Dankmar Adler was a German-born American architect and civil engineer. He is best known for his fifteen-year partnership with Louis Sullivan,during which they designed influential skyscrapers that boldly addressed their steel skeleton through their exterior design:the Wainwright Building in St. Louis,Missouri (1891),the Chicago Stock Exchange Building (1894),and the Guaranty Building in Buffalo,New York (1896).
Henry Harrison Markham was an American lawyer and Republican politician. He was the 18th governor of California (1891–1895),and represented California's 6th congressional district during the 49th United States Congress (1885–1887). Earlier in life,he served as a Union Army officer in the American Civil War.
George Sykes was a career United States Army officer and a Union general during the American Civil War.
Matthew Sherman was a land developer and American Republican politician from California.
Alvan Clark &Sons was an American maker of optics that became famous for crafting lenses for some of the largest refracting telescopes of the 19th and early 20th centuries. Founded in 1846 in Cambridgeport,Massachusetts,by Alvan Clark,and his sons George Bassett Clark (1827–1891) and Alvan Graham Clark (1832–1897). Five times,the firm built the largest refracting telescopes in the world. The Clark firm gained "worldwide fame and distribution",wrote one author on astronomy in 1899.
John Bullock Clark Jr. was an American politician and military officer. He was a general in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War and a Reconstruction era five-term U.S. Congressman from Missouri.
Lizette Woodworth Reese was an American poet and teacher. Born in Maryland,she taught English for almost five decades in the schools of Baltimore. Though Reese was successful in prose as well as in poetry,the latter was her forte;she was named Poet Laureate of Maryland in 1931.
Hans Heinrich Reese was a German amateur footballer,physician,and neurologist who competed in the 1912 Summer Olympics. He was also on the faculty of the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine.
John Reese Kenly was an American lawyer,and a Union Army general in the American Civil War.
Jonas Gilman Clark was an American businessman,and the founder of Clark University. He started his business career in Massachusetts,before moving to California in the 1850s. He had a successful entrepreneurial career. He moved to Worcester in 1878,and founded Clark University in that city in 1887.
Rancho San Francisquito was a 1,471-acre (5.95 km2) Mexican land grant in present-day Santa Clara County,California given in 1839 by Governor Juan Alvarado to Antonio Buelna. The grant was located on the southwest side of San Francisquito Creek and encompasses present-day western Menlo Park and the northern part of the Stanford University campus.
District of Arizona was a subordinate district of the Department of New Mexico territory created on August 30,1862 and transferred to the Department of the Pacific in March 1865.
Alexander G. Clark was an African-American businessman and activist who served as United States Ambassador to Liberia in 1890–1891,where he died in office. In 1867 Clark sued to gain admission for his daughter to attend a local public school in Muscatine,Iowa. The case of Clark v. Board of School Directors achieved a constitutional ruling for integration from the Iowa Supreme Court in 1868,86 years before the United States Supreme Court decision of Brown v. Board of Education (1954). He was a prominent leader in winning a state constitutional amendment that gained the right for African Americans in Iowa to vote (1868). Active in church,freemasonry,and the Republican Party,he became known for his speaking skills and was nicknamed "the Colored Orator of the West." He earned a law degree and became co-owner and editor of The Conservator in Chicago. His body was returned from Liberia in 1892 and buried in Muscatine,where his house has been preserved.
Eagle Valley is the area encompassing Carson City,Nevada. The valley was first settled during the California Gold Rush of 1849. The discovery of Nevada's Comstock Lode in 1859 established the economic importance of the area,which would become the site of the Nevada State Capitol.
Chester Rural Cemetery is a historic rural cemetery founded in March 1863 in Chester,Pennsylvania. Some of the first burials were Civil War soldiers,both Union and Confederate,who died at the government hospital located at the nearby building which became the Crozer Theological Seminary.
James Baldwin:A Soul on Fire is an American stage play about author and activist James Baldwin. It was written by Howard Simon and first performed in 1999. Originally directed by Chuck Patterson,the first run starred Charles Reese as James Baldwin and Forrest McClendon as his counterpart,an ethereal force that takes multiple identities.
Frederick Douglas Reese was an American civil rights activist,educator and minister from Selma,Alabama. Known as a member of Selma's "Courageous Eight",Reese was the president of the Dallas County Voters League (DCVL) when it invited the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and Martin Luther King Jr. to Selma to amplify the city's local voting rights campaign. This campaign eventually gave birth to the Selma to Montgomery marches,which later led to the passage of the Voting Rights Act.
The Dallas County Voters League (DCVL) was a local organization in Dallas County,Alabama,which contains the city of Selma,that sought to register black voters during the late 1950s and early 1960s.
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