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Harriman was killed in action Saturday as the result gunfire from an Air Force AC-130 gunship that mistook his convoy for enemy forces.
Harriman, a native of Nixa, Mo., enlisted at the age of 18 and was stationed for 13 years at Fort Bragg, N.C., his wife said.
Harriman's twin brother was in the military, and they followed their father -- who served in the Army -- in military service.
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 Harriman, Tennessee - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Harriman is a city in Roane County, Tennessee, United States.
It is the principal city of and is included in the 'Harriman Micropolitan Statistical Area'.
Harriman was founded in the late 19th century by activists in the Temperance movement who advocated abstinence from alcohol.
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 Alice Harriman
Harriman will revise the manuscript of her book, almost complete, in order to include complete data about her San Francisco "find." This is not the first rare bell she has discovered, either.
Harriman also ws the author of several books of which the two most noted were "A Man of Two Countries" and a volume of poems, "Will Thou Not Sing." At the time of her death she was engaged in writing a history dealing with the early missions of California.
Harriman had been at work on a history of the mission bells, and years of research made her an authority on this subject.
www.usablewebs.com /adelaide/WebCD/Alice_Harriman.htm   (1530 words)

  
 W. Averell Harriman Papers (Library of Congress)
The Alaska expedition journal of Edward Henry Harriman was given by W. Averell Harriman's daughters, Kathleen Lanier Harriman Mortimer and Mary Averell Harriman Fisk, in 1992.
In the mid-1920s, Harriman invested in extracting manganese from mines in the Soviet Republic of Georgia, and during the early 1930s, he took charge of the Union Pacific Railroad and was credited with revivifying the line during the bleakest years of the Depression.
Harriman's extensive social life as a businessman is manifest at every turn, from correspondence and other exchanges with eminences of European and American society to the entertainment files he kept with respect to dinners, travel excursions, sporting interests, and construction and management of Arden Estate, the family's New York country home.
www.loc.gov /rr/mss/text/harriman.html   (5172 words)

  
 Conversation Between N.S. Khrushchev and Governor Harriman, June 23, 1959
Harriman also expressed "grave concern" over a postscript to his Life magazine article by John L. Steele, Chief of the Time-Life Washington bureau, which revealed Harriman's report that Khrushchev had given the Chinese Communists atomic rockets for their use in support of a possible invasion of Formosa.
Harriman stated that this was not unusual in the United States and that he had many contacts among the working class, Khrushchev retorted that the class struggle was an international question.
Governor Harriman expressed surprise at the Institute of World Economy and International Relations' estimate that the maximum future industrial growth of the United States was only 2 percent./21/ He said he had told the professors that if they wanted to keep their jobs, they should revise their estimates to 4 or 4-1/2 percent.
www.mtholyoke.edu /acad/intrel/harriman.htm   (5703 words)

  
 Harriman Associates - Architects + Engineers: Imaginative Details for Kennebunk Elementary School Design
Harriman Associates was honored at the Exhibition of School Architecture conference in San Francisco in February.
Harriman Associates' first task is creating a five-year facility master plan for the FCHN system located in the Farmington region.
Harriman Associates provides architecture and engineering design services for education, government, commercial and health care clients throughout New England from offices in Auburn and Portland, Maine, and Portsmouth, New Hampshire.
www.harriman.com /site/uti_nws_pressreleases_2003_4.htm   (2536 words)

  
 Edward Harriman   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
EDWARD H. Harriman was born in Hempstead, New York, son of an Episcopal clergyman.
In 1879, Harriman married Mary Averell, the daughter of the president of the Ogdensburg and Lake Champlain Railroad.
Harriman's financial interest in the Union Pacific passed to his son, W. Averell Harriman, who was chairman of the Union Pacific's board from 1932 to 1946.
www.icrrhistorical.org /edward.harriman.html   (374 words)

  
 Averell Harriman
Presidential advisor William Averell Harriman was born in New York City and was heir to his father's Union Pacific Railroad fortune.
Harriman served briefly as US Ambassador to the United Kingdom in 1946, and was appointed Secretary of Commerce under President Truman.
Harriman criticized the manner in which Nixon handled both the war and the peace talks.
www.multied.com /Bio/people/Harriman.html   (269 words)

  
 Metropole Paris Pamela Harriman   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
Harriman was an extraordinary lady and, by all accounts, an extremely competent and able US Ambassador to France.
Mrs Harriman denied that it was her fault that she happened to meet a lot of men who happened to be rich; "It was luck and timing," she said.
Harriman was presented with France's highest award, the Grand Cross of the Legion of Honor, by President Jacques Chirac.
www.wfi.fr /metropole/backissues/70210206/harriman.html   (1333 words)

  
 Truman Library - W. Averell Harriman Oral History Interview
HARRIMAN: I think there are telegrams that may or may not be available, which indicated that I very much had in mind the need to give Europe substantial aid after the war, after Lend-Lease was over.
HARRIMAN: I was all for the ideals, but I knew we were not in a position to get the ideal in the European Recovery Program.
This [the Harriman Committee] was a very strangely organized committee, because you had a Secretary of Commerce as Chairman of it, with all the other members being private citizens drawn from industry, commerce, banking, finance, the intellectual world, labor, Congress.
www.trumanlibrary.org /oralhist/harriman.htm   (4772 words)

