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  uticaOD.com :: The meeting place and marketplace of the Mohawk Valley   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Kirkland was granted 4,000 acres of land by New York State.
The tombstone of Samuel Kirkland sits beside the stone of Oneida Chief Skenandoa at the Hamilton College Cemetery in Clinton.
Born in Connecticut, Kirkland was a commisioned missionary to the Oneida Indians.
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 Samuel Kirkland - Search Results - MSN Encarta
Kirkland, Samuel (1741-1808), American Congregationalist missionary, born in Norwich, Connecticut, and educated at the College of New Jersey (now...
Samuel, two books of the Old Testament that provide the primary source for the history of Israel during the 11th and 10th centuries bc.
Samuel Kirkland (1741 1808) was a Presbyterian missionary among the Oneida and Tuscarora people in North America.
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 Samuel Kirkland Summary
Kirkland established the Hamilton Oneida Academy (later Hamilton College) in 1793 for educating Indian and white children.
Kirkland was a student of Native American languages and lived many years with Indian tribes.
Samuel Kirkland was born in Norwich, Connecticut and died in Clinton, New York.
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 Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Kirkland,
Kirkland, Lane (Joseph Lane Kirkland), 1922-99, American labor leader, president (1979-95) of the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO), b.
Kirkland Lake Gold Inc.: South Zone Proves to be Striking North-South, and is Parallel to D Zone; Program Returns Best Intersection to Date at 1.07 ounces of Gold Over 17.0 Feet (11.4 Feet TW).
Kirkland's Reports Fourth Quarter and Fiscal 2002 Results; * Fiscal 2002 Net Sales Increased 11.2% * Fiscal 2002 Comparable Store Sales Increased 8.4% * Pro Forma EPS Up 45.7% for the Year to $1.02 * Expects 2003 EPS Growth of 15% to 18%.
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 Hamilton College - News, Sports, Events - Pulitzer Prize-Winning Author Alan Taylor Lectures at Hamilton
Kirkland, missionary to the Oneidas, was the founder of Hamilton College.
Kirkland was dealt a severe psychological blow when his wife died in childbirth, and as a result began neglecting his family as well as his mission.
Kirkland was spending most of his time at this point on land speculations and became the second richest man in the new town on Paris (part of Paris would become Clinton).
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 John Thornton Kirkland
Kirkland was instrumental in the establishment of new areas of instruction in chemistry, mineralogy, anatomy, physiology, and elocution.
John Thornton Kirkland was a son of the Rev. Samuel Kirkland, the well-known missionary among the Indians, and of Jerusha, his wife.
Kirkland almost immediately after he was approved by the Boston Association was unanimously called to be pastor of the New South Church in Boston, and was ordained on the 5th of February, 1794, Dr. Tappan preaching the sermon and Mr.
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 Chiefs - Mohawk, Samuel Kirkland Biography - Galafilm, Montreal
Samuel Kirkland was born in Norwich, Connecticut, on December 1, 1741.
Kirkland was a close friend of Oneida chief Skenandoah.
Samuel Kirkland died on February 28, 1808, in Clinton, New York.
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 A Fond Farewell to Caroline Kirkland by Bill Treichler
Kirkland insisted always that she admired the generous and thrifty qualities of the settlers, and had genuine affection for them.
The Kirklands left Michigan in 1843 because their venture to establish the town of Pinckney was not a financial success, and probably because they felt shut out by the reactions of their neighbors to Mrs.
Caroline Kirkland was a strong woman who delighted in the living and never revealed in A New Home any sadness about her losses, or any bitterness because she was never mentioned in the newspaper accounts of their school or the news of their family.
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 New York Traveler: Hamilton College in Clinton
Kirkland having received information by a runner that Skenado was dead, in compliance with a previous promise, sent assistance to the Indians that the corpse might be carried to the village of Clinton for burial.
In 1793, Samuel Kirkland traveled to Philadelphia (the unofficial capitol of the United States at that time) to solicit financial and influential aid from Alexander Hamilton, signer of the Constitution, co-author of The Federalist Papers, and the then current Secretary of the Treasury.
Kirkland anticipated the growth of the academy, and although neither he nor Hamilton (who never set foot upon the grounds of the institute) never lived to see it, the academy received its charter as a college in 1812.
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 Samuel Kirkland Biography | Encyclopedia of World Biography
Samuel Kirkland (1741-1808), American missionary, helped keep the Oneida Indians loyal to the colonists during the Revolutionary War.
