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His name is listed on the 1779 Masonic rolls of Solomon's Lodge No. 1 at Savannah along with George Walton, John Adam Treutlen, James Jackson, Nathaniel Pendelton, and General Samuel Elbert.
Treutlen's name is listed on the Lodge's Masonic membership roles in 1779 along with Archibald Bulloch, George Walton, General Samuel Elbert and many other Georgia leaders of the Revolution.
* Marion Bourne ( 1882-1969 ), married Robert George Elbert.
The Elbert Hubbard Roycroft Museum, housed in the George and Gladys Scheidemantel House, in East Aurora is the main collection and research centre for the work of the Roycrofters.
In 1785, Elbert wrote in a letter to George Walton, " It is a pity that the people on our Frontiers will behave so cruelly toward those poor savages ; not contented with having the lands, but to rob, beat and abuse them likewise is enough to bring down Divine vengeance on their heads.
Elbert went immediately to George Washington's headquarters in the north.

George and Burr
In 1914, the historian George Lincoln Burr sided with Upham in a note on Thomas Brattle's letter, " The strange suggestion of W. F. Poole that Brattle here means Cotton Mather himself, is adequately answered by Upham ..." Burr also reprinted Calef in full and dug deep into the historical record for information on the man and concludes "... that he had else any grievance against the Mathers or their colleagues there is no reason to think.
An attentive student, he spent his leisure time drawing, staging puppet shows, and reading Il corriere dei piccoli, the popular children ’ s magazine that reproduced traditional American cartoons by Winsor McCay, George McManus and Frederick Burr Opper.
On June 30, 2008, Canada Post issued a postage stamp in its " Canadians in Hollywood " series to honour Norma Shearer, along with others for Raymond Burr, Marie Dressler, and Chief Dan George.
In fact, in July 1778, Lord Stirling asked Aaron Burr, in a letter written on behalf of General George Washington, to employ several persons to " go to Bergen Heights, Weehawk, Hoebuck, or any other heights thereabout to observe the motions of the enemy's shipping " and to gather any other possible intelligence.
George Clinton succeeded Burr as the second-term Vice President for Thomas Jefferson in 1805 ( and also served as James Madison's Vice President, making Clinton the first Vice President to serve under two presidents and the first Vice President to die in office ).
It portrays its eponymous anti-hero as a fascinating and honourable gentleman, and skewers most of his contemporaries, e. g. George Washington, an incompetent general who lost most of his battles ; Thomas Jefferson, with whom Burr tied for the presidency in the election of 1800, as a fey, especially dark and pedantic hypocrite who schemed and bribed witnesses in support of a false charge of treason against Burr after almost losing the election to him ; and Alexander Hamilton, the bastard opportunist who rose with Washington, before Burr killed him in their famous duel.
* George Lincoln Burr ( 1857 1938 ), American historian
He formed an uneasy alliance with his previous rival George Clinton, along with Aaron Burr, then a political newcomer.
" In January 1802, the Executive Council of Upper Canada learned of this plot, led by Aaron Burr and George Clinton, to overthrow British rule and to create a republican state to join the United States.
Floyd was again a presidential elector in 1800, voting for Thomas Jefferson and Aaron Burr ; and in 1804, voting for Thomas Jefferson and George Clinton.
Speakers at the opening dedication in 1925 included Professor George Lincoln Burr of Cornell University, who worked to complete the manuscript of Lea's Materials for a Study of Witchcraft ; Professor Dana C. Munro of Princeton University, vice president of the American Historical Association, who had used Lea's collections as a young scholar ; and Hampton L. Carson, Philadelphia historian and former attorney general of Pennsylvania.
* Wilkinson is the " hero " of Keith Thompson's Scoundrel !-- a satirical novel in the tradition of Gore Vidal's Burr and George MacDonald Fraser's Flashman novels, which purports to be Wilkinson's " secret " memoirs ( which Thompson claims to have just discovered ).
In 1808 she married George Hay, a prominent Virginia attorney who had served as prosecutor in the trial of Aaron Burr.
After two years at Amherst College, Merrill spent time at the University of Michigan Law School from 1906 to 1907 ; worked at Patchogue-Plymouth Mills from 1907 09 ; at George H. Burr & Co., New York City, from 1909 13 ; then established Charles E. Merrill & Co. in 1914, later changing the name to Merrill Lynch & Company.
* George Lincoln Burr ( 1916 )
He served as governor of New York from 1804 to 1807, defeating Vice President Aaron Burr in the race to succeed future Vice President George Clinton as Governor.
It has had many owners after 1953, including Kling Studios, which housed production for the Superman TV series with George Reeves ; Red Skelton, who used the sound stages for his CBS TV variety show ; and CBS, who filmed the TV series Perry Mason with Raymond Burr there.
* George Washington and Aaron Burr ( three times removed )
With text by Hartley Burr Alexander, Ralph Adams Cram, George Ellery Hale, Lee Lawrie, and C. Howard Walker.
As Senator, Burr has had a non-controversial tenure so far, espousing most of the positions held by the vast majority of his fellow Republicans, from general support for President George W. Bush's actions in Iraq to abortion opposition.
In 1991, he took over from George Dzundza on the popular series Law & Order, and in 1993 he subbed for the late Raymond Burr in a Perry Mason TV movie.

