The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1916-06-19
PRESIDENT WILSON
Gave Up Law TO Follow Profession of
Teaching.

Teaching.
President Woodrow Wilson will be
go years old on Dec. %. He was elect
ed President of the United States on
the Democratic ticket on Nov 6, 1912,
while he was Governor of New Jersey.
His administration has been made
memorable by diplomatic controver-
sizes growing out of the war in Europe,
and by the troubles in Mexico.
President Wilson was twice mar
ried. His first wife was Miss Ellen
Louise Arson Of Savannah, Ga, daugh-
ter of well-mown Presbyterian min
lister. Three daughters were born of
this union, two of them marrying after
their father became President. The
first Mrs. Wilson died in the White
House on Aug. 6, 1914 On Dec. IS,
1915 President Wilson married Mrs.
Edith Boiling Gait, daughter of the
late William H. Boiling Of Virginia,
and widow of Norman Gait of Wash
ington. The ceremony was performed
at the brides home at the capital.
President Wilson was born in Staun-
ton, Va, of Scotch-lrish parentage
His father, the Rev. Joseph Ruggles
Wilson was a Presbyterian minister
The son prepared for college at pri.
vate schools in Augusta, Ca, and Co
lumbia, S. c., and studied for several
months during his early youth in
Davidson College, North Carolina He
was 10 years old when he entered
Princeton University, of which institu.
| ton he was afterward to become
President. He was highly regarded by
his classmates and took an active in
| terest in athletics. He was one OF
the staff of The Princetonian, then in
its infancy as publication.
In 1879 the future President was
| graduated from Princeton with the de
gree of Bachelor of Arts and later took
| up the study of law at the University
of Virginia. He displayed a fondness
for sociological and political problems
at an early age. He practiced law for
three years at Atlanta, Ga, but found
| the profession not TO his liking and
gave it up to become a teacher.
He then took up the study of history
and politics at Johns Hopkins, his
fourth university. While there he
completed writing his "Congressiona
Government" work he had started in
Atlanta. This was the beginning OF
his active literary efforts as an inter
prefer OF modern sociological and 20
litical problems and institutions.
In the same year of his marriage t
Miss Arson President Wilson became
Associate Professor of History and PC
litical Economy at Bryn Mawr, Penn.
serving in that capacity until 1888
when he was called to the chair o
History and Political Economy at Yves
leyan University. Two years later h,
returned to Princeton as Professor o
Jurisprudence and in 1902 became
President of the institution.
In the same year he published hi!
"a History of the American People.
He had, in the meanwhile also writ
ten other books, notably "The Constitl
tional History of the United States
| lHt pNdtc, anu ~ LIE VI btOIS'
| Washington" His first appearance al
a candidate for public Office was mad,
at the 1907 session of the New Jerse.
Legislature, when he opposed John +
Dryden's reelection as Senator. Al
Though ne was not a candidate him
self, he received sixteen votes. Thre,
Years later he received the Democratic
Nomination for Governor of New
Jersey.
New Jersey had been under Republi
can rule for fifteen years, and only Mr.
Wilson's most enthusiastic friends
thought he would be elected. Thi'
was before he took the stump, but hi
work as a speaker was so effective
that he rapidly obtained large follow
ing. He was elected Governor, serv
ing from 1911 until he became Presl
dent of the United States.