Word: cockrane
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Manhattan the 88th birthday of the late Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson was celebrated by proxy by Mrs. Annie Ide Cockran, who has had full and undisputed right to Stevenson's birthday (November 13) for 47 years. Reason: in 1891 her father, General Henry Clay Ide, U. S. Land Commissioner in Samoa, told his great & good friend Stevenson that his small daughter Annie always felt aggrieved because her birthday fell on December 25. Straightway Author Stevenson drew up, signed, had witnessed a document transferring to her all the rights & privileges...
Birthday. Of the late Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson: his 81st, celebrated by proxy in Manhattan by Mrs. Anne Ide Cockran, relict of Congressman William Bourke Cockran. For 40 years Mrs. Cockran has had full & undisputed right to Author Stevenson's birthday (Nov. 13). Reason: In 1891 her father, General Henry C. Ide, U. S. Land Commissioner in Samoa, told his friend Stevenson that small Daughter Annie always felt grieved because she had no real birthday: hers fell on Dec. 25. Straightway kind Author Stevenson drew up, signed and had witnessed a deed: ". . . In consideration that Miss Annie...
Finlay scored highest of the Crimson golfers-in the qualifying rounds, making 158 for 36 holes. W. P. Arnold, Jr. '31 qualified in the second division, and in the individual matches, defeated Warren Cockran of Baltimore, J. W. Bowman of Brockton, and W. J. Woodward of Southern Pines, N. C. J. B. Baldwin '31 reached the third division, and, after winning from G. S. Ahearn of Quebec and H. S. Bond, of Baltimore, was eliminated by J. p. Hotchkiss of New Haven...