my grandparent lehand, the grandparents from the lehand side ham over on what was known as a copper ship during the irish potato famine. so many people died on these ships, they're called coffin ships. my grand parents got married as deans and had a baby, daniel. and my grandfather, daniel lehand-- my great-grandfather was working on a church building in potsdam and a part fell on him and killed him. and my great-grandmother never remarried. and that's why my father was an unusual creature, the only child in an irish catholic family. i'm the youngest of four children i was born in potsdam in 18-- i gave away my age, 1896. when i was a very small child we moved to summerville, a city within the city of boston and that's where i grew up. i went to the public schools there, and my education was going along well until i was diagnosed with rheumatic fever and i went two years in bed recovering. i did not finish high school until 1917 when our country entered the great war. well, i was feeling very patriotic so i took the civil servi service exam. i had studied secretarial science and sent to