Papers, 1890-1996

Eisenhower, Dwight D. (Dwight David), 1890-1969

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Dwight David Eisenhower (1890-1969) was leader of the Allied forces in Europe in World War II, commander of NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization), and the thirty-fourth president of the United States, from January 20, 1953, to January 20, 1961. Eisenhower was born on October 14, 1890, in Denison, Texas, the third son of David Jacob Eisenhower, a railroad worker, and Ida Elizabeth Stover. In 1891, the family moved to Abilene, Kansas, where David accepted a job at a local creamery run by ...

Natural History Museum

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The Natural History Museum was first opened in 1881. It contained collections that had originally been part of the British Museum including collections of Sir Hans Sloane, a physician and collector of natural curiosities, and Joseph Banks the botanist who travelled with Captain James Cook aboard HMS Endeavour, 1768-1771. It was Sir Richard Owen, Superintendent of the British Museum’s natural history collection who persuaded the Government that a new museum was needed. From the guide ...

United States. National Labor Relations Board

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After the first National Labor Relations Board was functionally abolished by the Supreme Court decision invalidating the National Industrial Recovery Act, May 27, 1935, a new National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) was established as an independent agency by the National Labor Relations (Wagner) Act (NLRA) (49 Stat. 195), dated July 5, 1935. The Supreme Court in 1937 declared the Board constitutional and sustained Congress’s power to regulate employers whose operations affected interstate commerce...

Charles H. Trent

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Billy Flagg

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Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

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Roosevelt, 26th U.S. president, served 1901-1909. From the description of DS, 1904 March 1. : Washington, D.C. Homestead Certificate. (Copley Press, J S Copley Library). WorldCat record id: 15210791 26th president of the United States, 1901-1909. From the description of Theodore Roosevelt letters, 1917, 1918. (Buffalo History Museum). WorldCat record id: 213408920 Roosevelt was then Governor of New York. Chapman was one of the founders of the New York St...

Annachen Pulch

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Piersol, George A. (George Arthur)

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Friends' Central School

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Friends' Central School was founded in Philadelphia as a Quaker secondary school by a joint committee of three Hicksite monthly meetings. It was first located at 4th and Cherry Streets. In 1857, it was moved to 15th and Race Sts., and in 1925, it was moved to its present location in Overbrook, Pa. The current academic program includes grades K-12. From the description of Records, 1844-1965. (Swarthmore College). WorldCat record id: 42799586 ...

Piersol, Margaret Wessell

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Anne Murray Morgan, 1925-

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Anne (Nancy) Murray Morgan was born on August 2, 1925, to Margaret Wessell Piersol and Robinson Murray. She lived in France, 1930-1935, Scarsdale, New York, 1935-1937, and England, 1937-1939. Murray attended Queens College School in London, England, for two years before entering Scarsdale High School, New York, in 1939. She attended Radcliffe College, class of 1946, where she was treasurer of the Radcliffe Choral Society, treasurer of the Student Government Association, chairman of ...

Ruth, Babe, 1895-1948

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George Herman Ruth was born February 6, 1895 in Baltimore, Maryland to Katherine and George Herman Ruth Sr. In 1902, Ruth was sent to St. Mary's Industrial School for Boys, an orphanage and reformatory, at the age of seven to teach him discipline. It was here that he learned to play baseball. He signed a contract with the minor league Baltimore Orioles in 1914. Ruth received his nickname "Babe" when his minor league teammates referred to him as manager Jack Dunn's new babe. He began his ma...

Helen Delano Piersol

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Philip Morgan

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Association of Junior Leagues of America.

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The Junior League was formed in New York in 1901 as the Junior League of the Settlement Movement. The league's founders, Mary Harriman and Nathalie Henderson, were motivated by a sense of social responsibility and the idea of trained women volunteers working for community improvement. Harriman and Henderson, with the advice of the prominent settlement leader, Mary Kingsbury Simkhovitch, and the cooperation of eighty of their contemporaries, founded the Junior League of the Settlemen...

Morgan, Peter

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Peter Morgan was a member of the National Executive Council of the National and Local Government Officers' Association, 1963-1985 and president of the National and Local Government Officers' Association, 1981-1982. He chaired the Race Equality Working Party, 1983-1984. Reference: Richard Storey and Alistair Tough,, Consolidated guide to the Modern Records Centre. (Coventry : University of Warwick Library, 1986.). From the guide to the Peter Morgan Papers (Nat...

Morgan, Anne Murray

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MacJannet Trocadero School

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Scarsdale High School

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Murray, Robinson

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New York Central Railroad

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The New York Central Railroad first stationed business representatives in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1853. However, it was not until 1870 that the railroad established a significant presence in the local railroad economy. During the 1880s and 1890s the New York Central purchased controlling interests in various railroads to secure routes into Cleveland from the east and west. During the early twentieth century the railroad built and bought lines through and around Cleveland. Yards that wer...

Joseph Joffre

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Kennedy, Robert (Robert Shea)

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Paul Tibbets

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