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Died. David Howard Standish, 68, great-great-great-great-great- great-grandson of Captain Myles Standish of the Mayflower, whose proxy wooing of Priscilla Alden occurred after the death of his first wife and before he married his second; at Essex Fells, N. J., of heart disease. Descendant Standish twice served as Mayor of Glen Ridge, N. J., and carried on an export-import business in Manhattan...
...Midwife!" They husked and found strength to roar again. "Licensed Honorary Midwife, Medic and Surgeon! Oh Edward, Edward! The great-grandson of Victoria a midwife!" Scandalized, such servitors as were present blushed a fitting and dignified reproof at these immoderate words...
Jonathan Edwards and wife of the Rev. Aaron Burr, President of the College of New Jersey (Princeton), was unexpectedly delivered of her second child, a son, christened Aaron. The child was son, grandson, great-grandson, great-great-grandson of clergymen on both sides of his family...
...Haynes, Prohibition Commissioner, received a temperance medal bearing a temperance certificate signed by James Madison, Andrew Jackson and John Quincy Adams in 1834. It was sent from Los Angeles by President Jackson's great-grandson, Andrew Jackson IV, who asked a job in the Prohibition Unit...
Engaged. Miss Eleanor Sparks, daughter of Sir Ashley Sparks, Resident Director and General Agent of the Cunard Steamship Line in the U. S., to Jordan L. Mott III, great-grandson of the late J. L. Mott, famed plumbing manufacturer; in Manhattan...