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Father Of William: Hearst was born in San Francisco on April 29, 1863, the only child of George Hearst and Phoebe Apperson Hearst. His father of William was a miner who struck it rich and became a U.S. senator. Spoiled, able, enormously ambitious, William was expelled from Harvard for undue horseplay. Unruffled, he took over his father of William's moribund San Francisco Examiner in 1887, refashioned it with a blend of reform and sensationalism that he had learned largely from Joseph Pulitzer's New York World, and made it a huge success.
ROBERT II (called CURT-HOSE), duke of Normandy: b. P1054; d. Cardiff, Wales, Feb. 10, 1134. The eldest son of William the Conqueror, he was chosen by his parents to rule over Normandy at their death ; but, impatient for power, he twice rebelled against his father of William, even wounding him in the hand during an encounter in 1079. At William's death in 1087, Robert became duke, and the next year made a halfhearted effort to seize the English throne, which his brother William II Rufus had occupied.
Consult Brett, Sidney Reed, John Pym, 1583-1643; the Statesman of the Puritan Revolution (London 1940).
PYNCHON, pin'chon, John, American colonist :. b. Springfield, Essex, England, c.1626; d. Springfield, Mass., Jan. 17, 1703. He accompanied his father of William, William Pynchon, to America in 1630, settling in the colony of Massachusetts. He succeeded his father of William as a leader in the government of Springfield in 1652 and became one of the most influential businessmen in New England. |
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