Family
A Presbyterian of Irish descent and born in Hebron, Nova Scotia, son of Charles Cahan Jr. (1838–1908; Irish-Scottish ancestry, who was the son of Charles Cahan Sr. (1806–1889) and Jennie Hazlitt (1808–1850), and Theresa (Flint) Cahan (1838–1918; New England ancestry). Siblings included Frank D. Cahan (1863–1936), Jennie M. Cahan (1866–1918) and Loie S. Cahan (1871–1881).
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Famous quotes containing the word family:
“I worry about people who get born nowadays, because they get born into such tiny familiessometimes into no family at all. When youre the only pea in the pod, your parents are likely to get you confused with the Hope Diamond. And that encourages you to talk too much.”
—Russell Baker (b. 1925)
“In the middle classes the gifted son of a family is always the poorestusually a writer or artist with no sense for speculationand in a family of peasants, where the average comfort is just over penury, the gifted son sinks also, and is soon a tramp on the roadside.”
—J.M. (John Millington)
“The family is the test of freedom; because the family is the only thing that the free man makes for himself and by himself.”
—Gilbert Keith Chesterton (18741936)