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	Early Families: Pre-1700 Arrivals to America from Europe
		By 1667, John Welsh (Welch) was serving the County as a Justice.
		John Lewis Dougherty was born in 1844 in Glasgow, Scotland to Irish immigrants -- Peter and Bridget Doughrty -- fleeing the famine in Ireland.
		John Lewis was a resident of Gilmer County, Georgia, where the 1850 census reveals that he was born in South Carolina in 1794.
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	branner-blackburn-doherty-goforth
		John Blackburn5 was born in 1741 in Augusta/Rockbridge County, Virginia and died February 9, 1808 in Jefferson County, Tennessee.
		John Blackburn was born in 1806 in Jefferson County, Tennessee.
		John Blackburn7 died in Missouri in 1883 and Christina in 1891.
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	John Casper - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation John Casper (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		John Casper (born July 9 1943) is an American astronaut born in Georgia.
		Before he was an astronaut, Casper was a United States Air Force fighter pilot in the Vietnam War.
		Casper made his third spaceflight aboard STS-62 in 1994.
	www.encyclopedia-glossary.com /en/John-Casper.html (198 words)

	Dr. John Casper Branner
		Branner was born in New Market, Tennessee, in 1850, graduated from Cornell in 1882 and received his Ph.
		Branner retired as the university's second president in 1915 at age 65.
		Branner was a recognized authority on the geology of South American republics, especially Brazil.
	www.sfmuseum.org /hist1/branner2.html (186 words)

	Branner Hall glows again after $20 million restoration
		The hall, named for the university's second president, John Casper Branner, was built as a men's dorm in 1923 to ease a campus housing crunch.
		Although Branner's kitchen facilities have been completely rebuilt and equipped, housing maintenance staff preserved a bit of the past by restoring a cast-iron steamer found rusting away in the old kitchen.
		Julie Lythcott-Haims, assistant vice provost and dean of freshman and transfer students, lived in Branner for three out of four of her undergraduate years, first as a freshman and then as a resident assistant during her junior and senior years.
	news-service.stanford.edu /news/2003/july23/branner-723.html (1137 words)

	University of Arkansas, Fayetteville: John Casper Branner Papers
		The correspondence between Dr. John Casper Branner (1850-1922) and Albert Homer Purdue forms a portion of the Branner collection of the Archives of The Leland Stanford Junior University.
		It includes a letter from Branner to Purdue's widow, Ida Pace Purdue, on the occasion of Purdue's death; Ida Pace Purdue's reply is also contained in the collection.
		Photocopies of the correspondence of John Casper Branner with Albert Homer Purdue were donated by the Stanford University Archives on July 11 and November 30, 1977.
	libinfo.uark.edu /specialcollections/findingaids/branner.html (372 words)

	John Cartwright - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation John Cartwright (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		John Cartwright - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation John Cartwright.
		There is also an article on the British politician John Cartwright.
		The Right Honourable John Robert Cartwright, P.C., C.C., M.C. (March 23, 1895 - November 24, 1979) was Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada.
	www.encyclopedia-glossary.com /en/John-Cartwright.html (332 words)

	Past Inaugurations at Stanford
		Vice President John Casper Branner was on a field trip in Brazil when he was named Stanford's second president in May 1913, largely due to the lobbying of alumnus Herbert C. Hoover, a member of the Board of Trustees.
		In his address in the Quad, Branner said, "I warn you at the outset that you must not expect to find in me any of the evidences of Chancellor Jordan's genius.
		Branner was also up front about his plans concerning retirement.
	www.stanford.edu /dept/president/inauguration/branner.html (315 words)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/John Casper Branner
		As State Geologist, he exposed gold-mining swindles then operating in Arkansas, for which the citizens of Bear City, Arkansas burned him in effigy, and the stock promoters tried to have him fired.
		Branner received his bachelor's degree from Cornell University in 1882, and his Ph.D. from Indiana University in 1885.
		Two of his students, United States President Herbert Hoover and his wife Lou Henry Hoover, dedicated their English translation of the medievil mining classic De re metallica after Branner.
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/John_C._Branner (226 words)

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		John Casper Branner, second president of Stanford University, was born in New Market, Tennessee in 1850.
		There is a fairly complete collection of articles and books by Branner as well as manuscripts, photographs, and line drawings of geographical formations; three scrapbooks of earthquake pictures; the report of the Commission investigating the Panama Canal slides; and the manuscript of the Baker genealogy which Branner made.
		While State Geologist of Arkansas Branner refused to encourage speculation concerning gold and silver mines and finally said that there were none of importance, for which he was reviled in many newspapers and hanged in effigy twice.
	www-sul.stanford.edu /depts/spc/xml/sc0034.xml (2578 words)

