The first Rule of Carmel was given to the Carmelites by Saint Albert of Jerusalem, the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem, who in that time was exiled in the city of Acre, Israel, from which place Mount Carmel was visible to the south.
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In December 1828, he was ordained Pastor of the First Congregational Church in Dover, New Hampshire from which place he retired three years afterward. In Sept. 1832, he was installed Pastor of the Bowdoin Street Church, Boston, succeeding there Rev. Lyman Beecher.
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In 1779 he accepted a pastorate and the presidency of Charlotte Academy in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, from which place he was compelled to flee before the approach of Cornwallis' army, losing his library and other possessions. He was recalled to Newark in 1781, where he remained until his death.
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In the Chronicle are given the first authentic data concerning the wonder-working Aaron of Babylon, the reputed teacher of Kalonymus of Lucca; also through an account by Rabbi Silano additional information is gleaned about the Jewish community of Venosa, some epitaphs from which place had previously been published by G. J. Ascoli.
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Ebenezer Platt Rogers (December 18, 1817-October 22, 1881) was an American minister and author. Rogers, the son of Edmund J. and Rebecca (Platt) Rogers, was born in the City of New York, December 18, 1817. In 1831 his parents removed to a country residence in Fairfield, Conn., from which place the son entered Yale College.
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Charles Pomeroy Otis (April 8, 1840 – November 17, 1888) was an American educator and author. Otis, son of the Rev. Israel T. Otis and Olive M. (Osgood) Otis, was born in Lebanon, Connecticut, where his father was then pastor, on April 8,1840. In 1844 his father removed to Rye, N. H., from which place he entered Yale College.
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Ephraim Tanner Sturtevant (July 28, 1803 – December 12, 1881) was an American professor, planter, and politician. He was the father of Julia Tuttle, known as the "Mother of Miami". Sturtevant, son of Warren and Lucy (Tanner) Sturtevant, was born in Warren, Connecticut, July 28, 1803. In 1816, his family removed to the Western Reserve, and settled in Tallmadge, Ohio, from which place he entered college.
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George Wesson Hawes (December 31, 1848 – June 22, 1882) was an American geologist. Hawes was born December 31, 1848, in Marion, Ind., where his father, the Rev. Alfred Hawes, was pastor of the Presbyterian Church. He lost his parents at an early age, and his youth was spent in Worcester, Mass, from which place he entered the Sheffield Scientific School of Yale University in 1865.
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Lawrence McCully (May 28, 1831- April 10, 1892) was a Justice of the Hawaii Supreme Court and Speaker of the Hawaii House of Representatives. McCully, son of Charles McCully, was born in New York City on May 28, 1831. About two years later his father moved to Oswego, New York, from which place the son entered Yale College at the beginning of Sophomore year. He graduated Yale in 1852.
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Having completed his studies, Carrell was ordained to the priesthood in 1829, at St. Augustine's Church in Philadelphia by Bishop Henry Conwell. For six years he labored on the mission, serving as a curate at St. Augustine's and attending to a mission in New Jersey. He was next appointed pastor of Holy Trinity Church in Philadelphia. His next mission was in Wilmington, Delaware, from which place he also attended West Chester and New Castle.
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Ezmel de Ablitas (died 1342), "the rich Jew of Ablitas", had business relations with the King of Navarre and Aragon. He was the son of Don Juceph; and was born in the village of Ablitas, near Tudela, from which place he derived his name. The King of Aragon and the nobles of Navarre borrowed large sums from him, which they failed to repay. On this account Ablitas was unable to fulfil his obligations to the state.
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Emden spent three years at Ungarisch-Brod, where he held the office of private lecturer in Talmud. Later he became a dealer in jewelry and other articles, an occupation which compelled him to travel. He generally declined to accept the office of rabbi, though in 1728 he was induced to accept the rabbinate of Emden, from which place he took his name. He returned to Altona in, where he obtained permission from the Jewish community to possess a private synagogue.
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Permelia Taylor and her three sons, Ebenezer, Philip and Mitchell, who emigrated from the Delaware Water Gap, New Jersey, to the Wyoming valley, thence to Pipe Creek, below Owego, from which place, in 1806, they came to the Cowanesque valley. Ebenezer and Philip soon afterward removed to Osceola. The latter, his mother and his brother, Mitchell, all died before 1815, and were buried at Barney Hill. In 1882, their resting place being disturbed by the building of the Addison and Pennsylvania railroad, Capt.
