The thread about F. Scott Fitzgerald got me thinking about this one.
I just did some more research on Ancestry.com, and it appears that if there is a connection between Archie Persons (the BB player) and Truman Capote, it is a distant one.
It looks like Truman Capote's ancestry is Alabama-Georgia-North Carolina going back to the 1760s. Archie Persons (the BB player), was born in Arkansaw, Wisconsin in 1881. His ancestry is Wisconsin-New York-New Jersey-Pennsylvania going back to the 1720s.
I did find an interesting connection however, with Archie Persons. He's listed in the 1900 US Census, as a cadet at West Point. Apparently, he was a cadet for 2 years there (did not graduate). One of his classmates in 1900 was none other than General Douglas MacArthur. After Archie left West Point, he went back home and enrolled at the University of Wisconsin, finally graduating in 1906.
Steve
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Last edited by Steve D; 02-19-2016 at 10:24 PM.
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