Word: poel
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...school in Europe in 1914. Miss Noland got some specially fine daughters among her first Foxcrofters. Flora Whitney, whose turfwise family knew the Middleburg atmosphere, was an early and helpful matriculant. Novelist Rupert Hughes sent his dark daughter Avis. Other New York names later enrolled were Vander Poel, Milburn, Wickes, Griswold. From Philadelphia came a Clothier. From Boston came a daughter of Editor Ellery Sedgwick of the Atlantic Monthly; from Chicago came Pattersons of the Tribune. From the first Miss Charlotte managed to keep her girls well scattered geographically, taking only the cream of the applicants from Chicago, San Francisco...
Married. Mildred Barclay Vander Poel 'of Manhattan, descendant of famed Colonial Dutchmen; and Sherburn Merrill Becker Jr., of Manhattan, descendant of Thomas Danforth, Colonial Governor of Massachusetts; in Manhattan...