Word: hartfords
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Head; and of Van Buren Taliaferro of Manhattan, first for Elihu Club. The even greater honors of being 15th and last man "tapped" for the four societies (in the order named) fell respectively to Philip W. Bunnell of Scranton, Pa., Hannibal Hamlin of Brooklyn, James G. Butler of Hartford, Conn., and George F. Scherer* of Washington, D. C. John J. Pierson of Manhattan had the hardihood to refuse the accolades of Wolf's Head and Elihu Club, preferring to await election to "Bones" or "Keys"- which...
...appointees are Joseph Fels Barnes of New Hartford, Conn.; Alexander Johnson Casatt of Rosemont, Pa., and Henry Sewall Woodbridge of Brookline. The two new members from the present sophomore class are Henry Wilkinson Bragdon of New York City, and Barrett Williams of Boston. These men immediately became full members of the 1926-27 Council...
...gauge, action, power. His career, except for an engineering course at Harvard, parallels Mr. Willard's closely-a New England parentage, ground-training in the Midwest, the presidency of the Northern Pacific at 42 (1903). In 1913 he accepted the task of rehabilitating the New York, New Haven & Hartford, but had to resign after four years. Recovering, he worked under Mr. Willard in the U. S. Railroad Administration. He is still a director of 19 roads. The breadth and activity of his other interests are witnessed by his membership in a baker's dozen of educational, sociological...
...Meanwhile the cause of all the comment had packed up and, with Mother Talley, started on her first professional concert tour. She went to Hartford, Conn., was met at the train by a delegation of prominent Hartfordians, was escorted to the City Hall, where Mayor Norman C. Stevens presented her with the keys of the city...
Died. Gerald Chapman (real name George Chartres), famed bandit-murderer, hung by the neck, in Hartford...