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  William Rush Merriam - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Merriam's re-election campaign two years later was affected by another, more widespread phenomenon, the Farmers' Alliance.
Merriam defeated the Alliance candidate in 1890, but the upstart party significantly eroded his plurality.
Merriam's final accomplishment was appropriate for a banker and businessman who could work well with both people and numbers.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/William_Rush_Merriam   (303 words)

  
 Census Alumni Association   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
William R. Merriam may be regarded as the first Director of the permanent Census Bureau even though he was appointed to the temporary census office in 1899.
William Merriam spent the first 12 years of his life in the town of his birth in the Adirondack Mountains of New York.
Merriam had marshaled all of his resources to accomplish a result which appealed to him, said North, "as vital to the full development of governmental statistical science, and he succeeded when a scientific statistician in the position he occupied would most certainly have failed.
www.bonus.com /contour/POP/http@@/www.census.gov/alumni/merriam.html   (687 words)

  
 Thursday Night Hikes: St. Albans/Lower Crocus Hill Architecture Notes, Part 1
William Rush Merriam (1849-1931) was born in Wadham's Mills, Essex County, New York, a descendant of John Adams, a nephew by marriage of Winfield Scott Hancock, and the son of John L. Merriam and Helen Merriam.
John L. Merriam (1828-1895) was the Speaker of the Minnesota House of Representatives in 1870-1871 and was the brother-in-law of Amherst H. Wilder.
William Zollman (-1917) was the father of Charles Zollman and died in Ramsey County.
www.angelfire.com /mn/thursdaynighthikes/stalb1_arch.html   (17680 words)

  
 Newton, NJ - The Merriam Shoe Factory
Henry W. Merriam was born on June 20, 1828, the son of Elisha J. and Lucy R. (Lane) Merriam, of Merriam Hill, Mason, New Hampshire.
Merriam be seconded in his efforts by a competent corps of women and children from this county, who are willing to become his employees?” Ten Howe Sewing Machines were installed in May 1873 and Henry Merriam had twenty additional machines of a new patent design on order.
William L. Dutcher was born July 27, 1841, at Cairo, Greene County, New York, a son of Seth and Mary (Saulsbury) Dutcher.
www.newtonnj.net /Pages/merriamshoefact.htm   (12702 words)

  
 MINNESOTA - LoveToKnow Article on MINNESOTA   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Two treaties negotiated with the Sioux by Luke Lea, commissioner, and Governor Alexander Ramsey in 1851 opened to settlement the greater part of the land within the territory west of the Mississippi, and such an unparalleled rush to the new lands took place that a census taken in 1857 showed a population of 150,037.
In July 1857 a convention chosen to form a state constitution was found on assembling to be so evenly divided between the Republican and Democratic parties that organization was impossible, and the members proceeded to their work in two separate bodies.
BIBLI0GRAPHY.There is a well-arranged Bibliography of Minnesota by John Fletcher Williams in the Collections of the Minnesota Historical Society, vol.
www.1911encyclopedia.org /M/MI/MINNESOTA.htm   (5534 words)

  
 Additional Reading (from William Rush) --  Encyclopædia Britannica
Laid out in 1748 by Nicholas Scull and William Parsons on land owned by Thomas and Richard Penn (sons of William Penn, Pennsylvania's founder), it was built around Penn Common, a large open square, and named for the hometown of the Penn...
The rush family (Juncaceae) includes Juncus, the common rushes, and Luzula, the woodrushes.
Common rushes are used in many parts of the world for weaving into chair bottoms, mats, and basketwork,...
www.britannica.com /eb/article-217208?tocId=217208   (681 words)

  
 Klondike Gold Rush National Historical Park: Administrative History (Chapter 2)
The rough frontier architecture of the gold rush was slowly replaced with more substantial buildings, larger and more elegant than their predecessors.
Southeastern Alaska was a popular area for excursion ships as early as the mid-1880s, and when the gold rush exploded into prominence the ships that plied the Inside Passage route merely added an extra day onto their itinerary in order to see the new, bustling town.
Merriam regretted that the NPS, lacking a park unit in Skagway, was in no position to assume custody over its "relics." Under the Historic Sites Act of 1935, however, it did have an obligation to discuss the matter with the proper Territorial authorities.
www.nps.gov /klgo/adhi/adhi2.htm   (9387 words)

