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  Mary Williamson Averell Harriman
Mary Williamson Averell Harriman (1852-1932) received the Pugsley Gold Medal “for her services in the establishment of the Palisades Interstate Park.” Even before her birth, it appeared that fate intended for Mary Averell to meet and marry Edward Henry Harriman.
Mary’s father, William J. Averell was not only a successful banker, owning with his brother James, Ogdensburg, a major New York bank, but he was also a man heavily involved in his community, serving as a vestryman for his church, alderman for his municipal government, and mayor for his city.
Mary was not only a loving and devoted wife, she was also a reliable and adept business confidante who was fully capable of managing the fortune her husband left her.
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 Descendants of Wolphert Gerretse Van Kouwenhoven - Person Page 1209
Henry Neilson Harriman was the son of Edward Henry Harriman and Mary Williamson Averell.
Mary Harriman was the daughter of Edward Henry Harriman and Mary Williamson Averell.
William Averell Harriman was the son of Edward Henry Harriman and Mary Williamson Averell.
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 Descendants of Wolphert Gerretse Van Kouwenhoven - Person Page 146
Mary Ann Auten was the daughter of Aaron Auten and Sarah Marie Gulick.
Mary Williamson Averell was the daughter of William J. Averell.
Mary Williamson Averell was buried on November 9, 1932 at Arden, Orange County, New York.
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 Descendants of Wolphert Gerretse Van Kouwenhoven - Person Page 147
Mary Allis Avery was the daughter of Philo Avery and Rebecca Haslett.
Mary Armenia Avery was the daughter of Gohn G. Avery and Abigail Leeds.
Mary Avery was the daughter of Joseph Sidney Avery and Serena Ann Curry.
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 Averell A Biography Of Averell Harriman. Averell Harriman. 1891- 1986 Presidential Advisor William Aver   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Averell Harriman A Register of His Papers in the Library of Congress Prepared by Allan Teichroew MSS61911 Creator: Harriman, W. Averell (William Averell), 1891-1986 Size: 344 250.
Harriman, William Averell, 18911986, American public official; son of E. Expanding his railroad inheritance, W. Averell Harriman became a banker and shipbuilder and later (1932.
Mary Williamson Averell Harriman (1852-1932) received the Pugsley Gold Medal "for her services in the.
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 Averell_harriman info here at en.about-gasoline-alley.info   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Averell Harriman (November 15, 1891 – July 26, 1986) was a United States Democratic Party politician, businessman and diplomat.
William Averell Harriman was intrinsic in New York City, the son of railroad baron Edward Henry Harriman and Mary Williamson Averell, and brother of E.
Issn: 0030-8684 Abstract: In the integument of Laos, Kennedy sought to erect a in neutral bureaucracy in the volatile realm of Southeast Asia.
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 The Honorable W. Averell Harriman - Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
William Averell Harriman was born in New York City, one of six children of railroad baron Edward Henry Harriman [1848-1909] and his wife Mary Williamson Averell.
During the Kennedy administration Averell served as a foreign policy advisor to the President with the title of Ambassador at Large and, after negotiating the Geneva accords the civil war in Laos, was named Assistant Secretary of State for Far Eastern Affairs.
On 27 September 1971 Averell married Pamela Digby Churchill Hayward, the widow of Broadway producer Leland Hayward and the mother, by a previous marriage, of Winston Churchill's grandson and namesake.
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 Elites / Personalities
Mary Pinchot Meyer (1920-1964) was from a well-connected family.
Mary's sister married Ben Bradlee in 1955; another classmate from Vassar was Cicely d'Autremont, who married James Angleton.
An attractive, free-spirited artist, Mary Meyer was sampling mushrooms with Timothy Leary at Harvard by 1962, and told him that the CIA was interested the potential of LSD for mind control.
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 W. Averell Harriman Papers (Library of Congress)
Averell Harriman A Register of His Papers in the Library of Congress Prepared by Allan Teichroew with the assistance of Haley Barnett, Connie L. Cartledge, Paul Colton, Marie Friendly, Patrick Holyfield, Allyson H. Jackson, Patrick Kerwin, Mary A. Lacy, Sherralyn McCoy, John R. Monagle, Susie H.
The Alaska expedition journal of Edward Henry Harriman was given by W. Averell Harriman's daughters, Kathleen Lanier Harriman Mortimer and Mary Averell Harriman Fisk, in 1992.
