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	John Cleves Symmes - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		John Cleves Symmes (1742–1814) was a delegate to the Continental Congress from New Jersey, and later a pioneer in the Northwest Territory.
		Symmes was educated as a lawyer and married Anna Tuthill (1741–1776) at Mattituck, New York on October 30, 1760.
		Symmes' nephew and nmamesake John Cleves Symmes, Jr.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/John_Cleves_Symmes (559 words)

	John Cleves Symmes, Jr.
		John Cleves Symmes (1779 - May 1829) was born in New Jersey to Timothy Symmes.
		In some local dealings he used the name Junior to distinguish himself from his prominent uncle John Cleves Symmes.
		He died in May of 1829 and is burried in Symmes Park at Hamilton, Ohio.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/jo/John_Cleves_Symms,_Jr..html (146 words)

	John Cleves Symmes
		SYMMES, John Cleves, jurist, born on Long Island, New York, 21 July, 1742; died in Cincinnati, Ohio, 26 February, 1814.
		He was a delegate from Delaware to the Continental congress in 1785 and 1786, a judge of the superior court of New Jersey, and afterward chief justice of the same state.
		Harrison.--His nephew, John Cleves, soldier, born in New Jersey in 1780; died in Hamilton, Ohio, 28 May, 1829, entered the army as an ensign in the 1st infantry, 26 March, 1802, was a captain in the war of 1812, and served with credit at the battle of Niagara and in the sortie from Fort Erie.
	www.famousamericans.net /johnclevessymmes (543 words)

	John Cleves Symmes info here at en.90of100c.info (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		John Cleves Symmes (1742â“1814) was a front to the Continental Congress from New Jersey, & downstream a greatest in the Northwest Territory.
		Symmes was scientific as a lawyer & married Anna Tuthill (1741â“1776) at Mattituck, New York on October 30, 1760.
		Symmes footinged the revolution, presentable chairman of the Sussex County, New Jersey Committee of Safety in 1774.
	en.90of100c.info /John_Cleves_Symmes (712 words)

	HISTORY OF CINCINNATI AND HAMILTON COUNTY, OHIO (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		John J. Glidden, the subject of this sketch, was educated at New Haven, Conn., and graduated from the Cincinnati Law College in 1860.
		John Cleves Symmes was a sort of Timothy Symmes, who was a brother of Judge John Cleves Symmes, the latter being one of the most conspicuous figures in the history of the Northwest Territory.
		John Cloves Symmes, Jr., author of "The Theory of Concentric Sphere and Polar Voids," is buried in the center of the park (formerly a cemetery in Hamilton, Ohio), his remains having been left there to secure to that city the title to the' park property, which had been dedicated to the city for cemetery purposes.
	www.heritagepursuit.com /Hamilton/HamiltonBio571.htm (21972 words)

	John Cleves Symmes info here at en.94of100b.info (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		John Cleves Symmes (1742â“1814) was a regent to the Continental Congress from New Jersey, and posterior a early in the Northwest Territory.
		Symmes was tasteful as a lawyer and married Anna Tuthill (1741â“1776) at Mattituck, New York on October 30, 1760.
		This manor was avowed as the Symmes Purchase, and was the of lavish quarrel in her course and after.
	en.94of100b.info /John_Cleves_Symmes (679 words)

	Hollow Earth - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Sir John Leslie expanded on this idea, suggesting two central suns, which he named Pluto and Proserpine.
		Symmes became the most famous of the early Hollow Earth proponents.
		Symmes himself never wrote a book of his ideas but others did.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Hollow_earth_theory (3101 words)

	Crackpot Theories of the Earth Muse - Find Articles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Symmes was a retired American soldier operating a trading post in Missouri, but he wasn't a very good trader because he spent too much time daydreaming.
		A lot of people pointed out to Symmes that the earth casts a shadow across the moon during lunar eclipses, during which time it's perfectly easy to see that the earth is round and isn't open at the poles, but he didn't let that little nugget of common sense dissuade him.
		Symmes was a little eccentric, but compared with Cyrus Teed, the next theorist on our tour, he was a model of sanity.
	findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qa4136/is_200411/ai_n9462930 (946 words)

	Symzonia
		The Newton of the West: John Cleves Symmes, Jr.
		In 1818 John Cleves Symmes, Jr., a former American soldier in the War of 1812, sent a pamphlet to all the major institutions of learning in the United States.
		Symmes died in 1829, but his ideas provided the inspiration for Edgar Allan Poe's novella, The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym (1838).
	www.museumofhoaxes.com /symzonia.html (374 words)

	PRESIDENTIAL CHILDREN: TIPPECANOE'S TEN
		John's father assumed his debts and took responsibility for the care of John's widow and six children.
		John Scott Harrison was the only man to be both the father and son of a President.
		The body was discovered by his son, John Harrison, (some stories say that another of his sons, Benjamin Harrison, was with him) who came to the medical school on business and was horrified when he accidentally discovered the body of his father hanging by his neck at the end of a rope.
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/presidents_and_first_ladies/46686 (662 words)

