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4 days ago · Lynne D. Ambrosini is refreshingly attentive to the methods by which the real-estate investor and attorney Nicholas Longworth (1783–1863) made his fortune. This essay considers how Longworth’s patronage of painters such as Robert Duncanson and Lilly Martin Spencer, as well as the sculptor Hiram Powers, ‘advanced his influence while sanitizing his wealth and sometimes unsavoury business ...
2 days ago · Left to right: Ethel, Kermit, Quentin, Edith, Theodore III (Ted), Theodore, Archibald, Alice, and Nicholas Longworth. On December 2, 1886, Roosevelt married his childhood friend, Edith Kermit Carow. Roosevelt felt deeply troubled that his second marriage was soon after the death of his first wife and he faced resistance from his sisters.
3 days ago · Starting with Republican Nicholas Longworth in 1925 and continuing until 1995, all majority leaders have directly ascended to the Speakership after the incumbent surrenders the position.
1 day ago · Charles Carow (father) Signature. Edith Kermit Roosevelt ( née Carow; August 6, 1861 – September 30, 1948) was the second wife of President Theodore Roosevelt and the first lady of the United States from 1901 to 1909. She was previously the second lady of the United States in 1901 and the first lady of New York from 1899 to 1900.
2 days ago · <p>In the early 1800s, when explorers saw winemaker Nicholas Longworth’s Catawba, Alexander and Isabella grapevines growing on hillsides along the Ohio River, Ohio became known as “vinland.” By the mid-1800s, Ohio produced more wine than any other state. Today, new vineyards yield a variety of grapes, including vinifera, and the state ranks sixth in U.S.…</p>
4 days ago · The Hoover Administration and the DePriest Incident Summer 2015, Vol. 47, No. 2 By Annette B. Dunlap PDF version On Wednesday, June 5, 1929, a courier from the White House, who was sworn to the utmost secrecy, delivered a handwritten invitation to the home of Congressman and Mrs. Oscar DePriest, at 419 U Street, NW, inviting Mrs. DePriest to a tea the following week, on June 12, at 4 p.m ...
3 days ago · His young children romped on the White House lawn, and the marriage of his daughter Alice in 1905 to Representative Nicholas Longworth of Ohio became the biggest social event of the decade.
