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BY PAUL DANBY
- n a.!! n E'^L never amount to any
\wm\ thing for he's a rich man's
II y son. He might, If he had
half a chance, but he is
overshadowed completely by his fa
ther's reputation. Besides, as the son of
his father, his head has been turned
probably, and he'll never try to cut
much of a figure."
Remarks like this, often heard when
the son of an eminent man is under
discussion, indicate accurately the pub
lic attitude toward the youngster whose
father has made a name and a place
In the world for himself. This is espe
cially true if the father is president
of the United States. But the facts
do not justify the attitude.
Strictly speaking, only twenty-one
president's sons, concerning whom
there are available records, have grown
to manhood. Six presidents—Washing
tor-, Madison, Jackson, Polk, Buchanan
(a bachelor) and McKinley—left no
children. Two—Jefferson and Monroe
—left daughters only. President John-
6On had two sons, but both died be
fore he was president, and so do not
count. The sons of thirteen presidents
—John Adams, John Quincy Adams,
Van Buren, William Henry Harrison,
Tyler, Taylor, Fillmore, Lincoln, Grant,
Hayes, Garfield, Arthur and Benjamin
Harrison —have lived to man's estate..
The sons of Cleveland and Roosevelt
are still boys.
Of the twenty-one presidents' sons
who have reached manhood, nine have
bulked large in the public eye on their
own account, and all but one or two
have stood well among those who knew
them best; have been solid, substantial
citizens. The prominent nine are John
Quincy Adams, president, diplomat
and congressman; Charles Francis
Adams, publicist and statesman; Rob
ert Tyler, register of the Confederate
treasury; Richard Taylor, who served
with distinguished gallantry on the
Confederate side of the Civil war; John
Van Buren, prominent in state politics
and just entering national politics
when he died; Robert Todd Lincoln,
1 (cabinet minister, diplomat and presi
dent of a world famous corporation;
-Frederick Dent Grant, diplomat and
general in the army; Henry A. Gar
field, lawyer, banker and professor of
politics in a great university, and
James R. Garfield, state senator, United
States civil service commissioner and
commissioner of corporations in the de
partment of commerce and labor.
Besides the nine who have climbed
bo high there Is John Scott Harrison,
who had the unique distinction of being
the son of one president and father of
another. He was a man of force and
with great influence in his own state.
though he was not a prominent figure
in a national sense. Counting him in,
and he surely "made good," ten, or
only one less than half the presidents'
sons who have reached manhood are
entitled to be named on the roll of
honor.
The Greatest President's Son
Unquestionably, John Quincy Adams
was the greatest president's son. Even
when a boy he was the closest friend
and companion of his eminent father,
with whom he went to France at the
age of 11. At 13 he taught English to
De La Luzerne, a French ambassador.
Boon afterward he went to Holland
with his father and set the Dutch agog
by the knowledge he displayed of Ba
varian antiquities. At 15 he was sec
retary to his father in Russia. He was
graduated from Harvard at 21, studied
law and practiced It awhile, but soon
entered public life. He served as min
ister to Portugal and afterwdfb to
Prussia. Recalled because of political
changes, he entered the state legisla
ture and later the house of representa
tives. He was inaugurated president
in 1826, and is the only president who
ever sat in congress after the close of
his term as chief magistrate. His
whole life was one of great usefulness
to his country, yet as he tried to lay
out a middle course between the con
servatism of the old regime and the
radicalism of the new, he was at times
condemned Impartially by almost
everybody. Possibly his greatest ser
*■ vices were rendered In the negotiation
of treaties in the ten years from 1809
to 1819, when the United States was
new and stood in need of a ereat
treaty-maker.
Charles Francis Adams, son of John
Quincy, a lawyer by profession, was a
member of the Massachusetts legisla
ture and the national congress, minis
ter to England, member of the Geneva
tribunal in 1871-72, and ran for presi
dent on the Free Soil ticket in 1848.
His son, Charles Francis, was a soldier
in the Civil war, coming out a briga
dier general and later was president
of the Union Pacific railroad.
Bons of Van Buren and W. H. Harrison
There are some who would object
to the admission of John Van Burena
name to the list of presidents' sons
who have made good, and it Is not
bo many years since his career was
the subject of frequent newspaper dis
cussion. It is true that he was a bon
ylvant and something of a man about
town. Also, he was somewhat swept
off his feet by the adulation he re
ceived as his father's son, long be
ing known derisively as "Prince
John." But later he entered upon a
serious political career, and, being
a highly effective speaker, soon made
himself a power in New York. Had
he not been suddenly cut off while at
sea he would surely have made himself
felt in national affairs.
