grandfather

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Around the end of the 1930s, Randy Bierlein’s grandfather first started selling Chrysler vehicles out of his family’s dealership in northern Michigan.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 4, 2026

She relocated to the country of her birth in the early 1960s with my grandfather, José Miranda, after frost and drought ruined the family farm in their hometown of El Cargadero.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 4, 2026

"My grandfather started this, then my father, and now it's my turn," the 49-year-old said.

From Barron's • Apr. 3, 2026

Her grandfather - Dudley Herschbach – won a Nobel Prize in chemistry.

From BBC • Mar. 26, 2026

But the cry his grandfather gave—huge from such an old man—when he saw him, standing, soaking wet and scarred and smiling: that was worth hearing.

From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell