The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1912-07-07


BY william Bayard Hale Doubleday
Ease and Company. OF Garden City.
New York
a mos, interesting account OF Wood
row Wilson'S life from his hoYhood
days. the years he spent in Georgia,
his college DAYS and his student course
at Princeton his studies in law and
politics, his presidency Of Princeton.
his development into political leader
and progressive governor and his
presidential candidacy.
Thomas Woodrow Wilson. according
70 the book. was born December IS.
1856 in the manse. at stanton. Nir-
Einia. his father having accepted cali
TO the PRESBYTERIAN church AZ this town
in 1855. The ancestral preparation for
life al the son IS given thus: He was
descended from clerEymen ano editors
men of strong opinions. protestants in
religion. radicals in politics. stout
hearted breed"
The Wilson's removed to Augusta.
Georgia in the spring of 1855 and the
father Of Woodrow Wilson became one
OF the most noted ministers in the
South. The son as a boy ana 2 stu
dent at school was thrown into the
companionship of Pleasant y. stovail.
now president and editor Of tho Savan-
7 an Press. Joseph Rucker Lamar. OF
the United States Supreme Court. Will
liam a. keener dean Of Colurn bia Uni
versity Law school. and Dr. William
Doughty. Of Augusta. Dr. Wilson re-
signed his Augusta pastoratc in 1870.
10 become 4 professor Of the Southern
PRESBYTERIAN Theological Seminary at
Columbia c. Here Woodrow vii
son attended school kept by Charles
Hayward Barnwell until the autumn
Of 1873. when he was sent 10 David
yon College. in Mecklenbure. y. 9 He
D.
OF 1875.
At Princeton it is stated concerning
him that he took his place as leader
Of his class and that he soon won the
Population OF already wide reading ami
tcund judgement In his class-that OF
'7a- were Robert Bridges II Scribner's
Ma gazine tho Rev. Or A Halsev.
Of the Presbyterian Board Of Foreign
Mission c y. Talcott. NJ G Mahlon
Sitney Justice United states Supreme
court. Robert n McIar,er. former
Attorney General OF New Jersey Ed
ward W. shelton president United
States Trust Company. Colonel Edwin
- stevens. Of New Jersey. and Judge
Robert r. Henderson, Of MARYLAND
During Mr. Wilson'S senior year he had
roncluded that the best path to 2
public career lay through the law and
In the autumn Of 1879 he matriculated
In the law department of tho trniver-
sity OF Virginia In May. 1852. he went
10 Atlanta TO enter the practice OF law
He gave up his partnership in this
profession for John Napkins Univer-
sity. in 1883. entering that institution
as student OF history and political
economy.
In 1855. he published his first book
which proved an immediate success.
II was entitled "Congressional Gov
eminent Tn, young author accepted
an invitation to fill 2 chair in Bryn
Mawr College. His marriage to Miss
Ellen LoHisr ANson took place 40 tAc
home of Miss ANons grandfather. al
Savannah. Ga, June ~ 1855 The
couple established themselves in a
pretty Welch-named village near Phil
adelphia' and Mr. Wilson began the
task Of instructing Bryn Nawr stu.
dents in politics and political economy.
classicalhistory ana the history Of tho
Renaissance
Mr.. Wilson went from Bryn Niawr to
the chair of history and polliical ocono-
my al Wesleyan University. Middle
Town, Conn. in 1855 when. in 1890.