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Dates: during 1920-1929
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The Pre-Revolutionary: Descendant of General Hammond of the Revolutionary War, son of Major Hammond (West Point graduate who fought in the Mexican War), nephew of the famed Captain John C. Hays of the Texas Rangers, John Hays Hammond was born in California in 1855?in the great gold digging...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Unique | 5/10/1926 | See Source »

Born. To Mrs. Henry Sturgis Morgan, daughter-in-law of Mr. J. Pierpont Morgan, and a descendant of John Quincy Adams, a son.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: May 3, 1926 | 5/3/1926 | See Source »

The editor of the Manhattan Social Register marked for deletion from that compendium last week the name of Mr. McEvers Bayard Brown, a descendant of the 16th mayor of New York, Nicholas Bayard. Death had brought to an end the career of perhaps the only man who ever lived on...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Apr. 19, 1926 | 4/19/1926 | See Source »

It would, indeed, be a pleasure for those who have loved the humor of a later Artemas Ward, to be able to think of him as a descendant of the worthy old general. Yet this is unfortunately not the case, for the name of the humorist was Charles Farer Browne...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Famed Progenitor of University's Gum Machine Benefactor No Ordinary General--Artemus Ward Was Soldier, Not Humorist | 4/3/1926 | See Source »

The boat which will carry the expedition north into the ice-fields will be called the "Chance." She is now being built in Shelbourne, Nova Scotia, by William McKaye, a direct descendant of the Donald McKaye who made Boston famous with his clipper-ships. The "Chance" will be 75 feet...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BIGELOW WILL DIRECT LABRADOR EXPEDITION | 3/25/1926 | See Source »

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