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	Chapter XXIII. Parishes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		For a considerable period prior to the Reformation, Alva was in the diocese of Dunkeld, and under the ecclesiastical jurisdiction of the bishop of that see.
		It is bounded on the west and north by the parish of St. Ninians; on the east by Larbert; and on the south by the parishes of Falkirk and Denny – the Carron separating it from the latter for nearly 5 miles.
		Ebenezer Erskine, eight years after his expulsion from the bosom of the national church, demonstrated his attachment to the civil government, by assuming the military character in the defence of Stirling against the insurgent army in 1746, when he gallantly headed two companies of his affectionate flock.
	www.electricscotland.com /history/stirlingshire/chap23.htm (3987 words)

	Quahog.org: Belcourt Castle
		Alva Erskine Smith was the wife of William Kissam Vanderbilt.
		Alva's bath was located there, but unlike her husband's it did not contain a shower (his was the first in Newport and sprayed water from the top and sides).
		Alva's rococo salon-boudoir was in a prime position; the room has a balcony with views of Bellevue Avenue, a window overlooking the Norman half-timbered courtyard, and doors leading to the former loggia.
	www.quahog.org /attractions/index.php?id=1031 (2688 words)

	Class and Leisure at America's First Resort: Newport, Rhode Island, 1870-1914
		Alva Vanderbilt Belmont (1853-1933) was one of America's leading socialites during the Gilded Age.
		Born Alva Erskine Smith in Mobile, Alabama, Alva infiltrated the ranks of Old New York society through persistent networking and display of the vast wealth of her husband, William K. Vanderbilt.
		Alva married Oliver H. Belmont and moved to Belcourt Castle at the end of Bellevue Avenue.
	xroads.virginia.edu /~MA01/Davis/newport/biographies/avanderbilt.html (411 words)

	Acton, The History of Freedom - Essays 2: The Online Library of Liberty
		Sir Erskine May is persuaded that it is the tendency of modern progress to elevate the masses of the people, to increase their part in the work and the fruit of civilisation, in comfort and education, in self-respect and independence, in political knowledge and power.
		Sir Erskine May’s reluctance to deal with matters speculative and doctrinal, and to devote his space to the mere literary history of politics, has made his touch somewhat uncertain in treating of the political action of Christianity, perhaps the most complex and comprehensive question that can embarrass a historian.
		Alva’s reign of Terror had failed to pacify the Low Countries, and he was about to resign the hopeless task to an incapable successor.
	oll.libertyfund.org /Texts/Acton0003/HistoryOfFreedom/HTMLs/0030_Pt04_Essays1.html (17899 words)

	History - History Of Belcourt Castle - Alva Erskine Smith
		Alva Erskine Smith was born on January 17, 1853 in Mobile, Alabama, the daughter of a cotton planter Murray Forbes Smith.
		In 1879 her fancy dress ball for the grand opening of 660 Fifth Avenue, the French chateau designed by Alva and Richard Morris Hunt to outshine anything in the neighborhood, brought the Vanderbilts into New York/Newport society, so long guarded by Mrs.
		Alva Belmont is buried with Oliver in the Mausoleum at Woodlawn in the Bronx.
	www.belcourtcastle.com /history/alva_smith.html (642 words)

	Alva Belmont at AllExperts (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.unc.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Alva Erskine Belmont (January 17, 1853 - January 26, 1933) was a multi-millionaire American socialite and a major funder of the women's suffrage movement.
		Born Alva Erskine Smith in Mobile, Alabama, the daughter of a cotton trader, the American Civil War ruined her family, who decamped, like many other high-society Southerners, to Paris.
		Alva had just such a presenter in MarÃa Consuelo Yznaga del Valle, a childhood friend from Natchez, with grand Cuban-Spanish relations, and who later became the Duchess of Manchester.
	experts.about.com.cob-web.org:8888 /e/a/al/Alva_Erskine_Smith.htm (723 words)

