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to as the scholar in politics" Many
years devoted to teaching and writ
ing on various topics Of government
have given him a p~hilosophic turn of
mind. He has not. as a rule, VEN
tured to express a definite opinion
on any subject without careful study.
An instance is told OF how he re-
piled to an interviewer who asked
his idea of Roosevelt. 81 am told"
said Mra Wilson. that he is a man
who talks as soon as he thinks"
Born In virginia.
Governor Wilson was born at
Stauntoh, Va, December 25, 1856, and
is the son Of Rev. Joseph r. Will
son and Jessie Woodrow Wilson, the
former a distinguished scholar and
clergyman of the Presbyterian
Church of the South. His father was
a native of Ohio, and his mother of
Scotland, and his ancestry on both
sides. is Scotch Irish.
The Woodrow family was a dis
t~inguished n and stood high In the
literary and church life of Scotland.
Both the Wilson and Woodrow fam
lilies have always been students. At
the call of the church the family of
Governor Wilson moved South long
before the war, and during that great
struggle resided at Augusta, Ga. His
boyhood days were spent at the latter
place and at Columbia, s. c., and
Wilmington, NJ c., where he prepared
for college with private tutors and
at the schools at these places. His
real educator. however, was his
father, who, besides being a great
pulpit orator, was a scholar of high
order and for many years professor
at the Theological Seminary at CO.
lumhia, S. c., closing his career as
professor in the Southwestern Theo-
logical Seminary at GAINESVILLE. Tenn.
Governor Wilson wcs o born with
a silver spoon in his mouth and many
were the privations he and his people
were called upon % endure during
the Civil War, part of which ragged
around their home. and the dreadful
days of the reconstruction period
which followed,
In 1874 he entered the freshman
class at Davidson College, N. c., re-
manned one year, and in the fall of
1875 he entered the freshman class at
Princeton College, graduating in the
class of 1879. In college he was a
hard worker. studious and an m
niverous reader, and was especially
distinguished for his oratorical and
literary ability, yet was not known as
a "polers' or a high honor a His
student life was that of the average
boy, Athletics interested him and he
played all the games-baseball, foot
ball and the rest.
Upon his graduation from Princeton
University in 1879 he entered the Uni
versity of Virginia, Charlottesville.
Va, as a law student and graduated
in 1881. For the two years that fol-
lowed he practised law at Atlanta,
Ca, and in that time he found that
while the principles of the law and
its study interested him the practical
business side of it did not. This may
be said to have been the turning point
in his career and decided his future
sphere of work.
Career Brief. F.,
Briefly, his career Is as follows
| 1889 to 1885 graduate work at the
@1@t -
Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore,
| Md. in political economy and history.
1886 to 1888. professor of history ana
POLITICAL economy at Bryn Mawr Col
iege. Pennsylvania. a school for the
| higher education of young ladies. 1889
to 1890. professor of the same branches
of science at Wesleyan University
| After that, begins his career IN
| Princeton University. which continued
for twenty years. In June, 1890 ne
was elected professor of Jurisprudence
and political economy and entered
upon his duties in September follow
| ing. In 1895 the department was di-
| yided and he was assigned to the
| chair of jurisprudence. In 1897. as
the result of a large gift by Cyrus
H. Mccormick. of Chicago, of the
class Of 1879. he was promoted to the
.McCormlck professorship of juris-
prudence and politics" In 1902 he
was elected president of the uni
versity, resigning both that office and
his p~rofessorship in October, 1910, i'm
| mediately after his nomination for
| the ONCE Of Governor OF New Jersey,
corarnor Wilson's published works