Word: patroons
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...vigor of those activities there has seemingly been another, even more potent inspiration. Perhaps it was the fading tradition of successful Cornelius I, which high-minded, highstrung Cornelius IV sought to regarnish, revitalize. Or perhaps his wife had something to do with it. Rachel Littleton came of no effete patroon line, though she did not mind marrying into one. Her father, Martin Wilie Littleton, is a lawyer of the very first rank and a self-made man every inch of the way. How much insistence and assistance from her lay behind young Vanderbilt's break from Hearst, his formation...
...this book, two portraits hang in an old city house. Out of one frame, in white muslin and blue sash, looks a beguiling red-headed Civil War nurse as she was just before she sacked an Italian count, married an ardent young mechanic and quit her patroon relatives to live in the young West...
Amos Eaton and Stephen Van Rensselaer are two outstanding names in the history of the Institute. The latter was Patroon of Rensselaerwick and a member of Congress. A generous and loyal patron of progress, he | laid the cornerstone for civil engineering in the U. S. by founding what was nominally a school for "the sons and daughters* of farmers and mechanics...