People of Prominence

Cromwell Argus, Volume XXXVII, Issue 1984, 16 April 1906, Page 5

People of Prominence

, Mrs George Gould is to have published , a book on her recent trip abroad. I Among her intimate friends she is ( spoken of as being "in the distinguished list of automobile survivors." Dr Isao H. Hazleton, Wellesley Hills, Mass., . the only surviving officer of the First Vermont, was one of the guests at the recent launching of the new mammoth battleship Vermont. Dr. Albert A. Van der Veer, of Albany, N.Y., has just received one of the { highest honours that can be given to a surgeon. He has been chosen president of the National Surgical association. His works on surgery are standard. Prof. Alexieff Torigony, one time of the University of Moscow, and who J was imprisoned in 1891 for alleged complicity in the assasination of Alexander 11., will shortly come to America

from Japan to become a United States citizen. William Kingsley, who was born in Ireland in 1783 and fought with Nelson at Trafalgar, is now living at the age of 122 neat Bloomfield, Mo. He fought in the Crimean war, assisted in the taking of Sebastopol and in this country fought in the Mexican and civil wars. Mrs. Marion B. Baxter is at the head of the only free hospital in Seattle, Wash., the hospital ship Idaho. Roger S. Greene and other public-spirited men of the city bought the ship and i

gave it for the benefit of those too poor to pay for admission to hospitals. Mrs. Baxter has been for several years on the editorial staff of a Seattle paper. Gov. Miguel A. Otero of Naw Mexico i.s one of the most extensive sheep breeders in the southwest, his flocks in Gaudalope , county alone numbering 65,000 head. He is a native of the territory, a scion of one of its oldest families and speaks Spanish and English with equal fluency. The governor is now nearing the end of his second term and it is considered probable that he will be reappointed. Thomas A.Edison came over to New York from his quiet New Jersey home to see some machinery in which he was interested. As soon as possible he hurried back again. " I want to get back to the quietude of my own workshop," he remarked on leaving. " I can't stand New York. You are too glaring and I noisy over here, cue of the chief reasons being that you are using so many of my contrivances."