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2 unusual facts about Rochester, New Hampshire


United States House of Representatives elections in New Hampshire, 2006

In a surprise upset victory in the Democratic primaries, Rochester Democratic chair Carol Shea-Porter defeated the better funded and party-favored state House Democratic Leader Jim Craig, getting 54% of the vote to Craig's 34%.

Vulcanized fibre

In 1922 National Vulcanized Fiber Company emerged as the main competitor to Spaulding Fibre, which had begun developing vulcanized products in Rochester, New Hampshire and Tonawanda, New York, nearly a quarter century after the industry began in Delaware.


1983–84 Kansas City Kings season

Last Playoff Meeting: 1955 Western Division Semifinals (Lakers won 2-1; Lakers were in Minneapolis, Kings were in Rochester, New York as the Royals)

Amit Sood

Amit Sood is a Professor of Medicine at Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, Rochester, Minnesota, and serving as Chair of Mayo Mind Body Initiative.

Andrew Moore

Andrew M. T. Moore, archeologist at the Rochester Institute of Technology

Bill Musselman

He died on May 5, 2000, at 2:45 a.m., at the age of 59, at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota.

Colin Campbell Cooper

Cooper and his wife exhibited together in several two-person shows, including a May 1902 exhibit at the Philadelphia Art Club and a 1915 show at the Memorial Art Gallery in Rochester.

Commodore Nutt

: Not to be confused with United States Representative from New Hampshire, George W. Morrison (October 16, 1809 – December 21, 1888)

Darby Field

Of Irish ancestry, if not born in Ireland, he was in Boston, Massachusetts, by 1636 and settled in Durham, New Hampshire, by 1638, where he ran a ferry from what is now called Durham Point to the town of Newington, across Little Bay.

Don Alonzo Watson

Watson purchased a building for Rochester Homeopathic Hospital which became Genesee Hospital in Rochester.

East Rochester, Ohio

East Rochester is a census-designated place in southern West Township, Columbiana County, Ohio, United States.

Ernulf

At Peterborough and Rochester, Ernulf had the old buildings torn down and erected new dormitories, refectories, chapter house, etc.

Everett L. Fullam

After graduating from high school in Barre, VT, in 1948, Fullam began his college studies at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, NY.

Exeter incident

The Exeter incident was a highly publicized UFO sighting that occurred on September 3, 1965 approximately 5 miles from Exeter, New Hampshire, in the neighboring community of Kensington.

Falls Road Railroad

The term Falls Road Branch was adopted by New York Central, and later Conrail, to refer to the section of railroad track between Lockport and Rochester, New York.

Fraser Papers

Fraser's 3,700 employees worked in several pulp and paper mills in North America, including in Madawaska, Maine and in New Hampshire in the US, and Thurso, Quebec, and Edmundston, New Brunswick in Canada.

Fryeburg Water Co.

The Fryeburg Water Co. was ordered by the New Hampshire Utilities Commission (NHPUC) to provide the residents of East Conway, New Hampshire with Poland Spring bottled water (incidentally, the water that the utility sold to the Nestlé subsidiary) until the company fixed a pipeline that brought water from the spring in Maine to the homes in New Hampshire.

George Barker Stevens

Illinois College awarded him a Doctor of Divinity degree in 1902, and the University of Rochester awarded him a Doctorate in Law the same year.

Grandfather Stories

The tales are nuggets of social history: among them, New Year customs in Rochester's elite "ruffleshirt" Third Ward, early professional baseball in Rochester, the corrupt matches that killed off professional rowing, and the invention of the detachable shirt collar in Troy, New York.

Guest House

The one in Rochester, Minnesota is for priests and male religious and the other, in Lake Orion, Michigan, is for women religious.

Harry Newman

In mid-November 1936, the Tigers franchise moved to Rochester, New York, where they played the final two games of the 1936 season.

Helen Brach

After a routine medical check-up at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, Brach left for the return journey by air to her north suburban Chicago mansion on February 17, 1977.

Henry W. Clune

Henry W. Clune (February 8, 1890 - October 9, 1995) was a well-known journalist for the Democrat and Chronicle newspaper in Rochester, New York.

Hiram Sibley

His home near Rochester, the Hiram Sibley Homestead, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985, and his Rochester home is included in the East Avenue Historic District.

James Kearney

James E. Kearney, bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Rochester, 1937–1966

Jim Forsythe

Jim Forsythe (born October 1, 1968) is a former Republican member of the New Hampshire Senate, having represented the 4th District from 2010 to 2012.

K. C. Collins

He attended Monroe Community College in Rochester, New York, on a baseball scholarship, choosing this rather than options of The University Of Hawaii and Florida State University to stay close to his grandmother who raised him from the age of 6.

KPXM-TV

KXLI was also simulcast on KXLT-TV channel 47 in Rochester, and by the late 1980s, Minnesota North Stars hockey broadcasts would also air on the stations.