	OkieLegacy - Alva, Oklahoma Territory, M (Woods) county pioneers
		Matthews always had faith in Alva and gave much of his time and means for the good of the city, and served three terms as mayor and was again elected a member of the city council.
		He came here Sept. 16, 1893, and got a farm 14 miles southeast of Alva; was the first elected register of deeds in 1894, remained in Alva after term expired, and was elected councilman when Alva was made a city of the first class May, 1901; In 1909 he was deputy register of deeds.
		Williams the first trustee of Alva township, and at the first election of town trustees on May 7, 1894, he was one of the number, and at the organization of the board he was elected chairman, hence he was the first mayor of Alva; was re-elected trustee in 1895.
	www.okielegacy.org /pioneer04/countypioneers.html (4423 words)

	Alva Belmont - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Alva Erskine Belmont, née Smith (January 17, 1853 - January 26, 1933) was a multi-millionaire American socialite and a major funder of the women's suffrage movement.
		Born in Mobile, Alabama, the daughter of a cotton trader, the American Civil War ruined her family, who decamped, like many other high-society Southerners, to Paris.
		Consuelo and Alva Vanderbilt: The Story of a Daughter and a Mother in the Gilded Age Amanda Mackenzie Stuart.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Alva_Erskine_Smith (741 words)

	Scotsman.com News - Russia set to honour Scots care visionary (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Erskine studied medicine at both Edinburgh and Oxford before heading to Paris where he met Peter the Great while the Tsar was in the French capital as part of his tour of Western Europe in the 1690s.
		The two became friends and Erskine arrived in Russia in 1704 as one of a series of advisers to the Tsar, who expanded his nation's frontiers to the Baltic and who wanted Russia to be a modern country.
		Erskine was also made St Petersburg's chief librarian and became top adviser to the Tsar, accompanying Peter the Great during trips to Germany, Holland and France in 1717 before his untimely death in 1718 at the age of 42.
	news.scotsman.com /index.cfm?id=1489042006 (691 words)

	Amazon.com: Consuelo and Alva Vanderbilt: The Story of a Daughter and a Mother in the Gilded Age: Books: Amanda ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Alva and Consuelo grew up in the middle of the Gilded Age, and when Consuelo moved to England, she witnessed the end of the Victorian and the Edwardian Eras.
		"Alva ultimately rejected the caged life herself, though she tried ruling it first." Consuelo desired to "step outside the cage, without wishing to leave it completely." And while Alva grew to detest society, she could never abdicate the power that came from having a fortune at her disposal.
		This is a dual biography of Alva and Consuelo Vanderbilt.
	www.amazon.com /Consuelo-Alva-Vanderbilt-Daughter-Mother/dp/0066214181 (2620 words)

	The Gilded Cage
		Alva was a strong-minded woman increasingly frustrated by her role as wife of a rich man with little of meaning to do; her time was consumed with planning and attending parties and balls, ordering clothes and wearing them, building and decorating mansions.
		Alva also sought love the second time around, divorcing William K. Vanderbilt to marry Oliver Belmont, a wealthy "gentleman of leisure." After Belmont's death, she reemerged into public life as a militant feminist -- far more radical than her daughter but with the same arrogance she had exhibited as a mother and socialite.
		Alva certainly deserves to be returned to her place in the history of feminism and the struggle for the vote in the United States, however controversial and uncomfortable her personality made her.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/content/article/2006/01/19/AR2006011902716.html (1028 words)

	USATODAY.com - 'Vanderbilt' gets under surface of the Gilded Age (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Born into a Southern slaveholding family, Alva Erskine Smith was an intelligent woman with a mania for power.
		Alva, married to a Vanderbilt heir, had observed that a titled Englishwoman wielded far more influence than an American woman married to a magnate.
		The dynamic Alva was a powerhouse in the women's suffrage movement in terms of leadership, money and in speaking out forcefully on women's subjugation.
	www.usatoday.com /life/books/reviews/2006-03-08-vanderbilt_x.htm (534 words)

	Consuelo Vanderbilt - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Born in New York City, she was the only daughter of William Kissam Vanderbilt, a New York railroad millionaire, and his first wife, a pugnacious Alabama belle and budding suffragette named Alva Erskine Smith (1853-1933, later Mrs.
		It was only when Alva Vanderbilt claimed that her health was being seriously and irretrievably undermined by Consuelo's stubbornness and appeared to be on death's door did the gullible girl acquiesce.
		Alva made an astonishing recovery from her entirely phantom illness, and when the wedding took place, Consuelo stood at the altar reportedly weeping behind her veil.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Consuelo_Vanderbilt (767 words)

