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William Henry Aspinwall's sister, Mary Rebecca, married Isaac Roosevelt, the President's grandfather. Great-Uncle William passed a youth "of moral purity" in a "refined and Christian' home in Bleeker Street," according to his Staten Island minister upon the occasion of Mr. Aspinwall's death in 1875. Aged 25, he was taken into partnership in the mercantile firm of Gardiner G. & Samuel S. Howland. his uncles. The firm later fell largely into his hands, developed a thriving trade in the Mediterranean, an unrivalled one in the Pacific and East Indies, a downright monopoly in Venezuela. His venture into...
...nearly 300 years since a Jesuit priest named Isaac Jogues set out from Orleans, France to win North American Indians for Christ. He made some progress among the sedentary Hurons, at the price of hate and fear from the warlike Iroquois. One day in 1642 a band of Mohawk Iroquois caught him by the St. Lawrence with some Huron converts. They took him to their village in what is now New York State, amusing themselves along the way by ripping out his fingernails, chopping off his thumbs, plucking out his hairs, heaping live coals on his body. Escaping after...
...undersigned being weekly readers of TIME desire that you publish a report of the record of Isaac Bacharach, Congressman of the Second Congressional District of New Jersey...
...record of Representative Isaac...
...events into a human reality. No strict-interpretationist of the Scriptures, he does not hesitate to contradict or supplement the original account in matters of minor fact. Thus he says that Jacob's only daughter Dinah was older, not younger, than her brothers Issachar and Zebulun; suggests that Isaac was well aware that he was blessing Jacob instead of Esau; asserts that Jacob demonstrably served 25, not 20 years, with Laban; supplies Rachel's age at her death (41). He puts in Isaac's dying mouth a babbled prophecy that stretches back to Abraham, forward to Christ...