The age-herald., 1900-11-16
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Miss Glenn and Her Clever
 Articles on Geneolouv


 Nowadays when women are turning their attention to various lines of study it makes any new fad of interest. But to speak of a line of work as a fad is to do the clever young women of the day an injustice, for where they care enough for any one sub jeet as to devote much of their time to it, 1t is no longer a fad In the usual accept ance of the word, and particularly when serious consideration is given to a certain line of study by other persons than the young woman herself, she is to be con- graduated upon the recognition of her work. young southern woman, Miss Isa Urquhart Glenn, of Atlanta, whose articles on geneaology are appearing in the lead ing papers of the country, has been mak- ing a study of this subject for several years, and has consulted records in New York, London and Paris. Indeed she has come to be an authority on family trees, and her recent interesting sketches of prominent American families have been widely copied. Miss Glenn has discovered that William Jennings Bryan is of royal lineage and related to President Mckinley. The New York Herald quotes Miss Glenn as follows:
 Miss Glenn is friend of Charles Henry Browning, the noted genealogist. She is now in New York engaged in tracing MT. Bryans descent from royalty. q am assured that MT. Bryans pedigree begins in one line at Egil, founder of the royal house of Sweden" says Miss Glenn. ''Egil was the ancestor of the freebooter Rollo the Gauger, first duke of Norman dy. This is authentic, because in Colonel Bryan may be seen many marked charac- teristics of his ancestors of this line.
 Another line of this genealogy starts with the great Antenon, king of the Cim- merians, B. C., 440 lineal ancestor of the kings and dukes of the West Franks, from , whom came the Lady Argotta, wife of Pharamon king of Franks, A. D., 42S, who heads the list of the historical monarchs of France, and who was himself of the same lineage as his queen.
 This couple of the very 'olden time were, according to ali French histories, the progenitors of Charlemagne. They were also the progentors, through the wife of Rollo the Gauger, of the Dukes of Nor many and William the Conqueror.
 Through the marriage of the dashing Rollo sprang into being the famed name of Bryan in this way: The third Duke of Nor many, Richard l, had a son, Godefroi, Earl or Count of Flu, whose son, Count Godfrey of Eve, was the father of Count Gislebert, Earl of Bryony, anglcized Brian, remote forebear of Colonel Bryan. Ills sec- ond son, Baldwin de Brian, fought at Hast ings under his cousin, William, Duke of Normandy"
 After tracing the descent straight through a line of English earls to the feudAl barons of Tor Brian, the genealogist says:
 Years ago an uncle of Major Mckinley moved to Culpepper County Virginia, and married an aunt or greataunt of Colonel 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 blood in their veins, even though the relationship be far removed. A great number of these per- sons are descended from Edward I and Edward III of England and these include many prominent families in the older set dement's.