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Only three times before, have funerals been held in the White House. The first occasion was in 1844. President Tyler with his Secretary of State, Abel P. Upshur, and his Secretary of the Navy, Thomas W. Gilmer, went down the Potomac aboard the Princeton to observe some tests of a large new gun. The gun was of wrought iron and exploded on the third shot, killing both...
...Judges of the Supreme bench of Baltimore City three are Princeton graduates; Judge Charles E. Phelps of the class of '52 Judge, J. Upshur Dennis, '65, and Judge Pere L. Wickes...