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  Edward Preble - Things named in his honor, Books
Edward Preble (15 August 1761 - 25 August 1807) was a U.S. naval officer.
Preble was born at Falmouth, Eastern Massachusetts, now Portland, Maine, 15 August 1761.
The fanciful tale continues that afterwards the two officers retired to Preble's cabin and drank many toasts to the men killed in action in the Mediterranean, including Stephen Decatur's brother.
encyclopedia.stateuniversity.com /pages/6500/Edward-Preble.html   (653 words)

  
  Preble, New York - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Town of Preble is on the north border of Cortland County.
The Town of Preble was organized in 1808, the year Cortland County was formed, from the Town of Tully (in Onondaga County).
Preble was one of the original towns of the county, when it was formed in 1808.
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 Edward Preble - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Edward Preble (15 August 1761 - 25 August 1807) was a U.S. naval officer.
Preble was born at Falmouth, Eastern Massachusetts, now Portland, Maine, 15 August 1761.
The story has it that upon hearing of his brother's death, Stephen Decatur swung at Edward Preble on the deck of the USS Constitution.
www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Edward_Preble   (736 words)

  
 Record Unit 7252 - Edward Alexander Preble Papers, 1887-1957 and undated
Preble was appointed assistant biologist in 1902, biologist in 1924, and senior biologist in 1928.
Preble kept detailed field diaries and notebooks with observations on the animals and birds he was studying, flora and physical surroundings, weather, routes and distances traveled, individuals encountered, sketches of trapper and Indian life, and Indian terms for animals and plants.
Correspondents are Elizabeth Hardwick Thorne, 1945; Marjorie Elizabeth Preble Thorne, 1945; and Maurice A. Thorne, 1940, 1942-1946.
www.si.edu /archives/archives/findingaids/FARU7252.htm   (5577 words)

  
 DDG 88 Preble
Commodore Preble’s attack and bombardment of the harbor at Tripoli in 1803 during his campaign against Barbary pirates is recalled by the embattlement and rayonny scarlet chief representing the fire and destruction he rained on the port.
PREBLE was in the squadron of Commodore Thomas MacDonough on Lake Champlain and took part in the decisive Battle of Lake Champlain, 11 September 1814.
PREBLE sailed for Labrador, made a cruise to the Mediterranean in 1843 and was attached to the African Squadron in 1845.
www.globalsecurity.org /military/agency/navy/ddg-88.htm   (3102 words)

  
 Preble County Facts
Preble County, Ohio is in the southwestern quadrant of the state along the Indiana border and is conveniently positioned on the east to west backbone of our nation-Interstate 70.
Nearly one-half of the adult population or Preble County holds high school diplomas or equivalent, while one-third of the county residents have attended college, hold an associates or bachelors degree, or hold a graduate degree.
As the larger cities in the region continually expand, Preble County is rapidly becoming an ideal location for corporations to produce and move materials easily around the Midwest and the rest of the nation with easy access to key interstate, railroad, and air travel points.
www.prebco.org /preble_county_facts.htm   (833 words)

  
 Commodore Preble   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Edward Preble was born at Falmouth, Maine on August 15, 1761 and began his career at the age of sixteen when he ran away to sea on a privateer.
Preble and his Tripolitan campaign became one of the focal points for the development of the fighting tradition of the U.S. Navy.
Preble's influence extended not only to events of his time, but also to the later successes of Stephen Decatur, William Bainbridge, Charles Stewart, Isaac Hull, and David Porter, all of whom served under his command at Tripoli.
www.preble.navy.mil /preble/namesake.html   (398 words)

  
 USS Preble
Edward Preble In January 1799 he assumed command of the 14 gun brig Pickering and took her to the West Indies to protect American commerce.
Preble anchored in Hong Kong harbor as a visible sign of American presence until March 1849 when she moved north arriving at Nagasaki 18 April, to negotiate the release of survivors of the ship-wrecked whaler Lagoda, held prisoners by the Japanese.
Preble was briefly assigned duty up the Mississippi River at Baton Rouge where Brigader General Williams of the US Army expressed relief that she was anchored off of that town to help guard against land attacks from Confederate forces that were rumored to be gathering nearby
members.cox.net /tdshiflett/ships/data/sow/preble2_sow.html   (1678 words)

  
 USCA1 Opinion
The defendants Preble and Ackerman are citizens of New Hampshire and Massachusetts, respectively.
Preble and an ally are the sole directors.
The reason is not hard to fathom: the entire theory of the plaintiff's case is that these two men have acted wrongfully to minimize the plaintiff's role in the corporation's activities and to devalue her equity interest.
www.ca1.uscourts.gov /cgi-bin/getopn.pl?OPINION=04-1744.01A   (2366 words)

  
 Edward Preble
In 1803 Preble, on board his flagship, USS Constitution, sailed against the Barbary pirates as Commodore of a seven-ship, thousand-man squadron.
Preble and his Tripolitan campaign became one of the focal points for the development of the fighting tradition of the U.S. Navy.
Preble's influence extended not only to events of his time, but also to the later successes of Stephen Decatur, William Bainbridge, Charles Stewart, Isaac Hull, and David Porter, all of whom served under his command at Tripoli.
www.futura-dtp.dk /SLAG/Personer/NavneP/PrebleEdward.htm   (388 words)

