Word: abigail
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...great-grandfather was John Quincy, sixth U. S. President and, earlier, minister to The Hague and to Berlin ("Most valuable public character we have abroad," said George Washington). His great-great-grandfather was John, second U. S. President, first occupant of the White House, husband of delightful Abigail Smith. Mr. Adams's daughter, Catherine, married Henry S., son of J. Pierpont Morgan...
Married. Miss Louise Abigail Mayo, daughter of Dr. Charles Horace Mayo, famed surgeon of Rochester, Minn.; and George Treat Trenholm, of St. Paul, Minn...
Married. Miss Abigail Victoria Harding, sister of the late U. S. President, to Ralph T. Lewis, real estate operator; in Marion, Ohio...
...story is built up about Abigail Vane, reared under the stiff tutelage of her aunt, Clemency Vane, and the loving devotion of her wealthy grandfather, Michael Hare. In her teens she is occupied with nothing but her social career, but the war brings a sudden change and Abigail, like "a true Vane", goes to Europe as a canteen worker. After the armistice she meets in a convalescent hospital her old lover who is now married to her best friend, and she feels it her duty to care for him and nurse him back to health. Meanwhile her father has gone...
What Miss Abigail Harding may have expected to find in Greenwich Village...