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  Robert Anderson Van Wyck - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The son of Abraham Van Wyck and Zeruah Van Wyck, he was prepared for college at the Wilson Academy in North Carolina, and later graduated from Columbia College, and was valedictorian of his class.
Van Wyck is generally regarded as a colourless mayor, selected by the sachems of Tammany Hall as a man who would do little to interfere with their running of the city.
The ice trust scandal destroyed Van Wyck's political career and was generally have reckoned to have cost Tammany the elections of 1901, which went to the Fusion reformist slate led by Seth Low.
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 Encyclopedia: Robert Anderson Van Wyck
Robert Anderson (January 7, 1750 - February 20, 1830) was a Scottish author and critic.
Named after the first mayor of the unified New York City, Robert C. Van Wyck (pronounced "van-WIKE"), and for the boulevard that preceded the expressway, the Van Wyck Expressway connects John F. Kennedy Airport with the Whitestone Expressway (I-678) and the Bronx-Whitestone Bridge further north.
The Van Wyck alignment was to connect the Kew Gardens interchange with the new Idlewild Airport, and in conjunction with the Grand Central Parkway and the Queens-Midtown (Long Island) Expressway, was to provide a direct route from mid-Manhattan to the airport.
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 Van Wyck Expressway (I-678)
There was an apartment house on Van Wyck Boulevard at 97th Avenue, about seven stories high, that was moved out of the way on rollers such that after it was resettled what had been the back door became the new front door.
In March 1988, the southbound Van Wyck Expressway at EXIT 13 (NY 25A-Northern Boulevard) in Flushing was closed for several weeks after NYSDOT and NYCDOT workers discovered that three of five steel beams supporting the 40-foot-high southbound viaduct were seriously corroded.
The NYSDOT is rebuilding the elevated roadways connecting the Van Wyck Expressway to the Whitestone Expressway.
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 ScienceDaily: Robert anderson van wyck 1   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
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 University of Delaware: JOHN ANDERSON PAPERS
Anderson embarked on his first commercial enterprise in 1934 at the age of 19, when he founded Bantam Press in Atlantic City, New Jersey.
Notable was Anderson's ongoing collaboration with wood engraver John De Pol, begun in the 1950s but intensified during this second incarnation of the press.
The John Anderson papers consist of 5 linear feet of material spanning the dates 1948 to 1994, with a concentration between the years 1978 - 1994.
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 Robert Anderson Van Wyck - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
Robert Anderson Van Wyck - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
Robert Anderson Van Wyck (July 20, 1849 – 1918) was a U.S. political figure.
Robert Anderson Van Wyck, References, 1849 births, 1918 deaths and Mayors of New York City.
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Robert Bourassa's speech on the end of the Meech Lake Accord
Robert Bruce Stuart, Duke of Kintyre and Lorne
Robert Harley, 1st Earl of Oxford and Mortimer
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 Grammer Family   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
VAN METER Parents: Andrew VAN METER and Louise A. She was married to John William SOMERVILLE.
Augustus VAN WYCK was Democratic candidate for Governor of New York in 1898 in New York.
Robert Anderson VAN WYCK was elected as First Mayor of greater city of New York City in New York City, New York.
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Sherwood Anderson was born Sept. 13, 1876, in Camden, Ohio, the third child of seven born to a harnessmaker and his wife.
Anderson was married four times: To Cornelia Lane (1904-1916), with whom he had two sons and a daughter; to artist and music teacher Tennessee Mitchell (1916-1924); to Elizabeth Prall (1924-1932); and to Eleanor Copenhaver (1933-1941).
Copenhaver, an executive with the YWCA, was interested in labor conditions in the South, and was inspiring to Anderson in terms of topics for his articles on social justice and the plight of the American workingman and African Americans.
www.newberry.org /collections/FindingAids/Xml/Anderson.xml   (1173 words)

