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...Horace Greeley was a onetime schoolmistress who never learned to keep house. A contemporary thus described her: "Mrs. Greeley was a woman rather below the medium size, thin, with dark hair and eyes. She had thin lips, irregular and somewhat defective teeth. There was little expression in her face, but that little was rather against her. She spoke quickly?not peevishly, nor angrily, as a rule, but her words had a kind of crack like the report of a rifle." Horace was kind and patient with this woman whom he addressed as "Mother." She kept cows which "Mother says shall...
...that if a woman won she would get $25,000 and the men nothing. And yet most of the best distance swimmers in the U. S. had taken his dare. There was Henry F. Sullivan who swam the English Channel in 1923, and Clarabelle Barrett, the Pelham, N. Y., schoolmistress who stayed in the water of the English Channel 24 hours, and Mrs. Charlotte Moore Schoemmel (Manhattan favorite), very greasy, and Jean McKenzie who also refused to wear any bathing suit. There had been some trouble about these nude ones-preacher-men declared that, if the bodies of these athletes...
...Wenzing willed the pillow to a Washington schoolmistress, Mrs. Jessie F. Webster. With it went the following affidavit: "This is to certify that the pillow now in the possession of Jessie F. Webster of the City of Washing ton, D. C., is the same pillow on which President Abraham Lincoln died, April 15, 1865. His death occurred in my room in my old home, No. 516 Tenth Street, Northwest, Washington...
...venerable schoolmistress who rides horseback and thinks vigorously...
...Vanderbilts, the senior. Her husband was Cornelius 3rd. Her son is Brigadier General Cornelius. Among other prominent accessions to the St. Thomas' parish under Dr. Stires was a Presbyterian, the late Miss Spence, famed schoolmistress...