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- This is the biographical notice of Baron Trump's Marvelous Underground Journey. This is a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain. For more information or to volunteer, please visit LibriVox dot org. Recording by Marcel D. Ward thesoul expands dot com. Baron Trump's Marvelous Underground Journey by Ingersoll Lockwood biographical notice. The biographical notice of Wilhelm Heinrich Sebastian von Trump, commonly called Little Baron Trump, as doubting Thomas's seemed to take particular pleasure in popping up on all occasions jack in a box like it may be well to head them off in this particular instance by proving that Baron Trump was a real baron and not a mere baron of the mind. The family was originally French Huguenot de la Trump, which, upon the revocation of the Edict of Nantess in sixteen eighty five, took refuge in Holland. Words head assumed the name of von der Trump, just as many other of the French Protestants rendered their names into Dutch. Some years later, upon the imitation of the Elector of Brandenburg, Nicholas van der Trump became a subject of that prince and purchased a large estate in the province of Pomerania, again changing his name, this time to von Trump. The little baron, so called from his diminutive stature, was born some time in the latter part of the seventeenth century. He was the last of his race in the direct line, and although cousins of his are today well known Pomeranian gentry. He began his travels at an incredibly early age, and filled his castle with such strange objects picked up here and there in the far away corners of the world, that the simple minded peasantry came to look upon him as half big wig and half magician hents the growth of the many myths and fancible stories concerning this indefatigable globe trotter. The date of his death cannot be fixed with any certainty, but this much may be said. Among the portraits of Pomeranian notables hanging in the wrathhouse at Steddin, there is one picturing a man of low stature and with a head much too large for his body. He is dressed in some outlandish costume and holes in his left hand A grotesque image in ivory most elaborately carved. The broad faces full of intelligence, and the large gray eyes are lighted up with a good nature but quizzical look that invariably attracts attention. The man's right hand rest upon the back of a dog, sitting on a table and looking straight out with an air of dignity that shows that he knew he was sitting for his portrait. If the visitor asked the guide who this man is, he always gets for answer, Oh, that's the little Baron. But little Baron who that's the question? Why may it not be the famous Wilhelm Heinrich Sebastian von Trump, commonly called Little Baron Trump and his wonderful dog Bulger and of biographical notice recording by Marcel d Ward Thesoult expands dot Com