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After Wallace's unforgettable visit, David's Uncle Byron, a botanist, took him to Rutgers College for postgraduate work. He entered the Department of Agriculture in 1889, and in the next half century became one of the world's greatest plant hunters...
Guards: Elisha Atkins, William A. Barnes, Jr., Walter H. Byron, Jr., John Dimeff, John A. Dolan, David W. Fay, Thomas F. Garvey, James K. Grunig, John Lowell, Arthur C. H. Mason, Donald S. Miles, Morton Myerson, Endicott Peabody, John A. Sweetster, Richard N. Thomas, John R. White, Benjamin F. Whitehill, Robert Windsor, John Irving, Thomas Broderick; Irving S. Fellman, Richard Aldrich, Nathaniel R. Kidder, William Young, Demarest, Lloyd, Richard Blaine...
Furthermore, Pittsburgh's other Pirates, professional footballers, announced that they were headed for the championship of the National Football League this fall. Reason: Owner Art Rooney, whose hunches on horse races have brought him a fortune, had at long last succeeded in signing Colorado's Byron ("Whizzer") White, highest scorer (122 points) and most publicized player of last year's crop of college footballers...
Born in 1809, Fanny Kemble was the last of the celebrated, exceedingly proud, theatrical "Kemble dynasty," the most famous of whom was Mrs. Siddons. The proudest, John Philip, whom Byron called "supernatural," sulked in retirement because he was jealous of Mont Blanc. Spoiled by her father, owner of Covent Garden theatre, Fanny was so high-spirited that at her French boarding school the only punishment that could subdue her was seeing a guillotining. Until she was 19 the Kembles had no thought of making an actress of her. Then, as a last resort to save Covent Garden from bankruptcy...
...another $14,361.11 for services he was unable to perform, plus $5,638.89 for the balance of his term, plus $3,118.30 for expenses. Both will be paid the expenses incurred in their tug-of-war (but not more than $2,000 apiece). In the cloakroom afterward, undaunted Arthur Byron Jenks announced that five months hence he would run again for Congress against Alphonse...