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3 unusual facts about Theodore M. Brantley


Theodore M. Brantley

After practicing law for several years, Brantly became a professor of Ancient Languages, first at Illinois College and then at the College of Montana in Deer Lodge.

(Note that his children seem to have reverted to the "Brantly" spelling.) Neill Duncan Brantly (1897–1972) joined the navy and became a Rear Admiral during World War II, commanding vessels at the Battle of Leyte Gulf.

He remained Chief Justice until resigning for reasons of health shortly before his death in 1922, in Helena, Montana.


The Ape Who Guards the Balance

Since Emerson has managed to annoy M. Maspero to the point of distraction, he is initially not even allowed near the Valley of the Kings, where another of Emerson’s rivals and targets of invective, Theodore M. Davis, has the rights to the entire valley.

Theodore Burton

Theodore M. Burton (1907–1989), American leader in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

Theodore M. Davis

After a career in the law and business, he moved to Newport, Rhode Island in 1882 where he built a mansion known as "The Reefs" (later "The Bells") on Ocean Avenue, on property which is now Brenton Point State Park.

In the winter of 1915 he did not go to Egypt for health reasons and instead rented the Florida home of William Jennings Bryan, then Secretary of State.

William F. Brantley

Eicher, John H., and Eicher, David J., Civil War High Commands, Stanford University Press, 2001, ISBN 0-8047-3641-3.


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