John Scott Harrison served two
termß in congres, but the one cir-
cumstance that made his name best
known to the country at large oc
curred after his death. Soon after his
burial, his son, Benjamin Harrison,
later to be president of the United
States, went to Cincinnati to search
the premises of a medical college there
for the body of a neighbor that had
been stolen from a cemetery at North
Bend. At Mr. Harrison's demand the
janitor showed the cadavers awaiting
dissection. The first one raised from
the well was the corpse of his father,
John Scott Harrison, his naked body
and snow-white hair bedabbled with
blood.
These Two Were Confederate*
The name of Robert Tyler Is not
well remembered now, but he was a
man of marked ability in many ways.
He wrote very well, but preferred the
law to literature, and, after his ad
mission to the bar, settled In Philadel
phia where he established a fine prac
tice in the days when to be a "Phlla
delpJiia lawyer" meant a great deal.
When the Civil war broke out he went
South, became register of the treas
ury at Richmond and went down with
the Confederacy. He lived till 1877,
but was never able to recover his
place in the world. His brother, Maj.
John Tyler, had a variegated career
as soldier, politician and writer, but he
was not such a public figure as Robert
Richard Taylor, "Dick," as he was
known the country over during and
long after his father's presidential
service, was a true chip of the old
block. He was born in New Orleans,
educated in Scotland and France and
passed through the Mexican war with
his father, who was then Idolized as a
daring general officer. At Palo Alto
and Resaca the youngster attained to
something like fame because of his
own dashing gallantry. After winning
considerable prominence In civil life,
he went into the Confederate service at
the breaking out of the Civil war as
colonel. He fought In the early Vir
ginia campaigns, was then appointed
major general of the Trans-Mississippi,
and in 1864 was made lieutenant gen
eral. It was too late then to do much,
though more than one Northern gen
eral officer had reason to remember
him. Like Robert Tyler, "Dick" Tay
lor was not able to rejuvenate himself
after the close of the war.
President Plerce's only son was kill
ed when a lad In a railroad accident.
Millard P. Fillmore never rose to
prominence, though for many years he
was clerk of the United States court
at Buffalo, and died a rich man, the
contest over his will having only lately
been closed.
Robert Todd Lincoln and Frederick
Dent Grant
President Lincoln's surviving son,
Robert Todd Lincoln —Tad." his fa
ther's idol in Civil war days, died when
only a boy-^has won higher honors
than fall to the lot of many men In
the law, in the public service and In
business.
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His mother wanted him to go to
THE ST. PAUL GLOBE. SUNDAY; NO\ rEMBER 20. 1904
West Point, win distinction as a gen
eral and then be president, like his
father. The young man didn't like this
programme; neither did his father, and
though, at Mrs. Lincoln's request, he
(served for a time on Gen. Grant's staff
as captain, he finally carried his point
and went to Harvard, where he
studied law. He was twenty-two
when his father was shot, and soon
afterward went to Chicago, where he
speedily built up a practice In chan
cery and other cases Involving careful
search and profound knowledge of land
titles. The destruction of a large pro
portion of the real estate records of
the city in the big fire made such a
practice very valuable, and he had an
exceptionally good income for years
before he was made secretary of war
by President Garfleld In 1881. He re
turned to the practice of law when
Cleveland assumed the presidential
chair, but in 1889 was made minister
to England by President Harrison.
After his'return to America he became
Identified with the Pullman Palace Car
company; on Mr. Pullman's death he
was made president of the corporation,
and now, at sixty-one, is a great cap
tain of industry.
Of President Grant's sons, the eldest
Gen. Frederick Dent Grant, Is now in
command of the department of the
East at Governor's Island. Ulysses S.
Grant spends some of bis time near
Purdy Station, N. T., where he has a
farm and where he says he would rath
er "sit on the fence and whittle In
the sunshine than be the emperor of
the whole earth." He spends much
time, too, in California, and Jesse R.
Grant, the third brother, also .lives in
the Golden state. Like Ulysses S., he
has never made a prominent place for
himself. But both have always been
solid, reliable citizens, a credit alike to
themselves and their countrymen.
The sons of President Hayes are all
HOW THE SHELLS FALL IN PORT ARTHUR
Diagram Showing the Comparative Danger From a 12-inch Gun at Various Ranges
engaged In. the law business. Webb C,
who attained brief prominence as a
volunteer captain in the Spanish war.
