Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1913-04-09
who taught every thing 8 else tn tho
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who taught every thing else tn. tho.
course and was q fact the ollege 81
law.
IS DR.. Minor probably influenced VII.
son more than did any other teacher.
he ever had. He was indeed an able
and forceful man. q really great teach
ser, who ground ed his pupils beyond
all possibility Of ever getting adrift in
the broad principles Of Ia II.
As q young man Wilson suffered
much from indigestion, an I'll which
later he entirely outgrew. Just before
Christmas, 1880, he found himself Il 50
i'll that he left charlottesville. The
next year he spent at home in Will
mington, N. c., nursing his health and
reading. %s.z. 5 81
In May, 1882. Woodrow Wilson
went to Atlanta to enter on the prac-
tice Of law. Atlanta was chosen for
this experiment. simply because It was
the most rapidly growing city OF the
south. The young man knew nobody
there. He met another young man,
whittier he, too, had come to practice
5law-Edward Ireland Renick. The
two agreed on partnership; on mu-
tual inquiry Renick proved to De slight
" the older, so that the shingle was.
lettared ''Renick s. Wilson: 1t was
hung out of the window Of a room on
the second floor, facing the side street,
Of the building 48 Marietta street.
Atlanta litigants did not rush en-
masse to 48 Marietta street. In fact,
they never came. .es. 5<@s E. TIKI: \. :
Wilson's sole idea had been to use
the law as stepping stone to q p0-
!itical career. Most Of the public men
Of the south had come from the ranks
Of the law. In eighteen months IN At
lanta he learned that it was impossible
for man without private means to
support himself long enough in law to
get into public life; impossible certain
" to establish practice without CIV
ing up all idea of study and writing
not strictly connected with the pro-
fession. The law was jealous mis-
tress. He had begun writing book
on congressional government, and ne
found the work full Of joy. i H.. b..
But the Atlanta experiment was not
without it's great good fortune.
During the summer of 1888 Mr.. Will
son found time to make @hat turned
out to be momentous visit His old
playmate and cousin, Jessie Woodrow
Bones, with whom he had played In
-1ian on the sand hills near Augusta,
was now living in Rome, Ga. To
Rome had come also another family
with whom the Wilson's had been In
innate In Augusta-the Axsons. The
Axsons we're a Georgia lowlands fam
lily. The Rev. S. Edward Axson's ia
Their was a distinguished clergyman In
Savannah, and his wife's father, the
Rev. Nathan Hoyt, was long pastor OF
the Presbyterian church at Athens, Ga.
The calls upon his time not being en-
tirely occupying, as has been limited,
young Wilson went to Rome to see his
cousin, and stayed to see more OF
Miss Ellen Louise Arson. The meet
ing was on the piazza Of the Bones
home in East Rome. To be accurate,
It was not quite the couples first meet
ing. He had been passionate adj
mirer of the lady when he was boy
of seven and she was a baby. The
sentiment of those days, beyond the
recollection of either. revived. He
took her home that evening. She lived
in Rome across the river. She must
have been captivating, for as he came
back across the bridge he clinched his
hand and took silent oath that Ellen
Louise Arson should be his wife. :.
Which also in due time came to pass.
They had seen each other eleven
times before he had persuaded her to
say EYES," There was no idea OF an
immediate marriage. Already, per-
ceiving that the practice of law was
not the path for him, he had settled
| upon the plan of going to Johns Hop.
kins university to spend two or three
years more studying the science OF
government.
The partnership of Ren1ck & Wilson
was dissolved. The young man tc
whom the people of Atlanta gave SC
little encouragement, but who had Won
what made him inestimably happier
than anything else Georgia could have
given him, went north in September
About the same time Miss Arson, too
went to New York to develop her al
ready recognized talents In painting
as member of the Art Students
league. i. = . ..s:.s. .s..@
The next two years Of Woodrow VIII
sons life were spent at Johns Hopkins
university as student of history ant
political economy. Here he was one e
an unusually interesting group which
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