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* In Maryland, the Jesuits Andrew White, John Altham Gravenor, and Thomas Gervase arrived with Lord Leonard Calvert on March 25, 1634, and in that year established an institution of higher learning at St. Mary's which later became known as Georgetown University, North America's oldest university.
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Maryland and Jesuits
His efforts to attract other Jesuits to the faculty were hampered both by Boston's distance from the center of Jesuit activity in Maryland and by suspicion on the part of the city's Protestant elite.
The same year, Bishop Hughes convinced Jesuits from St. Mary's College in Maryland and St. Mary's College in Kentucky to staff the new school.
Around this time, the Jesuits of the Maryland Province were planning to open another parish in a part of the city more conducive to operating a college.
Maryland and Andrew
* May 21 – The Maryland Democratic Party is founded by supporters of Andrew Jackson in Baltimore and hosts its first meeting at the Baltimore Atheneum.
Supported by Andrew, George and Elias Ellicott and heavily promoted by the Society for the Promotion of the Abolition of Slavery of Maryland and of Pennsylvania, the early editions of the almanacs achieved commercial success.
Born in Baltimore, Maryland, Andrew Sterett was the son of John Sterett, a former Revolutionary War captain and a successful shipping merchant.
A 12-foot tall statue in the likeness of Divine by Andrew Logan can be seen on permanent display at The American Visionary Art Museum in Divine's hometown of Baltimore, Maryland.
At the request of Pennsylvania Governor Andrew G. Curtin, Reynolds was given command of the Pennsylvania Militia during General Robert E. Lee's invasion of Maryland.
After rioting in Baltimore, Governor John A. Andrew sent Butler with a force of Massachusetts troops to reopen communication between the Union states and Washington, D. C. A major railroad connection from the Northeast passed through Baltimore and immediately after the start of the war it was unclear whether Maryland would stay in the Union.
He was grandson of the first popularly-elected Maryland U. S. Senator, Blair Lee I ; direct descendant of two signers of the Declaration of Independence, Richard Henry Lee and Francis Lightfoot Lee ; and also Montgomery Blair and Francis Preston Blair, an adviser and friend of Andrew Jackson and Abraham Lincoln.
Swann met opposition as Governor with the Radical Republicans of Maryland, since he supported the reconstruction policies of Andrew Johnson, and refused to follow with other policies of theirs.
Dr. Andrew G. Truxal was the first president as the college moved to a campus in Arnold, Maryland in September 1967.
President Andrew Johnson appointed Gibson as collector of internal revenue for the Maryland Eastern Shore district in 1867, but Gibson was not confirmed.
Andrew Ellicott ( 1733 – 1809 ) was one of three Quaker brothers from Bucks County, Pennsylvania who chose the picturesque wilderness up river from Elk Ridge Landing ( known today as Elkridge, Maryland ) to establish a flour mill.
Colonel Andrew J. Grigsby assumed command and led the brigade through the Maryland Campaign and the Battle of Antietam.
He died in Kingston in 1882, and is interred in St. Andrew ’ s Churchyard of Princess Anne, Maryland.
Working under the general supervision of the three commissioners and at the direction of President Washington, Major Andrew Ellicott, assisted by his brothers Benjamin and Joseph Ellicott, Isaac Briggs, George Fenwick, and an African American, Benjamin Banneker, surveyed the borders of the Territory of Columbia with Virginia and Maryland during 1791 and 1792.
Growing up in Silver Spring and later Olney, Maryland, Onyewu attended St. Andrew Apostle School and Sherwood High School before enrolling in the U. S. residency program in Bradenton, Florida.
When the Revolutionary War broke out, Andrew enlisted as a commissioned officer in the Elk Ridge Battalion of the Maryland militia despite his Quaker upbringing.
* Joseph Ellicott ( miller ) ( 1732 – 1780 ), together with his brothers John and Andrew, founded Ellicott's Mills, Maryland in 1772.
Maryland and White
In recent years, the agency began undertaking a large-scale effort to consolidate its operations in the Washington Metropolitan Area from its main headquarters in Rockville and several fragmented office buildings in the vicinity to the former site of the Naval Ordnance Laboratory in the White Oak area of Silver Spring, Maryland.
Iowa designated the oak as its official state tree in 1961 ; and the White Oak is the state tree of Connecticut, Illinois and Maryland.
At one point in the mid-20th century, Pennsylvania Avenue was designated DC 4, an extension of Maryland Route 4 that reached at least the east side of the White House.
White was recruited by the University of Maryland and played as a fullback during his freshman year.
White Marsh is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in Baltimore County, Maryland, United States.
Popular tradition maintains that Church Creek predates Cambridge, Maryland as the earliest settlement in Dorchester County, first established at some point before 1684 under the name Dorchester Town and then White Haven.
Other prominent entities in the area are Walter Johnson High School, the Georgetown Preparatory School, the Charles E. Smith Jewish Day School, the Music Center at Strathmore, the White Flint shopping mall, the Montgomery Aquatic Center, The Jewish Community Center, and North Bethesda Market, the tallest building in Montgomery County, Maryland.
White designed the First Methodist Episcopal Church in Baltimore, Maryland ( 1887 ), now Lovely Lane United Methodist Church.
White enrolled in the New Mexico Military Institute in Roswell, New Mexico but was subsequently recommended to the U. S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland, by then U. S. Senator John L. McClellan of Arkansas.
White Plains is an unincorporated community located in Charles County, Maryland, in the United States, just south of Waldorf.
While the commercial portion of White Plains lies along U. S. Route 301, the largest concentration of residences with the White Plains mailing address is actually six to seven miles to the west in developments located near Billingsley Road ( see the article Bryans Road, Maryland ).
* March 12 – 13, 1888 – The Great Blizzard of 1888, or " White Hurricane ", paralyzes the Eastern seaboard from Maryland to Maine ; in New York City causing temperatures to fall as much as 60 degrees.
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