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Did you know... that scholar Frederick Sherwood Dunn led a move that was described by a university president as "Yale fumbled and Princeton recovered the ball"?
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"In 1922, Dunn married the former Gordon Woodbury" - would his wife really have been called Gordon? Can someone please fact check.
Denis (
talk)
18:49, 24 October 2016 (UTC)reply
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Dvermeirre: Odd but true. The source I used is
the NYT obit: "His first wife, the former Gordon Woodbury, died in 1929." But you can also look at
this Princeton Alumni Weekly from 1922: "Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Woodbury of ... have announced the engagement of their daughter, Miss Gordon Woodbury, and Frederick Sherwood Dunn." If
this genealogy site is to be believed, her full name was Eliza Gordon Woodbury, and for some reason she went by the middle name. Which was the same name as her father,
Gordon Woodbury, who was well-known as the Assistant Secretary of the Navy. You would think she would have stuck with Eliza ...
Wasted Time R (
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00:29, 25 October 2016 (UTC)reply
A fact from Frederick Sherwood Dunn appeared on Wikipedia's
Main Page in the Did you know column on 24 October 2016 (
check views). The text of the entry was as follows:
Did you know... that scholar Frederick Sherwood Dunn led a move that was described by a university president as "Yale fumbled and Princeton recovered the ball"?
This article is within the scope of WikiProject Biography, a collaborative effort to create, develop and organize Wikipedia's articles about people. All interested editors are invited to
join the project and
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International relations on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join
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"In 1922, Dunn married the former Gordon Woodbury" - would his wife really have been called Gordon? Can someone please fact check.
Denis (
talk)
18:49, 24 October 2016 (UTC)reply
@
Dvermeirre: Odd but true. The source I used is
the NYT obit: "His first wife, the former Gordon Woodbury, died in 1929." But you can also look at
this Princeton Alumni Weekly from 1922: "Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Woodbury of ... have announced the engagement of their daughter, Miss Gordon Woodbury, and Frederick Sherwood Dunn." If
this genealogy site is to be believed, her full name was Eliza Gordon Woodbury, and for some reason she went by the middle name. Which was the same name as her father,
Gordon Woodbury, who was well-known as the Assistant Secretary of the Navy. You would think she would have stuck with Eliza ...
Wasted Time R (
talk)
00:29, 25 October 2016 (UTC)reply