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  Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Wyeth, Andrew Newell   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Wyeth, Andrew Newell WYETH, ANDREW NEWELL [Wyeth, Andrew Newell], 1917-, American painter, b.
Wyeth, Newell Convers WYETH, NEWELL CONVERS [Wyeth, Newell Convers] 1882-1945, American painter and illustrator, b.
Wyeth bides time on his retrospective: The artist is "sort of terrified" to see the major show, open now in Atlanta and coming to the Art Museum in March.
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 Andrew Wyeth - Free net encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Wyeth's favorite subject is the land and inhabitants around his hometown of Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, and those near his summer home in Cushing, Maine.
Wyeth began painting Helga in 1971 and for nearly fifteen years she was one of Wyeth's most important models.
Wyeth was used as a humorous device by cartoonist Charles M. Schulz in the comic strip Peanuts.
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 Nathaniel Jarvis Wyeth   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Wyeth and his group, after amateurish and unsuccessful attempts to trap beaver, reached Fort Vancouver in October where Wyeth learned of the loss at sea of his principal supply ship, and his initial venture dissolved with the withdrawal of his remaining men.
Wyeth, however, returned to the northern Rockies, seeking an arrangement with the Hudson's Bay Company for supplies, Wyeth and his contract-trappers to work south of the Columbia and turn over the catch to HBC posts.
Wyeth then hurried down the Missouri River in a pirogue, accompanied by two Indians, one of whom he took to Boston.
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 N. C. Wyeth - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Wyeth's 1925 depiction of Francis Parkman, for an edition of Parkman's The Oregon Trail.
Wyeth is the father (and teacher) of artists Andrew Wyeth, Henriette Wyeth and Carolyn Wyeth, and is the grandfather of artist Jamie Wyeth.
Wyeth is also the father of Nathaniel Wyeth, who was an engineer for DuPont and worked on the team that invented the plastic soda bottle.
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 Inventor of the Week: Archive
Nathaniel Wyeth's most famous invention, one of the most convenient and readily recyclable items available for sale today, is the plastic soda bottle.
Nat Wyeth was born near Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, into America's foremost family of artists: both of his sisters and most notably his brother, Andrew, followed in the footsteps of their father, artist and illustrator Newell Convers (N.C.) Wyeth.
Wyeth intuited that there was a way to make a stronger plastic container; and after a great deal of experimentation, he found it.
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 Nathaniel Wyeth Route
Wyeth watched as pelts were traded and imagined breaking through old trade patterns to establish new partnerships that would allow him to participate in the business.
Wyeth continued trapping into the north country, where he realized that the fur trade was a dying industry; streams were over-trapped and the yields were ever diminishing.
While the missionaries were building their mission in The Willamette Valley, Wyeth explored the region for commercial opportunities, and the naturalists, tired of the oppressive winter rains, boarded an HBC ship bound for the Hawaiian Islands where they spent the winter of 1834-5 researching the Islands' flora and fauna.
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 Oregon, A Short History of a Long Journey - John B. Wyeth - 1833
Wyeth, nor was it entirely owing to the publications of Lewis and Clarke or Mackenzie.
Nathaniel J. Wyeth had listened with peculiar delight to all the flattering accounts from the Western regions, and that at a time when he was surrounded with apparent advantages, and even enviable circumstances.
Nathaniel J. Wyeth for the latter article, a luxury more coveted by men in our situation, anxious and fatigued as we were, than whisky or brandy.
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 Introduction to Nathaniel Wyeth's Journals and Correspondance   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Nathaniel Jarvis Wyeth organized and led two expeditions to the fur country, with the purpose of establishing a fur trapping business to compete with the entrenched companies.
The correspondence and journals of Captain Nathaniel J. Wyeth, 1831-6.
A more recent edition is: The Journals of Captain Nathaniel J. Wyeth's Expeditions to the Oregon Country 1831-1836.
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 AllRefer.com - Nathaniel Jarvis Wyeth (U.S. History, Biography) - Encyclopedia
Nathaniel Jarvis Wyeth 1802–56, American explorer and trader in the far West, b.
A businessman in Boston, he was fired with a desire to go to Oregon by the eloquence of Hall J. Kelley.
The vessel, carrying all the supplies and some of his party, was never heard from, and after spending the winter at Fort Vancouver Wyeth returned to Boston.
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 Fort Hall
Wyeth reached the Snake on July 14, 1834 and chose a site for his fort about a hundred and fifty yards from the river, at a point several miles north of the Portneuf River.
Wyeth was aware that in order to succeed with Fort Hall he would need to procure supplies and goods brought up from the lower Columbia basin.
