Caleb R. Layton, longtime Sussex County politician, in an obvious jab at T. Coleman du Pont’s offer to build a highway from one end of Delaware to the other, declared in January 1917, “I, for one ...
John Edward Addicks, with no political experience but with boundless ego, bags of cash and no morals to restrain him, wanted to be one of Delaware’s two U. S. senators. On Dec. 8, 1888, the Wilmington ...