Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, March 21, 1916, Page 13

Wives of Senators and Representatives Who Are Descended From Distinguished - Person- ages and Even From Royalty—Mrs. Champ Clark Traces Ancestry From Early Kings of Scotland — Mrs. ~ Alice Rocsevelt Longworth Is Also a Descendant of Scotch Kings—Mrs. At- lee Pomerene of Dis- tinguished English Stock—Wife of Senator Warren of Wyoming Descended From an Historic Welshman. Mrs. Duncan Fletcher [s a Descendant of the Norman Barons—Mrs. Sutherland of Utah,| Mrs. Cullop of Indiana, Mrs. Dixon of Indiana Boast Ancestors of Dis- tinction—Mrs. Daven—l port of Oklahoma a| Descendant of the In- dian Chief Tecumseh. Other Women Who Come From Ancestors of Note. Special Correspondence. WASHINGTON, D. C, s Crarre CLARK, SEVERAL ™ Of WHOSE ANCESTORS WERELABLY ICINGS OF SCOTLAND royal stock was paramount in her great-grandfather, George McAfee, who served in the revolutionary war under George Rogers Clark; also in her grandfather, George McAfee, Who was a soldier of 1812, serving under Col. Dick Johnson of Kentucky at the battle of the Thames. = Mrs. Alice Roosevelt Longworth, wife of Representative Nicholas Long- worth of Ohio, is also descended from a long line of Scotch kings, so when she was called the “American prin- cess” on her tour of the Philippines and the orient, during her father's oc- cupancy of the White House, the title was not 80 far-fetched as it sounded. Through the Irvines of her paternal grandmother’s side she is a descendant of Robert Bruce of Scotland; of Guy de Baliol of the eleventh century, an- cestor of the famous Scottish house which gave a king to Scotland; also from the kings of Norway, the earls of Stratherne and Orkney, and the Setons, from whom descended queens and heads of_ other noble houses of the realm. Mrs. Longworth has a same_grandmother’s side. Donald Bul- loch MacDonald, son of Donald of the Tsles. From the same state comes Mrs. Pomerene, wife of Senator Atlee Pom- erene. She confesses to but one hob- by, and that one is her husband. Ev- ery morning when the Senate is in ses- sion. rain or shine. she drives the sen- ator to the Capitol in her smart electrie, Wwaiting to wave him a goodbye as he dtsappears within the doors of the Sen- ate office building. * * % While Mrs. Pomerene boasts of a dis- tinguished English ancestry in whose velns flowed some of the bluest blood of our mother country, she is not a member of the Society of Colonial Dames or of the Daughters of the American Revolution. As she cleverly expresses it, her most distinguished forbears were on the other side dur- ing the revolutionary war, and not enly bitterly antagonized the revolu- tionaires but as officers in the British army were their bitterest foes. As president of the Congressional Club she presides at the business sessions, where her oxecutive apd parliamen- tary ability make her an ideal officer. Senator and Mrs. Pomerene have lived all their lives in Cantom, O., next door neighbors to the late President and Mrs. McKinley, for whom they had a deep affection. They boast that their home town has given a President of the United States, associate justice of the Supreme Court, Justice Day; a rep- resentative in Congress and the first democratic senator from that part of the state in twenty years. Out in Wyoming, where Senator War- ren comes from, they are much more interested in women voting than in parlor pedigrees, but for all that Mrs. Warren, who was a Miss Morgan of Connecticut, has a lot of ancestors that even Wyoming would like, for they did things and in a strenucus way, tao, when the country needed strong men and women in those early days before Wyoming was. Mrs. Warren's maiden name is most interesting in its_connections, to all ‘people. It was a_ Welsh name of great antiquity. The founder of the Pela- gian. heresy in the fourth century, a true Welshman, and monk of Bangor was a Morgan, which name means “of the sea,” and was Latinized Pelagius. There were sovereign Welsh princes and petty kings of the name, and to one of these kimgs, who was about &. D. 725, is accredited the invention and adoption of the trial by jury, which he called the “apestolic law.’ As Christ and His tweive apostles were to the world, 50 human tribunes sheuld bé composed of the king and EVER in the history of our government have the senators and representatives been rich- er in wives of distinguished ancestry and royal descent than are the members of the Sixty-fourth Con- gress. From this point of view the present democratic Congress is most undemocratic, and many of these women come from the middle and western states, where one's forbears, it seems, are cherished mere for their deeds than their bieod. While the women of the Sixty-fourth Congress take a pardonable pride in those of their ancestors who fought in the revolution and other wars in the early history of our country, an ex- amination of the records of the pa- triotic soclettes will show that they have wandered far beyond these colonial and fighting ancestors to the very thromes of kings and queens, tracing, in many instances, as direct a line of descent as do rulers of the royal houses of Europe or the orient. “A man’s a man for a’ that,” and a woman is, too, for that matter, and though the democratic Speaker of the House prefers to be known simply as Champ Clark, instead of John Beau- champ Clark, as he was named by his parents, for all that he feels a pride in his good ancestry and in.the knowl edge that his mother was a Beau- champ of Kentucky, of fine old cava- ler stock. His witty wife, in speaking of a man or woman, would doubtless tell what they could do for the good of mankind and how much they knew, yet Mrs. Clark becomes enthusiastic when she reminiscés about her ancestors, for she may well be proud of them. * * x Through her mother, Mary McClung McAfee Bennetf, she traces an an- cestry from the early kings of Scot- land, and glories in twa of the McAfee ancestors, father and son, who fought at the battle of the Bayne. The son's| son, James McAfee, came from Ireland In 1749 to Pemmsylvania, emigrating trom there to Virginia, where McAfee Nob, near Salem, Va, was named for him. The fighting blood ef the old 5 | e M | poetic ancestry besides, having on_thel twelve wise men. This was a century and a half prior to the reign of Alfred the Great, who is generally accredited as the founder of this form of trial. - - * Duncan U. Fletcher, wife of senator from Florida, and a for- jmer president of the Congressional Club, is a parliamentarian of note. She always takes a prominent part in the D. A. R. meetings and with her splen- did presence commands” attention wherever she goes. Mrs. Fletcher's revolutionary ancestor was Lieut. Col. Brinton Paine, and she also couits George Clinton Paine of New Yerk Through her father's family, the Paines, she traces her descent from the Norman barons, who were cru- saders, and to_the son of “Pagen,” on whom King William the Congueror showered favors. The ancient family of Paines resided in Leicestershire upon the famous fleld of Bosworth, where the last great battle of the Roses was fought, and the fate of the houses of York and Lancaster decided by the death of Richard ITI, August 22, ! 1485. For many years the family in America have used the coat of arms of the family at Market Bosworth, and afterward_in Suffolk and Leicester counties. England. Mrs. Sutherland, Sutherland of Utah, father, John Percivai Lee, being a ‘close kinsman of Gen. Robert E. Lee. He married a Mlle. Fosque of Florida, and in his early married life went west to Utah. She has an enviable line of ancestors on both the French and Lee side. Her husbahd, the senator. was born in Buckinghamshire, England, and loves to visit his relatives there. Mrs. William A. Cullop, wife of Repre- sentativ Cullop of Indiana Is teasingly referred to by her friends as “the jiner,” because she is inter- ested in and belongs to so many so- cieties, giving an elan to everything she undertakes. j She is a state regent, G. A! R., or- ganizer of the Francis Vigo Chapter at Vinecennes, Indiana, as weil as the builder ~ of the monument to Col. Francis Vigo, and preserver of the President liiam Henry = Harrison house: ex-chairman board of managers of Good Samaritan Hospital: member of Vincennes Fortnightly Ciub, Con- ! gressional Club at Washington, of the Fine_ Arts Soclety, vice president of the Indiana State Society of the Na- tional Capital, and president of the Woman's National Democratic League. Mrs. Cullop boasts