Wyeth's plan to obtain control of the Rocky Mountain fur trade by supplying Fort Hall from the lower Columbia River basin worked out just as he anticipated it would, but it would be the Hudson’s Bay Company which would make the plan succeed and would profit there from.
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 Oregon History ProjectOregon Biographies Nathaniel Wyeth
During his lifetime, Nathaniel Wyeth held fourteen patents related to the cutting and transportation of ice and ran a successful trade in ice between New England and the West Indies.
Wyeth was born in 1802 in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Wyeth established Fort Williams on Sauvie Island at the confluence of the Willamette and Columbia Rivers.
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 Oregon-California Trails Association   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Wyeth took his goods and men west until he reached the Bottoms of the Snake River on July 15, 1834.
Their plan was to drive Wyeth out of business and they succeeded by overbidding Wyeth for the purchase of furs and underbidding him in the sale of goods to the Indians.
This fort is situated on the south side of Snake River, was built by Captain Wyeth of Boston, 1834, is exposed the Black Foot, a savage tribe who glory in spilling the blood of the whites.
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 OSU Press at Oregon State University
Nathaniel Wyeth expected to meet a supply ship when he reached the Pacific, but upon arrival at Fort Vancouver he learned that his ship had been wrecked in the South Pacific.
Wyeth made the acquaintance of John McLoughlin, the chief factor of the Hudson's Bay Company at Fort Vancouver, as well as of David Douglas, who was then collecting plants in Oregon for the Horticultural Society of London.
Wyeth fell immediately to organizing his supplies and trade goods, impressing Townsend with his management of the men and his consideration of their ideas and feelings.
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 Along the Oregon Trail
Wyeth reached the fur trappers' rendezvous on the Ham's Fork of the Green River in midsummer.
Nathaniel Jarvis Wyeth was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1802 into a family of some note, and made his initial fortune by manufacturing ice.
Wyeth re-collected the plant in 1833, probably in Idaho, and Nuttall described it as a new species in 1834.
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 Wyeth (disambiguation) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Nathaniel Jarvis Wyeth (1802–1856), an American inventor, ice harvester, and explorer and trader
Nathaniel C. Wyeth (1911-1990) Inventor of the plastic soda bottle.
Wyeth (formerly known as "American Home Products"), an American pharmaceutical company founded in 1860 by John and Frank Wyeth
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 Capturing Nureyev: Jamie Wyeth Paints the Dancer
The household of the Wyeth family, located in the Brandywine Valley in Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, was packed with creativity: from the colorful works of Andrew Wyeth's father Newell Convers to the paintings of sisters Carolyn and Henriette; from the toy inventions of brother Nathaniel to the compositions of the youngest sister, Ann.
Andrew Wyeth, one of the most famous American artists, has been referred to as a representational painter, a painter associated with Realism and Naturalism, of rural American life, and—to his critics—merely an illustrator.
Henriette Wyeth's right hand was crippled by polio at an early age, but that didn't stop her from joining her family at the easel.
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 Wyeth, Nathaniel Jarvis - HighBeam Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
WYETH, NATHANIEL JARVIS [Wyeth, Nathaniel Jarvis] 1802-56, American explorer and trader in the far West, b.
When Kelley's plans for an expedition were long delayed, Wyeth formed one of his own and in 1832 crossed the continent, at the same time sending a ship around Cape Horn.
Find newspaper and magazine articles plus images and maps related to "Wyeth, Nathaniel Jarvis" at HighBeam.
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 Jean Grady and N. C. Wyeth to Marry - New York Times
Wyeth retired in 1976 as senior engineering fellow for the Du Pont Company, where his contributions included the plastic container for carbonated beverages.
Wyeth and is the brother of the artist Andrew Wyeth.
Nathaniel Wyeth, the holder of some 20 patents, retired after 40 years as an engineer at Du Pont, where he became the first in the company's 182-year history to be named a senior fellow.
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 BookRags: Nathaniel Wyeth Biography
Born in Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, Nat was the son of famed illustrator N. Wyeth, who constantly encouraged his children to develop and express their imaginations.
After designing a new valve for a production machine, Wyeth was transferred to the mechanical development laboratory, where he was able to devote himself to engineering design and invention.
Wyeth became curious about why plastic was not being used for carbonated beverages, and found out that when plastic was molded into bottles, certain parts of the bottle were weaker than others and could not withstand the carbonation pressure.
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Nathaniel WYETH, an entrepreneur, made his first visit to Oregon in 1832 with a small party to scout opportunities in the northwest.
Wyeth's expedition, Lee's party, and the fur traders reached Rendezvous on the Green River in late June and the future site of Ft. Hall (on the Snake River east of American Falls) by late July.
Osborn RUSSELL and 12 men were left by Wyeth at the end of July 1834 to operate the brand-new FORT HALL as the party with Wyeth speeded on horseback to the Columbia River.
