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Simler Hall

It is named for General George B. Simler, the commander of the Air Training Command and primary proponent of the creation of the CCAF.


7th Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry Regiment

He performed duty with his command, made the fruitless march in spring of 1862 under McClellan towards Manassas, went to the first campaign of the Rappahannock, engaged in small affairs at Thornburg near Fredericksburg.

Burnham Hoyt

He practiced as an architect during 1919-1955, and worked during his career as an architect with Denver architects Kidder and Wieger, with New York City architects George Post and Bertram Goodhue, and during 1919-1933 with his Denver-based brother Merrill Hoyt as Hoyt and Hoyt.

California Southern Railroad

Among the organizers were Frank Kimball, a prominent landowner and rancher from San Diego who also represented the Chamber of Commerce and the Board of City Trustees of San Diego, Kidder, Peabody & Co., one of the main financial investment companies involved in the Santa Fe, B.P. Cheney, L.G. Pratt, George B. Wilbur and Thomas Nickerson who was president of the Santa Fe.

Camp Wightman

Company I was called the "McClellan Guards" after General McClellan.

Centreville Military Railroad

The Confederate defense line along Bull Run appeared too strong to Major General George B. McClellan, the Federal officer charged with the responsibility of capturing Richmond after Major General Irvin McDowell had failed in July, 1861.

Charles R. Train

-- A grammar fix may be needed here. -->During the Civil War served in the Union Army as a volunteer aide-de-camp to General George B. McClellan.

Clark Henry Wells

During this time, sent a letter to the United States Secretary of War, Edwin M. Stanton, that accused Maj. Granville O. Haller, former commander of George B. McClellan's headquarters guard, of disloyal sentiments to the Union.

Cortelyou

George B. Cortelyou (1862–1940), first US Secretary of Commerce and Labor and later Secretary of the Treasury

Dennis Hart Mahan

Mahan also founded the Napoleon Seminar at West Point, where advanced under-graduates and senior officers including Lee, Reynolds, Thomas and McClellan, studied and discussed the great European wars, Napoleon and Frederick the Great.

Dunn Loring, Virginia

On September 22, 1886, the land was transferred to the Loring Land and Improvement Company, composed of General Dunn, then a retired Army Brigadier General and former Judge Advocate General; George B. Loring, a former Congressman and Commissioner of Agriculture; and George H. LeFetra, a Washington temperance hotel proprietor.

Elizabeth Brinton

The Gold Award-winning Girl Scout was born in Fairfax, Virginia to parents Fullerton Brinton (descendent of George Brinton McClelland ) and mother Noel Chambers Brinton (cousin to Cisco CEO, John Chambers).

George Aitken

George B. Aitken (1928–2006), Scottish footballer and club manager

George Ashmore Fitch

George Ashmore Fitch (1883–1979) was an American Protestant missionary in China, the Young Men's Christian Association, Nanking Safety Zone International Committee Administrative Director, and the grandfather of politician George B. Fitch.

George B. Cooper

After Cooper’s removal from office, he resided at New Bedford in Wall Township, New Jersey until his death.

George B. Crist

Following his graduation from the Armed Forces Staff College in 1968, he commanded the 2nd Battalion, 6th Marines at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina.

George B. Duncan

As a result of his service in World War I, he received numerous decorations, including the Croix de Guerre with two palms and a star and status as a Commander in the Legion of Honor from France, status as a Companion of Order of the Bath from the United Kingdom, and the Distinguished Service Medal from the United States.

George B. Field

Among his doctoral students were Eric G. Blackman, Sean M. Carroll, Carl E. Heiles, Péter Mészáros, Christopher McKee, Telemachos C Mouschovias, and Paul R. Shapiro

George B. Loring

He was a delegate to the Republican National Conventions in 1868, 1872, and 1876; appointed United States centennial commissioner for the State of Massachusetts in 1872; elected as a Republican to the Forty-fifth and Forty-sixth Congresses (March 4, 1877 - March 3, 1881).

George B. Lyle

Roy LeCraw had fought a tough campaign against incumbent William Hartsfield and won on a slim margin but just a few months after taking office, he joined the army leaving mayor pro-tem Lyle until new elections could be held.

George B. Post

Sarah Bradford Landau, George B. Post, Architect: Picturesque Designer and Determined Realist (1998) inspired the retrospective exhibition at the Society, 1998–99 that reassessed Post's work.

George B. Schwabe

From January 3, 1945, to January 3, 1949, he served in the 79th and 80th United States Congress, losing to Dixie Gilmer in 1948.

