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16 unusual facts about Joseph "Pleasant Gardens" McDowell


1934 in Ireland

9 April - W. W. McDowell, US Minister to Ireland, dies at a State banquet in his honour at Dublin Castle, between President Éamon de Valera and Mrs. Sinéad de Valera.

Charles McDowell

Charles S. McDowell (1871–1943), Charles Samuel McDowell, Jr., interim Governor of Alabama

Charles T. McDowell (1921–2007), Professor Emeritus at the University of Texas at Arlington

Charles S. McDowell

He served as Mayor of Eufaula from 1908–12, and was President of the Alabama State Bar in 1915-16.

Edmund Curtis

As part of his work with the Irish Manuscripts Commission he published with R. B. McDowell the Irish Historical Documents, 1172-1922 on the year of his death.

Hillsboro Cemetery

Located in Hillsboro, Ohio, Hillsboro Cemetery is home to multiple notable interments, including baseball player Kirby White and politicians Joseph J. McDowell, John Armstrong Smith, Jacob J. Pugsley, Allen Trimble and Wilbur M. White.

James F. McDowell

He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1864 to the Thirty-ninth Congress.

Joseph J. McDowell

He was an unsuccessful candidate for election in 1840 to the Twenty-seventh Congress.

Joseph McDowell

Joseph J. McDowell (1800–1877), U.S. Representative from Ohio, son of Joseph "Quaker Meadows" McDowell

Joseph "Pleasant Gardens" McDowell (1758–1799), American Revolutionary War soldier and legislator from North Carolina

Marion, North Carolina

Another famous home in Marion is the Joseph McDowell House, built in 1787 by the county's namesake, Joseph McDowell.

Robert M. McDowell

Immediately before his confirmation to the FCC, he was senior vice president and assistant general counsel of COMPTEL (Competitive Telecommunications Association), an industry trade group of competitive (non-RBOC) telephone companies.

Robert McDowell

Robert M. McDowell (born 1963), former member of the Federal Communications Commission

R. B. McDowell (Robert Brendan McDowell, born 1913), Irish historian

W. W. McDowell

:The Papal Nuncio, Monsignor Paschal Robinson, stayed by his side to the end.

The body was afterwards taken to the United States Legation in the Phoenix Park, where it is being embalmed preparatory to removal to the United States.


Ari Elon

Elon's brothers include the Israeli politician, MK Benny Elon, Rabbi Mordechai Elon and Be'er Sheva District Court Judge Joseph ("Sefi") Elon .

David W. Maurer

Among the interviewed criminals were such figures as Joseph "The Yellow Kid" Weil, Charles Gondorff and Limehouse Chappie.

Francesco Guarraci

In early 2007, it was confirmed that after the convictions of Consigliere Stefano "Steve the Truck Driver" Vitabile and Girolamo "Jimmy" Palermo from 2003 to 2006, Guarraci was promoted to "acting boss" along with Underboss, Joseph "Joe" Miranda, to run the day-to-day activities of the DeCavalcante crime family on behalf of the imprisoned Riggi.

Fred Goetz

During the next several years, Goetz would become associates with underworld figures such as Joseph "Yellow Kid" Weil and Morris Klineman, as well as participating in several armed robberies, including the robbery of $352,000 from the Farmers and Merchants Bank, in Jefferson, Wisconsin, with Gus Winkler and four others, in 1929.

Joe Gyau

Gyau is of third generation pedigree of professional footballers, being the son of former U.S. international Philip Gyau and the grandson of Joseph "Nana" Gyau, a former Ghanaian international.

John Whedon

He and wife, Caroll Angell, are the parents of television screenwriter Tom Whedon and the grandparents of Film and TV screenwriter and director Joseph "Joss" Whedon and screenwriters Jed Whedon and Zack Whedon.

Joseph and His Brothers

Mann retells the familiar stories of Genesis, from Jacob to Joseph (chapters 27–50), setting it in the historical context of the Amarna Period.

Josephslegende

Josephslegende (The Legend of Joseph) Op. 63, is a ballet in one act for the Ballets Russes based on the story of Potiphar's Wife, with a libretto by Hofmannsthal and Kessler and music by Richard Strauss.

Madeline McDowell Breckinridge

Another, Thomas was a renowned Thoroughbred racehorse owner/breeder and trainer who won the 1902 Kentucky Derby.

Mekhilta

Especially noteworthy are the haggadot relating to the battles of the Ephraimites ("Besh" p. 28b) and to Serah, Asher's daughter, who showed Joseph's coffin to Moses (ib p. 29a), besides others, which are based on old tales and legends.

Midrash Eleh Ezkerah

According to the Midrash Eleh Ezkerah, a Roman emperor commanded the execution of the ten sages of Israel to expiate the guilt of the sons of Jacob, who had sold their brother Joseph—a crime which, according to Ex. xxi.

Philadelphia crime family

On October 22, 1946, Dovi died of natural causes at a New York City hospital, and Joseph "Joe" Ida was appointed by the Commission to run the Philadelphia family and its rackets.

Joseph "Joe" Ida ran the family throughout the 1940s and early 1950s.

Prophets and messengers in Islam

Sura Al-A'nam (6:84-86) gives a comprehensive list of Israelite prophets: Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Noah, David, Solomon, Job, Joseph, Moses, Aaron, Zechariah, John, Jesus, Elias, Ishmael, Elisha, Jonah and Lot (Samuel is called 'A Prophet' elsewhere, but is unnamed).

Rogatchover Gaon

The remainder of his surviving writings appeared in the United States and Israel many years after his death; all are titled Tzofnath Paneach "decipherer of secrets", (a title given to the Biblical Joseph by Pharaoh (Genesis 41:45)).

Simon Gaon

In 1964, he studied in Academia 63 in Haarlem, the Netherlands, and furthered his European education with the Art Students League Merit Scholarship (1965) and the Edward G. McDowell traveling scholarship