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  Charles Sumner
harles Sumner was born in Boston, Massachusetts, and graduated from Harvard in 1830.
Sumner first entered the political arena in 1845 as American-Mexican hostilities were on the horizon.
The caning of Sumner became a symbol in the North of Southern brutality.
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  Fort Sumner Project
The Fort Sumner Project area was developed by private interests in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and then reconstructed and rehabilitated by the Bureau of Reclamation in the early 1950's.
The pumping plant was constructed at the northwest limit of Fort Sumner to lift 20 cubic feet per second of water from the Main Canal and deliver it to the rehabilitated High Line Canal.
The Fort Sumner Land and Canal Co. was formed in 1906 and development of an irrigation system was initiated.
www.usbr.gov /dataweb/html/fortsumner.html   (653 words)

  
  Sumner, Charles. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
An aggressive abolitionist, Sumner attacked the fugitive slave laws, denounced the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854, and on May 19–20, 1856, delivered his notable antislavery speech called “The Crime against Kansas.” A master of invective, he singled out as his special victim Senator Andrew Pickens Butler of South Carolina, who was not there to reply.
Sumner in the Senate and Thaddeus Stevens in the House led the radical Republicans in their Reconstruction program for the South.
Sumner wrote and spoke widely, and there are two editions of his works (15 vol., 1870–83; 20 vol., 1900).
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 Charles Sumner
Sumner and other Radical Republicans were angry that not all the Republican Party voted for a conviction and Benjamin Butler claimed that Johnson had bribed two of the senators who switched their votes at the last moment.
Sumner was a born Puritan character, an aristocrat by instinct and culture, a democrat by study and reflection, a revolutionary power by the dogmatic intensity of his determination to impose his principles upon the world at any cost.
Lincoln regarded and esteemed Sumner as the outspoken conscience of the advanced anti-slavery sentiment, the confidence and hearty cooperation of which was to him of the highest moment in the common struggle.
www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /USASsumner.htm   (2280 words)

  
 Sumner, Charles History | rerl_02_package.xml
Charles Sumner was born in Boston, Massachusetts, on January 6, 1811, to Charles Pinckney Sumner and Relief (Jacob) Sumner.
Sumner's father, a graduate of Harvard College (later called Harvard University), was a lawyer and served briefly as county sheriff.
Sumner attended the Boston Latin School from ages ten to fifteen, then tried but was unsuccessful in securing an appointment to enter the West Point Military Academy.
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 CASDE | Sumner -- Dawson County
One of these was "Sumner," named for Senator Charles Sumner of Massachusetts, known to have been an advocate of the abolition of slavery.
The town of Sumner was platted in 1890.
However, in 1957, citizens of Sumner called for the high school to close, "...unless some form of redistricting was approved by the surrounding districts." Concerned for the education of all children, the five neighboring rural districts joined Sumner, bringing a combined valuation of over $2,000,000.
www.casde.unl.edu /history/counties/dawson/sumner   (805 words)

  
 U.S. Senate: Art & History Home > Historical Minutes > 1851-1877 > The Caning of Senator Charles Sumner
The inspiration for this clash came three days earlier when Senator Charles Sumner, a Massachusetts antislavery Republican, addressed the Senate on the explosive issue of whether Kansas should be admitted to the Union as a slave state or a free state.
If he had believed Sumner to be a gentleman, he might have challenged him to a duel.
Sumner recovered slowly and returned to the Senate, where he remained for another 18 years.
www.senate.gov /artandhistory/history/minute/The_Caning_of_Senator_Charles_Sumner.htm   (426 words)

  
 James B. Sumner - Biography
James Batcheller Sumner was born at Canton, Mass., on Nov. 19, 1887, as the son of Charles Sumner and Elizabeth Rand Kelly.
Sumner's research work at Cornell first centered around analytical methods; despite hard work he was unable to obtain any interesting results.
Sumner was married three times: in 1915 he married Bertha Louise Ricketts whom he later divorced.
nobelprize.org /nobel_prizes/chemistry/laureates/1946/sumner-bio.html   (692 words)

  
 Charles Sumner School
Named for US Senator Charles Sumner, a major figure in the fight for abolition of slavery and the establishment of equal rights for African Americans, it was one of the first public school buildings erected for the education of Washington's fl community.
The Sumner School was built on the site of an earlier school constructed in 1866 under the auspices of the Freedmen's Bureau.
Sumner School stands as one of the few physical reminders of the presence and history of African Americans in one of the most historic areas of the city.
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 Sumner County Website
Sumner County is located in south-central Kansas and, in 2003, was designated within the greater Wichita Metropolitan Service Area.
Sumner County is comprised of 30 townships and 11 incorporated cities, Argonia, Belle Plaine, Caldwell, Conway Springs, Geuda Springs, Hunnewell, Mayfield, Milan, Oxford, South Haven, and Wellington.
As of the 2000 Census, the population of Sumner County was 25,946.
www.co.sumner.ks.us   (511 words)

