| Show rr WOF1AN RUNS A BIG j RON AND STEEL COSINESS iJ J i Miss Y R Baumgarten is Her Name and She Lives in Pittsburg Her Faculty of Engineering Large Deals Often Brings Daily Sales of 10000 Today In Pittsburg there ir i a woman who manages admirably t large business busi-ness She Is I MIss Y JC Baumgarten She has delicate tact und capability for currying on the vast and Important enterprise of which she Is the active head The entire commercial and financial affairs of a great Iron and stool company are dependent on her judgment and abllliy to meet hard neaded 1 men on an equal basis She Is at the head of thc large Iron And steel concern of J Shonthal of Pittsburg All hc details of this loiuerns affairs pats through her hand This Is I u competitive house of the firm wIMi whom she was former 1 ly connected and which was Joseph Joseph it Urn of Cincinnati dealers In iron and steel 1 Mr Joseph Joseph was her tutor and it vas under his J 1 1 j I l I I A I I v r V f ¼ I I L ¼ I MfIV4 ti I Jf ti S 1 i4j LL f c P I I i I Miss Baumgarten though essentiallyfeminine in tcmpermont directs the business of a big iron and steel company dealing daily with men of large affairs nnd swelling the fortunes of her employers ABRAHAM LINCOLNS MOTHER I Following the geneuil desire of Anvr I caiis of the old silicic to learn something about their ancestors Mrs i Caroline Ilnnks Hitchcock began looking up the I genealogy of Iho Tanks 1 family In 1 the progress of her Investigations clio dlsco crcd a number of highly Interesting things about Nancy Hanks who was the mother I of Abiihain Lincoln These have iow been published In I a little book bearing Hint I estimable womans name and Jen lo tho general I public as worthy Its I best attention rime hrsl ut i the name In America Ameri-ca waft 13enjamln Hunks who came from London I on October 17 Jtefl landing In I Llymoulh MIINS ind settling I I down upon a farm III Pembroke Thtlr third 1 son William was born there l IVbiuary JL 1701 and wn the only one of his family lo move nwa > from his birthplace William Is i nlil to have st tIed In Virginia Vir-ginia near the t nmni tIn of t Inc UAppahau liock Here his MM > suns were born all of them to niovo to Anvlla count y Va with a Mntle exception Josepn he younctst moved with three of nls brothers broth-ers about 1710 1 nnd deeds 1 heating I hli I name are still on record lIt I ownd a largn farm with I t his brother Abiihini lllch ard Hid James close about hm Meanwhile In tho next ooiriiy I Litnen herg a n Englishman ilol > rl Shipley bought ait urn of land Splmhov IH IYG5 lie had live daughters Mary the eldcM l was married to L A hrH h11 Llneoln nt HockliiRham eoiinly I Va nnd Niiu > tho I vouiigest married tin afore ild Joseph ii OllJ8l They hud eight ehlldixi the youngest being another Xanc V O Nancy Hanks l was horn February i 17I 1 l I When she was 5 years old iur mother and I of their m father with I lan r number neighbor determined to mov < to Ken lucky and Joseph Hanks and his family lh settled down near ISIIxabthtowti 1 in uhai kdttt In died In I In now Nelson county hre in the yprlni of hill leaving u ull i hloh VIK duly reoordtd ami unong many other provisions Is 1 this I give and hc 1 fiieaU i unto my dri und tcr Nancv one heifer I heif-er yearling called Peldy The Abraham Lincoln who married rrht I Mnry Shipley Nairy Hunks mother hest sister I wi > th son of John Lln iiiln who ivovd iiom Jimmnsy IvanUi to Virginia in 171V Thly Abraham too j instruction that thy obtained the knowledge and ability that has made women her n plon er among business During Miss Baumgnrtcns connection Bio she had with Joseph Joseph le entire charge of the PSttsburg office I the largest of their branches The business of this office amounted to more than a million dollars a year She did the buying selling and Inspecting of all the stock that passed through this ofllcf Personally Miss Daumgarten Is o an I extremely modest tcmpermenl and IR remCy mOll feminine In her uays Although I I absorbed in her attentions largely are commercial matters she Is si progressive progres-sive I pcholar 1 Jn baseball circles she has UK reputation repu-tation of being very I much Interested In that ganv and often is seen watching her homo team In their endca ors to wil a victory I inoed 1 when his lime I came and In ITiO I old out his Virginia land md weit lo KeniiuK where he was killed by tho J J dims In 17NS ovnjng at the time of his I death about llrfO acres of Ian ml 1 1 oiler I i tin Kentucky law of primogeniture this all went to his eldest son Iorthm 1 il I leaving leav-ing his youngest HOII Thomas who vxis then only 1 1 years old to I the mere of his kinsfolk living now with one and now with nmther I At last Thomas Lincoln brought up at I Klvabrthtown where he learned the I trade of carpentering from his roiisln Jo eph Hanks Nancr eldest brothi Ho I made some inpnep ind got together a lit lc property Fin Ily he mnrrUd lis 1 cousin Nancy Hanks on June tJ 1KWJ 1 and tho runrriagn uonltlcate Is 1 suB In IX IsUnco l pinned by the oIlelallng clergy I man LImo liov Jesse Hood I t 0 Tho cabin In which Thomas Lincoln and I < Nancy Hanks wore married is i still standing I I stand-ing I In Kpcchluiif near i SprlngiMd Ky The young coupl moved lo I0llibctn lown where Tliotnus wurkid 1 at his I trade I Here his tlrst child was horn to I die MOII aftfr Thence they moved to llifftlo I about i fourteen miles off and there on Fcbrriiry 12 IKOO Abraham Lincoln afterward I after-ward President of the 1nlted I Stales was I born Soon after the family move l In limit fiiii mnlbs tine again dlll i rnr mla away to hId ot Knob crrek I Here they i stn > iil milII I 1SK 1 when Thomnn Lincoln followed his brother Joslah liiJo I Indiana set I ling on 1 farm oul Little I Pigeon creok lift eun miles north of th < Ohio river and a mile 111 I f half fasl t of fitntryvllje Here October Oc-tober r JM > Xutioy Hniiks Lincoln 1 dlefl and ttli burlcil nn the hlllloi 1 near Lln IIII iolii StUion Ind vhurc her raVl may still I I I be seen i Per rns > tjI living can reinembrr Nnn cv Hank av I girl All are agreed In eill Ing her beautiful Sho was of mldJIe height weighing about TO pounds and ol ways vivacious and bright Her hair was I l ht hor c ves to match and of marked i I loveliness her mouth was both seet and i sensitive I 1111 her manner affectionate affection-ate and ccmm tie It I Is J certain mournful I I satisfaction I for bar death at the I early age of So that the lust letter over written by rer son Abfallan when he wan 10 I yars old vaa to Parson David Klklns asking him to come und pi each a funeral I I sermon for bin mothers memory And I hiI wa done though I U hiram t f Journey of I tto mlli s rough the wilderness Chl Cigo New |
