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...bore him a son in Virginia. Seven years later she bore a daughter to 70-year-old John Tyler. The son, baptized Lyon Gardner Tyler, lived to be President-Emeritus of William and Mary college. Shortly after his 70th birthday Lyon Gardner took a second wife (Sue Ruffin, whose ancestor fired the first gun at Fort Sumter) and before he was 73 she bore him a son. Last fortnight 75-year-old Doctor Tyler became the father of another son. Thus were 139 years spanned and spent from the first presidency to the election of the 31st president, including...
Certainly no President of the United States has ever known-as does the Emperor of Japan - the name of his 123rd paternal ancestor...
Back in England again he devoted himself more assiduously to his remaining ambition-to win the Derby horse race which his ancestor had established, now 147 years ago. The race had not been won by a member of his own family since 1787, when the 12th Earl secured the distinction. In 1924 fame overtook this ambition and the race was won for him by Sansovina. He gave the stake money ($53,460) to his trainer, the Hon. George Lambton...
...tales of the family's heroic past--of the Forecast who died for an idea-- of the Forecast who was confined for life for lack of an idea. But I will not. Rather will I show you that the Forecast of today need not hide their heads when their ancestor's names are mentioned...
...singular explanation of the pride in antiques so rife, in the eyes of Yale, at Harvard, comes with the notice that Yale tears down old buildings to build new whereas Harvard merely has fires in the old ones and then repairs them. It is less expensive to cater to ancestor-worship in whatever its form than to be creative. It is also safer. If you brush your teeth criss-cross instead of up and down because you like it better, you should go to Yale. If you do so because grandpa did, better go to Harvard...