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unusual facts about Aspinwall


Lou Castro

The city of Aspinwall was a center of dispute, since it was an important port of call and trade center for American companies who ended up calling the city “Aspinwall”.


Benson Leavitt

On October 1, 1845, Mayor Thomas Aspinwall Davis wrote Board of Aldermen chairman Benson Leavitt from his home in Brookline.

Boston–Brookline annexation debate of 1873

Born into a wealthy, traditional Brookline family, Aspinwall studied law at Harvard.

Isaac Strain

Isaac Grier Strain was born March 4, 1821, in Roxbury, Franklin County, Pennsylvania, of Scots-Irish origin, and died May 14, 1857, in Aspinwall, (alternative name of Colón, Panama) Colombia.

Martin Aspinwall

Coach Stuart Raper played Aspinwall alongside several other up and coming youngsters during the 2002 season.

Pacific Pearl Company

After arriving at Aspinwall, the vessel was transported via railroad to the city of Panama.

Stanhope Aspinwall

On 8 August 1752, George II appointed Stanhope Aspinwall as his agent and consul general to Algiers.

Stotham

The "Cadwallader Simpkins House" is actually the Thomas Aspinwall Davis House in Brookline, Massachusetts(Actually this house is not the Aspinwall Davis House).

Tanglewood

The 210 acre Tanglewood estate was gifted to the Boston Symphony Orchestra in 1936 by Mary Aspinwall Tappan (descendant of Chinese merchant William F. Sturgis and abolitionist Lewis Tappan.) The estate was named after a book by American author Nathaniel Hawthorne.

U.S. Mail Steamship Company

SS Star of the West 1857-1859 A Vanderbilt ship, she started the New York to Aspinwall service for the company from June, 1857 until September, 1859.


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