Art: Taft Collection

A man in Cincinnati, married, had a son, married again, then had a son every other year for six years —four sons in all. The first two sons married Cincinnati young women. The third took a wife from Troy, N. Y. The youngest, with a touch of genius, married a young lady from Niagara Falls. Today the original son and his three half brothers are personages: 1) Publisher Charles Phelps Taft, 84, of the Cincinnati Times-Star; 2) U. S. Chief Justice and onetime U. S. President William Howard Taft, 70; 3) Potent Manhattan...

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