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Engaged. Conway Howard Olmstead, stepson of Publisher Vance Criswell McCormick (1916 chairman of the Democratic National Campaign Committee); and Mary Elizabeth Johnston, niece of President DeForest Hulburd of Elgin Watch Co.; in Chicago...
...Columbus. Ind., Herschel Olmstead, 17, signaled a passing automobile for a ride. Sheriff Alonzo Fitch, on his way to arrest Herschel Olmstead for stealing a wristwatch, told him to climb in, took him to jail...
Captain Chester Olmstead of the Springfield team was the first to cross the line, while the next four Springfield runners placed in sixth, seventh, tenth, and eleventh. The score of the meet was as follows: Springfield 35, Boston College 48, Holy Cross 70, Amherst 142, Harvard (entered informally), 166, Boston University 220, Massachusetts Aggies 226, Clark University 303, and Northeastern 321. The first Harvard man to finish placed seventeenth
...five years British and Scottish stonemasons chipped and hammered in the Asheville woods while Mr. Vanderbilt toured Europe, sending back carload after carload of French furniture, Gothic cabinets, Jacobean tables, Japanese ivories. On Christmas day, 1895, Vanderbilts assembled to walk through the magnificent gardens laid out by Frederick Law Olmstead, designer of New York's Central Park, to attend the official housewarming of Biltmore House. An assembled chateau, it is designed chiefly after the Chateau de Blois. There was nothing in North America to approach it; no other Vanderbilt had so fine a home...
After his graduation, Price spent a year abroad on the Charles Eliot Travelling Fellowship in Landscape Architecture, which he won by competition. Since his return, Price has been engaged by Olmstead Brothers, and Hallam Movius, landscape architects. Hanson is a graduate of the University of Illinois...