Word: ruffin
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...simply a coincidence that at every mill in the two Carolinas where trouble has occurred that the semblance of strikes or disorders have occurred at mills still dominated by "home" interests. L. H. RUFFIN...
...wife bore him a son in Virginia. Seven years later she bore a daughter to 70-year-old John Tyler. The son, baptized Lyon Gardner Tyler, lived to be President-Emeritus of William and Mary college. Shortly after his 70th birthday Lyon Gardner took a second wife (Sue Ruffin, whose ancestor fired the first gun at Fort Sumter) and before he was 73 she bore him a son. Last fortnight 75-year-old Doctor Tyler became the father of another son. Thus were 139 years spanned and spent from the first presidency to the election of the 31st president, including...
Born. To Lyon Gardiner Tyler, 75, son of the tenth President of the U.S., and Mrs. Sue Ruffin Tyler, a nine-pound son; in Richmond...
Elected. Murray Hulbert, Manhattan politician, onetime (1915-19) U. S. Representative, to be Grand Exalted Ruler of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks; and Ben A. Ruffin, of Richmond, Va., to be president of Lions International...
...wife. Except for seven years engaged in law practice in Richmond, Dr. Tyler has spent his life as an educator. He was President of William and Mary College from 1898 until his resignation in 1919. His first marriage took place 45 years ago. A widower, he married Miss Sue Ruffin, 35, great granddaughter of the man who fired the first gun at Fort Sumter. Dr. Tyler and his bride will live at "The Den," Holdcroft...