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  Sir Samuel Leonard Tilley - Canadian Confederation
Samuel Leonard Tilley was born in Gagetown, New Brunswick.
Tilley was a strong supporter of Confederation, and a delegate to the Charlottetown Conference, the Québec Conference, and the London Conference.
Tilley was chosen to be a member of John A. Macdonald's first federal cabinet in 1867, and given the Customs portfolio.
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 Samuel Leonard Tilley Summary
Tilley was reelected in 1857, becoming premier in 1861 and remaining in office until defeated as a champion of confederation in 1865.
Born in Gagetown, New Brunswick, Tilley was the son of Thomas Morgan Tilley, a storekeeper, and Susan Ann Peters.
Tilley was an activist in the temperance movement and this brought him to politics.
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  Samuel Leonard Tilley - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Tilley was an activist in the temperance movement and this brought him to politics.
Tilley joined the New-Brunswick Colonial Association which advocated that the colony have control over its public expenses, that a public school system be established, government control of public works and "honest government".
Tilley entered federal politics with Confederation in 1867 and served in the federal Macdonald Cabinet as Minister of Customs He became Minister of Finance in 1873 until the defeat of the government later that year.
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 Sir Samuel Leonard Tilley - Canadian History
Tilley, Sir Samuel Leonard (1818-1896), statesman was born at Gagetown, New Brunswick, on May 18, 1818, the son of Thomas Morgan Tilley and Susan Ann Peters.
He was educated at the Gagetown grammar school, and in 1831 began to earn his own livelihood as a clerk in an apothecary's office in Saint John, New Brunswick.
In 1867 Tilley resigned from the New Brunswick cabinet, and became minister of customs in the first cabinet of the Dominion of Canada.
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 Encyclopedia: Samuel Leonard Tilley   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Born in Gagetown, New Brunswick, Tilley was the son of Thomas Morgan Tilley, a storekeeper, and Susan Ann Peters.
Tilley became Provincial Secretary in the government of Richard Fisher Samuel Leonard Tilley Canadian politician and his first wife, Julia Ann Hanford.
During morning devotions, Tilley read the Psalm that states "He shall have dominion from sea to sea", and presented his inspiration to the others, being as it was their ambition to stretch the new nation to the Pacific Ocean.
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 Tilley, Sir Samuel Leonard
Tilley, Sir Samuel Leonard, politician (b at Gagetown, NB 8 May 1818; d at Saint John 25 June 1896).
Tilley got his start in a Saint John drugstore, and eventually went into partnership with his mother's relations in that business.
Tilley was uneasy about the government's commitments to the CPR in the 1880s, and doubtless would have pulled the plug had he been allowed to do so.
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 1861 Letter to Samuel Tilly
Samuel Tilley was descended from United Empire Loyalists on both sides of his family.
Tilley became Provincial Secretary in the government of Richard Fisher, and it is in that capacity that he received this letter.
Tilley was a strong supporter of Confederation, and a delegate to all three of the Confederation Conferences: Charlottetown Conference, Québec Conference, and London Conference.
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 Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online
Tilley, although he supported all the measures, is irrevocably associated with two in particular, an effort to put control over finances into the hands of the Executive Council and an attempt to institute prohibition.
Tilley had had some hope of obtaining the finance portfolio when Galt resigned, but the Canadian primacy was clearly demonstrated when Macdonald offered it first to Howland and then to John Rose*, a man of limited parliamentary experience.
Tilley was replaced as lieutenant governor in 1893 by John Boyd, a neighbour and friend since the 1850s, and Boyd’s death on 4 December the same year hurt even more.
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 Sir Samuel Leonard Tilley
His father was Thomas Morgan Tilley, and his grandfather, Samuel, was a loyalist, who, at the close of the American Revolution, left Brooklyn, New York, and settled in New Brunswick becoming a grantee of the city of St. John.
Young Tilley was educated at the county grammar-school, but at the age of twelve he was obliged to leave his home and seek employment.
Tilley's name first appears in connection with the politics of his native province, when, espousing the side of the protectionists of that day, he nominated and aided in electing a candidate for the legislature.
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 Sir Leonard Tilley   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Samuel Leonard Tilley was born of Loyalist parentage at Gagetown, New Brunswick, May 8, 1818.
