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  NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Hotchkiss
"Hotchkiss" (ホチキス) is also the generic name for office staplers in Japan and Korea, probably deriving from the brand name stamped on the stapler, in much the same way as "Hoover" is used as a generic name for vacuum cleaners in the UK.
Hotchkiss is of English origin, and traces his ancestry back to Samuel Hotchkiss, who was one of Davenport's New Haven Company, which settled the city of New Haven, Connecticut, in 1618.
Hotchkiss was joined in marriage with Maria Olivia Alexander, a daughter of Charles and Juliette (Praddock) Alexander, respected residents of Marshall, Michigan.
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  Hotchkiss School - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Hotchkiss is part of an organization known as The Ten Schools Admissions Organization.
Hotchkiss was founded in 1891 by Maria Bissell Hotchkiss with the encouragement of Yale University president Timothy Dwight V.
Maria Hotchkiss was the widow of Benjamin B. Hotchkiss, who founded the French arms company Hotchkiss et Cie, made famous by the use of its machine guns in World War I [1].
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 The Hotchkiss School - Peterson's In-Depth Description
The Hotchkiss School was founded by Maria Bissell Hotchkiss in 1891 at the urging of President Timothy Dwight of Yale.
The Hotchkiss School’s Statement of Goals and Purposes is as follows: The School is a community based on trust, mutual respect, and compassion, and it holds all members of the community accountable for upholding these values.
The day-to-day life at Hotchkiss is governed by several important principles: concern for others, respect for all members of the community, and understanding and adherence to the rules as stated in the Hotchkiss School Handbook.
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 Benjamin B. Hotchkiss Summary
Hotchkiss also helped his family to develop a better percussion fuse, and, as a result, more Hotchkiss shells were used for rifled cannon s during the American Civil War than any other munitions manufacturer in the country.
Hotchkiss was born in Watertown, Connecticut, and moved to Sharon, Connecticut in childhood; his early experiments were made there in his father's hardware factory.
He was married to Maria Bissell Hotchkiss, who founded the Hotchkiss Library in Sharon in her husband's memory, as well as the Hotchkiss School at Lakeville, Connecticut.
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 Maria Hotchkiss: ZoomInfo Business People Information   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Maria Hotchkiss's summary was automatically generated using 6 references found on the Internet.
From the beginning, Maria Hotchkiss was not interested in establishing "a school for the pampered sons of rich gentlemen." Over the last several decades, a multifaceted diversity has increasingly come to Hotchkiss.
The Hotchkiss School was founded by Maria Bissell Hotchkiss in 1891 at the urging of President Timothy Dwight of Yale.
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 The Hotchkiss School - About Hotchkiss - History & Traditions
Hotchkiss offers a classical education, finding strength in a traditional approach that has worked well and stood the test of time.
Hotchkiss is also a member of Round Square and Global Connections, international organizations that bring together students, faculty, and school leaders from around the world.
When Hotchkiss was founded, members of these two student intramural teams competed in gymnastics matches, providing a major source of entertainment, competition, and friendly rivalry.
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 Stephen Birmingham. America's Secret Aristocracy 1985. Chapter 22.
Maria Bissell Hotchkiss, a former schoolteacher whose late husband, Benjamin Berkeley Hotchkiss, had made a fortune as a munitions manufacturer.
Hotchkiss may have wanted to donate a school for boys to atone for the many young male lives her husband's device had dispatched in wars.
The fact is that out of schools like Groton and Hotchkiss, out of even the most hothouse-seeming notions of how the children of the American rich should be educated, would emerge people who, when the chips were down, would manage to rise to occasions and do the things that were expected of them.
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 ++Education Planning++   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
By any standards, Hotchkiss is one of only a handful of highly exclusive schools in the US that grooms young men and women for the very best (IVY League) universities.
Hotchkiss, by design, is a small school when compared to similar schools in the same league such as Phillip Exeter, Andover and Chote.
The average class size at Hotchkiss is 13 with a teacher:student ratio of 1:5.
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 1927 Biographical Index of Notable People from the State of New York
Bissell, was born in Milford, New York, in 1848 and was a farmer and livestock dealer.
His mother, Hannah (Hayes) Bissell, was born in Rome, New York, in 1858, and is still living.Dr. Bissell began his schooling in Newark, New Jersey, where he was graduated from the academy in 1907.
Brewster was married, at Albany, to Maria Georgia Herie, the daughter of Ralph and Olive (Gregory) Herie.
