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Ford, a slinky five-foot-niner with a head as smart as his strokes are slick, is the fair-haired boy of Coach Bob Kiphuth's Yale team. Born in Balboa, Canal Zone, he was given swimming lessons at the age of three because his parents, transplanted Illinoisans, wanted him to be more amphibious than they. By the time he was 15 he was picked for a team to represent the Canal Zone in an international swimming meet in South America. Last year, as a student at Mercersburg Academy, he caused a sensation by equaling Weissmuller's record...
Author Hammond's father was a Forty-Niner (which gives the same cachet to a Californian that a Mayflower-immigrant ancestor does to an Easterner) but not by his own choice: he was sent to San Francisco as an army officer. Young John grew up in an atmosphere of horses, guns and gold-mining. Says he: "I suppose I never was a tenderfoot." As his father wanted him to get an Eastern education, to Yale's Sheffield Scientific School he went. There he was a fair student, an outstanding athlete, captained the football and baseball teams, picked...
...greystone tower with a suggestion of Gothic ornament, it is named for Forty-Niner William ("California") Taylor who chose the longest way to the gold fields- around the Horn. In 1849 that route was safely traversed by 108 vessels. Most of the passengers sought gold. Few of them became either rich or famous, many returned East. William Taylor took a cargo of cut timber with him to build a church. An overpowering man with a stentorian voice, he wore a big, warm beard instead of a shirt. He had been Methodist Bishop of Africa. When he arrived in San Francisco...
Harvard received $100,000 in the will of Elizabeth R. Stevens of Swansea, Mass., which was offered for probate in Taunton yesterday. Mrs. Stevens, widow of Frank S. Stevens, banker, manufacturer, and "forty-niner", died at Swansea on February 4. Bequests were also made to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Mt. Holyoke College, and Wellesley College...
Rowland Hussey Macy, Nantucket Quaker, Gold Rush Forty-Niner, whaling captain and grocery store owner, founded Macy's in 1858. The original Macy store (14th St. and Sixth Avenue) embodied present Macy policies of a cash business and "odd" prices (9¢ and 18¢ rather than 10¢ and 20¢). In 1874 Lazarus Straus, who had come to the U. S. as a refugee after the German revolution of 1848, leased part of Macy's basement and opened a crockery store. Captain Macy died in 1877, and until 1888 junior partners carried on the business. In 1888 control passed to Nathan...