Word: drexel
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...American Spectator appeared an autobiographical article called "Why I Changed," by James H. R. Cromwell, one-time millionaire socialite. Cromwell is the stepson of Edward Townsend Stotesbury, head of J. P. Morgan's Philadelphia affiliate, Drexel & Co. He married the daughter of Motorman Horace E. Dodge, entered Drexel & Co., but quickly determined to head his own business like his stepfather and father...
Married. Anthony Joseph Drexel III, 20, Philadelphia banker's scion, great-grandson of Jay Gould; and Helen Avis Howard, 21, Atlanta socialite; in Walhalla...
Died. Alexander Van Rensselaer, 82, a founder and longtime president of the Philadelphia Orchestra Association, board president of Philadelphia's Drexel Institute; of cancer; in Philadelphia. Last February when his stepson John R. Fell sensationally died of a knife wound in Solo, Java, Alexander Van Rensselaer protested it could not be suicide because Fell was "not a quitter" (TIME. March...
...late Abby Lathrop, famed mouse fancier of Granby, Mass., and discovered cancer in a progeny. Professor Slye at once began to concentrate on the inheritance of cancer. Her laboratory now is a three-story, greystone house, at the west border of the University of Chicago campus, at No. 5825 Drexel Boulevard. Down at the corner is the new Lying-In Hospital. Across the street at No. 5822 is a smaller greystone house on the first floor of which she lives with her sister Katherine Alden and her jolly assistant, Edith Farrar, who speaks with a strong Southern accent...
...Dorothy de Graffenried de Villiers (grandchildren of Frank Gould): Eileen Vivien de la Poer Beresford O'Brien, Arthur George Marcus Douglas de la Poer Beresford (children of George's daughter, Vivien, Lady Decies): not to mention several dozen others of less distinguished names such as Anthony J. Drexel III, Caroline de Peyster Wainright, Gioia Bishop (various other grandchildren of George...