John William Sterling - John William Sterling John William Sterling (May 12, 1844 - July 5, 1918) was a philanthropist and corporate attorney, remembered as a benefactor to Yale University. John William Sterling was born in Stratford, Connecticut. He graduated Yale University with a B.A. in 1864; he was admitted to the bar in 1867. He obtained an M.A. degree in 1874 and an LL.D. from Columbia University Law School in 1893. He became a corporate lawyer in New York, and was a founder of the firm of Shearman & Sterling in 1873. Around 1870, Sterling met James Orville Bloss, his intimate friend for the next fifty years. Historian Jonathan Ned Katz suggests that theirs was also a sexual relationship. Thomas G. Shearman, Sterling's partner, defended Reverend Henry Ward Beecher.
John W. Bricker - John W. Bricker John William Bricker (September 6, 1893 - March 22, 1986) was an United States politician from Ohio. He was a member of the Republican Party. Bricker was born on a farm near Mount Sterling, Ohio, graduated from Ohio State University at Columbus in 1916 and from its law department in 1920; was admitted to the bar in 1917 and commenced practice in Columbus, Ohio, in 1920; during World War I served as first lieutenant and chaplain in the United States Army in 1917 and 1918; solicitor for Grandview Heights, Ohio, 1920-1928; assistant attorney general of Ohio 1923-1927; member of the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio 1929-1932; attorney general of Ohio 1933-1937; Governor of Ohio 1939-1945; unsuccessful Republican candidate for Vice President of the.
Harold Macmillan - the Conservatives regained power in 1951 he was minister of housing (October 1951) then minister of defense (October 1954) under Winston Churchill and foreign secretary (April-December 1955) and chancellor of the exchequer (1955-57) under Anthony Eden. When Eden resigned in January 1957 he was succeeded by Macmillan on the 10th and Macmillan also became leader of the Conservative Party (22nd). Government Macmillan brought the monetary concerns of the exchequer into office - the economy was his prime concern. However his approach to the economy was to seek high employment, whereas his treasury ministers argued that to support sterling required strict controls on money and hence a rise in unemployment. Their advice was rejected and in January 1958 all the Treasury ministers resigned. Macmillan brushed aside this incident as "a little local.
History of the Jews in the United States (Colonial Era-1906) - noted above, owned real estate there, but between that date and the early years of the nineteenth century there are no records of any settlers in that town. They were not there in sufficient numbers to form a congregation until 1838, and they had no rabbi until 1846. The present Jewish population is estimated at between 4,000 and 5,000. Buffalo attained prominence in 1825 through the scheme of Mordecai M. Noah to establish Ararat as a city of refuge for the Jews. The corner-stone of the projected city was laid in one of the churches of Buffalo in that year; but, as is well known, this scheme attracted no settlers, and the first religious organization was not established until 1847. The number of Jews there increased gradually from that time, and.
History of the farthing - same as the heavier coins had a lower fineness or silver content than the lighter coins; it is thought that the coins were made larger in order to make them easier to strike and handle, but coins of low fineness have never been popular in England and the population preferred the inconvenience of a smaller coin with higher metal content. Edward's farthings were of the long cross type reverse, and the usual legend on the obverse was EDWARDUS REX (King Edward), or occasionally E R ANGLIE (Edward King of England), and once ER ANGL DN (Edward King of England Lord (of Ireland)). Only two mints, London and Berwick, produced farthings in the reign of King Edward II (1307-1327), and their output is classed as "rare" and "very rare" respectively. They are.
History of New York - took over in the 1660s, the colony was renamed New York, after the Duke of York. On November 1, 1683, the government was reorganized into a pattern still followed, and the state was divided into twelve counties, each of which was subdivided into towns. Ten of those counties still exist (see below), but two (Cornwall and Dukes) were in territory purchased by the Duke of York from the Earl of Sterling, and are no longer within the territory of the State of New York, having been transferred by treaty to Massachusetts, Dukes in 1686 and Cornwall in 1692. (Cornwall County became a large portion of the State of Maine when that state was detached from Massachusetts in 1819; Dukes County is still a county in Massachusetts.) While the number of counties.
Hugo Award for Best Novel - 1963: The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick 1964: Way Station by Clifford D. Simak 1965: The Wanderer by Fritz Leiber 1966: ... And Call Me Conrad by Roger Zelazny 1966: Dune by Frank Herbert 1967: The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress by Robert A. Heinlein 1968: Lord of Light by Roger Zelazny 1969: Stand on Zanzibar by John Brunner 1970: The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin 1971: Ringworld by Larry Niven 1972: To Your Scattered Bodies Go by Philip José Farmer 1973: The Gods Themselves by Isaac Asimov 1974: Rendezvous with Rama by Arthur C. Clarke 1975: The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin 1976: The Forever War by Joe Haldeman 1977: Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang by Kate Wilhelm 1978: Gateway.
