m .1 7 7H-. T f 3 /<£> // /. 7 <0 I t t *; ••. wj. y V,’ . the temperament of the ardent boy, and shortly after the Press was started, stone with its cheerful blazing fire. The in 1857, he applied for .a situation as copy- assembly was generally composed of holder on that journal, and was engaged in Protestants and Catholics, dissenters and that capacity by Mr. Mcliart, then foreman ! churchmen together. They were great men of the Press. Quick, intelligent and devoted to argue._ Calvinism and Armenianism, fto study, the bright lad soon left the compos¬ I Daniel O'Connell and repeal were generally ing room' for the reporter’s room, and went to the subjects of discussion. During these dis¬ work with his pencil. His talent quickly de- cussions the long day pipe was frequently jveloped itself and was-recognized by Colonel brought into play, and the meeting would j Forney, who advanced him to the editorial stall' generally adjourn on a glass of good hot Irish of the paper. In 1801 Mr. Young wentto Wash¬ whisky punch, oat cake, butter and sterling ington as war correspondent of the Press, and home-made cheese. Mr. Field has never for¬ ’vyhile there edited the Daily Chronicle. He gotten these evenings and discussions and the a}so accompanied the army to the field and impressions made upon his mind at the time gained much reputation by his descriptive ac- They Were carried on in the best of humor well sniced with «q1HoC wj£ JOHN WANAMAKER AS A BOY AND AT THE PRESENT DAY. counts of various battles. Early ln_ 1862. while iu his 22d year, he was recalled to Phil! i fi'ke Field family, consisting of father, : mother and eight children, five daughters and made ru,ariaghl- editor of the F) its. His career as a business man has been .three sons, all migrated to this country7 .even more brilliant than his achievements as | John, the oldest boy, was then 13 yoars of |ajournalist, blithe says that his succcsf fn | age. On the voyage out the father was sud- both is the result of hard work and study. I ficnly taken ill and died, leaving a widow Postmaster John Field was born at Tralev jwithaheavy charge in midocean. On ar¬ 111, Derry. Like most of his cou ntrymen riving she found herself helpless and home- he has intense love for the place of his na- Iless> but wi*b a courage and faith in God she tivity and since leaving has frequently vis¬ | soon found a home and friends. Five of the ited the old homestead, which stood upon the family still survive—two sisters reside in top of the hill embowered in a cluster of Pittsburg, Thomas is in business in trees the gable windows overlooking Lough Ivew Lork, William M. Field is president Neagh. Richard Field, his father, was a of the Central National Bank, of Wilming¬ stern Dissenter of the old school, with a ton, and also president of the Brandywine strong wiH, and, under strong provocation, Granite Company. Through the war he was xatliei fierce, and yet naturally kind and j connected with the Fifteenth Pennsylvania gentle. His Wife, Isabella, was a sweet j Cavalry. John, after his arrival in Philadel¬ quiet, patient woman, full of hope. Mr Field phia, secured employment with Mr. Armor Young, then doing business at No. 6 Bank inTikvTrnf Pleasure the lai'ge kitchen m I raley Hill house and the old fashioned street. He has been associated with this dresser, with its shelves filled with china and house almost continuously ever since—as the great pewter dishes well polished and errand boy, stock-keeper, salesman, book¬ keeper, buyer and member of the firm. diousFreJfT thf*® WaS the gl'eat c°mmo- “ 1 b fireplace with its old fashioned Alter an absence of twenty-five years he re¬ turned to Fraley Hill. Midway between Wivel" O?6 lin^~two kooks and a ’ On winter evenings not a few the railroad station and his old home stood )f the leading people of the j h the school house which he attended in boy¬ iood would gather around this hearth- hood. and, although change was written upon everything, yet to his great surprise he found, upon entering the old building, his old ABRAHAM BARKER AT THE PRESENT DAY AND AT 28. ' bornTm the Ninth ward,ron February 14,1850,; teacher, sitting upon the same old chair, be¬ and those who were intimate wi£h him at the hind the same old desk, imparting instruc¬ time affirm that he took an active interest in tion to the children and grandchildren of his former pupils. politics