Mount Vernon signal. (Mt. Vernon, Ky.) 18??-current, 1914-12-18

- F,NATOR ELECT j. c. w. BECK
HAM OF Frankfort, the first senator
to be elected by the people for
W regular term from Kentucky, needs
no introduction to the people of this
state He has been i'm public life for years,
yet is Kentucky's youngest statesman of
prominence. Throughout the state he is
known as a statesman, but in the capital
he is known as splendid citizen ana
good neignbor. His modest, but attrac-
tive. residence is i'm South Frankfort. His
family consists of his wife, who was Miss
Jean Fuqua of Greensboro, a daughter,
Miss Eleanor. aged thirteen, and son,
Creppa, Jr, aged nine. The entire fam
ily are social faVorites. The youngsters
are popular and the lawn at the Becknam
home is the playground for the children
in the neighbOrhOod. They attend the
public schools. Mrs. Beckham is a young
woman Of splendid domestic attachments.
She is an ideal wife, whose thoughts and
energies are devoted to her home, chill
Sren, husband, family, neighbors and the
needy She is a hard worker i'm the
Kings Daughters circle. which conducts
the hospital in Frankfort, and in other
charitable and religious causes.
Those who know Governor Beckham
best are we'll aware that his chief interest
and greatest pleasure lie i'm his home.
There he spends practically all his leisure
hours He is not a familiar figure at the
local club, in the lobby of the hotels or,
indeed, any other place where men are
accustomed to cOngregate in the evenings.
He makes il an almost unbroken habit
TO spend his evenings at home. The well
lighted study of the Beckham residence is
on the first floor front. There the passer-
by may see Governor Beckham early or
late on almost any evening at his desk
or I'm his reading chair Books and writ
ing enter very largely into the life of the
senator elect. But the study scene is not
always a solitary one Two children of
more than ordinary attractiveness and
promise bless this home They may be
seen from time to time i'm the study, and
the attitude Of parent and children sug-
gests that Lessons are being heard or that
the story hour is at hand. Governor Beck
ham. although a young man, is an old
fashioned father. He counts it his privi-
lege and duty to personally supervise
those things that make for the Christian
character and physical well being of his
children.
Mrs Beclxham possesses to high de-
gree all those gifts and graces which one
irsstinctively associates with successful
hOTaeniaking. This fact is not to be for
gotten when one asks why the senator
seldom leaves home after the evening
neal
A normal. wholesome, Christian home.
not untouched by sorrow unspoiled by
ealth and dominated by the highest
itseals-such is the home OF the Junior SEN
ator.
No new member of the next senate will
take his seat better Informed or better
equipped for the work ahead Of the Dem
ocratic administration than this Ken
tuckian, who is first a student, with a
wide knowledge of public affairs and
closely in sympathy and in touch with
the president and his secretary of state.
For a man of his years Senator Elect
Beckham is a young man and has had
rather remarkable career i'm the public
life OF his state. Born Aug. 5, 1869, the
son of William n. and Julia Wickliffe
Beckham, he comes of family that has
been prominent In affairs of the south.
His mother was the youngest daughter
of Governor Charles A. Wickliffe, who
also held the portfolio of postmaster gen.
eral in the cabinet OF President Tyler.
Her brother, Robert Wickliffe was gov
ernor of the state of Louisiana. She was.
therefore the daughter the sister and the
mother of men who held the first Office
within the gift of the people of their
states. His father. a lawyer and farmer,
died when the subject OF this sketch was
but mere boy. Owing to this he got no
further than his sophomore year at old
Central university when called home 10