By then he was divorced from his first wife, the former Kathleen ("Kitty") Lanier Lawrence, and was married to Marie Norton Whitney, who is represented throughout the papers, most significantly as a collector together with her husband of some of the world's finest paintings and illustrations.
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 [CTRL] Mary Williamson Averell Harriman (1852-1932)
Mary Williamson Averell Harriman (1852-1932) received the Pugsley Gold Medal in 1929 "for her services in the establishment of the Palisades Interstate Park." Even before her birth, it appeared that fate intended for Mary Averell to meet and marry Edward Henry Harriman.
E.H. and Maryâs marriage thrived and three children were born: Mary in 1881; Henry Neilson in 1883; and Cornelia in 1884. Business continued to flourish when E.H. entered the rail world as a knight in shining armour. His purchase and refurbishment of rail companies, most notably Union Pacific, earned him his fame and his fortune.
In her married years Mary was a strong, silent, and supportive wife. After her husbandâs death, she was able to emerge from her grief to become a leader in American philanthropy, donating her personal and private resources to improve the world around her.Â
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William Averell Harriman was born in New York City, the son of railroad baron Edward Henry Harriman and Mary Williamson Averell, and brother of E.
He subsequently married Marie Norton Whitney, who left her husband Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney and took their two small children along, Harry Payne Whitney II and Nancy Marie Whitney to marry Harriman.
Czechoslovakia's Eduard Benes and the Czech solution had considerable influence on W. Averell Harriman and his optimistic belief that the USSR would honor its declarations for an independent Poland and exercise a restrained predominance in other East European matters.
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 Time Trail, West Virginia, November 1997 Programs   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
But their winter quarters and such had been destroyed while General Averell was in the town.
Although the battle is considered a Union victory, the rebel forces rendered Averell's command unable to immediately execute its original mission.
Averell's victory at Droop Mountain virtually ensured Union control of southern West Virginia for the remainder of the Civil War.
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 Alphabetical List of All Civil War Records held by the New York State Library   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Also included are the manuscript of Averell's memoirs of his military career, Ten Years in the Saddle and documents concerning the controversial removal of Averell from his command by General Philip Sheridan.
Mary Peck's letters provide information about life on the homefront as well as the experiences of a soldier's wife.
Collection includes a letter from Thomas H. Williamson to Daniel Ruggles and two tactical maps of the Rappahannock River region of Virginia, and a letter from Abram De Saules with enclosed map of the King George County, Virginia and vicinity.
www.nysl.nysed.gov /mssc/allcwrec.htm   (11930 words)

  
 HISTORY OF CINCINNATI AND HAMILTON COUNTY, OHIO
On December 21, 1834, be was married to Mary Elizabeth Gorham, daughter of Parsons Gorham, wholesale grocer, of Hartford, Conn., and four children were born of this marriage, viz.: Parsons Gorham.
Moore, Crook, Roberts, Cox, and Averell; took part in the battle of South Mountain and many other engagements, and was always a favorite with his superior officers and comrades.
In 1853 he was married to Mary Jane Miller, of Washington Court House, Ohio, whose death preceded that of her husband by a little more than two years.
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 HALL FAMILY HISTORY
Mary possibly Thomas, had Zuriel, William, Benjamin, Elizabeth, Rebecca and Deliverance In RI court documents, he refers to himself as 50 yrs.
Daughter Elizabeth Cottrell the some of one hundred pounds, daughter Mary one hundred pounds paid to Christopher Baylie gentleman her husband, grandson John Baylie tenne pounds, unmarried daughters Jane, Dorothie and Anne nine hunderd pounds.
Job was the new son-in-law (as of 1662) of the Elder John Crandall and Mary Opp, and would be years later, in 1691/92, the father-in-law of Henry's son, James.
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 Early English Prose Fiction: Bibliography
Anonymous [1663], The Case of Madam Mary Carleton Lately stiled The German Princess, Truely Stated: With an Historical Relation of Her Birth, Education, and Fortunes; in an Appeal to His Illustrious Highness Prince Rupert.
Averell, William [1584], A Dyall for dainty Darlings, rockt in the cradle of Securitie.
And herein, also, [as it were in a Mirrour] the Vnmaried may see the Defectes whiche Eclipse the Glorie of Mariage: And the wel Maried, as in a Table of Housholde Lawes, may call out needefull Preceptes to establysh their good Fortune.
