Word: apperson
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...supreme achievement of "Annie Laurie'' is a biography of Mrs. Phoebe Apperson Hearst (mother of W. R. H.), printed on parchment in California, illustrated with superb steel engravings, limited to 1,000 numbered copies, and now being bound at Leipzig, Germany, with gold edges all 'round, velvet linings, and hand tooled pigskin covers. Reputed cost...
Died. Jonathan Dixon Maxwell, 64, famed pioneer of the automobile industry; of pneumonia; at his home in Chesterton, Md. Starting his career as a bicycle tinker in Kokomo, Ind., Maxwell, with two others, Elmer Apperson and Elwood Haynes, built the first automobile manufactured in the U. S. (now stabled in the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D. C.). His plant at Tarrytown, N. Y., founded in 1904, became a thriving automobile centre, turned out the first cars (Maxwell-Briscoe) at the $500 mark. Maxwell's large Detroit works were used by bankers, who acquired control of the business during the pleasure...
...late Phoebe Apperson Hearst, daughter of a wealthy Missouri farmer. Famed for her beauty, kindness...
...Berkeley, Calif., President W. W. Campbell of California University made it known that Hearst Hall, a building promised by Publisher William R. Hearst to the University in memory of his mother, Phoebe Apperson Hearst, will be a million-dollar structure instead of the $ 350,000 project announced earlier...
...fund for the women's dormitory at the University of Southern California. The price was $200 a plate. Many fine ladies came, some from Pasadena. The visiting orator was President Aurelia Reinhardt, of Mills College, Oakland. She spoke in praise of three benevolent women, deceased-Phoebe Apperson Hearst, Jane Lathrop Stanford, Susan Lincoln Mills. Said she: "Mrs. Hearst built the first women's building west of the Mississippi, and the women's building of the University of California is one of the monuments to her memory. That benevolent woman founded scholarships and fellowships and she paved...