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...Edith Kane Baker, wife of Manhattan Banker George Fisher Baker Jr. (First National Bank), was asked for $500,000 damages by her cousin Mrs. Mary Emma Calhoun, Manhattan real estate broker. Mrs. Baker was accused of describing her cousin to others as "a narcotic addict" who "bribed doctors and nurses to give her narcotics, and was a liar and not to be trusted...
...Edwards, Calhoun, Trumbull...
...Calhoun College, for Statesman John Caldwell Calhoun (1782-1850) of South Carolina. Graduated from Yale in 1804, he was U. S. Representative (1811-17), Secretary of War under President James Monroe, Vice President of the U. S. (1825-32), U. S. Senator from 1833 until his death, save for a year as Secretary of State under President John Tyler. With Henry Clay, he helped precipitate the War of 1812. Statesman Calhoun amplified and clarified the theory of State's Rights, clashed over it with Daniel Webster in a famed debate in 1833, brought it to bear (he was a slaveholder...
...named, according to announcement made yesterday by President James Rowland Angell. One of the new units, which will include the Sterling Quadrangle on Elm Street, will be named Trumbull, College in honor of Jonathan Trumbull, governor of Connecticut shortly after the Revolution. The other two colleges will be named Calhoun and Edwards in honor of John C. Calhoun, Yale 1804, and Jonathan Edwards, Yale 1720, respectively. Calhoun was the famous statesman of Civil War days, while Edwards was a theologian and metaphysician of note...
...with the scraggly hair. Composer Nevin was only 38 when he died. He left Manhattan because of an acute nervous condition, went to New Haven to be near his son Paul (now in the yacht business), then a student at a nearby military academy. One neighbor, a Flora Calhoun, recalled that as he sat at the piano he always kept a flower, usually a single narcissus, before him. "Narcissus" is the name of Nevin's most popular piano composition...