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  Beers: Herron p. 1375   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
JOHN HERRON, a prosperous and progressive resident of Washington county, is a son of Joseph Herron, whose father, James Herron, was brought with his father's family to America at an early day.
Herron was a Democrat, and served as judge of elections and school director; he was a lieutenant in the militia, and in religious connection was a member and trustee of the Seceder Church, toward which he was a liberal supporter.
John Herron was born August 20, 1830, in North Strabane township, this county, and passed his earlier youth on the farm, where he received a common-school education.
www.chartiers.com /beers-project/articles/herron-1375.html   (531 words)

  
 Indianapolis Museum of Art
According to his lawyer, John Herron had no near relatives and since he thought almost every interest in the city was getting along pretty well except its art culture he wanted to leave nearly all of his money for this purpose.
Ground was broken for the new museum and school in 1905 and in 1906 the John Herron Art Institute and the Herron School of Art were officially opened at 110 E. 16th Street.
Herron would be pleased to know how much his generosity has meant to the city, state and region.
www.franklinchs.com /ppp/people/Herron/museum.htm   (578 words)

  
 Beers: Herron p. 1292   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
John Herron, son of the pioneer James, was born on the farm in Westmoreland county, Penn., there received his early education, and learned the carpenter's trade.
John Herron died in 1828, and was followed to the grave by his widow in 1839.
Herron served as postmaster of that place during the Civil war, but, resigning this position in June, 1865, opened his present general merchandise store in California, which is now one of the oldest and most prosperous establishments in the village.
www.chartiers.com /beers-project/articles/herron-1292.html   (546 words)

  
 John Herron (New Brunswick politician) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Herron was first elected to the House of Commons in the 1997 federal election as a candidate of the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada.
Herron was one of a handful of new Progressive Conservative "young Turk" parliamentarians - along with Scott Brison, André Bachand, and Peter MacKay - considered the youthful leadership material that would restore the ailing Tories to their glory days.
Herron was a member of the Progressive Conservative Party until the December of 2003; he did not support its merger with the Canadian Alliance into the Conservative Party of Canada in 2003, and he refused to join the new party.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/John_Herron_(New_Brunswick_politician)   (315 words)

  
 John Herron - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
John Herron (Pittsburgh mayor 1840s), a mayor of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in the 1840s
John Herron (Alberta politician), a former Canadian Member of Parliament from Alberta in the early 1900s
John Herron (New Brunswick politician), a former Canadian Member of Parliament from New Brunswick in the 1990s
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/John_Herron   (128 words)

  
 CD Baby: JOHN HERRON & ERIC HAUSMANN: Fish Music
Herron's percussion work is tight and complex...and you just never know what to expect from Hausmann's guitar.
Although John Herron and Eric Hausmann had never met, they traded albums with each other through the mail after reading each others reviews in various magazines.
Herron's percussion work is tight and complex, leagues above what you'll hear coming out of 99% of home-based studios.
www.cdbaby.com /cd/herronhausmann   (314 words)

  
 Shaping herron’s future
On Sept. 13, Herron School of Art began celebrating 100 years of its history by looking ahead to its future: breaking grou nd for its new home, the Sidney and Lois Eskenazi Hall on the IUPUI campus.
Formerly known as the John Herron Art Institute, the school became the stomping grounds for some of the most renowned artists of the 20th century.
Burns, who witnessed the move of Herron into IUPUI in 1969, said most of the changes dealt with students adjusting to the rigors of taking other academic classes, such as science and math.
www.indiana.edu /~ocmhp/101102/text/herron.html   (757 words)

  
 The Herron School of Art Centennial: Students and Teachers, 1902­1950
In 1895, John Herron, a frugal farmer and land speculator, bequeathed most of his fortune to the association, which was headed by suffragette and educator May Wright Sewell.
Herron's museum building was the second facility in the nation built expressly for art education.
Herron underwent a fundamental change in 1933, when the school's newly appointed director, Donald Mattison, dismissed most of the existing faculty and replaced them with instructors from some of the nation's leading art schools.
www.tfaoi.com /aa/4aa/4aa124.htm   (921 words)

  
 Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The future site for Herron School of Art, IUPUI is made possible through a generous gift from Sidney and Lois Eskenazi, multiple donors and a $12 million allocation from the State of Indiana.
Currently, Herron School of Art is holding classes in a variety of locations, including its core campus on 16th Street, the 26,000-square-foot sculpture and ceramics building at 1350 Stadium Dr., the photography lab at Senate and Michigan Streets and other off-campus sites.
Herron School of Art was founded by the Art Association of Indianapolis in 1885, upon receipt of investor John Herron's estate.
www.newscenter.iupui.edu /newsreleases/herron_groundbreaking.htm   (766 words)

