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...African veldt in a special train, gravely inspecting sheep dips and apple orchards, smiling politely to cheering crowds. In his baggage was a present for the Union of South Africa that Prince George had bought out of his own pocket: a silver trowel once used by famed Boer Warrior Stephanus Johannes Paulus ("Oom Paul") Kruger to lay the corner stone of the Provincial Government buildings in Pretoria. Prince George discovered the trowel in the silver collection of Lady Williams, whose late husband had acquired it during the campaign. The South African High Commissioner arranged for the purchase...
Great was the name of Stephanus Van Cortlandt in the colony of New York in 1680. Great also was the name of Uncas in the colony of Connecticut in 1680. Neighbors, they were both vitally interested in real estate, the Dutchman as a buyer, the Indian as a seller. Though they knew each other by professional reputation, they never met socially, never turned a joint land deal...
Into a New York court fortnight ago went descendants of Stephanus Van Cortlandt seeking justice for his property. Simultaneously into a Connecticut court went descendants of Uncas seeking justice for his property. A railroad had blocked the entrance of a little river that ran down past the Van Cortlandt estate. Realtors were trying to cut Uncas's burying ground up into building lots...
...doughty Dutch immigrant, Stephanus Van Cortlandt was born in Nieuw Amsterdam in 1643, saw it become New York under the English in 1664. An active politician, he was chosen Mayor of New York at the age of 34, later collected its taxes, dispensed justice from its supreme court. Outside of political office hours, he piled up a fortune as a merchant at the northeast corner of Pearl & Broad Streets, served as senior warden of Trinity Church, bought land in what is now Westchester County. When he had accumulated an estate of 83,000 acres extending ten miles along the Hudson...
...Stephanus Johannes Paulus Kruger, born on Oct. 10, 1825, at Colesburg, Cape Colony, lived a life of desperate activity. In 1898 he was elected President of the Transvaal for the fourth and last time. In 1899 war with Great Britain was declared, but in 1900, too old, he was forced to retire from command. It was during his flight to Europe at this time that Kruger lost his fortune. He died at Vevey, on the shores of Lake Geneva, in Switzerland, July...