George B. Schwartzman

Schwartzman was the most successful "private citizen" candidate, and finished ninth overall in the race, just after actor Gary Coleman.

George B. Shaw

:Not to be confused with the Anglo-Irish playwright and social thinker George Bernard Shaw.

George B. Throop

After their father's death, their mother married George W. Hatch, and among their children were Congressman Israel T. Hatch (1808–1875) and Eliza Hatch (1800–1885) who married first Congressman Gershom Powers (1789–1831) and then Judge William B. Rochester (1789–1838).

George B. Vogt

After he had been awarded his bachelor of science degree (in 1941), Vogt began his career in 1942, when he joined United States Public Health Service, appointed to World War II studies.

George B. Ward

The house was modeled on the circular Temple of Vesta in Rome and was surrounded by landscaped gardens and fountains.

George Chadwick

George B. Chadwick (1880–1961), All-American football player and coach

George Churchill

George B. Churchill (1866–1925), U.S. Representative from Massachusetts

George H. Noonan

Among Noonan's backers was George B. Jackson, an African-American businessman called the "wealthiest black in Texas" in the second half of the 19th century.

George Handley

George B. Handley, professor of humanities at Brigham Young University

George Hitchcock

George B. Hitchcock (1812–1872), American involved in housing slaves on their way to freedom

George Moffat

George B. Moffat, Jr. American author and world champion sailplane pilot

Henry R. Selden

On September 25, 1834, Selden married Laura Anne Baldwin at Clarkson, and they had three sons and two daughters, among them George Baldwin Selden, who became the first person to be granted a patent for the automobile.

History of Williamsburg, Virginia

As General George McClellan's Union forces crept up the Peninsula to pursue the retreating Confederate forces, a rear guard force led by General James Longstreet and supported by General J.E.B. Stuart's cavalry blocked their westward progression at the Williamsburg Line.

Iranian frigate Sabalan

At The Pentagon, Defense Secretary Frank Carlucci, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Adm. William J. Crowe Jr., and U.S. Central Command head Gen. George B. Crist monitored the situation.

Jamaica at the 1988 Winter Olympics

Businessmen George B. Fitch and William Maloney proposed the idea of a Jamaican bobsleigh team after seeing a local pushcart derby in Jamaica.

Jesse Gove

The 22nd Massachusetts became part of the Army of the Potomac and left their winter quarters on March 10, 1862 to participate in Maj. Gen. George B. McClellan's Peninsular Campaign.

Joseph E. Johnston

He defended the Confederate capital of Richmond, Virginia, during the 1862 Peninsula Campaign, withdrawing under the pressure of a superior force under Union Maj. Gen. George B. McClellan.

Julian Hawthorne

He studied civil engineering in America and Germany, was engineer in the New York City Dock Department under General McClellan (1870–72), spent 10 years abroad, and on his return edited his father's unfinished Dr. Grimshawe's Secret (1883).

Lee's Mill Earthworks

Confederate Major General John B. Magruder's extensive defensives beginning at Lee's Mill and extending to Yorktown along the Warwick River caused the Union Army of the Potomac Commander Major General George B. McClellan to initiate a month-long siege of the Warwick-Yorktown Line which lasted until May 3, 1862 and contributed to the eventual failure of McClellan's campaign.

Municipal Ownership League

Hearst, a lifelong Democrat, formed the party chiefly as a means of toppling the Tammany Hall political machine, a faction of the Democratic Party which then dominated city politics, and specifically to defeat Tammany crony George B. McClellan, Jr., who was then running for a second term as Mayor of New York City.

Roy LeCraw

He joined the Army, resigning his post in May 1942 when mayor pro tem George B. Lyle took over until a special election could be held on May 27, in which Hartsfield defeated eight opponents.

Samuel Garland, Jr.

Garland's body was retrieved by Union troops and sent down the mountainside, where Maj. Gen. George B. McClellan ordered an honor guard to accompany the body until it could be transferred to Garland's friends and transported home.

Sharpsburg, Maryland

Sharpsburg gained national recognition during the American Civil War, when Confederate General Robert E. Lee invaded Maryland with his Army of Northern Virginia in the summer of 1862 and was intercepted near the city by Union General George B. McClellan with the Army of the Potomac.

Thunder on South Mountain

In this battle, Union forces fought under the command of Maj. Gen. George B. McClellan and Confederate forces were under the command of Maj. Gen. Daniel Harvey Hill.

Warwick Line

The Warwick Line (also known as the Warwick–Yorktown line) was a defensive works across the Virginia Peninsula maintained along the Warwick River by Confederate General John B. Magruder against much larger Union forces under General George B. McClellan during the American Civil War in 1861–62.


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