Woodrow Wilson was born at Staunton, Virginia, December 28, 1856. He
is of Scotch ancestry. After being trained in private schools of
Augusta, Georgia, and Columbia, South Carolina, he graduated from
Princeton in 1879, and then studied law at the University of Virginia.
Being admitted to the bar, he practiced for a year in Atlanta, Georgia,
and later entered Johns Hopkins university for a graduating course in
history and politics. In 1885 he was chosen as an instructor in history
and politics at Bryn Mawr college and in 1886 he received the degree
of Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins university. In 1888 he was a member of the
faculty in Wesleyan university, and in 1890 was called as the chair of
jurisprudence at Princeton. In August, 1902, he was elected president
of Princeton to succeed President Patton. He has published a number
of educational text-books and historical, biographical and political
works. His most recent and perhaps most important work is a history of
the American people, issued in five volumes. President Wilson is well
known as a lecturer on military and political subjects, through the
medium of his contributions to various periodicals.