Word: descendantal
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Died. David Howard Standish, 68, great-great-great-great-great- great-grandson of Captain Myles Standish of the Mayflower, whose proxy wooing of Priscilla Alden occurred after the death of his first wife and before he married his second; at Essex Fells, N. J., of heart disease. Descendant Standish twice...
Died. John Henry Bushman, 82, father of virile cinema actor Francis X. Bushman and of eleven other offspring, at Mount Washington, Md. He was a Civil War veteran, a descendant of one of three brothers (John, Isaac, Ephraim) who landed in the U. S. from Germany in pre-Revolutionary days...
Born in Connecticut in 1850, Dr. Lanman is a lineal descendant of Francis Cook and John Alden of the Mayflower, and of "Brother Jonathan" governor of Conecticut in the early Colonial period. He graduated from Yale in 1871, and studied abroad in Berlin, Tubingen, and Leipzig during the succeeding three...
We may not find the wonderful city which the lineal descendant of a proud clan that once ruled a Maya province reported to Mr. Gann. But with fair luck we hope to return to the United States with some worth-while contribution to modern knowledge of this old world in...
The Prince is "a descendant of the Holy Roman Emperors," a Hapsburg, and a grandson of Feldmarschall Alfred Windisch-Graetz who put down the Kossuth revolution of 1848. Once he was the intimate adviser of the ill-fated Emperor Karl of Austria-Hungary (1915-1918), and he is the present...