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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...
Edwin Atkins Grozier, son of a sea captain, was born aboard his father's clipper ship in San Francisco. Before going to college he spent several years before the mast. Following college he served on the staffs of several Boston papers, then became private secretary of a Governor of Massachusetts. From that post he went to another similar one, became private secretary to one of the great examples of aggressive journalism, Joseph Pulitzer...
Provisional President. Aboard the U.S. cruiser Milwaukee, in the presence of Sumner Welles, sent to mediate by President Coolidge, a treaty was signed between the three warring factions. Amnesty is granted political offenders and all signatories agree to abide by the result of special elections to be called by President Tosta...
Following the instructions of his Chief, Prince Caetani hied him to Pittsburgh, there to take part in the simple funeral service held in an undertaker's chapel. Arrangements were made to ship the body to Italy and it was subsequently placed aboard the liner Duilio, bound for Genoa from Manhattan. At St. Patrick's Cathedral, Manhattan, a public service was held in memory of the great actress...
...exactly a pirate brig, despite its swashbuckling title. But a chipper little schooner with plenty of saltwater stories aboard, a ballast of saline humor and a cargo of vocabularies like smelted slag...