Word: apperson
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Born. To Randolph Apperson ("Randy") Hearst, 23, youngest (with twin brother David Whitmire) of William Randolph Hearst's five sons, assistant publisher of his father's Atlanta Georgian, and Catherine Wood Campbell Hearst, 21: their first child, a daughter, Hearst's fifth grandchild. Weight: 5½ lbs. Name: Catherine Millicent...
...others soon steered the auto industry into less horse-conscious ways. Next year Henry Ford and Ransom E. Olds had patents, year after that Elwood Haynes and the Apperson brothers joined the motorcade. Sketchily financed at the start, the Duryea car that won the first U.S. automobile race (Chicago, 1895) and led the parade for several years with Barnum's circus, never burned up the roads in a business way. Duryea was for simplification, economy. One model had only three wheels, another had all the functions of steering, braking, gear shifting, spark control and acceleration combined in a single...
Married. Randolph Apperson ("Randy") Hearst, 22, one of Publisher Hearst's tall, twin youngest sons; to Catherine Wood Campbell, 20; in Atlanta, Ga. Of the five Hearst brothers, only Randolph's twin, David Whitmire Hearst has not been married' at least once...
Engaged. Randolph Apperson Hearst, 21, youngest (with his twin David) of William Randolph Hearst's five sons; and Catherine Wood Campbell, 20, of Atlanta...
...Watertown, Wis. by Mrs. Carl Schurz, wife of the famed Thuringian revolutionary who became Lincoln's Minister to Spain, Hayes's Secretary of the Interior and the first German-born citizen to sit in the U. S. Senate.* Under such auspices the kindergarten soon attracted philanthropists. Phoebe Apperson Hearst, mother of William Randolph, opened one for the children in her husband's mining community at Lead, S. Dak. and financed the Parent-Teachers' Association mainly to promote the kindergarten movement...