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	Georgetown Times
		DuRant said in the agreement with the state, Brookgreen Gardens leased along with the portion of marsh it acquired from the Huntingtons, the 3.7 acres of marshland owned by the plaintiffs, along with marshland extending to the high-water mark that he said is also owned by the plaintiffs.
		Henry disputes this claim and said the rejection of DuRant’s pier application and further denying of his appeal is proof of Brookgreen’s title.
		DuRant said that because of Brookgreen’s actions in leasing the property that it did not own, and the resulting refusal of the state to issue dock permits, the value of the plaintiffs’ real property depreciated and the loss is in the millions of dollars.
	www.zwire.com /site/news.cfm?newsid=1853823&BRD=2081&PAG=461&dept_id=385210&rfi=6 (913 words)

	The Story of Wellesley - Chapter I (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Durant, at the northwest corner of the building, under the dining-room wing; it is significant that from the foundations up through the growth and expansion of all the years, women have had a hand in the making of Wellesley.
		Durant's Marlborough Street house in Boston, and the Reverend Edward N. Kirk, pastor of the Mt. Vernon Church in Boston, was elected president of the board.
		Durant arranged that both men and women should constitute the Board of Trustees, but that women should constitute the faculty; and by his choice the first and second presidents of the college were women.
	www.worldwideschool.org /library/books/hst/northamerican/TheStoryofWellesley/chap1.html (4352 words)

	Flint Timeline Project-William "Billy" Crapo Durant
		In 1904, Billy Durant was approached by James Whiting of the Buick Co. to promote his automobiles.
		Billy Durant was still determined to start this new auto company and at Satterlee's suggestion dropped the proposed name "Internatonal Motor Car Company" and chose General Motors.
		Billy Durant was not bitter nor did he regret his actions.
	www.flint.lib.mi.us /timeline/autohistory_0798/durantW.html (441 words)

	cars.com:
		Durant might have been a moderately successful auto executive who retired from a solidly capitalized Buick with a gold watch and happy memories if he hadn’t been such a gambler.
		Madsen tells Durant’s story with an emphasis on boardroom politics, which is appropriate because GM’s founder was the first CEO to come from the finance, rather than the engineering, side of the company.
		Durant sat down to write his autobiography when he was in his 80s and deposed from GM for the second time.
	www.cars.com /carsapp/national?srv=parser&act=display&tf=/advice/bookreviews/bookreviews_durant.tmpl (840 words)

	Durant Queries
		Their parents were George DURANT & Annie TOOMEY.
		Looking for parents and/or descendants of HARRY DURANT who came to America as a slave.
		LOUIS DURANT a French Canadian trapper-trader went into Mississippi Territory in 1700s.
	www.bjhughes.org /qdurant.html (457 words)

	Birth of an American automotive industry
		Henry Ford was tall, thin and austere, while Billy Durant was undersized, jovial and charming.
		Ford's parents were simple although not poor farmers, whose forbears had immigrated to Michigan from Ireland, whereas Billy Durant's grandfather, Henry Howland Crapo, was an established merchant and realtor in New Bedford, who moved to Michigan to manage his investments and rose to be governor of the state.
		Durant was a salesman, persuader and to some extent organizer, who cared little for technical details and much for people : customers, business partners and the general public.
	www.raken.com /american_wealth/automobile_aviation/automobile_index2.asp (510 words)

	Alice Freeman Palmer
		Durant chose to view it, "God had given you [Alice Freeman] to us in our great need." 3 Whether he specifically designated that she should become president is not known.
		Henry Durant imposed his standards on the college; Alice Freeman made her goals something everyone else soon knew to be what they had always wanted and worked for.
		Henry Durant had been generous to senior faculty from the beginning, and in the early 1880s they continued to receive salaries ranging from $1,200 to $1,500 per annum and, of course, a "home." 68 In 1885 regular raises were provided until professional salaries reached $1,500.
	www.press.umich.edu /bookhome/bordin/ch6.html (11701 words)

