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...went to Boston Latin School: Benjamin Franklin, John Hancock, Samuel Adams, Robert Treat Paine, William Hooper. Four Continental Congressmen were graduates, as were six Massachusetts governors, five U. S. Senators, four Harvard presidents including the late great Charles William Eliot. Other Boston Latin pupils: Ralph Waldo Emerson, Charles Graham Sumner, Henry Ward Beecher, Wendell Phillips, Orator Edward Everett...
...Media, Pa., a twelvemonth ago George Sumner Nahill won $20,000 in a Loyal Order of Moose lottery. He banked $10,000, bought a $10,000 house. To wife he took Iline Thelma Byrd. All spent last week was George Sumner Nahill's $10,000. His wife divorced him, jailed him for nonsupport, because he refused to sign over his $10,000 house. He signed. Out from jail a free man on his lottery anniversary stepped George Sumner Nahill...
...Confederate Veteran grew out of a series of circular letters in 1890 soliciting funds for a Jefferson Davis Memorial in Richmond. The founder was Sumner A. Cunningham, a Tennessee publisher who had lately sold his Chattanooga Times for $300 to an up-&-coming young newspaperman named Adolph Ochs. Cunningham's pamphlets about the memorial fund aroused so much interest among the Grays that he started the monthly magazine to retain that interest. Main features were veterans' reminiscences, historical sketches "to correct erroneous impressions...
...discuss the President's statement. Mr. Baruch consented and as the Roosevelt private car rolled down through Virginia a conference of high state was held in the observation parlor. Besides Mr. Baruch, Governor Roosevelt had the assistance of Professor Moley. William H. Woodin (American Car & Foundry) and Sumner Wells. The sun went down across the brown fields before they were settled upon a reply. At Lynchburg. where Mr. Baruch left the train, the Roosevelt statement was telegraphed back to Washington for release...
...Forgotten Man first appeared on the U. S. scene in 1883 when the late William Graham ("Billy") Sumner, professor of political and social science at Yale, delivered a famed lecture about him. Professor Sumner's character was no down-&-outer, no object of public charity but rather the ordinary citizen who, in the mass, is called upon to care for Society's weak, incompetent, and shiftless. Declared Professor Sumner...