Word: davidson
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Comstock Lode on the side of Mt. Davidson at Virginia City, Nev., has always been a surprise package. Discovered in 1859, its glory holes enriched Sandy Bowers, an illiterate Missouri teamster, made his washerwoman bride, Eilly Orrum. Queen of the Comstock. Its abandoned workings, bought in 1872 for $100,000, in four years yielded $100,000,000 to its four new owners-Irishmen William S. O'Brien, James C. Flood, James G. Fair and John W. Mackay-father of Postal Telegraph's Clarence Mackay. In 1907 a fall of rock disclosed a $1,000,000 pocket of gold...
Perkins Scholarships: Henry Black, of Reinbeck, Iowa; and Paul Burton DeWitt 1L, of Sheldon, Iowa. Rumrill Scholarships: David McConnell, of Davidson, North Carolina. Stoughton Scholarships: Henry Maurice Goldman 2Du, of Dorchester; Joseph Vincent O'Brien 2M, of Dorchester; Alfred Hertz Rosenthal '33, of Dorchester; and William Alexander Sloan 2L, of Dorchester...
...DAVIDSON TAYLOR...
...following members of the Class of 1932 received the S.B. degree (Out of Course): G. N. Barrie, Jr., of Brookline, Mass; J. E. Davidson, Brookline, Mass.; J. V. N. Dorr, 2nd, New York, N. Y.; R. B. Johnston, Rock Falls, Ill.; J. J. Mackin, Jackson Heights, N. Y.; A. B. Poole, Abington, Mass.; E. H. Sterne, Jr., Cincinnati, O.; Francis Woodbridge, Jr., Portland...
Elected. Assistant Secretary of War Frederick Trubee Davidson, president of Manhattan's American Museum of Natural History to succeed famed Fossil Man Henry Fairfield Osborn...