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Born. To Alfred Cecil Durban, onetime British newsboy, and Mrs. (Vivienne Maud Huntington) Durban, daughter of the late Manhattan Architect Charles Pratt Huntington, heiress to part of the fortune of the late Railman Collis Potter Huntington; a daughter. 10 lb.; in Logansport, Ind., where the Durbans sought to hide from the public eye. Name: Frances Charlotte...
Henry Worth (Hank) Thornton was born in Logansport, Ind., in 1871, went to St. Paul's, then to the University of Pennsylvania. At St. Paul's he met James McCrea, whose father was then president of the Pennsylvania railroad. At Pennsylvania, Student Thornton won fame as a line-plunger, helped Penn beat Princeton (1892) and after graduating became football coach at Vanderbilt. He then (1894) entered the Pennsylvania Railroad offices as a draftsman, remained to become (1911) superintendent of the Long Island Railroad...
Because so much now depends upon reorganization of the railways, Mexicans manifested lively interest last week in their Canadian railway doctor. Sir Henry Worth Thornton, though a Knight, and though president of the Canadian National Railways, was born in the U. S. at Logansport, Ind., 56 years ago. Both his first and second wives were U. S. born. The Pennsylvania Railroad took him on in the Engineering Department (1894), advanced him steadily, and in 1911 handed over to him the General Superintendentship of the Long Island railroad, a post which he had held for three years...
Soon it was ascertained that "Benny" is Lieutenant Benjamin F. Staud of Pittsburgh, who pulled the lanyard firing the first U. S. gun to send a shell spinning over Nanking. Commodore Dewey's "Gridley" was Charles Vernon Gridley of Logansport...
...Meeks-a man of 45, looking much older, with vague eyes half-closed in a sunburned, drooping face- rose from his chair and walked uncertainly out of a courthouse in Indiana. He did not know quite where to go, but anyway he could not go back now-not to Logansport. Alice Meeks, his wedded wife, had just divorced him. She complained that she found him a burden to her; she had kept him for a long time. Now he could go. She needed a man to work her farm. . . . The judge agreed with...