Gettysburg Union Order of Battle - of Artillery: BG Henry J. Hunt Assistant Adjutant General: BG Seth Williams Chief Quartermaster: BG Rufus Ingalls Medical Director: Dr Jonathan Letterman Chief Signal Officer: Capt Lemuel B. Norton Chief Ordnance Officer: Lt John R. Edie (acting) Bureau of Military Information: Col George H. Sharpe Provost Marshal General: BG Marsena R. Patrick 93rd New York: Col John S. Crocker 8th US (8 companies): Capt Edwin W. H. Read 2nd Pennsylvania Cavalry: Col R. Butler Price 6th Pennsylvania Cavalry, Companies E and I: Capt James Starr Regular cavalry (detachments from 1st, 2nd, 5th, and 6th Regiments) Chief of Engineers: BG Gouverneur K. Warren Engineer Brigade: BG Henry W. Benham 15th New York (3 companies): Maj Walter L. Cassin 50th New York: Col William H. Pettes US Battalion: Capt George H. Mendell Guards.
United States Secretary of Agriculture - and gardeners is provided by the United States Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service. Secretaries of Agriculture Name Term of Office President(s) served under Norman Jay Coleman February 15, 1889 - March 6, 1889 Grover Cleveland Jeremiah McLain Rusk March 6, 1889 - March 6, 1893 Benjamin Harrison Julius Sterling Morton March 7, 1893 - March 5, 1897 Grover Cleveland James Wilson March 6, 1897 - March 5, 1913 William McKinley, Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft David Franklin Houston March 6, 1913 - February 2, 1920 Woodrow Wilson Edwin Thomas Meredith February 2, 1920 - March 4, 1921 Woodrow Wilson Henry Cantwell Wallace March 5, 1921 - October 25, 1924 Warren G. Harding, Calvin Coolidge Howard Mason Gore November 22, 1924 - March 4, 1925 Calvin Coolidge William Marion Jardine.
Global Business Network - on possible future scenarios. The GBN has an amazing lineup. Some Members Are John Barlow Grateful Dead lyricist; cofounder, Electronic Frontier Foundation; Wyoming rancher Mary Catherine Bateson Anthropologist; visiting professor, Harvard University; professor emerita, George Mason University; author, Composing a Life and Full Circles, Overlapping Lives Stewart Brand Founder: The Whole Earth Catalog, CoEvolution Quarterly, The Point Foundation, Global Business Network (co-founder), The Well (co-founder), The Hacker's Conference, The Long Now Foundation; author, The Whole Earth Catalog, The Media Lab: Inventing the Future at MIT, How Buildings Learn, The Clock of the Long Now: Time and Responsibility Douglas Coupland Novelist, Generation X, Microserfs, All Families Are Psychotic. K. Eric Drexler (advisory) Director, The Foresight Institute; author, Engines of Creation: The Coming Era of Nanotechnology and Unbounding the Future Freeman Dyson Physicist,.
Frank James - of corporal punishment which Zerelda did not approve of, resulted in this marriage's failure. After a series of arguments between the couple Zerelda started procedures for a divorce, an unusual move for the time. This didn't proove necessary since Simms was killed on January 2, 1854 in a horse accident. Zerelda was now again without a husband and eleven year old Frank without a father. On September 25, 1855 Zerelda married for the third and last time. Her new husband Dr.Reuben Samuel (b. January 12, 1828). He prooved to be a much better choice than her previous one and the marriage lasted. They had four more children: Sarah Louisa Samuel - (December 26, 1858 - September 15, 1915). John Thomas Samuel - (December 25, 1861 - March 15, 1935). Fanny Quantrill.
