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...Well Dick learned the old family stories-great-grandfather had owned a plantation and 35 or 40 slaves; grandfather had his cotton mill on Sweetwater Creek burned down and his slaves set free by Sherman's men, and grandmother had to flee from Marietta escorted by the family coachman, a slave named Monday Russell (because he was born on Monday); Old Slave Monday lived on to serve in that carpetbag Georgia state legislature come Reconstruction. Dick was taught to call Negroes "the colored people" and he admired and respected them in that special, paternal Southern way. Once, when...
...creation of Lambert's father, a chemist who developed the antiseptic formula (useful in that it was bland and harmless to skin and other tissue). Father Lambert scraped together sufficient funds to get to London and there "invested his last dollar in an elegant carriage with a liveried coachman." Helped by this haughty equipage, he coaxed from Lord Lister, the pioneer of antiseptic surgery, the right to christen the new formula with the great man's name...
...Coachman's Son. Leonard Hall was born and bred on the North Shore of Nassau County, Long Island, a baronial strip of land that was sacred to Republicans. ("In the Hoover campaign," Hall recalls, "the finance people set quotas for the 48 states and Nassau County.") But the Halls were no landed GOPatricians; Father Franklyn Hall was the coachman at Theodore Roosevelt's Oyster Bay estate, Sagamore Hill. Leonard, the youngest of eight Hall children, was born on Oct. 2, 1900. When Len was an infant, his father's employer was elected Vice President...
...amused to know that my coachman, Franklin [sic] Hall, who has a large family of small children (including a small boy named after me), has recently been presented with another small boy, and my little girl Ethel, who acted as its godmother, selected Leonard Wood for its name. This was done purely on her own account and I never knew of it until a few days ago. Tell Mrs. Wood...
Before Len Hall was a year old, President McKinley was assassinated, and President Theodore Roosevelt brought his coachman to Washington to be chief messenger at the White House. Franklyn Hall kept his job until his death in 1915, but left his family behind in the roomy house he had built in Oyster Bay, returning home for vacations and occasional holidays. From childhood Len was immersed in politics, and Teddy Roosevelt became and remained his political ideal...