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 CVO Menu - Cascades Volcano Observatory - The Volcanoes of Nathanial Wyeth   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
John Ball was member of Nathaniel Wyeth's 1832 expedition to the Rockies and the Pacific Northwest.
Here, the next day, Wyeth took four of the men and the best horses and started off express for Walla Walla, requesting me the next day after to follow on and he would get food and send back for us.
The said fort was a small stockade of upright timbers set in the ground some fifteen or eighteen feet high with stations or bastions at the corners for look-outs.
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Of Wyeth's eleven men, two died Vancouver, two remained in the country and were the first American settlers in Oregon, five returned by sea, two trapped for other companies in the mountains, and Nathaniel Wyeth journeying home alone of all these Americans, did an amazing thing unmatched for assurance and belief in himself.
Wyeth was to be one of the captains.
Nathaniel Wyeth, with his band of greenhorns, met William Sublette and Robert Campbell, the leaders of the expedition to supply the rendezvous of 1832.
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 Wyeth's Oregon, or a Short History of a Long Journey, 1832; and Townsend's Narrative of a Journey across the ...
Wyeth, meanwhile, was to lead a company of hale young men across the continent, who should hunt and trap on the way, and be ready on arrival to provide a cargo of furs for the vessel, and later to develop the products of the Oregon country.
Nathaniel J. Wyeth, 3 nor was it entirely owing to the publications of Lewis and Clarke or Mackenzie.
Nathaniel, the fourth son, was born January 29, 1802, and was intended for Harvard College, of which his father and eldest brother were graduates; his ambitious spirit, however, made him impatient to begin commercial life, and to his subsequent regret the college course was abandoned.
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 Selected Letters of Nathaniel J. Wyeth
of said Wyeth at the rate of $5 for full Beavers and in proportion for kittens and yearlings and for all other furs and skins usually secured by the said Co.
5th Said Wyeth to continue the arrangement for five years and in case of his not doing so to be bound not to do a Fur business in any country to which the H.B. Co. have access.
6th In case said Wyeth faithfully performs this said agreement, then the H.B.Co. at the end of the time agreed on is to pay over to him any balance that may be due him in cash or goods as the said W.
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 Andrew Wyeth - DOUBLETAKE GALLERY is a great place to sell artwork by Andrew Wyeth
He is the son of Newell Convers and Carolyn Bockius Wyeth of Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, and was home-schooled because of delicate health.
The non-art oriented brother, Nathaniel Wyeth, achieved much success as a chemist for DuPont where, among many inventions, he created a durable plastic so plastic bottles could hold carbonated beverages.
The Olson House, where Christina and her brother lived, is now owned and maintained by the Farnsworth Museum, where Wyeth had his first major exhibition in 1951 and where the Andrew Wyeth Gallery is now a permanent exhibition place for his paintings.
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 Our Family
All of the Wyeths were quite taken by this handsome, energetic young man in cowboy boots and hat, but none so much as N. C.’s eldest daughter, Henriette, who married Peter Hurd in 1929.
Henriette Wyeth's paintings reflect the deep appreciation she felt for the brief bloom of a flower or the fleeting expression on a child's face - all an integral part of what she termed "the deliciousness of life".
ANDREW NATHANIEL (A. is the son of Nathaniel Convers Wyeth and Caroline Pyle (niece of illustrator Howard Pyle).
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 1834 Rendezvous
William Sublette with his long experience in packing supplies to the mountains would overtake and pass Nathaniel Wyeth, who was also burdened with the missionaries and naturalists, on May 12, just seven days after leaving St. Louis.
On reaching the confluence of the Laramie and North Platte Rivers, William Sublette would direct a number of the men from his supply train to remain at this location and commence construction of Fort William.
Wyeth, after trading as much of his trade goods for beaver as he was able, left rendezvous on July 2
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 1833 Fur Trapper Letter
It contains a letter written by Nathaniel Wyeth at Fort Vancouver on January 16, 1833 addressed to his brother Jacob Wyeth in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
The letter was carried by the Hudson Bay Company's courier to Montreal, Canada where it entered the mails on August 13, 1833.
Nathaniel Wyeth was a noted fur trader who had continued west after the fur trade rendezvous at Pierre's Hole (Wyoming) in 1832.
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 Oregon History Project
Wyeth led two expeditions to the Pacific Northwest, the first in 1832, and the second in 1834.
When Wyeth learned a few days later that the surviving Hawaiians had made their way to Fort Vancouver, he led the expedition back down the Columbia River to the HBC’s central depot.
Wyeth finally left Oregon in 1836, returning to Massachusetts and his former profession of ice harvesting.
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