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 Sharon, Connecticut - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
During the Civil War munitions were made here, and it was then in the shops of the Hotchkiss Company in this village that the Hotchkiss explosive shell for rifled guns was invented, which led to the expansion of the company and its removal to Bridgeport.
To the Moravians it was known as " Gnadensee," the Lake of Grace.
His widow Maria Bissell Hotchkiss founded the Hotchkiss Library in Sharon in her husband's memory.
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 First Fifty Years of Cazenovia Seminary 1825-1875   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Hotchkiss, Mary Ann, Russia, N.Y. Married Stephen P. Robbins.
Haight, Maria A., Fenner, N.Y. Married Hiram Hall, Farmer, of Chittenango, N.Y. Deceased.
Residence, Ann Arbor, Mich. Huffman, Polly, Auburn, N.Y. Holliday, Maria, Whitesborough, N.Y. Married Jehiel Tuttle.
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 CHS: Civl War Manuscripts Project: Michael Kelly   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Maria, a very nice girl, helped me much through, but she was taken and after a few days died.
It was a sad sight to see the mother and father embrace her as I carried her out to be placed in the coffin at 7 1/2 PM as the rule was to bury such cases at night.
Hotchkiss the first got it all, mostly because she did not sign a divorce and Mrs.
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 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
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 Sharon Burying Ground, Sharon, CT - Part 1
HEATH, Ann Maria Elliott, wife of George Heath, late relict of Harry Cowles, b.
HITCHCOCK, Rebecca Maria, wife of Homer Hitchcock and dau.
HOTCHKISS, Carrie L., dau; of F. and Caroline, d.
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 Hotchkiss School - Education - Information - Educational Resources - Encyclopedia - Music
The Hotchkiss School is a private, coeductional preparatory school in Lakeville, Connecticut, USA.
Hotchkiss' 9 hole golf course was created by famed designer Seth Raynor.
In the book Primary Colors by Joe Klein, later turned into a film, the principal character Henry Burton was educated at Hotchkiss, and is frequently referred to as 'Hotchkiss'.
www.music.us /education/H/Hotchkiss-School.htm   (606 words)

  
 News Asmarino Com Front Page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Hotchkiss is located in Lakeville, Connecticut, a small rural New England town located in the foothills of the Berkshire Mountains and two hours from New York City.
The school was founded in 1891 by Maria Harrison Bissell Hotchkiss at the urging of the President of Yale University.
Today Hotchkiss is a coeducational school 540 students and over 100 faculty, most of whom live on campus.
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 Town Hill Cenetery, Salisbury, Ct.
A tradition existing in the Bissell family was recently repeated by Mr.
Bissell in having the enclosure graded, and the monuments put in as good condition as was possible.
Hotchkiss, Maria H. Bissell, wife of B. Hotchkiss, 1827-1901.
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 Benjamin B. Hotchkiss - Definition, explanation
Benjamin Berkeley Hotchkiss (1826–1885) was one of the leading American ordnance engineers of his day.
At about this time, he developed a revolving barrel machine gun, known as the Hotchkiss gun, which was later used in the Wounded Knee Massacre in 1890.
His French company was called Hotchkiss et Cie.
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 The Hotchkiss School
Yet, through more than a century's experience and changing times, Hotchkiss has remained steadfast in its mission: to provide an educational experience that is challenging yet supportive, broad but strategic.
The Hotchkiss School strives to develop in students a lifelong love of learning, responsible citizenship, and personal integrity.
We hope that our graduates will leave Hotchkiss with a commitment to service to others and to environmental stewardship and with greater understanding of themselves and of their responsibilities in a global society.
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 Elyse Harney Real Estate - Elyse's Country Journal
Founded in 1891, Hotchkiss has an enrollment of 544 students in grades 9 through 12, with an average class size of 13.
The Hotchkiss School borders two lakes amidst the hills and woodlands of Northwestern Connecticut.
And like many other single-sex schools during the same era, Hotchkiss became coeducational school during the 1970s amid society’s changing attitudes toward gender equity and how children should be educated.
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 Gulbangi Family and Genealogy Research - Person Page 181   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
     Hannah Bissell was born on 18 December 1682 in Windsor, Hartford County, Connecticut.
She was the daughter of Samuel and Abigail (Holcomb) Bissel.
Daniel Sperry, son of Richard Sperry and Denis Goodyear, in 1713 She was the widow of Thomas Hotchkiss.