Eighty-second United States Congress - Albert (Representative), Democrat, OK Asa Leonard Allen (Representative), Democrat, LA John Joseph Allen, Jr (Representative), Republican, CA Leo Elwood Allen (Representative), Republican, IL Herman Carl Andersen (Representative), Republican, MN Clinton Presba Anderson (Senator), Democrat, NM John Zuinglius Anderson (Representative), Republican, CA August Herman Andresen (Representative), Republican, MN George William Andrews (Representative), Democrat, AL Victor L'Episcopo Anfuso (Representative), Democrat, NY Homer Daniel Angell (Representative), Republican, OR Orland Kay Armstrong (Representative), Republican, MO Wayne Norviel Aspinall (Representative), Democrat, CO James Coats Auchincloss (Representative), Republican, NJ William Hanes Ayres (Representative), Republican, OH Cleveland Monroe Bailey (Representative), Democrat, WV Howard Henry Baker (Representative), Republican, TN Claude Ignatius Bakewell (Representative), Republican, MO Graham Arthur Barden (Representative), Democrat, NC Walter Stephan Baring, Jr (Representative), Democrat, NV William Aloysius Barrett (Representative), Democrat, PA Joseph Bengal Bates (Representative), Democrat,.
Eighteenth United States Congress - Robert Allen (Representative), -, TN Samuel Clesson Allen (Representative), Federalist, MA James Allison, Jr (Representative), -, PA William Segar Archer (Representative), Whig, VA John Bailey (Representative), -, MA William Lee Ball (Representative), Republican, VA Noyes Barber (Representative), -, CT James Barbour (Senator), Republican, VA John Strode Barbour (Representative), Jacksonian, VA Philip Pendleton Barbour (Representative), Republican, VA Ichabod Bartlett (Representative), -, NH Mordecai Bartley (Representative), -, OH David Barton (Senator), Adams-Clay Republican, MO Burwell Bassett (Representative), Republican, VA Francis Baylies (Representative), -, MA Philemon Beecher (Representative), -, OH Samuel Bell (Senator), Adams-Clay Republican, NH Thomas Hart Benton (Senator), Jackson Republican, MO John Blair (Representative), Jacksonian, TN Elijah Boardman (Senator), Republican, CT Charles Dominique Joseph Bouligny (Senator), Adams-Clay Republican, LA William Czar Bradley (Representative), Republican, VT John Branch (Senator), Crawford Republican, NC Samuel.
US Congressional Delegations from Alabama - Representatives of Alabama James Abercrombie Representative, 1795-1861 Abercrombie, John William Representative 1866 - 1940 Aderholt, Robert Representative 1965 - Aldrich, Truman Heminway Representative, 1848 - 1932 Aldrich, William Farrington Representative, 1853 - 1925 Allen, James Browning Senator, 1912 - 1978 Allen, Maryon Pittman Senator, 1925 - Allgood, Miles Clayton Representative, 1878 - 1977 Almon, Edward Berton Representative, 1860 - 1933 Alston, William Jeffreys Representative, 1800 - 1876 Andrews, Arthur Glenn Representative, 1909 - Andrews, Elizabeth Bullock Representative, 1911- Andrews, George William Representative, 1906 - 1971 Bachus, Spencer T., III Representative, 1947 - Bagby, Arthur Pendleton Senator, 1794 - 1858 Bankhead, John Hollis Representative; Senator 1842 - 1920 Bankhead, John Hollis II Senator, 1872 - 1946 Bankhead, Walter Will Representative, 1897 - 1988 Bankhead, William Brockman Representative; Speaker of the House, US.
1899 in music - 19 - Edward Elgar's Enigma Variations are premiered in London Ragtime music enjoys mainstream popularity in the United States Published popular music "Absent" w. Catherine Young Glen m. John W. Metcalf "Always!" w. Charles Horwitz m. Frederick V. Bowers "Cake Walk In The Sky" by Ben Harney "Come Home Dewey We Won't Do A Thing To You" w.m. Paul Dresser "A Coon Band Contest" m. Arthur Pryor "Cotton Pickers Rag & Cakewalk" by William Braun "Doan Ye Cry, Mah Honey" w.m. Alfred W. Noll "Hands Across The Sea" m. John Philip Sousa "Hearts And Flowers" w. Mary D. Brine m. Theodore Moses Tobani "Hello! Ma Baby" w.m. Ida Emerson & Joseph E. Howard "I'd Leave My Happy Home For You" w. Will A. Heelan m. Harry Von Tilzer "If Only You Were Mine" w. Harry B. Smith m. Victor Herbert "I'll.
1898 in music - w. Harry B. Smith m. Victor Herbert "Honey on my Lips" Charles E. Trevathan "I Guess I'll Have To Telegraph My Baby" w.m. George M. Cohan "Just As The Sun Went Down" w. Karl Kennett m. Lyn Udall "Just One Girl" w. Karl Kennett m. Lyn Udall "Kiss Me Honey Do" w. Edgar Smith m. John Stromberg "The Lily Of Laguna" w.m. Leslie Stuart "'Mid The Green Fields Of Virginia" w.m. Charles K. Harris "Mister Johnson Don't Get Gay" w.m. Dave Reed Jr "The Moth And The Flame" w. George Taggart m. Max S. Witt "My Old New Hampshire Home" w. Andrew B. Sterling m. Harry Von Tilzer "Recessional" w. Rudyard Kipling m. Reginald DeKoven "Romany Life" w. Harry B. Smith m. Victor Herbert "The Rosary" w. Robert Cameron Rogers m..
