Behind his studies was the idea of working out a distribution of national boundaries that would make civilization safe from war. Later he was to have an undreamed-of opportunity to expound his theories before the world's leading statesmen at Versailles and to embody some: of them in the Covenant of the League of Nations.
House was born at Houston, Texas, July 26, 1858, the youngest of seven children. His forebears were of Dutch extraction, but had lived in England for many generations. His father arrived in Texas when it was still a section of the Mexican republic.
Young House was graduated from a grammer school at New Haven, Con, amd attended Cornell University. In 1881 he married Miss Lucille Hunter of Austin, They had two daughters, Mrs. Randolph Tucker of Boston, Mass, and Mrs. Gordon Auchincloss of New York.—Reuter.
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