Is located In Cleveland; R. B. Hayes is
a citizen of Asheville, N. C; Burchard
Is in Toledo, and Scott A. Is In Pitts
burg. Neither Alan Arthur nor Rus
sell B. Harrison has ever essayed to
shine in public life.
Sons of a Martyred President
Two of Garfield's sons have made
rood and there is time for the other
two to forge to the front Henry
Abram Garfield, the eldest, is now pro
fessor of politics at Princeton, where
he succeeded John H. Finley, the first
Incumbent. Although it Is an honor
able thing to be professor of politics
at a great university, his acceptance
of the chair was a surprise to many of
his friends and admirers, for he had
had many opportunities to enter public
life, and had made both reputation and
wealth at the practice of his profes
sion, the law, and as a banker, being
president of a big trust company and
connected with several other financial
institutions in Cleveland.
In 1902 he was offered a place as na
tional civil service commissioner by
President Roosevelt, but declined it;
the post was then given to his brother,
James Rudolph Garfleld, who still holds
it. This young man—he 18 still under
40—seems to have Inherited the polit
ical tendencies of his father. He has
been a senator in the Ohio legislature
and was the author of a particularly
stringent election law, which possibly
was the cause of his defeat when he
sought the nomination for congress
from his father's old district He stlH
cherishes the ambition to serve the dis
trict in the house as his father did be
fore him. He is now commissioner of
corporation* in the department of labor
and commerce.
Irvln McDowell Garfleld, the third
Bon, is a lawyer In Boston. Abram, the
fourth son, "the baby of the White
house," when his father was president,
is of a scientific and practical turn of
mind. He was educated at the Boston
School of Technology and may be
heard from by and by.
Sons of Congressmen
It would be hard to find any other
class of prominent Americans whose
sons have done as well as those of the
presidents. Certainly, no such propor
tion of the sons of eminent senators
and representatives In congress have
won distinction.
Simon Cameron's son, Don Cameron,
succeeded his father as the political
primate of Pennsylvania. Blame's son,
Walker, would have made a noteworthy
place for himself probably If he had
lived. Senator Hearst's son has won
great prominence In the newspaper
world, is a congressman, and has had
the distinction of being a candidate be
fore the convention for the nomination
to presidential honors.
The first Bayard to alt In the senate
from Delaware, James W., waa suc
ceeded by his sons, James A. and Rich
and H. The tatter's grandson, Norman
F., was also a senator for many years.
The Stockton family of New Jersey
furnished five senators, the term of the
first, Richard, who was one of the
"signers," being preceded by service in
the Continental congress, and the term
of the last, John P., concluding in 1875.
The Frelinghuysens, also of New Jer
sey, gave three senators to the coun
try; the Colquitts, of Georgia, as many,
and members of all four of these fam
ilies have served in other ways with
distinction, though no member of any
of them is now in. public service. The
son of the late Speaker Crisp has done
better than any other speaker's son,
having succeeded his father In con
gress. Uncle Joe Cannon has no son;
neither has Thomas Brackett Reed.
Col. Henderson's son has not made an
appearance in public life.
Of the captains of transportation
who created America's great lines of
rail In the second half of the nine
teenth century, Jay Gould and Com
modore Vanderbilt only left sons who
have been able to hold up their end,
Whether William H. Vanderbilt, son
of "Commodore" Cornelius, the foun
der of the family, would have shown
force enough to make his way unaided
by his father's money is a moot ques
tion. His father appeared to have
little faith lr» him, and for years after
William H. was a full-grown man,
kept him on the farm. Yet when the
Commodore died, and William H., then
fifty-five years old, was left in charge
of the property, he speedily made good.
He had only nine years of control, for
he died at sixty-four in 1885, but in
the nine years he Increased the Vai>-
Serbilt fortunes from $100,000,000 to at
least double that vast sum.
Vanderbilt Sons
It was while William H. and his
family were living on the Staten Island
[arm that Cornelius the second showed
what stuff he was made of. Though
lis grandfather was one of the richest
CORNELULS THE THIRD TOOKACOUPSE"
IN PERiOKAL LOCOMOTIVE FIRING?
PRESIDENTS'SONS OF UNUSUAL DISTINCTION
7 .Vnrr.r,^ FRANCIS ADAMS, Diplomat and Congressman.
a CE J°HN VAN BUREN ' Orator and Politician.
4. JOHN S. HARRISON, Son of One President, Father of Anoth-r
5. ROBERT TYLER, Register of the Confederate Treasury Another'
6. RICHARD TAYLOR, Lieut. General in the Confederate Army
7. ROBERT TODD LINCOLN, Cabinet Minister, DiptomaJ Captain
OT I nCrUSX Vy.