Leonidas Giroux

He had traveled to Rochester, Minnesota to be treated at the Mayo Clinic for an undisclosed illness and died shortly after his arrival.

Louis Lipsky

Lipsky began his career as a reporter in Rochester, NY eventually moving to New York City where he joined the staff of the New York Morning Telegraph as a reporter covering theater news and serving as a drama critic.

Maurice J. Murphy, Jr.

(October 3, 1927 – October 27, 2002) was (for one month) the New Hampshire Attorney General and (for eleven months) an appointed United States Senator.

Michael Slive

Early in his life, he practiced law in New Hampshire, serving as judge of the Hanover District Court from 1972 to 1977, and was a partner in a Chicago law firm.

Miles J. Jones

Dr. Jones completed a one-year clinical internship in general surgery at the Cleveland Clinic (Cleveland, OH), and then entered the residency program in anatomic and clinical pathology at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN.

New England Interstate Route 10

New England Route 10 was a multi-state north–south state highway in the New England region of the United States, running through Connecticut, Massachusetts, and New Hampshire.

Orli Shaham

Her appearances with orchestras include the Philadelphia Orchestra, Los Angeles Philharmonic, San Francisco Symphony, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Detroit and Atlanta Symphonies, Orchestre National de Lyon, National Symphony Orchestra of Taiwan, Cleveland Orchestra, Houston Symphony, St. Louis Symphony, Florida Orchestra, Rochester Philharmonic, Orchestra of La Scala (Milan), Orchestra della Toscana (Florence), and the Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra.

Park Point

Park Point at RIT, a commercial enterprise on Rochester Institute of Technology's campus in Rochester, New York, USA

Rashad McCants

McCants began his high school career at Erwin High School in Asheville, but finished at New Hampton School in New Hampton, New Hampshire.

Robert Rochester

According to Hughes, by 1542 Rochester had been appointed receiver to John de Vere, 16th Earl of Oxford, and was also appointed bailiff of the Earl's manor of Lavenham in Suffolk.

Rochester Raiders

Rochester went 8–4 under head coach Dennis Greco (on loan from East Rochester High School) during the 2006 regular season and advanced to the postseason.

Rochester Telephone Company

Frontier Telephone of Rochester, a telephone company founded in 1994 as Rochester Telephone Company, now a subsidiary of Frontier Communications

Samuel Penhallow

Removing to Portsmouth, New Hampshire, he there married Mary Cutt, a daughter of John Cutt (1625–1681), president of the province of New Hampshire in 1679, a successful merchant and mill-owner, and thus came into possession of considerable property (including much of the present site of Portsmouth).

Snow Blankets the Night

A cover of Mariah Carey's "All I Want for Christmas Is You" is also featured on the EP, also containing live versions of his singles "These Walls" and "For You I Will (Confidence)" recorded at the Harro East Ballroom in his hometown of Rochester, New York.

The Last Question

It was adapted for the Strasenburgh Planetarium in Rochester, New York in 1969, under the direction of Ian C. McLennan.

Thomas Gustave Plant

Plant used his fortune to build Lucknow, an estate on a mountain overlooking Lake Winnipesaukee in Moultonborough, New Hampshire, where he lived with his second wife.

Tony Bellinger

Tony Bellinger is the head coach for the Bishop Guertin High School (New Hampshire) boys varsity team, a position he has held for over 15 seasons.

U.S. Army Birthdays

Delegate John Sullivan of New Hampshire, a 35-yearold lawyer, became the seventh brigadier general instead of Nathaniel Folsom.

United States House of Representatives elections in New Hampshire, 2008

The 2008 congressional elections in New Hampshire were held on November 4, 2008 to determine who would represent the state of New Hampshire in the United States House of Representatives during the 111th Congress from January 3, 2009 until January 3, 2011.

Visions of Ecstasy

This led to a debate with the Bishop of Rochester on BBC Radio Kent.

Webster County, Georgia

The County is named for Daniel Webster, U.S. representative of New Hampshire and U.S. representative and U.S. senator of Massachusetts.

William Colgate

He annually subscribed money to assist in defraying the current expenses of Hamilton Literary and Theological Institution (later Madison University and Theological Seminary); and he was among the most strenuous opponents of their removal to the city of Rochester.

William P. Latham

His orchestral works have been performed by the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, the Eastman-Rochester Philharmonic, the Dallas Symphony Orchestra, the Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra, and Radio Orchestras in Brussels, Belgium and Hilversum, Holland, under such well known conductors as Eugene Goossens, Howard Hanson, Thor Johnson, Anshel Brusilow, John Giordano, and Walter Susskind.

Willis Page

He was also the associate conductor in Buffalo, New York, where he conducted three quarters of all concerts and has been guest conductor for several orchestras including the Boston Pops Orchestra (seven times), Denver, St Louis, Rochester, Hartford, Muncie, Yomiuri, Toronto and Jerusalem.


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