Word: progenitor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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More exciting than to listen was to reflect upon the legend that the new little Earl is a descendant of "Little Jack Horner" on his mother's side. She was Miss Katharine Horner, and her paternal progenitor was that James ("Jack") Horner who was Steward to the rich Abbot of Glastonbury in the days of Henry VIII...
...found exhibits of tickets, travel-folders, timetables, trunks, baggage, Pullman cai's, Pullman-car china, antique wooden rails, tiny reproductions of modern electric engines; collections of new and old railroad watches, telegraph instruments, telephones, canal boats, pictures of locomotives. Also a rickety-looking rod, the predecessor and progenitor of telegraph poles...
...Philip D. Armour I learned that men were finding raw gold in California. He went there, walking a considerable part of the way, riding a mule the balance. Exertion did him no harm, for the Armours have always been brawny, after their first U. S, progenitor, James Armour, Scotch-Irishman. James Armour came to the American colonies in the 18th Century, used to boast: "I was born on a Sunday morning, and baptized before eight o'clock, and the devil a bit of any disease could ever light upon me." He had eight children; his son John, nine; John...
...Sidney Smith, Gump progenitor, is a speed fan (automobiles...
...Edison, noted inventor and technical expert in an interview with a CRIMSON reporter. In his suite at the Copley-Plaza, Mr. Edison, who is president of the corporation founded by his father, discussed freely his views on education as well as the life and work of his famed progenitor...