  
 Sumner County, Part 1
The boundaries of the county were defined by the Legislature of 1867, and on May 27, 1868, a treaty was made with the Indians, and 8,000,000 acres of land sold to the L., L. & G Railway.
The first railway to penetrate the county, was the Cowley, Sumner & Fort Smith, an extension of the Wichita branch of the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Road.
In the fall of 1870, Sumner City, a few miles from Wellington, had been laid out and preparations were making for presentation of its claims to county-seat honors to the Governor.
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 Captain Allen M. Sumner USMC
Allen Melancthon Sumner was born in Boston, Massachusetts on October 1, 1882, the son of Allen Melancthon Sumner and Ellen Frances (Prescott) Sumner, prepped for college at the Pomfret School, Pomfret, Connecticut.
Sumner was recalled as soon as war was declared in April, 1917, and began serving on active duty at Marine Barracks, Quantico, on July 5th, 1917.
Sumner's war record is as follows: Sailed from New York on December 14, 1917 on the USS DeKalb, arriving in St Nazaire on December 31.
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 Sumner, New Zealand - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Sumner is a coastal seaside village-like suburb of Christchurch, New Zealand.
Sumner is nestled in a coastal valley separated from the adjacent city suburbs by rugged volcanic hill ridges that end in cliffs that descend to the sea shore in places.
Sumner Bay is the first bay on the northern side of Banks Peninsula and faces Pegasus Bay and the Pacific Ocean.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sumner,_New_Zealand   (514 words)

  
 American Experience | Ulysses S. Grant | People & Events | Charles Sumner, 1811-1874
Sumner, then chairman of the powerful Senate Foreign Relations Committee, insisted that the British pay not only for ships and merchandise the Confederates had destroyed, but for what he called "indirect damages" as well.
Sumner's figure was more than $2 billion and he also wanted the British to apologize for their actions.
Sumner continued to serve in the Senate, however, until his death in Washington on March 11, 1874.
www.pbs.org /wgbh/amex/grant/peopleevents/p_sumner.html   (633 words)

  
 History of Sumner, Washington
Sumner was incorporated at a special election held on January 27, 1891 and George H. Ryan was the first Mayor of Sumner.
Sumner may have been named after Thomas Sumner, the father-in-law of Ezra Meeker, a famous pioneer and Puyallup's first mayor; or after U.S. Sen. Charles Sumner, a famous anti-slavery politician from Massachusetts during the Civil War era; or even after a woman who served as a deputy in the local post office.
the Spirit of Sumner: (A-Z History of Sumner) A Primer was commissioned by the Sumner School District for The Spirit of Sumner, an arts education project of the City of Sumner and Sumner School District.
www.daffodilvalleytimes.com /community/sumner/history.html   (800 words)

  
 Sumner, Georgia GA, town profile (Worth County) - hotels, festivals, genealogy, newspapers - ePodunk
Sumner is a town in Worth County, in the Albany metro area.
At the time of the 2000 census, the per capita income in Sumner was $13,532, compared with $21,587 nationally.
Median rent in Sumner, at the time of the 2000 Census, was $267.
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 Major General Edwin Vose Sumner - Old Army Warrior   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Edwin “Bull” Sumner was, at age 65, one of the oldest officers in active service at the beginning of the Civil War.
Sumner did better at Seven Pines, getting his command across the Grapevine Bridge under difficult conditions in response to McClellan’s order to march to the battlefield.
Robert E. Lee, who had known Sumner well in the old army before the war, took time to mention his passing in a letter to his wife, writing, “Genl Hooker sent me yesterday the account of the death of Genl Sumner.
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 Redstone, Sumner
Sumner Redstone is one of the most powerful media moguls of the late 20th century.
By the time Sumner graduated from Harvard in 1943, his father was concentrating on the movie industry.
One of a number of struggling owners in the fledgling drive-in business, he was unable to book first run films because the vertically integrated Hollywood giants favored their own theaters.
www.museum.tv /archives/etv/R/htmlR/redstonesum/restonesum.htm   (972 words)

  
 History & Genealogy - Bibliography - Sumner County
Clark's miscellany, in prose and verse by Isaac Clark of Sumner County, TN.
Guild of Sumner, in the House of representatives, Oct. 19, 1833 on the Indian Bill.
Prepared for the Sumner County Taxpayers' League and for the county court of Sumner County.
www.tennessee.gov /tsla/history/bibliographies/bibsumner.htm   (1280 words)

