Your guess: "angels" or "ages?"

[Linda Anderson]

(10-24-2013 01:12 PM)wsanto Wrote:  Although I wonder where Appleton came up with such a tale. It must have been someone's claim. If not O'Beirne, who else?

It just goes along with my theory that a lot of these folks were trying to pad their legacy. Saying "I was there", "I did this"; I think it was pretty typical for the time or, at least, that particular moment in time.

I think we should take Appletons' with a grain of salt. It may be that a contributor dramatized O'Beirne's claims to make the article more interesting for Appletons' readers. Considering that Appletons' created 200 fictional biographies, I would be very wary of believing anything they say without consulting another source.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appletons'_..._Biography