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Show IS THIS YOUR BIRTHDAY, TOO? WEDNESDAY, JAN. 5. David Bisphnm. grand opera singer of Quaker training, who evolved from llutc player to sdncr In the llaverford CoIIoko 'lee ciub. is f:i years old today. lie was born in Philadelphia and the tlrst music that stirred him was that of the fife and drums of the soldiers on the way to wa r. Henry j. Nelson, professor of political economy In Wllllnms college, whence he was graduated, Is ill. He was once Washington correspondent for the. Boston Bos-ton Post and afterwards editor of Harper's Har-per's Weekly. Slason.Thompr.on. who collates "facts and figures" for western railroads when he in not playing golf In Chicago's environs. en-virons. Is ill. lie was born In Now Brunswick and was a newspaper editorial edi-torial writer many years. "W. A. Northern t. formerly lieutenant governor of Illinois and now federal attorney at-torney in the Springfield (III), district, Is 57. He was for a long time at the head of the .Modern Woodmen of America. Amer-ica. Asbury F. Lever, congressman from South Carolina, who went from his father's farm and won class honors from Nowberry college, Is "5. Ho once was private secretary to J. William Stokes, whom he succeeded. Eugene W. Hllgard' of the University of California, who established In that stnte the first agricultural experiment station in the United States and made exhaustive examinations of the soil of Oregon and Washington, is 77. He married mar-ried the daughter of a colonel In the Spanish army Of the distinguished dead whose natal anniversary falls today are' Stephen Decatur. De-catur. American naval hero who whipped the bey of Algiers and was killed in 1S20 in a duel with Commander John Barron; William P. Johnston, the grcnt educator and onco president of Tulnne university, who wti.s captured with Jefferson Davis and exiled himself for months hi Canada; Can-ada; Cyrus Hamlin, the Maine man who became the first president of the famous Roberts college in Constantinople; John C. Moss, who Invented the process of nhoto-ongravlncr. using his wife's kitchen utensils in his cnrlier experiments, experi-ments, David Wilkinson. American Inventor, In-ventor, who Is said to have anticipated Robert Fulton sixteen years in using steam as propulsion for a boat. |