Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-02-04

bia. S. c.. where at the age of II
Thomas Woodrow Wilson entered Da-
wilson College, but left there soon to
go to Princeton. After graduation at
Princeton he studied law al the Uni
vcrsity of Virginia and in 1852 hung
out his shingle in Atlanta. Ga. Mean
time he courted Ellen Louise Arson,
the daughter of q Savannah Presbytc-
rian clergyman. They were married in
1885 and had three daughters Marga-
ret. the eldest who did not marry: Jcs-
sic, who became the wife of Francis
Bowes Sayre. and Eleanor. who became
the wife OF William G. McAdoo secre-
tary of the treasury during her fathers
administration and later a presideH-
tial aspirant.
young lawyer he wore out the rug in
his office walking around the desk
waiting FOR clients. so he abandoned a
legal career and went TO Johns Hop
kins University at Baltimore for a
post graduate course in letters. While
there he published his first book. Con
gressional Government" study in
American politics. 1t evoked offers of
professorships at Bryn Mawr and Wes-
| leyan and won recognition at home and
abroad. The young man who wrote of
the defects of the American political
system in 1888 found himself to deal
with them later. Having written In a
deprecatory tone of the tendency to-
ward autocracy in American presidents
he lived to hear himself called the
greatest autocrate of them all and to
see a resolution declaring his office
vacant on those grounds introduced and
tabled in the Senate.
Successfully. Mr.. Wilson became pro.
fessor Of history and political econo-
my AZ Bryn Mawr and Wesleyan Uni
versitE and later professor Of tuIis-
prudence ard political economy at
Princeton where, subsequently, he was
made lead Of that institution. Mean
while. Professor Wilson had gained
high reputation as q writer. Some Of
his works. with the date of their pro-
duction. We're as follows: 'The State
Elements of Historical and Practical
Politics" tiSS9); Division and Re
union tlS93l: George shington."
1880: "A History of the American
People 1s02b; Free Life" 19l3);
When Man Comes to Himself"
Cs15): "On Being Human" t1a1s);
IAN Old Master and Other Political
Essays" and Mere Literature and
Other Esseys" were among his earlier
writings. His state papers, notes to
belligcrent governments and addresses
to Congress. would ill many volumes.
The honorary degree of Doctor of
Laws was bestowed upon him by Wake
Forest College NSS7): Tulane Univer-
sity us9s): Johns Hopkins 1902:
Grown University Ge03): Harvard
University U90D: Williams College
G90S); and Dartmouth Cnllcge U9p9p.
Yale made him a Doctor Of Literature
in 1901.
Life was a pretty well settled af-
fair for him while he was president
of Princeton. Its great oaks. shaded
lawns and historic halls. furnished the
settings in which Mr.. Wilson did much
of the literary work whch later was
to attract the world. He probably had
little thought of being shatched into
the maelstrom of politics and war He
drew some public attention in the fight
for preservation of democratic ideals
at the university, but he lived the life
of a family man on small pay and as
late as 1910 was contemplating retiring
on a teachers pension.
That year the inexorable force of
events came into evidence. The tide
which sweeps on to fortune" began
to rise about him. Nominated for gov
ernor CT New Jersey In a political Sit
uation about which many interesting
things have been<sa and denied with