The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-10-27
HALL Of FAME
BALLOTS CLOSE
Selection Of Americans Best Fitted for
Occupancy Of Niche in National
Hearts is to be
Made.
ANNOUNCE RESULT SOON
November win see the Naming OF
the Representative Men and
Women in Americas
History.
RESULT SOON

famous American men and ten "a
HONS American women to the han
of Fame. There are a04 celebrities
nominated for that honor. The result
CT the, election will not be made pub
lie until November l.
The Hail of Fame, national insti-
tuition, is located on the heights OF
New York university. overlooking the
Hudson and Harlem rivers. II was
organized twenty years ago with
gift OF 500, 600, which has since been
increased 10 $4,000. the money to
be used IN building museum and
colonnade 500 feet long and to con-
tain $50 panels for memorial bronze
tablets. Fifty were TO be Inscribed
in 1909, and at the close OF every I'VE
years thereafter five additional PAN
els we're to be placed, so that the
entire number would be completed
by A. D. 1000. Only fifty-six in all
however, have been elected since the
first votes were cast twenty years
ago.
The ballots in the present election,
which were mailed last July TO 102
electors in various parts OF the
United States, college presidents.
historians. professors, scientists, au-
thors, editors, statesmen, supreme
court judges, business men, publ
cists and others, contain the names
of III men and 81 women. OF whom
III men and % women were hold
over nomina tons from previous cleo
lions. The initials M ]. E." along
side the names OF twenty men and
one woman Indicate that in pre-
lminary public nomination last May
a majority of special group OF cleo
tors designated them as being more
justly famous This makes them
eligible 10 election by majority vote
and all others must have two-thirds
Of the vote cast In the absence OF
Dr.. Robert Underwood Johnson, now
United States bassador to Italy.
the barioting Is in charge of the act
ing director OF the Hall of Fame,
Mrs. William Vanamse, of this city.
The following famous Americans
already have been elected:
Aurhors-Ralph Waldo Emerson.
Nathaniel Hawthorne. Washington
Irving, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow,
James Russell Lowell, John G-eenleaf
Whittier. George Bancroft, William
Cullen Bryant. James Fenimore Coop
or. OHTer wendan Holmes. John
Lothrop Motley, Edgar Allan Poe.
Francis Parknan.
Educators Horace Mann, Mark
Hopkins
Preachers. theo1ogians - Jonathan
EDWARDS. Henry Ward Beecher. VIII
lam EIlery Claiming. and Philips
Brooks.
Philaathropists. reforrers - Peter
Cooper. George Peabody.
Seientist-John James Audubon.
Asa Gray. Louis Agassk, Joseph
Henry
ENGINEERS. architects None.
Physicians. surgeons-None.
Inventors Robert Fulton. Samuel
2. d. Morse, Eli Whitney, Elias Howe,
Missionaries, explorers Daniel
Boone
soldiers. sailors-David Glasgow
Farragut, Ulysses Simpson Grant,
Robert z Lee, William Tecumseh
Sherman
Lavyers. judges James Kent.
John Marshall. Joseph Story, Rufus
Choate-
Rulers. statesmen-John Adams,
Henry Clay. BENJAMIN Franklin,
Thomas jefferson. Abraham Lincoln,
George Washington. Daniel Webster.
John Quincy Adams. James Madison.
andre~ Jackson, Alexander Hamil-
ton
ReSfnes1 men-None.
Musicians. painters. sculptors, etc.
Gilbert Charles stuart
Enient men outside of the fore
ala
Elected to the Hall OF Fame for
women
Artho-s-Harriet Beeche- StoEe.
Educators, missionaries - Mary
Iron Emrns willard
Pnflznthropists, reforEers, home or
social -orke-z-Frsnces Elizabeth
willard
Scfentssts-Maria Mitchell.
Musicians. painters, scuiptors- etc
Charlotte s. Cushman iM. J. F-l
Extent women outside the fore
gofrz cizsseA-None.
Tse nominations for the election
N 1920. from which thirty selections
n. To be made. are az follows
Arrhorz-TEIEan Lloyd Garrison,
Hrce Greeley. Francis Scott Key,
Werdeu Phillips. William Prescott,
sssb TeSgter. George William Cur
- william whitney. John FTske,
Y1ncfz Bret Harte, Walt Whitman,
Tr1grzs Bzfey Aldrich. Samuel Glenn
s-z nE J. p. Francis Marion CraE-
t1y-1 Charles A Dana. Eugene Field,
He-r George, Richard Watson Gil
-, Loci Ctzrd1e- Harris, Francis
rIe,>er rbzrsea Eliot Norton, Thomas
psv-e M. =, ~. Edmund Stedman
arr Henry TaoreaI
11czforz-Thomes Il Gallaudet.
ss---.eJ q Howe, Francis Wayiand,
-r-lsodo-e wooIgey, John Wither'
sr1[r gzurrei Armstrong, Borden
rs-)s--e To,fel Co1t Gilman William
n u((,nr,ez. gzirhalet Mott and
Esozt Porte,
prezrse-z and observation-disclosures