Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-11-16
PrNCHOT THE MAN
Some Interesting Sidelishts on the
Next Governor Of Pennsylvania.
His War Work-I'inchot
and Peurose
ny GEORGE NOX MCCAIN
CLIFFORD p1NCHOT'S biography,

CLIFFORD p1NCHOTS biography, or
u autobiography. remains. to be written. .
There has been a lot Of desultory stun
published about him. mostly campaign
somewhat eventful life.
The nearest approach to anything definite,
satisfactory and detailed. comes from the
pen Of that widely known historian and
ANTIQUARIAN, Colonel Henry W. Shoemaker.
1t is In the shape 81 fourteen. page
Portions Of It present new views and
sidelights on the life of the next Governor
After iikenins Clifford pinchot--the fret
time he saw him was in 1014--to a Frank.
fish King, Colonel Shoemaker says:
may be borne out in fact BY his ancestry,
which comes from Frankish or Northern
France and Flanders"
ss'THE pinchot family, 11usuenots," con.
L tinues the biosraphcr. ORIGINATED at
| 'Arras in Picardy, that militant city which
wa; almost %s Demolished S by the Ger%,n: n:
birthplace, at st. Quentin. Of Anthony
Bencset. the Quaker philanthropist, called
BY Benjamin Franklin the first citizen OF
Philadelphia In Revolutionary days.
"On his mothers side the name was
originally Henne, in Flanders: later. when
it became Henne. and in New England, Emo.
"On both sides Clifford Pinchot IL Of
Frnnkish stock, the blood Of Charlcmagne
and Guynemer.
|"1le Is Gothic rather than Gallic.
THE name Henne il also found In Penn.
sylvaniu along the Blue Mountains in west.
ern Berks County, possibly Of the same
stock.
"Oliver d. schock. of the Public Service
Commission: tells US the Henne family have
been Republicans for generations, In .
Clifford Pinchot has always been q Re.
publican"
"C1FFoRD p1NcHor's carly III. was
~ spent in Pennsylvania on the Dels'
''He was born on August II. 1865, and
now extinct wild pigeons.
"1is father and grandfather ran timber
RATS to Philadelphia. kept store and were
farmers.
"Ile is as typicallv and r,,ggedly Amer.
rails md chopped wood early in life.
"t;ihord Pinchot can swing nm ax or
marking hatchet today in a way that makes
the average 'woodsie' or 'hick' green with
envy and sit up and take notice.
I" A MANS religion is inseparable from
n his early life. Clifford Pinchot's up.
bringing was essentially Christian, of the
old fashioned kind.
"At Yale. he tells us. he overlooked many
of the fields of athletic rrowess-though,
her Of the freshman football team, and got
his 'numerals'-to be president Of the COL
lcge Y. NJ. G. a. and conduct his own Bible
class. which he did for four years.
"Gifford Pinchot is member Of the
Protestant Episcopal Church.
HE Is pnst president Of the Huguenot
Society of Pennsylvania
0CIFFORD PINCllOT'S education was
~ varied and COSMOPOLITAN: il included
a term Mt the district school near his Pike
County home. private tutors. Yale. and for
estry schools in France. Germany, Switzer-
land and Austria.
"He was in school in Paris when the
Communards were marching through the
streets to be stood up against wall and
shot.
.IIe saw McNiahon and Gambetta. and
can recall the smoking ruins OF the Tuil.
cries.
"Those stirring scenes may have awakened
at that early age his strong championing
of the right,
appreciation Of his practical knowledge by
making him Sc. d.
"McGill University. Toronto. Canada,
He was frat man at Yale, belonging
| TO Psi Epsilon, TO which his arch rival.
Chief Justice W. II. Taft, also belonged. and
to Skull and Bones.
Clifford Pinchct is living exemplar Of
| Yale democracy.
"C1FFORD PINCHoT's father, the late
! " James W. Pinchot. of Milford. was
| a self made business man OF varied inter.
ests. and several uncles were active com.
! mcrcially in various parts Of Pike County.
His grandfather was Amos Il. Emo. q
leading financier Of his day and generation.
| shortly after the German hordes crossed
| the Belgian frontier in 1914. Clifford Pin.
chot actuatcd probably as much by his
broad love Of humanity as his Flemish blood,
hurried to Belgium to the aid Of the home.
less refugees.
aided by his wife. he was performing
notable work for civilization. when Gen :
having heard that Clifford P!nchot's sister
| was married to the British envoy to neutral
| Holland. ordered his expulsion from Bel
gum.
! direct important relief work through the
| agencies Of the Belgium Relief Commission
and the Red Gross.
Later on when the war clouds wers
lowering about the Cnitei States and
Colonel Roosevelt was organizing his fam
ous division. he selected Clifford Pinchot as
member of his personal staff and colonel
of the first forestry regiment.
Clifford Pinchot II an honorary membe,
Of the American Legion Post nj Milford
Pike County.
tSDRAISE Of Clifford Pinchot as a sports.
L man came from an unexpected sourc,
Senator Penrose, his old adversary II
1920.
'"rhe senator had visited the giant timbe,
on Swift Run. Snyder County, now knowr
as Snyder. .Middleworth Park. with Colo.
mel W. e. Mcconnell and United States
Judge c. II. Wilmer. and fearing lest tn,
titanic hemlocks be Gu. or burned. hc turned
20 one of his companions. saying:
Tell Pinchot TO make pnrk ont q
these trees and save them he can do II h,
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