Evening star., 1921-08-14

Special Dispatch to The Star.
WYTHEV1LLE, Va, August 13.-
Back here in Wytheville, Va, is a
spot Of ground which appeals to the
citizens of this community as unique.
With it as a center, a radius twenty
feet or less in length will describe a
circle inclosing the birthpiaces of
both Senator Elbert Lee Trinkle,
democratic nominee for Governor of
Virginia, and Mrs. Edith Boiling will
son. wife of former President Wood
row Wilson.
A "first lady of the land and a
man who may be the next Governor
of Virginia were born at nearly the
same time, in the same town and
within less than forty feet of each
other. Only an alley separates the
two houses.
As friends and neighbors. Edith
Boiling and Lee Trinkle played to-
gether when children. Later they
danced together in Sections Hall and
the old Hancock House, which burned
score of years ago, and in the pri-
vate homes of the town. AS evidence
two families. Mrs. Wilson and practi-
cally all msmbers of the Boiling fam
lily have Wired congratulations to
Senator Trinkle.
May BE Youngest Governor. f.
Mr.. Trinkle Will be forty-six years
old on the I'd day of March. 1922.
If he is inaugurated chief executive
next February, Virginia will have the
youngest governor she has had in
many years
He received his early education at
home. graduating from the Wythe-
Vile Male Academy when he was un-
der sixteen years of age. He next
attended Hampden- Sidney College.
where he graduated in 1896, having
taken the full four-year course and
received both the bachelor Of arts and
bachelor of science degrees. Besides
being first honor man In his class and
winning both the orators and de-
manage both the foot ball and base
ball teams and take part in other COL
lege activities.
Mr.. Trinkls spent the next two
years at the University of Virginia
He graduated in 1898 with the degree
OF the first moot court prize. the
highest honor of the law school
While at the University of Virginia
he was manager of the base ball team
and OF College Topics. the, universi-
~ weekly paper. He was also large
ly instrumental in placing athletics
at the university on a paying basis.
the candidate Is a son Of the late
Elbert Stephen Trinkle, a successful
business man and farmer and a Con-
federate veteran of this county.
After the war he acquired large buli-
ness and farming interests in Wythe
and located in Wytheville, where
he died in 1884. At the time of his
fathers death. Senator Trinkle was
eight years of age. He was left in
the sole care of his mother. who be-
fore her marriage was Miss Letitia NJ
Sexton of Wytheville.
Besides enjoying a large law prac-
tice, Senator Trinkle is engaged with
his brother in operating several large
farm ands grazing plantations in
Wythe and Pulaski,counties
An interesting bit of local history
is that ninety acres of land on which
the town of Wytheviile is located was
donated in the year 1890 by the great
grandfather of MIR. Trinkle.
Mrs. Trinkle Is Texan.
In electing E. Lee Trinkle as Gov
ernor of Virginia in November. the
people of the state will be sending
to the mansion, as his wife, a first
lady of genuine an unaffected charm.
She was Miss Helen Ball Sexton of
Houston, Texas, and is relative of
Mary Ball, the belle of Lancaster,
who was the mother of Washington.
She was educated at Texas College,
formerly located at Dallas, where she
graduated with first honors. She
also graduated form Rowe's Con-
servatory of Music in that city. Mrs.
Trinkle is violinist of unusual
ability.
Senator and Mrs. Trinkle were mar
ried in 1910. They have three child
rem: +. Lee Trinkle. jr., age ten
Helen Sue Trinkle. age five and Will
liam Seivre Trinkle, age six months
Lee Trinkle. jr., thinks he would
prefer to remain in Wythevil1e.
"Of course he grumbled. Il want
daddy to beat. But l don't want to
go. Id rather stay here with the
gang, so l can play ball and and
ride the pony and swim I'm going
to get daddy to let me stay here next
winter and go to school with the
bunch, wouldn't you?'