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...Public Powerman Scattergood, the $46,000,000 deal crowned a 35-year-old dream. Born 65 years ago on a New Jersey farm which had been in his Quaker family since 1683, Mr. Scattergood learned about power at Rutgers (Class of 1893), became a Master of Mechanical Engineering at Cornell, went South to teach at the Georgia School of Technology. But the tuneful libel on Georgia Tech could be applied only to Engineer Scattergood's health, which was so badly wrecked after two years that he had to ramble off to Southern California...
President Stokes is not only one of the most important but one of the shrewdest museum presidents in the U. S. An oldline Quaker, independently wealthy, his personal hobby is collecting Pennsylvania Dutch furniture and anecdotes. Friends say that for years he has carried on a private war with an old lady in Kansas who owns and refuses to sell a rare Windsor chair that matches one in his home. His favorite story is of a rival collector who bargained skillfully with a farmer for a fine bedstead, lost it when the farmer's wife said: "We haven...
...election-supervisors at New Rochelle barred him from voting, called him an alien. He moved to Greenwich Village, died there while fighting off the churchmen who flocked to his bedside hoping to save the blackest soul in U. S. history. Though he asked to be buried in a Quaker cemetery, not even the Quakers would receive him. Repentant Journalist Cobbett dug up Paine's bones, intending to transplant them to Liverpool, then-according to Author Pearson-absentmindedly mislaid them somewhere...
Editorship of the Dispensatory has been in the hands of one family since the first volume appeared in 1833. First editor was Dr. George Bacon Wood (1797-1879)> Philadelphia Quaker, physician and pharmacologist. Next came Dr. Horatio Charles Wood (1841-1920), his Quaker nephew, a pharmacologist and neurologist. His Presbyterian grandnephew, the present Dr. Horatio Charles Wood, then took over the job. Last week, when he stacked the first Dispensatory on his desk beside the last, Pharmacologist Wood was looking at a proud scientific family monument...
Small, fiery, once given to soup-bowl haircuts and dark Quaker garments, he has been called "the Little Giant'' for his resemblance to Orator Stephen A. Douglas...