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...significance of burly, red-faced Tom McKeown's defeat was that his successor is likely to be unique among House characters in the next Congress. Winner of the Democratic nomination was Judge "P. L." Gassaway whose first name is, though few Oklahomans know it, Percy. Judge Gassaway has piercing black eyes and a mop of flowing black hair, wears a broad-brimmed black felt hat, black tie, wing collar, black suit and high-heeled black cowboy boots. He was never a cowboy. He comes from Coalgate in Coal County, is the son of a missionary to the Indians...
...Vanderbilt), Lila (Mrs. William Seward Webb), and Florence (Mrs. Hamilton McK. Twombly); Nephew Erskine Gwynne; Grandsons Cornelius, George and William Henry Vanderbilt and Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney; Granddaughters Gladys and Sylvia Szechenyi, Barbara (Mrs. Barklie McKee Henry), Cathleen (Mrs. Lawrence Wise Lowman), Flora (Mrs. G. Macculloch Miller), Grace (Mrs. Henry Gassaway Davis III) and Cornelia (Mrs. Eugene B. Roberts); Grandniece Consuelo (Mrs. Earl E. T. Smith); Great-grandsons Whitney and Roderick Tower, William Barklie Henry, Harry Payne Whitney II; Great-grand-daughters Flora Miller, Gertrude Henry, Nancy Whitney...
Married. Miss Grace Vanderbilt, 27, daughter of Brigadier General Cornelius Vanderbilt; to Henry Gassaway Davis III, 25, grandson of late Senator Henry Gassaway Davis, onetime (1904) Democratic candidate for Vice President; following an elopement in Manhattan. Brigadier General & Mrs. Vanderbilt in 1896 were married under like circumstances, were forgiven by Mr. Vanderbilt's father only after an estrangment of several years; last week, vexed, they refused to endorse their daughter's action. Cornelius Vanderbilt Jr., famed journalist, brother of Mrs. Davis, explained she was not upset by her family's attitude, said: "She expected they would behave...
...father, John T. Davis, is president of the Davis Colliery Co. and Chairman of the Board of the Davis Trust Co., both of Elkins, W. Va. My grandfather, the late Henry Gassaway Davis, ran with Parker on the 1904 Presidential ticket. Before that he was Democratic Senator from! West Virginia. His life, by Pepper, would be instructive reading for Subscriber
...Vincennes, Mr. Davis was at pains to scotch a rumor that he was kin to Henry Gassaway Davis, Democratic nominee for Vice President in 1904, and that he was a member of a family that had employed non-union labor in its West Virginia coal mines...