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4 unusual facts about Joseph H. Allen


Joseph H. Allen

The factory was closed in 1861, not only due to poor sales, but because Allen enlisted in the Union Army.

In early 1862, the 125th Volunteer Infantry Regiment had been put together in Brunswick and a call by President Lincoln for more troops was answered by Allen that September.

Allen died on April 24, 1884, and is buried in Eagle Mills Cemetery on Brunswick Road in Eagle Mills; his wife died in 1907 and is buried next to him.

At the beginning of the Civil War, his sales plummeted so he closed his business and enlisted in the Union Army.


Alexander Kummant

Upon his resignation, Amtrak COO William Crosbie assumed the role of interim CEO, but was succeeded on November 25 by former FRA administrator Joseph H. Boardman.

Amiriyah shelter bombing

Charles E. Allen, the CIA's National Intelligence Officer for Warning supported the selection of bomb targets during the Persian Gulf War.

Aris T. Allen

A freeway, Aris T. Allen Boulevard (Maryland Route 665) was named for Allen, who died the year prior to its completion.

Arthur E. Nelson

Nelson unsuccessfully ran for the United States Senate as a Republican in 1928 against Henrik Shipstead (receiving 33.4% of the vote), but was elected fourteen years later, in November 1942 to finish out the term of deceased Senator Ernest Lundeen, which had temporarily been filled by appointee Joseph H. Ball (who won the November 1942 election for the full six-year term from 1943 to 1949).

Augustus N. Allen

It still owns and manages a broad portfolio of properties in the New York and Miami metro areas.

Cayuga Duck

Writing in 1848, Richard L. Allen, recommends the “common black duck” as being the most profitable for domestic use, as they laid between forty to fifty eggs and sometimes even more, if kept from sitting.

Cecil J. Allen

Geoffrey Freeman Allen, his son, also a writer on railway topics, and first editor of Modern Railways

Charles E. Allen

Satellite photos and electronic intercepts indicating this alternative use were regarded as circumstantial and unconvincing to Brigadier General Buster Glosson, who had primary responsibility for targeting.

Deckman

Joseph H. Deckman (born 1969), American businessman and lacrosse player and coach

Dorathy M. Allen

Prior to 1945, the Miss Arkansas Pageant was sponsored by the East Arkansas Young Businessmen's Club.

Edmund T. Allen

Theodore von Kármán intervened and recommended to Eddie Allen that the Boeing wind tunnel should be designed for airspeeds near the speed of sound.

Ethel D. Allen

She often encouraged African-Americans and women to seek political office; indeed, her friend Augusta Clark would later become the second African-American woman to serve on Philadelphia City Council, eventually becoming the Democratic Majority Whip.

In January 1979, incoming Governor Dick Thornburgh named Allen his choice for Secretary of the Commonwealth.

First Church of Windsor

Joseph H. Rainey (1832-1877) was the first African American person to serve in the United States House of Representatives and the second black person to serve in the United States Congress.

George Loftus Noyes

Other prominent Boston artists working at the Fenway Studios in that period include Marion B. Allen, Lilla Cabot Perry, Joseph Decamp, Philip Hale, Lillian Wescot Hale, Charles Hopkinson, György Kepes, William Kaula, Lee Lufkin Kaula, Lillian and Leslie Prince Thompson, William McGregor Paxton, Marion L. Pooke, Edmund Charles Tarbell, and Mary Bradish Titcomb.

Gordon Allen

Gordon P. Allen (1929–2010), Democratic member of the North Carolina General Assembly

J. H. Allen

While the works of Allen and Armstrong are by no means identical, with Allen's work being much earlier, much longer and in hard-back book format, the core of Allen's work does appear to have served as inspiration for Armstrong, and Allen's book was not unknown to Armstrong's students at Ambassador College.

James C. Allen

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

Jonathan Kwitny

His book jacket biographies record that his reporting forced J. Lynn Helms, chief of the Federal Aviation Administration, to resign, and dogged President Ronald Reagan's National Security Advisor Richard V. Allen for conflicts of interest.

Joseph Edward Kurtz

John L. Allen, Jr., a longtime Vatican watcher with the National Catholic Reporter, speculates that Kurtz is seen as a leading candidate for archbishop in a major American city with possible promotion to the exclusive rank of cardinal.

Joseph H. Ball

After the bombing of Pearl Harbor, however, Minnesotans came to appreciate their foresighted senator.