  
 Harriman Y-DNA Project - Family Project Website
The Harriman Family Association is an association of the descendants of Leonard and John Harriman, immigrants to Rowley, Massachusetts, c.
This is a descendant of of Matthew, son of Leonard Harriman of Rowley, Mass.
This is a probable descendant of a son of Leonard Harriman of Rowley, Mass.
www.familytreedna.com /public/harriman   (609 words)

  
 PBS - Harriman Expedition Retraced
He soon learned that E.H. Harriman was a highly respected railway magnate, who had the financial resources and the talent to realize such a grand scheme.
History has shown that the Harriman Alaska Expedition lived up to all expectations: genera and species new to science were described, fossil species newly recorded, natural history collections created, and the Harriman Fiord surveyed for the first time.
At the heart of the new expedition is the 100-year Harriman benchmark that can be used to assess our relationship with the natural world and society's current and future needs.
www.pbs.org /harriman   (669 words)

  
 Harriman Chemsult Limited
Harriman Chemsult is the world's leading consulting company specialising in market trends and pricing in the chlor-alkali, vinyl chloride, bleaching chemicals and related chemical industries.
Harriman Chemsult is dedicated to providing fully independent market research services which are provided at several levels and frequency.
Harriman Chemsult's product coverage (available through subscription to it's services) is principally of the chlor-alkali and related industries and encompasses most products within the salt derivative sector.
www.harriman.co.uk   (241 words)

  
 Stanley L. Harriman, Chief Warrant Officer, United States Army
Sheila Harriman says it will be an emotional celebration of her husband's life and one to which she is extending an open invitation.
Sheila Harriman holds a picture of her late husband, Staff Sgt. Stan Harriman, who was killed in Afghanistan by friendly fire.
The Harriman twins and another brother enlisted in the Army as an homage of sorts to their father, a retired Army major who piloted helicopters.
www.arlingtoncemetery.net /slharriman.htm   (2905 words)

  
 CNN - Ambassador Harriman dead from cerebral hemorrhage - Feb. 5, 1997
Harriman, who would have turned 77 next month, did not have a history of health problems.
She was appointed to the post in May 1993, and had been planning to leave the ambassadorship by mid-year.
Harriman's life was equally scrutinized for her many liaisons.
www.cnn.com /WORLD/9702/05/harriman.obit   (713 words)

  
 The Great Manipulator
E.H. Harriman, known to many as "The Great Manipulator," cemented the family's fortune in 1989, when the syndicate he headed to acquire the Union Pacific line, which was then in the hands of a receiver.
Old man Harriman's method in such campaigns were to first poke a stock down to as low levels as he thought advisable; then gather in everything he could find within a certain buying zone.
After this, Harriman would keep his stock dead within a range of a few points, for weeks at a time, so that nobody could make any money trading in it and those who held it would be discouraged, throw it out and get into more active issues.
www.gold-eagle.com /gold_digest_01/droke060101.html   (1086 words)

  
 Pamela Harriman - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.netlab.uky.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
Pamela Harriman (20 March 1920 – 5 February 1997) was a Washington, D.C. socialite, and diplomat married to Randolph Churchill (son of Sir Winston Churchill) on 4 October 1939.
Later, she was introduced to Averell Harriman, and began an affair which led ultimately to her 1946 divorce from Churchill and friction between Randolph and his parents, who he maintained had condoned the affair.
As Pamela Churchill Harriman she became a United States citizen in 1971 and became involved in the Democratic Party, creating a fund-raising system that helped return that party to the White House.
en.wikipedia.org.cob-web.org:8888 /wiki/Pamela_Harriman   (655 words)

  
 Online NewsHour: Pamela Harriman remembered -- February 5, 1997
In 1971, she married former New York Governor and diplomat Averell Harriman, the heir to a railroad fortune and a key fund-raiser for the Democratic Party.
Harriman is a man who knew her well as friend and colleague.
You know, Elizabeth, I often thought today that if she had lived the life she was destined for, as the daughter of a baron, Baron Digby, she would have ended her life as the duchess dowager in some stately home in England, not as the American ambassador to France.
www.pbs.org /newshour/bb/remember/1997/harriman_2-5.html   (1144 words)

  
 UP-Historical Equipment Still in Use:Lounge Cars   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
The meals were soon discontinued when complaints of too much food and the “outrageous cost” of $1.50 per meal were forwarded on to railroad headquarters in Omaha.
Edward Harriman had the vision to see the potential in the bankrupt Union Pacific Railroad in 1897.
Harriman also pushed to acquire a new line, the Los Angeles and Salt Lake Railroad to provide access to southern California.
www.uprr.com /aboutup/history/histequp/domloung.shtml   (665 words)

