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Topic: Hugh McDowell


In the News (Thu 31 Dec 09)

  
  Beers: McDowell p. 1218
HUGH McDOWELL, a prominent agriculturist of Peters township, is a son of Joseph McDowell, and a grandson of Thomas McDowell.
Hugh McDowell was born September 28, 1815, near Hickory, Mt. Pleasant township, Washington Co., Penn. His youth was passed in rural pursuits, and at the age of seventeen years he learned carpentry, a trade he followed twenty years.
McDowell did not inherit a cent, but, by the industry and economy of himself and wife, now owns one of the best farms in the country.
www.chartiers.com /beers-project/articles/mcdowell-1218.html   (436 words)

  
 The Great Joseph Controversy
McDowell's light went out when he was in his noonday prime, and in the last decade of the 18th century, and from that time until 1820, there has arisen no bright and particular star.
James (Moffett) McDowell, and his aunt Annie (McDowell) McDowell, the son and daughter of Joseph of Pleasant Gardens, and Mary Moffett (McDowell): that while Joseph was stationed at Gilbert Town, his mother, Annie (Evans) Edminstin (McDowell), molded bullets and carried them tied under her skirts, to her son.
The china was given to Annie McDowell by her mother, Mary Moffett McDowell, telling her the set of china was given to her father, Joseph, from Fergerson's (sic) belongings, after the Battle of King's Mountain.
members.tripod.com /leomcdowell/id38.htm   (1737 words)

  
 Reel.com: Malcolm McDowell Interview
McDowell has even tried his hand at TV stardom with the sitcom Pearl and a re-tooled Fantasy Island.
McDowell returns to his U.K. roots with his latest project, My Life So Far.
In this atmospheric period comedy-drama from Chariots of Fire director Hugh Hudson, McDowell plays the hardheaded businessman Uncle Morris whose return to his mother's Scottish estate with young beautiful fiancee Irene Jacob spells trouble for his sister Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio and her husband Colin Firth.
www.reel.com /reel.asp?node=features/interviews/mcdowell   (4082 words)

  
 McDOWELL & WALKER INC. - About Us
McDowell and Walker, Inc. was formed in 1955 when Hugh McDowell, a Delhi dairy farmer, and Crawford Walker, a New York City accountant, partnered their efforts.
McDowell and Walker, Inc. operated numerous mills and locations throughout Chenango county in addition to the original Delhi mill and retail store.
McDowell and Walker, Inc. continues to supply Broome, Cortland, Chenango, Delaware, Otsego, and Schoharie county farmers with feed, fertilizer, and other agricultural supplies.
www.mcdowellwalker.com /about_us   (396 words)

  
 Genealogy: La
However he may to have arrived rather earlier, since various legal and military records mention a Hugh Larimer in the Westmoreland area as early as 1774.
Hugh was a common name among Irish immigrants of the time, and such a similarity of names is entirely plausible.
Hugh is buried at Douglas Farm Cemetery, Lucas County, IA.
home.swbell.net /mck9/gen/la.html   (602 words)

  
 J. Hugh McDowell, Ph.D., Dept. of Ophthalmology at the Univ. of Florida   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
Hugh McDowell, Ph.D., Dept. of Ophthalmology at the Univ. of Florida
McDowell, J.H. Preparing rod outer segment membranes, regenerating, and determining rhodopsin concentration.
McDowell, J.H., S.M.A. Khan, D.W. Bolen, M.M. Santoro and P.A. Hargrave.
www.eye.ufl.edu /mcdowell.htm   (427 words)

  
 Reunion.html
The land in 1763 adjoined James McKnight and Hugh Parks and was described as lying on both sides of Rocky Sugar Creek.
Hugh Parks was a resident of Rowan County as early as 1754 and lived in the Coddle Creek area.
Hugh Parks property also adjoined the McDowell property in the vicinity of Sugar Creek where Robert McDowell received land grants in 1754.
members.aol.com /wmbigham/bigham/settlers.html   (2395 words)

  
 Hugh McDowell
Hugh was one of the coaches for this team as well as being organiser of one of the venues involved.
Hugh has a collection of fly fishing books that would rival a major city library, but on opening many of them you discover the true worth is not just the cost of the publication.
When Hugh was living in the States in the sixties and seventies he enjoyed fly fishing for many Californian salt water fish species, taking Rock Bass and Surf Perch to Cabezone and even Starry Flounder on his own patterns.
www.rjdesign.netfirms.com /hugh_mcdowell.htm   (2087 words)

