The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1911-07-07
SONS or PRESIDENTS
Few \ gain Noable Prominence Have
Made Their Mark


T. Lincoln who, at the age of 68, has
just retired from the presidency Of the
Pullman Car Company in Chicago.
Eighteen years Of age when his father
entered the White House in 1861, the
present Mr.. Lincoln served on Grants
staff for a short time in the Civil War;
was secretary of war in Garfeld's and
Arthur's cabinets; minister to England
under President Harrison, and was at
the head of the Pullman Car Company
Size the death Of George M. Pullman
several years ago.
Grant and Garfield had sons who be-
came prominent. Frederick D. Grant,
a graduate of West Point in the class
of 1871, served ten years in the army
Immediately afterward; was minister to
Austria under Harrison; was police COM
missioner OF New York for few years
previous to the Spanish war; entered
that conflict as colonel OF a New York
regiment; emerged from it as a briga-
dier-general, and is now major-general
and commander of the Department of
the East. His brothers, Ulysses S., a
lawyer residing in California, and Jesse
R. of New York, who is engaged in
mining enterprises, are also we'll known.
Harry Augustus Garfield is president of
Williams college, the institution from
which his father, the twentieth pres-
dent of the United States, graduated;
and his brother, James R. Garfield, was,
successfully, United States civil serv-
ice commissioner, a commissioner OF
corporations in the Department of Com
merce and Labor, and a secretary Of
the Interior, holding the last-named
Office in the last two years Of Roosevelt
in the White House.
Prior to the Civil War several presi
dents had sons who made their mark in
the world. John Adams's son was the
still more conspicuous John Quincy
Adams, the sixth president. Charles
Francis Adams, son of the latter, was
nominated for vice president by the
Free Sellers in 1848; served many years
in congress; held the most important
station in the country's diplomatic ser
vice in Lincoln's days-that of minister
to England-and was prominently men
toned for the presidential candidacy by
the Liberal Republicans in 1872, a
prize which was carried off by Horace
Greeley Charles Francis Adams left
several sons-Charles F., Henry, and
Brooks-who, in different fields, have
won distinction.
John VanBuren-or, as ThurlowWeed
nicknamed him, Prince, johnson
of Martin VanBuren, was skilled law
yer, one of the most eloquent orators Of
an age which cultivated eloquence in
oratory more than our time does, and
was one Of the most picturesque per-
sonalities OF his period. AS the leading
spellbinders for the Free Sellers in 1848
he won name which was heard all
over the country. Had the Prince"
chung to his anti-slavery associates Of
that day-William Cullen Bryant, David
Dudley Field, Preston King and the
others-he might have become one of
the most conspicuous OF the chieftains
of the Republican party in the state Of
New York. Vice President Henry Will
son, in his Rise and Fall of the Slave
Power in America" said that if John
Van Buren, had remained true to his
creed Of 1884 as champion OF freedom
he would probably have been nominated
for president by the Republicans in
1856, in place Of Fremont, who had no
political record, but who was selected
because of the glamour attaching to
him as pathfinder of the wilderness
and type Of Young America.
William Henry Harrison's son, John
Scott Harrison, represented a congress
sional district Of Ohio for many years;
was man Of great prominence in his
locality, and was the father OF Benjamin
Harrison, president 1889-'93.
Several sons of John Tyler, William
Henry Harrison's successor in the pres-
dency, were prominent. The youngest
of them, Lyon Gardiner Tyler, who was