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4 unusual facts about Ebenezer


Ebenezer, Brampton

This function was no longer needed when local government was reorganized in Ontario, when, notably, Peel Region was created.

Ebenezer, Saskatchewan

The first settlers arrived between 1885 and 1887, mostly German-speaking Protestants who named the village after the location of Eben-Ezer mentioned in the Books of Samuel of the Old Testament.

Friedrich Michael Ziegenhagen

Moreover he maintained contacts between those Pietists and the missions in North America - particularly the community of Salzburgers at Ebenezer, Georgia - and in Southern India (Tranquebar, Madras) where he also supported the Danish-Halle Mission.

John Lucas Miller

(born 1831 in Ebenezer, South Carolina, died May 6, 1864) was an attorney and state legislator in South Carolina who served as a Colonel in the Army of Northern Virginia and was killed at the Battle of the Wilderness during the American Civil War.


Ages Ago

In the haunted Scottish Castle of Glen Cockaleekie, where the title deed to the castle, much like Brigadoon, is only found once every hundred years, Ebenezer Tare has decided that, as "possession is nine-tenths of the law," he might as well be in possession of it until such time as the deed shows up again.

Alfred Roberts

His father was Benjamin Ebenezer Roberts (1857–1925), from a Ringstead family, and his mother was Ellen Smith (1857–1935), whose own mother, Catherine Sullivan, was born at Kenmare in Ireland.

Avon, Connecticut

Its first pastor was Ebenezer Booge, a graduate of Yale Divinity School who arrived in 1751.

C. Earl Stubbs

Southern Asia Bible College as an extension opened Ebenezer Bible College in Bellary in 1978 for its Telugu-speaking pupils.

David E. Finley

He attended the public schools of Rock Hill, South Carolina and Ebenezer, South Carolina and was graduated from the law department of South Carolina College (now the University of South Carolina) at Columbia, South Carolina in 1885.

Earnest Farms Historic District

Earnest donated the land for the Ebenezer Methodist Church, which was completed in 1795 and ordained that same year by Bishop Francis Asbury.

Ebenezer Bassett

Born in Derby, Connecticut on October 16, 1833, Ebenezer D. Bassett was the second child of Eben Tobias and Susan Gregory, who were both free blacks.

Ebenezer Erskine Pressly

Ebenezer Erskine Pressly was born on December 23, 1808, in the lower part of Abbeville District, South Carolina.

Ebenezer Hagan

Ebenezer Benyarko Hagan (born 1 October 1975 in Kumasi) is a former Ghanaian International footballer who last played for Sekondi Hasaacas F.C. in the Ghana Premier League.

Ebenezer Herrick

Ebenezer Herrick (October 21, 1785 – May 7, 1839) was a U.S. Representative from Maine, father of Anson Herrick.

Ebenezer Jackson, Jr.

For the fictional character, Ebenezer Jackson, see Zombie Chronicles

Ebenezer Le Page

Ebenezer Le Page is the lead character in the novel The Book of Ebenezer Le Page by GB Edwards.

Ebenezer Moseley

When Ebenezer, known as Eben, was five years old, the family moved to Halifax, Nova Scotia and set up a shipyard in Richmond in the north of Halifax.

Ebenezer Obey

Obey, whose full name is Ebenezer Remilekun Aremu Olasupo Obey-Fabiyi, was born in Idogo, Ogun State, Nigeria of EgbaYoruba ethnic background.

Ebenezer Sekyi-Hughes

Ebenezer Sekyi-Hughes was admitted to the Ghana Bar as a barrister and solicitor of the Supreme Court of Ghana in 1966.

Ebenezer Webster

Ebenezer Webster (born in Kingston, New Hampshire, April 22, 1739; died in Salisbury (now part of Franklin), New Hampshire, April 22, 1806) was a United States farmer, innkeeper, militia member, politician and judge.

Edmund Walter Pook

Edmund Walter Pook was born at Walworth, Surrey in 1851, the son of Ebenezer Whitcher Pook and Mary Pook, formerly Burch.

Elsecar

Geoffrey Howse, actor, author and local historian, as a boy in the mid-1950s until 1965, lived in Ebenezer Place (now demolished).

Florence E.S. Knapp

She was a descendant of Ebenezer Hancock, librarian of Harvard University and brother of John Hancock.

