The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1916-11-09
LIFE HISTORY Of
The MAN OF The HOUR
Woodrow Wilson. Virginia Gentle.
man and Scholar, Merited His
Reelection As President.
MADE GOOD" IN WHITE HOUSE
From Teaching Young America He
Has Developed Into An Instructor
for All the World--A Man Of
Modest Men.

Woodrow Wilson. twenty seventh
President of the United States, and
eighth chief executive from Virginia.
was nifty nine years old December. Is.
of last year. The little town of Staun-
ton, in the State which has been the
mother of more presidents than any
other has the honor of having been
his birth place
Whether history will hold Mr.. VIII
son to have been one of our great
est Presidents only posterity may
know. Americans today are too close
20 the events of his administration to
give an impartial opinion. II Is safe
TO say. however, that among his i'm
portant works as a statesma an so far
have been first. his conquest Of the
New Jersey bosses when Governor of
that state. second. the present tariff
law; third the Federal Reserve Bank
Act and fourth. the diplomatic nego-
tiations growing out of the European
war
Although Mr. Wilson lie a Southern
er born and bred he has spent most
of his active career in the North. His
grandfather was James Wilson. a
Scotchman who settled in Philadel-
rhia Mr. Wilson's ancestry is AL
most entTely Scotch and Scotch Irish.
James Wilson left Philadelphia for
Steuhenville. Ohio, where he estah-
lished newspaper ana praetlced law.
Here the President father. Joseph
f. Wilson was horn Later he moved
to staunton He married Jessie
Woodrow The future President =
parents moved TO Georgia when the
boy was about tive Gears old. and there
his youthful ewes saw something Of
the troubled events of the Civil War.
After tho wa the family moved to
South Carolina where Woodrow spent
a wear In Davidson College He re-
NAMED az home the.next year IN 1873.
entered Princeton University Here
he proved splendid student His
specialties were political economy.
history and debating
WOULD NOT DEBATE
on SIDE OF PROJECTIONS
Into nettef IN one coca :
sion when chosen In the preliminary
contes; 10 represent his college in de-
Rate against rival Young Wilson
was tubilaat until he saw the subject
, was Protection versus Free Trade "
The PrincetonianE were 70 uphold pro
lection As Wilson was an ardent
free trader. he refused 70 compete. a
brave act both because he gave w
'he chance Of winning a coveted prize
Aa5 because his attitude made him nm
fifH P'9sF with some ~ me SFuGSNtS
He also drew notice while student
III Frlrc4tcn by an article In the In
ternat.c~ai Review in which ne con
demned the secret committee prac-
tae- ~ Congress
n1~cl p IS classmates when he was
pr2dusteT an lsTA we're Nahlon c
F;t0ey istsr associate justice Of the
United States Supreme Court and
Ntf'4sert = NtCConah rs who managed
Wtson NFst Cdrfest fer the presi-
3erCT.
5a tsS" wilson entered the Univer-
s!t'- = .t1snio 20 study law He also
Gcta'ad and sang az he Giee Club.
hf'er tr'o wars here. Wilson was
7H.,.3'-rt - ne bar and with another
yc4nF man started the law firm of
Fenick & Wilson N Atlanta Ca
Eusineas--1ces not seem 10 have been
,hp4sk seY In the next wear 1888, VII
sTF srtEge1 Johns Hopkins University
a Eel uor@ 10 study history aud po-
lii.-al economE and obtain the degree
- doctor of philosophy At Johns
HnpKins he also published his hrst
book Congressional Cove rnrnent,,' an
ella ocrsticn of his Princeton essay
mentioned above On June q. 1875,
r1ari cd Miss Ellen Louise Arson, OF
Savannah, Ga
No~ came three years as instructor
4 5ryn Mawr and then two years az
Wesleyan University in Middletown,
conn. While at Wesleyan he pub
iIshed his second hook. The state.
and also delivered occasional lectures
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