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	Yerkes (crater) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Yerkes is a lunar crater near the western edge of Mare Crisium.
		The rim is widest on the western and southern portions, and barely existent to the east, forming a thin curve in the surface.
		To the east of Yerkes is Picard crater, and further to the north is Peirce crater.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Yerkes_(crater) (193 words)

	Yerkes Observatory - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Yerkes Observatory is an astronomical observatory of the University of Chicago in Williams Bay, Wisconsin.
		In addition to the Yerkes refractor, the observatory also has a 102 cm (40 inch) and a 61 cm (24 inch) reflecting telescope.
		The Geneva Lake Conservancy, a regional conservation and land trust organization, has taken the position that it is critical to save, in place, the historic Yerkes Observatory structures and telescopes for education and research, as well as to conserve the rare undeveloped, wooded lakefront and deep forest sections of the 77 acre (312,000 km²) site.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Yerkes_Observatory (412 words)

	Charles Tyson Yerkes - LoveToKnow 1911
		CHARLES TYSON YERKES (1837-1905), American capitalist, was born of Quaker parentage, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on the 25th of June 1837.
		There he acquired in 1901 a controlling interest in the Metropolitan District railway, and by organizing the finances of the Underground Electric Railways Company he took an important initiative in extending the system of London electric railways.
		Yerkes gave to the university of Chicago the great telescope installed in the Yerkes Observatory at Lake Geneva, Wisconsin, and gathered in his New York residence a remarkable collection of paintings, tapestries and rugs, which were sold at auction in April 1910 for $2,034,450.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Charles_Tyson_Yerkes (243 words)

	National Park Service: Astronomy and Astrophysics (Yerkes Observatory)
		Yerkes Observatory is the observing facility of the Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics of the University of Chicago and is devoted to research in astronomy and astrophysics, as well as graduate education.
		Yerkes represented the wave of the future and established the modern observatory as a research institution where the astronomer, using the disciplines of chemistry and physics, supported by engineering and optics workshops, could apply his talents to the understanding of the wonders of the universe.
		The establishment of Yerkes Observatory near the city of Chicago was the joint idea of astronomer George Ellery Hale and William Harper, president of the University of Chicago.
	www.cr.nps.gov /history/online_books/butowsky5/astro4p.htm (2554 words)

	Chicago ''L''.org: Historic Figures - Charles Tyson Yerkes
		The Yerkes family came from Wales to America in 1682 and became Quakers by adoption on reaching the territory of William Penn. According to the custom, young Charles became a student at a Quaker school and finished his education at the Central High School of Philadelphia.
		Yerkes often used a great deal of political and corporate maneuvering to gain his franchises and one technique often employed was to obtain the franchise in the name of another company.
		Yerkes was accused of handing out over a million dollars in bribes to secure the passage of his franchise and during the City Council meeting a mob surrounded City Hall, demanding that Yerkes be repudiated.
	www.chicago-l.org /figures/yerkes/index.html (3705 words)

	AmericanHeritage.com / Charles Tyson Yerkes: The Streetcar Baron Who Got Rich Twice
		Yerkes had been in tighter spots than that; in fact, he was perhaps the only great capitalist of those untrammeled post-Civil War years to actually spend some time in jail.
		Yerkes was as coolly ruthless as any of his more famous counterparts, but he had not risen, in the classic pattern, from poverty.
		Yerkes had not forgotten how to consolidate municipal transportation, and he spent his last years, until his death in 1905, putting together the mighty underground system of the city of London.
	www.americanheritage.com /articles/magazine/ah/1983/5/1983_5_56.shtml (1275 words)

	Yerkes Observatory: A century of stellar science
		Yerkes Observatory owes its beginnings to its wealthy patron, Charles Tyson Yerkes; a visionary University of Chicago president, William Rainey Harper; and an ambitious young astronomer, George Ellery Hale.
		Yerkes, who made his fortune in Chicago financing the elevated tracks, the underground cable system and the Peoples Gas Company, was seeking to repair his reputation by making charitable contributions.
		Yerkes Observatory, 1892-1950: The Birth, Near Death and Resurrection of a Scientific Research Institution, is published by the University of Chicago Press.
	chronicle.uchicago.edu /970320/yerkes.shtml (1671 words)

	Charles Tyson Yerkes and Street Railways
		Yerkes played a crucial role in modernizing and integrating the city's public transit system.
		At the same time, however, Yerkes was gaining the unenviable reputation as Chicago's most notorious “robber baron.” He cheated his stockholders and partners, insulted newspaper editors, bribed city officials with impunity, and retaliated against customers who complained about inadequate services and broken-down equipment.
		Uniting Yerkes' opponents, the battle for municipal reform was fought in the state capital and the city hall over the next two years.
	www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org /pages/2416.html (281 words)

