Janin family papers, 1735-1932.

Croghan family

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Croghan, William, 1752-1823

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Croghan was a Revolutionary War veteran, surveyor, and farmer from Jefferson County, Kentucky. From the description of Account book : manuscript, 1788-1822. (University of Chicago Library). WorldCat record id: 52249260 From the description of Account book : manuscript, 1784-1788. (University of Chicago Library). WorldCat record id: 52248592 From the description of Account book : manuscript, 1788-1822. (University of Chicago Library). WorldCat record id: 80444098 ...

Jesup, Thomas Sidney, 1788-1860

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Quartermaster-general of the U.S. army, 1818-1860. Appointed commander of U.S., Georgia, and Alabama troops fighting the Creeks in Alabama, May 19, 1836, and of the army in Florida during the Second Seminole War, Dec. 6, 1836. From the description of Letter : Tampa Bay, [Fla.], to C.C. Clay, Governor of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, Ala., 1836 Nov. 17. (Newberry Library). WorldCat record id: 38110737 Thomas Sidney Jesup was a soldier in the U.S. Army. He rose to the rank of Major Gen...

Blair, Mary Jesup, 1826-1914

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National Society of the Colonial Dames of America

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(Mrs. James Starr, Jr. was the president of the PA chapter and chair of the National Committee for the Preservation of Existing Records) From the description of National Society of the Colonial Dames of America records, 1848-1918. (Historical Society of Pennsylvania). WorldCat record id: 232362062 A national organization, founded in 1891, composed of women who are descended from an ancestor who came to reside in an American colony before 1750 and whose services were rendered...

Blair House (Washington, D.C.)

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Janin, Louis

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Croghan, John, 1790-1849

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George Croghan, son of Major William Croghan and Lucy Clark, was born near Louisville, Kentucky, on November 15, 1791. His mother was the sister of William Clark, the famous explorer, and George Rogers Clark, the Revolutionary War General. George graduated from the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia, in 1810 and studied law briefly before volunteering as a dragoon to fight Indians in the Northwest Territory. He joined the U.S. Army in 1812 and was quickly promoted...

Blair family

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Wheeler, George Montague, 1842-1905

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Wheeler was born in Hopkinton, Massachusetts, the son of John Wheeler and Miriam P. Daniels. He graduated from West Point in 1866, ranked sixth in his class, and was commissioned as a lieutenant in the US Army Corps of Engineers. He first served in California from 1866 to 1871. In 1869 General Edward O. C. Ord sent him on a reconnaissance through the eastern Nevada. In 1872, the US Congress authorized an ambitious plan to map the portion of the United States west of the 100th meridian at a sc...

Janin family.

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Louis Janin (1803-74), a lawyer, was born and educated in Vienna and in 1828 emigrated to New Orleans, where he practiced law and invested in sugar plantations. Of his six sons, three (Louis, Henry and Alexis) became mining engineers, and one, Albert Covington Janin, became a lawyer. Albert Covington Janin practiced law in New Orleans (and later in New York and Washington), entered politics, operated a canal in Louisiana, later managed the Mammoth Cave Estate in Kentucky and married...

Jesup family.

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Daughters of the American Revolution.

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D. A. R. chapters from Washington, DC and surrounding areas. From the description of Papers, 1948-1949. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 36009706 ...

United States. Army

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The United States Army is the largest branch of the United States Armed Forces and performs land-based military operations. It is one of the seven uniformed services of the United States and is designated as the Army of the United States in the United States Constitution, Article 2, Section 2, Clause 1 and United States Code, Title 10, Subtitle B, Chapter 301, Section 3001. As the largest and senior branch of the U.S. military, the modern U.S. Army has its roots in the Continental Army, which wa...

National Cathedral Association

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Blair, Violet, 1848-1933

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Wheeler, Lucy James Blair, 1853-1902.

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Ocean Canal and Transportation Company.

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National Association Opposed to Woman Suffrage

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The National Association Opposed to Woman Suffrage (NAOWS) formed in 1911 in New York in opposition to the Susan B. Anthony Amendment, which became the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution that prohibited both state and federal government from denying any citizen the right to vote based on gender. NAOWS coordinated the anti-suffrage activities of individual state organizations and sent speakers, funds, and literature to campaigning states in order to educate the public in the belief that wome...

National Society, Children of the American Revolution.

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Jesup, Julia Clark, 1840-

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Janin, Albert

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Albert Covington Janin (1844-1928) was a New Orleans attorney and business entrepreneur. Violet Blair (1848-1933) was a socialite from a prominent Washington, DC family. The two married in 1874 and had a highly unconventional marriage for the times. They generally lived in separate places without a shared household, and remained financially independent from one another. For more information about Janin and Blair, see Virginia Jeans Laas's research, especially her book Love and Power in the Ninet...

United States. Navy

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Built and launched at New York Navy Yard; commissioned Nov. 12, 1944; scraped in 1993. Served in World War II, the Korean War and the Vietnam War. From the description of USS Bon Homme Richard (CV/CVA-31) photograph collection 1944-1971. (The Mariners' Museum Library). WorldCat record id: 41657866 The federal government decided in 1941 to send Supply Corps personnel to Harvard Business School for training in the business of equipping the Navy. This was effected by a transfer...

Blair, James L. (James Lawrence), 1819-1853.

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