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...They were cousins, Mary and Florence Kenrick, and successively wives to that famed Joseph ("Joe") Chamberlain, who seldom appeared in the House of Commons without an orchid in his buttonhole, and was, from 1893 to 1905, Colonial Secretary. From Mary Kenrick he begat a son and daughter, from Florence two sons and three daughters, from his third wife, Mary Endicott, no babe...
...Astor family were not seamen historically. Less than 100 years ago John Jacob Astor, first of the clan to stamp his name upon U. S., was still selling furs and dealing in Manhattan real estate with such finesse as to rear an historic fortune. He begat William Backhouse Astor, called "Landlord of New York." who begat John Jacob Astor, who begat John Jacob Astor, who begat William Vincent Astor...
...duchess is the slow bulging hub of a wheel whose whirling spokes are a glitter of medieval cities and country castles, deaths and tournaments and plagues. Jews who lent money and princes who rode through summer dusts or winter snows, bishops who begat bastards, kings who kept mistresses and died of wounds; all the remote and entangled brightness of a century, like all past
...nearly half a century since "Commodore" Cornelius Vanderbilt I departed this life, full of years and power, having amassed a fortune in ships and railroads and begat William Henry (1821-1885), who begat Cornelius II (1843-1899), who begat Cornelius III (1873?), who begat Cornelius IV (1898?), who took a wife in 1920 and is yet without issue...
About 2,000 B.C., Abraham ("father of multitudes") was the Patriarch of the Hebrews ("those from the other side"?they came from Ur in Baby- lonia). Abraham had two sons: Ishmael by Hagar (ancestor of the Ismaelites or Arabians), Isaac by Sarah ("princess"). Isaac married Rebekah and they begat Jacob called Israel, the ancestor of the Jews. His male progeny became the heads of the twelve tribes of Israel...