Word: hampton
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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decided to build a Class I railroad out of his own pocket, which was exceedingly well lined with Standard Oil millions. Right through the Panic of 1907 he continued to sink those millions into what is now the Virginian Railway, a 600-mi. line running from deep water at Hampton Roads, Va. through the Pocahontas and New River coal fields to West Deepwater, W. Va. It cost Oilman Rogers between $30,000,000 and $40,000,000 and was one of the few railroads financed entirely...
Married, Penelope Borden, daughter of the late Milkman Lewis Mercer Borden, sister of Chicago Dramacritic Gail Borden II, great-granddaughter of Gail Borden I, who invented condensed milk; and Summitt Edward Boone of Manhattan, in East Hampton...
Again arrested for speeding (65 m. p. h. in Hampton, N. H.). Franklin Delano Roosevelt Jr. again forfeited bail...
Died. Childe Hassam, 75, painter & etcher; after nearly a year's illness; in East Hampton, L. I. A pioneer importer of French Impressionism, he was sometimes pigeonholed as a "luminist" for his deft dealing with illumination and color won little recognition until after 40. In 1920 he reported earnings of $100,000. Said Childe Hassam: "There is no such thing as modern art; there is only good...
...East Hampton, L. I. Stuyvesant Fish, 14, nephew of Stuyvesant Fish (see above), paddled an inflated rubber mattress out to sea, brought ashore a drowning plumber. Learning from the plumber that his companion was also drowning, young Fish, with a 15-year-old friend and his father, Sydney Webster Fish, rowed out and rescued the clerk of the East Hampton Board of Education...