	Alice Freeman Palmer
		Henry Fowle Durant, entrepreneur, evangelist, and former Boston attorney who was its founder, had applied for a charter to create a women's seminary in 1870 and amended his request to authorization for a college in 1873.
		Henry Fowle Durant 12 was born in 1822 in Hanover, New Hampshire, but he grew up in the newly industrialized town of Lowell, Massachusetts.
		Durant rules the college, from the amount of Latin we shall read to the kind of meat we shall have for dinner." 53 Another early student observed that he played favorites and that he had precious little experience in dealing with young people.
	www.press.umich.edu /bookhome/bordin/ch5.html (9069 words)

	Henry Martyn Leland
		Henry was a cousin of my great-grandfather, Carlos Leland--not a close relative, but since most of the Lelands in the U.S. share a common ancestor in an earlier Henry Leland (who immigrated from England to Vermont in the 17th century), we all tend to feel a sense of being one family.
		Henry Leland was an inventor and industrialist--though he got there by being a technician and a perfectionist.
		Henry saw that more precise grinding was needed for the pistons and cylinders, and produced workable parts for the new brake system.
	www.wiu.edu /users/mfbhl/wiu/henry.htm (640 words)

	Wellesley College - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Wellesley College is a women's liberal arts college that opened in 1875, founded by Henry Fowle Durant and his wife Pauline Fowle Durant.
		Wellesley and MIT were the two primary institutions Benson Snyder studies in The Hidden Curriculum (1970), in which he concludes that a mass of unstated requirements and expectations thwarts students' ability to think creatively or develop independently.
		Founded by Henry and Pauline Fowle Durant, the charter for Wellesley College was signed on March 17, 1870 by Massachusetts Governor William Claflin.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Wellesley_College (784 words)

	Berkeley, A City in History Chapter 2
		In 1855 Durant and Willey were ready for the next step---the creation of a non-denominational Christian institution called the College of California, also located in Oakland.
		By the end of 1857, Durant and Willey had persuaded the members of their college board of trustees to allocate funds to purchase a portion of Simmon's property.
		Henry Durant died in 1875, but his efforts on behalf of unification were carried on by others.
	berkeleypubliclibrary.org /system/Chapter2.html (4360 words)

	The Library of Mount Holyoke College, 1837-1968 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Durant developed through his association with Mount Holyoke led him to give his home in Wellesley for the establishment of Wellesley College, which received its charter in 1870.
		Durant's gift and their organization in the Library was an enterprise personally handled by Mr.
		Durant in his self appointed role as acquisitions librarian seem little different from those met with today.
	www.mtholyoke.edu /lits/library/about/libabout.html (4740 words)

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		Durant was among eight legendary business leaders selected by Fortune magazine and honored at the Junior Achievement National Business Hall of Fame conference.
		Durant was a leader in the carriage industry when he took over the tiny Buick Motor Co. in 1904.
		Durant lost control of GM to bankers in 1910 but regained control after founding Chevrolet Motor Co. with former Buick race driver Louis Chevrolet in 1911.
	clubs.hemmings.com /clubsites/durant/html/speaks.htm (377 words)

	CalBusiness - Spring 1998 - 100 Years of Leadership (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Henry Durant, a Congregational minister and Yale graduate, opened a private college, the College of California, with three pupils in the new settlement of Oakland in 1852.
		Thanks to the college's success, Durant was able to donate 160 acres of land in the nearby Berkeley settlement to the state of California.
		Combining Durant's gift with land grant funds, the state established the University of California in 1868 and appointed Durant to be its first president.
	haas.berkeley.edu /groups/pubs/calbusiness/s98articles/s98.10a.html (1262 words)

	Durant Family of Perquimmons County, N.C.
		John2 Durant (George 1) was born December 26, 1662 in Albemarle, NC, and died January 15, 1698/99.
		George3 Durant (John 2, George 1) was born September 30, 1685, and died September 12, 1730.
		Mary4 Durant (George 3, John 2, George 1) Was Born December 02, 1718, and Died December 10, 1746 in Blount/littlejohn Cemetery, Edenton, Nc.
	www.geocities.com /Heartland/Acres/5277/durant.html (2624 words)

