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  Encyclopedia: William Jones (statesman)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
William Jones (1760–September 6, 1831) was an American politician.
During much of 1813 and into 1814, Jones also served as acting Secretary of the Treasury and in 1816 was appointed President of the Second Bank of the United States.
Jones died in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, on September 6, 1831.
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 William Jones - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
William Jones is a common name, especially in Wales, and there have been several well-known individuals of this name, including:
Sir William Jones (philologist) (1746–1794) son of Sir William Jones (mathematician)
William Jones (VC), the recipient of the Victoria Cross
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 Chronicles of Oklahoma
William W. Jones, the only son of Wilson N. Jones, was born in the Little river country in 1860, attended school at Booneville, Bolivar and Springfield, Missouri, and upon his return home in 1883 became a foreman upon his father's, ranch near Caddo.
William Jones or "Willie" as he was known, became involved in a course of very questionable conduct for which there remains no complete explanation or justification.
Wilson N. Jones made the race for chief of the Choctaws in the fall of 1888 on the Progressive ticket and, although he had the support of the McCurtain faction, was defeated by B. Smallwood of the National party.
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 William Jones (statesman) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Apprenticed in a shipyard, during the American War of Independence he saw combat in the battles of Trenton and Princeton and later served at sea.
He was elected as a Republican to the United States House of Representatives in 1800 and was offered the office of Secretary of the Navy in 1801, but declined and remained in Congress to the end of his term in 1803.
These led to the establishment of the Board of Commissioners system which operated from 1815 until 1842.
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 Third Generation ~ William & Tabitha George
William was born in Carroll co., Ohio, December 31, 1835, where he remained until the age of 20.
William and Rhoda moved from the family’s 295 acre farm in Elba Twp., to relocate onto a place two miles east of Farragut, Fremont co., Iowa, in 1898.
William (or "Billy" as he was called by the family) happily responded to the mother love instantly lavished on him by Ellen.
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 William Jones - TheBestLinks.com - William Jones (philologist), United States Secretary of the Navy, Wales, Victoria ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
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Sir William Jones (philologist) (1746-1794) son of Sir William Jones (mathematician)
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 HSP Manuscript Guide: 1900-1999
William Darrah Kelley was an influential Republican congressman from the 4th district (Philadelphia) of Pennsylvania.
The William Logan Fisher papers are particularly useful for their commentary on the economy, politics, slavery and abolition.
William Reed Moore was a Union soldier from Mercer County.
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 Beers: Alexander p. 134
She was a sister of William Jones, who lived near Ginger Hill, Washington county.
WILLIAM J. ALEXANDER, Monongahela, is the eldest son of Joseph and Mary (Jones) Alexander, and the senior member of the firm of Alexander & Co., bankers, Monongahela.
The education of William J. Alexander was such as was usually obtained at the common subscription schools of that day, and early in life (in 1836) he began his business career in Pittsburgh, under the employ of Andrew Pierce.
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 :: Monroe Library | Bibliography -- Resources on Wlliam Gibson (1948- )   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
William Gibson is the Hugo and Nebula award-winning author of the Cyberspace trilogy: Neuromancer, Count Zero, and Mona Lisa Overdrive, and is the co-author (with Bruce Sterling) of The Difference Engine.
William Gibson mostly promotional, with five sections: Books by William Gibson, Source Code (biography), Blog, Links (writing by and about Gibson), Discussion (message board).
An interview with William Gibson conducted by Dan Josefsson on November 23, 1994 in Stockholm, Sweden.
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Robert M. Frick, C. Tharp, William Follmer, Cyrus Brown, William H. Marr, J. Roney, and John Miller were constituted a committee on resolutions, and their report was unanimously adopted.
Leaving Harrisburg for Washington on the 8th of March, 1862, it was stationed at various points in the vicinity of the city and on the lower Potomac until the 27th of May, when it proceeded to Fredericksburg, encamping on the left bank of the Rappahannock.
On the 13th of February Colonel Jones surprised a Confederate camp at Sandy Ridge, taking one hundred forty-three prisoners, and throughout the spring and early summer the regiment was constantly engaged in repelling attacks from detached parties of the enemy.