Samuel developed an interest in Indians during his school days in Eleazar Wheelock's Indian school at Lebanon, Conn., and began to learn the Mohawk language.
In 1766 Kirkland returned to Lebanon and was ordained missionary to the Oneida (one of the tribes in the Indian alliance called the Six Nations) by the Scottish Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge.
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 Davies Samuel: Free Encyclopedia Articles at Questia.com Online Library   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor--1772-1834, Coleridge, Samuel Taylor--1772-1834--Correspondence, Poets, English--19th Century--Correspondence
Samuel Johnson and the Augustinian Doctrine of Salvation
In fact, Samuel Ramey has just come out with a CD called A Date with the Devil.) Morris may be in the late afternoon of his career, but the...
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 Spring 2002
In April 13, 1827 Kirkland was formed from a part of the Town of Paris and in 1829 the Town of Marshall was formed from part of the Town of Kirkland.
As a missionary, Rev. Kirkland’s purpose was steadfast and his zeal as a teacher was intense.
Kirkland was the first to make a generous donation for the erection of the first academy building which consisted of ten pounds sterling, fifteen days work and three hundred acres.
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 Town of Kirkland - Clinton Historical Society   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
The Town of Kirkland was officially created from a part of the Town of Paris on April 13, 1827 by an act of the New York State Legislature.
On that day and throughout the year 2002, Kirkland townspeople will commemorate the Reverend Samuel Kirkland and all of the thousands of individuals who have contributed to what Kirkland is today.
Kirkland, 175 years after its creation, remains vibrant and changing while respecting the past and looking optimistically to the future.
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 Finley, Samuel   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Finley, Samuel (1715-1766), fifth president of Princeton, was a Scotch-Irishman who came to this country with his parents when he was nineteen.
Thomas J. Clagget 1764, Bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Diocese of Maryland; the Rev. Samuel Kirkland 1765, founder and first president of Hamilton College (for whom Hamilton's sister college, opened in 1968, was named); David Ramsay 1765, physician and historian of the American Revolution; Oliver Ellsworth 1766, chief justice of the United States.
Samuel Finley Breese Morse, developer of the telegraph, was the great grandson of President Finley; in 1870 he gave the portrait of Finley that hangs in the Faculty Room in Nassau Hall.
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 The Papers of Samuel Kirkland in the Dartmouth College Library
Samuel Kirkland was born in Norwich, Connecticut, in 1741.
Kirkland was ordained in 1766 in Connecticut and returned to the Oneida peoples that year to serve for the next four decades as a missionary.
Kirkland is credited with preventing several conflicts between the native peoples and British and American colonists.
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 Harding Farm History - Built in 1794 by Samuel Kirland, Founder of Hamilton College
Kirkland's relationship with the Oneida was recognized by the Continental
York granted Kirkland 4,000 acres of land extending from the western bank of the
Kirkland died 15 years later in 1808 and was burried in the orchard behind his
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 Samuel Kirkland - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Samuel Kirkland (1741 1808) was a Presbyterian missionary among the Oneida and Tuscarora people in North America.
Kirkland was a student of Native American languages and lived many years with Indian tribes.
The town of Kirkland, New York is named after him.
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 Town Of Kirkland: History: History [Digital Towpath]
The Town of Kirkland with 10,028 residents according to the 2000 census and covering an area of 19,716 acres in the south central portion of Oneida County in Central New York, approximately nine miles southwest of Utica, was originally part of the territory of the Iroquois Nation.
Kirkland, north of the Village of Clinton, was the scene of bustling activity from 1873 to 1898 as iron ore was hauled to its 15-ton/day blast furnace, operated by the Clinton Iron Company.
The Town of Kirkland has long enjoyed fine modes of transportation, beginning with the Genesee Road; the Seneca Turnpike; the Chenango Turnpike; the Utica-Waterville plank road; the Chenango Canal; railroads, including the now defunct Ontario-Western; street cars; buses, the latter of importance today.
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 Kirkland, Samuel - HighBeam Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Kirkland kept the Oneida loyal to the colonists throughout the American Revolution; after the war he assisted in making peace treaties with the Iroquois and in working out plans for their welfare.
Find newspaper and magazine articles plus images and maps related to "Kirkland, Samuel" at HighBeam.
