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Daniel G. Rollins

Congressman Edward H. Rollins was a distant cousin, all descended from Judge Ichabod Rollins (1722–1800).


117th Delaware General Assembly

This date was January 6, 1953 which was two weeks before the beginning of the first administrative year of Governor J. Caleb Boggs and John W. Rollins as Lieutenant Governor.

118th Delaware General Assembly

This date was January 4, 1955 which was two weeks before the beginning of the third administrative year of Governor J. Caleb Boggs and John W. Rollins as Lieutenant Governor.

40-Mile Loop

In 1912, another city planner, Edward H. Bennett, also recommended developing a ridgetop park long the West Hills.

Center for Latin American Studies – University of Pittsburgh

The Center was formally founded on September 16, 1964 during Chancellor Edward H. Litchfield’s tenure at the University.

Civic Center, Denver

When Speer was reelected in 1916, he re-pursued his ideas about the Civic Center, hiring Chicago planner and architect Edward H. Bennett, a protégé of Daniel Burnham.

Congress Parkway

Authors Daniel Burnham and Edward H. Bennett proposed a broad new boulevard on the line of Congress Street that would cut through the long blocks between Van Buren and Harrison Streets, connecting a cultural center of new buildings in Grant Park to a new civic center centered on Congress and Halsted Street, then extending westward to parks and suburban areas beyond the city limits.

Daniel G. Rollins

From 1866 to 1869, he was an Assistant United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York and removed to New York City.

Edward East

Edward H. East (1830–1904), American politician; Secretary of State for Tennessee, 1862–1865

Edward Griffith

Edward H. Griffith (1894–1975), American film director, screenwriter and producer

Edward H. Funston

He served as chairman of the Committee on Agriculture (Fifty-first Congress).

Presented credentials as a Member-elect to the Fifty-third Congress and served from March 4, 1893, until August 2, 1894, when he was succeeded by Horace L. Moore, who contested the election.

Edward H. Gillette

Foreseeing westward expansion after the war, Francis Gillette and brother-in-law John Hooker had purchased shares in a concern which owned thousands of acres of sprawling Iowa landscape.

Gillette was the son of Senator Francis Gillette and Elisabeth Daggett Hooker, a descendant of Rev. Thomas Hooker, and the brother of actor/playwright William Gillette.

In 1878, Gillette was elected as a Greenback Party member to the United States House of Representatives, serving in the 46th Congress with fellow Iowa Greenback Party member James B. Weaver from 1879 to 1881.

Edward H. Harte

He regularly visited the Aransas National Wildlife Refuge where he met and befriended several members of the board of the NAS.

Edward H. Hobson

Hobson's Federal style brick home in Greensburg (built by his father in 1823) is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

He was married to Katie Adair, a niece of Kentucky Governor John Adair.

In 1887, he became president of the Southern Division of the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway.

Edward H. Hume

From 1903-1905 Hume was in Bombay as an Acting Assistant Surgeon in the Commissioned Corps of the United States Public Health Service to monitor the Plague outbreak that had started in 1896.

Edward H. Kruse

He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection to the Eighty-second Congress in 1950.

Edward H. Levi

John G. Levi was recently confirmed to the Board of Directors of the Legal Services Corporation.

Edward Hirsch Levi (June 26, 1911 – March 7, 2000) was an American academic leader, scholar, and statesman who served as United States Attorney General.

Edward H. Lingo

In 1872 he moved to Denison, Grayson County, Texas, which had recently become a railroad town and a center of population and industry, and entered a partnership with J. P. Leeper & Company, later Waples, Lingo & Company.

Edward H. Ntalami

An attempted takeover bid of Carbacid Investments by BOC Group was aborted after the capital markets regulator declined to endorse the deal.

Edward H. Rulloff

In 1869, he presented his theory of language origins The Method of Languages to the American Philological Association.

Edward H. Shortliffe

He has served as president and chief executive officer of the American Medical Informatics Association from 2009-2012 and continues to hold adjunct faculty appointments in biomedical informatics at Columbia University and Arizona State University.

