The eldest daughter of John Boggs by his first marriage to Jane Irwin was Lydia Boggs Shepherd Cruger ( February 26, 1766-September 29, 1867 ), who played a significant role in the history of Wheeling, West Virginia.

Lydia Boggs Shepherd Cruger and Nancy Boggs McMechen were half sisters.

Lydia Boggs was first married to Moses Shepherd ( November 11, 1763-April 29, 1832 ) in 1784.

Lydia Boggs Shepherd Cruger died at Shepherd Hall on September 29, 1867 at the age of 101.

After spending the winter organizing a cavalry force ( hippeis ), he made a successful incursion into Lydia in the spring of 395 BC.

Alyattes, king of Lydia ( 619 – 560 BC ), considered to be the founder of the Lydian empire, was the son of Sadyattes, of the house of the Mermnadae.

The word is a compound from two Greek terms, ἢλεκτρον, ēlektron, " amber " ( as electrostatic phenomena were first described as properties of amber by the philosopher Thales ), and μαγνήτης, magnētēs, " magnet " ( the magnetic stones found in antiquity in the vicinity of the Greek city of Magnesia, in Lydia, Asia Minor ).

The second wedding is that of Bernard ( David Haig ) and Lydia ( Sophie Thompson ), a couple who got together at the previous wedding.

Mary Cassatt, Lydia Leaning on Her Arms ( in a theatre box ), 1879

Some scholars see a connection between Minos and the names of other ancient founder-kings, such as Menes of Egypt, Mannus of Germany, and Manu of India, and even with Meon of Phrygia and Lydia ( after him named Maeonia ), Mizraim of Egypt in the Book of Genesis and the Canaanite deity Baal Meon.

* 1946 – Penelope Jones Halsall ( aka Caroline Courtney, Lydia Hitchcock, Melinda Wright, Annie Groves, Penny Jordan ), English novelist

* The Lydia M. Olson Library, located within the Edgar L. Harden Learning Resource Center ( LRC ), houses a collection of 592, 689 titles, 2, 588 serial subscriptions and 7, 369 audiovisual materials.

645-570 BC ), and according to Athenaeus, she was the contemporary of Alyattes of Lydia ( ca.

He married attorney Lisa Hoffman ( née Gottsegen ) in October 1980 ; they have four children – Jacob Edward ( born March 20, 1981 ), Rebecca Lillian ( b. March 17, 1983 ), Maxwell Geoffrey ( born August 30, 1984 ), and Alexandra Lydia ( born October 27, 1987 ).

After the death of Lydia Becker, she became the leader of the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies ( NUWSS ), the main suffragist organisation in Britain.

While it is the Masoretic text of the poem which uses the word Agag, the Septuagint, other Greek versions, and the Samaritan Pentateuch, all have Gog ( i. e., king Gyges of Lydia, 716 BC to 678 BC ), implying a very late date for the poem.

Eumenes I, the new ruler of Pergamum, liberates his city from the overlordship of the Seleucids by defeating the army of Antiochus I near Sardis ( the capital of Lydia ), and thereby establishing an independent city-state.

The great temple was built by Croesus, king of Lydia, in about 550 BC and was famous not only for its great size ( 110 metres by 55 metres ), but also for the magnificent works of art that adorned it.

Then follow some cities that some assign to Lydia and some to Caria: Calynda on the Indus River, Crya, Carya, Carysis or Cari and Alina in the Gulf of Glaucus ( Katranci Bay or the Gulf of Makri ), the Glaucus River being the border.

* Lycus ( river of Lydia ), a tributary of the Hyllus river

* Xanthus ( historian ), a logographer who wrote a history of Lydia

The title character is based on the real life of Lydia Dingwell ( 1852-1931 ), of Dingwells Mills, Prince Edward Island.

He is the eponymous namesake of Mount Tmolus ( modern Bozdağ ), which lies in Lydia with the Lydian capital ( later also called Sardis ) at its foot and Hypaepa on its southern slope.

Among his acts were sending young boys from Corcyra to be castrated in Lydia ( who are reputed to have escaped and be rescued by the Samians ), and the murder ( and possible necrophiliac rape ) of his own wife, Melissa.