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 HISTORY OF CINCINNATI AND HAMILTON COUNTY, OHIO
Baum was again made president; in 1813, William Stanley was elected, and reelected in 1814; in 1815, Samuel W. Davies was chosen president at the regular meeting in January.
The election of a delegate to Congress resulted in the choice of William Henry Harrison, by a vote of eleven to ten cast for Arthur St. Clair, Jr., a son of the governor.
William Dennison, the nineteenth governor of Ohio, was born in Cincinnati in 1815.
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 William Jones -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
William Jones is a common name, especially in (One of the four countries that make up the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland; during Roman times the region was known as Cambria) Wales, and there have been several well-known individuals of this name, including:
William Jones (Great Britain statesman), (additional info and facts about Attorney General for England and Wales) Attorney General for England and Wales during the (additional info and facts about 17th century) 17th century
William A. Jones III, co-founder of the Christmas Mofia (a group to save Christmas)
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 Wilkins Backflow Preventer -- Recommendations and Resources   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
He collaborated in 1607 with William Rowley and John Day in ''The Travailes of the Three English Brothers'', a dramatisation of the adventures of the real-life Sherley brothers.
It was entered in the Stationers' Register in 1608 as "written by William Shakespeare," published with the same ascription in that year, and reprinted in 1619 without contradiction of the statement.
Wilkins was associated with the King's Men, and was thus a colleague of William Shakespeare.
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 Natural Law: A Summary and Critique -NRA   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
David Jones urges Christians to avoid warfare in the public arena by promoting justice through "an appeal to objective moral law," i.e.
In its place, there must be an explicit biblical standard for law and ethics; the standard declared by Isaiah: "To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them" (Isa.
William Einwechter (Th.M.) is the vice president of the National Reform Association, and the editor of
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 Dexter Daily Statesman: Story: Marcille Jones
Marcille Jones, daughter of the late George Jones and Minnie Fonville Jones, was born on June 23, 1918, at Bernie and died in the Missouri Delta Medical Center at Sikeston on Dec. 27, 2002, at the age of 84.
Miss Jones had worked at Malden Grain Company for many years until her retirement and was a resident of Bernie.
Survivors include one sister, Georgena Kolosick of Covina, Calif. Besides her parents, she was preceded in death by three sisters, Eva Kincade, Edna Mae Jones and Naomi Murphy and one brother, William Jones.
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 Websters Instrument Makers Database - Letter J   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
statesman; third President of the United States; was very interested in science and its application to people and to the United States; invented many labor- and time- saving devices including a pantograph for signatures; invented the wind directional machine at Monticello.
Jones new Portable Orrery made by John Jones"; William (2) and Samuel Jones were sons of John Jones 2; see W. and S. Jones; Clifton calls him John Jones 1 and says he was also member of the Fishmongers'Company, (1779).
William (2) and Samuel Jones, sons of John Jones 2; T.C.; some of their globes were engraved by George Wright 2.
www.adlerplanetarium.org /history/websters/j.htm   (3688 words)

  
 William Dailey Rare Books - History and Travel
Part I lists and describes rulers of the 7 Saxonian kingdoms, part II lists and describes kings before William the Conqueror, part III is divided into descriptions of the reigning of English kings from William the Conqueror to Charles II.
William Camden (1551-1623), antiquary and historian, was the author of the famous Brittania, considered one of the greatest examples of chronicle-writing.
Ben Jonson, his student, said that to Camden he owed "all that I am in arts, all that I know." This exact title, with the date "1695" rather than the inaccurate "1595," is not in Wing, and NUC cites one copy at Indiana.
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 Rawlins Lowndes
LOWNDES, Rawlins, statesman, born in the British West Indies in 1722 ; died in Charleston, South Carolina, 24 August, 1800.
In 1768 he moved a resolution, which was passed in the South Carolina assembly, for the erection in Charleston of a statue of William Pitt, in acknowledgment of that statesman's services to the colonies and the British constitution.
It is related that while in London he happened to be left alone at his hotel, which was frequented by none but men of rank and distinction, with William Roscoe, author of the "Life of Leo X.," who was much his senior.
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 William Jones - The Info Page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
William J Jr Cooper - Liberty and Slavery: Southern Politics to 1860 - 1570033870
Jones is a common family name which comes from the term Son of John or Son of Joan but can also be attributed to the name Jonah a name of Icelandic origins suggesting a Viking connection.
