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unusual facts about Henry L. P. Beckwith, Jr.


Lovecraft's Providence and Adjacent Parts

Lovecraft's Providence and Adjacent Parts is a book by Henry L. P. Beckwith, Jr. detailing sites in Providence, Rhode Island related to H. P. Lovecraft.


An Lushan

Beckwith, Christopher I. (2009): Empires of the Silk Road: A History of Central Eurasia from the Bronze Age to the Present.

Aristes, Pennsylvania

Notable victims of the crash included Broadway theatre impresario Earl Carroll and his girlfriend, actress Beryl Wallace; Henry L. Jackson, men's fashion editor of Collier's Weekly magazine and co-founder of Esquire Magazine; and Venita Varden Oakie, the former wife of actor Jack Oakie.

Asahel C. Beckwith

A Democrat, he was born in Mentor, Ohio, and was appointed to serve in Washington from 1893 to 1895 in the 53rd United States Congress, but his resignation due to investigation prevented him from taking office.

Ausable Club

Club members have included Harvard president James Conant, clergyman Henry Sloane Coffin, aeronautical engineer Jerome Hunsaker, painter Harold Weston, and US Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson, who blazed a trail up nearby Noonmark Mountain that is still in use.

Charles C. Painter

He also lobbied heavily for the institution of the Allotment policy introduced by Senator Henry L. Dawes, and passed in 1887 as the Dawes Act.

Coleman Lindsey

He was also a member of committee of five in charge of the 1924 inaugural ceremonies for Governor Henry L. Fuqua.

Donald M. Nelson

Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson regularly criticized Nelson for his "inability to take charge".

Elizabeth Selden Rogers

Her sister was Mabel Wellington White, wife of US Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson, she was also the maternal granddaughter of Union Major General Amos Beebe Eaton and a descendant of Roger Sherman, one of the Founding Fathers of the United States.

Elting E. Morison

1960 - Elting E. Morison - Turmoil and Tradition, a biography of Henry L. Stimson, Secretary of State in the Hoover Administration and later Secretary of War in the Roosevelt Administration, Parkman Prize of the Society of American Historians.

Fernando Wood

This was followed by a motion by Henry L. Dawes to censure Wood, which passed by a vote of 114-39.

Francis J. Beckwith

In November 2005, Professor Beckwith became the President-elect of the Evangelical Theological Society, a professional organization of theologians.

Henry Benson

Henry L. Benson (1854–1921), American politician and jurist in the state of Oregon

Henry Bowles

Henry L. Bowles (1866–1932), United States Representative from Massachusetts

Henry Dawes

Henry L. Dawes (1816–1903), U.S. Senator and U.S. Representative

Henry L. Benning

At the Battle of Antietam, Benning's brigade was a crucial part in the defense of the Confederate right flank, guarding "Burnside's Bridge" across Antietam Creek all morning against repeated Union assaults.

Henry L. Dawes

In late 1871 and early 1872, Dawes became an ardent supporter of the creation of Yellowstone National Park.

The Dawes Commission, set up under an Indian Office appropriation bill in 1893, was created, not to administer the Act, but to attempt to persuade the tribes excluded under the Act to agree to the allotment plan.

Henry L. Dickey

He pursued the vocation of civil engineer, and in that capacity had charge of the construction of the Marietta and Cincinnati Railroad in Vinton County, Ohio.

Henry L. Eustis

In the reorganization of the Army of the Potomac preceding Ulysses S. Grant’s Overland Campaign in 1864, Eustis’s brigade was moved to the 2nd Division of VI Corps under Brig. Gen. George Getty.

Henry L. Fuqua

The five included future Lieutenant Governor Coleman Lindsey of Minden, the seat of Webster Parish in northwestern Louisiana, who was affiliated with the Long faction.

The original Fuqua family traces it ancestry back to William Fouquet, a Huguenot, who settled in Virginia in the 17th century to escape religious persecution.