Joseph H. Beeman

Beeman connected with the Farmers' Alliance and served as chairman of its executive committee.

Joseph H. Casey

The ferry MV Joe Casey, named in his honour, operates on the Bay of Fundy between East Ferry and Tiverton in Digby County.

Joseph H. Harper

Harper remained in the Army, reaching the rank of Major General and serving as Commandant of the United States Army Infantry School.

Joseph H. Howard

He had a particular interest in the musical heritage of the Djuka people of Surinam and not only collected their instruments, but also acquired elaborately hand-carved furniture, including the double doors to his home.

Joseph H. Outhwaite

He served as chairman of the Committee on Pacific Railroads (Fiftieth Congress), Committee on Military Affairs (Fifty-second and Fifty-third Congresses).

Joseph H. Stotler

Hired in 1925, the operation was owned by Margaret Emerson, heiress to the Bromo-Seltzer fortune and widow of the also wealthy Alfred G. Vanderbilt who lost his life when the RMS Lusitania was sunk by a German U-boat on May 7, 1915.

Joseph H. Thompson

Entitled "Joe Thompson" it was sung to the tune of the American folk song "Old Black Joe" by Stephen Foster.

Joseph H. Wales

After a diving trip to Devils Hole he wrote the scientific description to the previously unrecognized Devil's Hole pupfish.

Joseph McDermott

Joseph H. McDermott, former U.S. politician from the state of West Virginia

Laurence Allen

Laurence W. Allen (1892–after 1926), English World War I flying ace

Lily L. Allen

Allen was born to John Oram and Jane (Talbott) Oram at Newport, County Mayo, Ireland on 30 December 1867.

Lower Moreland Township School District

Jill Kelley, Lebanese-American socialite, who became a key figure in the 2012 United States government investigation into inappropriate communications by top U.S. Generals David Petraeus and John R. Allen.

Maryland Route 665

In October 1992, state officials named MD 665 for Aris T. Allen, a doctor and former member of the Maryland General Assembly who had died in 1991.

Paul S. Allen

He is a fan of Jaguar sports cars, The Beatles,Sheffield Wednesday soccer team and is a keeper of Border Collies.

R.S. Allen

Allen and Bullock also created the TV series Rango, and wrote the screenplays for the feature films Girl Happy (starring Elvis Presley), The Man Called Flintstone (1966) and Don't Drink the Water (1969), among others.

Richard Toensing

Toensing has received numerous awards for composition most notably from Columbia University (Joseph H. Bearns Prize), the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts, and BMI.

Richard V. Allen

Richard Allen is also a fellow of St Margaret's College, Otago, one of New Zealand's most prestigious residential colleges.

Richard Van Allen

Richard V. Allen (born 1936), American National Security Advisor under President Ronald Reagan

Romig

Joseph H. Romig (1872-1951), frontier physician in Alaska and Moravian Church missionary

St. Jude Catholic Church

St. Jude Catholic Church, Allen, Texas, a Catholic church in Allen, Texas, United States

Taylorsville, North Carolina

Charles E. Allen, former Undersecretary for Intelligence and Analysis at the US Department of Homeland Security

The Railway Magazine

One of those who shared authorship of the series after his death was the Great Eastern Railway engineer Cecil J. Allen (1886-1973) who became sole author from 1911 until succeeded by O. S. Nock in 1958, when Cecil J. Allen moved his performance column to Trains Illustrated (later renamed Modern Railways), edited by his son, G. Freeman Allen.

Thomas R. Allen

In 2010 Allen cosponsored an ordinance with 30th Ward Alderman Ariel Reboyras that designated a stretch of Central Avenue in the vicinity of its intersection with Belmont Avenue as "Honorary Lech Kaczynski Way" to honor the deceased Polish President.

TwentyWonder

The event featured performers such as Grant-Lee Phillips, Joel Hodgson, Harmonix, Funny or Die, The Batmobile, etymologist Taylor Lura, theremin player Eban Schletter, Dave "Gruber" Allen, Jim Turner as Mr. Tremendous and Tim Biskup.

William J. Allen

He was reelected to the Thirty-eighth Congress and served from June 2, 1862, to March 3, 1865.

William Mandel

The book received critical acclaim from notables, including author and senior editor of The Black Scholar, Robert L. Allen; renowned musician and activist Pete Seeger; and the internationally respected poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti.

William W. Allen

William Wirt Allen (September 11, 1835 – November 21, 1894) was a major general in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War.


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