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Bookseller Wells explained last week that the three sketches had been given by Poe to Henry O'Reilly, a well-to-do Irish American journalist who often entertained morose Edgar at his Washington Heights home. They remained in the O'Reilly family until a few weeks ago when Mr. WTells discovered them in Italy...
...Grace is not quite long enough to take in its heroine's full life. Jane Ward is 14 when her story opens in the '90s, a grandmother when it ends, still hale if not as hearty as she has been. Jane is the younger daughter of a well-to-do conservative Chicago family. When she falls in love with André, 19-year-old French boy who wants to be a sculptor, her parents forbid them to see each other. Later Jane marries Stephen, a perfectly respectable match, but is never really in love with...
Career: Scion of well-to-do New England Quakers tracing their American lineage back to 1640, he, aged 2, was removed from his birthplace just off "upper sth Avenue" (21st Street) to Stamford, Conn. From private school he went to Yale (A.B. 1873) and Columbia (LL.B. 1876). After a brief clerkship in New York, he returned to Stamford to do legal work for Yale & Towne, famed locksmiths. Today he is Yale & Towne's board chairman. In 1879 he married Frances Hoyt who bore him two daughters, Louise and Katharine. In 1904 he dropped his corporation law practise long enough...
Born: on a Jones County, N. C. plantation, Jan. 20, 1854. Start-in-life: a country lawyer. Career: Son of a well-to-do planter, he attended Wake Forest College, was graduated (1873) from Trinity College (now Duke University), commenced the practice of law at New Bern at 21. The same year he married Eliza Humphrey of Goldsboro. Aged 32, he was elected to the House of Representatives, soth Congress, for one unimportant term (1887-89). In 1892 when Populism threatened, he was made head of the Democratic State Executive Committee, held the Weaver vote down...
Alexander Pope was born in London, 1688, of fairly well-to-do elderly parents. A delicate child, he was set upon by a cow when he was three; this accident, says Biographer Sitwell, may have resulted in his subsequent deformity. As a grown man he could not dress himself, had to wear a stiff corset when he walked, supported himself with a cane. Precocious rhymester, ambitious poet, he intended to be not only great but "correct." At 25 he was one of the foremost literary men in England, received £5,000 or £6,000 for his translation...