Word: biddulph
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Henry Ward Beecher, created a furor, were arrested, acquitted. In the same year, she, as Mrs. Woodhull, was nominated as a candidate for the presidency of the U. S. by the Equal Rights Party, was defeated. Shortly after the two sisters removed to England where Victoria became Mrs. John Biddulph Martin; Tennessee, the wife of Sir Francis Cook. In 1914 Mrs. Martin helped to organize the Women's Aerial League of England, offered $5,000 and a trophy for the first aviator to make a transatlantic flight. Tennessee Claflin Cook died...
...strongest sympathy with the working classes." Telephone (1878). "After dinner we went to the Council Room and saw the telephone. A Professor Bell explained the whole process, which is most extraordinary. It had been put in communication with Osborne Cottage, and we talked with Sir Thomas and Mary Biddulph, also heard some singing quite plainly. But it is rather faint, and one must hold the tube close to one's ear." Bismarck. "A terrible man, infamous, hateful, monstrous!" Tennyson. "He is very peculiar looking and oddly dressed, but there is no affectation about him." Garibaldi (whose revolutionary tactics against...
...after years Mrs. Woodhull went to England with her sister Tennessee, who followed her in the Woman Suffrage movement. While lecturing there she was heard one night by John Biddulph Martin, a wealthy English banker and philanthropist. Anon they were married. Tennessee also made an advantageous marriage to Lord Cook. She died abroad recently. Mrs. Martin, erstwhile Woodhull, neé Claflin, lives on, known as a "financier and reformer." She has written a number of works, including The Origins, Tendencies and Principles of Government and Garden of Eden Stirpiculture. Her recreations are scientific agriculture, psychical research, motoring...