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...BROOKS KEFFER Philadelphia...
...Painter Blythe became engaged to pretty, popular Julia Keffer of East Liverpool, settled down over a store in Uniontown, Pa., seat of Fayette County. He was commissioned to carve a huge wooden statue of Lafayette for the new county courthouse, which made citizens of nearby Waynesburg, seat of Greene County, want a similar monument to General Greene. When he asked $300 for the job, Waynesburgers hotly replied that they did'"not propose to give him the whole county for his work," hired a local craftsman. Painter Blythe retorted with a long poem in the Uniontown newspaper criticizing Waynesburg...
There followed shortly the two great blows of David Blythe's life. Pretty Julia Keffer died a year after he married her. He painted an enormous panorama of western Pennsylvania landscapes and historical scenes, mounted it on rollers and dreamed of making a fortune by taking it on tour. In its premiere at Uniontown, Pa. the last scene, a realistic canvas of a thunderstorm, so scared the more naive spectators that they refused to leave the theatre until assured that no thunder was crashing outside. But the tour flopped, the panorama was cut up to make theatrical backdrops. Painter...
Trumpetings from the baby Elephants will be by: cox, William H. Keffer '36; stroke, Lamson Blaney '36; 7, Lawrence Edmands '36; 6, Daniel T. V. Huntoon, 2nd. '35; 5, Thorton Brown '36; 4, Charles P. Richardson '34; 3, Field C. Leonard '36; 2, Carl R. Comestock, Jr. '36; and bow, Robert S. Chafee...
...Ingalls, W. H. Keffer, Graham King, R. H. Knapp, James Langhlin, F. C. Leonard, W. F. Loomis, J. J. McCue, John McNeill, Malcolm Millard, J. B. Miller, S. R. Miller, F. B. Murphy, C. H, Newton, G. W. Oettle, L. H. Orr, S. T. Orton, Thomas Paull, C. F. Pierce, Joseph Pulitzer, Jr., Talbot Rantoul, W. F. Read, A. C. Reggie, C. W. Robbins, J. W. Robinson, Shipherd Robinson, David Rockefeller, C. B. Rockwell, M. K. Ruddock, J. G. Scaunell, P. M. Schless, J. V. Shapiro, J. J. Slocum, A. B. Smith, F. N. Sommer, R. R. Spaulding...