descent from Richard Henry Lee of Virginia, a sign- er of the Declaration of Independence, and from Thomas Watson, a leader In the battle of Brandywine. She traces her ancestry from Hamon de Leigh, son of Gilbert de Venables, Baron of Kinderton. and great-granson of Gil- bert de Venables of Normandy, who accompanied the conqueror to England, and was a younger brother of Thibault IIT, Count of Blois; also she counts among_this royal lot of forbears Thi- bault. brother of Rollo the Viking, the first Duke of Normandy. * * * Mrs. Lincoln Dixon, whose hushand, Representative Dixon of North Vernon, Ind., is a member of the ways and means committee, laughingly refers to herself as a ’'fAfty-niner because her husband was first a member of the Fifty-ninth Congress. She is a pro- gressive college bred woman and much Mrs. the wife of Senator is southern, her interested in college clubs for the ad- vancement of students, and In all phases of politics. She is familiar with every nook and corner of her husband’s district, and can talk crops and politics as volubly with the farme can discuss Latin prose comp and meodern literature with the brows. From_ her great-grandfather, John Vawter, who founded the tov in which she lives, she inherites Tove of all public affairs. Col. Vawt very remarkably comb the learned professions of divinity politics, and was a succes leaving his mark in the sts lawyer, preacher and politician through this maternal Mrs. Dixon descended d e a Tt wa ancestor t from the N man barons of de Valletort, who were | SI sturdy supporters of William the Con- |sa queror at the battle of F were_later_in the twelfth century der King Henry 1 granted the barony of Harberton. . They intermarried with the great families of England and France, and as early as the seventeenth century the name began to change from Calle- tort to Valter, and finally to Vawter where it appears In the records a Plymouth, in England. In this record is ‘a quaint account of the sale of some of the lands of the family in which it appears it took a man and two horses two days' journey to trans- port the papers concerned in Vawter's ee. When it was announced that Mrs, Norman Galt was to be the future mis- tress of the White Hous when her pedigree was given as direct descendant of Pocahont daughter of the powerful Indian ch Powhatan, Werwoance of Attanot komouck, everybody began to wo: if they had not somewhere an In ancestor, but few could find a line from Indian chiefs as Mrs. aws sold their Missis: Indiana. S. Davenport of Vinitia, Okl e government and with th Mrs. Danlel J. Riordan, who belong Willlam H. Murray of the same state. | bought land in Oklahoma. Their sur- |to the House contingent of blue bloods, Both are proud of their Indian for- |plus money was placed in the United [is a well known clubwoman and bears, and Mrs. Davenport not only | ates Treas: and on the interest of [ member of the Societe des Beaux Art Mrs W A CULLOP, WirE OF THEREPRESENTATIVE FROM INDIANA WHO TRACES HER-DESCENT BACK. To RoLLO, THE VIKING T1RST DUKEL OF NORMANDY t n in 1 mar 1 in hei 280 he Chickasaws built schoo! their children. In a they are wards of the go ment In these schools Mrs. Murray her people, and so anxious is her five boys shall be brough tau In Washington she made fashion able pashtoffa, a favorite Indian made of ordinary hominy grits which is ground fine with a mortar until al the husk is removed: then this meal | broiled until soft, meat and the flavor is delicious. - . * 1 descenda From Kentucky, andtather met and married the r of Tecumseh. She was a full and he was a Scotch- marriage he took his ndian br ack to Scotland, where, r leather suit, leggins and mocca- she created as much of a furor as Mrs. Jones has a_distinguished line o a great-uncle, was one of the members. of Congress from Virginia aish |1 is then adtud.i the Bluegrass state, William Atkinson Jones of Virginia ancestors in Sir Richard Talbert Coke |30¢ 90 F000 B, yearing the ques. of Trusly Hall, England; Richard Coke. feio early - Jares S.DAVINPORT, of New York. Her home there is the center,of all that is best in both musie and art, and, while these are her she gives a great deal of 1~ timer Through her father’s family, the Cald- wells of Canada, she descended in the ‘| third