	Durant
		Durant is the seat of Southeastern Oklahoma State Univ. The ruins of Fort Washita, on nearby Lake Texoma, include 48 buildings.
		Thomas Clark Durant - Durant, Thomas Clark, 1820–85, American railroad builder, chief figure in the construction of...
		Henry Fowle Durant - Durant, Henry Fowle, 1822–81, American lawyer and educator, b.
	www.factmonster.com /ce6/us/A0816407.html (153 words)

	Owen's Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		It is possible that Henry Asbury was a son of Francis Asbury of Kent Co. Md., who was granted land in Kent Co. in 1681, was drowned there in 1682, and whose wife Mary and daughter Mary are briefly mentioned in the Maryland records (Warrant C.B. No. 2, fol.
		These records indicate strongly that Sarah Durrant Staley had died, that Charles Smith and Henry Asbury were her heirs, and that the original John Foxall's son and heir had made a final settlement with them.
		Henry Asbury is mentioned in a court suit before the Md.
	www.kudzufamilies.org /owens.htm (2639 words)

	University of California History Digital Archives
		Henry Durant, Congregational clergyman, and first President of the University (1870-72), was born in Acton, Massachusetts on June 18,1802.
		When California was admitted to the Union in 1850, Durant became absorbed in ideas for the development of higher education in the new land.
		Durant arrived in San Francsico by ship May 1, 1853 shortly before a joint session of the Congregational Association of California and the Presbytery of San Francisco at Nevada City.
	sunsite3.berkeley.edu /uchistory/general_history/overview/presidents (5365 words)

	AllRefer.com - Henry Fowle Durant (Education, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		Henry Fowle Durant[doorant´, dyoo–] Pronunciation Key, 1822–81, American lawyer and educator, b.
		Christened Henry Welles Smith, he adopted the name Durant (1851) because he felt there were too many lawyers in Boston named Smith.
		After the death of his son (1863) he abandoned the law and became an evangelist.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/D/Durant-H.html (205 words)

	CHAPTER ONE
		Henry originally sold for $200 was later repurchased, and now resides in a
		Henry Martyn Leland was the son of a Vermont teamster.
		Henry was overheard saying, "I'll never do that again.
	www.storydomain.com /lincoln/lbch1.htm (4260 words)

	UP-Significant Individuals
		Formerly associated with the construction of other railroads, notably the Mississippi and Missouri Railroad across Iowa with engineer Henry Farnam, Durant came to the Union Pacific Railroad as vice president and general manager to extend a number of his own interests that would benefit from its construction.
		Durant, instrumental in marshaling support and financing for construction, worked at every level within the enterprise, from lobbying President Lincoln and maneuvering in Congress to intervening in the business of track-laying itself, seizing many an opportunity to bolster his own venture capital.
		The following year, Durant switched him from surveying to engineer of construction and superintendent of operations on the line as it advanced.
	www.uprr.com /aboutup/history/sig-indv.shtml (1440 words)

	perhaps
		Reverend Henry Durant preached at Byfield from 1833 to 1849.
		Horace Bushnell, Durant’s classmate at Yale and close friend was a frequent guest at the manse.
		Thomas Buchanan Reed, the poet and another friend of Durant, is said to have written his "Closing Scene" in the Byfield parsonage.
	www.byfieldparish.org /perhaps.htm (824 words)

	God and Man at Yale (1880) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Henry Durant, who ran the college personally, made sure that everything about the institution proclaimed that, as its first announcement said, "The Institution will be Christian in its influence, discipline, and course of instruction." Extensive required Bible study supplemented the regular curriculum.
		Each of the professors, all women, would have to be able to teach such courses in addition to her regular offering.
		Dwight L. Moody, a friend of the Durants who shared their religious style, was present as a member of the board of trustees.
	www.firstthings.com /ftissues/ft9404/articles/marsden.html (3114 words)