  
 The Life and Letters of John Muir by William Frederic Badè
William M. Canby on an expedition to study forest trees in the Rocky Mountains and in Alaska.
The California tree and shrub book was suggested by Merriam last summer, but I have already written so fully on forest trees and their underbrush I'm not sure that I can make another useful book about them.
Upon his arrival there he was smitten with pneumonia and was rushed to a hospital in Los Angeles, where all his wanderings ended on Christmas Eve.
www.sierraclub.org /john_muir_exhibit/life/life_and_letters/chapter_17.html   (14297 words)

  
 William Rush Merriam -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
William Rush Merriam -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article
William Rush Merriam (July 26, 1849–February 18, 1931) was an (A native or inhabitant of the United States) American (A person active in party politics) politician.
He served in the (additional info and facts about Minnesota House of Representatives) Minnesota House of Representatives in 1883 and 1887 and was the Speaker of the House in 1887.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/w/wi/william_rush_merriam.htm   (124 words)

  
 University Blog
Rush: I want to talk about something that I warned you people about many times, certainly in the past month and beyond, and the subject is immigration -- and what was my warning?
Rush has left out the fact that Democrats have historically (and even somewhat up into the 1990s) taken a good stance on this issue [which I mentioned in my piece on this topic], but that show segment is pretty good.
Rush mentions that he has gotten e-mails from people blaming him for giving the Democrats the idea to do this (to try to take this issue, like with the recent actions of Gov. Richardson...
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 William I. Lengeman III - Freelance Journalist & Creative Writer
I don’t listen to Rush very much – or at all – anymore, but I happened to catch the song as I was flipping through the cable TV music stations the other day.
I hadn't heard of Rush at the time, but they looked like they would be worth four dollars and some change.
Keep in mind that this was a time when musicians in platform shoes and silky bell bottoms generally indicated a certain level of kick-ass rocking ability.
wileng.home.mindspring.com /FT.htm   (10853 words)

  
 William Rush (1756 - 1833) Artwork Images, Exhibitions, Reviews
William Faithorne, The Art of Graveing and Etching by William Faithorne (London: William Faithorne, 1662), 1662
William Faithorne, At the upper end of the plate you have the woman"s arm..., plate 8 opposite page 22 in the book The Art of Graveing and Etching by William Faithorne (London: William Faithorne, 1662), 1662
William Faithorne, The forms of graving-tools, plate 9 opposite page 43 in the book The Art of Graveing and Etching by William Faithorne(London: William Faithorne, 1662), 1662
www.wwar.com /masters/r/rush-william.html   (1427 words)

  
 Contra Craig
William Lane Craig, double PhD protector and promoter of Christianity- he'd rather discount his own objective experience as an eyewitness, and instead go with his inner feelings- yet he wants everyone else to go with what he claims are eyewitness accounts to the supposed resurrection.
Although countless Christians have defended the historicity of the empty tomb, William Lane Craig is widely regarded as its foremost contemporary defender.[1] Yet, to the best of my knowledge, no one has ever directly responded to all of Craig's specific arguments for the historicity of the empty tomb story.
once talked with William Lane Craig and asked Craig that if he was to be put in a time machine and taken back to the first Easter morning at the tomb and they witnessed the whole morning with nothing happening, if that would be enough to show him that the resurrection didn't happen.
www.jcnot4me.com /Items/contra_craig/contra_craig.htm   (12670 words)

  
 Library Collections - William E. Colby Memorial Library - Sierra Club
Brewer, William A., 3, 333-335; 4, 160-164, 243-245
William Henry, 2, 89; 4, 297-298; 11, 385; 12, 443-444; 26, 31-32; 27, 25-26, 87; 32, 75; ill.
Colby, William E., 11, 206-207, 388; 12, 374, 408; 14, 11; 15, 9; 16, 1-15; 25, 31; 26, 52; letters on trout planting, 7, 50-54, 56-59; 8, 66-75; letter on Yosemite boundaries, 5, 251-253; poems, 12, 375-376; State Parks Commission chairman, 13, 66, 76; 22, 98-99; ill.
www.sierraclub.org /library/scb/scb_names.asp   (2553 words)

