Word: great-great-grandson
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...held voodoo orgies. He drank a great deal. Mounting debts kept him out of Britain most of his life. In 1818 he married the sister of Leopold I of Belgium. His greatest service to his country occurred when he became the father of a pale and proper little girl who grew up to be Victoria, Queen of England, Empress of India, Defender of the Faith. Last week King George quickly let the new Duke of Kent understand that he must work for his title. Hardly had the great-great-grandson of the last Duke opened the motor...
...midst of the 15-acre Vanderbilt plot adjoining the Moravian Cemetery at New Dorp, Staten Island, there arose almost 70 years ago a great mausoleum (see cut) in which lie 54 coffins including those of the old Commodore; his son William Henry; his grandsons Cornelius, George Washington, William Kissam; his great-grandson Reginald and his great-great-grandson William K. Jr. Last week Mrs. Vanderbilt was put away with those who, in the words read by Dr. Brooks from the Episcopal Book of Common Prayer, "are henceforth blessed . . . for they rest from their labors...
After a two-year fight, Comte Rene A. de Chambrun, great-great-grandson of the Marquis de Lafayette, was admitted to the New York State Bar. Lawyer de Chambrun, Paris-born, was banned from practicing his profession because he had never been naturalized as a U. S. citizen. To prove U. S. citizenship de Chambrun cited before the Court of Appeals a law passed by Maryland's General Assembly in 1784: "The Marquis de Lafayette and his heirs male for ever shall be ... taken to be ... citizens of this State...
...organized with $500.000 capital. Among the directors were Nicholas Low, Comfort Sands and a doughty old sugar refiner named Isaac Roosevelt who later became the bank's president and whose first cousin four times removed was to become 25th President of the U. S. and whose great-great-grandson was to become 32nd President of the U. S. The directors picked for their first president, General Alexander Macdougall, a brisk, decisive Scotch merchant who earlier in his life had piled up a small fortune privateering. Without waiting to obtain a charter (which was not granted until seven...
Died. William Astor Chanler, 66. socialite, expeditionist, politician, author, brother of Lewis Stuyvesant Chanler, John Armstrong Chaloner and the late Artist Robert Winthrop ("Sheriff Bob") Chanler, great-great-grandson of John Jacob Astor; in Mentone, France. A waterfall in British East Africa, some varieties of reptiles, insects and an antelope species bear his name...