  
 Record Unit 7252 - Edward Alexander Preble Papers, 1887-1957 and undated
Edward Alexander Preble (1871-1957) was a naturalist and conservationist who conducted major field explorations of the birds and mammals of the northwest regions of Canada and the United States.
Preble was appointed assistant biologist in 1902, biologist in 1924, and senior biologist in 1928.
Preble kept detailed field diaries and notebooks with observations on the animals and birds he was studying, flora and physical surroundings, weather, routes and distances traveled, individuals encountered, sketches of trapper and Indian life, and Indian terms for animals and plants.
siarchives.si.edu /findingaids/FARU7252.htm   (5577 words)

  
 Edward Preble - FREE Edward Preble Biography | Encyclopedia.com: Facts, Pictures, Information!
In 1803, Preble was transferred to the Constitution and set out in command of a squadron for the Mediterranean, where he took a leading part in the Tripolitan War.
Preble is the 38th destroyer of 62 Arleigh Burke...
Preble is the 38th ship in the DDG 51 Arleigh Burke-class of Aegis guided missile destroyers.
www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-Preble-E.html   (893 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: Edward Preble   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Six ships of the United States Navy have been named USS Preble after Commodore Edward Preble (1761–1807): Preble, purchased in 1813, was a sloop that fought at the battle of Lake Champlain in the War of 1812.
Preble County is a county located in the state of Ohio.
Preble is a town located in Cortland County, New York.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Edward-Preble   (1873 words)

  
 Edward Preble Papers (Library of Congress)
The papers of Edward Preble, United States naval officer, were purchased by the Library of Congress in 1902 from Dodd Mead and Co. of New York.
The papers of Edward Preble were arranged and described in 1963.
The status of copyright in the unpublished writings of Edward Preble is governed by the Copyright Law of the United States (Title 17, U.S.C.).
www.loc.gov /rr/mss/text/preble.html   (915 words)

  
 United States of America Congressional Gold Medal Recipient Edward Preble
Edward Preble, son of Brigadier Jedediah Preble, was born at Falmouth (now Portland), Maine on August 15, 1761 and began his career at the age of sixteen when he ran away to sea on a privateer.
The USS PREBLE (DDG-46) is the fifth ship to be named in honor of Commodore Edward Preble.
PREBLE was commissioned on May 9, 1960 as DLG-15 and was one of the first ships built from the keel up to fire Terrier guided missiles.
www.congressionalgoldmedal.com /EdwardPreble.htm   (928 words)

  
 History of USS Preble
PREBLE was re-commissioned on 23 May 1970 (CDR K. Commanding), and shortly afterward-left Philadelphia for her new homeport, Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.
PREBLE arrived in Sasebo, Japan on 1 January.Transiting the Taiwan Straits, enroute the South China Sea, on 12 January 1973, PREBLE diverted to assist in coordinating the rescue and recovery of two air crewmen from an F-4 Phantom II downed in nearby waters.
PREBLE remained on the gunline until 1 February, when she was relieved to begin her eastward transit to Hong Kong and Subic Bay, and thence to Pearl Harbor.
www.usspreble.org /history.html   (7003 words)

  
 Preble
On the night of 31 January Tracy, Montgomery, and Preble laid mines in the mouth of the Tenambo River, Guadalcanal, to prevent the evacuation of enemy troops.
On the night of 28 June Breese, Gamble, and Preble mined the waters near Shortland Island to prevent units of the Japanese fleet based there from interfering with landing operations on Rendova Island in the New Georgia Group, which were to be carried out at dawn.
Preble arrived Manus, Admiralty Islands, 1 October, where she joined mine sweeping Task Group 77.5 which arrived off the entrance to Leyte Gulf 17 October where she remained laying bouys and acting as mine destruction vessel for 6 days before returning to Manus.
www.history.navy.mil /danfs/p11/preble-iv.htm   (1345 words)

  
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 The Mariners' Museum : Birth of the U.S. Navy
Commodore Edward Preble became the mentor for future naval heroes such as Stephen Decatur, Isaac Hull, and William Bainbridge.
Commodore Edward Preble was given command in June 1803.
Because he was senior in rank to Preble, Barron would assume command of the squadron, though Secretary of the Navy Smith had hoped that Preble would continue to serve under Barron.
www.mariner.org /usnavy/06/06a.htm   (2015 words)

  
 Preble Sails Again as Navy Welcomes New Destroyer
Preble was introduced to the fleet in a commissioning ceremony in Boston in November.
DDG 88 is the Navy's fourth destroyer (and sixth ship overall) to carry the proud moniker of its namesake, Edward Preble, who served in the Navy from his days as a midshipman in 1777 until his death as a commodore in 1807.
Edward Preble's career mirrored many of the key naval events in the early years of the American republic.
www.globalsecurity.org /military/library/news/2002/12/mil-021224-usn01.htm   (438 words)

