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  Jacob Crowninshield
CROWNINSHIELD, Jacob, congressman, born in Salem, Massachusetts, 31 March 1770; died in Washington, D. C., 14 April 1808.
He was appointed secretary of the navy by President Jefferson on 3 March 1805, but never entered upon his duties, owing to his rapid decline and death, the result of consumption.
--Benjamin Williams's grandson, Frederic Crowninshield, artist, born in Boston, Massachusetts, 27 November 1845, was graduated at Harvard in 1866, and began the study of water-color drawing in London in 1867 under Rowbotham, devoting himself to landscape-painting in water-colors and in oil.
www.famousamericans.net /jacobcrowninshield   (633 words)

  
 The Yachting Photography of Willard B. Jackson, with essay by Daniel Finamore
The boats he shot were built in a hundred different yards and included famous names like America, Spray, and Resolute, but he also liked the knockabouts, sailing dories, and other small craft that rarely drew a photographer's attention.
One of Jackson's important clients throughout his career was the yacht designer B. Crowninshield, who also ran a brokerage firm based in Boston and New York.
Crowninshield also purchased Jackson's prints of his own boats and those he had designed.
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 MHS Adams-Homans Family Photographs, 1891-ca. 1901 : Guide to the Photograph Collection   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Frances Crowninshield Adams was born in Boston on 15 October 1839 to George Caspar and Harriet Sears Crowninshield.
The later four albums, covering 1893-1901, were taken and collected by her mother, Frances Crowninshield Adams.
All of the photographs were taken by Adams and Homans with an early Kodak snapshot camera, and the images mostly depict members of the Adams family and their circle.
www.masshist.org /findingaids/doc.cfm?fa=fap022   (1621 words)

  
 JAIC 1997, Volume 36, Number 1, Article 5 (pp. 59 to 81)
According to the painter Frederic Crowninshield (1887), he deadened his oils by adding spirits of turpentine.
According to one contemporary observation, Puvis painted in “common oil-paints” (Crowninshield 1887).
This fact was confirmed by the discovery of some of Puvis's leftover paint tubes in a paint box preserved by the artist's heirs at Le Brouchy (fig.
aic.stanford.edu /jaic/articles/jaic36-01-005_3.html   (2459 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
The topic of her slide talk is "The Many-Faceted Artistic Career of Frederic Crowninshield." Refreshments and tea will be served following the presentation.
From the early 1880s to 1918, although based in New York City, he was a major contributor to the development of the vibrant artistic life of the Berkshires.
Wilmers is the great-granddaughter of Crowninshield and is writing a manuscript on the artist's career.
www.berkshireeagle.com /portlet/article/html/fragments/print_article.jsp?article=2904709   (1192 words)

  
 New England Historic Genealogical Society
Josephine de Gersdorff, eldest child of Carl August, in 1917 married Frederick Josiah Bradlee, Jr., sometime Boston banker, whose own royally descended ancestors included Rev. Peter and Jane (Allen) Bulkeley, the former of Massachusetts, and William Wentworth of New Hampshire, and one of whose great-great-great-grandmothers was the poet Sarah Wentworth (Apthorp) Morton (1759-1846).
Thus a third cousin of Queen Victoria, allied by marriage with Choates, and his son with Crowninshields, is both a great-grandfather of a nationally known figure and the ancestor or ancestor-in-law of at least ten Harvard graduates to date (including, from the next generation, Robert Denny Alsop, class of 1971).
Ellen Peabody, daughter of George and Clarissa, married her first cousin, jurist and U.S. Secretary of War William Crowninshield Endicott; among her own children was Mary Crowninshield Endicott, third wife of British statesman and colonial secretary Joseph Chamberlain, and stepmother of Austen and (Prime Minister) Neville Chamberlain.
www.newenglandancestors.org /education/articles/NEXUS/Nexus_10.4.8.asp   (4375 words)

  
 NYNY 1805-1809
The Cabinet consists of James Madison, State; Albert Gallatin, Treasury; Henry Dearborn, War; Jacob Crowninshield, Navy; Gideon Granger, Postmaster General, and Robert Smith, Attorney General.
Harriet Wadsworth is born to James and Naomi Walcott Wadsworth in Geneseo, their first child.
Frederic Tudor of Boston ships a cargo of ice from New York City to Martinique.
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 Untitled Document
A history of the First regiment of Massachusetts cavalry volunteers, by Benjamin W. Crowninshield...
By Rev. Frederic Denison, chaplain...[Central Falls, R.I.] The First Rhode Island cavalry veteran association, 1876.
History of the Detroit light guard : its records and achievements / compiled by Frederic S. Isham and Purcell & Hogan, Detroit.
clarke.cmich.edu /civilwar/cwpublished/regimental.htm   (4291 words)