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 California Biographies - Summaries 3
Mary, the eldest, was born in the latter county;
Martin married Mary ERICKSEN and was the father of nine children: Harold, Malcolm, Ebbi, Alma, Heda, Helen, Mabel, Hilda and Mary.
He was born at Georgetown, in Williamson County, Texas, on August 11, 1851, the son of Noah and Nancy T. (Merguson) McCuistion, worthy pioneers who braved all the inconveniences and dangers of frontier life and came out to California in 1852.
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 DESCENDENTS OF THE SCHUYLER FAMILY OF NEW YORK
Mary had a mastectomy in NYC on Sep 7, 1711 and was brought back to New London by Joanna, her sister-in-law.
Jun 22, 1914, Boston, MA, Mary Josephine Amory, dau of Francis Inman Amory, of Somerset, MA.
Mary inh the original Clermont house, from her grandmother, Margaret Beekman Livingston, who had lived there until her death, but a lawsuit from her step-children caused her to give up the house.
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 Bush-Nazi
The matriarch, Mary Williamson Averell Harriman, was one of the original benefactors of Charles Davenport's Eugenics Record Office; her $10,000 grant in 1910 had established the organization.
Averell Harriman, too, was a major and reportedly enthusiastic contributor to various eugenics causes, including sponsorship of the 1932 International Congress of Eugenics, held at the American Museum of Natural History in New York.
This was not true in Germany or Italy, where corporatists such as Fritz Thyssen were all too happy to ride the fascist tide until it began to reveal its true nature and turn on them -- by which point, of course, it was all too late to do anything about it.
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 The Adlai Stevenson Page
Averell Harriman, Skull and Bones 1913, withdrew from the race and threw his support to Stevenson.
Included among those individuals with whom Stevenson corresponded frequently" are William McC Blair (1940-1965) and Mary Lasker (1951-1965).
Mary Lasker was one of his frequent correspondents.
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 Royal News 2004, Section III
grandmother, the former Jeanne Marie Langtry, was officially the daughter of Edward Langtry and of Lillie Langtry, the actress, but according to the family (and this seems to be accepted by many scholars) Jeanne Marie was the daughter of the liaison between Lillie Langtry and Prince Louis of Battenberg (later 1st Marquess of Milford Haven).
The marriage was announced between Alexis Marie Augustin Jean Bruno Clément-Fromentel (son of Pascal Clément-Fromentel and of his wife, née Laure de Choiseul-Praslin [herself the daughter of René, Marquis de Choiseul Praslin and of his wife, née Clothilde Haudry de Soucy, and sister of Raynald, Duc de Praslin]) and Myrtille Girardot.
The forthcoming mariage was announced between David Olivier Cocton and Aude Marie Estelle de Lambilly (daughter of Comte Gabriel de Lambilly (1937-2003) [himself the son of Comte Charles de Lambilly and of his wife, née Lydie de Rohan-Chabot] and of his wife, née Hélène Lestelle.
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 Edward Henry Harriman Biography | Encyclopedia of World Biography
Mary Williamson, whom he married in 1879, was the daughter of the president of an upstate New York railroad.
In 1885 he began buying acreage in Orange County, N.Y., for the purpose of preserving forest lands; some 20,000 acres plus funds to purchase additional tracts were given to the state to create Harriman Park, now over 45,000 acres in extent.
Harriman was the father of six children, the most famous of whom was W. Averell Harriman.
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 W. Averell Harriman - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Friendship with the Soviet Union, in the interest of peace, was to be won at any price.
"W. Averell Harriman and the Polish Question, December 1943-August 1944." East European Politics and Societies 1993 7(3): 513-554.
The loan controversy may have worsened relations over reparations and East European questions.
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 Averell_harriman Informationen hier an de.archetecture.info   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Ein Interessieren und ein Averell Harriman Averell Harriman ist ein Averell Harriman für Ihren beschmutzenden Bereich, Averell Harriman und 8 Millimeter und VHS-C Kamerarecorder.
Averell Harriman war der Sohn des Eisenbahnmoguls Edward Henry Harriman und Mary Williamson Averell, Bruder von E. Roland Harriman.
Später heiratete er wieder, Marie Norton Whitney, die ihren Ehemann Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney verlassen hatte, um Harriman zu ehelichen.
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