New York, N.Y. This column, written by several including Molly Luce Larkin, focuses on American history through the eyes of one family. In 2010, Jim Luce wrote in the Huffington Post, Mayflower Roots – and a Metrocard – Get One on the Subway. In this piece, he began to explore the impact of Brahmin roots in today’s American soil. Most families, as ours, had both heroes and horse thieves. We cannot change the past, but we can report and reflect upon it.
Our maternal grandfather, Dudley Alleman, Jr., is the boy seated
third from the left. Taken in 1898 in Portland, Maine.
- b. 1578, Richard Warren, Lt., Mayflower Compact
- b. 1576, Thomas Dudley, Governor (Mass.)
- b. 1610?, Thomas Bull, Capt.: In Early New England, Our Ancestor Fought Pequot Warriors
- b. 1612, Frances Elizabeth Alcock
- b. 1612, Anne Bradstreet, Poet
- b. 1685, Jacob Alleman
- b. 1647, Joseph Dudley (Wiki)
- b. 1685, Jacob Alleman: 1763: Jacob Alleman Family Killed by Indian Warriors
- b. 1800, Thomas Jefferson Dudley: In Early New England, Our Ancestor Fought Pequot Warriors
- 1806, Andrew Hull Foote, Rear Admiral
- b. 1834, Samuel Augustus Foot, Gov., & Senator (Ct.)
- b. 1827, Stephen Bleecker Luce, Rear Admiral
- b. 1882, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, President
- b. 1898, Henry Robinson Luce, Publisher, Time-Life
- Wallis Simpson
- b. 1903, Clare Boothe Luce, Congressmember (Ct.): “Fame” – Spotlight on Super Woman Clare Boothe Luce
- b. 1923, Stanford Leonard Luce, Professor: Remembering my Father
- b. 1924, Frances Dudley Alleman-Luce, Psychologist: Remembering My Mother
- b. 1925, Henry Luce III, Philanthropist
- b. 1926, Leila Hadley Luce: The Last of the Great Luces?
- b. 1920?, Henry Stokes: Quaker Volunteer Medic in Caves of Yenan
- b. 1925, Elizabeth Luce Allyn Stokes: Remembering My Aunt Elizabeth
- b. 1935, Louis Fiber Luce, Professor: Remembering My Step-Mother