  
 New Zealand Fly Tying - The ten-thumbed beginner's guide by Hugh McDowell
Many a Kiwi fly fisherman has begun his first steps into tying his own flies with the aid of this excellent little book.
McDowell covers all the basics needed to get you started in this absorbing hobby.
The new edition is essentially the same book reproduced in a larger format.
www.fishingmag.co.nz /book-mcdowell-nz-fly-tying.htm   (252 words)

  
 Hugh McDowell
Hugh worked in the tackle industry for Killwell before he started guiding full time and also represented New Zealand 6 times in the World Flyfishing Championships.
Hugh has caught some magnificent fish over many years of fly fishing around the world and it was a honour to be able to guide him onto some good fish around Hervey Bay.
Hugh I know you will be reading this and I trust your flight home was pleasant and safe.
www.frasercoastsportfishing.com /artman/publish/printer_166.shtml   (408 words)

  
 Amazon.ca: Books: Ghost Cadet   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
He meets Hugh McDowell, a ghost who is trying to recover his honor by finding the family watch that he hid during the battle in which he died.
Hugh is now dead, but everyday he struggles to find his watch.
Hugh pitched backward, croaking for breath, his arms still flung up in the air, still gripping his musket.
www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0590452444   (1132 words)

  
 Marion (McDowell) News | Hugh Morton dies
Hugh Morton, whose camera lens captured some of North Carolina's enduring images and whose passion for environmental causes preserved Grandfather Mountain, died Thursday.
Morton was born in Wilmington in 1921, the son of Agnes MacRae Morton and Julian Morton.
His maternal grandfather, Hugh MacRae, was an industrialist whose development companies built at Wrightsville Beach, outside Wilmington, and Grandfather Mountain, near Linville in the state's western mountains.
www.mcdowellnews.com /servlet/Satellite?pagename=MMN/MGArticle/MMN_BasicArticle&c=MGArticle&cid=1149188199745   (1317 words)

  
 McDowell Places
McDowell, Alabama, United States [Place] is in Sumter County; location is 32°31'24"N 87°55'19"W; elevation is 98 feet.
McDowell, North Carolina, United States [County]; population was 35,681 in 1990; housing units was 15,091 in 1990; location is 35°41'N 82°3'W; land area is 441.70 square miles (282,689 acres); water area is 4.73 square miles (3,030 acres).
McDowell, West Virginia, United States [County]; population was 35,233 in 1990; housing units was 15,330 in 1990; location is 37°22'N 81°39'W; land area is 534.76 square miles (342,247 acres); water area is 0.18 square miles (116 acres).
members.tripod.com /leomcdowell/id33.htm   (475 words)

  
 Lawrenceville Historical Society - Book Reviews
He writes with such clarity and simplicity that one would think he was standing in front of you and casually talking about his historic discoveries.
Two of McDowell’s subjects, Hugh Boyle and John Canevin, should be of particular interest to the members of the Lawrenceville Historical Society since both bishops are buried in Saint Mary Cemetery.
McDowell gives a brief history of the early years of Saint Mary’s 46th Street since this was Canevin’s first assignment as a priest in June, 1879.
www.lhs15201.org /review1.htm   (784 words)

  
 Hugh McDowell   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
At the age of four and a half Hugh started playing cello and by the age of 10 he won a scholarship to the Yehudi Menhuin School Of Music (from which he was expelled).
So he joined the band again and was allowed to perform his own track "Hugh's Solo/Flight Of The Bumble Bee" live on stage which sometimes lasted up to eight minutes.
Hugh is also involved with computer programming and has published a computer program for music composing in 1992 which is called "Fractal Music Composer".
www.face-the-music.de /hugh.html   (527 words)

  
 Michael Cooley's Genealogy Pages   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
I John McDowell, of County of Upshur State of West Virginia, being of sound mind and memory, do hereby publish and declare this to be my last will and testament, hereby revoking and making void all former wills by by at any time heretofore made.
John McDowell, the Protestant pioneer, coming from Cork to America in 1784, soon found his way to Greenbrier County and the little district which was "home" to so many of his countrymen--the Irish Corner.
Samuel H. McDowell the fourth generation of the family is the present owner of the farm.
genealogy.emcee.com /ahnentafel/56/index.html   (2234 words)

