Stokes records; notes regarding the ancestry and lives of Anson Phelps Stokes and Helen Louisa (Phelps) Stokes . eCivil Service Reform Association. I think I was Chairman of the See plate facing p. 218. Something of a freak boat. This was the first yacht I everowned. The hulls were built in the bowling-alley on our place at New Brighton. °The title proved defective, and later I paid the Mutual Life Insurance Company $500for a good title. See p. 230. Birch Island, and land which I later purchased in the Adirondacks, once belonged to thede Chaumonts. Upon the northwestern border of the Level Bel
Stokes records; notes regarding the ancestry and lives of Anson Phelps Stokes and Helen Louisa (Phelps) Stokes . eCivil Service Reform Association. I think I was Chairman of the See plate facing p. 218. Something of a freak boat. This was the first yacht I everowned. The hulls were built in the bowling-alley on our place at New Brighton. °The title proved defective, and later I paid the Mutual Life Insurance Company $500for a good title. See p. 230. Birch Island, and land which I later purchased in the Adirondacks, once belonged to thede Chaumonts. Upon the northwestern border of the Level Belt of the Wilderness, in the town ofDiana, Lewis County, and near the St. Lawrence County Line, is the beautiful LakeBonaparte. It covers about twelve hundred acres of surface. The lake was named inhonor of Joseph Bonaparte, ex-king of Naples and of Spain, the brother of the greatNapoleon. In the year 1815 Joseph Bonaparte, under the assumed name of Count de Survilliers,purchased a large tract of wild land lying around and including this lake. The tract so 1:216: > s ^ CO ^ « W CO ffi O, CI, d 2 < §. YACHT NEREID Finance Committee, which made me a member of the ExecutiveCommittee. About the first of June of this year there was much discussion inthe New York Yacht Club regarding the Nereid, and efforts weremade to prevent my entering her in the annual regatta, because of hernovel construction, but it was decided at a special meeting of the clubthat I had a right to sail her in the regatta. She did not prove a suc-cess in the races this spring, nor in the annual cruise of the New YorkYacht Club, although she proved herself well able to accompany thesquadron. After the annual cruise I went to West Point, where my family werestopping, and September 7 attended a Free Trade conference at Sara-toga, where Mr. D. A. Wells made a report as chairman of council. October 13, I had a letter of this date from Robert A. Little aboutArizona copper property in the Globe district, about
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