Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-11-09
SEVEN NEW NAMES
ARE ADDED To LIST
Of HALL: Of FAME

NEW YORK, Nov. 1.-THE names
of six men and one woman were
added to the American Hall of Fame
in an election announced by
the senate of New York university.
The seven additions are:
Samuel Langhorne Clemens, au-
thor.
James Buchanan Eads, engineer.
Patrick Henry, statesman.
William Thomas Green Morton,
physician.
Augustus Saint Gaudens, sculptor.
Roger williams, theologian.
Alice Freeman Palmer, educator.
The electorate to the Hall of Fame
consists of ninety-siX men and six
women. They inclade twenty-seVen
college presidents, eighteen histori-
ans and history teachers, eleven
scientists, fourteen authors and ed
itorS, nineteen men and women OF
public affairs and twelve national or
state justices.
The election was the fifth quin-
quennial event since the Hall of
Fame was inaugurated at the unlVer-
sity Prior to this election fifty
men and six women had ben entered
in the hall. Bronze tablets to tWen-
ty-siX of them will be unveiled in the
university's Hall Of Fame in May
1921. Thirty-seven tablets have been
unveiled previously.
election included 1T men and z!
women. Among the unsuccessful
candidates were Charles Goodyear,
Cyrus Hall Mccormick, Henry M:
Stanley, John Paul Jones, Nathan1el
Greene. George Rogers Clark, Philip
Henry Sheridan. William M. EVarts'
Samuel Adams, Grover CleyelandI'
penn. Stephen Girard, Edwin Thorn
as Booth, John Singleton Copley,
Joseph Jefferson, Theodore Thomas.
James A. Mcneil Whistler, Louisa
May Alcott. Alice Cary, Helen Hunt
Jackson. Susan B. Anthony Lucy Lucy,
Stanton, Martha Washington, Harriet
IIosmer. Pocahontas' Rolfe. 49,.
Samuel Langhorne Clemens, Mark
Twain American humorist, was one
of the popular candidates for cleo
ton to the hall of fame. He received
70 votes in his class. He was born
in Florida. Mo, November 30. 1882,
and died in Redding, Conn, April IL
1910.
was born in Lawrenceburg, Ind. May
90, 1924, and died in Nassau, New
Providence, March 8, 1885. He work
ed as a clerk in St. Louis. Mo, and
designed some boats for raising
sunken vessels and during the civil
war constructed within 100 days
eight iron clad steamers for use on
the Mississippi. Bridge building
and river improvements were among
later achievements.
Patrick Henry, American states
man, was born. May 20. 1736. in Han
over county. Virginia. and died June
6. 1899, in Charlotte; county. Virginia.
He was by turns storekeeper. farm
err and lawyer. His personal---very.
speech in which he used the phrase
give me liberty or give me death"
was one of his claims to enduring
fame He served in the colonial con-
gress and as governor of Virginia.
William Thomas Green Morton,
born in Charlton, Mass, died in New
York City June Is. 1868. He was a
dentist and discoverer of anesthesia
by ether.
August saint-Gaudens, sculptor.
was born in Dublin. March 1, 184S,
ard died in Cornish. N. H, August 3,
1907. He was apprenticed to a
cameo cutter but later turned to
sculptoring, in which he had a free
and original style.
ltgious liberty and founder of Rhode
Island. was born i'll Wales in 1907
and died in Providence, r. l.. in
March. 1884. He differed with Eng
lish church authorities over the
ritual and fled to America.
Alice Freeman Palmer was born
in Colesville, n. Y, February 21.
1855, and died in Paris, December 6,
1902. She was a graduate of the
University of Michigan. In 1892 she
became president of Wellesley col
lege, retaining that position until
her marriage to Professor G. H. Pal
ner, Of Harvard university.