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...have before me copy of the newsmagazine for July 2, 1928. On page 25 you have published a slanderous story and coupled my name with it, which is absolutely false. I can only conclude that you are thinking of one Pat Smith of Bridgeport, Conn., who has had the audacity to use my name and of whom I know nothing except what the newspapers report. There is absolutely no connection between him and my family, and so far as I know he is not a Gipsy...
...issue of July 2 on p. 25, you have unintentionally confused the internationally known evangelist "Gypsy" Smith who, as you say, "for 50 years has preached and sung God all over the world," with a much younger man, Captain "Gypsy Pat" Smith, who was divorced by his wife in Bridgeport, Conn. This younger man of Gypsy origin after the War became an itinerant preacher, and, to the regret of "Gypsy" Smith, took that word as part of his public name. There is no kinship whatever between the two men. It is bad enough that his unhappy marital affairs should bring...
Divorced. Rodney ("Gypsy") Smith, famed evangelist; by Karin Tjader Smith; in Bridgeport, Conn. She charged "intolerable" cruelty after having been persuaded to withdraw worse charges. Born in a gypsy camp in Scotland, Rodney Smith found God in the Salvation Army, in London, when he was 17. Since then, for 50 years, he has preached and sung God all over the world...
George Huntington Hartford, a "down-easter" born at Augusta, Me., went to Manhattan before the Civil War and there operated a modest hide and leather business from his store on Vesey street. A neighboring store keeper, one Gilman from Bridgeport, Conn., was in the spice and tea business, and in 1859 the first Hartford went to work for Gilman as store manager. Gilman soon withdrew from the business. He had a peculiarity that doubtless was most trying to Hartford. He feared death so terribly that he would endure near him no mirrors in which he might note the shriveling...
...eighteenth century, who became the first presidents of Princeton and Dartmouth, by naming the dormitory buildings now located at York and Library Streets. Dickinson Hall and Wheelock Hall. Funds for the erection of these buildings were provid by a bequest made to Yale by the late M. Judson of Bridgeport. Conn...