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|Headline=As His Mom Sobs Tenderly, NH Lad Rushes Out to Play Ball
|Headline=As His Mom Sobs Tenderly, NH Lad Rushes Out to Play Ball
|Year=1831
|Year=1831
|Is in main chronology=yes
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|Text=<p>In Hanover NH, Henry Smith [later Henry Durant - he thought there were already too many Smiths] was about ten when his mother mistily told him he now had a new cousin, Pauline. "A new cousin.  Huh!  Was that all?  And he hurtled out of the door to engage in a game of ball with [brother] William and the other boys"</p>
|Text=<p>In Hanover NH, Henry Smith [later Henry Durant - he thought there were already too many Smiths] was about ten when his mother mistily told him he now had a new cousin, Pauline. "A new cousin.  Huh!  Was that all?  And he hurtled out of the door to engage in a game of ball with [brother] William and the other boys"</p>
<p>Florence M. Kingsley, <u>The Life of Henry Fowle Durant: Founder of Wellesley College</u> (The Century Co., New York, 1924), page 28.  Per Thomas L. Altherr, "Chucking the Old Apple: Recent Discoveries of Pre-1840 North American Ball Games," <u>Base Ball</u>, Volume 2, number 1 (Spring 2008), page 38.  Incomplete access to text of the biography via Google Books search for "'fowle durant.'"  Hanover NH is in the middle of nowhere.</p>
<p>Florence M. Kingsley, <u>The Life of Henry Fowle Durant: Founder of Wellesley College</u> (The Century Co., New York, 1924), page 28.  Per Thomas L. Altherr, "Chucking the Old Apple: Recent Discoveries of Pre-1840 North American Ball Games," <u>Base Ball</u>, Volume 2, number 1 (Spring 2008), page 38.  Incomplete access to text of the biography via Google Books search for "'fowle durant.'"  Hanover NH is in the middle of nowhere.</p>
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In Hanover NH, Henry Smith [later Henry Durant - he thought there were already too many Smiths] was about ten when his mother mistily told him he now had a new cousin, Pauline. "A new cousin. Huh! Was that all? And he hurtled out of the door to engage in a game of ball with [brother] William and the other boys"

Florence M. Kingsley, The Life of Henry Fowle Durant: Founder of Wellesley College (The Century Co., New York, 1924), page 28. Per Thomas L. Altherr, "Chucking the Old Apple: Recent Discoveries of Pre-1840 North American Ball Games," Base Ball, Volume 2, number 1 (Spring 2008), page 38. Incomplete access to text of the biography via Google Books search for "'fowle durant.'" Hanover NH is in the middle of nowhere.

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