Word: torrey
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...goal: yearly income of $3,000 to $5,000), was much taken with Cincinnati. There he lived abstemiously, labored industriously, austerely chose himself a Vermont bride. Fanny Phelps died after bearing him five children (three died in childhood) ; and after due consideration, Grandfather Taft chose happy, loving Louise Torrey, who bore him four sons and a daughter. Second of these sons was William Howard Taft, Yale '78, who inherited his mother's sweet disposition and good nature. Father Taft, who became the only man in U. S. history to hold both the Presidency and the Supreme Court...