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unusual facts about Alexander W. Hope


Alexander W. Hope

On June 4, 1851, Mayor Benjamin Wilson appointed him to organize and lead a volunteer force of city peace officers, to be known as the Los Angeles Rangers.


A. D. Hope

He wrote a book of "answers" to other poems, including one in response to the poem "To His Coy Mistress" by Andrew Marvell.

His influences were Pope and the Augustan poets, Auden, and Yeats; he was a polymath, very largely self-taught, and with a talent for offending his countrymen.

Alexander W. Campbell

In 1861, Campbell entered the Confederate States Army in the rank of colonel of the 33rd Tennessee Infantry Regiment, serving in the army of General Leonidas Polk in Columbus, Kentucky.

Alexander W. Dreyfoos, Jr.

Dreyfoos spends much of his time these days aboard his unique SWATH yacht "Silver Cloud", designed and built by Abeking & Rasmussen in Lemwerder, Germany.

Alexander W. Monroe

During his later years, Monroe resided on his farm in the Barnes Mill community of Hampshire County.

Ebenezer J. Penniman

In 1850, Penniman defeated incumbent Democrat Alexander W. Buel to be elected as a Whig from Michigan's 1st congressional district to the Thirty-second Congress, serving from March 4, 1851 to March 3, 1853.

Eugene Nickerson

He worked for Wall Street law firm Milbank, Tweed, Hope, Hadley & McCloy, then Hale, Stimson, Russell & Nickerson.

John and Donald Parkinson

At the age of sixteen, he was apprenticed for six years to John J. Bradshaw, a contractor/builder in nearby Bolton, where he learned the meaning of craftsmanship and gained a strong knowledge of practical construction.

John C. Hope

J.C. Hope was born in Newberry District, South Carolina to Johann Christian Haupt and Christina Fellers.

Mary Elise Hayden

She studied at the Young Actors Theater in Tallahassee, Florida, for seven years and attended the Middle School of the Arts in North Palm Beach, Florida, and, in West Palm Beach, Alexander W. Dreyfoos School of the Arts, where she majored in voice and theater.

Patrick A. Hope

Hope won a five-way Democratic primary in June 2009 to replace retiring Delegate Al Eisenberg as the 47th district delegate.

Ray and Maria Stata Center

Other major funders include Bill Gates, Alexander W. Dreyfoos, Jr. (MIT class of 1954), Charles Thomas "E.B" Pritchard Hintze (an MIT graduate, and of JD Edwards, now Oracle Corporation) and Morris Chang of TSMC.

Silas Stow

His son Alexander W. Stow was the first Chief Justice of the State of Wisconsin.

T. C. Hope

Theodore Cracraft Hope - a British born civil servant of the Government of India and also author of many books.

Virginia Historical Society

Virginia House, situated on a hillside overlooking the historic James River in Richmond, Virginia, was constructed by Alexander W. Weddell, U.S. ambassador to Spain and Argentina, and his wife, Virginia Weddell, in 1928 from the materials of a sixteenth-century English manor house previously standing in Warwick.

Walsh College of Accountancy and Business

Walsh College assists the community in ongoing volunteer efforts: Gleaners, Capuchin Soup Kitchen, Blackwell Institute in Detroit, and Focus: HOPE.

Weddell

Alexander W. Weddell (1876–1948), American diplomat; ambassador to Argentina and Spain


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