generation from Lord Campbell |of England, and in the second genera- tion from Sir Roderick Caldwell. ® 4 - * Mrs. Charles J land also Linthicum of Mary- is of a most distinguished {and John C. Calhoun of South Carolina t he Lumpkins Randolphs, Lewises and Her Lewis ancestor wae three revolutionary sols e Virginia line was a colonel of Vir. , and the third was cer, William Lewis. The jer of the Lewis fa ¢ was Jean . a French Huguenot, who fled persecution at the time of the jon of the edict of Nantes, and the traditions of their he |revocat e o Aies Sassoull teaches them the history of their dif- settled in Wales. Ho becie, SLEO0Te ferent tribes, and has the old Indi L IINEALY M. e o SN0 - ua cookery frequently served on her tab BOrougN: W e tities Of M Inniskillen as & Through th A Baron + his bravery. branch of her family Mrs. Smith ‘”(‘;nr"l .d with the Washington family. s | i . To this senatorial coterle from the south belongs Mrs. Joseph E. Ram dell, wife of the senator from Loul of the > Du f Well so rich in pedigreed stock of different |an and treasurer general oA sorts, is Mrs. Ben Johnson, a lineal | Daughters of the American Revolu- descendant of Sir Richard Coxe, who|tion, a woman v"!{,.'l'.'f}',.“::e :‘:‘(‘(";{‘— was born in 1499, and of Sir John Berk- | 'lcr_rf_:‘o ‘:;vnpenm"; T largest in- ative Davenport has been|eley. In Mrs. Johnson are embodied all |10 NG F0C BERCCES orairs. wice marri his first wife having |the tanditions of her state, which, for| ston efficial society will have cen a half Cherokee, and Mrs. Daven- | many years, has been noted for its|the sure_of We oo et Ir ort laughingly refers to him as “the | gracious and beautiful women and the | winter Mrs. James W. Wadsworrh, S0 quaw n" She 1s a Shawnee by |cleverness of its men, from whom have |Wife of the mewly SICEteC JOWCF oy Cherokee by adoption. The |sprung some of the greatest !t:\tc!m"fl‘:‘"(:“_n o the daughter of the late e tribe sold its lands in Kan- |Ofthe CoPRUYC W 1o creat English|Secretary of State John, Hay., 08 and purchased tribal rights in the |y, ;¢ of the sixteenth and seventeenth [Hays came Irovt (O vFe ey that the 1d | Cherokee tribe. Formerly these Shaw- | centuries and author of “Coke upon Lit- [AnCEStTN WIC ¢ So0l? Lnighted by ees lived in the region of the great|leton,” has a descendant in this con- |TT8 T . "oory deat. The king in d it was there that her great-|greas’ fn the wife of Representative |James ¥ Wwov Wei¥ S0, ofinis Hay was ‘rendered some service by him, T| Tnd on thanking him asked his name. sald, =“Aye? ’and the king kn d him Hay. :|" Another charming addition to sema- ! > o < another unele, Richard Coke, was £0V- | ¢oria] circles will be Mrs. Lippitt of did Pocghontas when John Rolfe took |3n0th and Tnited States senator from | [ioge Taland, the sister of Mra. Wil- | o ciety. T estor w, Texas. esides these later ancestors|liim Howar . who. o el s Toaldon mane mramed | e Jones traces a royal ancestry from |l aughlin, freauently presided at_the | Davenport. one of the English Edwarda. White House during the Taft admin- | are. A has extreme Indian fa.| Mrs. Thomas Upton Sisson. wife of |istration when Mrs. Taft was ill. She | cial characteristics puch as high cheek | Representative Sisson of Mi ppi, is | was a Miss Herron of Cincinnati, and bones, and deeply set eyew with |descended from the famous admiral, |of distinguished ancestry. Both Sen; that penetrating look peculiar to her |Sir John Hawkins, & cousin of Sir|ator and Mrs. Lippitt are pos < Fu ace. " Her hair fs black and straight | Francis Drake, safling with him on that |large fortuncs and entertain lavishly, {and she possesses many of the manner- | memorable voyage when he planted the | Tie Olivers of Pennsylvania ' the |isms of her people. She descended from | cross on the Pacific coast in 1578. Her |Stones of Missour: .H Goa to the giecx | chiefs of the Chickasaw tribe: her moth- | matemal grandfatiier was Col.” Ran- |Massachusetts can a 1 er was one-fourth Chickasa an her | som Sutherland of revolutionary fame:|of the Senal | uncle, Douglas Johnson, was i some of these Hawkinses became lords of | The women of this C{anoxorden”‘.flrenf: i ne the Manor de Valletort, which was in|rich in brains as in biood, @ r gover old the family of Mrs. Lincoln Dixon o a ving their marks in_ all phases of 1 and economic uplift, living for ) the generations that are tc come, that they, o0, may point back with pride |to their forbéars and feel an inspira- tion in their example. 