Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 November 1900 — Farmer’s Son in the Majority. [ARTICLE]

Farmer’s Son in the Majority.

A recent examination of the records of nearly 400 cadets at West Point for the past ten years shows that outside the sons of army officers, of which there were 65, 149 were sons of farmers, 115 ions of merchants, 100 sons of lawyers. 37 sons of manufacturers, 32 sons of mechanics, 20 sous of insurance agents, 19 sons of real estate agents, 14 sons of clergymen, 13 sons of editors, bankers and bookkeepers, 10 of druggists, 9 of drummers, 8 of school teachers and 6 of dentists. Among the others almost every calling is represented by the fathers of one or more.