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...great-grandfather Johann Christoph Jardin was a whaler. Born in Germany, he was a cooper by training, making barrels aboard ship to hold the whale oil gathered by men who spent months, even years, roaming the seas. He sailed out of New Bedford, Mass., in the late 1840s. When his ship was wrecked in the Arctic a decade later, those who made it to shore survived the cold by stomping back and forth across the frozen tundra. My father remembers Christoph (as he called himself) telling him how his hair turned white overnight. Eventually they were rescued and taken...
...sailed for San Francisco, taking with him Emma Walters, a young German-born woman he had married the previous week, as well as a four-year-old, brown-skinned boy named Alexander, whom Christoph claimed to have adopted. Eventually they made their way to upstate New York, where Christoph bought a hotel and saloon in Callicoon, a small town on the Delaware River. Knowing little else about my great-grandfather, but appreciating the tales of adventure and bravery, my husband and I named our son Christof, altering the spelling slightly...
...Life Story of Maui's Fabulous Fardens, by Mary C. Richards. "The Fardens are well-known Hawaiian musicians," he said, "and they have been looking for their grandfather for more than 50 years." The proximity of the names and circumstances caused him to take a closer look at Christoph's signature. He decided that what we had thought was a J was really an F. Turns out that while he was in Hawaii, the man we knew as Christoph Jardin had called himself Christoph Farden. The director then arranged a meeting with one of his granddaughters, Diane Farden Fernandez, saying...
...speech here at Whittier Law School, some 200 attorneys, historians, journalists and government officials rise to applaud. An elderly lady grasps his hand, murmuring, "God bless you." A student asks for his autograph. And then, in broken English, the thin young man with oval spectacles begins, "My name is Christoph Meili. My job at the bank--I controlled peoples what come in and out. One night I come to the shredding room. I see two old boxes with books...
Gonzalez shot a three-over-par 73 on Friday afternoon and then duplicated that performance the following day to combine for a tournament-best six-over-par 146 effort during the two-day event and capture the Individual Medal by one stroke over Penn's Christoph Kyle...