SUNY Geneseo KnightScholar Geneseo Authors Milne Library Publishing 1-1-2013 Tagging Along Stuart Symington Jr. SUNY Geneseo Follow this and additional works at: https://knightscholar.geneseo.edu/geneseo-authors Recommended Citation Symington, Stuart Jr., "Tagging Along" (2013). Geneseo Authors. 1. https://knightscholar.geneseo.edu/geneseo-authors/1 This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the Milne Library Publishing at KnightScholar. It has been accepted for inclusion in Geneseo Authors by an authorized administrator of KnightScholar. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. TAGGING ALONG Memories of My Grandfather James Wolcott Wadsworth, Jr. by Stuart Symington, Jr. Copyright © 2013 by Stuart Symington, Jr. All Rights Reserved. ISBN: 978-1484153130 Published at Milne Library, SUNY College at Geneseo, Geneseo, New York. Editors: Sheryl Kron Rhodes and Liz Argentieri Design and production: Allison P. Brown DEDICATION To Janey, Stuart, Harker, Evie, Emily, Travers, Lelia, Jack, Jim, and Duncan, who would have loved their great-great-grandfather if only they had known him. Contents Foreword vii Introduction 1 Chapter 1: Family History and Curly Toes 9 Chapter 2: Old Yale 17 Chapter 3: Soldier 31 Chapter 4: Farmer and Stockman 37 Chapter 5: Albany 49 Chapter 6: The JA Ranch 57 Chapter 7: The Senate 65 Chapter 8: Preparedness 77 Chapter 9: The Folies Bergère 91 Chapter 10: Public Life 103 Chapter 11: Private Life 113 Chapter 12: Conclusion 127 Photo Credits 131 Foreword This graceful memoir of Senator James Wolcott Wadsworth, Jr., by publications growing out of the Special Collections of the Milne Library at the his grandson, Stuart Symington, Jr., is the first original work in a series of State University of New York at Geneseo.