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...after President Harrison's retirement, he married Mrs. Dimmick in Manhattan. He was then 62, she about 38. The following year a daughter, Elizabeth was born to them. In 1901 Mr. Harrison died. Mrs. Harrison and the President's children by his first marriage then entered into litigation over the Harrison estate of some...
...ancestors, Bavarian winegrowers, had acquired high esteem from as early as 1709. In Pennsylvania he met and married in 1843 Anna Margaretta Schmitt, also an immigrant. Her father had been a burgomeister, an elder in the church. A year later their baby, Henry John, was born. In 1850 they moved to Sharpsburg, Pa., where the young father established a brick yard. Frugal Anna wanted her own kitchen garden, had one laid out much larger than her own family needs, sold produce to neighbors. Here among the cabbage tops, the bean vines and the other garden truck Henry John used...
Divorced. Ben Hecht, 36, famed Manhattan-born Chicago author-journalist (Eric Dorn, Humpty Dumpty), by the former Marie Armstrong, critic, who was granted $3,500 a year alimony and the custody of their nine-year-old daughter; in Chicago...
Robert Todd Lincoln was born in Springfield, Ill., in 1843, in the little white house with green blinds where his ex-Congressman father had settled down to practice law. He was named for his Kentucky-banker grandfather, Robert Todd. He took after his impetuous, affectionate fault-finding mother. He attended the Illinois Industrial School at Urbana (later the University of Illinois) and was sent east to Phillips Exeter Academy. He entered Harvard Law School but left to become a captain on General Grant's staff. He was present at the fall of Petersburg and at Appomattox, whence he returned...
...imbibed the spirit of the Nazarene. That spirit is religious, of God, and produced and multiplied in a place of worship even better than in a place of scholarship. Only the highest ideals and the deepest convictions will uproot the seeds of war. These ideas and convictions are born of religion. Let us have our chapel and also the professor's Chair to aid and abet the altar and the pulpit. George L. Paine...