With the term of parliament ending in 18 65, Tilley considered it fatal to try to push through the scheme in the last few months of the session; so he agreed to put the question to the electors.
In the new Canada, Tilley was minister of customs and then minister of finance, but resigned in 1873 to become lieutenant governor of New Brunswick.
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 Samuel Leonard Tilley   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Sir Samuel Leonard Tilley achieved fame, almost by having it thrust upon him.
The nominating convention which first chose him to run for political office picked him even though he was absent and even when afterwards he demurred.
Tilley, an ardent teetotaller, was born at Gagetown, N.B., on May 18, 1818 to United Empire Loyalists parents who could trace their roots in North America back to the Mayflower passengers.
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 Sir Samuel Leonard Tilley - Charlottetown Conference of 1864   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Born the son of United Empire Loyalists Samuel Leonard Tilley was educated in Gagetown and had humble beginnings as a drugstore clerk.
Tilley served in the Assembly during much of the time between 1850-67 and served as provincial secretary under Charles Fisher's first responsible government in New Brunswick.
After his resignation Tilley served as John A. Macdonald's minister of customs in the first federal government.
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 Ruby M Cusack - Life and Times of Sir Leonard Tilley
When we shook our heads, he continued, “Sir Leonard Tilley was one of the Father’s of Confederation.” “He and his wife were probably one of the few persons from New Brunswick who were ever invited to visit Queen Victoria at Osborne, in the Isle of Wright.
Their oldest son, the Rev. Harrison Tilley, who died in 1877, was at that time the assistant minister to the cathedral at Toronto.
Lady Tilley took an active part in the Victoria Hospital in Fredericton, the Nurses’ Home in connection with the Public Hospital in Saint John and the Reformatory for the care of bad or neglected boys, who were in danger of becoming criminals.
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 TilleyHouseP
It sold to Samuel Tilley and then passed to his grandson, Thomas Morgan Tilley, in 1817.
Samuel Leonard Tilley, born on May 8, 1818 in the parlour bedroom, became New Brunswick's outstanding Father of Confederation.
As well as marking Tilley's birthplace, it is a museum dedicated to the preservation of Queens County History.
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 Plimoth Plantation - Dutch
Na de dood van de familie Carver in het voorjaar van 1621 is Howland als volwaardig lid in de gemeenschap opgenomen.
Samuel Fuller, diaken van de nonconformistiche kerk in Leiden en New Plymouth, fungeerde als chirurgijn van de kolonie.
Hij is met de Mayflower gekomen en zijn vrouw Bridget volgde hem in 1623.
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 USATODAY.com - Minnesota trooper writes 205 mph speeding ticket   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
A search of speeding tickets written by state troopers, who patrol most of the state's highways, between 1990 and February 2004 shows the next fastest ticket was for 150 mph in 1994 in Lake of the Woods County.
Tilley was riding a Honda 1000, Loney said.
Kathy Swanson of the state Office of Traffic Safety said unless Tilley was wearing the kind of protective gear professional motorcycle racers wear, he was courting death at 200 mph.
www.usatoday.com /news/offbeat/2004-09-21-speeder_x.htm   (477 words)

  
 WCCO: Motorcyclist Admits Going Fast, But Not 205 MPH   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
In an interview with Midwest Quick Throttle Magazine, Samuel Tilley said he wasn't sure of his exact speed when he was stopped along the bluffs north of Winona on Sept. 18.
Tilley said his bike has since been tested at a cycle dealership in White Bear Lake and it topped out a little below 160 mph, he said.
Tilley told Quick Throttle he's upset that people think he's given motorcyclists a bad name with the ticket.
www.wcco.com /topstories/local_story_294195703.html   (292 words)

  
 The Sportbikes Website - 205mph on a RC51 could this be so
It was 20-year old Samuel Tilley on a Honda RC-51 and he was going too fast for Al Loney, the patrolman, to keep up, in a plane.
In this case Tilley was clocked over the entire distance of one quarter mile in 4.39 sec's.
Tilley was ticketed along with his racing partner for speeding.
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 At 205 MPH, Speed Thrills - September 24, 2004
That's because motorcyclist Samuel Tilley, 20, was clocked Saturday afternoon going 205 mph on his Honda.
