Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 104, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 May 1913 — WILSON’S ONLY ‘SON’ [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

WILSON’S ONLY ‘SON’

Story of the Fourth-Member of President’s Family. Dr. George Howe, Child of Executive’s Blster, Was Raised and Educated by Nation’s Chief—Discovered at the Inauguration. Washington.—A tall, distinguished looking young man, closely resembling the pictures of Woodrow Wilson in early youth, was a prominent member of the president’s personal party during the inauguration in Washington. He was noticed by many, but besides the immediate family few knew that this was young Dr. George Howe, younger son of Mre. Annie Wilson Howe, the president’s only sißter, who is now a member of the White House family, and, who holds in the president’s heart the place of an only son, for he was brought up in Woodrow Wilson’s own home as an adopted son. George Howe graduated from Princeton a first honor man and was then sent by his uncle to the University of Halle in Germany, where he took his Ph. D. with highest honors. Before returning to America he took a year’s course of post-graduate work at Oxford, and immediately after his arrival in this country he was called to take charge of the department of Latin at the University of North Carolina, His earliest youth was spent in Columbia, S. C., and from his old home he chose in boyhood his future bride. Her mother, Janey Smyth of Charleston, S. C., and George Howe’s mother, Annie Wilson, were friends from childhood. The old families of Howe, Wil-

son/ Smyth and Woodrow Inherited intimacy from one generation to another. So when it became understood that there was “an understanding” between young George Howe and little Margaret Smyth FUnn. the lovely

young daughter of Janey Smyth and Dr. J. W. Flinn, a distinguished scholar of South Carolina and dean for many years of the University of

South Carolina—where Woodrow Wilson’s famous uncle. Dr. James Woodrow, was one time president—all the families were delighted. Margaret Flinn grew up to be the beauty of South Carolina and a famous belle throughout the south, and Woodrow Wilson, George’s adopted father, gave the engagement his heartiest blessing.

But at the Inauguration their nearness to the White House family and their immediate plans could be kept private no longer; the favorite nephew of the president of the United States cannot remain an obscure personage. During the great inaugural parade Mr. and Mrs Howe and their little daughter, Virgins, stood with the president’s immediate family in the presidential box, and newspaper men in the rear, noticing the striking resemblance between nephew and uncle, did not rest until they had ferreted out who the young man was.

Mrs. George Howe.

Virginia Peyton Howe.