  
 Descendants of Herron
The deceased was born in St. John’s parish, county of Roscommon, Ireland and, like millions of his fellow countrymen, he was compelled to wander o’er the lonely course of the "Exile of Erin." He landed in New York in 1829, a period long to be remembered by all Irishmen.
John Walsh, who was killed by the falling of a derrick at the city well on last Friday evening, was born in the county Kilkenny, Ireland, in the year 1815, consequently was in his 83rd year, when death removed him hence.
John Walsh was a native of the county of Kilkenny, Ireland.
www.celticcousins.net /other/descendants_of_unknown_herron.htm   (9326 words)

  
 San Jacinto Museum of History—Biographies
Herron was married to Martha E. Ware, who was born November 18, 1834, and died August 5, 1856.
Herron died August 30, 1892, while a member of the Texas Veterans Association and was buried by the side of his wife in their family cemetery a few miles from McDade, Bastrop County.
Herron were Mattie, who was married to W. Watson; Lizzie Herron, who married John Tinnin; and a baby who died at birth August 3, 1856.
www.sanjacinto-museum.org /Herzstein_Library/Veteran_Biographies/Browse_Biographies/biographies/default.asp?action=bio&id=3232   (199 words)

  
 Herron School of Art & Design: IUPUI
The John Herron Society is a fitting tribute to the school's first benefactor and acknowledges others who enable Herron School of Art and Design to continue its impact on the lives of its students, faculty and the community.
Annual, unrestricted gifts to Herron of $1,000 or more are earmarked for the school's most pressing needs where no other funding is available.
John Herron Society contributions enable a variety of programs at Herron, such as international travel opportunities for students, research development for faculty, and school-related community projects.
www.herron.iupui.edu /new_web/get_involved/john_herron.html   (138 words)

  
 William Elisha & Mary Agniss Abimlick Herrin
John could have lived around Bardstown for a period of time or he could have stopped at the famous “salt licks” of the area to reprovision his group as he traveled west.
John, coming from North Carolina, probably followed the Wilderness Road to Shelbyville, then to Nelson County around Bardstown, then to Russelville, called “Rogue’s Harbor” because of its rowdyness, which was the next stop on the settler’s trail, and then to Nebo.
John D. died June 8, 1839 at the age of 22 and is buried beside his mother, Mary Agniss in the Rushing Creek Cemetery.
www.geocities.com /wmelishaherrin   (17499 words)

  
 JOHN HERRON
is now affiliated with IUPUI in Indianapolis and the John Herron Art Museum is now the Indianapolis Museum of Art, the nation's seventh-largest general art museum.
In April of 1995, The Franklin County Historical Society observed the centennial of John Herron's death and subsequent bequest that began the John Herron Art School and the John Herron Art Museum.
Herron Art School presented a program and letters were read from then Indiana Governor Evan Bayh, Indianapolis Mayor Steven Goldsmith and Bret Waller,
www.franklinchs.com /ppp/people/Herron   (246 words)

  
 New Brunswick MP jumping to Liberals   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Former Tory MP John Herron announced Friday that he will switch political sides in the coming federal election, seeking the Liberal nomination in his New Brunswick riding of Fundy-Royal.
Herron, 39, who was the Progressive Conservative critic for post-secondary education, the environment and official languages, has been member of Parliament for the riding located between Saint John and Moncton for two terms.
Herron is the second former Tory MP to turn Liberal over the united-right merger.
www.cbc.ca /news/story/2004/02/06/herron_switches040206.html   (1267 words)

  
 Herron House Flowers, Thomasville, North Carolina   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
John Herron of Herron House has been involved in the wholesale and retail floral industry for over 30 years.
John Herron's style is very Southern, backyard garden, using such materials as roses, hydrangeas, flowering branches, berries, and interesting foliages.
John arranged the flowers for the 1994 Blandwood Ball in Greensboro.
www.herronhouse.com /AboutUs.html   (143 words)

  
 JOHN BERNHARDT (1921-1963) - American Modernist, Woodblock Maker and Assemblage Artist
John Bernhardt was a successful and influential American modernist, working on canvas, paper and with assemblage.
John Bernhardt was born in 1921, in Indianapolis.
John didn't leave notes about the edition size of many of his woodblock prints.
www.sullivangoss.com /john_bernhardt   (1722 words)

  
 Dr John Herron
Dr Herron entered Federal Parliament in 1990 and served as Minister for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Affairs (1996-01).
He was Queensland Branch President of the Australian Medical Association (1989) and served as Queensland Chairman of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons and the Australian Association of Surgeons.
Educated at the University of Queensland, Dr Herron holds a Bachelor of Medicine and a Bachelor of Surgery.
www.ancd.org.au /about/members/herron.htm   (210 words)