  
 Willamette Week | Lead Story
For the past five years, a loose-knit guerrilla army of somewhere between 50 and 150 taggers has been responsible for what Hugh McDowell, the city's graffiti-prevention coordinator, refers to as an "explosion" of graffiti.
To illustrate this point, graffiti foe McDowell cites the case of an elderly woman who called him last month and said she was now afraid to leave her house because of the graffiti in her neighborhood.
From an anonymous cubicle in the basement of City Hall, McDowell, a whimsical, soft-spoken former social-service administrator and landscaper, directs the city's war on graffiti with almost military precision.
www.wweek.com /html/leada042199.html   (2803 words)

  
 William Hugh McDowell, the "Ghost Cadet." Biographical information   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
Grandparents: Hugh McDowell and Margaret Irwin, of Mecklenburg County, NC; Franklin Brevard and Margaret Conner, also of Mecklenburg County.
William Hugh McDowell entered VMI on August 22, 1863, from Mt. Mourne, North Carolina, and was assigned to the fourth (freshman) class.
After temporary burial at New Market, McDowell's remains were brought to Lexington in May 1866, and are now buried beneath the New Market Battle Monument at VMI.
www.vmi.edu /ARCHIVES/Civil_War/NewMarket/GhostCadet/ghostbio.html   (342 words)

  
 FISH FISH - NEW ZEALAND FLY TYING
If you can tie a fly to your leader, you can tie the fly itself ù and Hugh McDowell has written and illustrated this book to show you how easy it is. He describes the inexpensive tools and materials youÆll need to get started, and then demonstrates step-by-step the techniques necessary to make:
Hugh McDowell was born in 1936 in Northern Ireland and has fished all his life, becoming particularly fascinated with flyfishing in his early teens.
Hugh is a regular fly-tyer at the Federation of FlyfishersÆ Conclave in North America, and has represented New Zealand at both the Commonwealth and the World Flyfishing Championships for several years.
www.chartingnature.com /books.cfm?book=B9752   (493 words)

  
 William Hugh McDowell, the "Ghost Cadet"
If Hugh's spirit is ever to rest in peace, Benjy must help him find the watch and get it back to its rightful place in history.
It said that William Hugh McDowell was a REAL cadet the fought and died in the battle of New Market in the Civil War (The War Between The States)!
-William Hugh McDowell entered VMI on August 22, 1863, from Mt. Mourne, North Carolina, and was assigned to the fourth (freshman) class.
www.unsolvedmysteries.com /usm356197.html   (668 words)

  
 James Stafford and Lucretia Reins
Children were: Athan Mcdowell, James Mcdowell, Sarah Mcdowell, Margaret Mcdowell.
Children were: Margaret Mcdowell, Hannah Mcdowell, Mary Mcdowell, David Mcdowell.
Children were: John Mcdowell, James Mcdowell, Magdalene Mcdowell, Sarah Mcdowell, William Mcdowell, Samuel Mcdowell, Martha Mcdowell, Joseph Mcdowell, Ephraim Mcdowell, Mary Mcdowell, Caleb Wallace Mcdowell, Andrew Reid Mcdowell.
www.johnstafford.org /jamesluc/d80.htm   (236 words)

  
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Fran and Benjy Benjy and Hugh Miss Leota and Robert McDowell Give one character trait of Miss Leota and evidence to support it.
Hugh participates in roll call and is honored at the Ceremony the gold watch is found Benjy tries to give the watch to the museum Give three reasons why Hugh and Benjy are different.
Hugh Robert McDowell 1843 William Hugh McDowell—VMI 1867 Private William Hugh McDowell Battle of New Market---1863 What was the weather like at the battle?
filebox.vt.edu /c/cojenki2/eled/internship/ghostcadettest2.doc   (644 words)

  
 Burke County Sheriff's Office
John McDowell was born in Rockbridge County, Virginia in 1751.
In 1765, when John was fourteen years of age, his father followed his relative "Hunting John" McDowell to North Carolina, and received a land grant in the Quaker Meadows area.
Sheriff John McDowell was not only Sheriff, but also served in Burke County in a variety of positions, and in the Revolutionary War as a Major.
www.burkesheriff.org /McDowell_John.htm   (648 words)

