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...Moore pointed out one inaccuracy in Mr. Minnigerode's article by telling the true story. The original article said : "And sometimes the General went away and got into trouble. He was always quarreling and vituperating and fighting . . . with Mr. Dickinson, whom he pronounced to be a worthless, drunken blackguard scoundrel, and finally killed, quite deliberately, on a May morning when the other's pistol stopped at half-cock...
General Jackson challenged Dickinson, who was a crack shot, because he had insulted Mrs. Jackson. They fought with pistols at eight yards. Dickinson fired first and wounded Jackson near the heart. Jackson took deliberate aim and pulled the trigger. Then it was not Dickinson's, but Jackson's, pistol that stopped at , half cock. Jackson, sorely wounded, cocked it again and shot Dickinson, mortally wounding...
...never been granted. Robards had merely been granted the right to sue for divorce. He finally did sue, on grounds of adultery, and got his decree. Then the Jacksons were married again. This was the cause of many scandalous attacks on the Jacksons. It led him into the Dickinson duel and other troubles and quarrels...
Princeton University (Princeton, N. J.) dedicated a new infirmary, laid the cornerstone of a $3,000,000 chapel, the latter with the confident words of Edward Dickinson Duffield, '92, President of the Prudential Insurance Co. of America, that it would "always, serve to safeguard Princeton's sons spiritually and to send them out into the world with the proper spiritual concepts...