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Frank O. Lowden was born in Minnesota in 1861, and was educated in Iowa. In 1886 he moved to Chicago to study law. After he received his bar diploma, he practiced law in Chicago with signal success: His first dash into politics was a failure; he was defeated for the gubernatorial nomination in the Illinois State convention. Two years later he was elected to the House of Representatives and there he stayed...
...newspaper business. As Mrs. Nana Springer White, she lives comfortably at Hempstead, Long Island. As Miss Adele Garrison, she is an oracle on marital problems for hundreds of her readers. Her own life has taught her to use her typewriter to produce what U. S. women like. Born in Clinton Junction, Wis., she became school teacher in Milwaukee, assistant Sunday editor of the Milwaukee Sentinel, feature writer and reporter for the Chicago Examiner and Chicago American...
Thus almost lost to fame is the most exciting and excitable figure that ever trod the soil of North America. Frémont was, characteristically enough, born unconventionally in 1813. His mother was the wife of gouty Major John Pryor, but his father was a dashing French emigré (Charles Frémon) who ran off with his mother. Reared in the best Charleston, S. C., society, Frémont was a quick Latin and Greek scholar. People thought he might make a teacher or a preacher, until Joel R. Poinsett (manifest destiny man, Secretary of War, giver...
...Story. When Anne India heard of the death of her cousin Tomlin, she exulted in life's restored cleanliness. Cousin Tomlin had been born with a little horn above his left ear. It had vanished during his babyhood leaving only a corneous spot on his skull; but people were glad when Tomlin died...
...Author claims only to be "a common or garden variety of person," anxious about the welfare of his family, and unable to master income tax returns. Born 42 years ago in Greensboro, N. C., (O. Henry's birthplace) he did an educational zigzag from kindergarten in Berlin to college in Denver. From childhood he was taught to paint, but during a winter (1908-09) in Paris at the Academic Julien, he began to write stories, ignoring many an art class to wrestle with plots. He has written well over a hundred short stories many of which have been published...