This artikel Jones is licensed under the GNU free Documentation License.
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 JS Mack Library - Fundamentalism File
William Tecumseh Sherman, the commander of the forces in northern Georgia, remained irreligious until his deathbed conversion to Catholicism.
Christian Commission agent William Reynolds reported, “The doors and windows were filled, and the crowds extended out into the street, straining their ears to catch the words of Jesus.
Jones was particularly influential in memorializing religious life in the Confederate army; see Chapter 6 of Charles Reagan Wilson, Baptized in Blood: The Religion of the Lost Cause, 1865-1920 (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1980) for a critical account of the contribution of Jones.
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 William Jones
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JONES, William, statesman, born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1760; died in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, 5 September, 1831.
He joined a volunteer company at the age of sixteen, and was present at the battles of Trenton and Princeton.
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 James Earl Jones --  Britannica Student Encyclopedia
Famous for his deep and resonant voice, popular U.S. actor James Earl Jones won critical acclaim for a number of theatrical, television, and motion picture performances.
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Among his greatest successes were stage productions of Othello by English playwright William Shakespeare and The Great White Hope, based on the tragic career of Jack Johnson, the first...
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 OpinionJournal - Featured Article
So Al Gore is a statesman for finally conceding defeat after 36 days of legal street-fighting.
But Chief Justice William Rehnquist has "scarred" our institutions by doing his duty and deciding a case he preferred not to hear.
This is the conventional wisdom in the wake of Tuesday's Supreme Court verdict against the Vice President.
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 Bibliography - The Gaddis Annotations
“William Gaddis: J R and the Matter of Energy.” In Fiction in the Quantum Universe.
“William Gaddis's J R: The Organization of Chaos and the Chaos of Organization.” Paunch 42/43 (December 1975): 153-65.
Busonik, Stephen William, Epistemic "Structuralism in the Postmodern Novel: The Examples of William Gaddis, J.G. Ballard, and Bret Easton Ellis." Ohio State University, 1993.
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 Quincy Hall of Fame
Born William Szathmary, Bill Dana went on to become a major figure in the golden days of early television.
Billy DeWolfe (1907-1974): Born William Jones, Billy DeWolfe enjoyed a long career in movies and television, appearing in such feature films as Blue Skies with Bing Crosby and Tea for Two with Doris Day.
Perhaps best known to generations of children as the voice of the nasty magician in the holiday animated classic Frosty the Snowman, Billy DeWolfe died of lung cancer in 1974; he is buried in Quincy's Mount Wollaston Cemetery.
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 1857 in science   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
August 12 - William Conybeare geologist (born 1787)
Marriage in the Early Republic: Elizabeth and William Wirt and the Companionate Ideal (Gender Relations in the American Experience (Hardcover))
While sometimes overbearingly academic, Jabour has a crisp analytical style that makes us understand immediately the social relationship between the Wirts and its applicability to our own intimate relationships.
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 The History Cooperative | Conference Proceedings | Seascapes, Littoral Cultures, and Trans-Oceanic Exchanges | A WORK ...
In his De iure belli ac pacis (1625), the lawyer and statesman duly compiled and cited the opinions of Greek and Roman authors, arguing that slavery was an ancient institution to be found in both the Old and New Testament and Greco-Roman history.
Whereas the Marxist historian Eric Williams has placed late eighteenth-century abolition and the end of slavery in an economic, capitalist context, Seymour Drescher and others have argued that these humanitarian efforts were a form of "econocide" or economic suicide, as slavery and the slave trade still remained vibrant.
New York 2001; B. Braude, "The sons of Noah and the construction of ethnic and geographical identities in the medieval and early modern periods," William and Mary Quarterly, 3rd series, 54 (January 1997), pp.
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 Middle East Open Encyclopedia: 1794   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
January 8 - Justus Möser, German statesman (b.
April 27 - Sir William Jones, British philologist (b.
September 4 - John Hely-Hutchinson, Irish statesman (b.
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 Joensuu to Jones, Bill T. Alphabetic Index to Entries. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
Joensuu to Jones, Bill T. Alphabetic Index to Entries.
John of Austria, 1629–79, Spanish general and statesman
Jones, Bill T. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition.
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