McMahon was rewarded by being made Colonel of the 63rd in May, when the regiment was formally organized at Abingdon in Washington County, Virginia.
Amber Brooke Copley (born August 2, 1985) is a beauty queen from Abingdon, Virginia who has competed in the Miss Teen USA and Miss USA pageants.
The hardware and software development took place in both Germantown and Abingdon, Maryland.
The Baldwin County Superintendent of Education is Dr. Alan T. Lee who previously served as superintendent of Washington County Schools in Abingdon, Virginia, which had an enrollment of about 7,500 students.
Born in Abingdon, Illinois, Hardy attended the public schools, Albion Normal College in Albion, Illinois, and Transylvania University, Lexington, Kentucky.
He resumed his commission as a major general of Virginia Militia, but his health soon failed and he died a year later at Abingdon, Virginia, where he is buried in Sinking Spring Cemetery.
Before and after the War, Hughes practiced law for some periods in Abingdon, Virginia, and had some affiliation with some predecessors of the Norfolk & Western railroad.
In Maryland, three elementary schools are named for him: one is in Landover, one is in Baltimore city (#83) and the other in his home town of Abingdon.
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William Paca was born in Abingdon, in what was then Baltimore County (Abingdon was later included in Harford County when that county was formed from Baltimore County in 1773), in the British colony of Maryland.
William Y.C. Humes was born in 1830 in the town of Abingdon, located in Washington County, Virginia.
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Historia Ecclesie Abbendonensis, a 12th-century Latin chronicle written at Abingdon
The Abingdon King Dick tool company still exists, and sponsors the Castrol-Honda British Supersport Motorcycle squad.
Æthelstan became Abbot of Abingdon about 1044, following Siward's promotion, and died in 1047 or 1048 (Kelly 2000).
He has several connections to the Carter USM family having joined Carter as keyboard player in 1995 when just a teenager after leaving school (Radley College Abingdon, Oxon).
In 1972 Farahar joined the staff of a bookshop in Culham, between Abingdon and Oxford, before becoming a market trader at Bath Antiques Market where he sold books during the week and worked as a wine waiter at weekends in order to make ends meet.
On his deathbed, Geoffrey had bequeathed to Abingdon the church and lands at Kensington, Middlesex, and his parents and brothers had confirmed that grant, as had King Henry I.
Beyond this on the Abingdon side is parkland associated with Abingdon Abbey.
Snooker player Alex 'Hurricane' Higgins also grew up on the road, having been born on Abingdon Drive.
Some of the earliest surviving documents to mention the word Scotland include the Anglo-Saxon Chronicles of Abingdon, Worcester and Laud, written during the 11th Century, which state that prior to the Battle of Stamford Bridge in 1066, Earl Tostig had sought refuge in Scotland under the protection of Malcolm III, King of Scots.
In Virginia, First Bank of Virginia has branches in Abingdon, Christiansburg, Dublin, Fort Chiswell, Radford, and Wytheville as well as a loan production office in Blacksburg.
Born Darwin Gale Schisler on a farm in Knox County, Illinois, he graduated from Abingdon High School in 1952, served in the United States Air Force from 1952–1955, and graduated from Western Illinois University in 1959.
Sir George Bowyer, 6th Baronet (1783–1860), British Whig MP for Malmesbury and Abingdon
Before the death of William Rufus, he was already High Sheriff of Berkshire and he is stated in the Abingdon Chronicle to have been one of the persons who profited by the unjust transactions of Modbert, whom the king appointed to administer the affairs of the monastery in the interest of the royal revenues, during the period when the office of abbot was vacant.
Jonathan is also a keen runner; he has run the London Marathon twice, the Brighton Marathon twice, and was chosen to carry the Queen's Jubilee Baton through Abingdon in Oxfordshire in the run-up to the 2002 Commonwealth Games.
Later that year, a new Secretary of War replaced Jefferson Davis—John B. Floyd, a native of Abingdon, a cousin of Johnston's by marriage, and former guardian of Preston Johnston.
As of 2003, the site of the former Abingdon factory was host to McDonald's and the Thames Valley Police with only the former office block still standing.
The last MGB Roadster off the production line at Abingdon returned to Abingdon County Hall Museum on 1 December 2011 with the help of British Motor Heritage.
Lord Abingdon's first wife was Emily Gage (d. 28 August 1838), daughter of General the Honourable Thomas Gage and Margaret Kemble, 27 August 1807.
It was launched in July 2011 and publishes three issues covering Oxfordshire, one covering Oxford city (which was formerly known as the Oxford Journal), one covering the South and Vale of White Horse (namely Abingdon, Didcot, Wantage, and the third covering Witney, Carterton and West Oxfordshire.
Pinta Island, also known as Abingdon Island, after the Earl of Abingdon, is an island located in the Galapagos Islands group, Ecuador.
He became a monk of Jumièges, and Duke William, then king of England, gave him at Rouen the abbacy of Abingdon on 19 June 1084, his predecessor Æthelhelm, also formerly a monk of Jumièges, having died on 10 September 1083.
A member of the Holston Annual Conference of the Methodist Church, Rev. Looney served the following appointments: Rising Fawn Circuit, Rising Fawn, Georgia; Baker's Chapel - Wyndale, Abingdon, Virginia; and Pleasant View (formerly Baker's Chapel), Abingdon.
Hovenden married Katherine, eldest daughter of Thomas Powys of Abingdon, and is doubtfully said to have had a daughter, Elizabeth, wife of Edward Chaloner, second son of Sir Thomas Chaloner of Steeple Claydon, Buckinghamshire.
His work has been exhibited in New York at: Whitney Museum of American Art; the American Folk Art Museum; the Katonah Museum of Art; Sotheby's; Tiffany & Co.; the Federal Reserve Bank of New York; Denise Bibro Fine Art; the Jonathan Levine Gallery; the Aidan Savoy Gallery; the Cinders Gallery; the Front Room Gallery; the Rockland Center for the Arts, and Abingdon 12.
On 16 November 1240, Edmund Rich (1175–1240), also known as Saint Edmund or Eadmund of Canterbury, and as Saint Edmund of Abingdon, a 13th-century archbishop of Canterbury in England, died here at the house of Augustinian Canons.
There was a dip in the carriage of merchandise in 1810, when the Kennet and Avon Canal opened and provided a more convenient route from Bristol to London, but it picked up again after 1819, when the North Wilts Canal opened, providing a link from Latton to Abingdon via Swindon and the Wilts and Berks Canal, which was easier than using the Thames.
Bainton, R. H. (1960) Christian attitudes toward war and peace. New York: Abingdon.
She and several allies walked over the frozen river through Stephen's lines, walked to Abingdon, where they got horses to ride to Wallingford Castle.
In 2012 they also hosted a group of A-Level Theatre Studies students from Abingdon School and The School of St Helen and St Katharine, two independent schools in Abingdon, Oxfordshire.
A rare 4-8-0 steam locomotive sits aside the trailhead at Abingdon, and several restored stations survive along the trail itself.
WFHG-FM, a radio station (92.7 FM) licensed to Abingdon, Virginia, United States