George and 1859
* Granville George Leveson-Gower, 2nd Earl Granville 1859 1865
David was the third of six children, two daughters and four sons: James ( 1777 1847 ), minister at Craig, Ferryden ; David ; David ; George ( 1784 1855 ), minister at Scoonie, Fife ; and Patrick ( 1788 1859 ), minister at the abbey church, Paisley.
She made her debut as a guitar player and singer in Peoria, Illinois in 1859, with George on the violin, and was teaching guitar by age thirteen.
* 1859 George Washington Gale Ferris, Jr., American engineer and inventor ( d. 1896 )
On August 28, 1859, George Bissell and Edwin L. Drake made the first successful use of a drilling rig on a well drilled especially to produce oil, at a site on Oil Creek near Titusville, Pennsylvania.
* 1859 Lord George Nathaniel Curzon, British statesman, Viceroy of India ( d. 1925 )
* 1940 George Lansbury, English politician and editor ( b. 1859 )
* Robert Stephenson ( 1803 1859 ), British civil and railway engineer ( son of George Stephenson )
* Lord Hercules George Robert Robinson was governor of Saint Christopher from 1855 to 1859.
* November 22 George Washington Gale Ferris, Jr., inventor of the Ferris wheel ( b. 1859 )
* March 20 George Nathaniel Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston, Viceroy of India ( b. 1859 )
* William Cranch Bond ( 1789 1859 ), American astronomer, father of George Phillips Bond ( above )
In 1859, Sherman accepted a job as the first superintendent of the Louisiana State Seminary of Learning & Military Academy in Pineville, a position he sought at the suggestion of Major D. C. Buell and secured because of General George Mason Graham.
In her 1859 novel Adam Bede, George Eliot refers to this when she makes Jacob Storey say: " He thought it < nowiki ></ nowiki > had only been put to finish off th ' alphabet like ; though ampusand would ha ' done as well, for what he could see.
* 1859 Edwin George Monk
* George Scarborough ( 1859 1900 ), a Western lawman and outlaw
The current courthouse was built in 1859 by the George Moore and Sons company.
George Bissell, a Yale University Chemistry professor, and Edwin L. Drake, a former railroad conductor, made the first successful use of a drilling rig on August 28, 1859 near Titusville, Pennsylvania.
George R. Gilmer ( 1790 1859 )-Twice Governor
A man named George Sauls, along with his wife Adeline and six children, were the first settlers in the area currently known as Deltona in 1859.
However, it would be another decade or so when improvements in the steam engine by George Corliss would enable the construction of the first large steam-powered mill in the city, the Union Mills in 1859.
In 1859 a company from Detroit owned by Ransom Gardiner, George S. Frost, and others purchased the Tifft lands and commenced development of Frankfort within the year.
* George Wiley Paul Hunt -- Born Nov., 1859 ... Died Dec. 24, 1934.
* George Washington Doane ( 1799 1859 ) established St. Mary's Hall and Burlington College.
In 1859, George Parr's All England Eleven of professional cricketers played the United States XXII at Hoboken, easily defeating the local competition.

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