Arizona republican., 1900-11-15
BRYAN OF ROYAL LINEAGE.
Miss Glenn Discovers That He is d D,s
 cendant of Kings.


 Atlanta. Ga. Miss Isa May Urqu- l.aIh Glenn of Atlanta, who has spent tho last five years studying goaea'cs. in Paris, I.9n,.on and New York. has discovered that Williams Jennings Bryan is of royal lineage. and r, lated to William Mckinley.
 Miss Glenn is q friend of Charles Henry Browning, n noted gsneal9gist. She .s now in Nv York engaged in tracing MT. Blyan's descent from roy atty.
 ''I am assured that Mir. Bryans pedi- gree begins in one line at I2aii. founder of the royal house Of Sweden" says Miss Glenn. "Egil was the ancestor. e. the fraeboot,l R1lla the GauGer, first Duke of Normandy. This is authentic, because in Col. Bryan may be seen many marked characteristics of his an- ces.l-rs in this line.
 "Ancther line of this genlalogy starts With the greal Antenon. king of the Cimmerians. B. c, 40. lineal ancestor of the E.nss and dukes of tha West Franks, fr1cn whom came the Lady Ar gotta. wife of Fnaramon, king os Franks. A. D. 42S, who heads the list of the histor:cal monarehs Of France. and who was himself of the same line age as his queen.
 This couplz of the very O!den times were. according to all French historic the progeTttors of Charleml gpe. They were also the prcgenitors, through the wife of Itollo the Gaugcr. of the dukes of Normandy and of William the con- queror.
 Through the marriage of the dash ing Rollo sprang into being the famed name Cf Bryan in this way: The third duke of Normandy, Richard I, had a son, Godefrio, earl or count of Eu, whose son. Count Godfrey of Eve. was the father of Count Gtslebert earl of Bryony. angliciZed Brian, remote f0rOear of Col. Bryan. His second son, Baldwin Ge Brian, fought at Hastings under his cousin. William. duke of Nor mandy"
 After tracing the desc5mt straight through a line of English earls to the feudal barors of Tor Brian. the gene alogist says:
 Years ago an uncle of Major McKin- ley nov q to Culpepper county Vir- glnia. and married an aunt CT gr-lt- aunt of Col. Bryan.
 Records. the authenticity of which are not questioned, prove that there are in this country thousands of persons who can truly boast of having royal bl sod in their veins. even though the relationship be for removed. 4 Er.it number of these persons are descended from Edward I and Edward III of En- gland and these include many of the prominent families in the otIer settll- mengs.
 In Americans of Royal Descent" published by Charles Ii. Browning .n 1883. q great number of these relation ships are traced, and while, there is nothing therein to show that Mir. Bryan and MT. Mckinley are of royal stock and related to each other through king ly blood, thl re are records which Sc n to make 1t easily possible.
 RollJ duke of Normandy, is sail to be represented in this country by the descendants of one Bernard, q ncar rel ative, and Wilson and Forsyth facni- lies sprang from those who enigraL ed to the United States: but in that line ts no mer.ion of Bryan. There !s, how ever, a Bryan-Richard Bryan, esq., who was a son of Lady Margaret But Ter. a. descendant of King Edward I, and of Bryan, lord of Upper Ossary, and Richard Bryan's daughter married Major General Alexander SpotswJod. who in 1710 was appointed governor of Virginia colony anl commander in chief of the militia.
 From this family came the Spots wood of Virginia. The Fairfax family of Virginia claims descent from King Edward III. while scorJs of other fam lilies north and south trace their line age back to the same source or to the marriages of Edwarl I.
 Miss Glenn has taken up the study of genealogy as q recreation. She has apartments in the Montana flats, in West 1l4tl street. and IS temporarily residing in this city to look after the education of q brother. who is a stu dent in Columbia university.
 Miss G!enn, Th,n I called at her home, pointed to q quantity of nJtes, which would have easily filled a bushsl basket. She said it would take at least an hour to give even a condensed story of the various genealogies upon which the relatiSnskip of President Mckinley and William Jennings Bryan was based. She said that one Of Bryan's ancestors. COlon,l Bran, wa; re.ated to William rhe ConQu-ror.
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