  
 Klondike Gold Rush National Historical Park: Administrative History (Endnotes)
Merriam to Director NPS, February 15, 1954; Herbert E. Kahler to Ben H. Thompson (Chief of Cooperative Activities), March 3, 1954; George L. Collins to George W. Rogers, March 17, 1954; both in File 15-15 (1953-58), RG 101, ASA.
Rush Hoag, The Promise of Power; Potential Economic Development in Southeast Alaska (Juneau, Department of Economic Development and Yukon-Taiya Commission, January 1972), 28, 81; Charles F. Herbert to William A. Egan, April 17, 1972, in Series 100 (1971), RG 01, ASA.
William A. Egan to Richard Sullivan (Skagway), March 14, 1962, in File 411.7, Series 41, RG 01, ASA.
www.nps.gov /klgo/adhi/adhie.htm   (13577 words)

  
 Richard Rush --  Encyclopædia Britannica
The son of the noted physician Benjamin Rush, Richard graduated from Princeton in 1797 and was admitted to the bar in Philadelphia in 1800.
He acknowledged to the people of the United States in his inaugural address that he was “less possessed of your confidence…than any of my predecessors.” John C. Calhoun was elected vice president while Richard Rush, former attorney general and minister to Great Britain, served as secretary of the...
Monroe faced his greatest challenge against William H. Crawford of Georgia in the Republican caucus held in March 1816.
www.britannica.com /eb/article?tocId=9064452   (839 words)

  
 Merriam, KS History - Traveltoday.net
Following the Louisiana Purchase in 1803, the legendary party lead by Meriwether Lewis and William Clark explored the Missouri River area and points west from 1804-1806.
As exploration continued, trade relations were instituted with the Native American people, increasing familiarity with the land and its inhabitants.
With the rush to western territories under way, Kansas City found itself situated in an ideal location.
www.traveltoday.com /history/Merriam/KS/USA   (896 words)

  
 HistoryLink Essay: Seattle voters choose Republican William McKinley for president on November 6, 1900.
On November 6, 1900, voters in Seattle along with the rest of the nation vote for Republicans William McKinley (1843-1901) for president and Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919) for vice president.
The Republicans defeated the Democratic candidates William Jennings Bryan (1860-1925) and Adlai E. Stevenson (1835-1914).
But the main reason voters chose Republicans was the improvement in the U.S. economy, particularly that of Seattle, since the Klondike Gold Rush and the Spanish-American War.
www.historylink.org /output.cfm?file_id=1943   (457 words)

  
 Today in History: November 18
Browse the collection, Around the World in the 1890s: Photographs from the World's Transportation Commission, 1894-1896 to see photographs of modes of transportation in countries around the world shortly after the international standard time zones were established.
Photographer William Henry Jackson's documented the trip taken by officials of the WTC to investigate the possibilities of expanding international trade.
Descriptions of the process developed by Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre and the equipment used by daguerreotype photographers are included in The Daguerreotype Medium; to find them, scroll down to the appropriate headings.
memory.loc.gov /ammem/today/today.html   (1539 words)

  
 Descendants of John WORTH of Nantucket, Part One, compiled by William M. Worth
William joined Tristram Coffin's colony in Nantucket, he was a flsmith and marianer, justice and a clerk of the court.
Thomas M. HADLEY, (son of William HADLEY and Hannah THORNBURY)in 1838 in Indiana.
Randolph Co., India, (daughter of William MACY and Lydia DIGGS) d.
history.vineyard.net /worthw1.htm   (4235 words)

