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...entomology and bionomics at Stanford University when Herbert Hoover was an undergraduate. Kansas-raised (Emporia), he had studied at Cornell, Leipzig, Paris. He had the scientific method that Hoover valued and was developing. While Hoover engineered in far parts, Scientist Kellogg stayed at Stanford, collaborating with Dr. David Starr Jordan, teaching classes, gaining a quiet renown. There were Hoover-Kellogg reunions whenever the wandering engineer returned to Palo Alto. In 1915 the engineer sent a call to Palo Alto and the quiet scientist went to Belgium to be a willing Hoover man for six years. Dr. Kellogg is not likely...
After returns were in, a Democratic county chairman telegraphed Governor Young of California: "I move you, Sir, that Secretary of State Jordan be instructed to cast a unanimous ballot of the votes of California for Herbert Hoover for President of the United States...
John Dewey's bust was fashioned by the able hands of Sculptor Jacob Epstein. Among those whose gift it was were Oliver Wendell Holmes, Clarence Darrow, Economist Edwin Robert Anderson Seligman, Sociologist Owen Reed Lovejoy, Educator-Scientist David Starr Jordan, Rabbi Stephen Samuel Wise...
Married. Major Jordan Lawrence Mott 3d of Santa Catalina Island, Calif., grandson of the late Ironmaster Jordan Lawrence Mott; and Mrs. Frances Hewett Bowne (Frances Gibson), onetime operetta singer (The Chocolate Soldier); in Merced, Calif. In 1912 Major Mott eloped from New York with Mrs. Bowne. He left his wife, two children; she left Manufacturer Bowne. They shipped as purser & stewardess aboard a British freighter. In Japan Major Mott received the Order of the Rising Sun, edited a temperance monthly, wrote stories. Eight years ago Mr. Bowne divorced his wife. Last year the first Mrs. Mott consented to a divorce...
Married. Dr. Dwight L. Wilbur, son of Dr. Ray Lyman Wilbur, who is president of Leland Stanford University; and Ruth Jordan, San Francisco scionness; in Palo Alto, Cal. Herbert Hoover Jr. was best man; his wife matron of honor...