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George Francis Train - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia George Francis Train (1829– 1904) was a businessman and an eccentric figure in American history. Train was likely the inspiration for Phileas Fogg in Jules Verne's Around the World in Eighty Days, although he managed to accomplish the feat in 67 (a plaque in Tacoma, Washington commemorates the start and finish point (Note: The Tacoma trip was Train's third around the world and took place in 1880. Referring to himself as "Citizen Train", he was a shipping magnate, a prolific writer, a minor presidential candidate, and a confidante of French and Australian revolutionaries (he had even been offered the presidency of a proposed Australian republic, but declined). en.wikipedia.org /wiki/George_Francis_Train   (208 words)

Patricia Holland on George Francis Train Suppose George Francis Train had devoted his time and money for three months to the negro as he has to the woman would not the abolitionists on all sides be ready to eulogize and accept him, of course they would. upon the Inquiry as to the Sanity or Insanity of George Francis Train, pp. Train is there for the same reason that when invited by the 'Women's Suffrage Association' of St. Louis, he went to Kansas, because he believes in the enfranchisement of woman, not as a sentimental theory, a mere Utopia for smooth speech and golden age, but a practical idea, to be pushed and realized to-day. www.lib.uiowa.edu /spec-coll/Bai/holland.htm   (6226 words)

Round the World Flights George Francis Train, one of the most eccentric men in America was born on March 14, 1829 in Boston. Train believed this was the basis of Jules Verne's tale published in 1873. Train sailed again for Europe on January 8, 1868. www.wingnet.org /rtw/rtw001o.htm   (542 words)

pages 311 to top of 322 Train had purchased one hundred and fifty certificates and had sold one hundred to friends in Kansas City, and wishing to protect their interests accepted the position of director of the townsite company, but his hope of clearing the title was in vain. Train has from the first been one of its enthusiastic supporters, and although he has had many difficulties to overcome in his work of development he has been equal to the occasion and deserves to be classed among the builders of Greater Oklahoma. Train went to Chicago and arranged with the Union Carbide Company to handle their goods at Kansas City, he having been the first to handle that line of goods in the west, and was finally bought, out by the Union Company. www.usgennet.org /usa/topic/historical/1908ok_2_33.htm   (7796 words)

Omaha's First Century - Installment IV Its eventual eclipse by another establishment was born of a dispute between George Francis Train and James T. Allan, the latter one in the Herndon's succession of many managers. One of the Western Stage Company's coaches carried some of the more prominent Omahans to the ceremonial scene, including Edward Creighton, Governor Saunders, George Francis Train and Joseph Shepard, division superintendent of express and afterwards general superintendent of the United States Express Company. Train, a man of energetic bearing whose blue eyes, prominent nose and gray-streaked, dark, curly hair gave him a certain distinction all his own, was among the guests. www.historicomaha.com /ofcchap4.htm   (3985 words)

Red Jacket Runs the Iceberg Gauntlet George Francis Train had returned to Boston and went about rounding up a number of clerks and office fixtures to return to Australia with aboard the Plymouth Rock, a McKay packet built in 1849, and under the command of Captain Eben Caldwell. It turns out that George Francis Train did not get along with his generous cousin Enoch Train who was Eben Caldwell's employer. When Train had initially arrived in Melbourne he had been amazed and appalled at the scene in the harbor of hundreds of vessels from every port in the world all waiting to be unloaded. www.eraoftheclipperships.com /page49web7.html   (5729 words)

Flying Cloud As usual, this was another one of George Train's embellished accounts of what actually happened, for Enoch Train was the one who would have made such an important decision, but George Francis Train may have actually carried out the transaction in accordance Enoch's wishes. George Francis Train always claimed that BY THE SEASIDE was a poem about the building of the Flying Cloud. Enoch Train was most happy to make such a handsome profit, but he would eventually come to regret parting with the Flying Cloud saying that selling her was the biggest mistake of his life. www.eraoftheclipperships.com /page21web3.html   (4447 words)

NYNY 1903-1906 Francis Thomas Young dies of a bullet wound while riding in a New York City hansom cab with Floradora Girl Nan Patterson on his way to a second-honeymoon cruise with his wife. The car is detached from the train and the flames extinguished by Hose 6 and Truck 4 under Acting Battalion Chief Lynch. German-born nurseryman George Ellwanger dies in Rochester at the age of 89. home.eznet.net /~dminor/NYNY1904.html   (6369 words)

honjsm13.html George Francis Train and Judge William F. Lockwood were elected delegates to the Philadelphia fusion convention which undertook to organize the national union party. George Francis Train, who had a long career of remarkable vicissitude, was a picturesque figure in this campaign. With the exception of course of George Francis Train's speeches, the inevitable joint discussion between Marquett and Morton -- for a forensic duel was always insisted upon when Morton was candidate was the striking feature of the campaign. www.webroots.org /library/usahist/honjsm13.html   (8834 words)