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Edward Ayscu, Ayscough or Askew (1550–1616/17), was an English historian.D. R. Woolf, ‘Ayscu , Edward (1550–1616/17)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Jan 2008, accessed 10 Aug 2011 Ayscu was educated at Christ's College, Cambridge, where he graduated B.A. in 1586-1587. He afterward resided at Cotham, in Lincolnshire, from which place he dates the preface to his only work, ', London, 1607, 4to. Ayscu has sometimes been confused with his cousin Sir Edward Ayscu (1596–1654?) of South Kelsey.
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The Forrest was originally named the J. A. Smith when launched in 1855. Designed as a canal boat, she was converted to steam in 1856. The Smith was bought at Norfolk in 1861 and renamed Weldon N. Edwards in honor of the President of the North Carolina Secession Convention. She was ordered to Hatteras Inlet by Flag Officer Samuel Barron on July 27, 1861: > from which place you will make every exertion to defend the coasts of that > State and harass and annoy the commerce of the enemy.
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From Egypt he went by sea to Jidda and reached Mecca as a pilgrim in October 1809. After his pilgrimage he converted to Islam and changed his name to Hag Moses. In Arabia he made extensive journeys, ranging from Medina to Lahak and returning to Mocha, from which place his last letters to Europe were written in November 1810. In September of the following year he left Mocha with the hope of reaching Muscat, but was found dead two days later, allegedly poisoned by his guides on orders from the imam of Sana'a.
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99, MacGillivray, (London 1839). He was quoted from near this location describing the call of a Turdus merula. and (before 1834) at Cheam, Surrey, from which place he issued an edition of Bishop Andrewes's 'Prayers.' In 1836 he published 'Prophecy and Fulfilment,' a little book of corresponding texts; and in 1845 'Thomas Bradley,' a story of a poor parishioner, and the first of a series of similar pamphlets describing clerical experiences, collected and published in various editions as 'My Parish,' and 'The Country Pastor,' from 1855 to 1860.
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Adams was born September 29, 1805, of English parentage, in Demerara, South America. In 1810 his father, Richard Adams, removed to Norwich, Connecticut, from which place the son entered Yale College, where he graduated in 1824. He began the study of law in the law school of the Hon. Samuel J. Hitchcock, of New Haven, in 1824, and while resident published a small volume of poems in 1825, but soon embarked in the dry-goods jobbing business in New York City, in partnership with Felix A. Huntington, of Norwich.
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David Paige Smith (October 1, 1830 - December 26, 1880) was a professor at Yale Medical School and is the namesake of the David Paige Smith professorship at the school. Smith, eldest son of James M. Smith, M. D., and grandson of Nathan Smith, M.D., the first Professor of Theory and Practice in the Yale Medical Institution, was born in Westfield, Mass, October 1, 1830. His father moved to Baltimore, Md., in 1838, and returned to Springfield, Mass., about 1841, from which place the son entered Yale College, where he graduated in 1851.
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The town was looted by the Pindaris in 1809 along with some other places in Berar region. When in 1768–69, the Peshva attacked the Bhosle, his army had come from Aurangabad through the pass to Washim from which place it moved forward on its expedition. Afterward, it was decided that the Peshva Madhavrav and Janoji Bhosle should meet at Washim and accordingly the terms of the treaty were finalized there and the treaty was signed at Kanakpur. The temple of Balaji at Washim was constructed by Bhavani Kaloo who was the Divan of Sabaji Bhosle.
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42 It is also possible that the 81st Regiment of the 27th Division advanced to Bir el Abd and took part in the defence of that place. The objectives of the German, Austrian and Ottoman advance were to capture Romani and to then establish a strongly entrenched position opposite Kantara, from which place their heavy artillery would be within range of the Suez Canal. The attacking force assembled in the southern Ottoman Empire at Shellal, north-west of Beersheba, and departed for the Sinai on 9 July; they reached Bir el Abd and Ogratina ten days later.
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Hargreaves also operated from canal warehouse in Preston and advertised similar services including to London. In 1830 Hargreaves was operating canal boats "from Manchester and Liverpool to Summit, a point on the Manchester and Leeds canal, from which place the communication with the Lancaster canal was made by a rail or tram road of five miles to the town of Preston, from there the route was again by canal to Lancaster and Kendal and thence by stage waggons, Scotch carts, &c.;, to Penrith, Carlisle, Glasgow, Edinburgh and intermediate towns. Mr. Hargreaves' stage waggons, drawn by four or six powerful horses, and his canal "fly-boats" were institutions of the country".
