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unusual facts about Joseph S. Ruckle


Oregon Portage Railroad

In 1861, John W. Brazee of the Oregon Portage Company started to build a railroad out of a mule and wagon road that had been constructed by Col. Joseph S. Ruckle and Harrison Olmstead in 1856 but had been out of service since around 1858.


Iseman

Joseph S. Iseman (1916 – 2006), American lawyer and educator

John F. Melby

Appeals to State Department officials responsible for administrative matters failed, as did the advocacy of Pennsylvania Senator Joseph S. Clark, Jr. on Melby's behalf.

Joseph Fowler

Joseph S. Fowler (1820–1902), United States Senator from Tennessee

Joseph Freeman

Joseph S. Freedman (born 1946), professor of education at Alabama State University

Joseph Murdock

Joseph S. Murdock (1822–1899), American colonizer, leader, and Mormon hymn writer

Joseph P. Fyffe

Rear Admiral Joseph S. Skerrett was due to retire upon reaching the age of 62 on 18 January 1895, but in order to make room for Fyffe to be promoted, Skerrett voluntarily requested an earlier retirement based on time in service.

Joseph S. Forte

The rest may have been lost in trading in futures contracts on the S&P 500 index, foreign currencies, or metals.

Joseph S. Fowler

Most of the state was under the control of the Union military government of Abraham Lincoln's appointed governor, Andrew Johnson, for most of the duration of the American Civil War; his government was fairly functional and it is likely that Fowler served this regime as Comptroller and that the Blue Book records his name erroneously.

He also served as president of Howard Female College in Gallatin, Tennessee from 1856 to 1861.

During President Andrew Johnson's impeachment trial, Fowler broke party ranks, along with six other Republican senators, and in a courageous act of political suicide, voted for acquittal.

The official Tennessee Blue Book states that the holder of that office during this period was "Joseph S. Foster".

Joseph S. Freedman

He was a fellow at the University of Leiden from 2003 to 2004 and at the Johannes a Lasko Bibliothek in Emden in 2005.

Joseph S. Gitt

The major feature of Gitt's proposed route was that from Woodsboro south into Frederick, it was located between the Woodsboro and Frederick Turnpike, now Maryland Route 194 and Israel creek.

Joseph S. Manasse

While on the board he voted for Ephraim Morse's proposal in 1868 to set aside a large track of land for a public park, which eventually became Balboa Park.

Manasse was born in 1831 in Filehne, Prussia and came to San Diego in 1853 with his brother Heyman and cousin Moses.

Joseph S. Pulver, Sr.

He was also the co-editor for Crypt of Cthulhu, published by Mythos Books LLC working alongside Robert M. Price, Michael Cisco and David Wynn.

Robert M. Price: "Pulver's genius in his ability to shape-shift stylistically

Pulver started his publishing career in the early 1990s with a number of short stories published in various American small press magazines, foremost among them Robert M. Price’s Crypt of Cthulhu.

Robert M. Price: "In an earlier day I feel sure Joe Pulver would have been arrested for writing some of the stuff in this collection. Maybe he will be yet! How can he write, with such intricate delicacy, thunderous prose that fairly rips up the pages it is printed on? I wish I knew!"

Petrus Ramus

Freedman, Joseph S. Philosophy and the Arts in Central Europe, 1500-1700: Teaching and Texts at Schools and Universities (Ashgate, 1999).

Shannon Powell

In high school Powell was a member of the well-respected concert band at Joseph S. Clark High School and member of trumpeter Leroy Jones' first band, New Orleans Finest.

William Meehan

The Philadelphia Republican Party, in the wake of the political realignmemt in Philadelphia politics starting with the Home Rule Charter in 1951 and the election of "reform" Democrats, Richardson Dilworth and Joseph S. Clark as Mayor of Philadelphia, entered a period of gradual and persistent decline, after having dominated the city's politics for a century prior to home rule.


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