Word: fathered
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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William Wetmore Story, whose father was the eminent Justice Story, died at Villambrosa, Italy, Oct. 6, aged 76 years. Mr. Story was born in Salem, Mass., in 1819. He graduated from Harvard in the class of '38 and studied law, but soon left the profession, and devoted himself to the art of sculpture, making his home in Rome. His talent soon won him recognition and success, and he has continued to hold a high and enviable position in the world...
...Story was also a talented artist and musician, besides being the author of several books and poems among which is a biography of his father, the "Life and Letters of Joseph Story...
Professor Eli Whitney Blake, until the close of the last college year Hazard professor of physics at Brown University, died at Hampton, Conn., Tuesday, aged fifty-nine years. He was born in New Haven, his father being the well known inventor of the same name, was graduated at Yale in 1857, studied chemistry and physics in the universities of Heidelberg, Marburg and Berlin, and returning to this country was named professor of chemistry and physics in the University of Vermont and State Agricultural College. He was afterwards professor of physics and mechanic arts at Cornell University; acting professor of physics...
...sermons advocated an important change in regard to these services. Hitherto these sermons by bishops and prominent clergy of the church have been held during the month of April. This year they will be held on successive Sunday afternoons in Lent, which will bring them about six weeks earlier. Father J. O. S. Huntington O. H. C., and Dr. Robbins, Dean of the cathedral at Albany, have already promised to speak...
...Born to Blush Unseen," A Father of Five...