  
 kelley - kel07.htm
She died 20 Sep 1935 in Anderson, SC and was buried in Refuge Baptist Church, Anderson Co., SC.
Robert C. Wilson was born 23 Mar 1889.
Van Wyck Jerry Gillespie was born 10 Oct 1898 and died 1 Feb 1963.
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 Grammer Family   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Children were: Samuel Maverick VAN WYCK, Zemah VAN WYCK, William VAN WYCK, Augustus VAN WYCK, Robert Anderson VAN WYCK, Lydia VAN WYCK.
Children were: John MAXWELL, Robert MAXWELL, Anne MAXWELL.
Robert MAXWELL Parents: General Robert MAXWELL and Elizabeth ANDERSON.
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 1885 Court News
He deposited the assignment, the bond and written instructions with Lawyer ANDERSON of New York, who, in case of the depositor's death, was to forward all the papers to his sister Sarah.
When the plaintiff's case was closed, the Judge dismissed the complaint on the ground of contributory negligence, as it was disclosed that the plaintiff might have passed safely between the rope and the edge of the wharf.
The plaintiff's case having been proved, the defense introduced a number of witnesses to prove that instead of having suffered by her husband's drinking habits she was herself a woman addicted to drink and quarreling.
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 DESCENDENTS OF THE SCHUYLER FAMILY OF NEW YORK
Robert and Alida lived in the Patroon's house, in Albany and on the Greenbush farm.
of Capt Pieter Van Brugh (a mayor of Albany) of Albany.
?), dau of Kiliaen Van Rensselaer and Maria Van Cortlandt.
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 1898 - NYWiki   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The modern city of New York — the five boroughs — was created with the merger of the cities of New York (then Manhattan and part of The Bronx) with Brooklyn and the largely rural area of Queens.
Robert Anderson Van Wyck became the first Mayor.
The separate cities of New York and Brooklyn were a merger of the United States' first and third largest cities.
www.nywiki.com /new-york-city/index.php/1898   (172 words)

  
 CainSnake
He had initially said the arrangement was for a 22-year-old woman, but testified that he knew she was 15 when they had sex.
Now Anderson is asking the Merit Board to reconsider its decision last month to suspend but not fire another deputy, Danny J. Gaither, who also had sex with the woman on more occasions than he.
Anderson had asked the Merit Board to fire Parker for violating a half-dozen departmental rules, including conduct unbecoming an officer, fraternization with a criminal and being untruthful about his involvement.
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 July 20 - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
1924 - Teheran, Persia comes under martial law after the American vice consul, Robert Imbrie, is killed by a religious mob enraged by rumors he had poisoned a fountain and killed several people.
1989 - Photographer Robert Mapplethorpe's show opens at Washington, D.C. 's Project for the Arts after the Smithsonian Institution's Corcoran Gallery cancels it.
1387 - Robert IV of Artois, Count of Eu (poisoned) (b.
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 VAN WYCK, Robert Anderson [1847-1918] -- American lawyer, politician
New York politics was rife with graft and corruption, and Van Wyck was not above partaking from the trough.
Indeed, his campaign slogan during his run for mayor was "To hell with reform." After his election, he made a two-sentence inaugural speech and no other public speech during his term.
Designing and Building a New Metropolis On March 24, 1900, Mayor Robert A. Van Wyck ceremonially broke ground for the Rapid Transit Railroad in front of City Hall with a silver-bladed shovel.
freepages.history.rootsweb.com /~dav4is/people/VWYK116.htm   (478 words)

  
 kelley - kel20.htm
Van Wyck Jerry Gillespie (Thomas A. Gillespie, Margaret Elizabeth Kelley, Daniel Callaway, William) was born 10 Oct 1898.
Van married Rose Lee Morgan, daughter of James A. Morgan and Fannie Mann, on 12 Oct 1919.
Lucille married Leonard Earl Stewart, son of Chastain Robert Stewart and Minerva A Stansell.
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 Family Tree Maker's Genealogy Site: Genealogy Report: Descendants of John Broyles
February 13, 1885, Anderson, Pendleton District, South Carolina; d.
) was born August 1, 1858 in Anderson, South Carolina, and died October 25, 1934 in Greenville, South Carolina.
She was born May 21, 1857 in Anderson, South Carolina, and died September 19, 1947.
familytreemaker.genealogy.com /users/v/e/r/Steven-C-Verden/GENE1-0180.html   (223 words)

  
 Nassau Expressway (NY 878)
In 1971, a one-way eastbound segment was completed between Cross Bay Boulevard and the Van Wyck Expressway (I-678) in southern Queens, running parallel to the Belt Parkway.
At the northern end of Kennedy Airport, where the Southern (Belt) Parkway meets the Van Wyck, there is a huge sign strung over the highway that directs motorists to the Nassau Expressway.
It was supposed to be similar to the Van Wyck Expressway (I-678), with most of the streets still connected on top by bridges.
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 mann - man14.htm
Rose married Van Wyck Jerry Gillespie, son of Thomas A. Gillespie and Susan Emma Hunt, on 12 Oct 1919.
She died 24 Mar 1920 and was buried in Big Creek Baptist Church, Anderson Co., SC.
She died 1980 and was buried in Big Creek Baptist Church, Anderson Co., SC.
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 Handbook of Texas Online: NEW BIRMINGHAM, TX
New Birmingham, once called the "Iron Queen of the Southwest," was a short-lived industrial town near the junction of U.S. Highway 69 and Farm Road 343, two miles southeast of Rusk in central Cherokee County.
It was founded by Anderson B. Blevins, a sewing-machine salesman from Alabama who traveled on business to Cherokee County in the mid-1880s.
He returned to the East and with the aid of a number of capitalists, including James A. Mahoney, future New York mayor Robert Van Wyck, and his brother-in-law William Harrison Hamman, founded the Cherokee Land and Iron Company (renamed the New Birmingham Iron and Land Company in 1889).
www.tsha.utexas.edu /handbook/online/articles/view/NN/hvn16.html   (910 words)