  
 Preble County, Ohio Bicentennial - Celebrating Our Heritage
Preble County was settled in 1798 by John Leslie and was established as a county in March of 1808, five years after Ohio was admitted to the Union in March of 1803, as the seventeenth state of the United States of America.
The county was named for Commodore Edward Preble who served as the Commander, of the American Naval Fleet in the Mediterranean during the Tripolitan War, as well as in the Revolutionary War, and the War of 1812.
Preble County has only one city, Eaton (the county seat), which was named for William Eaton, the U.S. Consul at Tunis during the Tripolitan War.
www.preblecounty200.com   (467 words)

  
 THE INDUSTRIAL BASE
Edward L. Schrock (R-Va.), a retired Navy captain, was the principal speaker at the christening ceremonies.
DDG 88 is the sixth ship named for Revolutionary War hero Commodore Edward Preble (1761-1807), who joined a privateer at age 16 and two years later was appointed a midshipman in the Massachusetts State Marine and served on the 26-gun frigate Protector.
Preble was captured in 1781 after participating in two engagements with British ships and was held on the prison ship New Jersey but later released.
www.navyleague.org /seapower_mag/aug2001/industrial_base.htm   (2199 words)

  
 Preble - Perry Genealogy
Motherwell Preble, son of Ebenezer Preble and Martha Smith, was born on 22 Sep 1781 in Woolwich, Lincoln County, Maine and died on 28 Jun 1864 in Richmond, Maine, at age 82.
Ebenezer Preble, son of Ebenezer Preble and Mary Harnden, was born on 27 Aug 1752 in Woolwich, Lincoln County, Maine and died on 21 Jun 1790, at age 37.
Preble, and this Reuben Preble (1778-1832) who stated that he was a nephew of Commodore Edward Preble (1761- 1807) who must have been sons of Col. John Preble if their stories were true, for there does not seem to be any other son of Brig.
www.rglobal.net /user/padagge/preble_-_perry_genealogy.htm   (13831 words)

  
 The Town of Preble
The Town of Preble is in the north central part of Cortland County, approximately seven miles north of the City of Cortland and twenty-six miles south of the City of Syracuse.
The principal population center is the unincorporated Village of Preble.
Preble was first settled in 1796 and the Town was officially formed in 1808 and named in honor of Commodore Edward Preble, a naval officer who fought against the British during the Revolutionary War.
www.cortlandbusiness.com /county/profiles/preble.html   (712 words)

  
 Preble Coat of Arms
In reality, any discussion of a Preble Coat of Arms is misleading because a coat of arms cannot attach to a surname.
Copies of the Preble Arms, of good authenticity, have been preserved in the families descended from the eldest son of Abraham Preble.
The fifth ship named in honor of Commodore Edward Preble, the USS PREBLE was commissioned on May 9, 1960 as DLG-15 and was re-designated USS PREBLE (DDG-46) on July 1, 1975.
preblefamily.org /CoatofArms.html   (784 words)

  
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Preble is the 38th ship of 58 Arleigh Burke class destroyers currently authorized by Congress.
The mission of Preble is to conduct sustained combat operations at sea, providing primary protection for the Navy's aircraft carriers and battle groups, as well as essential escort to Navy and Marine Corps amphibious forces and auxiliary ships, and independent operations as necessary.
Preble, the 17th Arleigh Burke class ship built by Northrop Grumman Ingalls Shipbuilding in Pascagoula, Miss., is 509.5 feet in length, has an overall beam of 66.5 feet, and a navigational draft of 31.9 feet.
www.chinfo.navy.mil /navpalib/ships/destroyers/preble/christen.txt   (499 words)

  
 Historical Sketch of USS Preble (DD-345),
Named for Revolutionary War American naval officer Edward Preble (1761-1807), who commanded the 3d squadron from his flagship, the frigate Constitution during the war against the Barbary Pirates 1804-1805, the fourth Preble (DD-345) was commissioned at the Boston Navy Yard 19 March 1920.
She was assigned to duty escorting aircraft carriers engaged in training, acting as anti-submarine patrol vessel and plane guard during flight operations in the Philippines and Okinawa.
Preble arrived at Norfolk 20 November 1945 and was decommissioned 7 December 1945.
digital.lib.ecu.edu /special/pearlharbor/ph/PREB/hPREB.html   (304 words)

  
 Anne GABRIEL, Plaintiff, Appellant,v.Edward G. PREBLE, et al., Defendants, Appellees - 396 F.3d 10 - Justia US Court of ...
The two named defendants, Preble and Ackerman, are the only officers and effectively control the operation of the business.
To cinch matters, Preble and Ackerman have, from the inception of the litigation, fought the suit tooth and nail.
First, even if we were to view this case as a dispute between the two shareholders, the corporation is an indispensable party and, given its separate legal personality, must be treated independently from the two shareholders.
cases.justia.com /us-court-of-appeals/F3/396/10   (2587 words)

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