1942 in music - Warren "There Are Such Things" w.m. Stanley Adams, Abel Baer & George W. Meyer "There Will Never Be Another You" w. Mack Gordon m. Harry Warren "There's A Star Spangled Banner Waving Somewhere" w.m. Paul Roberts & Shelby Darnell "This Is The Army, Mr Jones" w.m. Irving Berlin "This Is Worth Fighting For" w. Eddie De Lange m. Sam H. Stept "Three Little Sisters" w.m. Irving Taylor & Vic Mizzy "Trav'lin' Light" w. Sidney Clare m. Harry Akst "Tweedle-O-Twill" w.m. Gene Autry & Fred Rose "Warsaw Concerto" m. Richard Adinsell "Well, Git It!" m. Sy Oliver "When The Lights Go On Again" w.m. Eddie Seiler, Sol Marcus & Bennie Benjamin "White Christmas" w.m. Irving Berlin "Who Wouldn't Love You?" w. Bill Carey m. Carl Fischer "Why Don't You Do Right?" w.m. Joe McCoy "Why Don't You Fall In Love With Me?" w. Al Lewis m. Mabel.
1920 in music - M. K. Jerome "Broadway Rose" w. Eugene West m. Martin Fried & Otis Spencer "Chanson" m. Rudolf Friml "Chili Bean" w. Lew Brown m. Albert Von Tilzer "Crazy Blues" w.m. Percy Bradford "The Cuckoo Waltz" w. Arthur Kingsley m. J. E. Jonasson "Daddy, You've Been A Mother To Me" w.m. Fred Fisher "Do You Ever Think Of Me?" w. John Cooper & Harry D. Kerr m. Earl Burtnett "Down By The O-HI-O (I've Got The Sweetest Little O, My ! O ! )" w. Jack Yellen m. Abe Olman "Feather Your Nest" w.m. James Kendis, James Brockman & Howard Johnson "The Gipsy Warned Me" w.m. R. P. Weston & Bert Lee "He Went In Like A Lion (And Came Out Like A Lamb)" w. Andrew B. Sterling m. Harry von Tilzer.
1916 in music - Ball ""Forever" Is A Long, Long Time" w. Darl MacBoyle m. Albert Von Tilzer "From Here To Shanghai" w.m. Irving Berlin "Give Me All Of You" Schwartzwald "Goodbye, Good Luck, God Bless You" w. J. Keirn Brennan m. Ernest R. Ball "Have A Heart" w. Gene Buck m. Jerome Kern "Homesickness Blues" w.m. Cliff Hess "The Honolulu Blues" w. Grant Clarke & Eddie Cox m. James V. Monaco "How's Every Little Thing In Dixie?" w. Jack Yellen m. Albert Gumble "I Ain't Got Nobody" w. Roger Graham & Dave Peyton m. Spencer Williams "I Can Dance With Everybody But My Wife" w. Joseph Cawthorn & John Golden m. John Golden "I Sent My Wife To The Thousand Isles" w. Andrew B. Sterling & Ed Moran m. Harry von Tilzer "I Want.
1915 in music - & Fred W. Leigh "Auf Wiedersehen" w. Herbert Reynolds m. Sigmund Romberg "Babes In The Wood" w. Schuyler Greene & Jerome Kern m. Jerome Kern "Baby Shoes" w. Joe Goodwin & Ed Rose m. Al Piantadosi "Beatrice Fairfax, Tell Me What To Do" w.m. Grant Clarke, Joseph McCarthy & James V. Monaco "Blame It On The Blues" Cooke "Canadian Capers" w.m. Gus Chandler, Bert White & Henry Cohan "Close To My Heart" by A.B. Sterling "Dear Old-Fashioned Irish Songs, My Mother Sang To Me" Bryan, Von Tilzer "Don't Bite The Hand That Feeds You" w. Thomas Hoier m. James Morgan "Down In Bom-Bombay" w. Ballard MacDonald m. Harry Carroll "Everything In America Is Ragtime" w.m. Irving Berlin "Fascination" w.m. Harold Atteridge & Sigmund Romberg "Gasoline Gus And His Jitney Bus" Gay,.
