. Universities and their sons; history, influence and characteristics of American universities, with biographical sketches and portraits of alumni and recipients of honorary degrees. - vania, in 1891, then of the Scots PresbyterianChurch in Philadelphia in 1893, and in 1896organized the South Broad Street PresbyterianChurch at Philadelphia, of which pulpit he remainsin charge at the present time. Mr. Nevin is aRepublican in his political beliefs. He was married,October 11, 1888, to Harriet Middleton have four children : Dorothy, Ogden, CharlesW., Jr., and Perot Nevin. GLASS, Frankli
. Universities and their sons; history, influence and characteristics of American universities, with biographical sketches and portraits of alumni and recipients of honorary degrees. - vania, in 1891, then of the Scots PresbyterianChurch in Philadelphia in 1893, and in 1896organized the South Broad Street PresbyterianChurch at Philadelphia, of which pulpit he remainsin charge at the present time. Mr. Nevin is aRepublican in his political beliefs. He was married,October 11, 1888, to Harriet Middleton have four children : Dorothy, Ogden, CharlesW., Jr., and Perot Nevin. GLASS, Franklin Potts Princeton in Centreville, Ala., 1858 ; fitted for College inthe private school of Rev. H. A. Smith at Centreville ;graduated Princeton, 1877 < , 1880; founded countyweekly, Bibb Blade in 1880; bought the Selma Times,a daily, in 1881; in 1886 bought an interest in the Mont-gomery Advertiser, the leading daily in the state, andhas been connected with that paper ever since. FR.\NKLIN POTTS ^SS, Journalist, wasborn in Centreville, .Alabama, June 7, 1858,son of Benjamin Franklin and Caroline (Potts)(.lass. On the maternal side he is of English and. Irish ancestry; on his f;ithers side he is of Scotchdescent. He was prepared for College in the pri-vate school of Rev. H. A. Smith at Centreville andgraduated from Princeton in the Class of 1877, re- UNIVERSITIES AND THEIR SONS 2>59 ceiving the degree of Bachelor of Arts at the timeof his graduation and that of Master of Arts fromthe same University three years later. He obtaineda business training in his fathers mercantile estab-lishment near Centreville. In 1880 he founded thecounty weekly, the Bibb Blade; in 1881 boughtThe Selma Times, a daily; and in 1886 bought aninterest in The Montgomery Advertiser, of Mont-gomery, Alabama, the leading daily paper in thestate. He later became its Manager, then halfowner of the paper and one of its Editors. has always been a Democrat, was a delegateto t
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