Word: grandson
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Livingston Biddle Jr., 31, of the Main Line's very own Biddies, a great-great-grandson of Banker Nicholas ("The Old Nick") Biddle, a cousin of onetime Attorney General Francis Biddle and of Sculptor George Biddle, and the author of Main Line, a new novel that attempts to explain the society which produced...
Died. Prince Hubertus of Prussia, 40, grandson of Germany's late Kaiser Wilhelm, wartime captain in Hitler's Luftwafte, recently a sheep farmer in South Africa; after an appendectomy; in Windhoek, South-West Africa...
...students admitted to his classes in naval architecture and marine engineering, this sort of thing seemed quite natural. Professor Seward liked to say that he chose them for "the salt in their veins"; they in turn called him "the Skipper." The son and grandson of sea captains, Skipper Seward had come to know as much about ships as any man could. He had stood on the deck of the German-built Leviathan on its trial run after World War I, had been called in to advise on the raising of the Normandie. He was special wartime consultant to Navy Secretary...
Prince Hubertus of Prussia, grandson of the late Kaiser Wilhelm, landed in South Africa to begin a new life as a sheep farmer. "This is going to be a considerable change from my vineyards at Wiesbach on the Rhine," he told newsmen in Johannesburg, "but your country has a wonderful future. Germany today is not a very happy place...
Shedd, who had taken a leave of absence to work for the publishing firm of Simon and Shuster, was a son of Henry D. Shedd Jr., an executive of the Lawyers Cooperative Publishing Company, and a grandson of Monroe County Judge Henry D. Shedd. The 21-year-old victim, a graduate of the Allendale School in Rochester, is survived also by his mother, Mrs. Katherine Quinlan Shedd, and by a brother, Gordon Shedd...