4 WOMAN ORNITHOLOGIST SAYS Bpecial Correspondence WASHINGTON, D. C., from New York, frém whom Mrs. Bal- ley received her first impetus toward the real study of natural history, for he encouraged every early inclination in that direction and molded. circum- stances for the continuance of her sci- entifie work after she had left college and had determined to take up orni- thology as & life study. Mrs. Bailey ranks only second to Mrs. Olive Thorne Miller, regarded as the leading woman_ornithologist of the States, and what Frank M. Chapman has done for the east, Mrs. Bailey has. done for the west, each baving given an authoritative hand- book the section in which has lain the chief field of investigation. Mrs. Bailey’s “Handbook of the Birds of the Western United States” is now in its fourth edition, the standard au- thority upon its subject and the main ernithological textbook in most of the ‘Western universities. Although she does not give the impression of being a robust woman, Mrs. Bailey has spent a part of every summer for many ears in fleld work in the west. She s traveled from Vancouver te Mexi- ¢o, living months for a time-in Utah, diius’her Stadios ot tha Siens ma] T of the birds section. The last few s rs she has passed fn California, North Dakota and Ore- #on, and sbe is now sending the re- sults of many of her later fleld expe- ditions to the leading ornithelogical magazines of this country, the scien- tific Auk and Condor and the popular Bird Lore publishing many of her arti- cles. She refers with especlal pleasure to one summer long ago spent in fleld work with Mrs. Olive Thorne Miller, whom she regards as a beloved glder sister in science. < - * Born and reared in the east, and with her home for many past years in Washington, Mrs. Balley Is as familiar with the birds of the east as any other woman, and she has spoken and writ- ten much of them. To a recent caller she gave a short talk regarding the winter care of the little winged visitors. “Of course we have not now all the birds we had in former years, when Washington had groves, large and small, of oaks and other trees in almost every part of town, but there is a great deal which can be dome by the people to keep those we still have and to bring back some of those which have deserted. I should advoeate the organization of bird clubs beth im and BIRDS SHOULD BE CARED F out of school—In other cities as well ”‘( the; OR thing If one is developing an interes eceptacles be placed In the open, for IN WINTER t| Evergreen m -| year-round lawn as in Washington. Bird clubs do no are secluded in shrubbery cats |in ornithology. The birds usually mi-| year-roun 5 more for the pleasure and benefit of |can sicrete themaclves and pounce | Erate at night, and one can often hear afford sheiter for (nc‘h:l;dlr‘.”:::’;f they the birds than they do for that of its |down upon their innocent prey {them. _ A friend who sleeps out of doors . - ‘1::;]’ R e o members. | “In the cities cats and English spar. |recently heard a flock of wild geese fiv- | for A “Especially as winter approaches row re the greatest enemies of blrdlmg south over her porch, and ‘rul;\ n‘:’_\ D e much can be done for the preservation |life. e can do alm nothing with |own I can see and hear many o :‘ R e e of a city’s birds. It people who have the English sparrow, and little to|birds as they migrate. From our win-|=ol vield re the wi = . trees would build houses for them, the |guard against cats. | would favor & |dows here 1 have noted over fifty spe-|eclderberry, the little red eedars, Gos’ birds would return year after. year to |license for cats, which would greatly |cies of birds, and I have seen many|Wood. holly, sufas, - - them, and If they Wwould set up the inish the number of unfed alley [ more of which I have made no note Tl g black berries little bird tables or shelves near a win- |cats that must hunt for their living.