Francis B. Brewer

Born in Keene, New Hampshire, Brewer was the son of Ebenezer and Julia Emerson Brewer and attended the Barnet, Vermont public schools, Newbury (Vermont) Seminary, and Kimball Union Academy in Meriden, New Hampshire.

Gold Selleck Silliman

The General's son Benjamin Silliman was born in a tavern, originally the home of Ebenezer Hawley in Trumbull, Connecticut, after his mother, Mary Silliman, fled Fairfield ahead of the invading British troops.

Guilford Court House order of battle

1st Continental Artillery Regiment: Capt Anthony Singleton, Capt Ebenezer Finley (2 batteries of 2 six-pounders)

Halol

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Henry Richard

The son of the Rev. Ebenezer Richard (1781–1837), a Calvinistic Methodist minister, Henry Richard is chiefly known as an advocate of peace and international arbitration, having been secretary of the Peace Society for forty years (1848–84).

History of the Marranos in England

Petitions favoring readmission had been presented to the army as early as 1649 by two Baptists of Amsterdam, Johanna Cartwright and her son Ebenezer ("The Petition of the Jews for the Repealing of the Act of Parliament for Their Banishment out of England"); and suggestions looking to that end were made by men of the type of Roger Williams, Hugh Peters, and by Independents generally.

History of Trumbull, Connecticut

Benjamin Silliman was born in the Eliakim Beach tavern, built by mill owner Ebenezer Hawley in 1765, a few months after his mother Mary (Fish) Silliman (widow of John Noyes) fled from their Fairfield home to escape 2,000 invading British troops ordered to burn Fairfield.

John Challis

He appeared in pantomime at Weston playhouse between 13 December 2011 and 8 January 2012 playing Ebenezer in Aladdin.

John Mark Davies

Born in Halstead, Essex, England in 1840, Davies was the fifth eldest of the six boys and six girls of Ebenezer Davies and Ruth Bartlett.

Joseph Roswell Hawley

Hawley, a direct descendant of Joseph Hawley (Captain), first of the name in America, through Ebenezer, Joseph and Samuel, was born in Stewartsville, near Laurinburg, North Carolina, where Hawley's father, a native of Connecticut, was pastor of a Baptist church.

Ken Harris

Harris's credits with him included A Christmas Carol (1971) — as animator of Ebenezer Scrooge — the opening titles of The Return of the Pink Panther (1975), and the still-unfinished animated feature The Thief and the Cobbler (animating the Thief of the title, which is very reminiscent of Harris's earlier work animating Wile E. Coyote for Jones).

Levett Landon Boscawen Ibbetson

Ebenezer Ibbetson married Catherine Levett, the daughter of Francis Levett, who operated the trading firm Sir Richard Levett & Co., along with his brother Sir Richard Levett, Lord Mayor of London.

Mount Greylock

Timothy Dwight IV, President of Yale University, along with Williams College President Ebenezer Fitch, climbed Greylock in 1799, probably over a rough route cut by a local pioneer farmer Jeremiah Wilbur (in that time more land had been cleared on the slopes for farming than today).

Pukapuka

Thirty years later, Pukapuka was given the name "Isles de la Loutre" (Isles of the Otter) by Pierre François Péron, a French adventurer who was acting as first mate on board the American merchant ship, Otter (Captain Ebenezer Dorr) after it was sighted on 3 April 1796.

Samuel Newell

As the youngest of nine children, he was born to Ebenezer and Catherine Newell on 24 July 1784 at Durham, Maine.

Shamo Abbey

Ebenezer Shamo Abbey (born on 3 September 1980 in Salaga) is a Ghanaian who plays for Vietnamese V-League club Bình Dương F.C..

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints hymns

About half of the new hymn tunes that were composed for the Psalmody were written by members of the Church Music Committee, which included Evan Stephens, George Careless, Ebenezer Beesley, Joseph Daynes, and Thomas C. Griggs.

The Sot-Weed Factor

A satirical epic set in the 1680s–90s in London and colonial Maryland, the novel tells of a fictionalized Ebenezer Cooke, who is given the title "Poet Laureate of Maryland" by Charles Calvert, 3rd Baron Baltimore and commissioned to write a Marylandiad to sing the praises of the colony.

Walsall Wood F.C.

The club's original name was Walsall Wood Ebenezer Primitive Methodists, stemming from its affiliation with a local Methodist chapel.

WLBR

WLBR's studio shares the same building with sister station, 100.1 WQIC along Pennsylvania Route 72 in Ebenezer, 2 miles northwest of Lebanon.


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