  
 Sumner, Mississippi MS, town profile (Tallahatchie County) - hotels, festivals, genealogy, newspapers - ePodunk
At the time of the 2000 census, the per capita income in Sumner was $20,056, compared with $21,587 nationally.
Median rent in Sumner, at the time of the 2000 Census, was $325.
The average commute time for Sumner workers is 19 minutes, compared with 26 minutes nationwide.
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 CARTE DE VISITE - Charles Sumner   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Charles Sumner became the junior senator from Massachusetts in December 1851, after a bitter struggle against Boston's formidable Whig establishment, led by Daniel Webster.
Sumner drew support from a coalition of Democrats and Free-Soilers who opposed slavery and the compromise measures that Webster had long endorsed.
In the Senate, in 1855, Sumner's eloquent speech, "The Crime Against Kansas," compared South Carolina Senator Andrew P. Butler to Don Quixote, whose mistress, "though polluted in the sight of the world, is chaste in his sight.
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 Sumner County, Kansas
Because of the difficulty I had in reading the handwriting (and the uniqueness of some of the census takers' spelling), it may be necessary to look at the actual census rather than doing a search.
If you have found photos relating to Sumner County and want to return them to their families, contact me at hoisingtonweb@yahoo.com.
Not all the citizens of Sumner County were good guys....
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 City of Sumner--Education
Each year, the school district and cities of Sumner and Bonney Lake meet with the youth to find out what issues are concerning them.
The Sumner Police Department brings their unique experience to teach safety in exercises such as the Bike Rodeo at Daffodil Valley Elementary School.
Sumner School District and the City of Sumner work together often to look and plan for the future.
www.ci.sumner.wa.us /Living/Schools.htm   (260 words)

  
 Sumner on New Zealand holiday and vacation homes
Located in the seaside village of Sumner, 20 minutes from the centre of Christchurch, the fully furnished house has 3 bedrooms and magnificent views over the beach and sea.
A modern recently redecorated and refurnished Apartment situated in the popular Sumner area within 2 minutes walk from the beach and numerous restaurants.
Eight minutes walk down the hill to Sumner beach and ten minutes walk to cafes,shops,etc. The apartment is on.
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 Sumner: Sumner glows with small-town charm after rough start   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Mary Elizabeth Ryan often thinks about what the tiny Pierce County town of Sumner might be like today if it were not for a bug infestation that wiped out the community's hop fields more than a century ago.
Sumner probably would have been home to widely respected Whitworth College if it hadn't been for the lice that ripped through the crop on which town residents had pinned their hopes, dreams and personal fortunes.
Sumner was a thriving community at the time, its future secure because of the great success area farmers were having growing hops in the rich valley soil.
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 Charles Sumner - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Sumner supported the Liberal Republicans candidate Horace Greeley in 1872 and lost his power inside the Republican party.
Conversely, the act was praised by Southern newspapers; the Richmond Enquirer editorialized that Sumner should be caned "every morning," praising the attack as "good in conception, better in execution, and best of all in consequences" and denounced "these vulgar abolitionists in the Senate" who "have been suffered to run too long without collars.
In 1872, he introduced in the Senate a resolution providing that the names of Civil War battles should not be placed on the regimental colors of army regiments.
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 Ft. Sumner Chamber of Commerce
Fort Sumner is located in eastern New Mexico where several major historical cattle trails have passed nearby.
Today still finds Fort Sumner's location on a river, major railroad line and is at the crossroads of US 60/84 and State Highway 20.
While many small towns in the area have disappeared, Fort Sumner has been able to absorb their service needs and take advantage of its location, climate and progressive attitude to plan and prepare infrastructure for growth.
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 Ancestors of Stephen Douglas Sumner
Jessie Walker Sumner was born January 17, 1941 in Tifton, Tift County, Georgia.
Norman Gene Sumner was born in Tifton, Tift County, Georgia.
Kenneth Wayne Sumner was born in Tifton, Tift County, Georgia.
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 Sumner, Washington - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Sumner is a city in Pierce County, Washington, in the United States.
Sumner was officially incorporated on February 7, 1891.
It was named for Charles Sumner, a strongly anti-slavery US Senator from Massachusetts.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sumner,_Washington   (399 words)

  
 cbs4boston.com - Romney Says Sumner Tunnel Needs Major Repairs
Romney's report also pointed to other problems in the Callahan tunnel, including gaps in the bolts holding up ceiling panels that had to be strengthened with hundreds of additional bolts, and the lack of diagonal "transverse" ceiling braces intended to stabilize the ceiling panels in the event of seismic activity.
The Sumner Tunnel, named for William H. Sumner, the son of Gov. Increase Sumner, carried traffic in both directions until the opening of the parallel Callahan Tunnel in 1961.
Romney said the work on the Sumner won't begin until after officials are able to re-open portions of the Big Dig which were closed after four three-ton concrete ceiling panels fell in the I-90 connector tunnel and crushed a car, killing 39-year-old Milena Del Valle.
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 Sumner County, KS
In honor of Charles Sumner, the distinguished Massachusetts Senator.  In 1854 he was a leader in the opposition to extension of slavery into Kansas, as proposed in the Bill to organize the territory.
Charles Sumner (1811-1874) was an abolitionist Senator from Massachusetts most famous for being severely beaten for his beliefs.
A skull, jawbone, and other bones from wooly mammoths are on display inside the Sumner County Courthouse.
skyways.lib.ks.us /counties/SU   (563 words)

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