SurfWax News Index  |  Track News  |  Save/Exchange Information |  About Us News and Articles on Collateral Descendant Literary Lions  Jul 3, 2006 Steve Fowle, the current editor of The Gazette and a collateral descendant of Daniel Fowle's who believes he is Daniel's "third cousin five times removed," wanted a way to honor his ancestor and the achievement of the paper. "I pointed out that the 250th anniversary was coming up and that we're publishing on the anniversary. It would be a shame not to mark that event somehow," he said. (Seacoast New Hampshire) Robert E. Fulton Jr., an Intrepid Inventor, Is Dead at 95  May 11, 2004 He may have been a collateral descendant of the Robert Fulton who designed the first commercially successful steamboat, but according to one account, Mr. Fulton never bothered to check the genealogy. His grandfather was a friend of Thomas A. Edison, according to a 1961 account in The American magazine. (New York Times) Working to bring explorers back to life  Dec 5, 2003 "We want people to have an interactive learning experience," said Jane Henley, the president of the center and a collateral descendant of Lewis. "It's not just learning about our roots. We want people to understand what those men experienced. . . . The roots of the whole expedition were here." (Richmond Times Dispatch, VA) Back to Law News [ Terms Of Use | Privacy | About ] ©1998-2007 SurfWax, Inc. All rights reserved. Patents pending. Copyright SurfWax, Inc. 2007