8. FREDERICK DENT GRANT, Diplomat and Soldier
9. HENRY A. GARFIELD, University Professor
10. JAMES R. GARFIELD, Civil Service Commissioner
men in the country, yoking Cornelius
still In his teens, knew that his father
•was short of funds. So one day he
crossed the ferry from Staten Island to
Manhattan island and applied for a Job
as a clerk in one of the banks. He had
some difficulty in reaching the presi
dent of the institution, but persisted
and was finally led into his presence.
After listening to the application the
banker asked the lad's name.
"Cornelius Vanderbilt," was the re
ply.
"Possibly related to Commodore Van
derbilt r; questioned the banker some
what quizzically, whereupon the boy
said he was a grandson of the famous
railroad king, but explained that he
wanted to be employed, if at all, on
his own merits, and not because he had
a grandfather. He was taken on and
made good as a bank clerk. Later
when his grandfather heard about It
and asked the young man to accept
a minor place in the offices of the New
York & Harlem railroad at (2,200 a
year, he made good there, too.
William K. Vanderbilt and his son,
"Willie X.;" also the sons of Corne
lius the second, are all prominently
before the world, but only Cornelius
the second made good on his own ini
tiative, though tbe abilities of William
X.—both initiative and executive —are
of a very higlr order.
CoxsMMiMPhe third, whose invention
of an I^pEpved locomotive firebox,
made some «tLf in the railroad world
a few years ago. Is the only member
of the fourth generation of Vander
bllts who have ever seemed to take
life seriously, and even he appears
to have dropped out of the running,
being now Inclined to live chiefly for
social success and amusement. It is
likely, though, that he is one of those
who would have made good with the
"half a chance" that Is supposed to be
the portion of the youngster born with
plenty of ambition but no money.
When he was planning his firebox he
showed energy and pluck enough to
take a personal course at stoking a
locomotive, just to see how steam was
kept up and to find out how im
provements might be made.
Goulds, Belmonts, "Jack" Morgan
None of Jay Gould's four sons—
George, Edwin, Howard or Frank —
has made a failure, but only one,
George, has attained to anything that
might not be reached by any rich man's
son. When Jay Gould died It was fh«
general opinion that George would be
able to conserve the family fortunes,
but no one expected he would be able
to do more. In fact, it has often been
said that Jay Gould himself expected
no more. Yet George GouTfl is one of
the great, strong forces in the railway
world today, and his dominance In the
field he has chosen for his own is ad
mired by the strongest of his fellow
railway rulers, grudgingly, perhaps,
but none the less sincerely.
J. P. Morgan Jr.—"JaGk" —promises
to become a fine example of the suc
cessful son of a great financial mag
nate, but it Is yet too early to set him
down as an unqualified success. John
D. Rockefeller Jr., and Harry Payne
Whitney, eon of William C. Whitney,
are practically in the same class. As
all three of these young men have the
advantage of vast wealth and almost
boundless prestige behind them, how
ever, enough success to keep them
permanently in the public eye is virtu
ally assured to them.
The Belmonts are very generally fa
miliar as the prominent sons of a prom
inent man, but only one of them, Au
gust, has shown great initiative and
force. James Gordon Bennett, of the
New York Herald, is one of the few
great newspaper men's sons who have
carried along their father's life work
with credit. This he has done certain
ly. His paper waa great in the elder
Bennett's time, and it still holds its
place.
Many governors of states have left
behind them sons who are as great as
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their sires, though not many of them
moL chosen , politics for their flelS
Richard Yates, son of the great "war
governor",of Illinois, is an^ScentkSf
He also served Illino s as governoV JE *
inauguration coming some thirty years
fcter than his father's? The Rev * Dr
Morsan Dix rector of Trinity chirS"
Jild- "If f Overnor ' John A. Dix, who
dow* thl a y <man attempts to haul
fh!Tii?.» American fla *. him on
sn^ofo^o^' Of New Tork- is - the
«nntw " bishop and the nephew of
« 25? ; Dr. Lyman Abbott, editor
the '2 V n V 1S the son of Jacob Abbot?
the historian and member of a New
England family that has made good for
generations. Peter Cooper Hewitt, son
of Abram S. Hewitt, publicist and cap
tain of industry, has made good at
thirty or thereabouts most remarkably
5 -v?^ yet lnfant service, of electricity.
