The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-11-06

Mr.. Geisel was born in New York
City in the house next door to that
of John Ericsson, the famous inven-
tor and designer of the Monitor. He
was privately tutored by his mother,
who was the daughter of the Rev.
Herman Muller, tutor in the fam
lily of the Bismarcks of Germany.
Mr.. Geisel has, from time to time,
come in touch with many famous peo-
pie. After graduating from the high
school, he served as Office boy for
Grant & Ward, and became, we'll ac-
quainted with Gen. u. S. Grant and
his famous sister. Mary Grant Cram
mer. He has met and known most
of the great Union and Confederate
generals.
Neighbor of Major Pond.
When he was grown his family
Heights and became neighbors of
Major John Pond, the distinguished
lecturer-manager, and through him,
the young man met Henry NJ. Stanley,
the great explorer. He also met Julia
Ward Howe and has heard her read
Hymn of the Republic" Marion f.
Crawford, Anthony Hope, Ian Mac
laren Grew. John Watson), Oliver
Wendell Holmes and James Whitcomb
Riley are other famous people of his
acquaintance. The Hoosier poet sent
few days ago, on the anniversary of
the poets birth:
Season halest of the year,
How the Zestful atmosphere
Nettles blood and brain and smites
Into life the old delights
We have wasted in our youth,
And our graver years, forsooth!
How again the boyish heart
Leaps to see the chipmunk start
From the brush and sleek the suns
Very beauty, as he runs
How again subtle hint
OF crushed pennyroyaI or mint
Sends us on our knees, when
We were truant boys of ten
Brown marauders of the wood,
Merrier than Robin Hood.
The lines were signed with best
friend, James Whitcomb Riley"
Knew General Sherman
Mr.. Geisel knew General William T.
Sherman very well, and also the Con-
federate General Roger A Pryor, for
many years justice of the supreme
court in the state of New York.
Some years ago Mr.. Geisel won III
contest for the best descriptive poem
on Colorado, offered by the Great Di-
vide Publishing company.
His new book, Ideals was, many
years ago, baccalaureate sermon,
preached to the graduates of the high
school at Beloit, Kan. He delivered
the baccalaureate sermon in BeIoit
for three consecutive years. Suisse
quently the material in this sermon
grew and appeared in a private edi-
ton of a thousand copies a few years
ago, and was so well received that it
was again enlarged, and appears now
in it's present form from the press Of
Crane & Company. 1t received the
recommendation of the New York
Sunday school commission and the
endorsement OF many distinguished
scholars who received copies of the
first edition
Throughout the book are many
beautiful thoughts, expressed in sim
pie and untechnical style, in short,
epigrammatic sentences in which the
best Anglo-Saxor phrases are strik-
ingly used.
Mr.. Geisel has lived in Kansas at
intervals for a good many years He
was in Beloit a good while He is at
present assistant to Dean J. p Deb
Kaye of Grace cathedral, and he is
also chaplain of Christ hospital, and
makes his home in the Vail Gotta ge on
the hospital grounds. He mas trav-
eled a great deal. ard has a wide ac
quaintance throughout the country.
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