  
 William Averell Harriman
William Averell Harriman, the son of the railway magnate, E. Harriman, was born in New York City on 15th November, 1891.
A member of the Democratic Party Harriman was elected governor of New York in 1954.
Harriman lost this position as US negotiator under President Richard Nixon but returned to office in 1978 when he was appointed the senior member of the US Delegation to the United Nations General Assembly's Special Session on Disarmament.
www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /USAharrimanA.htm   (551 words)

  
 History
Harriman's Carnegie Library was a result of the efforts of Mrs.
One interesting feature of the audience was the presence of about six hundred school children who marched from the public school to the grounds headed by the band.
The proceedings were opened by R.B. Cassell, president of the library board, who stated the object of the meeting and called upon Rev. L.R. Robinson for invocation.
www.harrimanlibrary.org /history.html   (392 words)

  
 Harriman Hikers
Harriman Hikers is a hiking club for singles of all ages.
Most of the hikes take place in Harriman State Park (NY), but we also hike in the State Parks of northern New Jersey such as Wawayanda State Park, Norvin Green State Forest, Ramapo Reservation and in the southern Hudson Valley such as Black Rock Forest, Sterling Forest and Bear Mountain State Park.
Harriman Hikers meets every Sunday for hiking, rain or shine, year-round, as we have for over 30 years.
www.harrimanhikers.org   (4106 words)

  
 Welcome to Harriman Signs   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
Harriman Sign Company Ltd has the solutions for all your signage needs.
Harriman Sign Company Ltd has a focus to be professional in all aspects of its operations.
We are dedicated to providing the highest quality range of products and services that are required to compliment and satisfy our customers’ signage needs in a timely, cost effective and accurate manner.
www.harriman-signs.co.nz /home.html   (81 words)

  
 harriman, roane co, tn ~ history in pictures
harriman, roane co, tn ~ history in pictures
an early cincinatti southern railroad trestle bridge crossing the emory river into harriman
quotation source: walter t pulliam, harriman, the town that temperance built.
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 Harriman - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Harriman State Park in New York State, donated by the Harriman family.
Harriman State Park in Island Park, Idaho, which was the former ranch home of Harrimans below and was donated to the state by E. Roland Harriman.
Averell Harriman, former Governor of New York, son of E. Harriman and brother of E. Roland Harriman
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Harriman   (189 words)

  
 The Harriman Institute
Harriman Institute hosts the U.S. debut of the Balkan Investigative Reporting Network’s documentary Kosovo: Does Anyone Have a Plan?
The Harriman Institute will hold a day-long symposium sure to be one of the highlights of the residence of the former dissident leader and president of both Czechoslovakia and the Czech Republic, Václav Havel, on the Columbia campus.
Padma Desai, Gladys and Roland Harriman Professor of Comparative Economic Systems and Director of the Center for Transition Economies, will deliver the C. Starr Lecture at New York Law School's Center for International Law on November 1, 2006.
www.harriman.columbia.edu   (298 words)

  
 Edward Henry Harriman — Infoplease.com
Harriman used the financial strength of his roads to buy widely and speculatively in railroad stocks elsewhere.
He conducted the Harriman Alaskan expedition of 1899, a scientific undertaking; sponsored boys' clubs; and pledged $1 million and 10,000 acres (4,047 hectares) of forest land to New York state for park purposes.
Edward H. Harriman - Edward H. Harriman financier, railroad executive Born: 2/25/1848 Birthplace: Hempstead, N.Y. He...
www.infoplease.com /ce6/people/A0822804.html   (340 words)

  
 GORP - Harriman State Park - New York
Harriman State Park, located in Rockland and Orange counties, is the second-largest park in New York's parks system, with 31 lakes and reservoirs, 200 miles of hiking trails, three beaches, two public camping areas, a network of group camps, miles of streams and scenic roads, and scores of wildlife species, vistas and vantage points.
Harriman State Park's major facilities include Lakes Welch, Sebago, Tiorati and Silvermine, the Anthony Wayne Recreation Area, Sebago Cabins and Beaver Pond Campgrounds.
Beaver Pond Campgrounds adjoin the Lake Welch Recreation Area within Harriman State Park.
gorp.away.com /gorp/resource/statepark/ny/harri.htm   (213 words)

  
 Harriman Chemsult Limited (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.netlab.uky.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
Stephen W Harriman B.Sc., M.A. As founder and Managing Director of Harriman Chemsult, Stephen has overall responsibility for single and multi-client services.
Roger is a Senior Consultant with Harriman Chemsult and manages and co-ordinates single and multi-client projects across the full range of products in which Harriman Chemsult specialise.
Joining Harriman Chemsult in September 2001, his responsibilities include the tracking and evaluation of PVC markets for weekly and monthly reports, as well as caustic potash and chlorinated solvents.
www.harriman.co.uk.cob-web.org:8888 /html/personnel.html   (443 words)

  
 UB Buildings: Harriman Hall
Harriman Hall houses the Institute for Research and Education on Women and Gender and the Center for Research on Urban Social Work Practice—both recognized for their research contributions to the social science community.
Additionally, Harriman Hall offers plenty of student activity space, as well as a conveniently located dining facility.
Harriman Hall was originally constructed in 1933-1934 as Norton Union.
www.buffalo.edu /buildings/building?id=harriman   (201 words)

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