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...prime Cavedweller, for example, is Miss Mable Thorp Boardman, Secretary of the American Red Cross, whom (the saying goes) Edward of Wales once mistook for his royal mother. Another Cavedweller is Mrs. Henry F. Dimock, who drives about in a victoria, wears plumed hats, prefers foreigners, particularly Italians. A third Cavedweller is Mrs. Richard H. Townsend possessed of a Pennsylvania R. R. fortune. She has a monster Queen Anne house at Massachusetts & Florida Avenues. She bought for her daughter, Mrs. B. Sumner Welles (Senator Gerry's onetime wife) a $600,000 Russian pearl necklace...
Edith Longfellow died in 1915 as the wife of able Boston Lawyer Richard Henry Dana, son of Author Richard Henry Dana (Two Years Before the Mast). Annie (Allegra) Longfellow remains, is the wife of Boston Lawyer Joseph G. Thorp...
...John Thorp's invention was a ring device for spinning cotton thread from cotton fibre more rapidly and perfectly than any previous machine. Mainly because of it is the present vastness of the world's textile industries possible. Of 160,000,000 cotton spinning spindles in the world, 100,-ooo.ooo use the Thorp ring. Very little is known about the inventor. The Ency-clopcedia Britannica mentions him only twice, misspelling his name "Thorpe" both times...
...Charles H. Clark, editor of the Textile World, has been zealous & learned. He solemnly told the cotton men at Pawtucket last week, that: "Thorp was born in 1784, presumably in Rehoboth, Mass., the son of Reuben and Hannah (Bucklin) Thorp. No records of the date and place of his birth have been located, but entries in the Bibles of his brothers, David and Comfort, agree that at the time of his death, Nov. 15, 1848, he was sixty-four years old. For the assumption that he was born in Rehoboth there is the fact that his father and mother were...
...John Thorp, Putative Photograph of Inventor of Ring Spinning Honored at Cotton Manufacturers' Convention." No more...