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  David Dale
DALE, DAVID.—This eminent philanthropist was born in Stewarton, Ayrshire, on the 6
Dale was eminently qualified to sustain the numerous and varied offices which he had thus undertaken; every duty being attended to in its own place and at the proper time, he was never overburdened with work, nor did he ever appear to be in a hurry.
Dale offered employment to a number of Highland families who were emigrating from the Hebrides to America, but had been driven by stress of weather into Greenock, and most of them availed themselves of the opening for securing a comfortable livelihood in their native land.
www.electricscotland.com /history/other/dale_david.htm   (6551 words)

  
 DAVID DALE: 'Essential Places' - BETWEEN THE LINES   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
AUSTRALIAN author David Dale's 10th travel book, Essential Places is a pure and unmitigated epiphany; a revelation that strikes with the same kind of intoxicating power that chancing upon a waterhole in a dry and arid desert would have.
On the sleeve Dale promises: "From Kowloon to California, from Charles Darwin's garden to Vincent Van Gogh's asylum, from the birthplace of the skyscraper to the tomb of Tutankhaumun.
Dale delivers the goods with heightened perception and an abundance of dry, witty commentary that also chronicles his belief in the fact that food dishes of the world are the greatest insight into foreign culture.
www.thei.aust.com /isite/btl/btlrvdale.html   (517 words)

  
 AllRefer.com - David Dale, (Business Leaders, Biography) - Encyclopedia
David Dale 1739–1806, Scottish cotton manufacturer and philanthropist.
He was succeeded at New Lanark by his son-in-law, Robert Owen, who later made the community world famous.
Dale withdrew in 1770 from the Church of Scotland, founding the Old Independents, or Dalites, whom he served as minister.
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 Mr. David Dale as adviser and partner
DALE, who was regarded with esteem and confidence by all classes of the community, was on one occasion applied to by a widow named Mrs.
Dale advised her to work up the raw materials into shoes suitable for the West India market, and then to consign the whole to a respectable house for sale there.
Dale proposed to put it into the hands of a cotton broker for sale; but Mary did not approve of this plan, saying that she would sell it herself, and thereby save the broker’s commission.
www.electricscotland.com /HISTORY/glasgow/anec147.htm   (263 words)

  
 David Dale (1739-1806)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
Dale and Arkwright went into a brief partnership, and together they built the New Lanark Mills on the banks of the Clyde, which opened in 1786.
Dale continued on his own and by 1793, following numerous extensions, the mills had become the largest water-powered spinning mills in Britain, with over 1300 employees.
As well as his mills, Dale was involved in many other activities: When the Royal Infirmary was set up beside the cathedral in 1792, it relied on the support of the city's successful businessmen.
level2.phys.strath.ac.uk /ScienceOnStreets/daviddale.html   (402 words)

  
 7.30 Report - 11/03/2004: Reality TV audiences fall
DAVID DALE, MEDIA COMMENTATOR: Yes, it's been huge this year and up until a couple of months ago stations were trumpeting the fact they had all these fabulous reality shows because they took in my view a very naive view about what happened last year.
DAVID DALE: My Restaurant Rules was sort of an extension of The Block again, so they thought the formula of renovation that had been done before would work and they also thought the cooking shows were in.
DAVID DALE: Ten is already having to compensate their advertisers by giving them extra time elsewhere to make up for the audience they didn't get on The Hothouse, and Seven, I suspect, will have to be in the same position with My Restaurant Rules.
www.abc.net.au /7.30/content/2004/s1064164.htm   (1139 words)

  
 Dale Dale
Dale David Dale was born on February 17, 1943 at Gregory, SD to Claude K. and Juanita (Strain) Dale, the fourth of their five children.
Dale was handicapped by Down Syndrome but, despite that, had a full and happy life until just a few years ago when his cognitive abilities began to further decline with the onset of Alzheimer’s disease.
Dale was refused attendance at public schools since, at that time, they were not required to provide special education.
www.rushfuneralhome.com /dale_dale.htm   (493 words)

  
 Curiosities of Glasgow citizenship: David Dale of Rosebank [ebook chapter] / Bruce, William Speirs, 2003
David Dale and his friend George Macintosh, a gentleman of similar sympathies, as well as kindred force of character, exerted all their energies in the same direction, more, perhaps, from benevolent motives than from patriotic principle.
Dale and his friend, George Macintosh, both employed large numbers of Highlanders, who, no doubt, were trained from their earliest years to cherish these sentiments reverentially, and both these gentlemen stipulated that all their workers should enjoy full freedom of religious opinion.
Dale, although perhaps scarcely free from the prevailing prejudices of the times, felt that this want of charity, which had become incorporated with the very essence of Church polity, was more than he could patiently bear, especially when it evinced itself, as it did soon afterwards, in acts of violence and outrage.
gdl.cdlr.strath.ac.uk /stecit/stecit04.htm   (3769 words)

