Milestones: Feb. 14, 1927

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Born. To Mrs. Frances P. Davison Cheney and Ward Cheney (silk), a daughter; in Manhattan. The baby is a granddaughter of the late Henry P. Davison, War-time Chairman of the American Red Cross; and niece of F. Trubee Davison, assistant Secretary of War in charge of Aviation.

Married. Jobyna Ralston, Harold Lloyd's leading lady; to Richard Ar?en, cinema actor, in Riverside, Calif., following a screen romance in which they were lovers.

Married. Eva Tanguay, 48, plump, red-haired vaudeville comedienne, who played Cedric Errol in Little Lord Fauntleroy; to one Allan Parado, 25, her Hungarian accompanist, secretly, a month ago.

Married. Anthony Ashley-Cooper, Lord Ashley, 26, son and heir of the Earl of Shaftesbury; to Sylvia Hawkes, actress, in London. They defied the Earl, who dashed to London in an unsuccessful attempt to prevent the marriage. The bride had to carry her wedding ring in her hand, as it proved to be too small for her finger.

Married. Elizabeth P. Stevenson, granddaughter of onetime (1893-97) U. S. Vice President Adlai Swing Stevenson; to Ernest Linwood Ives, first secretary of the U. S. embassy in Constantinople; in Naples.

Died. Sybil Bauer, 23, famed swimmer, of an intestinal disorder, following 92 days' illness; at Chicago (see p. 24).

Died. Kay Laurell, 37, onetime Ziegfeld Follies actress, divorced wife of Winfield R. Sheehan, Fox Film official; of pneumonia, in London.

Died. Guy Lowell, 56, able architect, cousin of President Abbott Lawrence Lowell of Harvard, suddenly; in Madeira. He designed the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, the New York County Court House, gardens for John Pierpont Morgan Sr.

Died. John Lawrence Hamilton, 64, onetime (1905) president of the American Bankers' Association; of paralysis, in Columbus, Ohio.

Died. William E. Knox, 64, onetime (1925) president of the American Bankers' Association; by shooting himself while in the restroom of the Bowery Savings Bank. He went to work for this bank 40 years ago, was elected president in 1922. For several recent months he had been in poor health, nervous; became dejected at the recent arrest of three of his clerks for embezzlement. Stated the bank trustees: "There was nothing whatever in the condition of the bank or his relations to the bank that was not in every way satisfactory." Last month they re-elected him president.

Died. Col. John W. McCullough, 67, distiller of famed Green River whiskey, onetime member of the Republican National Committee; of apoplexy, in Owensboro, Ky.

Died. Col. William Lawson Peel. 77, banker, music lover; of heart failure; in Atlanta. What Otto H, Kahn is to New York, what Samue1 Insull is to Chicago, Colonel Peel has been to Atlanta.

Died. William Maxwell, 88, "oldest convict in the world"; in the Wisconsin state prison at Waupun. Fifty-five years ago, aged 33, he defended a woman's good name by killing a dance-hall roisterer. Other roisterers, irate, hung Mr. Maxwell to a tall tree. Forthwith, a sheriff arrived, cut him down, took him to jail. He was sentenced to life imprisonment; refused several offers of parole.

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