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Thomas Jefferson Coolidge 3rd's great-great-great-grandfather was the President from Monticello. His grandmother was a Randolph of Virginia; his grandfather was a president of the Santa Fe Railroad and, later, McKinley's Ambassador to France. His father was the founder and president of Boston's Old Colony Trust Co. In 1914, playing left-end for Harvard in the opening game in the Yale Bowl, young Coolidge scooped up a Yale fumble, almost on Harvard's goal line, and ran 98 yards for a touchdown. A year later Harvard graduated him, Phi Beta Kappa...
...last week it had 36 projects in the making. Most advanced was at Dayton where some co-operative workers were already moving into their new homes scattered in small groups in the outskirts of the city. An entirely different type of project is at Monticello, Ga., where work under an expert engineer and architect was well under way by last week. There, 75 miles from the President's own Warm Springs, 12,000 acres of old estates have been bought up, and buildings are being reconditioned, so that farmers from ''rural slums" can be settled in better...
Lewis was born and brought up within a short distance of Monticello and was so fortunate as to receive the interest and protection of Thomas Jefferson who at that time was the up and coming lawyer of Albemarle, Virginia. Largely through the influence of Jefferson, Lewis joined the army to participate in the Whisky Rebellion and in Mad Anthony's Indian campaign into the land of remorseless scalpings". Lewis escaped being scalped and proved to be so successful a trooper, although he performed no brilliant feats, that he was promoted to the rank of lieutenant...
...Monticello Seminary Godfrey...
...Attended the graduation exercises at the U. S. Naval Academy, received an honorary LL. D. degree from Washington (D. C.) College of Law. ¶ Motored to Charlottesville, Va. to give Roosevelt Secretary Louis McHenry Howe a history lecture on Monticello, home of Jefferson. In the party was Mrs. James Roosevelt, widow of the President's halfbrother...