Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1912-03-06
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Aaron Burr's Cousins

Aaron Burr's Cousins.
A paragraph in a Washington pa
per says that Senator Page OF
Vermont has a grandson who on
his mothers side is cousin of
Aaron Burr" If Speaker Champ Clark
were asked about this matter he prob
ably would say that to be cousin OF
Aaron Burr may carry certain
amount of distinction because of the
blood relationship, but that Aaron
Burr's cousins are like the blossoms
of the apple tree in May in record
breaking fruit year
Speaker Clark has been a great stu
dent of Aaron Burr's life. In a way,
and perhaps heartily, Mr.. Clark is
something of a champion Of Aaron
Burr, sincere champion because the
speaker, it is said, thinks that Burr
was accused of a good many things
of which he was not guilty and that
he was man too much abused for
faults which he had not committed.
There are men who think that if
Aaron Burr had not killed Alexander
Hamilton many of the animosities
against him would not be in existence
today. There are other men who say
that the dislike of Hamilton's ideas of
government, held hereditarily by pol
iticians of today, are responsible in
measure for the championship of Burr
by men who otherwise would not have
loved his memory so much If they did
not hate the memory of HamiltOn's po-
Atical and governmental views more
Many Descendants of Edwards.
AS for the matter of Aaron Burr's
many cousins, let it be said that Burr
was a grandson Of Jonathan Edwards,
the great theologian, and one of the
first presidents of Princeton college.
Jonathan Edwards had ten sisters, all
of whom married and had large fam
lilies. The descendants of Jonathan
Edwards direct and collateral, today
are numbered by the thousands and
everyone of these descendants, OF
course, is a cousin of Aaron Burr who
was Jonathan Edwards grandson.
Some one not long ago wrote story
about the Edwards descendants direct
and collateral Six of these descend
ants, either grandchildren or grand
nephews, were at one time presidents
of colleges. 1t is possible that more
men of the Edwards blood hold promi-
nent positions in the world today than
men of the blood of any other one
American family. The name is not al
ways Edwards, of course, for in fact
the Edwards of the female line out
number those of the male line per
haps twenty to one, but the descend
ants of Jonathan Edwards sisters and
of his daughters are just as much OF
the Edwards blood as are the people
who bear the name.
Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt Is direct
descendant of Jonathan Edwards and
so it is said is former President Eliot
of Harvard. The Dwights have the
Edwards blood in them and compare
lively recent president of Yale uni
versity who held the Office for many
years was Dwight and an Edwards.
He, however, is not included in the
six college presidents who at one time
held Office and were of the Edwards
kin. The most recent Yale Dwight
was of course of younger generation.
Army Worried About Horses.
Maj. Gen. Leonard Wood, chief
of staff, United States army, who
as a surgeon was stationed with
a cavalry regiment in the south
over the growing difficulty OF securing
good horses for the service. General
Wood and some other officers with
him say that the laws against betting
on horse races in maAy of the states
are responsible IN a way for the grow
ing scarcity Of good horses for the
service.
1t must not be understood that
General Wood either personally or in
his capacity as the ranking officer of
the army upholds betting. He sim
ply states what he thinks is a fact
and deplores the effect if not the
cause. When American cavalry Of
f1cers recently went to England to en-
gage in a contest of horsemanship, in
Guiding high jumping, with the officers
of cavalry regiments of European
countries, they lost most of the events
because it is said their horses were
not the equals of those used by the
foreign officers.
August Belmont, who is chairman of
the American Jockey club, at a dinner
in New York a night or two ago, point
ed to the serious menace which threat
ened the cavalry and field artillery
branches of the United States army
in the depletion of thoroughbred
horses by reason Of a cessation of
racing" Mr.. Belmont has suggested
the formation of nationwide asso-
citation to be known as the National
Cavalry and Artillery Remount asso-
citation, to be created from all ranks
of sports and agricultural life with
the center of the organization at
Washington, to keep a register OF
mares inspected and found suitable
for breeding remounts and artillery
horses. Gen. Leonard Wood and Col.
Theodore Roosevelt have expressed a
willingness to become vice-presidents
of the association. 1t is expected that
he hold ant RI h0TSQ