University of Delaware: TERESA VIELÉ SCRAPBOOKS George Francis Train, a candidate in the 1872 presidential election. George Train was a member of the Train Ligue which campaigned on the promise of an equal distribution of political power for all women, men, and ethnicities and supported women's suffrage. Their youngest son, Egbert Jr., accompanied his mother to France after the divorce and later changed his name to Francis Vielé-Griffin (1864-1937), gaining renown as a French symbolist poet. www.lib.udel.edu /ud/spec/findaids/viele.htm   (662 words)

G.F. Train Award The George Francis Train International Business Commemorative was developed in recognition of the tremendous local growth in international business and its significant economic and cultural contribution to our community. The award commemorates George Francis Train, a legendary Boston Yankee who had a special place in his heart for Tacoma. Train was a partner in the family firm that ran White Diamond shipping line, commissioning the world's fastest clipper, the Flying Cloud. www.tacomachamber.org /page.asp?view=1382   (599 words)

Around the World with Citizen Train :: Interlink Books George Francis Train was among other things the real Phileas Fogg. In July 1890, George Train set out on one of the most famous journeys ever made. Train's journey around the world was an extraordinary feat in an era of sailing ships, horse-drawn transportation and trains. www.interlinkbooks.com /BooksC/Citizen-Train_text.html   (120 words)

Mark Twain on George Francis Train Train had sprained his ankle and was obliged to remain quiet until he could get the leg removed and a reliable patent wooden one put on in its place that could not sprain. Train had got the Democratic party reorganized and all straight, and was out in the middle of the Rocky Mountains clearing off a place and driving away the buffaloes, so that he could build a metropolis there. Train had finished that metropolis and paved it with the Nicolson pavement, and started a couple of daily newspapers, and was gone East again with another lady to lecture on female suffrage. www.twainquotes.com /gftrain.html   (624 words)

Preface George was deeply impressed by Enoch's evident display of wealth and decided that was the life for him. Train's life is indeed proof that of the saying that sometimes the truth is stranger than fiction. Train enthusiastically agreed to send regular reports on the social, economic and political conditions from the booming gold rush of Australia. www.allenfoster.com /faq.htm   (918 words)

Train, George Francis - Train, George Francis">email page to a friend you are here: adoption.com > library > famous adoptees & fosterees > a-z index > t > train, george francis In 1832 his family moved to New Orleans but soon afterwards they all except young George died of yellow fever. famous.adoption.com /famous/train-george-francis.html   (182 words)

Andreas' History of the State of Nebraska - Douglas Co. - Omaha - Section 2 It was on Sunday, January 17, that the train hove in sight and, crossing Missouri River on a pile bridge, soon halted in the growing city where its arrival was greeted with enthusiastic rejoicing. In the meanwhile work on lines of railroads, hence from distant points, was progressing so rapidly that it was a question of but a brief period when the iron horse and trains of cars should be substituted for the steamer and coach. Few were finished that year, but the foundations then laid have since been the bases of superstructures which tower above the stranger and citizens, monuments to the liberality and enterprise of their founders. www.kancoll.org /books/andreas_ne/douglas/douglas-p7.html   (3486 words)

Meridian Magazine :: History Bits : OUTRAGEOUS! George Francis Train’s mind was full of schemes and inventions. Train had hoped to be party to a test case that would expand freedom of speech and press. Train was impressed with the Mormons and their leader. www.meridianmagazine.com /historybits/030905outrageous.html   (1223 words)

University of Delaware: ARLO BATES AND GEORGE L. VOSE PAPERS A note in the collection indicates that George Leonard Vose was the father of Bates' wife, Harriet Lenora Vose. This collection is arranged in small groups by correspondence of Arlo Bates and George L. Vose; two folders of miscellaneous letters from Walter Shinlaw to Truman Howe Bartlett, and from Hermann Hagedorn to Bates' son, Oric; nine photographs; and an unidentified manuscript fragment. 1897 Oct 4 TLS 1p Frazer, James George, Sir,1854-1931 Professor of Religion, Cambridge University 1909 Nov 20 ALS 4p Garrett, Edmund Henry,1853-1929 1887 Sep 23 ALS 4p Grant, Robert, 1852-1940 Born in Boston, Grant was a lawyer and a judge as well as a novelist and poet. www.lib.udel.edu /ud/spec/findaids/batesvos.htm   (2594 words)

7p11210.txt The last we heard from GEORGE FRANCIS, he was, (to use his own choice language,) "away up here on the Chippewa," beseeching the lumber men, with all the charm of his inimitable eloquence, to vote him into the Presidential chair. PUNCHINELLO has, in his day, been considered talkative; but he feels, as he listens to GEORGE FRANCIS, that he is himself a marvel of taciturnity--that in the noble art of sounding his own trumpet he is a mere child--that as a contributor to the public amusement he is in danger of falling into paltry insignificance. GEORGE FRANCIS is clearly one of the immortals. www.gutenberg.org /dirs/etext06/7p11210.txt   (12949 words)