He bids fair to enroll his name on the
list of inventors along with Watt and
Morse and Edison and Tesla. Ambas
sador McCormick, whose name has
been in the forefront a good deal of
late because of his delicate position at
the Russian court, is a son of one of
the McCormicks made famous by the
reaper.
Alexander Agassiz, son of Louis
Aaasslz, the scientist, has made good
In "more than one way. Because he
knew his geology so well, he has made
a big fortune in copper, and this has
enabled him to prosecute his scientific
researches with absolute independence.
Though a modest - man—as most,
though not all scientists —he Is not
unmindful of his own fame, and the
other day when Andrew Carnegie of
fered to share with him the expense
of the latest Agassiz expedition, on
condition that it should be known as
the Carnegie- expedition,., he
declined the offer with spirit and final
ity. .. v- ,
Though most of the ". famous men's
sons who have made good have done so :
along lines similar or " akin to those -
marked out by their fathers, others
have followed lines entirely new to
the family genius. Oliver Wendell
Holmes, the son of the "Autocrat of the '--
Breakfast Table," is ■ a case in point. ■ »
His father devoted himself to medicine
and literature; the son preferred law,
and by reason of his legal acumen and
profound . knowledge has been made a
member of the supreme court of the
I United States. . . .
Dr. S. Weir Mitchell, eminent phy
sician and novelist, belongs to both
classes. His > father was a famous
physician in his day,. and the son was
divided for., a" time between medicine _
and literature. Finally: he determined
to work for success with an eye single
to literature, and, I curiously enough, it
was Oliver Wendell Holmes, the poet
physician, who induced the young man
to do so.'-.- •': .-- ;
•_■_ " You cannot win success in both,"
said ; Holmes \to him one : day when
breakfasting at the Mitchell home in
Philadelphia, apparently forgetting his
own case. "Win in one or the other
first, medicine preferred. „' After you
have won, take to literature and win -
in that." Weir Mitchell took the poet's '
advice, made himself one of the world's
greatest; nerve specialists, and then at
fifty set out to win in literature^ ,; .
|To mention the sons of American
military r and - naval heroes ;. who have
made good . and ' tell ' how they : have ,'
done It . would fill | pages of newspaper
space. Gen. Fitzhugh Lee, the son :of- ■'
Commodore | Sydney Smith Lee; Lieut. -
J. L. Worden, son of Admiral Worden;
' Lieut. Cushing, „ son ■of the Cushing
■who distinguished himself in the Civil
war, are among them, and the army and
navy • registers j are brimfull of g such
; names as Rowan, -Perry, Wlnslow and
: Crownlnshield that recall the deeds of
fathers and '■,:. forefathers .: which " shine /
with imperishable : light on the pages :
of our national history. .,;. .. '
'. "I- It Is worth noting • that many of j the' | -
. successful : .j sons of .; great .• Americans
have had in their youth the equivalent
of the training that comes to the young ;
man without : money or Influence who '
sets r out ;to win. : When, as told above, -. .*
the lad Fred Grant was with his father
before Vicksburg, -he endured -hunger,
thirst : and all ■'■_ the discomforts that r -
' come: to men in the - ranks.' Though '
forbidden on one occasion to leave the :
comparative % safety 'of ; a gunboat 0n ... -
the Mississippi river^near the Grand
gulf, :he slipped ashore on * pretense of ~
chasing a rabbit, followed ; the ■ sound
of - the guns | and .* watched i the 'battle,
well '■ within ; range of the r. Confederate ;
shot i. and shell, dodging behind ■, a ; tree -
that , his father' should not see' him
when the general rode up. "-■"">. ..'_ >'--."js.
■ l George Gould never went out .and ~: •
got • a job as Cornelius '■ the ; Second \ had^
to, but he . was. made ; his - father's 1 as
sistant s. when.; only seventeen or eight- .
een, ; and had to :w_ork ■ harder than any
clerk. He learned telegraphy then and .-j
sat at \ his ' desk." in his ? shirt sleeves, a " .
habit which he !> has never f given up- -
Young Rockefeller had ri to work, too, ':
going into I his father's office as soon as ; - -
he": was - out -i of college J and f. plugging ."=>. -
away for 5 deari life ' hours '.. and T- hours -
every day. Young Morgan had to do
likewise, and ;of •' course * the \ sons 'of ; na>-|gl|
val and military heroes who have fol
lowed in their father's ? footsteps |have 'S
had i to' ; stand upon v the same footing, v
both at ;Annapolis • and West Point, as
the : son of the . most' obscurer citizen In ~
the ; land. '': ~- ,~- r;