  
 Descendants of Alexander Herron
John Calvin and his family appear on the 1850 Nelson County census, but not on the 1860 census.
According to the 1850 census, however, he and his wife were age 27, putting their birth years at approximately 1823.
According to one Herron researcher, the 19th saw pretty heavy fighting during the Civil War, including Gettysburg, where they were part of Pickett's Division and made the famous charge.
www.art-rageous.net /HerronGenReportPart1.html   (846 words)

  
 Herron Art Library
The Herron Art Library has a brand new face and new location on the IUPUI campus.
The Herron Art Library formally began its service as an art research library in 1909 when Anna Turrell became the John Herron Art Institute's first full time librarian.
The Herron Art Library provides reference and inter-library lending sevices patrons and enjoys a long standing reputation as Central Indiana's primary lending art library for modern and contemporary art.
www.ulib.iupui.edu /herron   (149 words)

  
 John Herron   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
John Herron has written for, and with some of the great recording artists of our time.
John was born in the dusty little Route 66 town of Elk City, Oklahoma.
John eventually died as a result of a diabetic type misfortune from a negligence in
ronniejaywheeler.com /john_herron.htm   (4104 words)

  
 Tory-turned-Liberal John Herron loses
Liberal incumbent John Herron has lost his New Brunswick riding to Conservative Rob Moore.
Herron represented the riding for two terms as a Progressive Conservative, but spoke against the merger.
In February 2004, Herron announced that he would leave the newly merged Conservatives to sit as an Independent and would run as a Liberal in this election.
www.cbc.ca /news/story/2004/06/28/nb_026_040628.html   (1099 words)

  
 Herron's Mills, ON   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Herron's Mills was founded in 1842 by John Gillies who operated a mill on the Clyde River until 1871, when the mill and surrounding buildings were sole to John Herron.
The mill was in operation until 1950 when they were closed for good.
Herron's Mills is located just east of Highway 51, 1 km north of Clydesville.
www.ghosttown.info /on/herrons/index.html   (68 words)

  
 John and Mary Grimshaw
Thanks go to Phyllis Frankenfield for making the information on John and Mary Grimshaw available for this webpage.
John Grimshaw, it lists his parents as Richard Grimshaw and Ann Lelby.
Four Granddaughters of John and Mary Grimshaw (daughters of John and Verena [Grahm] Grimshaw.) Standing (left to right) are Elizabeth (Grimshaw) King and Alice (Grimshaw) Snyder.
www.grimshaworigin.org /Webpages2/JohnPhilNew.htm   (651 words)

  
 Herron Morton Place
The school was reorganized in 1902, when John Herron bequeathed funds to build a new building and museum.
The John Herron School of Art is the state’s premier art school.
In 1859, the state purchased the land largely undeveloped, as a home for the Indiana State Fair.
www.herron-morton.org /about.html   (276 words)

  
 Herron arti-facts
• Some of Indiana’s most famous artists taught classes at the John Herron Art Institute when it first opened in 1902, including T.C. Steele, J. Ottis Adams, Rudolph Schwartz, William Forsyth, Otto Stark and Richard Gruelle.
• The Art Association of Indianapolis founded the Herron School of Art in 1885, upon the receipt of investor John Herron’s estate.
The $200,000 bequest called for the establishment of an art institute for the promotion of art and culture in the city.
www.indiana.edu /~ocmhp/101102/text/herronarti.html   (183 words)

  
 Artcom Museums Tour: Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis
Two years later, John Herron, a native of England who settled in Indianapolis (and who had never in life expressed an interest in visual art), left the Art Association $250,000 to establish a permanent gallery and art school in his name.
The John Herron Art Institute and Herron School of Art opened to the public in 1906 at a site located at the corner of 16th Street and Pennsylvania Ave.
In 1966, the museum and school split when the museum was given acreage for building a larger museum.
www.artcom.com /Museums/nv/gl/46208-41.htm   (687 words)

  
 Will of John Herron, Jr
I do hereby constitute and appoint my beloved wife Betsey Herron my true and lawful executrix to this my last will and testament not doubting that she will faithfully discharge the duties of the same.
It is my further will and desire that if my said parents shall remove off the said lands and tenements above mentioned to --- that then the estate shall descend to the immediate use of my son David she hereby possesses the --- to the same
Witness in the presence of the Testator John Herron Jun {l.s}
www.rootsweb.com /~nyschoha/jherronwill.html   (221 words)

  
 John Herron - On Line Opinion Author
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The Hon Dr John Herron was a Liberal Senator for Queensland.
He has been a member of various medical associations and projects.
www.onlineopinion.com.au /author.asp?id=282   (58 words)

  
 John J. Herron   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
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