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unusual facts about Joseph B. Varnum


Joseph B. Varnum, Jr.

Varnum was chosen Speaker pro tempore in June 1851, and presided over the Assembly for the duration of the special session.


Emory Kristof

Kristof has participated in multiple undersea expeditions with Canadian explorers Joseph MacInnis and Phil Nuytten, including the exploration of the Breadalbane, the world's northernmost known shipwreck, and the 1995 expedition to recover the bell from the wreck of the SS Edmund Fitzgerald.

Ephraim Buchwald

Ordained at Yeshiva University, where he was a student of Rabbi Dr. Joseph B. Soloveitchik, he served from 1973 for 15 years as the Director of Education at Lincoln Square Synagogue in New York, which became one of the largest and most successful centers for adult Jewish education programs in America.

First Corps, Army of Northern Virginia

Since McLaws had not yet arrived, the brigades were led by Brig. Gen. Joseph Kershaw.

Frank S. Tavenner, Jr.

Following World War II he was assigned by the Department of the Army to be Counsel under Joseph B. Keenan and later Acting Chief of Counsel of the International Prosecution Section for the International Military Tribunal for the Far East from late 1945 to the end of the trial in 1948.

George W. MacRae

In 1847, the Whigs gained sufficient control of the legislature to replace the non partisan MacRae with Joseph B. Lancaster.

J. Hayward Haight

He was not a candidate for re-election the following year, and was succeeded by Joseph B. Reynolds, who ran on both the Greenback and Democratic tickets.

Joseph B. Anderson

The footage they recorded became a documentary titled The Anderson Platoon (La Section Anderson), directed by Pierre Schoendoerffer.

Joseph B. Bennett

He continued the practice of his profession until his death in Greenup, Kentucky, November 7, 1923.

He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1910 to the Sixty-second Congress.

Joseph B. Cheadle

He was an unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1890, and for nomination to the Fifty-third and Fifty-fourth Congresses in 1892 and 1894.

Joseph B. Johnson

Johnson worked at the Bryant Chucking Grinder Company, starting as a draftsman and retiring as General Manager in 1949.

Joseph B. Keeler

Keeler later went to Poughkeepsie, New York where he received a Master of Accounts degree from Eastman Business College.

Joseph B. Martin

During his academic career he has been an editor of Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine and has published over 325 articles.

As Dean, he was instrumental in funding and building a major new research building across the street from the quad and Boston Latin School.

Joseph B. Murdock

After an education in public schools in Boston and Cambridge, Massachusetts, he was appointed to the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland, from the 4th Congressional District of Massachusetts on 26 July 1866.

In mid-1911, Rear Admiral Reginald F. Nicholson was chosen to succeed Murdock as commander-in-chief of the fleet as of November 1911, but Murdock had gained distinction in his handling of unrest in China related to the Xinhai Revolution of that year, and United States Secretary of State Philander C. Knox requested that Murdock be kept on as fleet commander-in-chief to allow continuity until the situation in China stabilized.

Joseph B. Reynolds

After the close of the war, he went to Europe for further study, taking a post-graduate course at Heidelberg University.

Reynolds was elected to the Assembly in 1878, receiving 1,740 votes to 810 for Republican J. B. Nugent (the incumbent, Greenbacker J. Hayward Haight, was not running for re-election).

Joseph B. Scarnati

In 1996, Scarnati first ran for Pennsylvania's 25th senate district when incumbent Republican State Senator John E. Peterson decided to retire in order to run for congress.

Scarnati narrowly won the race to replace Jubelirer against veteran lawmakers Stewart Greenleaf and Jeffrey Piccola.

Joseph Palmer

Joseph B. Palmer (1825–1890), American lawyer, legislator, and Confederate general in the American Civil War

Joseph Reynolds

Joseph B. Reynolds (1836-1898), Greenback member of the Wisconsin State Assembly

Joseph Wirthlin

Joseph B. Wirthlin (1917–2008), American apostle in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

Koren Publishers Jerusalem

In recent years, Maggid has published works by well-known Jewish thinkers such as former Chief Rabbi of the UK Rabbi Jonathan Sacks, Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik, Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz, Rabbi Shlomo Riskin, Rabbi Berel Wein, Erica Brown and others.

Maximos V Hakim

Joseph Schechtman in his 1949 publication book The Arab Refugee Problem quotes Hakim's comment to Karl Baehr, the then Executive Secretary of the American Christian Palestine Committee.

Oaklawn Cemetery

Notable areas and gravesights in the cemetery include the gravesites of Henry Laurens Mitchell, John T. Lesley Family, Samuel Friebele, Charles Wall, the Hooker Family, James McKay Jr., James C. Field, Joseph B. Lancaster, the Krause Family, the Wall Family, mass graves, gravesite of James T. Magbee, the gravesites of William and Nancy Ashley the "Rural Cemetery", gravesites of John P. Wall, James Gettis, grave art, and the "Cradle Graves".

Water Resources Collections and Archives

Some highlights include the papers of engineers and attorneys such as Joseph B. Lippincott, Hans Albert Einstein, Frank Adams, Charles Derleth, John S. Eastwood, John D. Galloway, Sidney T. Harding, Walter L. Huber, Edward Hyatt, Joe W. Johnson, Robert Kelley, Bernard Etcheverry, Harvey Oren Banks, Milton N. Nathanson, Luna Leopold and Murrough P. O'Brien, amongst others.

William H. J. Ely

Ely was the second cousin of Massachusetts Governor Joseph B. Ely, since they shared a greatgrandfather, Rev. Elihu Ely (1777-1839), son of Captain Levi Ely (1732-1780).

William M. Richardson

He was elected as a Democratic-Republican to the Twelfth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Joseph B. Varnum; and was reelected to the Thirteenth Congress and served from November 4, 1811, to April 18, 1814, when he resigned.

Wirthlin

Joseph B. Wirthlin (1917–2008), American businessman and member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of The LDS Church


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