Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-10-01
CHOOSING NOTABLES
FOR HALL OF FAME
Balloting Ends Tomorrow for 80
Names Of American Men
and Women.
Az Associated Press to Every EvcnIns

10 6mouS American women TO the hal
of Famc. There are 2Oi celebrities nom.
mated for that honor. The result of the
election will not be made public until No
vembcr l.
The Hall of Fame, national institution
Is located ON the heights of New York
University, overlooking the Hudson and
Elar hem rivers. II was organized 20 years
ago with n gift of 100000, which has
sincc been increased To $3.50, 600 the money
o. he used in building n museum and
colonnade 500 feet long and to contain
80 panels for memorial bronze tablets
Fifty were 90 he inscribed In 1900 and az
the close of every five years thereafter,
five additional panels were TO be placed,
SO that the entire number would be COM
plctcd by A. ID. 1000. Only 56 in all, how
ever, have been elected since the first
votes were cast 20 years ago.
The ballots in the present election,
which were mailed last July 20 l02 cleo
tors IN various parts of the United States,
college presidents. historians, professors,
scientists, authors, editors, statesmen,
supreme court judges, business men, pub
hcIsts and Others, contain the names Of
13T men and % women, of whom IL me n
and q women were holdover nomina-
tions from previous elections. The mi
tlals IN. J. F. alongside the names of
20 men and one woman indicate that in n
preliminary public nomination last MAY
majority Of special group of electors
designated them as being "morc Justly
famous" This makes them eligible to
election 10y a majority vote and all others
must have two-thirds Of the vote cast. In
the absence of DIR. Robert Underwood
Johnson. now United States Ambassador
To Italy, the balloting is in charge OF the
Acting Director of the Hall of Fame, Mrs.
William Vsnamce Of this city.
The following famous Americans al
ready have been elected:
Authors-Ralph Waldo Emerson. Ma
thaniel Hawthorne, Washington Irving,
Henry lWadsworth Longfellow, James
Russell Lowell John Greenleaf Whittier,
George Bancroft, William Cullen Bryant,
James Fonnimore Cooper, Oliver Wendell
Holmes, John Lothrop Motley, Edgar
Allen Poe, Francis Parkman.
observation-disclosures Mann. Mark Hop
kins.
Preachers, Theologians-Jonathan Ed
wards, Henry Ward Beecher, William
Ellery Charming, Phillips Brooks.
Philanthropists. Reformers-petcr
Cooper, George Peabody.
Scientists-John James Audubon, Asa
Gray Louis Agsssiy, Joseph Henry.
Engineers, Architects-None.
Physicians, Surgeons
lnventors-Robert Fulton. Samuel r
II. MORSE, Eli Whitney. Ehas Howe.
Missionaries. Explorers Boone.
Soldiers, Sailors-David Glasgow Far
ragtt, Ulysses Simpson Grant, Robert +.
Lee, William Tecumseh Sherman.
Lawyers Judges-James Kent, John
Marshall, Joseph Story, Rufus Choste.
Rulers, Statesrnen@Iohn Adams. Hen
~ Clay. Benjamin Franklin, Thomas
Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, George
Washington. Daniel Webster, John
Quincy Adams. James Madison, Andrew
Jackson. Alexander Hamilton
Musicians, Painters, SCulptors, etc
Gilbert Charles Stuart
Eminent Men Outside the Foregoing
Glasses None
Elected 10 the Hall Of Fame for Wo-
men: Authors Beecher Stowe
Educators, Missionaries-Mary Lyon.
Emma Willard
Philanthropists Reformers, Home or
So,ial Workers RANGES Elizabeth VIII
lard
Scientists s-Maria Mitchell.
Musicians Painters. Sculptors, etc
Charlotte : CuShman NJ. ]. f.
Eminent Nof~cn Outside the Fore
gong Classes- None.
The nominations for the election of
1920. from which 80 selections are to be
made. are as follows:
Authors-William LLOYD Garrison, Hor@
ace Greeley, Francis Scott Key. Wendell
Phillips. William Prescott, Noah Webster.
George William Curtis, William Whitney,
John Fske, Francis Bret Harte, Walt
Whitman, Thomas Bailey, Aldr,ch. Sam
uel Clemens (M. ]. F., Francis Manon
Crawford, Charles A. Dana, Eugene Field. |
Henry George, Richard Watson Glider.
joel Chandler Harris, Francis Lieber,
Charles Eliot Norton, Thomas Paine M
u F., Edmund Stedman and Henry
Tborcau
observation-disclosures Fl. Galludet, Sam
uel G.. Howe, Francis Wsyland, Theo-
dor woolscy, John Witherspoon, Sam
mel Armstrong, Borden Browne, Daniel |
Colt Gilman, William II. McGufey, Eli |
phalet Mott and Noah Porter
Preachers and Theologians-Lyman |
Reccher, Horace Bushnell, (M. J. FL, |
Cotton Mather, Theodore Parker, Mat |
thew Simpson, Francis Asbury, William |
Brewster, Dwight Moody, Roger VIII |
hams, M. J. F.. Edward Everett Hale |
and Heinrich Muhlenberg.
Philanthroposits and Reforrners-Hen- |
~ Bergh and John Brown.
Scientists Spencer Baird. Nathaniel /
Bowditch, Matthew Maury, Benjamin |
Pierce, Benjamin Silliman, BENJAMIN /
Thompson M. ]. FL, Josiah Gibbs. |
Samuel Langley, Henry Morgan and /
Simon Newcomb IN. J. F).
Engineers and Architects-James Eads /
(M. J. F., Alexander Holley, Henry
Richardson, John Roebling, John Grit |
fths, Charles McKim, Robert Mills and |
John Stevens.
Physicians and Surgeons -Ephraim.
Mcdowell, William Morton, (M. J. F.), |
Benjamin Rush, James Sims, Crawford |
W Long, Frank Abbott, William Bull.
John Carnochan, Charles T. jackson,
Walter Reed, William Shipper, Jr., and
Lyman Spalding.
Inventors Charles GOODYEAR. Rich
ard Marsh Hoe, Cyrus Hall Mccormick.
George Henry Corliss, Robert McCor-
mick, John Ericsson, Stockton Borton,
William Austin Burt, Walter Hunt, Ott-
mar Mergenthaler and Robert l.. Stevens.
MISSIONARIES, Explorers Hous-
ton, Elisha Kent Kane, Adoniram Jud-
son, Meriwether Lewis, Marcus Whitman,
John Eliot, Jacques Marquette, William
Clark, David Crockett, Jedediah Smith
and Henry Nj. Stanley
Soldiers, Sailors George Clark M.
J. F., Stephen Decatur, John Fremont.
Nathaniel Greene IN. j. F., Nathan
Hale, Thomas Jackson M. j. F.0, Albert
Sydney Johnston, George Meade, Oliver,
Hazard Perry. David Dixon Porter