	Fifth Generation
		Symmes had made a motion to the court, which he was zealously arguing notwithstanding frequent interruptions by the Judge.
		John Tuthill, of Suffolk County, Long Island, probably son of the former, was a member of the General Assembly of the Colony of New York, 1695 to 1698.
		Symmes did not become rich - at least not as the word is commonly used - in consequence of his purchase.
	myweb.tiscali.co.uk /symmes.memorial/fifth.html (8664 words)

	Bradley Rymph: Genealogy: Anna Tuthill Symmes (Harrison) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Still Anna's father, Judge John Cleves Symmes (1742-1814) ― a wealthy landowner in North Bend, Ohio ― was furious.
		Anna Tuthill Symmes was a great-great-great-granddaughter of John Budd, Jr.
		John Budd, Jr., and Mary Horton were also great-great-great-great-great-great-grandparents of my father, Albert James Rymph, through their son Joseph (1669 - aft.
	mysite.verizon.net /bbrymph/gensymme.htm (344 words)

	The Political Graveyard: Index to Politicians: Livingston
		John Kean; second cousin of Robert R. Livingston and Edward Livingston; uncle of Henry Walter Livingston.
		John Kean; granduncle of Henry Walter Livingston and Edward Philip Livingston; grandfather of Charles Ludlow Livingston.
		John Jay; father of Henry Brockholst Livingston; granduncle of Henry Walter Livingston and Edward Philip Livingston.
	politicalgraveyard.com /bio/livingston.html (1744 words)

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		John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton, 1st Baron Acton
		John I Stanley of the Isle of Man
		John II Stanley of the Isle of Man
	www.starrepublic.org /encyclopedia/wikipedia/j/jo (138 words)

	First Ladies' Biographical Information
		John Cleves Symmes, born 21 July, 1742, Colonel of the Continental Army during American Revolution, associate justice on the New Jersey Superior Court (1778-1785), delegate from Delaware to the Continental Congress (1785-1786), Chief Justice of the New Jersey Supreme Court (1787), died 26 February, 1814 in Cincinnati, Ohio.
		For the first three years after the death of her mother, Anna Symmes was raised by her father but as an officer in the Continental Army, he was unable to fully care for her.
		It is known that Judge Symmes initially opposed the marriage on the basis that a military career was not stable enough to support a wife and family but relented once he came to know and admire the character and strength of his new son-in-law.
	www.firstladies.org /biographies/firstladies.aspx?biography=9 (2180 words)

	Symmes Family Genealogy Forum
		Re: Symmes Ancestry - Aleta Sims Sarles 1/30/05
		Re: Abigail Symmes-- Massachusetts 1755 - brenda stull 9/22/02
		Re: Abigail Symmes-- Massachusetts 1755 - Marian Natale 3/11/05
	genforum.genealogy.com /symmes (180 words)

	Hollow Earth - Facts, Information, and Encyclopedia Reference article
		This may be a mis-reading of a paper that simply involved a thought experiment.
		It obviously reflected the ideas of John Cleves Symmes, Jr.
		Some researchers say it deliberately satirized Symmes ideas, and think they have identified the author as an early American author named Nathanial Ames who wrote other works, including one that might have served as the inspiration of Moby Dick (see Lang, Hans-Joachim and Benjamin Lease.
	www.startsurfing.com /encyclopedia/h/o/l/Hollow_Earth_17b3.html (2366 words)

	Stanton. American Scientific Exploration, 1850-1855
		John Evans, with the assistance of B.F. Shumard (Owen's Survey, 1848), conducted geological surveys of the region and forwarded natural history specimens to D.D. Owen, Abram Litton, Joseph Leidy, Lesquereux, and C.T. Jackson.
		John Cassin and Charles Girard (United States Exploring Expedition, 1838) reported on the birds and fishes respectively.
		Born in Maryland, the son of a congressman, Ringgold entered the navy in 1819 and commanded the Porpoise of the United States Exploring Expedition (1838), a vessel that disappeared in the course of this expedition.
	www.amphilsoc.org /library/guides/stanton/5055.htm (8231 words)

	William Henry Harrison
		It was his ambition to become governor of the more populous eastern portion, which retained the original name, but instead, in January 1800, President John Adams appointed him Governor of the newly created Indiana Territory, which comprised until 1809 a much larger area than the present state of the same name.
		Harrison was a member of the Ohio senate in 1819-21, and was an unsuccessful candidate for the National House of Representatives in 1822, when his Missouri vote helped to cause his defeat; he was a presidential elector in 1824, supporting Henry Clay, and from 1825 to 1828 was a member of the United States Senate.
		He chose for his cabinet Daniel Webster as secretary of state, Thomas Ewing as secretary of the treasury, John Bell as secretary of war, George E. Badger as secretary of the navy, Francis Granger as postmaster-general, and John J. Crittenden as attorney-general.
	www.nndb.com /people/886/000031793 (1269 words)

