Author: William Gibbs McAdooPublisher:
ISBN: 9781332186310
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 46
Book Description
Excerpt from Public Service Corporations and the Public William G. McAdoo, president of the company which built the Hudson tunnels, was born near Marietta, Georgia, October 31, 1863. He is descended from a family which has been prominent in the public and military affairs of the South for nearly three centuries. Mr. McAdoo's father, William G. McAdoo, M.A., LL.D., was a judge; a soldier both in the Mexican and in the Civil Wars; for two terms District Attorney General of the State of Tennessee; and in his later years Professor of English and History in the University of Tennessee. The Civil War swept away his possessions, and William G. McAdoo, the son, was born and raised in poverty. Far from bewailing his fate, he looks back on the privation of his early life as a most fortunate circumstance. In a public address not long ago he said: "I was brought up in Georgia, in the path of General Sherman's famous march to the sea. As Henry Grady once remarked, 'General Sherman was a bit careless with fire, ' and for this reason, among other things, he has never been a popular man in Georgia. For myself, however, I feel that I owe General Sherman a debt of gratitude. I believe that character is produced and developed to the highest degree by hardships, sufferings and poverty. I have never doubted that whatever of character I have developed has been, in a large measure, due to the surroundings and conditions which General Sherman forced upon the people of our section during that great war." Mr. McAdoo entered the University of Tennessee but was forced to leave in his junior year in order to take a position as clerk in the United States Circuit Court. His spare time was spent in the study of law, and at the age of twenty-one he was admitted to the bar. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.