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Sires And Sons

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Parent Issue
Day
11
Month
September
Year
1903
Copyright
Public Domain
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SIRES AND SONS.

Raymond Robins of Chicago has become head resident of the Northwestern University settlement.

Attorney General Knox has purchased a farm which formed part of Washington's camp at Valley Forge.

Senator Arthur Pue Gorman of Maryland says his recent trip to Europe has added ten years to his life.

Frederick W. Vanderbilt has given up living at Newport for good and will devote most of his attention to his farm hereafter.

Samuel Spalding of Lebanon, Ky., the oldest bank president in the United States, as well as the oldest graduate of a Catholic college in the United States, died recently.

Congressman Boutell proposes as a means of promoting annexation the intermarriage of American and Canadians, adding that he has already taken on his wife from Canada.

George J. Gould, the railway magnate and millionaire, is credited with a desire to go to congress from New Jersey district which his summer home, Lakewood, is situated.

Dr. Carl Peters, who is called the Cecil Rhodes of Germany, is now in London, preparing to set forth on another journey to East Africa, in the neighborhood of Zambezi.

James B. Jenkins, who was engaged for more than forty years in prosecuting the claims of the Six Nations against the United States government, has just died at Oneida, N. Y.

General Thomas N. Waul is dead at Greenville, Tex. He opposed Sam Houston for governor in 1859 and was one of the electors at large on the Breckinridge and Lane ticket in 1860. In the civil war he raised 2,000 troops, which were organized as Waul's legion.

Professor Ludwig Mond, the chemist, has joined, with Mark Twain and several other prominent men, the list pf distinguished persons who have read their own death notices. The death of Professor Mond was reported from Rome while he was enjoying the scenery about Montreux.