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By some estimates she owned upward of 8,000 By the mid-1890s her ranch holdings were some of the largest in the territory. She became extremely wealthy through cattle sales and mining a small silver vein on the property. She was also known for the fruit orchards she planted with trees she obtained from John Chisum. On April 21, 1892, the Old Abe Eagle of Lincoln reported that she had driven 700 to 800 cattle from her ranch to Engle, the most accessible railroad point, from which place they were shipped "in 38 foot New England Cars" to the Jones and Nolan feed lots in Grand Summit and Strong City, Kansas.
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After the completion of a course of theological studies at Andover Theological Seminary in 1827 he was ordained to the ministry, and spent a year at the South as an agent of the American Bible Society. In 1833, he was settled as Pastor of the Presbyterian Church at Fayetteville, North Carolina, from which place he removed after several years, to take charge of the Pearl Street Presbyterian Church, in New York City. From New York he was called to Honesdale, Pennsylvania, where he labored as Pastor ten years. About 1855, he left that place, and became the Pastor of the Park Presbyterian Church in Newark, New Jersey, which station he occupied at the time of his death.
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The descendant of a long line of rabbinical ancestors and the son of Rabbi Zvi Hirsch Horowitz of Chortkiv, he received a thorough Talmudic education, chiefly from his older brother, Rabbi Shmelke of Nikolsburg, together with whom he was a follower of Rabbi Dov Ber of Mezeritch, the Maggid of Mezeritch. He married at an early age the daughter of the wealthy Joel Heilpern, who provided for him and permitted him to occupy himself exclusively with his studies. Adverse circumstances then forced him to accept a rabbinical position, and he became rabbi of Witkowo, from which place he was called later on to Lachovice. He was involved in the controversial "Get of Cleves" case and wrote a responsum to validate the divorce.
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In 1901 an early steam locomotive was on display at the station; : > [The station] is further graced by a pedestal on which stands a curious old > locomotive rejoicing in the name of "Billy". The true early history of > "Billy" is well-nigh veiled in the mists of antiquity, and it was only by > diligent enquiry that Mr Holliday, the Station Master, was able to learn a > little of her antecedents. That "she" was constructed as far back as 1824 – > 1826 is however certain, and on that score alone she is entitled to an > introduction to such of the readers of the Railway Magazine as have until > now been unaware of her existence. For about fifty-five years (until 1879) > she performed good service, first at the Springwell, and latterly at the > Killingworth colliery, from which place she actually steamed into Newcastle > in 1881 to celebrate George Stephenson’s Centenary.
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The 21st Wisconsin was organized at Oshkosh, Wisconsin and mustered into Federal service September 5, 1862. On September 9, 1864, Colonel Francis H. West, commanding the Thirty-first Wisconsin Infantry., details the regiments transferred to XX Corps during the siege of Atlanta in his official report: > Regiment arrived at Nashville June 10, and was assigned to post command, to > perform city provost-guard duty. On July 16, orders having been received > from Major-General Thomas, commanding Department of the Cumberland, > transferring the regiment from the Fourth Division, Twentieth Corps, to the > Third Brigade, First Division, Twentieth Corps, and ordering the regiment to > proceed at once to the front, the regiment proceeded via Chattanooga to > Marietta, Ga., by rail, from which place it marched to the army at the front > on the south side of the Chattahoochee River, where it arrived and reported > to Colonel Robinson, commanding brigade, on the morning of July 21, 1864.
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Samuel Lee (March 18, 1803 – August 27, 1881) was an American minister, author, and state legislator. Lee, only son of Samuel and Sarah (Burnett) Lee, of Kensington parish, in the town of Berlin, Connecticut, was bom March 18, 1803. His father died a fortnight later, and in June, 1810, his mother married and removed to Westfield, in Middletown, Connecticut, from which place he entered Yale College, where he graduated in 1827. For three years after graduation he studied in the Yale Divinity School. On November 4, 1830, he was ordained pastor of the Evangelical Church in Sherborn, Middlesex County, Massachusetts. This charge he resigned, April 27, 1836, to accept a call to the Congregational Church in New Ipswich, New Hampshire, where he was installed on the 5th of the following month. He was dismissed, December 4, 1860, worn out with hard work. After some years of relaxation, he so far regained his health as to be able to use his pen in the preparation of a volume, entitled The Bible Regained, which appeared in 1874.
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