	HARLOW LINDLEY COLLECTION, 1790-1914 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		John Ewing (1789-1858) was born in Ireland, immigrated to Maryland as a child, and attended schools in Baltimore.
		John L. Dumont (1787-1871) was born in New Jersey and married Julia Louisa Cory in 1812.
		Also of interest (in folder 6) are a letter from John Tipton in 1824 concerning Indian affairs and a canal; a draft of a speech attacking President Polk; and two letters from Ewing to Zachary Taylor, asking for office at the beginning of Taylor's presidential term.
	www.indianahistory.org /library/manuscripts/collection_guides/m0186.html (2835 words)

	Reference - Anna Harrison
		Anna Tuthill Symmes Harrison (1775 - 1864), wife of President William Henry Harrison and the grandmother of President Benjamin Harrison, was nominally First Lady of the United States during her husbands one-month term in 1841, but she never entered the White House.
		She was born in near Morristown, New Jersey in on July 25, 1775 to Judge John Cleves Symmes and Anna Tuthill Symmes of Long Island.
		Though Harrison came from one of the best families of Virginia, Judge Symmes did not want his daughter to face the hard life of frontier forts, but eventually, seeing her happiness, he accepted her choice.
	mywebpage.netscape.com /AAVSO3864/anna-harrison-reference.html (557 words)

	William Henry Harrison
		Anna Tuthill Symmes Harrison as a girl of 19, bringing pretty clothes and dainty manners, she went out to Ohio with her father, Judge John Cleves Symmes, who had taken up land for settlement on the "north bend" of the Ohio River.
		John was named after a friend of his father and normally called Symmes.
		The son, Benjamin, would survived to an advanced age would participate in the Civil War and become a future president, making John Scott the only person whose father was both a president and whose son was a president.
	histclo.com /pres/ind19/harrisonw.html (2258 words)

	Hollow Earth - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		McBride wrote Symmes' Theory of Concentric Spheres in 1826.
		In 1868, a professor W.F. Lyons published The Hollow Globe which put forth a Symmes-like Hollow Earth theory, but didn't mention Symmes.
		An early twentieth-century proponent of a hollow Earth, William Reed, wrote Phantom of the Poles in 1906.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Hollow_Earth (3101 words)

	Horton Notable Kin
		7 [7] Anna Tuthill Symmes 1775 - 1864
		In 1835 he has command of the John Adams, in the Mediterranean squadron.
		In 1837 he is second in command at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, and from 1843 to 1846 he had the full command of this yard.
	members.tripod.com /ntgen/bw/hort_ntble.html (679 words)

	ERBzine 1107: John Carter: Sword of Theosophy - Revisited I
		In later stories ERB imaginatively sent a manned dirigible through the Symmes' hole at the north pole, to accomplish the same task with much less grind and grit.
		The imagined Symmes' holes" at the north and south poles continued to pop up in works of fiction and pretensions to science, all through the 19th and 20th centuries.
		Symmes' claims drew the special attention of America's reading public beginning during the 1820s.
	www.erbzine.com /mag11/1107.html (6087 words)

	AmericanHeritage.com / “ICE AHEAD!” (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		There had been a fey quality about this enterprise from its first stirrings years earlier, when one John Cleves Symmes, Jr., had somehow “learned” that the earth is not solid rock but is composed of five concentric hollow spheres.
		None passed, but, unbelievable as it may seem, a Symmes disciple, John J. Reynolds of Ohio, had influence enough to obtain the approval of John Quincy Adams’ Navy and Treasury secretaries for a three-ship expedition to the inside of the earth.
		John Tyler and his Whigs were too mean-minded to praise a project conceived during a Democratic administration.
	www.americanheritage.com /articles/magazine/ah/1966/5/1966_5_60_print.shtml (9235 words)

	XENOPHILIA (The Band) - The Official Web Site!
		Symmes, an American soldier in the War of 1812, toured the country selling his idea.
		James McBride, an Ohio millionaire, helped him submit a proposal to congress for a US government funded expedition (to be led by Symmes) into the earth's interior.
		He claimed the interior of the earth was lighted by a small sun about six hundred miles in diameter.
	www.xenophilia.com /zb/zb0008e.htm (1244 words)

	Henry Tuthill of Southold, Long Island
		The first Tuthill named in the Chart may have been son of John of Saxlingham, Norfolk, mentioned in the Visitation of Essex in 1634 as second son of John Tuthill and his w.
		Elizabeth Woolmer, and grandson of a John Tuthill of Saxlingham.
		"John Tuthill, baptised 25-Oct-1607 in County Norfolk, England; son of Henry Tuthill born c1580 and Alice GOOCH; emigrated to America c1637 or possibly earlier; widower, probably emigrated with his brother Henry Tuthill born 1612.
	members.tripod.com /~ntgen/bw/tuthill_index.html (1001 words)

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