  
 Flatbush Reformed Dutch Church Baptisms from Consistory Books, Kings County Long Island New York 1854-1872
Robert Anderson Paton, born 17 February 1858, baptized 30 July 1858, son of Henry Paton and Elizabeth Anderson [B568, B596, B629, B660, B717, B726, B744].
Robert Lefferts, born 2 March 1860, baptized 15 July 1860, son of John Lefferts and Eliza Lefferts.
Sarah Van Wyck, an adult baptised on confession of her faith in Christ, 2 November 1860.
www.olivetreegenealogy.com /nn/church/flatbush_bp4.shtml   (5160 words)

  
 Van Wyck Yellow Pages | Van Wyck SC Business Reviews
And the logical combination of business and telephone for Van Wyck is the Van Wyck yellow pages.
After all, it was the job of operators to connect callers.
That's why this is truly the Van Wyck yellow pages.
vanwyck.sc.mypages.com /Van-Wyck~dentists.html   (181 words)

  
 World War 1 and 2 - Robert Anderson Van Wyck   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
World War 1 and 2 - Robert Anderson Van Wyck
He served as mayor of New York City between 1898 and 1901 and served as the first mayor to govern New York City after its five boroughs had been consolidated into a single city.
The Van Wyck Expressway in New York City is named for Van Wyck.
www.worldwardiary.com /history/Robert_A._Van_Wyck   (82 words)

  
 ShowBIZ Data: Assassins 1995
Robert has been given a contract to kill, but someone else shows up and kills Branch, stealing the contract from Robert.
He soon discovers that it was vicious rival hitman Miguel Bain.
Robert is given a contract to target a woman named Electra who is a surveillance expert and information theif, and teamed up with Robert to defeat the obsessed Bain.
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 1898
Falling into line from the immediate side streets were marching units like the Robert Anderson Battery in their long gray coats and fire helmets, Veteran Firemen's Associations, rifle-carrying Irish Volunteers, German societies, United Italian societies, Hungarian societies, the Garde Lafayette, and bicycle clubs.
The Tammany Hall political machine was represented by a giant tiger with electric lamps for eyes, flanked by pictures of Mayor Robert Van Wyck and of the Boss himself, Richard Croker.
Both Potter and Robert left reporters, readers, and those who knew and loved them mystified as to why an attractive brunette of twenty-five ("The dead woman's feet and hands are small.
partners.nytimes.com /books/first/t/traxel-1898.html   (4026 words)

  
 Beyond Zero
Jean Toomer's publication of Cane (1923) brought wider attention to a new presence in American Literature with individuals such as Sherwood Anderson, Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and William Faulker.
Anderson acclaimed Toomer as the only Negro "to have consciously the artist impulse."
For two years he studied works by Waldo Frank, Van Wyck Brooks, Sherwood Anderson, Robert Frost, Carl Sandburg, and the Imagists.
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 List of names from the index of Anne Anne Van Wyck's 1920 book, DESCENDANTS OF CORNELIUS BARENTSE VAN WYCK AND ANNA ...
"Descendents of Cornelius Barentse Van Wyck and Anna Polhemus"
Although most of the names listed of are of Van Wyck decendants, not all are.
Van Wyck, Abigail, 68, 70, 100, 111, 112, 391, 399, 408-410, 433
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 Wyck House
Francis Van Wyck Mason (November 11, 1901 – August 28, 1978, Bermuda) was an American historian and novelist.
He had a long and prolific career as a writer spanning 50 years and including 65 published novels.
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 Index to Comic Art Collection: "Vanilla" to "Vao"
-- Villains are Dr. Flack, Valda, and introduction of villains Olo (dies), Axel, and Roff; introduction of Van Morgan and Elna.
-- Summary: The van is filled with one big salami, and they don't know what to have with it.
Van Vliet, a musician and painter, was born in 1941.
www.lib.msu.edu /comics/rri/vrri/vani.htm   (6924 words)

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