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Married. Miss Sylvia G. Van Rensselaer, granddaughter of Mrs. John King Van Rensselaer, of Manhattan, to Harold Ingalls Sewall, of Boston and Porto Rico; in Manhattan. It is claimed that Miss Van Rensselaer, a member of one of the oldest families in the U. S., can trace her descent through nine Colonial Governors from the famed Jack Spratt of nursery rhyme...
Died. Princess Giambattista Rospigliosi, née Ethel Bronson, daughter of the late Isaac Bronson of Manhattan; in Rome. The house of Rospigliosi, one of the oldest in Italy, dates back to 1330, was once headed by Pope Clement...
Died. Colonel P. H. Brewster, 78, Georgia's oldest practicing attorney; in Atlanta. When elected to the presidency of the Atlanta Bar Association, he was asked how long he intended to practice. "Just as long as I live," said...
Died. Cornelius Cole, 102, oldest ex-U. S. Senator; in Los Angeles. He was a placer-miner in California in '49, knew well the bravest days of the Golden State?the stagecoach, the pony-express, the vigilantes. Lincoln's friend, he heard the Gettysburg address, was with the President on the day of his assassination. He was one of the twelve who organized the Central Pacific Railroad; the last of that stern company of senators who impeached President Andrew Johnson...
...Pierian Sodality Orchestra is the oldest institution of its kind in America, and is the institution from which the University Glee Club sprang. In its earliest years the orchestra had many difficulties to overcome, at one time there was only one member of tile Sodality left at the opening of the University in the fall, but this solitary member succeeded in forming a new Sodality, and since then it has become more and more prominent in the field of orchestral work...