W. A. Swanberg

chapter i INTIMATIONS OF ROGUERY If the Reverend Dr. Morgan Dix, rector of Trinity Parish in New York City, had been so benighted as to believe in pixies, he would have sworn they were abroad on that otherwise pleasant Wednesday, February 18, 1880. The most mysterious and appalling visitation...

I 1. Mama's Boy Norman Mattoon Thomas, who would become a magnificent fighter, came very near losing the preliminary battle that made possible all the others—the fight for his own life. Evidently premature, he weighed only four pounds when he was born on November 20, 1884. The family doctor...