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"During the
150-year interval since 1833, active membership [in Skull & Bones] has evolved into a core
group of perhaps 20-30 families; it seems that active members have enough
influence to push their sons and relatives into The Order, and there is significant intermarriage among the families. These families fall into
two major groups.
First we find old line American families who arrived
on the East coast in the 1600s, e.g., Whitney, Lord, Phelps, Wadsworth,
Allen, Bundy, Adams and so on.
Second, we find families who acquired
wealth in the last 100 years, sent their sons to Yale and in time became
almost old line families, e.g., Harriman, Rockefeller, Payne, Davison.
Some families, like the Whitneys, were Connecticut Yankees and acquired
wealth in the nineteenth century.
In the last 150 years a few families
in The Order have gained enormous influence in society and the world.
One example is the Lord family. Two branches of this family date from
the 1630s: Those descended from Nathan Lord and those from Thomas Lord.
Other Lords arrived in the U.S. over the years but do not enter our
discussion. Of these two main branches, only the Thomas Lord group
appears to have contributed members to The Order. Their ancestry traces
to Thomas Lord, who left Essex, England in 1635 in a company led by Rev.
Thomas Hooker, and settled in what is now Hartford, Connecticut. In
fact, part of Hartford is still known as Lord's Hill. The line of
descent for this Lord family is full of DeForest and Lockwood names
because intermarriage is more than common among these elite families.
The first Lord to be initiated into The Order was George DeForest Lord
(1854), a New York lawyer. Together with his father, Daniel Lord
(another Yale graduate), George DeForest Lord established the New York
law firm of Lord, Day and Lord. Among its present day clients are The
New York Times and the Rubin Foundation. The Rubin Foundation is one of
the financial angels for the Institute for Policy Studies in Washington,
D.C.
In the next hundred years five more Lords were initiated into The
Order:
Franklin Atkins Lord ('98)
William Galey Lord ('22)
Oswald Bates Lord ('26)
Charles Edwin Lord, II ('49)
Winston Lord ('59)"
America's Secret Establishment -- An
Introduction to Skull and Bones, by Antony C. Sutton
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