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As he told the newsletter of the Whipple’s Wimples Collectors Club in 1996, “She wrote me a letter saying that she did think there was still room for dignity in this world.”

From New York Times • Jun. 29, 2016

The Wimples, of whom Sally is the last, were among the oldest and most respectable of Hendrik families.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 12, October, 1858 by Various

His widow, Sarah Wimples, to whom he was married in 1843, one son, William W., and two daughters survive him.

From Fifty Years In The Northwest With An Introduction And Appendix Containing Reminiscences, Incidents And Notes by Folsom, William Henry Carman

Then Simon conceived a tremendous coup de coeur, a daring one enough, as women go,—women of such stuff as the Sally Wimples of this world are made of.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 13, November, 1858 by Various

"How are you, Mr. Mayor?" said the crestfallen Mr. Wimples, as he came upon the reformer in the vestibule.

From Tin-Types Taken in the Streets of New York A Series of Stories and Sketches Portraying Many Singular Phases of Metropolitan Life by Beard, Harry