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Please show the exact connection between Sir Edmond Halley and Horace Holley. On first sight it looks like "newspaper genealogy" (because of similar names), but comparing the facts, that Sir Edmond Halley had only one son Edmond (born after 1682) and Horace's grandfather was one John Halley born in 1713 in Litchfield, Connecticut, it seems to be extremely unlikely. Besides, the "Proceedings" source (misspelling the name of Halley and saying "the Comet went wrong" [what does that mean????], is not available to be read on-line. Kraxler ( talk) 07:21, 2 August 2008 (UTC)
"HORACE HOLLEY, LL.D. : THIRD PRESIDENT OF OLD TRANSYLVANIA * BY JOHN WILSON TOWNSEND One hundred and thirty-four years ago Horace Holley was born. In a most direct line he was descended from the famous Edmund Halley, the English astronomer, whose comet, like many another good thing, went wrong several years ago. The American founder of his family, John Holley, was one of the big men of seventeenth-century Connecticut; and his father, Luther Holley, was a business man of ability, around whose memory lingers the excellent tradition that he, like Lord Macaulay, could repeat the whole of "Paradise Lost.""
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Please show the exact connection between Sir Edmond Halley and Horace Holley. On first sight it looks like "newspaper genealogy" (because of similar names), but comparing the facts, that Sir Edmond Halley had only one son Edmond (born after 1682) and Horace's grandfather was one John Halley born in 1713 in Litchfield, Connecticut, it seems to be extremely unlikely. Besides, the "Proceedings" source (misspelling the name of Halley and saying "the Comet went wrong" [what does that mean????], is not available to be read on-line. Kraxler ( talk) 07:21, 2 August 2008 (UTC)
"HORACE HOLLEY, LL.D. : THIRD PRESIDENT OF OLD TRANSYLVANIA * BY JOHN WILSON TOWNSEND One hundred and thirty-four years ago Horace Holley was born. In a most direct line he was descended from the famous Edmund Halley, the English astronomer, whose comet, like many another good thing, went wrong several years ago. The American founder of his family, John Holley, was one of the big men of seventeenth-century Connecticut; and his father, Luther Holley, was a business man of ability, around whose memory lingers the excellent tradition that he, like Lord Macaulay, could repeat the whole of "Paradise Lost.""
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