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  Nicholas Longworth
Longworth was to be suddenly thrown, neck and heels, into the Ohio River, he would come to the surface with a new variety of fish in each hand.
Longworth to enter systematically upon its cultivation, and to take measures for manufacturing the wine on a scale extensive enough to encourage the establishment of numerous vineyards, and to afford a market on his own premises for all the Must that could be made and delivered to him in a circuit of fifty miles.
Longworth soon induced other gentlemen resident in the vicinity of Cincinnati, and favorably situated for the purpose, to undertake the culture of the Catawba, and several of them are now regularly and extensively engaged in the manufacture of wine.
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  Nicholas Longworth - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Nicholas Longworth was the Speaker of the House of Representatives from 1925 until 1931
Nicholas Longworth (November 5, 1869 - April 9, 1931) was a prominent American politician in the Republican Party during the first few decades of the 20th century.
In 1902, Longworth was elected to the United States House of Representatives from a Cincinnati-area district.
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 Nicholas Longworth Anderson - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Nicholas Longworth Anderson (1838-1892) was a U.S. Army officer who served in the American Civil War as Colonel and commander of the 6th Ohio Volunteer Infantry.
Nicholas Longworth Anderson, son of Larz Anderson II and Catherine (Longworth) Anderson, was the scion of two distinguished Ohio families.
Through his mother, he was the grandson of Nicholas Longworth, founder of the Longworth family.
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 Longworth's Tavern - Menu   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Nicholas Longworth arrived in Cincinnati by flatboat in 1804 to begin his career in law.
Longworth's only disappointment was that the president had recognized him, since he frequently finagled a fifty cent tip from those who did not.
The death of Nicholas Longworth in 1863, combined with the Civil war and three years of fl rot that plagued the vineyards, resulted in the end of a large scale wine production in the Cincinnati region.
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 Nicholas Longworth   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Nicholas Longworth (November 5, 1869 - April 9, 1931) was a prominent American politician in the Republican Party during the first third of the 20th century.
Longworth first came to political prominence in 1910, when he led the successful Republican revolt against the autocratic rule of House Speaker Joseph G. Cannon.
After an ensuing decade of political ill-fortune -- the Republicans lost the majority in the House from 1911 to 1919, Longworth's father-in-law bolted the Republican Party in the 1912 election, and Longworth lost his seat from 1913 to 1915 -- Longworth became Majority Leader of the House in 1923.
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Longworth secured his acquittal, but the fellow had no money to pay his counsel, and in the absence of funds gave Longworth two second-hand copper stills, which were his property.
Longworth hesitated, for although he had an almost prophetic belief in the future value of the land, he was sorely in need of ready money; but at length he accepted the offer.
Longworth's estate was valued at fifteen millions of dollars, and is doubtless worth fully one-third more at the present day.
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In 1904 Longworth Hall was reported to be the largest structure of its type in the world.
In fact, some lease payments are still made to relatives of Nicholas Longworth for land leased into perpetuity.
Longworth Hall remains one of the longest buildings in the country, and is over one quarter mile in length.
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 Science Fair Projects - Nicholas Longworth
Nicholas Longworth (November 5, 1869-April 9, 1931) was a prominent American politician in the Republican Party during the first third of the 20th century.
After an ensuing decade of political ill-fortune--the Republicans lost the majority in the House from 1911 to 1919, Longworth's father-in-law bolted the Republican Party in the 1912 election, and Longworth lost his seat from 1913 to 1915--Longworth became Majority Leader of the House in 1923.
Nicholas Longworth is buried in Cincinnati, Ohio; Alice Roosevelt Longworth and the couple's daughter Paulina (whose actual father, by all accounts, was Senator William Edgar Borah) are buried in Rock Creek Cemetery, Washington, D.C. See also:
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 Nicolas Longworth Biography
Nicholas Longworth, Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, was born in Cincinnati the son of Nicholas Longworth, a lawyer, and Susan Walker.