Tilley was clocked at Indy car speeds by a State Patrol pilot flying overhead, stopwatch in hand.
Tilley, the son of a sheriff's deputy, displaces William Faenza at the top of TSG's speediest driver list.
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SAMUEL JEFFERSON4 TILLEY (GIPSON ERASMUS3, JOHN JR.2, JOHN SR.1) was born March 08, 1855 in Medina county, Texas, and died June 07, 1909 in Devine, Medina County, TX.
LILLIAN MAUD5 TILLEY (SAMUEL JEFFERSON4, GIPSON ERASMUS3, JOHN JR.2, JOHN SR.1) was born November 07, 1877 in Devine, Medina County., TX., and died June 03, 1950 in Hondo, Medina County., TX..
SADIE RAY5 TILLEY (SAMUEL JEFFERSON4, GIPSON ERASMUS3, JOHN JR.2, JOHN SR.1) was born August 31, 1889 in Texas, and died March 13, 1950 in Bexar County, Texas.
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 Record Speeding Ticket Written To Samuel Armstrong Tilley
In Minnesota a Stillwater motorcyclist with a state patrol airplane overhead hit the throttle and set the informal record for the record speeding ticket written in Minnesota history.
The fast rider was 20 year old Stillwater resident Samuel Armstrong Tilley which was arrested by the State Patrol for reckless driving.
Tilley, the reckless driver, was riding a Honda 1000, Loney said.
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 CBS News | Motorcycle Clocked Doing 205 MPH | September 27, 2004 08:19:13
Samuel Tilley got the ticket September 18th on Highway 61.
He says Tilley's bike would have needed an add-on turbo charger to go faster than 165 miles-an-hour.
Police aren't backing down, however, and Tilley is due in court next month.
www.cbsnews.com /stories/2004/09/27/national/main645686.shtml   (159 words)

  
 Murphy-Burke/Quesnel and McDonell-McLott/Copeland
George Samuel McKee and Irene Ruth Wilson were married on Oct 14, 1944.
Samuel Tilley Wilson was born on May 18, 1910 in St. John, N.B..
Fern Eolia Ada Winfield was born on Apr 23, 1915 in Saskatoon, Sask..
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 The 1998 Canadian Encyclopedia: Tilley, Sir Samuel Leonard@ HighBeam Research   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The 1998 Canadian Encyclopedia: Tilley, Sir Samuel Leonard@ HighBeam Research
Tilley, Sir Samuel Leonard, politician (b at Gagetown, NB 8
May 1818; d at Saint John 25 June 1896).
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 Beyond the Pilgrim Story
Samuel Fuller : biography, will and 1633 inventory
John Howland : biography, John Howland's will and 1673 inventory and Elizabeth Tilley Howland's 1686 will
Narrative of Phineas Pratt, Pratt's will and 1680 inventory
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 Tilley Family Genealogy Forum (All Messages)
tilley born in 1920 - flora tilley knighttilley 6/18/01
Re: tilley born in 1920 - Bonnie Cobb Tudor 6/25/01
Re: Joel Tilley or Joel A. Tilley - Fran Wolford 4/02/01
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 TILLEY - LoveToKnow Article on TILLEY   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
(1818-1896), Canadian statesman, was born at Gagetown, New Brunswick, on the i8th of May 1818, the son of Samuel Tilley, an American Loyalist, who had settled in St John in 1783.
Possibly Platychoerops richardsoni, from the Lower Eocene London Clay, belongs to the group.
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 Sir Samuel Leonard Tilley
As minister of finance (1878–85) in the second Macdonald government, he formulated the protective tariff plan known as the National Policy.
Tilley, Sir Samuel Leonard (The 1998 Canadian Encyclopedia)
Tilley, Leonard Percy de Wolfe (The 1998 Canadian Encyclopedia)
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 Re: SAMUEL TILLEY GEORGIA
In Reply to: Re: SAMUEL TILLEY GEORGIA by Jacque McLaughlin
Children of this marriage were Jerimiah T. Tilley, b.
I do not know where Samuel or his first wife are buried, but Carinthia is buried at Union Hill Cemetery in Grady County, GA.
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 Tilley, Sir Samuel Leonard on Encyclopedia.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
As minister of finance (1878-85) in the second Macdonald government, he formulated the protective tariff plan known as the National Policy.
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