even during his infancy. received . his schooling at Whittle's-Academy, the Zane i No one of the city's seniors is held in more Street Grammar School and at a small acad-j affectionate regard by his fellow citizens than emy conducted by Miss Margaret Kobb^por*- Colonel William B. Mann, who has now filled ner of Twelfth and Filbert streets. Mr. War! the ofiloe of Prothonotary of the Court of wick is modest and makes ho pretense to Common Pleas siuce 1874. He was born in a having been a model youngster, but good or little log cabin at Pemberton. N. J., in 1816. bad, lie was anything but indifferent when it! but came to Philadelphia in 1821. His father, came to studying, for he worked like the pro¬ the Bey. William Mann, was widely known verbial horse and was ready to enter the High and respected in Philadelphia as a teacher School at an age when most boys arc still and a minister of the Gospel, and it was un¬ struggling with the fundamentals of arithme¬ der his tutelage that the colonel began his tic, etc. After leaving school he was em¬ studies. His father's school was situated ncai ployed as an entry clerk in a commercial Kensington, and his mother iearful that her house, and at the same time he fitted for col¬ son might get lost on his long daily trip lege. When he was about 13 he. became from their home to the school house enamored with the stage and ran away with sewed a piece of cloth bearing his name a traveling company. His thespian career and address on the seat ol his trou¬ came to a sudden end, however, at the expira¬ sers. At first his fellow-students made tion of a week and he returned to Philadel¬ fuu of his tag. but he resented their famil¬ phia to enter the office of E. Spencer Miller iarity with the same vigor which has charac¬ as a law student. He was admitted to the terized every action oi his life. Although he bar in 1872 and has made a reputation as a w-as fond of outdoor sports he was a great lawyer of unusual brilliancy and a politician student and before he was 15 had acquired ofjindoubted integrity. great proficiency in the classics and mathe¬ One cannot fail to see the resemblance be¬ matics. These were always his favorite tween the picture of Mr. Barker, the well- studies. From the time he was old enough known banker, taken when he was 28, and to have any aims for the future his mind was that which portrays him as he is to day. He set upon the law. He studied for the bar in was born in New York city on the 3d of the office of the Hon. Charles Naylor and was June, 1821. He was the son of Jacob Barker, admitted in 1838. In 1850 he received his the great financier, who took up the ten mill¬ first appointment to public offjcg as a^ls --p ion dollar loan to carry on the war of 1812. toWilham„T.yr:-s' t>0„a who^wxvho was then DistllCtq Mr. Barker was educated at the New Eng¬ Attorney, me n " 17 rrm is a fine land Yearly Meeting Boarding School, at Providence. R. I., and at Stephen F. Weld’s r school, at Jamaica Plain, near Boston. Young Barker was always set on becoming a banker, It would he difficult to find a brighter look- •and when he was 16 he went to New Orleans ini boy than was Charles F. Warwick.the Wnd entered the firm of Horace Bean & Co., City Solicitor, at the age ot twelve^ e ■ J jankers and brokers. They were the corres¬ pondents of Jacob Little, who bought up tho V CHARLES F. WARWICK TO-DAY AND IN YOUTH. j claims of the United States Bank of this city ] Eighty-eighth Begiment, Pennsylvania Vol- j against, the wild-cat banks of the South and 1 untecrs. General Wagner was born at Gies¬ j sent them to Horace Bean & Co. for eollec- sen, Germany, on August 4, 1S3S. His father, : tion. Abraham Barker, then' a strapping Ludwig Wagner, figured in the revolution of j youth, rode a horse through Mississippi, Ala¬ 1848, and was forced to leave the country. bama. Tennessee and other Southern States Young Wagner had been a pupil in the pub¬ J j and collected the claims for his firm, enduring lic schools of his native town, and although great hardships and running all sorts of very young had made considerable progress risks. He came to this city in 1842 with his in his studies. On reaching Philadelphia ho brother Sigourney and established the bank¬ was placed in the Zane Street Grammar ing house of Barker Bros. Mr. Barker is School, but at the end of a year was forced by still in active life.