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Originally Posted by CFrance
My great-uncle was Jimmy Doolittle.
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That's cool.
My great-uncle was a bus driver in Costa Rica for a time who put himself up for bail when a friend got into trouble. The friend skipped on bail, so my great-uncle Robert Trueblood Steimson had to leave the country.
I believe our name back then was Stimson and my Uncle Robert (Bob) used to tell me quite often that we were related to the Secretary of War during WWII but I am pretty sure that was false.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_L._Stimson
I had to do an extensive search at the U of MN library to find out he was probably pulling my leg but not before I had told several people this buying into my Uncle Bob's claims.