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Show f Is This Your Birthday, Too? j SUNDAY, JAN. 2. Henry M. Flagler, former Standard Oil official, who built S3. 000.000 worth of hotels ho-tels In Florida and the only seagoing railroad rail-road 600 miles long on tho map. Is SO years old today. Before ho mado a for-tuno for-tuno In oil he was a clerk In a country storo and a salt manufacturer in Michigan. Michi-gan. William M. Coleman, famous Washington Washing-ton educator and author, who hurried back from Heidelberg university to mix up In the American civil war. Is 72 today. to-day. He helped organizo the Republican party In North Carolina. Sidney C. Iove. tho young "Napoleon of finance" of Now York and Chicago, who failed and lost his friend. Judge W. 11. Moore, nearly $2,000,000. after he had married into "tho Burnes fortune with a curse." Is 3S. Ho was educated privately private-ly by Bishop Whipple in Minnesota. William Forbes Adams, Episcopal bishop in Maryland since 1SK7, was born on the sod of Ireland 77 years ago this morning. He came to America when ho wns S years old and was ordained a priest fifty years ugo. Edward Sanford Martin. New York writer, who was graduated from Harvard and found It more to his liking to bo a poet than a luwycr. Is 54 Miss M. Carey Thomas, who presides as president over tho destinies of Bryn Mawr college. Is 53. She is a native of Baltimore and was tho first womnn trustee trus-tee of Cornell university. Among the distinguished dead whose natal anniversary falls on this day are; Philip Froncau. "poet of tho revolution" (1752). who punctuated his verso vrltlng with bitter attacks on Alexander Hamilton Hamil-ton and tho federalists: Thomas T. Crittenden, Crit-tenden, late governor of Missouri, whose campaign platform was that ho would wlpo out tho notorious James gang of train robbers which had despoiled the slate for fifteen years. |