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...Secretary of the Treasury Lawrence Wood ("Chip") Roberts, resigned, President Roosevelt appointed Wayne Chatfield Taylor of Chicago. Two-thirds of the new Assistant Secretary's name come from his great-granduncle, an immensely wealthy Cincinnatian named Wayne Chatfield. When Wayne Chatfield died he left his money to his grandnephew, the Assistant Secretary's father, Hobart Chatfield Taylor, on condition that the legatee add Chatfield to his last name. Hobart Chatfield Taylor thereupon became Hobart Chatfield Chatfield-Taylor, distinguishing himself by writing books (The Idle Born, Fame's Pathway), collecting a large number of decorations from foreign governments...
...King John of Ethiopia still venerated as a saint by the Coptic Church. His great-uncle, John IV, was a sworn enemy of fierce-whiskered old Emperor Menelik who later defeated the Italians at Aduwa. Ras Gugsa's father kept up the family feud against Menelik and his grandnephew, Ethiopia's present Emperor, was on the best of terms with the Italian administration in Eritrea. When he died three years ago it was in the arms of an Italian doctor. With his last breath he made his son Gugsa swear eternal friendship to Italy. Well aware...
...named Joseph Boggs. For blueness of blood the Beales take no backtalk from Biddles or Drexels or Rushes since they were direct descendants of Friend William Penn's Friend Andrew Griscom who reputedly built the first brick house in town. Little Joseph Boggs Beale was also a great-grandnephew of Betsy Ross. Accordingly he was sent to the most reputable school in town, the old Central High School. Almost immediately after graduation he joined the faculty as instructor in drawing, and proceeded to grow a fine pair of side whiskers. Though he fought through the Civil War and spent...
...Washington James Knox Polk II, 33, great-great-grandnephew of the eleventh U. S. President, applied for a hack-driver's license...
Died, Thomas Hewitt Vassar, 73, retired New York City sewer inspector, grandnephew of Matthew Vassar who founded the girls' college; in Brooklyn...