Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1913-03-13

Of unusual executive 2bilfty He is
close friend of Mr.. Wilson. Mr.. CARR
son was born in Camden. y. J., No
yember %, 1864 He is a son Of Rev
Joseph T. Garrison. an Episcopal
clergyman. He is a brother of Justice
Charles G. Garrison of the New Jersey
supreme court. He was appointed to
the chancery court in June, 1904. and
reappointed by Chancellor Mahlon Pit
ney, now a justice of tie United
States Supreme court. in 1911 for a
term Of seven years.
James C. McReynoIds.
In picking James Clark McReynolds
for the position of attorney general,
Mr.. Wilson selected man who has
had lot Of experience as a trust
buster" He is a native of Elkton, KY,
where he was born in 1862, and grad
uate OF Vanderbilt university and the
law school of the University of Vir-
ginia. From 1908 to 1907 he was as
sistant attorney general of the United
States. He then returned 10 private
practice, but has been retained as
special assistant to the attorney gen
eral in matters relating to the en-
foreement of the antitrust laws Mr.
McReynolds is unmarried.
Albert S. BurIeson.
Albert Sidney Burleson already has
Cox-or
congressman from the Tenth district
Of Texas and was reelected to the
Sixty-third congress. He was born IN
San Marcos, Tex, in 1863, was edu-
Gated at the Agricultural and Me
chanicaI College Of Texas, Baylor uni
versity and the University of Texas,
and was admitted to the bar in 1884
He was assistant city attorney of Aus
tin for several years before going to
congress. Mrs. BuTleson was Miss
Adele Steiner of austin.
Josephus Daniels.
Josephus Daniels, secretary of the
navy, is the one newspaper man given
place in the cabinet. He has also
been active in politics and is the mem
Der of the Democratic national com
mittee for North Carolina. Mr. Dan
iels was born in 1862 at Washington,
n. c., and began his newspaper ca
reer at the age of eighteen as editor
of the Wilson IN. c. Advance. In
1885 he became editor of the Raleigh
State Chronicle, which nine years later
he consolidated with the North Caro-
linian and the News and Observer.
Franklin X. Lane.
Franklin Knight Lane has been
member of the interstate commerce
commission since 1905, and this expe-
rience is believed to have fitted him
for the executive and judicial tasks in
administering the public land laws of
the country. Born in Prince Edward
Island in 1864, he received his educa-
ton in the University of California
and became a lawyer in San Francis
co. Prior to his designation to the
commission he was a Democratic po-
liticaI leader in California. He was
Democratic candidate for governor,
being defeated by narrow margin.
Subsequently he was the Democratic
senator
David +. Houston.
In David Franklin Houston, chan
cellor of Washington university, ST.
Louis, Wilson has a secretary of ag-
riculture who is familiar with the pro-
cesses of advancing scientific farming
and allied questions in this country.
Mr. Houston was president of the Tex
as Agricultural and Mechanical college
for a number of years, and has taught
in several other educational institu-
tons. He was born in Monroe. n. c.,
in 1866, was educated at South Caro-
lima college and Harvard, and re-
ceived the degree of LII. D. from Tu-
lane and the University of Wisconsin.
He married Miss Helen Beall of Aus
tin, Tex, in 1895.
William C. RedfieId.
William Cox Redfeld has just COM
pleted his first term as a congressman,
but he has been prominent III the poll
ties of New York for a good many
years. In 1902 and 1908 he was COM
missioner of public works for the
Borough of Brooklyn. In private life
he is a manufacturer of ventilating
and heating apparatus and engines.
Mr. Redheld was born in 1858 in AL
bany. n. Y, was educated in the
schools of that city. and removed to
New York in 1877 and to Brooklyn in
1888.
William g. Wilson.
PENNSYLVANIA representative in the