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While the suffragist meetings and protests continued, the first woman who personally challenged the political hierarchy was the electrifying Victoria Claflin Woodhull of Homer, Ohio. Beautiful, energetic and not entirely scrupulous, Victoria and her younger sister Tennessee practiced many of the popular quackeries of the day: seances, psychic remedies, a bottled "elixir of life." Inspired, she said, by a vision of Demosthenes, Woodhull and her sister went to New York and arranged to introduce themselves to the newly widowed Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt, 84. With her "magnetic treatment" Tennessee soothed the railroad tycoon so successfully that he backed the young sisters...
...other new ACSR members are the Rev. F. Washington Jarvis '61, Roxbury Latin High School's headmaster; William H. Claflin '65, a Boston businessman; and Divinity School student Thomas Mackall...
Fidel Castro confiscated Soledad in 1960 and Claflin spent the next years involved in various activities, including his large collection of American Indian artifacts...
...Claflin remained involved with Harvard activities throughout his life. Last year, he attended football games in the fall and Commencement in the spring...
...addition to his wife. Claflin is survived by three daughters, 16 grandchildren and 21 great-grandchildren. A memorial service will be held today at 11 a.m. at the Story Chapel. Mt. Auburn Cemetery...