WashingtonPost.com: Charles Ives: A Life With Music George White Ives's endeavors tended not only to his own benefit; they rose from the growth of the town and in turn accelerated progress of all kinds. George Ives would be one of the best-known and best-liked citizens of Danbury. Four years after his marriage, in 1835, George White Ives and a group of associates (including two Hoyts, a Tweedy, a Benedict, and a Wildman) secured a charter for a railroad; it became the Housatonic line to Bridgeport; George White served as secretary of the line. www.washingtonpost.com /wp-srv/style/longterm/books/chap1/ives.htm   (4627 words)

William Parker Foulke Papers, American Philosophical Society Trained as an attorney, Foulke spent much of his adult life engaging his deep amateur interest in natural history and mental philosophy and devoting himself to a variety of civic and philanthropic causes, including the colonization of freed slaves, penal reform, and cultural institutions in his native Philadelphia. Sensitized to the problems of incarceration through his legal training, Foulke joined the Philadelphia Society for Alleviating the Miseries in Public Prisons in July, 1845, the first of many prison reform organizations that would attract his support. Geologically, Foulke was involved with the Pennsylvania Geological Survey and in supporting the establishment of a state school of mines. www.amphilsoc.org /library/mole/f/foulke.htm   (1824 words)

Mark Twain's letters from Washington - No. VII What a pity it is that that insufferable fool, George Francis Train, did not think of that. However, the same God that made George Francis Train made also the mosquitoes and the rats, and in His infinite wisdom He knows what He did it for. Train established a newspaper in New York (the Revolution) to keep his notoriety alive while he wagged his ears in Europe. www.twainquotes.com /18680227t.html   (1680 words)

POORHOUSE HISTORY by state It was this latter more infrequently used method of public pauper auctions that attracted the most attention mainly because of the involvement of one George Francis Train. Train wanted to expose the injustices and abuses suffered under this system that to him differed little from how slaves were treated in the southern United States. Train carried out his crusade in Sussex for only the first three months of 1888. www.poorhousestory.com /CANADA.htm   (640 words)

Civil War Pamphlets: Foreign Relations - Kansas State Historical Society Downfall of England / by George Francis Train ; and a sermon on the Civil War in America : delivered August 17, 1862 / by Archbishop Hughes, on his return to America from Europe. Train's Union speeches : "second series," delivered in England during the present American war / by George Francis Train. www.kshs.org /research/collections/documents/booksmags/civilwarpams/cwpamsfr.htm   (701 words)

>Mechanics Hall--Visual 2 George Francis Train was an influential businessman and writer who supported women's suffrage. In October 1867, Train, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Susan B. Anthony gave lectures in support of women's suffrage in several cities in Kansas. Illustration 1: Advertisement for Women's Suffrage Movement lecture, December 7, 1867. www.cr.nps.gov /NR/twhp/wwwlps/lessons/87mechanics/87visual2.htm   (185 words)

The Big Apple: Republican Elephant There is a cartoon of “THE WHITE ELEPHANT IN THE TOMBS.” The elephant is “G.F.T.,” or George Francis Train. However, the 1873 elephant cartoon of George Francis Train, from the New York Daily Graphic, is very, very similar. This symbol of the party was born in the imagination of cartoonist Thomas Nast and first appeared in Harper’s Weekly on November 7, 1874. www.barrypopik.com /article/909/republican-elephant   (533 words)

Chapter Four: In The Camp, The Edge by First Lieutenant George Francis, USMC, Retired While we were fiddling with the sterilizer, the chicken, whose neck George thought he had broken, squawked back to furious life, clucking desperately around the floor of the pitch black room. He and George were close friends in the camp and have maintained contact over the years. George was hovering over it with the air of a Michelin three-star chef. fourthmarinesband.com /francis4.htm   (5743 words)

Keywords » Train I first came upon Train while reading Foner’s book on the Reconstruction era, in which he describes how Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony allied themselves with this possibly insane, racist, eccentric because he was the only one who would support their struggle women’s suffrage during a crucial post civil-war vote in Kansas. Later, Train was to repeat the journey in only sixty days (the first time he was arrested by the Communards in Marseille, and supposedly only got out with the help of Alexander Dumas and Leon Gambetta). But he very likely was the real-life model for Jules Verne& book, which was published in 1873, just three years after Train went around the world in eighty days. keywords.oxus.net /archives/2003/11/05/train   (970 words)

Famous.adoption.com Site Map Francis was orphaned as a child (his mother died in 1739 and his father in 1740), raised in Swansea and educated in Bristol. The page you are looking for could not be found, but the following similiar pages may be of interest. He became a Baptist minister in England and wrote a number of po... famous.adoption.com /famous/index-parents-died-disappeared-or-became...   (499 words)

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