  
 FireFlyArts.com Gallery - Artist Biographies   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
He grew up in privileged circumstances, engaging in sporting activities of tennis, fishing, and hunting, which he enjoyed for the rest of his life.
Church's happiness was blasted in March of 1865, when his son and his daughter died of diphtheria, but with the birth of Frederic junior in 1866, Church and his wife began a new family that was eventually to number four children.
They reveal a curious blend of influences, in particular the classicism of Frederic Leighton and the abstracted idealism of G. Watts.
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 Frank Tolles Chamberlin
It was for this that the academy was founded, after the World's Fair of 1893 had demonstrated the serious lack of understanding among our painters and sculptors of this relationship.
The muralists and illutrastor, Frank Millet, who was chosen to succeed Frederic Crowninshield as Director of the Academy, came to Rome in 1912.
He astonished and delighted Tolles by asking him, shortly after arriving, to return with him and take over his Washington studio and to carry out his New Bedford mural commission.
www.publicartinla.com /LA_murals/Pasadena/chamberlin_bio.html   (1562 words)

  
 Books & Papers Written By or About Bradlees
LC CALL NUMBER: PZ4.B7995 Es 90-183580:Bradlee, Francis Boardman Crowninshield.
Blockade running during the Civil War and the effect of land and water transportation on the Confederacy.
-- (hdg.: Crowninshield, Bowdoin Bradlee, 1867- ; usage: B.B. Crowninshield) Heading: Bradlee, Charles, 1790 or 91-1861 References: Bradlee, C. (Charles), 1790 or 91-1861 Notes: Hdg rev per Desc Pol Instructions for the German flute, 1829: -- t.p.
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 Presidential Inaugurations: A Selected List of References
Preliminary inventory of the records of the 1961 Inaugural Committee (Record group 274) Compiled by Marion M. Johnson.
Ogg, Frederic A. The reign of Andrew Jackson; a chronicle of the frontier in politics.
Also published, with slightly different title and introductory remarks, in The Heritage of America, edited by Henry S. Commager and Allan Nevins, rev, and enl.
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 THE GETTYSBURG GUN BY JOHN H. RHODES
William S. Perrin (temporarily took over Battery B when T. Fred Brown was wounded); The Gettysburg Gun; and Capt. T.
Frederic Brown (Battery B Commander, stricken with a head wound), Massachusetts MOLLUS Commandery I.D.# 01143.
At Providence, E. I., on May 21, 1874, there was a grand military demonstration on the reception of Battery B's relic, and the delivery of the gun to the State, which took place under very trying and moist aspects of the weather, with the following committees in charge viz.:
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 The Massachusetts Historical Society
Benjamin Williams Crowninshield was Chairman of the House Committee on Naval Affairs from 1823-1825.
Also contained in the Meyer papers is much political material relating to the Republican Party in Massachusetts and the nation.
Important correspondents include Meyer's wife Marian Alice Appleton Meyer; his son George von L. Meyer, Jr., Thomas Jefferson Coolidge, Winthrop Murray Crane, Frederic C. Dumaine, Curtis Guild, Henry Cabot Lodge, Theodore Roosevelt and William Howard Taft.
www.history.navy.mil /sources/ma/mah.htm   (1209 words)

  
 MaritimeDigital Archive Media Library - Home > 003c Surface vessels (1881-1904) > Battleships - Pre-Dreadnoughts > ...
Like the previous experiment in doing so (the Kearsarge class), this had the effect of rendering the 8" guns so mounted useless.
The first Maine, a second-class armored battleship, was laid down at New York Navy Yard 17 October 1888; launched 18 November 1889, sponsored by Miss Alice Tracy Wilmerding, granddaughter of Secretary of the Navy Benjamin Tracy; and commissi oned 17 September 1895, Capt. Arent S. Crowninshield in command.
Maine departed New York Navy Yard 5 November 1895 for Newport, R.I., via Gardiner's Bay, N.Y., to fit out 16 to 23 November, and then proceeded on the 25th to Portland, Maine, to visit her namesake.
www.ibiblio.org /maritime/postcardlibrary/index.php?cat=1092   (2444 words)

