Word: geneseo
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Representative (1933-51) James W. Wadsworth, daughter of John Hay, Abraham Lincoln's biographer and Secretary of State for both William Mc-Kinley and Theodore Roosevelt, mother of Deputy U.S. Representative to the United Nations James J. Wadsworth; and Jackson H. Boyd, 68, retired businessman; in Geneseo, N.Y. Among Mrs. Wadsworth's attendants: her daughter Evelyn, wife of Missouri's Democratic Senator Stuart Symington...
...Open Kitchen last week was only an oatmeal oasis along the whirlwind political pathway for Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller. Before that day ended in Jamestown, he had traveled 200 miles, made nine campaign stops. At each he eased into a different device for winning friends and influencing voters. In Geneseo Rockefeller happily scribbled autographs for housewives, on handbags and even a check stub ("I never sign my autograph on a check"). In Alfred "Rocky" popped a blue Alfred University beanie on his head while 2,000 students cheered. In Wellsville he solemnly accepted 50? campaign contributions from two shy Brownie scouts...
...generations, the Wadsworths of New York's green Genesee Valley have lived in an ancient brick mansion near the town of Geneseo and farmed the broad acres around it. Ever since the American Revolution, they have also helped to fight the nation's wars and make the nation's laws. One James S. Wadsworth left the Genesee Valley in 1861 to serve as a Union general. His son, and namesake, served in Congress for 20 years. His grandson, the third James Wadsworth, did just what his ancestors would have expected...