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* Woodbury Kane ( 1859 – 1905 ), American yachtsman, bon vivant and soldier
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* Frank B. Woodbury ( 1867 – 1962 ), American leader The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
* Claude C. Bloch – Admiral who commanded the local Naval District at Pearl Harbor at the time of the Japanese attack during World War II ( born in Woodbury )
He was followed in 1795 – 1796 by Benjamin Webber from Bedford, Jacob Stevens from Rowley, Andrew Woodbury and Micah Trull from Tewksbury, and Peter Holden from Malden.
* David Ogden Watkins ( 1862 – 1938 ), the acting Governor of New Jersey from 1898 to 1899 and former mayor of Woodbury from 1886 to 1890.
* John M. Whitall ( 1800 – 1877 ), sea captain, businessman and philanthropist, was born in Woodbury.
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* Woodbury ( Leetown, West Virginia ), historic house listed on the National Register of Historic Places
In Woodbury ( even then the main town ) was located the county courthouse, the county jail, a Quaker meeting house ( still in existence ), and an inn ( on the current location of Woodbury Crossings ).
Woodbury and American
On March 25, 1783, a meeting of ten Episcopal clergy in Woodbury, Connecticut, elected Samuel Seabury ( 1729 % E2 % 80 % 931796 ) the first American Episcopal bishop, the second Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church, USA, and the first Bishop of Connecticut.
On June 24, 1833, the staff and dignitaries including Vice President Martin Van Buren, Secretary of War Lewis Cass, Secretary of the Navy Levi Woodbury, and many Massachusetts officials, witnessed " one of the great events of American naval history ": the United States frigate Constitution was inaugurating the first naval drydock in New England designed by prominent civil engineer Loammi Baldwin, Jr .. On March 14, 1975, the historic ship floated out of the dock — the last commissioned vessel to use the facility.
Woodbury and soldier
Elizabeth Woodbury Fox, the wife of Lincoln's naval aide, wrote in her diary for November 16, 1862, " Tish says, ' Oh, there is a Bucktail soldier here devoted to the president, drives with him, and when Mrs. L is not home, sleeps with him.
Organised Clubmen in Worcestershire met on Woodbury Hill on 5 March 1645 and under the leadership of Charles Nott, the Parson of Shelsley drew up the Woodbury Declaration which protests at the " utter ruin by the outrages and violence of the soldier ; threatening to fire our houses ; endeavouring to ravish our wives and daughters, and menacing our persons ", and presented it to Henry Bromley ( of Holt ), the Royalist High Sheriff of Worcestershire.
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* 1958 – Art Kane photographs 57 notable jazz musicians in the black and white group portrait " A Great Day in Harlem " in front of a Brownstone in New York City.
Kane was a regular on the 1986 NBC series All Is Forgiven, a regular on the 1990 – 1991 NBC series American Dreamer, guest-starred on a 1994 episode of Seinfeld and had a supporting role in the short-lived 1996 – 1997 sitcom Pearl, which starred Rhea Perlman.
* 1986 – Miles Kane, British musician ( The Little Flames, The Rascals, and The Last Shadow Puppets )
* Some Sword and planet series, such as Michael Moorcock's Kane of Old Mars trilogy ( 1965 ) and Lin Carter's Mysteries of Mars ( 1973 – 1984 ) are deliberately anachronistic homages to earlier visions of Mars, particularly Burroughs '.
* 1944 – The USS Tang under Richard O ' Kane ( the top American submarine captain of World War II ) is sunk by the ship's own malfunctioning torpedo.
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