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		Forbes graduated from Columbia College in 1827 and from the General Theological Seminary in 1830.
		Forbes was ordained a Roman Catholic priest on Nov. 16, 1850.
		Forbes was the first person elected dean of the General Theological Seminary by the Board of Trustees under the revised statutes of 1867.
	www.episcopalchurch.org /19625_12644_ENG_Print.html (261 words)

	John Murray Forbes
		John Murray Forbes (February 23, 1813-October 12, 1898), a leading Boston businessman and philanthropist, financed and operated a great nineteenth century industrial empire.
		Forbes served as the President of the Michigan Central Railroad from 1846 to 1855.
		Forbes was well-informed of the value of this region as, five years earlier, Louis Agassiz of Harvard College, Forbes's friend from the Boston Saturday Club, had led an expedition through the area noting the best timber and mining lands.
	www.uua.org /uuhs/duub/articles/johnforbes.html (1936 words)

	John Murray, 4th Duke of Atholl
		John Murray, b.30 June 1755, d.1830, eldest son of John, 3rd Duke of Atholl, who had been the last Atholl Lord of Man before selling the regalities at the Revestment.
		John Murray built himself a 'palace' in Castle Mona and attempted to develop the tourist trade to the Island.
		However it was the appointment of his young nephew as Bishop in 1814 and the latter's insensitive attempt to extract £6,000 pa from the tithes at the period when agriculture was depressed that finally provoked riots and the departure of both Bishop and Duke.
	www.isle-of-man.com /manxnotebook/people/govrnors/murray.htm (489 words)

	Bonds of Enterprise: John Murray Forbes and Western Development in America's Railway Age
		Forbes believed that he was advancing the cause of progress by opening up the West and by increasing the general welfare through his business enterprises.
		Forbes thought that grandstanding populist politicians like Iowa governor William Larrabee were ignorant of the fundamentals of railroad economics; Larrabee was determined to fight "a war against the arrogance of 'experts' who scorned the authority of popular government." (p.
		Clearly, Forbes brought together many of the disparate threads that connected all of the institutions and all of the historical actors associated with the transformative effects of railroads on American life.
	eh.net /bookreviews/library/0499.shtml (1514 words)

	John Forbes: ZoomInfo Business People Information (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		FORBES, JOHN, second son of bishop Forbes, was born, May 2nd, 1593, and received the rudiments of his religious and literary education under the care of his father.
		The friends of Dr Forbes desired that he should be buried in the cathedral beside his father; but this was forbidden by the party then in power, and the mourners were obliged to carry his body to an ordinary church-yard, where it lies without any monument.
		While professor, Forbes had purchased a house at Old Aberdeen, where King's college is situated, and made it over for the use of his successors; but having forgot to secure his life-rent in it, he was afterwards deprived of it by the prevailing party.
	www.zoominfo.com /people/Forbes_John_46178253.aspx (1195 words)

	John Murray Forbes - JohnMurrayForbes
		John Murray Forbes (February 23, 1813 - October 12, 1898) was president of both the Michigan Central railroad and the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad in the 1850s.
		His parents were Ralph Bennet Forbes and Margaret Perkins, youngest daughter of the Perkins family, a merchant banking family in the China trade.
		Forbes attended school at Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts, then at Round Hill School in Northampton, Massachusetts, from 1823-28.
	www.kopete.org /John-Murray-Forbes.html (463 words)

	MHS Edith Emerson Forbes and William Hathaway Forbes Papers, 1827-ca. 1964 : Guide to the Collection
		John Murray Forbes (1813-1898), married in 1834 Sarah Swain Hathaway (1813-1900).
		This collection is composed of the family papers of Edith (Emerson) Forbes, the daughter of Ralph Waldo Emerson, and her husband William Hathaway Forbes, the son of John Murray Forbes, of Milton, Mass.
		Edith (Emerson) Forbes was a prolific letter-writer, and this series is particularly strong in correspondence between her and her children, particularly after the death of William Hathaway Forbes in 1897.
	www.masshist.org /findingaids/doc.cfm?fa=fa0225 (2981 words)

	Forbes family - China-related Topics FM-FP - China-Related Topics
		Born in France, John Murray Forbes entered the China trade at the behest of his Perkins uncles, and after his brother Tom Forbes died, and thereafter John Murray Forbes was mentored by the Chinese merchant Houqua who considered Forbes to be like a son.
		John KerryJohn Forbes Kerry is a U.S. Senator and was a candidate for President of the U.S. Though he is a beneficiary of several Forbes family trusts (c.
		However, Bertie Forbes, born in New Deer, Scotland, is a descendant of the Forbes Scottish clanclan in Scotland.
	www.famouschinese.com /virtual/Forbes_family (1347 words)

	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Forbes, (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		He entered the mercantile house of his grandfather, John Murray Forbes, in Boston and was a partner in the firm after 1899.
		Forbes, Duncan 1685-1747, Scottish statesman, known as Forbes of Culloden.
		Forbes, John 1710-59, British general in the French and Indian Wars, b.
	www.encyclopedia.com /SearchResults.aspx?Q=Forbes, (669 words)

