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Henry Bliss

Henry E. Bliss (1870–1955), librarian and creator of the Bliss bibliographic classification


Aaron T. Bliss

Then he was captured on General Wilson’s raid near Richmond.

He was an unsuccessful candidate for re-election in 1890 to the 52nd Congress, being defeated by Democrat Henry M. Youmans.

Arabella Huntington

After his death, she married his nephew Henry E. Huntington, who was also a railway magnate and the founder of the famous Huntington Library, Art Collections and Botanical Gardens, in San Marino, California.

Arabella Yarrington "Belle" Huntington (c.1850-1924) was the second wife of American railway tycoon and industrialist Collis P. Huntington, and then the second wife of Henry E. Huntington.

Archibald M. Bliss

He did not stand in 1882 but was elected to the forty-ninth and fiftieth Congresses for the fifth district of New York and served from March 4, 1885 to March 3, 1889.

Elected as a Democrat, Bliss was a United States Representative for the fourth district of New York in the forty-fourth Congress and was re-elected three times, serving from March 4, 1875 to March 3, 1883.

Arthur Teele

Teele served the US Army as a Judge Advocate General on the personal staff of General Henry Emerson, Commander of the XVIII Airborne Corps at Fort Bragg from July 1975 to June 1977.

Azekah

Excavations by the English archeologists Frederick J. Bliss and R. A. Stewart Macalister in the period 1898-1900 at Tel Azekah revealed a fortress, water systems, hideout caves used during Bar Kokhba revolt and other antiquities, such as LMLK seals.

Charles H. Treat

In 1896 President William McKinley appointed him the collector of Internal Revenue for the Wall Street District, Elihu Root and Cornelius N. Bliss being his sponsors.

Chickering and Sons

Coincidentally, as the tour began, Henry E. Steinway (Steinweg) and his large family arrived in New York as immigrants from Germany.

Conference of Governors

Joining Blanchard at the conference were two Louisiana conservationists, Henry E. Hardtner, called "the father of forestry in the South", and William Edenborn, an industrialist who had developed a "humane" form of barbed wire that did not injure the cattle.

Equality Colony

A formal "call" for this convention was published in Coming Nation July 11 and 18, and was endorsed by Henry Demarest Lloyd, Eugene Debs, Frank Parsons, William D. P. Bliss and Eltweed Pomeroy.

Frank H. Buck

In 1900, together with Burton E. Green (1868-1965), Charles A. Canfield (1848-1913), Max Whittier (1867–1928), William F. Herrin (1854-1927), Henry E. Huntington (1850-1927), William G. Kerckhoff (1856–1929), W.S. Porter and Frank H. Balch, known as the Amalgated Oil Company, he purchased Rancho Rodeo de las Aguas from Henry Hammel and Andrew H. Denker and renamed it Morocco Junction.

George Bliss

George N. Bliss (1837–1928), American soldier in the American Civil War

H. W. Bliss

Bliss was born to Rev. James Bliss in 1840 and was educated at the Merton College, Oxford.

Henry Bliss

Henry H. Bliss (1830–1899), first person killed by an automobile in the US

Henry Chambers

Henry E. Chambers (1860–1929), educator and historian from New Orleans, Louisiana

Henry E. Barbour

He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1932 to the Seventy-third Congress.

Barbour was elected as a Republican to the Sixty-sixth and to the six succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1919-March 3, 1933).

Henry E. Blackman

In 1839, he relocated to Michigan, finally settling in Trowbridge Township, Allegan County in 1841.

Henry E. Chambers

Maria Charles was a daughter of Caleb and Sarah Charles of Lovell in Oxford County, Maine, and a descendat of John Charles, pioneer settler in 1636 of Charlestown, Massachusetts.

The following academic year, he was principal of the male and female academies in Monticello in Drew County in southeastern Arkansas.

In 1883, Chambers married the former Ellen White Taylor of Crystal Springs in Copiah County in southwestern Mississippi.

Henry E. Huntington

Other legacies in California includes the eponymous cities Huntington Beach and Huntington Park, as well as Huntington Lake.

Henry E. Sharp

Windows (1867–1868) at St. Ann's Episcopal Church in Brooklyn, New York (Renwick & Sands), now the gymnasium of Packer Collegiate Institute; the window "Faith and Hope" was donated to the Metropolitan Museum of Art and is on permanent display in the American Wing.