	Herman Leroy Fairchild: promotor/defender of meteorite impact cratering (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		His long time friend, John Casper Branner of Stanford University, had just been to the crater in Arizona and was quite intrigued by the meteoritic evidence that contradicted Gilbert’s findings.
		Branner was a friend and mentor of Daniel M. Barringer whom he’d met in 1890 when Barringer served as his geological apprentice in the Arkansas Geological Survey (Hoyt, 1987, p.
		Branner urged Fairchild to visit the crater while he was in the region.
	www.rasny.org /Publications/FairchildWebFeatureArt.htm (8195 words)

	Re: CASPER BRANNER/BRENNER-Shenandoah Co. VA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		I am descended from Casper Branner and have John Casper Branner's work he produced out of Stanford Univ. 1.Casper Branner; 2.John Branner; 3.Phillip Branner 1775-1828 m.
		It is interesting that John Casper said that Jonathan Branner and Sarah Bible were your grandparents.
		Sarah Branner and John Bible had 7 girls & 1 boy, one of which was Sarah who married Jonathan Branner.
	genforum.genealogy.com /cgi-bin/print.cgi?brenner::100.html (282 words)

	Ancestry Message Boards [ Branner ]
		Descendants of John Casper Branner, author of Branner History : Shirley Tyson -- 7 Oct 2004
		Casper Branner : Phillip Branner -- 21 Dec 2000
		Re: Casper Branner : Steven Pulliam -- 23 Sep 2002
	boards.ancestry.com /mbexec?htx=board&r=an&p=surnames.Branner (268 words)

	CONK! Encyclopedia: Stanford (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Charles Allerton Coolidge then developed this concept in the style of his late mentor, Henry Hobson Richardson, in the Richardsonian Romanesque style, characterized by rectangular stone buildings linked by arcades of half-circle arches.
		The position of Provost was created in 1952 during the Presidency of J. Wallace Sterling.
		Many people consider the Stanford Provost to be the "heir apparent" to the President because of the five men who succeeded Sterling as President, three were Provost of Stanford (Lyman, Kennedy, and Hennessy), one was Provost of the University of Chicago (Casper), while the other was President of Rice University (Pitzer).
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	Libraries & Culture, Bookplate Archive
		An orphan, short of funds, Hoover secured a part-time job working in the office of Professor John Casper Branner, his mentor in the geology department.
		When Branner joined the faculty in 1892, he brought an entire boxcar of books to the newly opened university.
		At the time Branner’s private library was far richer then the university’s holdings in his field.
	www.gslis.utexas.edu /~landc/bookplates/33_2_Hoover.htm (1485 words)

	CASPER (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Search the CASPER Family Message Boards at Ancestry.com (if available).
		Search the CASPER Family Resource Center at RootsWeb.com (if available).
		Find graves of people named CASPER at Find-a-Grave.com (or add one that you know).
	www.worldhistory.com /surname/US/C/CASPER.htm (73 words)

	JOHN FAIN ANDERSON COLLECTION (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Provenance: The papers of John Fain Anderson were donated to the Archives of Appalachia on October 21, 1986 by Janis M. Anderson, L. Brabson Jr., Katherine Brabson Vallila, Margaret Ruth Brabson, Stanley Sylvester Anderson, William Fain Anderson, and David W. Gott.
		John Fain Anderson, born November 17, 1844, in Blountville, Sullivan County, Tennessee, was the son of Samuel Anderson (1805-1849) and his wife Hannah Crawford Fain (1811-1891).
		Allison, John, (Judge): VI:18, XI:69, XI:82, XIV:37, XVI:3, XVII:77, XVII:112.
	cass.etsu.edu /archives/afindaid/a288.htm (2563 words)

	Embaixada dos Estados Unidos no Brasil
		John Casper Branner (as in Branner Hall), who became Stanford’s first Professor of Geology and its second President, was a student at Cornell when he first met Emperor Dom Pedro II in 1874.
		Branner stayed in Brazil until 1880 and returned here five times in later years.
		He established the basis for Stanford’s library collection on Brazil, which today is considered the most extensive research library collection on Brazil in the United States.
	www.embaixada-americana.org.br /index.php?action=materia&id=3264&submenu=1&itemmenu=10 (1449 words)

	Stanford to import Brazilian scholars (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Professor Terry Karl, director of Stanford's Center for Latin American Studies, said the chair will be named in honor of Joaquin Nabuco, a liberal 19th century Brazilian leader and the country's first ambassador to the United States.
		Stanford's links with Brazil were first forged by geology Professor John Casper Branner, who made many visits there to study the country's natural resources before he was named university president in 1913.
		Branner also helped establish Stanford's extensive library collection of more than 20,000 books about Brazil, the largest in the United States.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/examiner/archive/1996/03/10/METRO3281.dtl (486 words)

