Richard Washburn Child: novelist diplomat and consul
Richard Washburn Child, born 1881, Harvard graduate and lawyer, served as ambassador to Italy for Harding and helped found the Council on Foreign Relations. The piece highlights his literary success, especially his mystery fiction like The Vanishing Men, and traces his life from war finance work to diplomacy and letters.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Richard Washburn Child
Harvard
Treasury Department
Washington
Collier's Weekly
Italy
Sigeidens Harding
Unti Ebruary
Council On Foreign Relations
United States
Enon
Lausanne
Child
Brons Selcoss
Mr. Child
Eng- Hah
Dallas
Texas
New York
Southwest
Peter DeWolfe and His Rare Flower of Living
In London after leaving uniform, Peter DeWolfe defies the common path of money and business. His imagination steers him toward living for living’s sake, pursuing adventures from oil fields to settlement work while maintaining a neat, useful self. The same man who wrote poems in hospital also helped craft his own unusual destiny.
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Eversley Benham
DeWolfe
Peter
New York Park
Lfe
Benham
Air Ministry
Brena Selcoss
Red Cross
Waaes
de Wolfe
The
Seine
Coblentz
France
Corot
Benhain
Conuervatory
Milan
New York
Brena Selcogs
Saint Cecilia
Lucrezia Borgia
Texas
United States
Beaconshire Heath
London
Streight
Ben‘ham
Muriel
Brest
America
Inglishman
Hie
Peter DeWolfe
Huglishman
Bill
Pater
Wriajor
Myers Family Correspondence From Local Notes
Myers cornered by news telegrams recount weekend visits and family gatherings. W E Myers and family spent Sunday at Beebee Lake while Paul Moore and relatives stayed with L A Kiggens. Joe Smith of Cleveland visited J P Myers family. F M Myers hosted Hutchinsons and Kunzelmans as Albertson relatives travelled for ailing father.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Geo. Kunzelman
Mt. Pleasant
A. Hutchinson
F. M. Myers
John Albertson
Byatt
Jack
Harrison
Ben Carpenter
Community Notes From MANN SIDING District
A weekend Lake George free dance drew attendees from the vicinity. Visits included Mrs. Green and her daughter to Mrs. Chas. Haffner. A. B. Burt hosted a surprise party for Otto Burt with a nice lunch. Mrs. Emerson Burton is listed as ill. A box social raised 18 dollars to fund gas lamps for the school.
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Lake George
Jonia
Effie Green
Coleman
Ionia
Emerson Burton
Dick Hileman
Mr. Pleasant
I. A. Hileman
Wm. Giers
Lewis Brown
Ralph
Flint
Sunday Visits Among Many Snider Family Members
Breckenridge residents Mr and Mrs Perry Flegel and son Ralph visited Mr Plegel’s sister Mrs Charles Waggoner. Numerous relatives from Ann Arbor Flint Bay City Rosebush Clare Mt. Pleasant Alma and Ypsilanti were noted visiting or traveling through the area for weekends and dinners with Snider and Dyer families in Vernon and surrounding towns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Perry Flegel
Ralph
Breckenridge
Plegel
Charles Waggoner
John Brief
Irene
Donald
South Vernon
Frank Sines
William Adsitt
Bay City
Henry Lines
Lon White
Ann Arbor
Jasper Snider
Erma Snider
Flint
S. James Snider
South West Vernon
Oliver Becker
Clare
Ruth Myers
Maumee
Plymouth
Ohio
Local residents gather for visits and travels around peninsula
Mrs. William Pentland and sister visit the Upper Peninsula while Stevens seeks employment in Flint. Several locals make trips to Rosebush, Lansing, and Detroit areas. Family visits occur in Clare Maumee and Flint with fishing trips to Stevenson Lake and fish dinners highlighted.
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Resell
Frossbuss
William Pentland
Greenleaf
Upper Peninsula
Ernest
Stevens
Vern Stevens
Flint
John Sparkel, Jr
Hinkleville
M. Buckley
Rosebush
Edna Ritter
Cora Sears
Mt. Pleasant
Olga Dixon
Fannie Cortin
Epworth League Institute
Albion
Warren Heiser
Arthur
Heiser
Fred Athey
Eugene Orvis
G. A. Heiser
Clare
Loris ‘Roberts
Fay
Maumee
Ohio
Ruth Myers
Gayle
Fredrick Schoonover
Clinton Schoonover
Julius Hunt
Lake George
Ben Best
Aileen Coffman
Spencerville
Mary
Stevenson Lake
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Paris
Signal Corps
Boulogne
England
Richard ‘Washburn Child
E.R Dutton
Wall Service
Vernon Hill
Roy Feighner
Eofa
Homer
Vttenwe
Civetv
Rachael Hendrie
D. War, Auctioneer
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