The life of John Worth Kern

by Claude G. Bowers

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[ACKNOWLEDGMENTS]
[INTRODUCTION]
[CONTENTS]

THE LIFE OF
JOHN WORTH KERN

The Life
of
John Worth Kern

By
CLAUDE G. BOWERS
INDIANAPOLIS
THE HOLLENBECK PRESS
1918

Copyright Nineteen Hundred Eighteen
By Claude G. Bowers
Fort Wayne, Ind

DEDICATED
TO
JOHN WORTH KERN, Jr.
AND
WILLIAM COOPER KERN

“It is fine to feel that one’s boy may become a great man; but I would rather that my boys should be good without being great, than to be great without being good.”—Senator Kern.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

IN the preparation of this biography, in the midst of the duties of an exacting profession, I wish to acknowledge my indebtedness to Vice-President Marshall, Secretary of the Treasury William G. McAdoo, Secretary William B. Wilson, William Jennings Bryan, Judge Alton B. Parker of New York, Senator Saulsbury of Delaware, Senator Kenyon of Iowa, Senator Lea of Tennessee, Senator Thomas of Colorado, Senator O’Gorman of New York, Senator Taggart of Indiana, Leon O. Bailey of New York, “Mother” Jones, Andrew Furseth the Emancipator of the Seamen, Jackson Morrow of Kokomo, Indiana, John Callan O’Laughlin of Chicago, Louis Ludlow of Washington, D. C., Thomas Shipp of Washington, D. C., W. H. Blodgett and Kin Hubbard of the Indianapolis News, for data, verifications and reminiscences.