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 Book B of Deeds - Delaware County, NY
John Owen Jr of Walton, Delaware County, NY, on March 29, 1804, purchased from Thomas Dennis and Hannah his wife, town of Walton, Delaware County, NY, land in a tract granted to William and Gerard Walton, part of lot 54, beginning at the SW corner of a tract granted to John Rapleyea, 100 acres.
Maria S Morton of New York City on December 31, 1804, purchased from John K Beekman of New York City, land in Evans Patent, land in lots 30, 35, 38 and 41, 3624 3/4 acres.
Mary Hayes and Anna Maria Hayes, children and heirs of Abraham Hayes, deceased, late of Franklin, on June 21, 1806, purchased from Aaron Chamberlain and Weathy(Willthy) his wife of Franklin, Delaware County, NY, land in Franklin, Leake's patent, part of lot 10, borders Daniel McCall, 31 acres and 111 rods.
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 THE TENTH ANNUAL SUMMER BOOK SIG
Checks should be made out to the Hotchkiss Library of Sharon and mailed to the Hotchkiss Library, att.
Designed by the architect Bruce Price, the Hotchkiss Library of Sharon is located at 10 Upper Main Street, overlooking the town green.
It was erected in 1892-1893, as a gift to the town, by Maria Bissell Hotchkiss, who also endowed the Hotchkiss School in neighboring Lakeville.
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 A Brief History of Sharon
Mid-19th century – Hotchkiss Brothers factory built in Sharon Valley.
At The Hotchkiss Company, the Hotchkiss explosive shell for rifled guns was invented.
It was a gift of Maria Bissell Hotchkiss in memory of her husband Benjamin Berkeley Hotchkiss of Sharon, Connecticut.
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 Alphbetical
Papers of Folsom, who was a captain in the United States Army, Assistant 0uartermaster of Stevenson's regiment, and a major California landowner.
A part of the collection relates to Leidesdorff's land grant "Rio de los Americanos", and the legal battle between Joseph Libby Folsom and Anna Maria Spark, Leidesdorff's mother, regarding the inheritance of Leidesdorff's estate.
The 1849 diary was written during Varney's voyage to California and describes life aboard ship, crossing the Isthmus of Panama, and hopes of making his fortune in the gold mines.
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 Sharon Historical Society History of Sharon
In 1829, Asahel Hotchkiss began production of home, farm, and utilitarian items from local iron - rakes, ox bow pins, harness buckles and snaps, mowing machine fingers, monkey wrenches, wagon shaft couplings, and currycombs.
By 1850 the Hotchkiss factory employed nine hands and produced $25,000 of saleable goods.
Built in 1893, the Hotchkiss Library was the work of architect Bruce Price (1845-1903), designer of Tuxedo Park.
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 The Resseguie Family
He was married to Eunice Maria Resseguie on 10 Mar 1830.
Children were: Rufus Hess Nichols, Catharine Maria Nichols.
Children were: Maria Jennings Nichols, William Thornton Nichols.
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 Connecticut National Guard Bibliography
Bissell, Linda A. "Family, Friends and Neighbors; Social Interaction in Seventeenth Century Windsor, Connecticut." Ph.D. Dissertation, Brandeis University, 1973.
Burpee, Charles W. The Military History of Waterbury, from the Founding of the Settlement in 1678 to 1891, together with a List of the Commissioned Officers and the Records of the Wars; Containing also an Outline of all the Changes in the Military Organization of the State.
Maria Campbell: Together with the History of the Campaign of 1812, and Surrender of the Post of Detroit, by his grandson, James Freeman Clarke.
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 CT Vital Records   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
24 Dec 1835 Osborn, Albert[#7231] + Maria Staples both of Fairfield by Lyman H. Atwater Windsor 2/77 b.
Maria Benedict of Wilton by James A. Batterson, Dea.
25 Aug 1846 Osborn, Maria Vail of Norwich + Thomas D. Thompson of Newport, RI by Rufus W. Matheson, J.P. Weston LR11/484 b.
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 Phelps Village History
HOTCHKISS (father of L. Esq.) and MCNEIL commenced the mercantile business in 1810 in Luther ROOT’s bar-room, but soon after erected a building which they occupied as a store, standing on the site of the present block owned by B. WING and NELSON opened a store in 1813.
The Banking Office of Phelps was established by L. HOTCHKISS in 1857, and continued by him until 1869, when he was succeeded by his son, Thaddeus O. HOTCHKISS, the present proprietor.
In the year 1805 there stood on the ground now occupied by the bank of T. HOTCHKISS a low one-store frame building, nearly new, being about twenty by forty feet square.
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