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Arthur Curtis

Arthur R. Curtis (1842–1925), Union Army officer during the American Civil War


2-2-2

Bury, Curtis, and Kennedy supplied six 2-2-2 locomotives to the Bristol and Gloucester Railway in 1844, and fourteen to the Great Southern and Western Railway in Ireland in 1848, (the last of these has been preserved at Cork Kent railway station.

Allard Hall

In 1976 construction began on the Curtis building, named for the Faculty's founding Dean, George F. Curtis, who died on October 23, 2005.

Arthur Edwards

Arthur R. Edwards (1934–2006), Australian rules footballer with the Footscray Football Club

Arthur Hall

Arthur R. Hall, head football coach at the University of Illinois, 1907–1912

Arthur Marshall

Arthur R. Marshall (1919–1985), scientist, ecologist and Everglades conservationist

Arthur Morrell

Arthur R.H. Morrell, mariner and member of the Corporation of Trinity House

Arthur P. Schmidt

One of Schmidt's sons, Arthur R. Schmidt, is also a notable film editor who has won Academy Awards for Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988) and Forrest Gump (1994).

Arthur R. Albohn

After moving with his wife to Whippany, New Jersey in 1950, Albohn became involved in local politics and was first elected to serve on the Hanover Township Committee in 1954, serving there until 1987, serving as Chairman of the Sewerage Authority, President of the Board of Health, Director of Finance and as a member of the township's Planning Board.

Arthur R. Miller

Before that he was the Bruce Bromley Professor of Law at Harvard Law School (1971-2007), after being on the faculties of the University of Michigan and the University of Minnesota.

His weekly television titled Miller's Court was aired on Boston's WCVB-TV from 1979-1988 and was the first American TV show dedicated to the exploration of legal issues.

Sick Puppies is now the name of a real band from Australia, playing grunge and alternative rock.

Arthur R. Taylor

In 1985, Fordham University named him dean of its Graduate School of Business Administration.

Arthur R. Wilson

In 1945 he was conferred the Freedom of the City of Dijon.

Arthur Richardson

Arthur R. Richardson (1862–1936), pilot, farmer and political figure in Nova Scotia, Canada

Arthur von Hippel

Arthur R. von Hippel (1898–2003), German American materials scientist and physicist

Charles B. Curtis

As well as working in private practice for more than sixteen years Curtis served as the last Chairman of the Federal Power Commission and the first Chairman of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission from 1977 to 1981.

NTI was founded in 2001 and resulted from Curtis teaming with former Senator Sam Nunn and CNN founder Ted Turner to form a charitable organization focused on issues that were previously the domain of governments.

Chewing gum

The New England settlers picked up this practice, and in 1848, John B. Curtis developed and sold the first commercial chewing gum called The State of Maine Pure Spruce Gum.

Cork Kent railway station

Originally built by Bury, Curtis, and Kennedy of Liverpool at a cost of £1,955, the engine was obtained by the Great Southern and Western Railway to run services from Dublin to Cork.

Depressaria

To make matters worse, J. Curtis popularized another incorrect spelling, D. heracleana, apparently first introduced (as Pyralis heracleana) by J.C. Fabricius in his 1775 Systema Entomologiae.

Earl J. Glade

Glade's daughter Patricia married LeGrand R. Curtis, a general authority of the LDS Church; she was the mother of LeGrand R. Curtis Jr., who was also a general authority.

Edward H. Cooper

Cooper is the co-author, with Charles Alan Wright and Arthur R. Miller, of the first, second, and third editions of Federal Practice & Procedure, the leading legal treatise on federal jurisdiction and procedure.

Eminence, Indiana

Glenn M. Curtis - four time Indiana state champion basketball coach (Lebanon & Martinsville) and coach at Indiana State and the high school coach of John Wooden.

George M. Curtis

After defeating Hayes, he served in the 54th United States Congress, then was re-elected two years later and served in the 55th United States Congress.

Gum industry

1848: John B. Curtis developed the first commercially available chewing gum

James B. Longley

The owner of a successful insurance agency in Lewiston, Longley got his first opportunity in statewide politics when then-Governor Kenneth M. Curtis asked him to lead a state government commission called The Maine Management and Cost Survey Commission, which was intended to make government more efficient, and cut costs.

James C. Curtis

He was appointed by President Abraham Lincoln as Collector of Internal Revenue for his district, and remained in office until 1869.

James F. Curtis

James Freeman Curtis II (1825–1914), 49er, Vigilante leader in San Francisco, its first Chief of Police, officer in the California militia and Volunteers in the American Civil War.

James J. Storrow

With police Commissioner Edwin U. Curtis at odds with the rank and file police, Boston Mayor Andrew J. Peters appointed Storrow to chair an ad hoc Citizen's Committee to review the matter.

John Joseph Braham, Sr.

In the early teens Edward S. Curtis (ethnographer, photographer, and soon to be film maker whose major subject was the North American Indian) commissioned Braham to compose a score for In the Land of the Head Hunters.

John O. Colvin

During college and law school he was employed by a private firm, Niedner, Niedner, Nack and Bodeux, of St. Charles, Missouri, and also worked for a number of political figures, including Missouri Attorney General John C. Danforth and Missouri State Representative Richard C. Marshall, both in Jefferson City; and for U.S. Senator Mark O. Hatfield and Congressman Thomas B. Curtis, in Washington, DC.

Justa Lindgren

He served as head football coach at Cornell College in Mount Vernon, Iowa from 1902 to 1903 and at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign in 1904—along with Arthur R. Hall, Fred Lowenthal, and Clyde Matthews—and alone in 1906, compiling a record of 14–16–2.

Kenneth Curtis

Kenneth M. Curtis (born 1931), former American lawyer and politician

Kenneth L. Curtis (born 1965), initially found incompetent to stand trial for the killing of his girlfriend, found competent 10 years later

Kenneth L. Curtis

Reporters for News Channel 8 observed Curtis taking classes at a local college with an apparent goal of a career in psychiatry.

Lawrence Denny Lindsley

This association led him to work for Edward S. Curtis, where Lindsley developed some of the color negatives (orotones), known as the “gold tones”, for Curtis’ famous “Indians of North America” series.

Leonty Ramensky

This was long before Correspondence analysis was first used (1952), the now classic applications of ordination to plant communities by J. Roger Bray and John T. Curtis and David W. Goodall and the theoretical foundations of gradient analysis was developed by Whittaker and others (1970s onwards).

Marietta Earthworks

The complex was again surveyed and drawn in 1838 by Samuel R. Curtis (at the time a civil engineer for the state of Ohio).

Rainier Club

E. H. Harriman, John Burroughs, John Muir, Edward S. Curtis and Henry Gannett set out to Seal Island and other Bering Sea islands and to the coast of Siberia and the Bering Strait from the Club, and celebrated there on their return.

Salvage ethnography

Photographer Edward S. Curtis (1868–1952) was preceded by painter George Catlin (1796–1872) in attempting to capture indigenous North American traditions that they believed to be disappearing.

Thomas B. Curtis

He served as vice president and general counsel, Encyclopædia Britannica, from 1969 to 1973.

Timothy Long

The group performs music including the original score for a newly restored print of Edward S. Curtis’ 1914 film In the Land of the Head Hunters.


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