Fuqua defeated both Huey Pierce Long, Jr., and Lieutenant Governor (and former Speaker of the Louisiana House of Representatives) Hewitt Leonidas Bouanchaud in the Democratic gubernatorial primary in 1924 to succeed the term-limited John M. Parker.

He died halfway into his term, and Lieutenant Governor Oramel H. Simpson succeeded to the top post.

Henry L. Kimelman

In 2004, Dakota Wesleyan University awarded him an honorary doctorate in Humane Letters.

Henry L. Marsh

In addition, he established the New Millennium Leadership Institute, founded the Unity Day Celebration Committee, and hosts Richmond's Annual Juneteenth Celebration.

Henry L. Pinckney

Pinckney was elected as a Nullifier to the Twenty-third and Twenty-fourth Congresses (March 4, 1833 – March 3, 1837).

Henry L. Roosevelt

After retiring in 1920, he served as the European manager for the Radio Corporation of America from 1923 to 1928 and oversaw the building of large radio stations at Ankara, Turkey, and Warsaw, Poland.

Henry L. Stimson Center

The Center draws inspiration from the life and work of Henry L. Stimson, whose bipartisan service to five presidents included appointments as Secretary of War for Presidents William Howard Taft, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Harry Truman, and Secretary of State for President Herbert Hoover.

Henry Marsh

Henry L. Marsh (born 1933), American politician and civil rights lawyer

Henry Nichols

Henry L. Nichols (1823–1915), American physician and Democratic politician from California

Henry O'Brien

Henry L. O'Brien (c. 1869–1935), American politician from New York

Henry Pierce

Henry L. Pierce (1825–1896), United States Representative from Massachusetts

Herbert Yardley

When Henry L. Stimson, Secretary of State under President Herbert Hoover, found out about Yardley and the Cipher Bureau, he was furious and withdrew funding, summing up his argument with "Gentlemen do not read each other's mail".

John Williams Gunnison

In Utah Territory, with Lieutenant E. G. Beckwith as assistant commander, Gunnison began the survey of a possible route, surveying areas across the Rocky Mountains via the Herfano River, through Cochetopa Pass, and by way of the present Gunnison and Green rivers to the Sevier River.

Lewis J. Clarke

Clarke is one of the last surviving faculty members appointed by the founding dean, Henry L. Kamphoefner, of the North Carolina State University School (now College) of Design.

Military history of the Philippines during World War II

On July 25, 1941, US Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson requested that US President Franklin D. Roosevelt issue orders calling the military forces of the Commonwealth into active service for the United States.

Munson Report

The Munson Report was circulated to several Cabinet officials, including Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson, Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox, Attorney General Francis Biddle, and Secretary of State Cordell Hull.

Philippine Long Distance Telephone Company

PLDT was established on November 28, 1928, by an act of the Philippine legislature and approved by then Governor-General Henry L. Stimson by means of a merger of four telephone companies under operation of the American telephone company GTE.

Piri Reis map

After reading about the map's discovery in The Illustrated London News, United States Secretary of State Henry L. Stimson contacted the United States Ambassador to Turkey Charles H. Sherrill and requested that an investigation be launched to find the Columbus source map, which he believed may have been in Turkey.

Tipitapa

In 1929, the city's name was changed to "Villa Stimson" after the U.S. government sent Henry L. Stimson.

Two Down and One to Go

Presented by the Secretary of War (Henry Stimson) and narrated by Army Chief of Staff George Marshall, the film is notable for its heavy use of animated graphics, spliced with stock footage.

United Airlines Flight 624

Among the passengers were Broadway theatre impresario Earl Carroll and his girlfriend, actress Beryl Wallace; Henry L. Jackson, men's fashion editor of Collier's Weekly magazine and co-founder of Esquire Magazine; and Venita Varden Oakie, the former wife of actor Jack Oakie.

William L. Clayton

He was a member of the Interim Committee appointed to advise Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson and President Harry S. Truman on problems expected to arise from the development of the atomic bomb and he was an economic advisor to Truman at the Potsdam Conference.


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