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Franklin was born in Boston, the son of a soap and candlemaker, and the 15th of 17 children.
Franklin's interest in atmospheric electricity led him to recognize the aurora borealis as an electrical phenomenon, postulating good conditions in the rarefied upper atmosphere for electrical discharges, and speculating on the existence of what we now call the ionosphere.
Franklin suggested a famous experiment to demonstrate conductivity in which rods of different metals are heated at one end and wax rings placed at the same distance along the rods fall off at different times as heat spreads through the rods at different rates.
Franklin M. Tower: June 15, 1861; Lincolnville; age 21; private; promoted to corporal; wounded at Battle of Chantilly; returned to the ranks; transferred to the invalid corps on September 1, 1863.
By a rapid movement on that occasion he hastened to Hooker’s relief in the front, during a pelting rainstorm, and by his skillful maneuvering drove the foe to his rifle pits, and ended the fight by driving him thence, capturing, a large number of prisoners and re-taking all our artillery that had been lost.
It is related that Gen. A.P. Hill, the Confederate General commanding the division opposed to Gen. Berry, took occasion, under a flag of truce, to compliment him for his generalship; the only instance of the kind, it is believed, that occurred during the war.
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She married Benjamin Sears Gibbs, son of Alanson Gibbs, in 1861 at Spring Township, Spring, Boone County, Illinois.
Benjamin Sears Gibbs married Mary E. Gleason, daughter of Ebenezer Learned Gleason and Mary Ann (?), in 1861 at Spring Township, Spring, Boone County, Illinois.
Benjamin Jacobs was born on 1 January 1754 at Chester, Chester County, Pennsylvania.
The structure of the open-air theater was completed in April of 2003, and additional features such as a sound system and seating are currently being added.
The Pavilion is named after John & Lily Noyes, former residents of Juneau who were close friends with Territorial Governor BenjaminFranklinHeintzleman.
In 1956, John Rutherford Noyes died from injuries suffered in a plane crash near Nome, Alaska.
Benjamin P.J. Weston, born August 13, 1841 in Madison, Maine; died September 12, 1907 in Madison, Maine.
Benjamin F Flint, born May 17, 1849 in Madison, Maine; died November 06, 1923 in Colville, Washington.
Benjamin Thomas Weston, born November 28, 1877; died August 20, 1962 in Skowhegan, Maine.
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The period of suspense had terminated, and the citizens of the county were prompt in giving expression to their unwavering adherence to the national executive in the policy thus inaugurated.
This regiment was principally recruited in the counties of Mercer, Crawford, and Venango.
At the operations against Yorktown it was engaged in the trenches under conditions exceedingly deleterious to health, and in consequence of this and subsequent exposure it became necessary to discharge quite a number of the men on account of sickness.
Married Clara Eicher, daughter of Rev. Benjamin and Lydia Sommer Eicher, 12-29-1897.
The Foreign Mission Board of the General Conference then extended a call to him to labor in the mission feld among the Arapahoe Indians, in Oklahoma, which he accepted, but at the end of one year he resigned and returned to Pennsylvaia and assumed charge of the Pottstown and Boyertown congregations.
Married Irvin Overdorf, son of Franklin and Susan Garber Overdorf, 2-15-1893.
Born in Franklin Forks, Pa., Mar. 25, 1865, son of Rollin D. and Jeanette J. (Summers) Truesdell.
Born in Cortland County, NY, son of Benjamin L. and Amelia (Jordan)Watson, he obtained his education in the public schools of Cortland and Cincinnatus.
Born in Conn., son of Joshua and Hannah (Green) Whitney, a lad of fourteen when his parents moved from Connecticut to the shores of the Chenango river, was destined to become the maker and founder of Binghamton.
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Robinson; E.D. Keyes; Casey; Cochrane; five soldiers on a cliff; Bartlett; W.B. Franklin; John Lacquill??; Wallace; Parke; O.B. Willcox; Burns; Gilmore; Sigel; Schurz; Dana; Jeff C. Davis; Washburne; Baird;Baldy Smith; Joseph Hooker; Slocum; Williams; Jno A. Geary; G.W. Mindil; Greene; Jackson; P.H Jones; Lorenzo Thomas; McCallum; Major Robert Anderson; Carter; Geo.
Franklin Murphy Louisiana Purchase Exposition, 1904 (St. Louis Worlds Fair) Album.
Description: Served a mayor of Juneau 1946-1953, served in the Territorial House of Representatives from 1948 to 1953.
In 1953, he was named by President Eisenhower to be Secretary of State under Territorial Governor Frank Heintzleman, and served in this position until statehood.
Description: The Pavilion is named after John and Lily Noyes, former residents of Juneau who were close friends with Territorial Governor BenjaminFranklinHeintzleman.
Darling, Jay N. Announcement of his appointment as Chief of the Bureau of Biological Survey, 1934.
Includes articles tracing his career from a collector of specimens to a wildlife conservationist; an article on his retirement as Director of the New York Zoological Park; a photograph; and correspondence concerning the writing of his biography, 1886-1971.
Hough, Franklin B. (1822-1885) and Romeyn B. Articles on forestry, and obituaries, 1912-1924.
From Franklin Pierce to Abraham Lincoln1, March 4, 1862
From Benjamin B. French to Abraham Lincoln, March 13, 1862
I am by no means dissatisfied with my present office, and am endeavouring to perform all the duties of it faithfully, but, should you have a desire to give me a place with a little better pay, I respectfully suggest that I think I could do the duties of Assistant Secy.