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Engaged. James Russell Lowell, great-grandson of Poet James Russell Lowell; to Julia E. Brokaw, of Manhattan...
Died. Henry Algernon du Pont, 88, onetime (1906-17) U. S. Senator from Delaware; cousin of present U. S. Senator Thomas Coleman du Pont (gunpowder, General Motors, mining, banking, street railways); in Winterthur, Del.; suddenly, of heart failure. He was great-grandson of French economist Pierre Samuel du Pont de Nemours (1739-1817), monarchist, who in 1799 emigrated to the U. S., where his son, Eleuthere Irenee, founded the since famed family powder factory and wealth. Henry Algernon du Pont, always interested in the Army, was as Lieutenant Colonel in the Civil War awarded Congressional Medal "for extraordinary gallantry"; became...
Married. Francis Dawson Gallatin, 55, Tammany Hall Sachem, president of the Manhattan Park Board, Commissioner of Parks, great-grandson of U. S. Secretary of the Treasury Albert Gallatin, (1801-16) to Dorothy C. Brady, 23, a publicity agent...
...American women go, a great lady, a very great lady indeed. She divorced the late William K. Vanderbilt for his pleasures; she remarried; she gave money to help the poor. For many years her clear-hewn, masculine face, wearing, under a shock of cropped hair, few traces of the beauty that made her famous as a girl, has stared down charity committees; her voice, one of those feminine baritones that the years bring to great ladies who express themselves emphatically, has harangued women in clubs and men. Soon Mrs. Belmont is sailing for England. Her grandson, the Marquis of Blanford...
Died. Louis Philippe Robert, Due d'Orleans, 57, pretender to the Throne of France, great-grandson of King Louis Philippe of France, son of the late Comte de Paris, head of the House of Bourbon-Orleans, incorrigible spendthrift, North Polar explorer; at Palermo, Italy...