	HORRY COUNTY, SOUTH CAROLINA DEED BOOK C-1
		Durant, Durant to W. Rogers, Rogers’ heirs to me 7 May 1833) 27 Apr 1837.
		Mary Durant, widow of Thomas Durant of Brunswick to Charles Murrell.
		217(K56) George Durant and John Durant, surety bond of $2000 to John Readmon against Mary Ann Durant, wife of George, claiming her dower in 750 acres sold to Readmond by George Durant 17 Oct 1838.
	www.hchsonline.org /land/deed3.html (5470 words)

	09
		A grieving Henry Durant sailed from New England to San Francisco Bay in May, 1853, with a single purpose in mind: to bring Ivy League edification to the Promised Land.
		A man of ethics and integrity, Henry Durant was the people’s choice for mayor.
		A gentleman in the truest sense, his sword and shield were “the moral sublimity in his appearance” at the podium, in the home, on the street and in the office, which inspired others to stay the straight path.
	home.earthlink.net /~graveyardchronicles/pages/09.html (460 words)

	UIowa - Papers of Levi O. Leonard (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The main components of the collection are the papers of Thomas C. Durant and the Union Pacific Railroad.
		T.C. Durant (1820-1885) was one of the builders of both the Rock Island and the U.P. He was vice president and chief manager of the U.P. until 1869, and in 1864 he organized the Credit Mobilier which served as a funding organization for construction.
		The Durant papers span the years from 1839 until 1936 and include business papers, correspondence, court records from litigation arising in the aftermath of the construction of the Union Pacific and the Credit Mobilier scandals, a personal checkbook, newspaper clippings, his last will and testament, and a Durant genealogy.
	www.lib.uiowa.edu /spec-coll/MSC/ToMsc200/MsC159/MsC159.htm (4207 words)

	Dana Hall \| History of Dana Hall (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Dana Hall School was born out of the vision and generosity of Henry F. Durant, who founded Wellesley College and soon discovered that many of his students needed further preparation before entering college.
		Julia and Sarah Eastman, hired from Wellesley College by Henry Durant to run this new school, began classes at Dana Hall School on September 8, 1881.
		Durant and the Eastmans avoided unnecessary rules, stressed individual development and offered a full program of liberal arts education for young women.
	www.danahall.org /pages/sitepage.cfm?id=207 (345 words)

	Henry H. Crapo's legacy of entrepreneurship to William C. Durant
		Henry Howland Crapo succeeded in the lumber business in Flint, became governor of Michigan and railroad president, a proud legacy to his grandson.
		After six tough years of operating on the verge of bankruptcy, Henry Howland Crapo finally succeeded and made one of Michigan's first million dollar lumber fortunes.
		In 1863, he built a railroad from Flint to Holly, which was then already connected to Detroit, and a few years later merged it into the Flint and Pere Marquette Railroad of which he became president...
	www.raken.com /american_wealth/automobile_aviation/Durant_2.asp (159 words)

	Shakespeare Society: History
		The Shakespeare Society was established in 1877 by the founder of Wellesley College, Henry Fowle Durant, and is the oldest continuous society on the Wellesley campus.
		Under the guidance of Professor Durant, the original twelve members of the Society undertook a, "systematic study of Shakespeare as a means of mental development" as their declared aim.
		The early Society had official ties to the London Shakespeare Society and prominent Shakespearean readers and critics of the time addressed their meetings.
	www.wellesley.edu /Activities/homepage/shakespeare/history.html (335 words)

	Henry Towle Durant
		DURANT, Henry Towle, philanthropist, born in Hanover, New Hampshire, 20 February 1822 ; died in Wellesley, Massachusetts, 3 October 1881.
		After changing his name to Durant he was associated with Rufus Choate and other noted lawyers of the time, and was very successful with cases committed to his care.
		Meanwhile he became connected with John H. Cheerer in the formation of the New York belting and packing company, and also in the purchase of iron mines in northern New York, both of which enterprises proved exceedingly profitable.
	www.famousamericans.net /henrytowledurant (539 words)

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