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Note for: Frances Potter Breese, 1 Feb 1915 - Index

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Frances Breese's mother was Marjorie Gorges Breese; her maternal grandparents were Edward and Margaret Gorges. Edward was a descendant of Sir Ferdinando Gorges, first proprietor of Maine. Her father was James Lawrence Breese, engineer on NC-4 on first transcontinental flight; also an inventor. Her paternal grandparents were James Lawrence and Eloise Potter Breese. James was a pal of Diamond Jim Brady and Stanford White. Eloise Potter was from the family of Bishop Potter of Rhode Island.

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Note for: Aline Kilham, 28 Jan 1909 - Index

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On graduation from school in Boston, Aline was awarded Nora Saltonstall Scholarship to study painting in Paris for one year, 1928-29. She held many one-woman shows in Boston between 1930 and 1936; gave up painting for about 15 years to raise three sons.
She had one-woman show in New York in April 1960 at Betty Parsons Gallery, 15 E. 57th St.; also held shows in Santa Fe and Taos, New Mexico; also one-woman show in Santa Barbara California, in fall 1963.

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Note for: Dr. Eliot Furness Porter, 6 Dec 1902 - Index

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      Eliot Porter received a B.S. Harvard 1924, M.D. Harvard Medical School 1929, did research in and taught at Harvard: Bacteriology and Bio Chemistry. In 1938 gave up science for photography, having been encouraged by Alfred Steglitz who gave him a one-man show at his New York gallery "An American Place." Awarded two Guggenheim Fellowships 1941 and 1946 for photographing birds; contributed to “Land Birds of America” and “Living Bird of the World.” He has had several of his own books published: in October 1961 “In Wilderness is the Preservation of the World” consisting of passages from Thoreau chosen by Eliot with 72 color plates by Eliot; a book based on Glen Canyon; another on Baja, California; in September 1966 “Summer Island” about a Maine Island owned by the Porter family; and a two-volume book of photographs on the Galapagos Islands (the result of a five months expedition in 1966).
        Eliot is the son of Ruth Wadsworth Furness (b. 1875 d. 1942 and James Foster Porter (b. Jan. 1871 d. 1939, m. 1898). James was born in Racine, Wisconsin, but lived most of his life in Chicago; Ruth was born in Chicago (the daughter of William Eliot Furness of Philadelphia and Lucy Wadsworth of Boston). Lucy was related to the T. S. Eliot family.
        James F. Porter was the son of Edward Clark Porter and Julie Foster Porter (b. Aug. 22, 1847 m. 1867 d. 1936). Julie was related to the Adams family of New Hampshire. Eliot’s father and maternal grandfather also graduated from Harvard.

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Note for: Lawrence Kilham, 10 Aug 1910 - Index

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Lawrence, cum laude Harvard College 1932, M. A. Harvard, medical degree Harvard 1940; Harvard-Red Cross Hospital Staff in England 1941; U. S. Army 1942; served in France under Patton, European Theater of Operations for three years; won five battle stars.
Started work in Virology in Boston 1945 with advice of John Enders in Harvard Medical School and later in Harvard School of Public Health taught Epidemiology as an instructor; went to National Institute of Health in Microbiology 1954-55 at Entebbe, Uganda, as Fulbright Fellow working at the old Rockefeller Yellow Fever Lab.; 1955-56 Rocky Mountain Lab. in Hamilton, Montana; then to Dept. of Biological Control where his discoveries were published; became Associate Professor of Microbiology at Dartmouth College on large research grant from National Institute of Health to continue work on virus, cancer, and malformation in the newborn; Professor of Microbiology Dartmouth Medical School since 1964; Honorary M. A. with tenure Dartmouth Medical School, he holds a grant from the Nationa1 Cancer Institute. He is a Medical Director in the U. S. Public Health Service - Inactive Reserve. Listed in Who's Who 1968.

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Note for: Mary Jane Kaufholz, 17 Feb 1912 - Index

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      Mary Jane graduated from Smith College 1934; School of Medicine University of Pennsylvania 1940; interned in Lakeside Hospital, University Hospital of Cleveland, Ohio; Emergency Medical Service (British) as M. D. Lived in England from January 1942 to August 1944.
        Mary Jane's father was Charles Frederick Kaufholz (b. July 18, 1879 in Cleveland, Ohio d. Dec. 12, 1952 in Canton, Ohio); graduated with B. S. in Mechanical Engineering from Case School of Applied Science, Cleveland, Ohio, and then spent a year in Germany at a School of Mines. His grandfathers - Frederick Kaufholz and Henry Trautmann - were among the early German settlers of Cleveland. Frederick Kaufholz came from Duderstadt, Germany, where his ancestors can be traced among the patrician families from the 13th century. Through his mother he was an 11th generation descendant of Landgrave Ludwig II of Hessen. He built and was pastor of the first German church in West Cleveland.
        Charles F. Kaufholz married in Buffalo, N. Y., on Oct. 16, 1907 Grace Wurst, daughter of Jacob Wurst and Gottliebin Euchner, both of whom were from near Reutlingen in Wurttemberg, Germany. Grace Wurst was born in Holland, Erie County, N. Y., on Jan. 6, 1883; attended Wells College, and Buffalo Normal School, and then taught at South Wales, N. Y. before her marriage. In the Wurst and Euchner families there were also many teachers and Burgermeisters of Wurtenberg. Jacob Wurst was descended in possibly more than 20 ways from the v. Pfullingen, a cadet line of the counts of Swabia.