	"Astronomical Figures," University of Chicago Magazine, February 1997 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Charles Yerkes had a reputation as a ruthless financier.
		But it was Charles Yerkes himself who had the most to gain or lose from his sizable investment.
		The Great Chicago Fire triggered a nationwide financial panic that plunged Yerkes' firm into bankruptcy and revealed his misappropriation of funds from the city of Philadelphia, some $400,000 of which were lost in his bank's collapse.
	magazine.uchicago.edu /9702/9702Yerkes.html (387 words)

	London Underground's Edwardian Tile Patterns
		Yerkes owned one of the larger art collections in the United States and was reputed to buy ‘old masters’ as others would buy books.
		London was ripe for the skills of Yerkes at the turn of the century with the Baker Street & Waterloo Railway virtually moribund in 1901 when its own financiers, the London & Globe, went into administration.
		Yerkes soon formed a holding company, the Underground Electric Railways of London Ltd, and the Bakerloo was soon joined by, what are now, the District and the then unbuilt Piccadilly Line and west end branch of the Northern Line (the Hampstead Tube).
	omicron.sequence.co.uk /nonchksites/dougrose/charles.htm (171 words)

	Northville
		Charles L. Dubuar, an early Northville historian, spoke of similiary experiences that are in reprint in the Northville Record April 20, 1928.
		Yerkes was married to Hester, who was born March 21, 1799, and had several children.
		By the time the Yerkes family was settled in their log houses, they became distant neighbors to newlyweds, Joshua and Hannah Simmons, who had taken up land along 8 Mile Road just east of Haggerty.
	www.geocities.com /histmich/northville.html (2028 words)

	Williams Bay plays the waiting game on Yerkes
		WILLIAMS BAY -- Charles T. Yerkes, the man who lent his name to the University of Chicago's observatory here, was something of a high-finance con man who even spent time in prison for misappropriating funds.
		Yerkes needs $4.5 million for repairs, renovations and to make it a publicly accessible building, Hays said.
		A successful development of Yerkes might result in irresistible market pressures on other institutional and private trust properties around the lake to also be sold for commercial development, he said.
	www.grantmaclaren.com /yerkes/060618.html (576 words)

	STREET RAILWAYS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		In 1886, Yerkes formed the North Chicago Street Railroad Co., which acquired the North Chicago City Railway Co. And in 1887, Yerkes formed the West Chicago Street Railroad Co., which acquired the Chicago West Division Railway Co. Yerkes thus gained control of all of the street railways on Chicago's north and west sides.
		In 1897, Yerkes acquired the Suburban Railroad Co., whose streetcars had served the western suburbs and connected with the competing Metropolitan West Side Elevated Railroad Co. After gaining control, the Suburban Railroad Co. routes were changed to connect instead with his Lake Street Elevated Railroad.
		Yerkes Observatory celebrated its 100th anniversary in 1997, and is still home to the world's largest refracting telescope (40 inch lens).
	members.aol.com /ctapacefan/companys.html (510 words)

	Gapers Block : Airbags : Charles Tyson Yerkes and the Rise of Chicago's Mass Transit
		Charles Yerkes, born to Quaker parents in 1837, was simply the most important developer of Chicago's mass transit system in the late-nineteenth century.
		Yerkes then left Philadelphia and settled in Chicago in 1881 during a period of unprecedented growth for the city.
		When Charles Yerkes left Chicago, his transit holdings were worth about five million dollars, but, overall, the business of rapid transit was hardly profitable.
	www.gapersblock.com /airbags/archives/charles_tyson_yerkes_and_the_rise_of_chicagos_mass_transit (1210 words)

	The Yerkes Era
		Charles Tyson Yerkes was born in Chicago in 1837 and became a very wealthy man by dealing in brokerage and investments in tramways and urban elevated railways in that city.
		Yerkes established a holding company for the management of the group of lines which in 1902 became known as the Underground Electric Railways of London Limited (UERL).
		Yerkes' UERL purchased the BSandW from the liquidators in March 1902 and as a result fresh capital was then available for construction work to resume.
	easyweb.easynet.co.uk /~gsgleaves/london3.htm (890 words)

	The Cable Car Home Page - Who Was Important in the History of the Cable Car?
		Charles B Holmes, president of the Chicago City Railway, became interested in cable propulsion, which had not spread to other US cities beyond San Francisco.
		Charles A Smallwood was a good man who was the pre-eminent historian of San Francisco's Market Street Railway.
		Charles A Smallwood, a retired cable car repair foreman, author of a book on San Francisco streetcar history and collector of nickelodeons, was found dead Wednesday in his Richmond District home.
	www.cable-car-guy.com /html/ccwho.html (3727 words)

	Stargazer Online \|\| Yerkes Observatory
		At the time of its construction and for many years afterward, Yerkes was at the pinnacle of astronomical research.
		Hale invented the spectroheliograph (an instrument for studying gases in the upper layers of the Sun) during his tenure and many solar discoveries were made using the 40" refractor.
		Yerkes staff member Vivian Hoette showed the first half of the group the 24".
	www.richardbell.net /yerkes.html (988 words)