  
 William and Jane Collins Robinson McDowell
William McDowell was born in South Carolina about 1797, married 25 September 1837 in Montgomery County, Alabama to Jane Collins Robinson, and was said to have died about 1855 in Wayne County, Missouri.
Jane Collins was born about 1815 in Tennessee, and died December 7, 1887, in Ripley County, Missouri, at "age 74 yrs., lacking six months and one day" according to her obituary in the December 16, 1887, "Prospect News".
Were William McDowell and James Elgin McKinney neighbors on the Madison/Marshall County line and is Ganem M Waters related to the McDowell family?
www.angelfire.com /ar/pyeatt/McDowell.html   (501 words)

  
 First Sighting - Page 2   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
Hugh McDowell arrived about the same time we began to drop the engine and transmission into the frame.
Hugh volunteered to crawl under the car and line up the transmission mounts while Chuck and Mike worked on getting the engine lined up from the front.
Chuck and Hugh began working on the front end while Russ and Doyal finished up the back end and then went around to the front and installed the hinges for the hood.
laanderud.com /fspage2.html   (187 words)

  
 New Zealand Fly Tying — The Ten Thumbed Beginners Guide - NZ trout fishing book   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
If you can tie a fly to your leader, you can tie the fly itself — and Hugh McDowell has written and illustrated this book to show you how easy it is.
About the Author: Hugh McDowell came to New Zealand from Ireland in 1974 and fell in love with the country and settled in Rotorua.
Hugh has been a regular fly-tier at the Federation of Fly-tiers Conclave in North America and has represented New Zealand at both the Commonwealth and the World Flyfishing Championships
www.trout-books.com /all/pages/ten-thumbed-beginner.htm   (210 words)

  
 Amazon.com: The Ghost Cadet: Books: Elaine Marie Alphin   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
He meets Hugh McDowell, a ghost who is trying to recover his honor by finding the family watch that he hid during the battle in which he died.
Readers will identify with Benjy, Fran, Hugh, and the grandmother, all of whom are portrayed in a realistic light with all of their human frailties.
Hugh pitched backward, croaking for breath, his arms still flung up in the air, still gripping his musket.
www.amazon.com /Ghost-Cadet-Elaine-Marie-Alphin/dp/0805016147   (2061 words)

  
 Davidson Family of Iredell Co., North Carolina Genealogical Database Index
McDowell, Jay Flem (11 JUN 1912 - 12 JUN 1976)
McDowell, Joseph Alburto (22 OCT 1821 - 10 MAR 1875)
McDowell, William Wallace (21 JUL 1823 - 22 JUN 1893)
www.tqsi.com /genweb/davidson/davidson49.html   (902 words)

  
 Reed Publishing
Hugh McDowell was born in 1936 in Northern Ireland and has fished all his life, becoming particularly fascinated with flyfishing in his early teens.
Hugh is a regular fly-tyer at the Federation of Flyfishers’ Conclave in North America, and has represented New Zealand at both the Commonwealth and the World Flyfishing Championships for several years.
He has been featured in such books as Patterns of the Master and Art of the Trout Fly, and has spoken to organisations and clubs throughout New Zealand and in many other countries.
www.reed.co.nz /profiled.cfm?viewauthor=12   (175 words)

  
 ISTG Vol 6 - Brig Prince Leopold   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
Correspondence 01/30/2004 passengers #29-33 McDowell My ancestor Hugh McDOWELL was born c.1785 in Raloo, County Antrim, Ireland, and arrived in Charleston, South Carolina, USA on 15 November 1820 on the brig Prince Leopold from Belfast.
Hugh made application for citizenship "for himself and his family" in 1828 in Chester Co., SC.
Hugh and his elder son both died in 1829.
www.immigrantships.net /v6/1800v6/princeleopold18201115.html   (466 words)

  
 Whitecross Orchestra
The orchestra was founded by Margo Fagan with the help of Hugh McDowell who taught 'cello at Prior Weston school and Julia Munne who was wind principal at the ILEA and taught in Morley College.
The schools had to begin charging, Islington withdrew its grant and in due course the vicar at St Silas suggested that they might like to move to the church permanently, where the orchestra now resides.
It has been conducted at various times by Hugh McDowell, Roddy Skeaping (Lucy Skeaping's husband) with assistance from various others when professional engagements interrupted.
www.whitecross-orchestra.org.uk /about.html   (252 words)

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