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Died. Martin Van Buren, 86, last surviving grandson of the eighth President; in a hotel lobby in Manhattan. He never married, never worked for a living, lived a solitary life, once remarked that his only tangible possessions were three suitcases full of clothing-one in England, one in Bar Harbor, one in Manhattan's dowager-like Murray Hill Hotel...
Before the railroads the habitués came on horseback and in coach-&-fours with Negro outriders. Then Chesapeake & Ohio built its main line past the resort. Three U.S. Presidents (Van Buren, Tyler, Fillmore) had their summer White House at White Sulphur: 13 visited there. In 1860, the gay Prince of Wales (later Edward VII) came to The White incognito. Fifty-nine years later, his playboy grandson, the Prince of Wales who was to become Edward VIII, repeated the visit...
Although one team traveled from Michigan University, the 14 teams predominantly represented Eastern colleges. Each entered two crews which were made up of a skipper and an able seaman. Carrying the Crimson colors were David C. Noyes, Jr. '44, skipper, and Paul Van Buren '46, whose boat was entered in the first division and John C. Burton '44, who skippered his craft in the second division with the help of crewman Harold S. Van Buren...
...trouble; I allus left that to John"), but he has a lot to think about. Before the great fire in 1871, he had a newsstand at Madison and Dearborn. Soon he had enough money to open a saloon near the Business Man's Exchange, south of Van Buren street-it had "the longest bar in the world." For a nickel The Hink sold schooners as big as buckets to bums, roustabouts, prostitutes. They could always put the bite on him for two bits; he let the bums sleep in the back room. Once in a while he would...
...farm in Indiana, the international emergency forgotten for a local crisis: his hogs had diarrhea. He hurried home to his farm in north central Indiana's Carroll County. There his maternal great-grandfather was the first white settler, on a grant signed by Vice President Martin Van Buren in 1835. His paternal grandfather, Andrew Jackson Wickard, his worldly goods slung across his back, rode his one-eyed bay mare, "Chubby," into the county's Section...