	PLEASANTON / Motorcyclist dies despite rescue effort
		Police said the car had dragged Yerkes for about 100 feet before coming to a stop with one of its wheels on his head, which was protected by a motorcycle helmet.
		Yerkes "wasn't moving, but his eyes were blinking," Phelps said.
		Yerkes, who was on his way home from work in Pleasanton when the crash occurred, was taken to Eden Hospital in Castro Valley, where he died Friday morning from internal bleeding resulting from his injuries.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2004/08/28/BAG028FPR91.DTL (247 words)

	Astrotale - How do you talk a reluctant railroad tycoon into building the largest refracting telescope?
		He finally set upon Charles Tyson Yerkes, who had made it known that he was interested in donating money to the University of Chicago.
		Yerkes was a crass and vainglorious businessman trying to buy his way into high society through philanthropy.
		Yerkes saw a huge telescope and and impressive dome with his name on it.
	www.wpo.net /astrotales/yerkes.html (430 words)

	The Scoundrel and the Scientist
		Yerkes, builder of the Chicago public transportation system, was well established in Chicago by this time, having arrived some years earlier.
		Yerkes wrote back, ordering that no one but those supervising the installation and testing be allowed near the telescope.
		Yerkes formally presented the observatory to the university: "The science of astronomy, while being the oldest extant, has been, we may say, the most neglected.
	www.sff.net /people/Hodgson/science.html (3877 words)

	OnMilwaukee.com Movies: Historic Yerkes Observatory offers a look at history, stars
		Yerkes Observatory was the pet project of Charles Tyson Yerkes, a Chicago transportation bigwig.
		In the southeast transept, on the main floor, is the Quester Museum, which celebrates Yerkes astronomers who have profoundly impacted the scientific world and the local community over the past 100 years.
		Yerkes Observatory is located at 373 W. Geneva St., in Williams Bay.
	www.onmilwaukee.com /movies/articles/yerkes.html (698 words)

	The Univ. of Chicago Yerkes Observatory 1892-2006
		Yerkes Observatory is a facility of the Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics of the University of Chicago.
		A substantial fraction of the University's library holdings in astronomy are housed at Yerkes.
		Yerkes Observatory to highlight active astronomy for Illinois schools at March 29 Capitol Showcase in Springfield
	astro.uchicago.edu /yerkes (161 words)

	Save Yerkes Observatory - World's Largest Refracting Telescope (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Since its founding over a century ago, Yerkes Observatory has never failed to spark the imaginations of all--whether scientist or tourist, architect or amateur astronomer--who have come here to be a part of its history.
		In its most recent past, scientists at Yerkes have produced extraordinary feats of engineering, such as developing instruments which have helped scientists record some of the most remarkable sightings in the history of astrophysics--such as fragments from the Comet Shoemaker-Levy colliding with the planet Jupiter.
		The Yerkes 21 Committee, as well as scientists, politicians, students, and citizens from both near and far, believe that this legendary observatory--this historic Mecca--and the land which encompasses it would prove to be a great loss not only for the community of Williams Bay, but the international community of astronomers and astrophysicists...
	www.specializedwholesale.com /grantsstuff/atthelake/index.html (1104 words)

	b-131 reviews (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Yerkes had come to Chicago from Philadelphia after having served a prison sentence in a stock swindle case.
		Yerkes sold his Chicago transit properties for $5 million and accepted an invitation from the city of London to help plan extensions of the subway system of the English capital.
		Yerkes, who controlled a major elevated-train company, with having brought rival transit companies together in 1897 to create the four-sided Loop elevated structure.
	www.cera-chicago.org /b-131_reviews.htm (2435 words)

	Save Yerkes Observatory - World's Largest Refracting Telescope
		Yerkes is a 100-year-old observatory located in Williams Bay, Wisconsin.
		Yerkes occupies a place of great significance as a world leader in 20 century astro-physics, a place of reverence and respect, where Einstein visited, where Chandrasekhar did his work on fl holes that led to his Nobel Prize.
		Yerkes 21 Corporation is a not-for-profit corporation registered with the State of Wisconsin.
	www.saveyerkes.com (575 words)

	HighBeam Encyclopedia - Yerkes, Charles Tyson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		YERKES, CHARLES TYSON [Yerkes, Charles Tyson], 1837-1905, American financier, b.
		Later he went to London to participate in the development of the underground railway system of that city.
		In 1892, Yerkes furnished the Univ. of Chicago with the funds for the Yerkes Observatory, established (1897) at Williams Bay, Wis., near the Wisconsin-Illinois line.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/Y/Yerkes-C1.asp (215 words)

	The Whip (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Yerkes kept ten lawyers on his payroll at a salary of one hundred thousand dollars a year just to keep the women quiet, the stock traders said among themselves.
		Yerkes folded the paper in half and was ready to place it back on the night table when he saw the other thing.
		Charles Yerkes sat amidst baronial splendor on an ornate carved throne borrowed from the university.
	www.neleth.com /gloria/Chapter_Eight.htm (2742 words)

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