	Forbes John: Free Encyclopedia Articles at Questia.com Online Library (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Forbes decided not to use the road that Gen. Edward Braddock had taken to his disastrous defeat on the same mission in 1755.
		Forbes, Inc.,(465) the United States Court of...opinion privilege to a stock tips article in Forbes magazine.(466) The defamation suit at...that had been described as overvalued in Forbess "Streetwalker" column.(467) The article...
		Forbes, John, Kerry, John F....WHITE HOUSE hopeful John Kerry has traced his Scots...has his roots with the Forbes clan in Strathdon.
	www.questia.com /library/encyclopedia/forbes_john.jsp (1893 words)

	John Murray Forbes - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		John Murray Forbes (February 23, 1813 – October 12, 1898) was president of both the Michigan Central railroad and the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad in the 1850s.
		His father was an energetic but unsuccessful businessman who died when John was only six.
		John Murray's son, William Hathaway Forbes, married Ralph's daughter, Edith Emerson.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/John_Murray_Forbes (578 words)

	MHS John Murray Forbes Papers, 1854-1898 : Guide to the Collection
		The bulk of the John Murray Forbes papers are stored offsite and must be requested at least one business day in advance.
		Born on February 23, 1813, John Murray Forbes was the son of Ralph Bennet Forbes and Margaret Perkins Forbes.
		Forbes was a leading Boston businessman and philanthropist.
	www.masshist.org /findingaids/doc.cfm?fa=fa0228 (1141 words)

	All in the Family:Meathead John Kerry's Private Island and Family History.(Weird,Wild Stuff.) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		In the United States, the Forbes family of China and Boston, of which John Forbes Kerry and John Murray Forbes are members, amassed a huge fortune in the China trade dealing in opium to the wealthier Chinese during the Opium Wars and engaging in other merchant banking, trading, and railroad investment projects around the world.
		However, Bertie Forbes, born in New Deer, Scotland is a descendant of the Forbes clan in Scotland.
		Rumours that John Forbes Kerry, Presidential candidate and Gigilo is descended from the illegitamite offspring of Karl Marx and Rosa Luxembourg are yet to be disproven.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/1128697/posts (2364 words)

	Island ideals - The Boston Globe
		The main reason is one John Murray Forbes, a member of the rich Yankee clan that feasted off the China trade.
		Some argue that the Forbes family should share their treasure with the public, in the spirit of the philanthropist Paul Mellon, who bought huge swaths of land for what became the Cape Hatteras and Cape Cod National Seashores.
		The short-tailed Forbes come from the posh branch of the family, who, going back a ways, used to clip the tails of their horses for dressage competition and fancy carriage work.
	www.boston.com /news/local/articles/2004/08/15/island_ideals (914 words)

	John Murray Forbes - China-related Topics JM-JP - China-Related Topics
		John Murray Forbes (February 23, 1813 - October 12, 1898), one of three brothers sent by their uncle to GuangzhouCanton, amassed a fortune in the opium trade and China trade during the Opium Wars.
		In 1860 he was an elector for Abraham Lincoln, and was a delegate to the Republican conventions of 1876, 1880 and 1884.
		John Murray's son, William Forbes, married Ralph's daughter, Edith Emerson.
	www.famouschinese.com /virtual/John_Murray_Forbes (501 words)

	THE FORBES FAMILY, THE OPIUM WARS, AND SKULL & BONES PIC
		The Forbes family of China and Boston, of which United States Senator John Forbes Kerry, Yale College, 1966 -- and John Murray Forbes -- are members, amassed a huge fortune in the China trade, initially trading North American furs and manufactured goods for tea and other goods from China.
		John Forbes Kerry is a U.S. Senator and was a candidate for President of the U.S. in 2004.
		The Forbes family owns, through the family JM Forbes Naushon Island Trust, named for the wealthy John Murray Forbes, the private Naushon Island, which is part of the Elizabeth Islands that lie NW of Martha's Vineyard and SW of Cape Cod.
	www.tenth-planet-telegraph.net /cgi-bin/forum.cgi?read=2 (831 words)

	More info about the poet: John Forbes - references bibliography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		John Forbes was born in Melbourne in 1950.
		John Forbes (1950–98) was born in Melbourne and grew up in New Guinea and Malaya...
		John Forbes Kerry is the Junior Senator for Massachusetts.
	www.poemhunter.com /john-forbes/resources/poet-44040/page-1 (676 words)

	Emerson & John Muir (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		John Muir (1838-1914) was 33 when he met Emerson (1803-1882) then nearly 68 in Yosemite during the latter's stay in California April 21-May 22, 1871.
		John Muir's Yosemite letters to Emerson are worth repeated readings and contemplation— that Emerson received these illumined words from a young admirer & adventurer reflects the compensation of the enlightening gifts which Emerson had given so generously to the world through his essays, lectures, and writings.
		John Muir said he slept in a wrinkle of the bark of a Sequoia, on the night after we left him.
	www.wisdomportal.com /Emerson/Emerson-JohnMuir.html (5475 words)

