Monday, Feb. 01, 1926
Engaged. Miss Constance Moody, granddaughter of famed evangelist Dwight L. Moody, daughter of the noted head of the Northfield Seminary for Girls and the Mount Hermon School for Boys; to one William Waldo Case of Farmington, Conn.
Engaged. Miss Anna Eleanor Roosevelt, daughter of Franklin Delano Roosevelt (Assistant Secretary of the Navy during the Wilson Administration and Democratic opponent of Calvin Coolidge for the vice-presidency in 1920), graduate of Miss Chapin's School, student of agriculture at Cornell; to Curtis B. Dall, youthful manager of the syndicate department of Lehman Bros, (bankers), Manhattan. Miss Roosevelt's father is the son of the late James Roosevelt, and her mother is the only daughter of the late Elliot Roosevelt, who was only brother of the late Theodore Roosevelt. In 1905 President Roosevelt came from Washington to Manhattan to give in marriage his brother's only daughter.
Married. The divorced wife of the Marquess of Queensberry,* formerly Irene Richards of the Gaiety Theatre, London, to Sir James Hamet Dunn of London; in Paris. Died. George M. Stadelman, 52, President of the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co., Vice President of the Rubber Association of America, pioneer U. S. rubber manufacturer, onetime carriage tire salesman; at Akron, Ohio, suddenly, possibly as result of a shock sustained when thugs not long ago forced Mr. and Mrs. Stadelman to aid them in ransacking the Stadelman home.
Died. Miss Marie C. Brehm, 66, in 1924 the Prohibition nominee for Vice President of the U. S., since 1891 a national lecturer for the W. C. T. U.; at Long Beach, Calif., from injuries suffered in the collapse of a grandstand at Pasadena three weeks previously.
Died. John Henry Bushman, 82, father of virile cinema actor Francis X. Bushman and of eleven other offspring, at Mount Washington, Md. He was a Civil War veteran, a descendant of one of three brothers (John, Isaac, Ephraim) who landed in the U. S. from Germany in pre-Revolutionary days and soon married three sisters Miller.
Died. William Christopher Patterson, 84, famed as "the world's oldest hangman and first electrocutioner," noted executioner of 54 persons in Auburn prison; at Hornell, N. Y., while peacefully asleep. Leon Czolgosz, famed assassin of President McKinley, was considered by Mr. Patterson the most notable criminal whom he executed. The press, however, accorded tremendous publicity to his execution of one Kemmler, a wife slayer, in the first electric chair actually put into use. He also superintended the electrocution of Mary Farmer, first woman to die in the chair. When questioned, shortly before his death as to whether he thought innocent men were ever executed, he said: "It is a good law of life to mind your own business. I was not employed at Auburn as a judge."
* Grandson of Sir John Sholto Douglas, eighth Marquess of Queensberry, founder of the Amateur Athletic Club (London) and formulator of the formal rules of fisticuffs. Sir John, too, had domestic difficulties: divorced by his first wife, his second marriage annulled. It was Sir John who publicly denounced Poet Oscar Wilde's homosexual practices; Sir John who arose, at Alfred Lord Tennyson's play, Promise of May, and denounced the "imaginary freethinker" portrayed as "an abominable caricature." Sir John died in 1900.