| “A Wren and a bluebird built close to| Virginia o dow or door, or against a tree, and |In the wbsence of this provision We |our home year after year in a small| Mrs Bailey called the attention place food dally upon them, the birds [can make only such substitutes as are | grove of oaks, but since the trees were | her guest to an account which demon- would come regularly for meals. available. There is a kind .of wire|cut down they have deserted us. We|strated the results of bird clwbs in the “A Washington man who has done this finds that the birds return season after season. Ome catbird comes cvery year to his tables to find food for its young. Winter feeding Is one of the best methods of bringing about a friendly relation between birds and human kind.” Asked what wete satisfactory winter ods, Mrs. Bailey replied: “Birds are especially fond of cracked nuts of all kinds: hickory, black walnut, peanut and cocoanut meats are easily provided, are all favorite tit-bits. in. ““When public fountains and drinking are frogzem or dry &ty birds suf- for want of water. But let water fencing, flexible at the top, over which - Zarbuge can top Which cannot be re-(out to them. A little song Moved by the stray ~animals which | exme every day for his food, lake their mightly peregrinations |morning we found his bones on through the private yards seeking | doorstep, a sad Mitle memento a cat what they may devour. had left us of our songster. “Those who 1ive in the suburbs of a 5 city can do quite a 1ot of interesting o b jr “A great many chimney swifts have to be fed if food ANd Watef are regu- larly and all small grains, with shreds of | visitors will more than repay the siight meat, fat and suet and cut-up apples, | trouble entailed. There should | of coveve of be, too, a shallow dish of fresh water | daily for them to drink from and bathe | increased mater) [few years, sino which can be looked after: they Ih-u some purple grackles this fal ssy cannot climb, and there is a new their roests in Washington chimmeys ird work. Many varieties of rom the neighboring woods will come set out for them, and the little Chere are hundreds near sitinzton | gathering aualil toward evening from al Jiy within the last builds they have been fed by Big stacks of the great ngs. that come daily for the crumbs thrown ' scribed what he saw in an early-morn. sparrow {ing walk through the place. but one!across the | camera photographing their baby Early in October they visited the city by thousands, and onme could see them ve | parts 6f 10wn and swarming about the “As to planting for the birds, one can, wn of Meriden. A revent ‘visitor d He came a father and mother out with a n its carriage, a pine grosbeak perched happily on its cap: a little farther om an old gentieman was playing with & white-breasted nuthateh which he and his wife had tamed and which came daily to the se for food. A3 he walked on he met a group of schoof children. le spoke to them, and {they sald he might accompany them te the “bird sanctuary,” where they Wwere going to scatter food. Throwing {¢ upon the ground, they stood quietly by to Watch the birds of many species come for it. They were observing the % habit. T fous birds. and weuld fihe Zotice patroling the Outekirts off, .’ Javantage to himself as well as |uoubtiess Jater relats at cheis ciob Wied i “The porch-sleeping Babit is & good'to the birds, set outl winter sbrubbery.)they had noticed Smith: recre- ation, she does not allow them to in- terfere with the many charitfes in which she Is Interested and to which " ancestry, tracing her lineage from Str Ralph Sad) - Mrs. Willlam Schley Howard of Georgla, whose grandfather, M. du Vinage, was librarian to the Ger- n court 1 decorated with the iron cr is one of the most popular women in congressional cir- cles. She was descended from a dis- tinguished Huguenot family which settled in Texas, and on her maternal side has Daniel Boone of Kentucky The s not regnant In the House alone, for the Senate comes in lfor its share, and shows a goodly lot {of bears, of which on could well | be proud. M Hoke Smith of Georzia, | whose fathe the late T. R. R. Cobb. = |was one of the most distinguished i ors and Secretaries of State be- |fore the civil war, has a pedigree that |reads like the early history of our |country. so interwoven is it with the nes of distinguished Virginians and ¢ who served their country in colonial _and