Salt Lake Tribune | 1910-01-22 | Page 6 | Is This Your Birthday, Too?

IS THIS YOUR I BIRTHDAY, TOO? SATURDAY, JANUARY 22. Francis L. Patlon, president of the Princeton Thoologlcal seminary and formerly for-merly president of tho university, is 0i years old today. Mo was born In Bermuda Ber-muda and was ordained a Presbyterian minister In JSG5. Professor G. Frederick Wright of Obcr-Iln Obcr-Iln college, who, has trailed tho glaciers' wake for many a mile and llgurcd out their movements and characteristics, is 72 today. He was graduated from Obcr-Un Obcr-Un in the days when coffee was a sinful extravagance. Joshua W. Alexander., representative In congress from Contcrvllle, Mo., who was born on the very site where he has his home today, is JO- Ho Is a farmer and the father of seven children. Terence V. Powderly. formerly commissioner com-missioner of Immigration and still connected con-nected with the bureau as chief of a department: is 61. He stopped going to school at 13 and became a switch-tender, afterward being elected mayor of Scran-ton. Scran-ton. Pa., on the Labor ticket. "Waller Gay. American artist and one of the big colony In Paris, was born In llinghnm. Mass.. fifty-four years ago this morning. He started painting flower subjects sub-jects at. 17. Professor Oscar Oldberg. dean of the department of pharmacy of Northwestern university, is 0-1. Born and roared In Sweden, "ho came lo the United States in IStM Maurice Hewlett, tho English novelist with the quaint style, who wrote "Little Novels of Italy" and other talcs, is 10. Gcorgo Lothar LiGbllng. Munich court pianist, who composed at S and was professor pro-fessor In a conservatory at lfi. is 15. He studied with Liszt, F.ubonstcln and Tschalkowsky. Among thf dead whose birthdays tell on January -2 wcro: Lord Byron (17SS). Boot, rover and lady-killer, whose feet were both deformed: Alonzo B. Cornell (1832") former governor of New York: William M. Laffan, editor of the New York Sun (ISIS), who was born in Dublin and died last year.