Milestones: Jan. 10, 1927

Married. Joan Kaufman, daughter of Louis Graveraet Kaufman, President of Chatham Phenix National Bank, Manhattan; to George Drexel Biddle, son of Craig Biddle (finance), of Philadelphia; in Manhattan. Flower girls wore frocks copied from Lawrence’s portrait of “Pinkie” (TIME, Dec. 6).

Married. Lucia Hosmer Chase, daughter of Irving H. Chase, President Ingersoll Watch Co.; sister of Mrs. Charles Phelps Taft II, Chief Justice Taft’s daughter-in-law; to one Thomas Ewing, Jr.; in Waterbury.

Married. Robert H. Thayer, son of Headmaster William Greenough Thayer of famed St. Mark’s School, Southborough, Mass.; to Virginia Pratt, granddaughter of the late Charles Pratt, founder of famed Pratt Institute, Brooklyn; in Manhattan.

Married. Mrs. Jessie Lincoln Johnson, granddaughter of Abraham Lincoln; to Robert J. Randolph, of Manhattan; in Washington. The groom’s family is that of the Virginia Randolphs, famed statesmen of ’76 and later.

Married. Elizabeth Baker, daughter of onetime (1916-21) Secretary of War Newton Diehl Baker; to one John Phillips McGean; in Cleveland.

Died. Rigby Wile, 16, son of Ira Solomon Wile, M. D., famed psychiatrist-child specialist; in his father’s home in Manhattan; by self-inflicted rifle shot, because he found life “futile.” Said Dr. Wile: “I have no idea what led him to such a philosophy.”

Died. Robert P. (“Big Bob”) Brindell, 47; onetime Manhattan labor Tsar; in Manhattan, of lung infection. As dock laborer he first organized 3,000 longshoremen, who paid him $18,000 a year (50c a month per man) for securing wage increase. Founding the Building Trades Council (1919), he came into command of 115,000 men, gave diamonds, automobiles, to friends. Imprisoned for extensive extortion (1921), he was released (1924) minus friends, health and most of the $1,000,000 he had made.

Died. Marvin McTyeire Parks, 54, President of Georgia State College for Women; in Tampa, Fla.; when struck by automobile driven by a Negress.

Died. Galen Luther Stone, 64, associate founder (with Charles Hayden) of Hayden, Stone & Co. (investments), of Boston and Manhattan; in Brookline, Mass., of heart disease. Financial editor of the Boston Advertiser in his 20’s, he became apprentice, to acquire practical experience, in a brokerage firm; met Charles Hayden, 20-year-old ticker-boy-graduate of Massachusetts Institute of Technology; with him founded Hayden, Stone & Co. (of late $30,000,000 working capital), to which, say financiers, the greatest group of copper producing companies in the world owes its existence. Vessels of the Eastern S. S. Co., and the Atlantic, Gulf & West Indies Lines carried flags at half mast in tribute to him as Chairman of Board of Directors; so did the Amoskeag Mfg. Co. (woolens), of which he was a trustee. Patron of art and education, he was also onetime vice president of the trustees of the Boston Symphony Orchestra.

Died. William Merrick Sweet, 66, eye surgeon; in Philadelphia, of pneumonia. He experimented successfully with plastic surgery on the eyeball, devised a method of using x-rays to locate foreign bodies in eyes, but gained best repute for the electro-magnet he invented in 1905 to pull iron and steel splinters from eyes.

Died. Clara Sandburg, 76, mother of Poet Carl Sandburg; in Galesburg, Ill.

Died. Henry Algernon du Pont, 88, onetime (1906-17) U. S. Senator from Delaware; cousin of present U. S. Senator Thomas Coleman du Pont (gunpowder, General Motors, mining, banking, street railways); in Winterthur, Del.; suddenly, of heart failure. He was great-grandson of French economist Pierre Samuel du Pont de Nemours (1739-1817), monarchist, who in 1799 emigrated to the U. S., where his son, Eleuthere Irenee, founded the since famed family powder factory and wealth. Henry Algernon du Pont, always interested in the Army, was as Lieutenant Colonel in the Civil War awarded Congressional Medal “for extraordinary gallantry”; became (1877) President of Wilmington and Northern Railway; withdrew 20 years later from business to politics and farming.

Died. Wilfred, “The Royal Rabbit” (TIME, Aug. 30), gobbled by a stray dog which broke into Wilfred’s pen near Bolton Abbey, the estate of the Ninth Duke of Devonshire. The King-Emperor had purchased one-half of Wilfred for ten shillings from Bob Tomlinson, the local rector’s son, and presented this fractional interest to Bob’s sister Kathleen who already owned the other half of Wilfred.