THE REV. SAMUEL DEWITT PROCTOR A HEALER'S JOURNEY.(COMMENTARY)(Editorial)
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 Kirkland - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Samuel Kirkland (1741–1808), Presbyterian missionary to the Oneida and Tuscarora Iroquois
Kirkland and Ellis LLP, one of the largest law firms in the United States, based in Chicago, Illinois.
Kirkland House, one of the 12 undergraduate houses at Harvard University.
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 The Benner, Cleaveland and Related Families - Person Page 54
     James Kirkland was born on 29 September 1792 in in Pennsylvania.
James purchased land (at what is now the sourtheast corner of the intersection of township roads 80 and 105, near McGuffey) on 7 May 1835 in in Hardin County, Ohio.
She was the daughter of James Kirkland and Eleanore Lang.
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 KIRKLAND Family
She was born 1810 in Chester District, South Carolina, and died May 1889 in Columbus, Loundes County, Mississippi.
She was born September 11, 1876 in New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana, and died October 8, 1953 in Bay St. Louis, Hancock County, Mississippi.
Clarence Leslie Horton was the sixth child of William Horton and his second wife Mary Emily Kirkland, born October 6, 1866 in Pleasant Ridge, Greene County, Alabama.
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 Kirkland, Samuel (1 Dec   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Samuel Kirkland (it is uncertain as to when he changed his last name) grew up in a household that was emotionally and financially unstable.
Kirkland's papers are at Hamilton College, Dartmouth College, and the
The most valuable sources are The Journals of Samuel Kirkland, ed.
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 Harding Farm - Built in 1794 by the Founder of Hamilton College. Overnight lodging available.
Harding Farm is an historic property located at the base of College Hill in Clinton, New York.
Kirkland built the main house in 1794 and resided on the property until his death in the early 1800's.
Kirkland's home was a welcoming place to both American colonists and the Oneida Indians.
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 Darius Webb
Samuel Kirkland was the brother of John Kirkland Esq., who served alongside Darius as a Selectman of the Town of Norwich during the Revolution.
John Kirkland Esq., who had married Anna Palmer, a cousin to Deborah Palmer was one of the first settlers of Norwich, Massachusetts.
Notes : He was a carpenter and builder; he provided funds and labor to construct Rev. Samuel Kirkland’s Hamilton Oneida Academy, in the Town of Kirkland, Oneida County, New York in 1793; he donated 8 shillings and ‘6 days work’.
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 ANCESTORS AND DESCENDANTS OF THOMAS MCCLURE RICE AND ELIZABETH WILSON RICE - Person Page 12
James Monroe Kirkland died on Oct 16, 1966 at Uvalde, Texas, at age 85.
She married James Monroe Kirkland, son of William Vinson Kirkland and Martha Frances (Fannie) Newman, on Oct 22, 1902 at DeWitt County, Texas.
Catherine Leona Kirkland died on Dec 29, 1916 at Glen Rose, Sommervell County, Texas, at age 4.
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 Hamilton College - College Catalogue - History of the College
It faltered, almost failed, and never came to serve Samuel Kirkland's original purpose, which was to help the Oneidas adapt to a life in settled communities.
Today Kirkland's legacy includes an extraordinary faculty and facilities in performing and studio arts, and a strong commitment to experimental education and to interdisciplinary perspectives.
The College that evolved from Samuel Kirkland's plan of education recently celebrated the 194th anniversary of its charter.
www.hamilton.edu /applications/catalogue/history.html   (1278 words)

  
 Samuel Kirkland Lothrop
LOTHROP, Samuel Kirkland, clergyman, born in Utica, New York, 13 October, 1804; died in Boston, Massachusetts, 12 June, 1886.
Among his literary works are a life of his grandfather, Samuel Kirkland, included in Sparks's "American Biography," and a "History of Brattle Square Church."
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 Samuel Kirkland — FactMonster.com
Norwich, Conn. He visited the Oneida tribe in 1764 and in 1766 began living with them according to their customs, preaching to them, and becoming a valued counselor.
Kirkland kept the Oneida loyal to the colonists throughout the American Revolution; after the war he assisted in making peace treaties with the Iroquois and in working out plans for their welfare.
December 1 Birthdays: Samuel Kirkland - December 1 birthdays: Samuel Kirkland, Martin Klaproth, Woody Allen, Richard Pryor, Lee Trevino, Minoru Yamasaki, Mary Martin, Walter Alston, Bette Midler, Marie Tussaud
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