* In Beetlejuice, Lydia ( Winona Ryder ) tells Adam and Barbara ( Alec Baldwin and Geena Davis ) that her stepmother ( Catherine O ' Hara ), who is shown in a semi-drugged stupor, is " sleeping with Prince Valium.

* Lydia Pinkham ( 1819 – 1873 ), businesswoman.

" Celestia was the sister in law of Jehial Davis ( Step Father to George Starkweather's wife Lydia Amelia ), and was a close family friend of the Starkweather family, whom for a time was a housekeeper for George A Starkweather.

She was joined by her sister Lydia who shared an apartment with her.

A third Midas is said by Herodotus to have been a member of the royal house of Phrygia and the grandfather of an Adrastus who fled Phrygia after accidentally killing his brother and took asylum in Lydia during the reign of Croesus.

Novelists who are commonly counted to postmodern literature include Vladimir Nabokov, William Gaddis, John Hawkes, William Burroughs, Giannina Braschi, Kurt Vonnegut, John Barth, Donald Barthelme, E. L. Doctorow, Jerzy Kosinski, Don DeLillo, Thomas Pynchon, Ishmael Reed, Kathy Acker, Ana Lydia Vega, and Paul Auster.

Fragment 132 reads in full: " I have a beautiful child who looks like golden flowers, my darling Cleis, for whom I would not ( take ) all Lydia or lovely ..." These fragments have often been interpreted as referring to Sappho's daughter, or as confirming that Sappho had a daughter with this name.

Dancers such as Alicia Markova, Tamara Karsavina, Serge Lifar, and Lydia Sokolova remembered Diaghilev fondly, as a stern but kind father-figure who put the needs of his dancers and company above his own.

Lydia, wife of Nicostratus, loves Pyrrhus, who to assure himself thereof, asks three things of her, all of which she does, and therewithal enjoys him in presence of Nicostratus, and makes Nicostratus believe that what he saw was not real.

Other female students of this period includes Lydia Wahlström ( 1869 – 1954 ) who later became a noted educator, activist and writer on women's emancipation and suffrage.

Yet close friends, brothers, sisters, and even sometimes partners of the friends were not necessarily members of Bloomsbury: Keynes ’ s wife Lydia Lopokova was only reluctantly accepted into the group, and there were certainly " writers who were at some time close friends of Virginia Woolf, but who were distinctly not ' Bloomsbury ': T. S. Eliot, Katherine Mansfield, Hugh Walpole ".

The first event in the history of Ionia for which there is a trustworthy account is the inroad of the Cimmerii, who ravaged a great part of Asia Minor, including Lydia, and sacked Magnesia on the Maeander, but were foiled in their attack upon Ephesus.

He was an Athenian who became their leader when Tissaphernes, Persian satrap of Caria and Lydia, had Clearchus of Sparta and the other senior Greek captains captured and executed by Artaxerxes.

In 1966 scholar Anna Lydia Motto also challenged this view of Seneca, arguing that his image has been based almost entirely on Suilius's account, while many others who might have lauded him have been lost.

The Midas of the late 8th century BC had a Greek wife and strong ties to the Greeks, which suggests it was he who made the offering ; but Herodotus also says Gyges of Lydia, a contemporary of that Midas, was " the first foreigner since Midas " to make an offering at Delphi, which suggests Herodotus believed the throne was donated by the more ancient Midas.

But it was also during his stay in Lydia that Heracles captured the city of the Itones and enslaved them, killed Syleus who forced passersby to hoe his vineyard, and captured the Cercopes.

Herodotus ( 1. 7 ) refers to a Heraclid dynasty of kings who ruled Lydia, yet were perhaps not descended from Omphale, writing, " The Heraclides, descended from Heracles and the slave-girl of Iardanus ...." Omphale as slave-girl seems odd.

That, at least, is the interpretation of later chronographers who also ignored Herodotus ' statement that Agron was the first to be a king, and included Alcaeus, Belus, and Ninus in their List of Kings of Lydia.

According to local tradition, Neffsville was named for the family of Johan Christian Neff, originally from Gerolsheim, Germany, who was aboard the ship Lydia when she arrived in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on September 19, 1743.

In 1712, Mendon was the birthplace of Lydia Chapin, who became America's first legal woman voter, known later as Lydia Chapin Taft, or simply Lydia Taft.

Wright's stepdaughter, Lydia Wadhams, married Samuel French who became the second operator of the Jersey.