The Carbon County news. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1924-1931, 1931-01-15

tCiGu III tHt III
FAINT class at the local school.
The result was that the boy was
taken out of school and tutored by
/ his mother and father. Mrs.
Hughes had been q school teacher
before her marriage. Few parents
We're so well equipped to teach a
bright lad at home.
Charles Evans Hughes was
precoeious child, as his formula
ton of a plan to study the classics
when he was in kindergarten will
bear out. He was born in 1862 in
Glens Falls, N. Y, where his father
had small congregation. He was
delicate as a child and didn't romp
and play much with other little
boys and girls.
Perhaps because he was not par
tieularly robust his parents devoted
more time to him than might or
dlnarily have been the case. His
mind developed rapidly. He showed
a decided interest in books as soon
as he was able to talk. He was
reading nursery rhymes when he
was three and half years old. He
was five when his father was trans
ferred to a church in Oswego when
charles was summarily removed
from kindergarten.
When he was eight, and the FAM
lily was living in Newark, N. j., the
lad WAS able to translate the Bible
from the Greek. He was also a
wide reader of Shakespeare's works
at this early age.
lie later went to school in New
York city where he was graduated
from high school in 1875 at the
age of thirteen as salutatorian of
his class. His grafton, because of
Its scholarly tone and the fine de-
livery of the orator, surprised
big crowd that attended the exer-
cises in the old Academy of Music
in that city.
While attending high school he
wrote essays on such subjects as,
The Limitation of the Human
Mind. :" self Help" and 1.-THE Evils
of Light Literature" He was
marked even then as a deep stu
dent and thinker.
The Rev. Mr.. Hughes wanted his
son to become a clergyman, if the
boy felt a real call to the religious
life. Young Charles had not made
up his mind definitely as to his fu-
ture career when he entered Col
gate at the age of fourteen. He
was slight boy at the time and
tlmid, save when it came to ques-
lions of scholarship. Then he
would talk well and enthusiastical-
ly, even with his elders. Mentally
ne was more mature than his class
mates.
The boy spent two years at Col
gate. From there he went to
Brown university, entering as a
sophomore in 1878. He Immediate
Iy showed all the promise indicat-
ed in his high school days. He was
a brilliant student, but modest and
retiring in disposition.
He gained many scholastic hon
Drs at Brown. He won the prize
for the highest standing in Eng
ish literature when he was
Junior. Upon graduation, at the
lge of nineteen, he was awarded
he prize as the student showing
he most all-around promise. He
vas honor man in his class.
BY this time he had finally made
Up his mind not to become a cler-
lyman. Deciding against following
he career for which his father had
hoped, he went from Brown uni
yersity to Delphi, N. Y. There he
aught mathematics in the Della
ware academy.
He studied law at Columbia uni
'ersity at night after returning to
New York city and was admitted
0 the bar when he was twenty-five
ears old.
While the young lawyer had been
ickly as child he showed great
physical capacity for work in the
lext three years. He was engaged |
IS clerk in a law office during
he day. At night he acted as a
eacher and tutor at Columbia.
Finally his health suffered under :
he strain. He was ordered to take :
vacation. He spent it as teach
+ of commercial and contract law
t Cornell university. n
The upstate climate agreed with h
i'm. When he returned to New :
DIRK city he was able to throw
imself vigorously into the duties g
t his profession as a practitioner. 81
lie first attracted wide public at
entiOn as counsel for the gas In
committee He added
his reputation as an outstanding E.
awyer by his conduct of the insur- =
nee investigation, another New =
Ork state inquiry.
Later he was elected governor of
'ew York and reelected, resign. b
y to become a United States Su tt
rene court justice He retired :
'om the bench to be his party's I
andidate for the Presidency. He
'st the highest Office within the
ft of the American people be-
luse of fractional squabble in
alifornia. Later he served as
ecretary of State and is now
lief justice of the United States {
upreme court. I
20, 1880. by The North American