The Longworth Act (1902), regulating the issuance of municipal bonds, was later acclaimed as one of the most successful laws in Ohio's history.
Longworth was easily elected, and he served in the House from 1903 to 1913 and from 1915 until his death.
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 Hamilton County Biographies
Nicholas Longworth, the subject of this memoir, was born in Newark, N.J., on the 16th of January, 1783.
Longworth is a problem and a riddle; a problem worthy of the study of those who delight in exploring that labyrinth of all that is hidden and mysterious, the human heart, and a riddle to himself and others.
Longworth’s labors in the introduction of the grape, and improved cultivation of the strawberry, on which objects he has spent thousands of dollars, he has made these fruits accessible to the means of purchase of every man, even the humblest among us.
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 Nicholas Longworth
A breif bio of Nicholas Longworth, the one-time Speaker of the House and son-in-law of a president.
He is Nicholas Longworth, former Speaker of the House during the late 1920s-early 1930s and Republican Congressman from Cincinnati, Ohio.
Longworth was not the most distinguished member of Congress of his time.
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 Nicholas Longworth
Nicholas Longworth was born on January 12, 1782, in Newark, New Jersey.
Longworth also was responsible for domesticating the Catawba grape plant and provided Ohio with a wine-making industry.
Longworth also provided monetary assistance to artists in the Cincinnati area, as well as charity to the city’s struggling residents.
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Longworth had gone to his office, near the Third-Street entrance, where he was accustomed to receive applicants for charity, he was accosted by a man who craved assistance.
Longworth assented, and the coachman wore off the 'Hard Times,' the good wife replacing it by an elegant broadcloth that she had quietly provided for the occasion.
Longworth had erected a magnificent mansion in the midst of his vineyard.
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 Nicolas Longworth Biography
Nicholas Longworth, Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, was born in Cincinnati the son of Nicholas Longworth, a lawyer, and Susan Walker.
The Longworth Act (1902), regulating the issuance of municipal bonds, was later acclaimed as one of the most successful laws in Ohio's history.
Longworth was easily elected, and he served in the House from 1903 to 1913 and from 1915 until his death.
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 The Longworth House Office Building
Completed in the spring of 1933, the Longworth House Office Building is the second of three office buildings constructed for the United States House of Representatives as well as a fine example of the Neo-Classical Revival style popular in the second quarter of the twentieth century.
When the Longworth Building was completed, it contained 251 congressional suites, 5 large committee rooms, 7 small committee rooms, and a large assembly room now used by the Ways and Means Committee.
The building was named in 1962 in honor of Nicholas Longworth of Ohio, who served as Speaker of the House of Representatives (1925-1931) when the building was authorized.
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 Nicholas Longworth IV
Nicholas Longworth was born on November 5, 1869, in Cincinnati, Ohio.  He was the great-grandson of Nicholas Longworth, one of the wealthiest men in the United States by 1850 and a leading horticulturalist.
Longworth grew up in Cincinnati and attended the Franklin School, before he enrolled in Harvard University.  Longworth graduated from this institution in 1891, and he immediately enrolled in the Harvard Law School.  He left Harvard in 1892 and enrolled in the Cincinnati Law School, graduating with his law degree in 1894.
Longworth died on April 9, 1931, while on a trip in South Carolina.
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 References - Nicholas Longworth
Nicholas Longworth (November 5, 1869-April 9, 1931) was a prominent United States politician in the United States Republican Party during the first third of the 20th century.
Longworth first came to political prominence in 1910, when he led the successful Republican revolt against the autocratic rule of Speaker of the United States House of Representatives Joseph Gurney Cannon.
After an ensuing decade of political ill-fortune the Republicans lost the majority in the House from 1911 to 1919, Longworths father-in-law bolted the Republican Party in the U.S. presidential election, 1912, and Longworth lost his seat from 1913 to 1915 Longworth became Majority Leader of the United States House of Representatives in 1923.
