Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 80, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 January 1911 — SNAPSHOTS AT CELEBRITIES [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

SNAPSHOTS AT CELEBRITIES

Joseph R. Lamar, United States Supreme Court,

Joseph Rucker Lamar of Georgia, recently appointed an associate justice of the United States supreme court, comes from a family that has won distinction in jurisprudence. He is the second of his name to sit on the supreme bench at Washington, his kinsman, Lucius Q. C. Lamar, also a native of Georgia, having been a member of the nation’s highest court from 1888 fintil his death in 1893. At the time of the latter’s appointment he W’as a senator front Mississippi. Still further back was the father of the Mississippi jurist, who died while serving on the supreme bench of Georgia after having codified the laws of the state by special commission of the legislature.

The new associate justice was born fifty-three years ago and received his education at the University of Georgia, Washington and Lee university and elsewhere. He was admitted to the bar in 1879 and practiced at Augusta, Ga., until 1903, when he became associate justice of the Georgia supreme court Previous to his elevation to the bench he had served in the legislature of his state. The Humor of Morgan. J. Pierpont Morgan is gifted with a great deal more of humor than is generally known. Not long ago while in London he was introduced to a woman who made some pretentions to peerage. “Pardon me,” said the woman haughtily. “To which Morgans do you belong?” “Oh, we are an independent branch,” replied Mr. Morgan slyly, “but we date back to the Norman kings.” “Ah, then, you have a coat of arms!” Mr. Morgan dug down into his pocket and brought forth a shining American twenty dollar gold piece. “This,” he said, “is our coat of arms. A few other families have adopted the same emblem. But,” he continued confidentially, “we are gathering them in as fast as possible.”

Connecticut’s New Governor. Judge Simeon E. Baldwin, Connecticut’s new governor, is the first Democrat to sit in the gubernatorial chair since Governor Morris retired in 1894. During the campaign last fall Judge Baldwin resented an attack made on him by Colonel Roosevelt and demanded a retraction. The colonel failing to make a satisfactory reply, the judge Issued a statement in which he announced his Intention of bringing suit against the former president for slander. Later he refused to attend a dinner at New Haven at which Mr. Roosevelt was the guest of honor. Governor Baldwin Is a native of New Haven and is seventy years old. His father was Roger Sherman Baldwin, who was governor of Connecticut in

the fifties. His grandfather was a chief justice, and he is a direct descendant of Roger Sherman, first mayor of New Haven. He was graduated from Yale in 1861 and later studied law at Harvard. Since 1872 he has been professor of constitutional and international law at Yale and for many years was a justice of the supreme court. From 1907 until February, 1910, when he retired because of the age’ limit, he was chief justice of the supreme court of errors of Connecticut. Governor Baldwin was formerly a Republican, but left the party when James G. Blaine was nominated for the presidency.

SIMEON E. BALDWIN.