Word: sons
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...library at One Hundred and Sixteenth street, on Morningside Heights, the site of the new Columbia College building. The building is to cost $1,000,000, and is to be a memorial to President Low's father, the late Abiel Abbot Low, "a merchant who taught his son to value the things for which Columbia stands...
...Norton, a son of Professor Charles Norton, was a member of the class of '88, at Harvard, and for the last three years has been studying at the American School in Athens and at the University of Cambridge. At Bryn Mawr Mr. Norton will offer courses in classical and in early Italian art, and the Trustees have appropriated a sum for the purchase of photographs for use in connection with these courses. Dr. Earle received the degree of B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. from Columbia, and continued his classical studies at the American School in Athens and at Berlin...
...Cambridge: John Wilson & Son, University Press...
...stating briefly the birth, lineage and circumstances of the author of "The Scarlet Letter," "The House of the Seven Gables," "The Blithedale Romance," and "The Marble Faun," Hawthorne was descended from William Hathorne, who came over to New England with Governor Winthrop. Both this first American ancestor and his son John were men of mark in the little colony. But they were also infamously noted, one for causing Shaker women to be whipped, the other for his cruel treatment of the Salem witches. John Hathorne, it is credibly reported, was cursed by one of the victims of his cruelty...
Seelye was a son of President Seelye of Smith College. He graduated from Amherst in 1892, and after teaching two years at Adelphi Academy in Brooklyn, entered the Graduate School, where he was making a special study of English...