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		Much of the first construction was destroyed by the 1906 San Francisco earthquake but the University retains the Quad, the old Chemistry Building (which is currently unoccupied) and Encina Hall (reportedly the residence of John Steinbeck during his time at Stanford).
		University of Chicago (Casper), while the other was President of
		John McCarthy, responsible for the coining of the term Artificial Intelligence, and inventor of the Lisp programming language.
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	Articles - 1850 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		John Collier, British writer and painter (died 1934)
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		Elizabeth Simcoe, wife of John Graves Simcoe (born 1762)
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	Stanford University Article, StanfordUniversity Information (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The Stanford Quad and its original Moorish-Romanesque architecture are part of the campus plan contributed by H. H.Richardson, his successors, Shepley, Rutan and Charles Allerton Coolidge, and legendary architect Frederick Law Olmsted.
		Many people consider the StanfordProvost to be the "heir apparent" to the President because of the five men who succeeded Sterling as President, three wereProvost of Stanford (Lyman, Kennedy, and Hennessy), one was Provost of the University of Chicago (Casper), while the other was President of Rice University (Pitzer).
		John McCarthy,responsible for the coining of the term ArtificialIntelligence, and inventor of the Lispprogramming language.
	www.anoca.org /ms/school/stanford_university.html (1441 words)

	Step into the past (November 26, 2004)
		All of the homes on the PAST tour are not only wonderful architectural examples, but resonate with Stanford history.
		For example, this Craftsman home was designed by A.W. Smith for John Ezra McDowell and his wife Alice.
		a 1915 home designed by architect John K. Branner, son of the second president of Stanford, John Casper Branner**, and built for Henry Rushton Fairclough, professor of Latin.
	www.paloaltoonline.com /weekly/morgue/2004/2004_11_26.past26ja.shtml (990 words)

	Ancestry Message Boards - Message [ Branner ]
		Descendants of John Casper Branner, author of Branner History
		I believe John Casper Branner continued to collect information after he published his family history book.
		I have copies of letters he wrote my father not long before his death indicating they corresponded and I think those letters may contain the very information I need to locate my branch.
	boards.ancestry.com /mbexec?htx=message&r=an&p=surnames.Branner&m=20 (97 words)

	John Casper Branner Information
		John Casper Branner (1850-1922) was an American geologist and academic who discovered bauxite in Arkansas in 1887 as State Geologist.
		Branner received his bachelor's degree from Cornell University in 1882, and his Ph.D. from the University of Indiana in 1885.
		View a list of authors or edit this article.
	www.bookrags.com /John_Casper_Branner (122 words)

	Articles - 1850 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
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		John Wycliffe Lowes Forster, Canadian portrait painter (died 1938)
		March 31 - John C. Calhoun, U.S. politician (born 1782)
	www.sinoz.com /articles/1850 (2418 words)

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		Machine-readable finding aid derived from paper by means of scanning and OCR; OCR file edited for typographical errors before encoding.
		John Casper Branner, the first professor to be named at the new Stanford University in 1891, served as professor of geology at Stanford as well as executive head of the Geology Department.
		This collection consists of the correspondence of John Casper Branner while he was the President of Stanford University, 1913-1915.
	www-sul.stanford.edu /depts/spc/xml/sc0065.xml (220 words)

	The Herbert Hoover Presidential Library and Museum
		Then, in 1894 something happened that changed Lou Henry's life forever.
		During that summer she heard Professor John Casper Branner of Stanford University speak about "The Bones of the Earth".
		She convinced her parents that she should become a geology student at Stanford University.
	hoover.archives.gov /students/louhenry.html (843 words)

	Branner, John Casper biography - S9.com
		1882 - Branner received his bachelor's degree from Cornell University.
		Annual report of the geological survey of Arkansas for 1892: The zinc and lead region of North Arkansas
		Address at the reunion of the descendents of Casper Branner of Virginia, Forestville, Virginia, August 30, 1918
	www.s9.com /Biography/Branner-John-Casper (240 words)

	"The California Earthquake" 1906 - by John Casper Branner
		"The California Earthquake" 1906 - by John Casper Branner
		To those acquainted with the geology of the region affected by the late earthquake, it is evident that the disturbance is directly related to the geologic structure.
		The narrowness of the Golden Gate makes it impossible for a tidal wave to get into the bay fast enough to overwhelm the towns.
	www.sfmuseum.org /1906.2/scfault.html (1002 words)

	Memorial Austin Flint Rogers
		Through his friendship with Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler, President of Columbia University, his attention became focused on a young doctorate recipient at Columbia, Austin Rogers.
		In 1902 Dr. Rogers began a career at Stanford University, where over the years geologists on the Pacific Coast came to look with respect on the famous staff of Stanford geologists which, along with Professor Rogers, included professors John Casper Branner, James Perrin Smith and Cyrus Fisher Tohnan.
		The teaching contribution that Dr. Rogers made at Stanford University covered a span of forty years.
	www.minsocam.org /msa/collectors_corner/arc/rogers.htm (1932 words)

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