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Sued for Divorce. Henry Lee Higginson, Massachusetts blueblood, grandson and namesake of the late music-minded philanthropist, great-grandson of the late great Naturalist Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz and of the founder of long potent Lee, Higginson & Co. (bankers); by Betty Bird Higginson, onetime opera-singer; in Cambridge. Charge: cruel and abusive treatment...
...James Brown retired last week from the firm of Brown Brothers, Harriman & Co. Great-grandson of the founder of the old banking house of Brown Brothers & Co., he is president of the New York State Chamber of Commerce. His retirement leaves only one Brother Brown in Brown Brothers, Harriman & Co.-Thatcher Magoun Brown...
...Jacobus Roosevelt would not have been surprised that his great-grandson Theodore should become 26th President of the U. S. Nor would he have been greatly startled when his second cousin three times removed became the 32nd President of the U. S. But what would have given him a severe shock would have been the signing by any Roosevelt in the White House of a law which would split his venerable firm three ways...
Married. Robert Bangs Colgate. 31, soap & perfume scion, great-grandson of the Colgate & Co. founder; and Pamela Camroux, British socialite; in Manhattan...
Married. Anthony Joseph Drexel III, 20, Philadelphia banker's scion, great-grandson of Jay Gould; and Helen Avis Howard, 21, Atlanta socialite; in Walhalla...