Great-grandfather

Great-grandfather Pearson nearly gave up searching for somewhere to build, but eventually purchased a property “on the front,” and in due course built a pretty house, which has long since been demolished.

Archive 2009-01-01 2009

Here they are, clockwise from top left: Great-grandfather William Pearson, who was barely 52 years old, with his elegantly groomed, spade-shaped beard.

Archive 2009-03-01 2009

Ching-Long Liu for The Wall Street Journal "Great-grandfather settled in Tainan by way of Fujian in China, and much like the rest of the poor folk, he lived off of the ocean," recounts Ms. Hung, the fourth generation of her family to run the noodle restaurant.

Tainan's Dan Zai Mian 2010

Great-grandfather Adlai Stevenson I, then a student, later vice president of the United States, told of grandfather Jesse Fell proposing to Senator Stephen A. Douglas joint discussions of slavery in the territories with a young lawyer-legislator named Abraham Lincoln, and the "cordial" conversation with Lincoln that followed.

Adlai Stevenson III: Why I Support Dan Hynes for Governor of Illinois 2009

I wouldnt know, Great-grandfather brought that back from the Far East.

Kate Morton Ebook Collection Kate Morton 2008

Great-grandfather was stationed in his parents 'root cellar for duration of World War I. 4.

Top Ten Family Secrets I'll Never, Ever Reveal 2006

I wouldnt know, Great-grandfather brought that back from the Far East.

The House at Riverton Kate Morton 2008

Here's the history: Great-grandfather Miles Park Romney married wife #5 in 1897, a little over six years AFTER the Mormon Church itself banned polygamy and more than thirty years AFTER the United States government banned it by law and told Utah that it would not be admitted to the Union if polygamy was allowed to continue.

Archive 2007-02-01 Will 2007

Here's the history: Great-grandfather Miles Park Romney married wife #5 in 1897, a little over six years AFTER the Mormon Church itself banned polygamy and more than thirty years AFTER the United States government banned it by law and told Utah that it would not be admitted to the Union if polygamy was allowed to continue.

DesignerBlog Will 2007

Great-grandfather, they were trying to build a generation out there in the desert, and so he took additional wives, as he was told to do.

CNN Transcript May 14, 2007 2007