Recollections 1 Of 2 Alvin Lorando ALLUM

  General Notes:

Kenneth M. Allum, Jr., July 5, 2008 e-mail to DeeAnna:

"Find attached a new discovery from the bottom of a drawer of a vanity that I inherited from my Aunt Berenice (Grandad Alvin Lorando Allum's youngest daughter). It is the typed version (by Berenice) of a story written in longhand by A. L. Allum (included with the typed copy) on a desk calendar sheet dated 1954.

"Alvin is reminiscing about famous people he had encountered during his life with special mention of two Indians that came unannounced to his home in Kansas in 1892 when he was 7 years old. He refers to his mother, who was Maggie Bushong Allum.

"Other people he lists by contrast:

(1) Alma Gluck, a famous Metropolitan opera star in the 1910s and 1920s, whose Victor record ' Carry Me Back to Ol' Virginny ' sold a million copies.

(2) General Wood (not Woods), who could have been any number of people, but I will bet was Leonard Wood, Teddy Roosevelt's immediate superior in the Rough Riders during the Spanish-American War and for whom the Army base in Arkansas (or Missouri?) is named. My grandad was a died in the wool Republican at a time there were only a handful of Republicans who would admit their allegiance in the intensely Democratic state of Arkansas, and General Leonard Wood ran for President in 1920 when the nomination eventually went to Warren Harding.

(3) Governor Taft, who Alvin met at a Republican political rally in Little Rock. I'll bet he met General Wood at a similar event."



"My Favorite People" by Alvin Lorando Allum, Page 1 of 2, from Kenneth M. Allum, Jr.