Papers, 1834, 1880-1902, 1914-1985

Queneau, A. L. J. (Augustin Leon Jean), 1874-

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Episcopal Church

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In 1982, the General Convention of the Church deleted the words "Protestant" and "in the United States of America" from the official title of the Church, making it the Episcopal Church. From the description of Records of the Protestant Episcopal Church of the United States of America, Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society, 1823-1975 (inclusive). (Yale University). WorldCat record id: 702152635 ...

American Red Cross

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On December 2, 1905, Mrs. Tunis G. Bergen brought together a group of Brooklyn residents at the Barnard Club House on Remsen Street to form New York City's first borough-based Red Cross organization. With an initial membership roster of 300, the Brooklyn Chapter of the American Red Cross embarked on its first major campaign to aid victims of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, collecting over $100,000 and thousands of articles of clothing to contribute to the relief effort. From this point on, th...

Hoover, Lou Henry, 1874-1944

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Lou Henry Hoover served as First Lady from 1929 to 1933 as the wife of the 31st President, Herbert Hoover. An avid Chinese linguist and geology scholar, she was also the first First Lady to make regular nationwide radio broadcasts. Admirably equipped to preside at the White House, Lou Henry Hoover brought to it long experience as wife of a man eminent in public affairs at home and abroad. She had shared his interests since they met in a geology lab at Leland Stanford University. She was a fre...

Society of the Companions of the Holy Cross.

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Marguerite Jeanne Queneau, 1903-

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Marguerite Jeanne Queneau, a nutritionist and dietitian, was born December 5, 1903, in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, the eldest daughter and the second of six children of Augustin Lèon Jean and Abbie Jean (Blaisdell) Queneau. A French engineer, MJQ's father accepted a position in Liège, Belgium, and the family settled there in 1912. When the Germans invaded Belgium, ALJQ joined the French army; a few months later, MJQ, her mother, and five siblings escaped to England, where AJBQ joined t...

Blaisdell family

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Hoover, Herbert, 1874-1964

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Herbert Clark Hoover (b. August 10, 1874, Iowa-d. October 20, 1964), thirty-first president of the United States, was born in Iowa, and was orphaned as a child. A Quaker known from his childhood as "Bert" to his friends, he began a career as a mining engineer soon after graduating from Stanford University in 1895. Within twenty years he had used his engineering knowledge and business acumen to make a fortune as an independent mining consultant. In 1914 Hoover administered the American Relief Com...

Zdanovich, Alicia

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United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization.

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Queneau, Abbie Jean Blaisdell, 1872-1933.

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Carey, Emily

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