Word: madison
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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What He Did. He made his appearance on a farm near Madison, Wis., on June 14, 70 years ago. He grew up in poverty. He eked out a schooling and an education in the Law. He hung out a shingle. He married. He fought to be District Attorney of Dane County and won. In 1884, at 29, he was elected to the House of Representatives?the youngest member of that body. He was put on the Ways and Means Committee, and helped Representative William McKinley to write the McKinley Tariff Bill. After six years in the House, he went back...
...Madison, Wis., talk was largely speculation about Editor Glenn Frank of the Century Magazine, President elect of the University of Wisconsin. Harvard alumni talked about the loss of Professor Baker of 47 Workshop fame and the resignation of well-loved Dean Briggs. Princeton men discussed their Princeton Fund (a fresh endowment) and the going from Princeton of Dean McClenahan...
...genealogical Manhattanite. Graduated from Yale at the age of 20 with highest honors, he struck out from the ancestral paths, plunged into the ministry, and was soon conducting services in a shoddy room above a fishmarket. His first pulpit was an unadorned wooden plank. His call to the Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church followed years of slumming. This Church soon came to have the largest Presbyterian congregation in Manhattan. Meanwhile, it had been a pioneer in the erection of a model Church House for boys' clubs and the like...
More pondering at Wisconsin. Advices from Madison, seat of the University, told, last week, that at a special meeting Regent Michael Olbrich arose to nominate "one of America's great men," a college president's onetime secretary, a noted merchant's onetime associate, now a distinguished editor, thinker, liberal reformer in Church and State. Regent Olbrich nominated Editor Glenn Frank of The Century Magazine, salting his eulogy with the pertinent fact that Editor Frank, only 38 years old, should have much life left in him to give to the University of Wisconsin at $12,000 a year...
Regent Zona Gale was instructed to ask the Madison, Wis., telephone operator to connect her with Editor Frank in Manhattan without further delay. A deputation of the Regents was appointed to pack suitcases, entrain and wait on Editor Frank in person...