Word: great-great-grandson
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...more fuel to their ancestor's reputation, already to their minds a little too lurid. From one respectable generation to another Boswell's manuscripts mouldered, first in Auchinleck Castle, then in Malahide Castle, Ireland, whither Lord Talbot de Malahide, Boswell's great-great-grandson and heir, transported them...
...great-great-grandson of Paul Revere should hold an art exhibition in Mexico it would be news. Last week Mexican Satirist Luis Hidalgo held an exhibition of his brilliantly colored little figures in Manhattan's Arden Gallery without a single critic recording the fact that that round-faced swart young man is a direct descendant of the patron saint of Mexico's independence, fiery Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla, who captured the Spanish prison of Dolores in 1810, declared Mexican independence, prematurely, and got himself imprisoned and shot for his pains...
Definite they were. The Assembly candidate whom Jim Farley was "particularly anxious" to see win was trounced by Republican Laurens H. Hamilton, great-great-grandson of Alexander Hamilton and nephew of J. P. Morgan. Brother Tom, for whose success Brother Jim was equally if not so openly anxious, took a licking not from a Republican but from his anti-Farley rival. Bellowed Haverstraw Supervisor Shankey: "Against me I had the Postmaster General, the Chairman of the Democratic National Committee and the Chairman of the Democratic State Committee and I licked them all. Jim came here yesterday, visited every...
...Boston today are two descendants of the famed old family named Robert Treat Paine-one sometimes known as "Plain Paine" to distinguish him from Robert Treat Paine II who married a Cabot and lives in Brookline. Robert Treat II, great-great-grandson of the Paine who signed the Declaration, graduated from Harvard in 1882 "to devote himself to the management of corporations, largely in the line of electrical manufactures." He was elected a director of General Electric Co. in 1894. two years after the company was formed and in the middle of the worst year in its history...
Married. Count Louis-Charles Pineton de Chambrun, 59, French Ambassador to Italy, great-great-grandson of Lafayette;* and Princess Marie de Rohan-Chabot Murat, biographer, art patron, brilliant hostess; in Rome...