  
 Ed Rogers Rare & Out of Print Books - Rare Paleontology Books   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
As part of Merriam's reconnaissance studies for vertebrate fossils; Baker was present to conduct a geological reconnaissance of this area.
DeLaBeche, Henry Thomas and Buckland, William; On the Geology of the Environs of Nice, and the Coast thence to Vintimiglia.
Blake, William P.; Annotated Catalogue of the Principal Mineral Species hitherto recognized in California, and the adjoining States and Territories and Notes on the Geographical Distribution and Geology of the Precious Metals and Valuable Minerals on the Pacific Slope of the United States.
www.geology-books.com /newcatalog.html   (15313 words)

  
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Slight correspondence with William H. Allen and M.B. Upshaw, Director of Examinations.
Correspondence with Dr. T.H. Weisenburg, William L. Russell, George H. Kirby and MS of Dr. Russell re death of August Hoch.
Correspondence with William O. Krohn, Editor, and draft toward "On the Observation of Abnormalities of Children", by Adolf Meyer.
www.medicalarchives.jhmi.edu /sgml/AMG-S3.htm   (5571 words)

  
 The Political Graveyard: Index to Politicians: Merr to Merrigan
Merriam, Clinton Levi (1824-1900) — of New York.
Merriam, Frank Finley (1865-1955) — also known as Frank F. Merriam — of
Merriam, William Rush (1849-1931) — also known as William R. Merriam — of St. Paul, Ramsey County, Minn. Born in Wadham's Mills,
politicalgraveyard.com /bio/merrell-merrifield.html   (674 words)

  
 Grand Lingo   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
A grandpa house is a small house on the back of the lot in which parents live so that the young couple can have the main house in front.
The use of granny cams is a matter for debate between the nursing home industry, which opposes them as an invasion of privacy, and advocates who favor such surveillance as a means of discouraging elder abuse.
Grandmother's Bay is a native settlement on the shores of Otter Lake, which is part of the Churchill River chain of waterways southwest of Hudson's Bay.
www.grandfatherinresidence.com /id21.html   (5043 words)

  
 Nitpicker: 10/01/2003 - 10/31/2003   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Rush has hardly been the anti-drug crusader liberals suggest.
The Rush Limbaugh quote that has been endlessly recited in the last week to prove Rush's rank "hypocrisy" is this, made eight years ago: "Drug use, some might say, is destroying this country.
Seems Roll Call photographer Tom Williams snapped a picture of the senator signing pictures of himself during a Sept. 22 hearing in which Iraq viceroy L. Paul Bremer was testifying about that $87 billion spending request.
nitpicker.blogspot.com /2003_10_01_nitpicker_archive.html   (10916 words)

  
 The Life and Letters of John Muir by William Frederic Badè   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
We are just approaching Prince William Sound—the place above all others I have long wished to see.
Last spring had to describe the Colorado Grand Cañon—the toughest job I ever tackled, strenuous enough to disturb the equanimity of even a Boston man. Then I had to rush off to the Sierra with [the Sierra] Club outing.
Spread about him on the bed, when the end came, were manuscript sheets of his last book—"Travels in Alaska"—to which he was bravely struggling to give the last touches before the coming of "the long sleep."
www.yosemite.ca.us /john_muir_writings/the_life_and_letters_of_john_muir/chapter_17.html   (14335 words)

  
 RAY MERRIAM: The Malmédy Massacre and Trial
In house-to-house fighting it was a common tactic to toss grenades into buildings first and then rush in with weapons firing.
The defendants were also allowed to engage native German counsel, and some did so, but their value was limited due to the ever-present language problem and their unfamiliarity with American legal procedure.
Perl, Thon, Elowitz, Shumacker, and another investigator, Joseph Kirschbaum, were accused, during the trial, of having used physical and psychological duress in order to extract sworn statements from the defendants.
www.vho.org /GB/Journals/JHR/2/2/Merriam165-176.html   (3790 words)

  
 Alice Mary Robertson Collection   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Ann Eliza Worcester married William Shenck Robertson (18201881), son of Samuel Robertson and Dorcas PLatt; their children were:
Mason Fitch Williams, MD (1851   ); their children were:
Mary Alice Robertson was unmarried; later she was known as Alice Robertson and sometimes as Alice Mary Robertson, reversing the order of her christian names.
www.lib.utulsa.edu /Speccoll/roberam0.htm   (8150 words)

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