Henry E. Stoughton

Crippled as a boy, he worked as a cobbler while studying law, attained admission to the bar in 1841, and practiced first in Chester, and later in Bellows Falls.

Henry E. Stubbs

Stubbs was elected as a Democrat to the 73rd, 74th, and 75th Congresses and served from March 4, 1933, until his death in Washington, D.C., February 28, 1937.

Henry M. Youmans

In the general election of 1890, Youmans ran as the candidate of the Democratic Party and defeated incumbent Republican Aaron T. Bliss to be elected from Michigan's 8th congressional district to the 52nd United States Congress, serving from March 4, 1891 to March 3, 1893.

Henry Nichols

Henry E. Nichols (died 1899), U.S. Navy officer and the commander of the Department of Alaska

John G. Linvill

In 1970 he, Jim Bliss, and others from Stanford and SRI co-founded Telesensory Systems (TSI) to manufacture and distribute the Optacon.

Karl Sudhoff

He retired in 1925, and was succeeded in his position at Leipzig by Henry E. Sigerist.

Langelsheim

Henry E. Steinway, born Heinrich Engelhard Steinweg February 22, 1797 in Wolfshagen, piano maker

Matthew Henson Middle School

When the current Henry E. Lackey High School was completed in 1969, this Pomonkey building was then rededicated as a middle school.

Mineral Springs, Arkansas

Henry E. Chambers, Louisiana historian and educator early in his career was the principal at Mineral Springs High School in the 1881-1882 school year.

Mount Rubidoux

In 1906 Frank Miller, owner of the Mission Inn, along with Henry E. Huntington and Charles M. Loring, formed the Huntington Park Association and purchased the property with the intent to build a road to the summit and develop the mountain as a park to benefit the city of Riverside.

New York state election, 1894

Ex-U.S. Vice President Levi P. Morton (in office 1889-1893) was nominated for Governor on the first ballot (vote: Morton 532½, J. Sloat Fassett 69, Cornelius N. Bliss 40½, Stewart L. Woodford 40, Daniel Butterfield 29, Leslie W. Russell 20, James Arkell 1).

Oak Knoll, Pasadena, California

An upscale neighborhood on rolling, oak-covered terrain, it was developed in 1905 by a corporate partnership between prominent Northeasterners and California residents A. Kingsley Macomber, Henry E. Huntington and William R. Staats.

Ray C. Bliss Institute of Applied Politics

The Bliss Institute, founded in 1986, is named for Ray C. Bliss, University of Akron alumnus, university trustee and former chair of the Republican National Committee.

Tasker H. Bliss

His daughter Eleanor, born in 1885, attended Bryn Mawr College where she became the first women to gain a doctorate in geology.

Lieutenant Colonel Bliss was commissioned as a brigadier general in the Regular Army by an Act of Congress under direction of the U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt.

On 15 August 1903 Brigadier General Bliss was appointed a member of the General Staff, Chief, 3rd Division and President of the Army War College.

Tasker Howard Bliss was born on 31 December 1853 in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania to George Ripley Bliss and Mary Ann (née Raymond) Bliss.

While serving as Chief, Collector of Customs for the Island of Cuba and the Port of Havana he was also the President of the Commission to Revise the Cuban Tariff Treaty in 1901 and was appointed to the Army War College Board as Special Envoy to Cuba to negotiate the treaty ratification in November and December 1902.

Theodor August Heintzman

They soon parted ways, however, with Heintzman taking his family to Buffalo where he started again; Steinweg eventually changed his name to Steinway and became a successful piano manufacturer in his own right.

William F. Herrin

In 1900, together with Burton E. Green (1868-1965), Charles A. Canfield (1848-1913), Max Whittier (1867–1928), Frank H. Buck (1887-1942), Henry E. Huntington (1850-1927), William G. Kerckhoff (1856–1929), W.S. Porter and Frank H. Balch, known as the Amalgated Oil Company, he purchased Rancho Rodeo de las Aguas from Henry Hammel and Andrew H. Denker and renamed it Morocco Junction.

William G. Kerckhoff

In 1900, together with Burton E. Green (1868-1965), Charles A. Canfield (1848-1913), Max Whittier (1867–1928), Frank H. Buck (1887-1942), Henry E. Huntington (1850-1927), William F. Herrin (1854-1927), W.S. Porter and Frank H. Balch, known as the Amalgated Oil Company, he purchased Rancho Rodeo de las Aguas from Henry Hammel and Andrew H. Denker and renamed it Morocco Junction.


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