  
 Quintin Publications | Family Genealogies Letter C   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
A Record of the Descendants of Robert Campbell of County Tyrone Ulster, Ireland., Campbell Reverend Frederic (1909)
Descendants of Bernard Capen of Dorchester Massachusetts., Hayden, Reverend Charles A. revised by Jessie H. Tuttle (1919)
C4 Genealogy of the Descendants of Banfield Capron from 1660 to 1859., Holden, Frederic A (1859)
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 Find A Grave - Search Results for "CROWN"
Writer, Publisher, Creator and Editor of "Vanity Fair" Magazine, Art Critic and Collector, and Toastmaster of New York.
Son of Frederic Crowninshield (1845-1918) artist, instructor, and Director of The American Academy in Rome, and Helen Susette Fairbanks Crowninshield (1841-1924).
Brother of Edward A. Crowninshield (1870-1938) an authority on antiques.
www.findagrave.com /php/famous.php?page=name&firstName=&lastName=CROWN   (316 words)

  
 The Rudder
Nock, Frederic S. Nock, Frederic S. Nov 11:244
Nock, Frederic S. Nock, Frederic S. May 08:434
Nock, Frederic S. Nock, Frederic S. May 12:352
www.mysticseaport.org /library/initiative/ruddervessels.cfm   (99 words)

  
 Bibliographical Note
Huidekoper, Frederic L. Military Unpreparedness of the United States.
Hunt, Irwin L. American Military Government of Occupied Germany, 1918-1919.
Crowninshield, B. W "Cavalry in Virginia During the War of the Rebellion." Journal of the Military Service Institute 12 (May 1891): 527-51.
www.army.mil /cmh-pg/books/Lineage/M-F/bn.htm   (4289 words)

  
 RG45: Appendix M.
Journal Kept on Board the U.S. Flagship Vincennes by Frederic Donald Stuart, Secretary to Comdr.
Journal of Cadet Edward H. Watson on Board the USS Amphitrite (July 1-Sept. 9, 1895), Commanded by Capt. William C. Wise, and the USS Maine (Sept. 17, 1895-Apr. 25, 1897), Commanded by Capt. Arent S. Crowninshield.
The volume also contains photographs, sketches, blue prints, and detailed descriptions of the Amphitrite, Maine, and Indiana; a nautical chart of Fisher and Block Sounds; and a description of the blockade of Charleston, S. by ships of the North Atlantic Squadron, February 1897.
www.history.navy.mil /library/guides/rg45-m.htm   (11744 words)

  
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The United States and Great Britain had acquired the habit of submitting to judicial decision their disputes, even those closely touching honor, and this habit kept them steady.
In accepting arbitration in 1892, the United States practically gave up her case, although Blaine undoubtedly believed it could be defended, and in spite of the fact that it was ably presented by John W. Foster from a brief prepared by the American counsel, Edward J. Phelps, Frederic R. Coudert, and James C. Carter.
The tribunal assembled at Paris decided that Bering Sea was open and determined certain facts upon which a subsequent commission assessed damages of nearly half a million against the United States for the seizure of British vessels during the period in which the American claim was being asserted.
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 Anna Chamberlain Freeland ( - ) Artwork Images, Exhibitions, Reviews
Click the artwork titles below to see actual examples of artwork or works of art relevant to works by Anna Chamberlain Freeland.
John Singer Sargent - Mary Crowninshield Endicott Chamberlain (Mrs.
Joseph Chamberlain) 1902 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art American
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 Preservation 360   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
She is also the author of Light Screens: The Complete Leaded-Glass Windows of Frank Lloyd Wright (Rizzoli, 2001).
She is currently working on books on the stained glass of John La Farge and of Frederic Crowninshield (a contemporary of Tiffany and La Farge), and is researching the art glass of the Prairie School, as well as the history of stained glass in the United States, in preparation for books.
She has received research grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Graham Foundation for the Arts, the Samuel Kress Foundation, the James Marston Fitch Foundation, and the Arts and Crafts Foundation.
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 Documents Relating to American Foreign Policy, 1898-1914
CREELMAN IN CUBA: HUMAN RIGHTS JOURNALISM AND THE "YELLOW" SEEDS OF WAR by Frederic A. Moritz
Bancroft, Frederic, "Seward's Ideas of Territorial Expansion," The North American Review, vol.
Crowninshield, A. S, Capt, U.S.N., "Advantages of the Nicaragua Canal," The Century, vol.
www.mtholyoke.edu /acad/intrel/to1914.htm   (5502 words)

  
 The Virginian
Reath, Theodore W. Redington, J. Reed, David A. Remington, Eva A. Remington, Frederic
Russell, R. See also same container, Remington, Frederic
Stewardson, Langdon C. Stimson, Frederic J. of Dale)
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