	History - History Of Belcourt Castle - Biography of Oliver Hazard Perry Belmont
		In January 1896, he and Alva Erskine Smith Vanderbilt, whose divorce from William K. was finalized a mere five months before, were married in New York, with many socialites attending, but a conspicuous absence of most of the Belmonts.
		The Belmonts often traveled to England to visit Consuelo, Duchess of Marlborough (Alva's daughter) and oversee the renovations at Blenheim, to which Vanderbilt and Belmont money was being applied.
		Alva built him a grand mausoleum designed in his beloved Gothic style by Hunt and Hunt in Woodlawn Cemetery, the Bronx, New York.
	www.belcourtcastle.com /history/oliver_hazard_perry.html (599 words)

	smith - smi60.htm (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Frances Marion Pickens (Robert Welborn Pickens, William Smith Pickens, Martha Smith, William W. Joseph, Job) was born 21 Jul 1879 in Pickens Plantation, Anderson Co., SC.
		Elihu Wigington Pickens (Robert Welborn Pickens, William Smith Pickens, Martha Smith, William W. Joseph, Job) was born 8 May 1880 in Pickens Co., SC.
		William Luther Pickens (William Holbert Pickens, William Smith Pickens, Martha Smith, William W. Joseph, Job) was born 10 Oct 1876 in Easley, Pickens Co., SC.
	members.aol.com /Oldp2/smith/smig60.htm (1272 words)

	Marble House of The Newport Mansions
		Vanderbilt was the grandson (in some writings, the younger brother) of Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt, who established the family's fortune in steamships and the New York Central Railroad, and who built The Breakers.
		Vanderbilt was born Alva Erskine Smith of Mobile, Alabama.
		She was a leading hostess in New York and Newport, and later became a militant suffragist (Many of her pieces of fine china displayed "Votes for Women" on them).
	members.tripod.com /~savingsandloan/marble.htm (391 words)

	Consuelo Vanderbilt (1877 - 1964) - Find A Grave Memorial
		She was the only daughter of railroad millionaire William Kissam Vanderbilt and his wife, southern belle and suffragist Alva Erskine Smith.
		Though Consuelo was secretly engaged to Winthrop Rutherfurd, Alva arranged a marriage with Charles Spencer-Churchill, 9th Duke of Marlborough, a land-rich and cash-poor British noble who was the cousin and close friend of Winston Churchill.
		Her daughter was not interested, but Alva cajoled, begged, manipulated, and ultimately ordered her to go through with the marriage.
	www.findagrave.com /cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=3462 (285 words)

	The Man Who Gilded the Gilded Age by David Garrard Lowe, City Journal Autumn 1996
		Alva witnessed the creation of new boulevards like St.-Germain and Malesherbes, the completion of the Louvre, the construction of vast new government buildings such as the Palais de Justice, the beginnings of the Opera House, and the sprouting up, along the Champs-Élysées, of staggering mansions commissioned by the nouveaux riches.
		And though Alva later claimed that members of the family had been presented at the imperial court, there was nothing imperial about their situation in Gotham: Alva’s mother was forced to open a boardinghouse, on West 23rd Street.
		The portico, Alva said, was inspired by temples she had visited in Greece; others said that it was modeled on the White House.
	www.city-journal.org /html/6_4_urbanities-the_man_who.html (8520 words)

	Vanderbilt, USA
		His wife Alva Erskine Smith was born on January 17, 1853 in Mobile, Alabama, the daughter of a cotton planter Murray Forbes Smith.
		Alva taught the Vanderbilt family how to spend their fortune by building mansions and palaces to live in the style of European royalty.
		Alva and William K. had three children, Consuelo, William Kissam, Jr., and Harold S. They divorced and she married equestrian Oliver H. Belmont.
	fribourg.com.ar /genealogy/Vanderbilt/genealogie/001.genealogie.Vanderbilt.html (10600 words)

	Alva Smith Vanderbilt Belmont (1853 - 1933) - Find A Grave Memorial
		Although the marriage made Consuelo miserable, she and her mother reconciled later and Consuelo was at her mother's bedside when she died at her Parisian townhouse and escorted her mother's body home for burial.
		Alva divorced Vanderbilt and married Oliver H. Belmont in 1896.
		An amazingly profligate spender, Alva constructed and fantastically decorated more than a dozen grand residences, the most famous of which may be Marble House in Newport (which she sold in 1932 for the Depression-era price of $100,000, less than one-hundredth of the $11 million it had cost in 1892).
	www.findagrave.com /cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=3711 (308 words)

