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Her father died in 1947 at the age of 49, shortly before his daughter's fourth birthday. Her mother, Yosene Balfour Ker, daughter of the artist and Life illustrator William Balfour Ker, was born in Ealing, Middlesex, England. [2] She was Lathrop Weld's fourth and last wife. [3] [4] Canadian-born William Balfour Ker had Scottish ancestry. [5]
These included three sons and a daughter, Yosene Balfour Ker, who was a model featured in several paintings by the artist John Sloan, [16] [17] and whose own daughter is actress Tuesday Weld (born Susan Ker Weld). [18] [19] Grave of Ker in Rock Creek Cemetery. Ker died on October 20, 1918, [20] in New York City, [1] at the age of 41.
Theodore Dwight Weld (November 23, 1803 – February 3, 1895) was one of the architects of the American abolitionist movement during its formative years from 1830 to 1844, playing a role as writer, editor, speaker, and organizer.
Lewis Weld, Theodore Weld's older brother, "the president of the asylum for deaf mutes." [3] [21] Anne Warren Weston (Boston) [22] John Greenleaf Whittier (Philadelphia), abolitionist newspaper editor and poet. He waited outside during the ceremony since, as a practicing Quaker, he could not be present when a Quaker (Grimké) married a non ...
The post by activist group Palestine Action said: “Balfour’s declaration began the ethnic cleansing of Palestine by promising the land away — which the British never had the right to do.”
Edward Weld (1741–1775) by Pompeo Batoni Cardinal Thomas Weld (1773–1837), by Andrew Geddes. Edward Weld was the third and first surviving son of Humphrey Weld (died 1722) of Lulworth, son of William Weld, and the grandnephew of Humphrey Weld MP, [19] (purchaser in 1641 of the vast Lulworth Estate, who had died without a male heir), and of his wife Margaret Simeons, daughter of Sir James ...
As well, "The Grimké Sisters at Work on Theodore Dwight Weld's American Slavery as It Is (1838)" is a poem by Melissa Range, published in the September 30, 2019, issue of The Nation. Frederick Douglass quoted from the book when giving speeches, and said that "not a single fact or statement recorded therein has ever been called in question by a ...
Franken died on August 24, 2012, at a nursing and rehabilitation center in Canoga Park, California, of complications from cancer, aged 80. He had three daughters, two from his first marriage to Julia Carter, and one from his second marriage to Jean Garrett.