  
 Overview of David Dale   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
Dale took on a weaving apprenticeship in Paisley, but moved to Glasgow at the age of 24, setting up business as a textile manufacturer.
Dale was successful and became a noted member of the Scottish financial community having been appointed the first Glasgow agent of the Royal Bank of Scotland in 1783 and also marrying the daughter of one of the Bank's directors.
Dale opened mills in Catrine (East Ayrshire), Blantyre (South Lanarkshire), Newton Stewart (Dumfries and Galloway) Oban (Argyll and Bute), Stanley (Perth and Kinross) and Spinningdale (Sutherland).
www.geo.ed.ac.uk /scotgaz/people/famousfirst126.html   (224 words)

  
 David Dale - reformer
DAVID Dale proved that industry did not need to be inhuman, that factory labour could go hand in hand with dignity and enlightenment.
Dale was born in Stewarton, Ayr, in 1739, the son of a grocer, and served an apprenticeship to a weaver.
Dale retired in 1799 after selling the business to his son-in-law Robert Owen, who continued and expanded his ideas.
www.cottontimes.co.uk /daleo.htm   (229 words)

  
 Old Stones: Script page 2
Tom Straw/Professor of Geology (#10 00:17:00): David Dale Owen was the groundbreaker for geology in the Midwest.
David Rice/Granary Restoration Director (#12 00:02:46): About half of those were sold to Indiana University to become the geology collection for the geology department at I.U. Unfortunately when Owen Hall burned, they burned and the other half including, many of Maclure's, was shipped to the Smithsonian Institution.
David Rice/Granary Restoration Director (#12 00:08:47): In 1893, he became the owner of the building and rebuilt it as the wheat granary.
www.wnin.org /Granary2.html   (1980 words)

  
 DAVID DALE OWEN   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
David Dale Owen was a leading nineteenth-century American geologist.
Image of David Dale Owen used by permission of Smithsonian Institution Archives, RU 7177, George P. Merrill Collection.
I became interested in David Dale Owen because of his connections with Joseph Granville Norwood at the time that Dr. Norwood came into possession of the fossilized jawbone of the first-known dire wolf.
faculty.evansville.edu /ck6/bstud/owen.html   (210 words)

  
 No. 26734
David Neis is paid one and one half his hourly rate for all hours worked in excess of 40 hours unlike Dale who must ask the Village Board for pay for overtime and who usually gets hour for hour compensatory time instead.
Dale and David Neis do testing at the Waste Water Treatment Plant, maintain it and assure that the plant is operating within the limits established by the DNR.
Dale Neis does not participate in a sufficiently significant manner in the formulation, determination and implementation of management policy or have effective authority to commit the Village's resources so as to render him a managerial employe.
www.wisbar.org /res/wercd/1991/26734.htm   (2298 words)

  
 Earlham College | News from Public Affairs   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
As a result, Dale said not all of the landscapes in the series are river scenes.
David Dale poses with one of his new paintings that depict settings along the Wabash River in Indiana, Ohio, and Illinois.
Since summer 2002 Dale and a colleague have logged more than 3,300 miles while seeking to capture at least one scene each from every county traversed by the 522-mile long river.
www.earlham.edu /publicaffairs/content/pressroom/archive/2004/february/040205s-dale.php   (567 words)

  
 Get government out of marriage | Samizdata.net
David, if you want a system where you are not burdened by the poor personal decisions of others, there are many, many better ways to go at it than giving state benefits to married folks.
David's ignorance on this and, evidently, so many other matters is of concern only to him and the remedy is in his own hands.
David, who is clearly hankering after a similar desire to poke his nose in to folks' lives, writes that there is little distinction between governments and other organisations with rules and punishments.
www.samizdata.net /blog/archives/004725.html   (14470 words)

  
 Buchanan Street Stamps - News and Articles - First Day Cover News
New Lanark was the brainchild of David Dale, a Glasgow banker, who in 1784, was walking along the banks of the river Clyde near the Corra Linn falls w ith Richard Arkwright.
David Dale su bsequently dissolved the partnership and became the sole proprietor of the project in 1785 and the first mill was in operation in 1786.
David Dale was an enlightened employer and he set up a school to provide education for the ch ildren working in his mills and by 1796 some 16 teachers were employed teac hing reading, writing and arithmetic.
www.pennyred.com /news2.cfm?ID=67   (454 words)

  
 WCRCC - David Dale Johnson   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
David Dale Johnson, is a Rockford native and comes from a long line of politically active Republicans.
David served in the United States Air Force from 1974 to 1979 as a Management Analysis Specialist.
As Chairman, David has requested just one accomplishment of his Precinct Committeemen…that is to put their precincts in the "Win" column for all Republican candidates.
www.wcrcc.com /about/johnson_david.htm   (270 words)

  
 Dale, David on Encyclopedia.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
Kaiser Foundation Health Plan and Hospitals President and COO L. Dale Crandall To leave the organization.
Dale Reid of Europe and Patty Sheehan of the USA pose with the trophy
Dale Earnhardt, a seven-time Nascar Winston Cup champion, crashed in the last lap of
www.encyclopedia.com /html/D/Dale-D1av.asp   (517 words)

