Evening journal., 1914-08-07
New News Of Yesterday
Three Young American
Teachers Who Made
History
ny HOLLAND.

soon after William H. Seward be-
came Secretary of State in the adj
tainistration of Abraham Lincoln, I
met one of his personal, lifelong
friends. who knew a good deal about
the early history OF the former. He
told me that no one ever obtained
satisfactory reason to explain why
Seward. when he was q student at
Union College. at Schenectady. sud
denly withdrew from the college and
then went TO Georgia, where he re-
NAMED year or two. having obtain
cd employment as teacher or tutor"
said the late Charles c. Clarke who
was FOR many years vicc-president OF
tho New York Central. and who was
deputy treasurer of New York State
when William II. Seward was first
elected to the United States Senate.
His friends in Auburn. however.
sometimes thought that It was while
he was i'm Georgia that Seward began
to entertain the views respecting
slavery which afterward brought him
into prominent association with the
Republican party.
after he entered the United States
Senate Mr.. Seward gained the warm
friendship of several of the Senators
who represented Southern States. and
he was on especially good terms with
the Senators from Georgia. That was
thought to he due in part to his
recollection Of the geenrous hospital
IT, which he had experienced when
he, a humble tutor from one of thee
Northern States, was teaching some
OF the Georgia children.
81 never think of Stewards soiOurn
as a teacher in Georgia without be-
nE reminded Of the fact that two
other Northern men went TO Georgia
IT, the early part Of this century,
Mr.. Clarke was speaking of the nine
tCenth century--"to take employment
as teachers. These two. with Mr.
Seward. were afterward to be of in
conceivably great influence i'm the
political as well as industrial history
of the United States. One of these
OF whom I am speaking was Lyman
1rumbull. who was OF Connecticut
birth and was near Of kin 10 the
famous Jonathan Trumhull family Of
that State.
"Trumbull went to Georgia, have
been told. shortly after Seward left
the State and returned TO New York
10 study law. Trumbull taught
school in Georgia for several years
ond was half tempted to stay there
and begin the practice Of law Some
thing he read in the newspaper
caused him to decide to leave Georgia
and establish himself as a lawyer in
tho new State of Illinois
81 don't think that Seward and
Trumbull ever met until after both OF
them were in the United States SEN
ate and both had become conspicu-
Gus by reason Of their association
with the Republican party.
Another Connecticut youth also
v ent to Georgia as a teacher. Tie
vas there few years ago before
/ Seward and Trumbull. While still
a teacher he was persuaded that he
! could make a machine which would
so clean the cotton as to make II
readily marketable. or course. I re-
! fer TO Eli Whitney. whose machine
was OF immeasurable industrial i'm
Tortance to the United States and
also created the influence which ulti-
mately led to the attempt to estab-
fish a new industry in the South.
Think of It'll A New York boy and
two Connecticut lads departing from
their homes for Georgia and there
receiving the impressions and finding
the opportunities which have been OF
such tremendous consequence to the
United States"
Copyright. 1914. by e. J Edwards.
All rights reserved).
Tomorrow Mr. Edwards will tell OF
Two Kansas Senators as Newspaper
Readers"