“In 1910 Herring had married Jessie Markham of Wheeling, West Virginia, whom he had met through his sister. The couple, after a year’s engagement, decided to get married while they were shopping in New York City and were quietly married at the Little Church Around the Corner. In 1919 Herring and his wife bought land outside Princeton which they intended for an equestrian estate; they named it “Rothers Barrows.” They built an “extraordinarily elegant stone house” designed by noted architect Wilson Eyre in the Arts & Crafts style. Eyre also designed the landscaping in the “Chestnut Hill” style characterized by native trees; there was a stone-walled sunken terrace, a croquet lawn, and for the horses a show ring and barn and a 960- yard race track.”
MEMORIALS (1918-1962) Donald Grant Herring, Junior, senior geologist for Texaco in Los Angeles, died April 3, 1962, while undergoing surgery at the Good Samaritan Hospital, Los Angeles. Don was born January 12, 1918, on Cleveland Lane, Princeton, New Jersey, about half a block from Grover Cleveland’s house and next door to the home Woodrow Wilson occupied while Governor of New Jersey. Those who knew Don best, realized tha t his youth and academic career were greatly influenced by the tremendous love and respect he held for his father. His father was born in 1886 and graduated from Bloomsberg Pennsylvania High School in 1900 at the age of 14. He then entered Lawrenceville School, one of the oldest boarding schools in America. The three oldest American boarding schools, Andover, Exeter, and Lawrenceville, are all nearing their bicentennials. Don Herring, Jr., was to attend both Lawrenceville and Andover. While a t Lawrenceville, Don’s father was captain of the second team in football. This team contained many members who later won athletic honors in the various universities they attended. Don’s father entered Princeton in 1904 where he was an outstanding scholar and All-American football player and a member of the wrestling team. He was graduated from Princeton, with honors, in 1907 and as a Rhodes Scholar, from Oxford in 1910. He took an M.A. in 1909. He joined the Princeton University Faculty in 1910, having been hired by Woodrow Wilson just prior to Wilson’s election as Governor of New Jersey. He subsequently resigned to accept the post of editor of the Princeton Alumni Weekly, which position he held until he was called to France during World War I as a member of the Ninety Fourth (Hat-In-The-Ring) Aero Squadron. He also served in the United States Army from 1942 till 1946 and is now retired with rank of Colonel. Don Grant Herring, Junior’s first year of school, 1924, was spent a t Miss Fines’, a private school in Princeton. Boasting a student body with an exceptionally high I.Q., Miss Fines’ Private School gave Don, Jr., an excellent start toward his ultimate scholastic excellence. In 1925, Don’s father, his mother, born Jessie Woodward Markham, Don, two elder sisters, Jean and Patricia, and a younger sister, Josephine, now deceased, went to live in St. Jean-de-Luz, France. There Don attended a French Day School for six months and in 1926 the family moved to Burnham-On-Sea, Somerset, England. Here Don entered his third school, Naish House, which was a boarding school for boys, and continued in attendance till 1928, when he was 10 years old. The cultural background of the family and his European travel and schooling contributed greatly to Don’s education. In September, 1928, the family returned to the family farm, Rothersbarrows, which is located three miles north of the Princeton campus. Rothersbarrows was near to Hunts House which is where Washington and Lafayette held their Council of War and planned the Battle of Monmouth. Living amid such a historic back ….http://archives.datapages.com/data/meta/bull_memorials/046/046009/pdfs/1747_firstpage.pdf
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