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How He Owed His Wife and the Last Man Society
A historic note recounts Mrs. Emily Graves Williston’s rise from humble sewing to a buttonmaking business that built a Connecticut Valley enterprise and wealth. It also tells of Cincinnati’s Society of the Last Man, formed in 1832, detailing its rituals, the fate of its seven founders, and the solitary banquet of the final survivor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Williston
East Hampton
Spichl
Emily Graves
Elnathan Graves
Whitney
Humphrey
Amherst College
Arthur Tappan
Willis
Enquirer
Society of the
Cincinnati
Ent
Sora
Ostph KR. Mason
Vattier
James M. Mason
William Stanberry
J. R. Mason
William Disney
Fenton Lawson
Dr. Vattier
Leary L. Tatum
Tatum
Lawson
Ghaistn Gen