Larned, William Augustus
(30 December 1872–16 December 1926)
- Angela Lumpkin
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Larned, William Augustus (30 December 1872–16 December 1926), tennis player, was born in Summit, New Jersey, the son of William Zebedee Larned, a wealthy Summit landowner and New York lawyer, and Katharine Penniman. Although he did not graduate from Cornell University, while a student he won the 1892 intercollegiate tennis singles championship....