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		John Moors Cabot, born in 1901, a 1923 Harvard graduate, was a vice consul in Peru 1927-28, in the Dominican Republic from 1929-31, Mexico 1931-32, Brazil 1932-35, then to the Netherlands until 1938 and Sweden in 1939.
		Dominated by John Murray Forbes of Boston, who was in turn assisted by Charles Perkins, president of the company from 1881 to 1901, the railroad eventually reached Denver, its western terminus, and reached east to the Chicago, Kansas City and St. Louis gateways.
		John F. Moors was the maternal grandfather of diplomat John Moors Cabot, and his partner was named for an uncle, Charles Codman Cabot, a 1922 graduate of Harvard, and a director of Old Colony Trust.
	www.newsmakingnews.com /lmharvardpart3.htm (5558 words)

	Boston Magazine: Restaurants, Shopping, Events, Best of Boston
		His great-great-granduncle was John Murray Forbes, patriarch of the “long-tailed” branch of the Forbeses, which means the relatively bohemian side of the venerable family, a branch historically given to supporting--and, in Murray Forbes’s case today, embodying--art and drama.
		Forbes himself has spent his life painting and overseeing the Navigator Foundation, which finds and brings underappreciated art from Eastern and Central Europe to the Boston public.
		Historians consider the death of John Lowell Gardner in 1878 the date that entry to the club was ended.
	www.bostonmagazine.com /articles/the_new_brahmins (3345 words)

	PlaybillArts: News: Beethoven Scholar Elliot Forbes Dies at 88
		Forbes was a Fanny Peabody professor of music emeritus at Harvard University; he was also conductor of the Harvard Glee Club and Radcliffe Choral Society from 1958 to 1970.
		Forbes studied at Shady Hill School in Cambridge, Milton Academy, and Harvard— where one of his composition teachers was Walter Piston.
		Forbes had wide-ranging musical interests; he was also a fan of jazz and blues.
	www.playbillarts.com /news/article/3705.html (390 words)

	Arthur M. Young: About Arthur M. Young
		Ruth Forbes Young was born in 1903 a great granddaughter of the American transcendentalist philosopher Ralph Waldo Emerson and John Murray Forbes of Boston/China tea trade fame.
		As a young woman she assisted her uncle Cameron Forbes, the first Govenor General of the Phillipines, host such figures as General Pershing and President Taft at her family's Massachusettes island retreat.
		Indeed, it was only in her later years that she began to share stories of her unusual family and the pearls of wisdom she cultivated from experience.
	www.arthuryoung.com /ruth.html (1271 words)

	Reverand John Forbes - ReverandJohnForbes
		John Forbes was the first clergyman licensed to officiate in East Florida; and on May 5, 1764, he gave the customary bond to be conveyed to his missionary field, St. Augustine, Florida, where the larger number of East Florida settlers had gathered.
		From all accounts he was conscientious in the discharge of his parochial duties; but his field was difficult and the territory quite extensive; besides, he was the only English clergyman in East Florida during most of the British occupation.
		Once a year he generally visited the most remote parts, "at a considerable expense and great fatigue." Advantageous offers to go elsewhere were refused.
	www.kopete.org /Reverand-John-Forbes.html (285 words)

	John Kerry's Private Island and Family History (and Lyme)
		John Forbes Kerry is a U.S. Senator and currently a
		Forbes magazine, which was founded by Bertie Forbes.
		Forbes, born in New Deer, Scotland is a descendant of the Forbes clan
	www.medscitalk.com /ftopic25953.html (1021 words)

	John Murray Productions Company Background
		John Murray Productions, Inc. was established in 1989 to meet the growing demand for qualified corporate event coordination.
		John Murray Productions, Inc. is a full service event planning and production company specializing in highly creative and technically complex corporate parties and presentations.
		We are dedicated to providing our corporate clients with the experience, skill and creativity to produce innovative, memorable, and cost effective special events.
	www.johnmurray.com /4.htm (108 words)

	John Colin Forbes ( - ) Artwork Images, Exhibitions, Reviews
		John Sartain, Portrait of John A. Sutter, 1850
		John Colin Forbes / John Murray Clark / c.
		John Colin Forbes / Sir John A. Macdonald / c.
	www.wwar.com /masters/f/forbes-john_colin.html (1326 words)

	John Murray Forbes — Infoplease.com
		William Cameron Forbes - Forbes, William Cameron, 1870–1959, American business executive and diplomat, b.
		John Muir Society: The Sierra Club and The Sierra Club Foundation wish to thank the following individuals for their support in 2001....
		John Bull in search of a suitable Russia: British foreign policy and the failure of the Anglo-French-Soviet alliance negotiations,......
	www.infoplease.com /ipa/A0771897.html (218 words)

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