	Weekly Advisory -- January 16, 2004 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Erskine and Goros, according to the complaint, told customers that 1) they would earn 100 percent to 400 percent in one month's time; 2) they would earn a quarter to half a million dollars in two to three weeks, and 3) it was a "sure thing" they would make money.
		The complaint further alleges that Erskine and Goros, LLC misrepresented commission charges to customers and that Erskine solicited customers using a false name and failed to disclose prior civil actions against him by the states of Texas and Wisconsin.
		In its litigation against the defendants, the CFTC is seeking a permanent injunction, disgorgement of ill-gotten gains, and a monetary penalty.
	www.cftc.gov /opa/adv04/opawa03-04.htm (1427 words)

	The Life of Robert Burns - Burns at the Zenith (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Lord Giencairh married M’Guire’s eldest daughter; Lord Alva, a Lord of Session, married the second; and Dalrymple of Orangefield the third.
		But they gave him little solid cash, found for him no congenial position, and what was worse, he got accustomed while amongst them to habits and society which unfitted him for the drudgeries and companionships of a country life.
		To return from venison and champagne to "haggis" and "tippenny;" from the society of Dugald Stewart, Archibald Alison, and Lord Glencairn, to "sloe Jamie Smith" and rattling John Rankin; and from Eliza Burnet and the Duchess of Gordon to Jean Armour and Elizabeth Black— was a downcome.
	www.electricscotland.com /burns/burns_zenith.htm (5026 words)

	Belmont, Alva (Erskine Smith Vanderbilt) (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.unc.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Born Alva Erskine Smith, on January 17, 1853, in Mobile, Alabama.
		In 1896, Alva Vanderbilt remarried Oliver Hazard Perry Belmont, a scion of the prominent Belmont banking family.
		She opened her houses in New York and Newport to feminist groups for meetings and fund-raising efforts, and in 1914 sponsored the speaking tour of the English suffragist Christabel Pankhurst.
	www.vinnyswildworld.com.cob-web.org:8888 /Belmont.htm (202 words)

	The Myth of Two Masters
		It was thought when baptized that he would soon make a preacher but, by getting into bad company and following on, was since hanged at Richmond, in Virginia, for the sin of horse stealing, though [he] gave strong evidence (while in prison and at the place of execution) that he was a man of grace.
		No Leisure to Look Up – “It is storied of Henry the Fourth of France asking the Duke of Alva if he had observed the eclipses happening in that year: he answered, that he had so much business on earth, that he had no leisure to look to heaven.
		So it is. Most men are of this Spanish general’s mind: witness the oxen, the farms, the pleasures, the profits and preferments, that men are so fast glued unto, that they have hardly leisure to entertain a thought of any goodness.” –by Spencer from New Encyclopedia of Prose Illustrations (p.17).
	www.learnthebible.org /o_s_myth_of_two_masters.htm (1900 words)

	Long Island History: LI's Rebels With a Cause
		She will help you.'' That advice, which still might raise eyebrows today, was offered decades ago to a weary suffragette protester by Alva Erskine Smith Vanderbilt Belmont of Long Island, New York and Newport.
		The recommendation was typical of Vanderbilt Belmont, a dark-haired dynamo who pursued votes for women as vigorously as she had vaulted up the social ladder.
		Writer Elizabeth Oakes Smith of Patchogue, who never lived to see women vote, was a powerful speaker for women's rights.
	www.newsday.com /community/guide/lihistory/ny-history-hs711a,0,6764479.story?coll=ny-lihistory-navigation (884 words)

	Oakie's Heart to Heart, Vol. 3-Iss. 20
		I still have no idea What-When the School District was with Grandpa and his students: Clair Smith, Effie Abbott, Tillie King, James Litton, Lena Fehier, Bertha Smith, Ida Benton, etc...
		That's when he moved to Alva and attended the Normal school for a year or two and received a third grade teaching certificate.
		The row of trees in the left of the picture is still a row of trees now, along the road, 9 miles south and 4 miles west of Alva.
	okielegacy.org /journal/Vol3/OHTHV3-20.htm (2633 words)

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