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...Louisa Maria Torrey, who bore him three sons, one every other year beginning in 1857-William Howard Taft, Henry Waters Taft (Manhattan lawyer) and Horace Button Taft (founder-headmaster of Taft School, Watertown, Conn.). Three of these Tafts had issue. Charles Phelps Taft's children were Jane, David, Anna, Charles. William Howard Taft's were Robert, Charles Phelps II, Helen. Henry Waters Taft's were Walbridge, William Howard II and Louise. These, in turn, have produced eleven grandchildren. . . . Lorado Taft, famed sculptor, native of Illinois, is a distant, if any, relative...
...Thomas Esmonde and his Lady Anna Frances delayed the sailing of the Cedric for eight minutes, because they had forgotten some jewels as ancient as King Charles II. A taxicab race was a feature of the recovery...
...Fairplay, Col., Anna Deeler, 58, decided that her 34-year-old son, Harry Deeler, a horse-thief and released convict, was crazy. Afraid that he would be taken away to an asylum, she coaxed him into a dark room at the back of her shanty where she chained him to a post. That was eleven years ago. Last week policemen found Harry Deeler crouching in the dark room; they wrapped him in a blanket and took him away to an asylum...
...Brooklyn last week, one Harry Kaufmann entered a subway train, sat quietly for a while, began to inspect a Mrs. Anna Prisco directly opposite him. Scorning the naked eye, he swept her with enormous binoculars, peered at her. Mrs. Prisco expressed annoyance. Peerer Kaufmann slapped her. Soon a chivalrous crowd attacked Mr. Kaufmann. Policemen saved him from massacre, jailed...
...joined Anna Shaw and Carrie Chapman Catt to fight for women's suffrage. She founded the Woman's Peace Society, on nonresistance doctrine formulated by her father and perfected by Russia's Tolstoy. But vote-seeking and international peace gatherings consumed only part of her time and energy. For nearly a half-century she managed the New York Diet Kitchen Association and was active in many another social service body in and about Manhattan. Tireless, vivid, she mounted many a platform in her last years, a majestic old gentlewoman in the kind of hats Queen Victoria liked...