In July 2009, Shortliffe assumed a position as president and chief executive officer of the American Medical Informatics Association, an organization that he helped to form between 1988 and 1990 when he was President of the Symposium on Computer Applications in Medical Care.

Edward H. Tarrant

By 1827, Tarrant had become a sheriff of Henry County, Tennessee but moved to Texas by the early 1830s where he established a ranch in Red River County, Texas.

Edward H. Watson

He retired to New York City, where he was in the New York Social Register.

Edward Hart

Edward H. Harte (1922–2011), American newspaper executive, journalist, philanthropist, and conservationist

Edward Hobson

Edward H. Hobson (1825–1901), merchant, banker, politician and officer in the United States Army

Federal Trade Commission Building

Edward H. Bennett of the Chicago firm Bennett, Parsons and Frost oversaw the project and designed the final building, which would become the headquarters for the FTC.

Herbert C. Hoover Building

Soon afterward Treasury Secretary Andrew W. Mellon and the Board of Architectural Consultants, composed of leading architects and headed by Edward H. Bennett of the Chicago architectural firm of Bennett, Parsons, and Frost, developed design guidelines for the site.

James S. Rollins

Issue of $166,000 in bonds to build the new School of Mines at Rolla (called Missouri University of Science and Technology as of 2008), liquidate University debt, complete the Science Building (called Switzler Hall as of 2008), and add to the University's permanent endowment (1872).

Three days later, the Geyer Act, introduced by Henry Geyer of St. Louis, passed, officially incorporating the University of Missouri.

John G. Shedd

One of the Commercial Club's most notable undertakings was the sponsorship of Edward Bennett and Daniel Burnham's Plan of Chicago, which was released in 1909 and which to this day is considered to be one of the most important urban planning documents ever created.

John Rollins

John W. Rollins (1916–2000), American businessman and politician

John W. Rollins

He was married three times, to Kitty, Linda Kuechler, and Michele Metrinko, and had ten children including John W., Jr., James, Catherine, Patrick, Ted, Jeff, Michele, Monique, Michael and Marc, as well as eleven grandchildren, John III, Jamie, Fontayne, Charlie, Rachel, Katie, Sarah, Emma, Kaitlyn, William, and Morgan.

Julia Morgan

Along with classmates Arthur Brown, Jr., Edward H. Bennett and Lewis P. Hobart, Maybeck mentored Morgan in architecture at his Berkeley home.

Kansas City Board of Trade

It was formally chartered in 1876; among the exchange's founders was Edward H. Allen.

National States' Rights Party

As a result, in April 1976 U.S. Attorney General Edward H. Levi concluded an FBI investigation into the group, after it was decided that they posed no threat.

Psychological biblical criticism

Known figures within biblical scholarship advocating this interdisciplinary field in the United States include Rev. D. Andrew Kille (2001; 2004), J. Harold Ellens (2004), Wayne G. Rollins (1983; 1999; 2004), and, in Europe, Eugen Drewermann (Beier, 2004), Gerd Theissen (1983, 1987, 2007).

Quinlan, Texas

In 1892 Edward H. R. Green, Hetty Green's son and president of the Texas Midland, abandoned Roberts as a depot and established a new depot town, Quinlan, 1½ miles north of the older community.

TSR Records

Since its hey-day, TSR moved on from dance music to releasing mostly new age and smooth jazz music in the 1990s under the name Baja/TSR Records, including several Billboard chart-ranked albums of Nuevo Flamenco guitar music by Armik, Young & Rollins, NovaMenco, Behzad, and Luis Villegas.

Walter C. Rollins

As a trainer, Rollins spent the majority of his career at racetracks in the New York/New Jersey area, making his home in The Bronx, New York.

Walter E. Rollins

Along with Steve Nelson, he co-wrote "Here Comes Peter Cottontail," used in the Easter special of the same name, in 1949, and "Frosty the Snowman" in 1950.

Washington Boulevard Historic District

A sculpture lined park between two one-way streets decorated a shopping district and upscale residential neighborhood Edward H. Bennett, a well known master planner, turned Washington Boulevard into a Beaux-Arts streetscape.

Wilder Brain Collection

Edward H. Rulloff, a philologist and murderer who possessed one of the largest recorded brains.


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