Word: widowed
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...interesting collections have recently been acquired by the University Library, one by gift, the other by purchase. The first was presented by Mrs. Schmitt, the widow of George A. Schmitt, who was instructor in German in the University from 1856 to 1863. The library of two hundred and fifty volumes which is given in Mr. Schmitt's memory, is that of a scholar and a man of broad culture...
...Athalie, widow of Joram, grand-mother of Joas, Miss Louise Cushing...
Daniel Denny, senior member of the firm of Denny, Poor and Co., died in New York on the 14th instant, after a very short illness. Mr. Denny was born in 1835 and graduated at Harvard in 1854. He then went into business. His widow, two daughters and a son survive...
...latest novel by Mrs. Prince "A Transatlantic Chatelaine," (Houghton, Mifflin and Co.) is hardly as good, considered as a story, as "Christine Rochefort," her first attempt, but as a picture of modern French society it is extremely interesting. An intensely Puritanical New England girl, left a rich widow, marries a French nobleman, chiefly for his title and later discovers that he is more or less of a blackguard. Some incidents of the Franco-Prussian war are woven into the plot in an interesting way, although there is no actual fighting. The characters are not as clearly drawn as some...
...Storrow leaves a widow, two sons and a daughter, the sons being Samuel Storrow '87 and J. J. Storrow...