Word: lucretia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Said Jay Buxton, glider builder of Haw thorne, Calif.: "We'll start and go as far as we can." That was a month ago when Manufacturer Buxton & Daughter Lucretia were starting out with three associates to tow their two-seated glider Transporter to Elmira behind a 1925 Rolls-Royce. They arrived in five days. On the second day of the meet, Daughter Lucretia and Associate Fred Barnes climbed into Transporter, took off from Harris Hill at 10:27 a. m., soared until 5:22 p. m. In the air they shivered, ate peanuts, chatted with each other and with...
...Author Joel Chandler Harris (Uncle Remus Stories); Colonel Robert Green Ingersoll, agnostic lawyer, lecturer, debater; Explorer Elisha Kent Kane, who pioneered part of Peary's route to the North Pole; Composer Edward Alexander MacDowell ("To a Wild Rose"); Inventor Robert McCormick (harvester); Novelist Herman Melville (Moby Dick); Abolitionist Lucretia Coffin Mott; Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry, hero of the Battle of Lake Erie; Sakajawea, Indian woman guide of the Lewis & Clark expedition; Reformer Lucy Stone; Settler John Augustus Sutter who owned the California mill where gold was discovered in 1848; Zachary Taylor, 12th President; Inventor Lewis Edson Waterman (fountain...
...Mary Todd Lincoln, who loved style as much as her homely husband detested it, enjoys an elegant moment of respite in her pansy velvet gown, serene in the knowledge that her exquisite little fan and parasol would be the envy of many a prairie lady back home in Illinois. Lucretia Garfield stands resolutely erect, prepared for tragedy. Edith Carow Roosevelt placidly reads her book. Only the faintest notes of discord jar the harmony among the ghostly ladies in the Smithsonian gallery. Pale Ellen Axson Wilson has joined Mmes Taft and Roosevelt in their glass case, while her successor, Edith Boiling...
...story . went) had been chosen by the Disciples of Christ because its doctor had a dilapidated buggy, a bony nag-his poverty suggesting that Hiram was healthy. Young Garfield taught Ancient Languages & Literatures for a year, then (in 1857) became second president of the Institute. One of his students. Lucretia Rudolph, had caught his fancy; he married her in 1858. The Institute's cumbersome name was changed to Hiram College. Garfield was president until 1863, but long before he resigned he was busy being State Senator (1859), going off to war (1861), getting elected to Congress...
Died. Mrs. Martha Lucretia Gulager, 83, Cherokee Indian, aunt of Funnyman Will Rogers; famed with her late husband, F. W. Gulager for educational and religious work among her tribesmen; of old age; at Tahlequah, Okla...