Word: descendantal
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Engaged. Adele Sloane Hammond, daughter of John Henry Hammond,* lawyer, member, Brown Bros. & Co., bankers; niece of Ogden Haggerty Hammond, U. S. Ambassador to Spain; descendant of "Commodore" Cornelius Vanderbilt; to John Kensett Olyphant, grandson of Robert Olyphant, one-time President, Delaware & Hudson R. R. Simultaneous announcement was made of...
Onlookers smiled. The Aga Khan is a direct descendant of Fatima, daughter of Mohammed. From his princely Persian ancestors he inherited wealth only to be called stupendous. His grandfather, his father and himself have received enormous grants from Britain as a reward for their championship among Moslems of the British...
Consuelo Vanderbilt, daughter of the late William K. Vanderbilt and the present Mrs. O. H. P. Belmont, is alleged to have appeared before the Catholic Diocesan Court at Southwark, Eng., with her mother last July, and deposed that she was forced by parental duress to consent to marry in 1895...
Engaged. John Trumbull Marshall, descendant of John Alden and Priscilla Mullens; also of Jonathan Trumbull, Colonial Governor of Connecticut; to Catharine Van Dyke Bull, descendant of Jan Thomasse Van Dyke, founder of New Utrecht.
Denied Divorce. Christian Arthur Wellesley, fourth Earl of Cowley, actor, descendant of Richard Colley Marquess Wellesley (famed Governor General of India, 1797-1805; Duke of Wellington's brother); from the Countess, onetime May Picard, Manhattan chorus girl; at London.