  
 Famous Scots - David Dale
David Dale was born in Stewarton in Ayrshire, the son of a poor grocer.
By the standards of the time, Dale treated his employees well, though they worked from 6am to 7pm after which the youngsters attended school for two hours.
The groundwork which Dale had established was later built on by his son-in-law, Robert Owen who developed the novel (for then) concept that the best work can be obtained from happy, prosperous and educated employees.
www.rampantscotland.com /famous/blfamdale.htm   (423 words)

  
 DaleReith   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
Dale is the father of Jon and David Reith and probably sends more e-mail to Me (Bob) than everybody else on the planet combined.
When I was in my early teens Dale was the "big brother" that came over with a big box of fireworks and that got me out of farm work to go fishin' and I do have a zillion fond memories of those days.
Dale is one of those guys that sends you inspiring e-mails with almost as much regularity as the "off color" joke e-mails.
www.bobmckee.com /Family/DaleReith.html   (419 words)

  
 David Dale, Scottish Innovator
Dale's attitude to his workforce was a revolutionary one.
These included a number formerly destitute men and women, for whom Dale provided shelter, food, and training, and an additional 400 or so pauper children.
Dale was the first to provide financial assistance.
www.visitrannoch.com /david-dale.htm   (393 words)

  
 Historic New Harmony - Rapp Granary   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
It served as David Dale Owen's laboratory from 1843 to 1859.
David Dale Owen, the first state geologist appointed in 1837, was the renowned "pioneer geologist of the Middle West." It housed a woolen mill, a flour mill, an d a pork packing plant.
In 1948 the Granary was purchased by Kenneth Dale Owen, geologist by profession and a descendant of David Dale Owen's brother Richard.
www.ulib.iupui.edu /kade/newharmony/granary.html   (422 words)

  
 OAPT: Dale David   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
Dale J. David represents the NW Region on the OAPT Executive Committee.
Dale began as a bus driver with Wood Lane in 1987.
At that time, his former supervisor was retiring and Dale applied and was promoted to the position of Transportation Coordinator.
www.oapt.org /dale.html   (248 words)

  
 2 On Your Side - News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
Dale said he was going to use the stamps to send one last newsletter to former constituents.
Dale insists this is a form of political payback for making critical comments concerning issues like the Erie County Highway scandal.
David Dale and lawyers representing Erie County are scheduled to appear in court on Friday.
www.wgrz.com /storyfull.asp?id=18370   (694 words)

  
 David Dale   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
In 1799 Dale's daughter, Caroline Dale, married Robert Owen.
With the financial support of several businessmen from Manchester, Owen purchased Dale's textile mills in New Lanark for £60,000.
David Dale now retired to Cambuslang where he died in 1806.
www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /TEXdale.htm   (393 words)

  
 TheGlasgowStory: David Dale   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
David Dale (1739-1806) was born in Stewarton, Ayrshire.
A religious man, Dale was a founder member of the Old Scotch Independents in 1768.
Dale sold New Lanark to his son-in-law that same year and moved to Cambuslang, where he lived until his death in 1806.
www.theglasgowstory.com /image.php?inum=TGSE01164&add=99&t=   (212 words)

  
 SELECTMEN'S MEETING MINUTES - January 5, 2004   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
Dale was elected Vice Chairman on a 2-1 vote with Todd and him abstaining.
David noted that MMA Legal Services had recommended to Lloyd that the Town of Woolwich Personnel Policy should require a criminal as well as a background check of all prospective employees including firefighters and first responders.
Motion by Rita, seconded by Dale, to modify the Town of Woolwich Personnel Policy by requiring the Hiring Authority to conduct background and criminal checks of all prospective employees.
www.woolwichme.com /selmin/minutes1504.htm   (717 words)

  
 ARCHIMEDES, A GENOTYPE AUTHORED BY DAVID DALE OWEN   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
In 1837, David Dale Owen of New Harmony, Indiana, conducted the first official geological survey of the state of Indiana and published his results, including the earliest use of the name Archimedes for a type of fossil.
David Dale Owen, A Geological Reconnoisance and Survey of the State of Indiana in 1837 and 1838, with Introduction and commentary by Henry H. Gray, Department of Natural Resources, Geological Survey Bulletin 61, Bloomington, Indiana, 1987.
Twentieth century research has led to the conclusion that Archimedes was the most advanced mathematician of antiquity and one of the great mathematicians of all time.
faculty.evansville.edu /ck6/bstud/archimedes.html   (372 words)

  
 Carthage Communications   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
The Dales also provided a naming gift for a future golf center in Carthage's Physical Education Center and are Henry Denhart Society members.
Dale previously led the Meals on Wheels program in his community and has been active in his church for more than five decades.
David and Estelle have a daughter, Mary Kathleen Hanneke, and two grandsons.
www.carthage.edu /media/releases/2004/05-23-dale.html   (368 words)

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