Samuel Gann of Winchester Va Family

Excerpt from Who's Who: "GANN, Edward Everett, b. Monticello, Ky., October 12, 1880, son of William Kenrick (M.D.) and Mary Jane Daughterty. Married Dolly Curtis, June 12, 1915. He was a prominent attorney, an Examiner for Interstate Commerce Commission, and during 1914-21 was Special Assistant to Attorney General of U.S. He later became attorney for several large railroads. He was a Democrat and a Presbyterian."

(By the Associated Press.) From The Kansas City Star: Washington, Oct. 2. (1936)--Edward Everett Gann died today leaving only Dolly Gann, grief-sticken in the midst of a Republican campaign tour, out of the three who starred a few years ago in the capital's most famous social controversy. Gann, the Kentucky Democrat, who shared with his wife and her brother, Charles Curtis, the lime- light of the vice-presidency, was found dead in his home here at the age of 55. He had been slightly ill two days before but was at his law office yesterday. Curtis, vice-president in the Hoover administration, died eight months ago. Reached at Evansville, Ind., the widow planned to return home immediately. While Curtis was vice-president in the Hoover administration, a much-publicized controversy over precedence at social functions swirled about the trio. Those were the days when the vice-president dined out, and appeared in the honor box at the capital's balls as part of his official duties. Whether Mrs. Gann should have precedence over Mrs. Nicholas Longworth, wife of the speaker of the house and daughter of Theodore Roosevelt, aroused much discussion. Statuesque Mrs. Gann, her status as her brother's "official hostess" upheld by the state department, always made the grand entrance with a short and smiling man on either side--her brother and her husband. Gann, who was an attorney and examiner for the interstate commerce commission and special assistant to the attorney general in the Wilson Administration, shared his wife's pleasure in Curtis's political successes. When the ailing wife of Dolly's brother decided her husband should be President, out to Cleveland in 1924 went Mrs. Gann and her husband, and put on an effective, if not winning, campaign. Four years later in Kansas City, Curtis headed his own cohorts, but the Ganns were next in command, and together they won the vice-presidential place. Mrs. Curtis was dead then, and Curtis was a member of the Gann household. Then came Chicago, and the Ganns' biggest battle. Curtis was kept in Washington by the senate session. Dolly Gann found in Chicago an attempt to write him off the slate as Hoover's running mate. She and her democratic husband neither ate nor slept, just fought. They triumphed. Gann, his wife and her brother were inseparable. They motored together, read together, played cards together, together matched wits on how political campaigns were coming out.

For those interested, read Dolly Gann's Book for a little more information.

From Joy Gann Brown, Hillsborough, NC and Marie Dryden, Chillicothe, MO.