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 Kids in the House - Time Traveler   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Nicholas Longworth, a Republican from Ohio, served as a Representative in the 58th Congress and in the four succeeding Congresses (March 1903 to March 1913).
In 1906 Longworth married Alice Lee Roosevelt, the daughter of President Theodore Roosevelt, at the White House.
Longworth was elected to the 64th Congress and to the eight succeeding Congresses and served from March 1915 until his death in April 1931.
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 Alice Roosevelt Longworth - daughter of Theodore Roosevelt
Nicholas Longworth, February 17, 1906 at the White House.
Nicholas was the son of NICHOLAS LONGWORTH and SUSAN WALKER
She went on to become one of the most outspoken women of the century, dazzling the public when her much sought-after opinion was expressed.
www.theodoreroosevelt.org /life/familytree/AliceLongworth.htm   (478 words)

  
 Salon People | Alice Roosevelt Longworth, wild thing   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Longworth -- whose husband, Nicholas Longworth, was a Republican speaker of the House -- appears an additional 34 times in Anthony's two-volume history of America's first ladies, weaving in and out of one administration after another.
Longworth's East Room wedding to the Republican lawmaker was a spectacular affair.
Five, six and seven decades later, Longworth was, in her words, "an ambulatory Washington monument," still parading opinions.
www.salon.com /people/feature/1999/06/07/longworth   (820 words)

  
 Sally's Family Place
Nicholas Longworth says he was born in England and settled in Newark, NJ.
It has been suggested that this Thomas Longworth, born in 1692, was the son of Thomas Longworth [died 1705] and wife Deborah Youngs of Southhold, Long Island -- but then perhaps he IS nephew to that Thomas, and the son of his purported brother Francis.
Isaac Longworth 1726 - 1794 Newark NJ shopkeeper in Newark
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 Passion for Art and Wine
Nicholas Longworth, the father of American wine, seeded the hills of the city with catawba grapes.
Nicholas Longworth (1782-1863) left his home state of New Jersey in the late 1790s, wandered through Appalachia for a couple of years and arrived in Cincinnati by flatboat in 1803.
Longworth made the bulk of his fortune by accepting land in lieu of money for legal fees and purchasing other parcels outright.
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 Longworth Hall: 100 years old
Longworth went from being a shell, with broken windows and a leaking roof, to one of the city's business gems with an occupancy rate of 90 percent.
The building gets its name from Nicholas Longworth, who owned the land where it was built.
Longworth, former speaker of the House and son-in-law to Theodore Roosevelt, was another man of vision.
www.enquirer.com /editions/2003/11/24/editorial_ed1b.html   (478 words)

  
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 Nicholas Longworth Papers (Library of Congress)
The papers of Nicholas Longworth, lawyer, congressman, and speaker of the United States House of Representatives, were given to the Library of Congress by Katherine F. Deitz in 1964 and by his granddaughter, Joanna Sturm, in 1975.
The papers of Nicholas Longworth were arranged and described in 1978 and 1979.
Copyright in the unpublished writings of Nicholas Longworth in these papers and in other collections of papers in the custody of the Library of Congress has been dedicated to the public.
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 Nicholas Longworth   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Nicholas Longworth (de noviembre el 5, 1869-April 9, 1931) era político americano prominente en el partido republicano durante el primer tercio del vigésimo siglo.
Longworth primero vino a la prominencia política en 1910, cuando él condujo la rebelión republicana acertada contra la regla autocrática del locutor José G. Cannon de la casa.
Longworth murió inesperado algunos meses más adelante, mientras que visitaba a amigos en Aiken, Carolina del Sur.
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 Taft Museum of Art :: Collection Connection
In 1829 Nicholas Longworth (1782–1863), a wealthy Cincinnati businessman, purchased Baum’s former residence.
When Longworth renovated the main entrance, he replaced what were apparently the original Baum mantels with Italianate ones of white marble.
Longworth died in 1863, and in 1866 his estate leased the house to Francis E. Suire.
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