
count of i'll health. but he returned 10
the army in time to take part i'll the
battle of Fort Donelson. Twice he was
captured by the Union forces, the last
famous raid in Ohio After the war he
studied law ut Cumberland univ ersty.
From 1870 to 1878 he served as chan
celor of the sixth chancery division of
Tennessee, and from 1856 to 1873 he
was Il justice Of the supreme court of
Tennessee. In tie latter year he WIS
appointed by President Cleveland to the
United States circuit bench, where he
continued to serve until his appoint
mcnt last December to fill the vacancy IN
the supreme court of the United States
caused by the death of Justice Peckham.
JEAN MOUNET-SULLY. the cele-
hrated French tragcdluu. was born III
Bergcrac, France, February -, 1871.
At the age of y years he entered the
conservatolre. After beginning his ca
reer in the Odeon he served in the
Franco-Prussian war in 1872. He made
his debut al the Theatre Francois, where
in two years he became Il leading mem
Der of the company. Admirably gifted
by nature, he is famous for the power
and passion of his imperSonationS. His
successes include many of the roles of
the classics, as Achilles in Iphigenia
and characters in more modern works, rs
Victor IIugos. Perhaps his most nota-
BE achievement was his performance Of
Oedlpus. the king, in the fetes in ,he
old Roman thcater of Orange, Il per-
Torrance repeated in the Theatre Frau
Hamlet is also included in his most scri-
Gus efforts.
SAMUEL W. M'CALL, who has rep
resented the Eighth Massachusetts dis
trict in the House of Representative
the past fourteen years. was born III
East Providence. Pennsylvania, Fehru-
airy 2S, 1851. He was graduated from
Dartmouth college in 1877. After ad-
mission to the bar he began practicins
law in Boston, and subsequently, he be
came editor of a newspaper in that city.
Before his election to Congress in 1893
he had been three times :, member of the
Massachusetts House of Representatives
Mr.. Mccall is noted for scholarly attain
ments. and his biography of Thaddeus
Stevens is considered to he a classic. \
year ago he declined an invitation to
become president of Dartmouth college
on the ground that it was his duty t.
continue in Congress.
PHILIP HElNEkEN. who recently
became the active managing head of the
North German Lloyd Steamship com
pauy, was born in Bremen, March !,
1850. Leaving school at the age Of IL,
he spent the next three years as an APP
prentice with Il wholesale firm, where
he received a thorough commercial train
ing. For the succeeding six years he
was in the employ of Il large cotton firm
in Liverpool. Upon success crowniug
the efforts of the German cotton spin
ners to establish a cotton market ut
Bremen Mr.. IIeinekeu returned to that
city and in partnership with John Nogel-
sang established a cotton import and
export house which in time became well
known all over the world. In 1892 he
became n member Of the board of dire"-
tors of the North German Lloyd. and
upon the death of his partner, Mr. No.
gelsang. in 1908, he determined to quit
the cotton business and accepted the of
fer made him to become one of the man
aging directors of the steamship com
pany. Last fall he was chosen to sue
coed Dir. Heinrich W'egand as the ac-
tive head of the company.