It was the haunt of writer Ambrose Bierce, who admired its redwoods.

Aurelius Ambrosius, better known in English as Saint Ambrose ( c. 330 – 4 April 397 ), was an archbishop of Milan who became one of the most influential ecclesiastical figures of the 4th century.

Ambrose was born into a Roman Christian family about 330 and was raised in Trier.

He was a very popular political figure, and since he was the Governor in the effective capital in the Roman West, he was a recognizable figure in the court of the Emperor Valentinian I. Ambrose never married.

Ambrose went to the church where the election was to take place, to prevent an uproar, which was probable in this crisis.

His address was interrupted by a call " Ambrose, bishop!

Ambrose was known to be Catholic in belief, but also acceptable to Arians due to the charity shown in theological matters in this regard.

At first he energetically refused the office, for which he was in no way prepared: Ambrose was neither baptized nor formally trained in theology.

Within a week, Ambrose was baptized, ordained and duly consecrated bishop of Milan.

Ambrose was elected president and Palladius, being called upon to defend his opinions, declined.

Ambrose refused and was required to answer for his conduct before the council.

The imperial court was displeased with the religious principles of Ambrose, however his aid was soon solicited by the Emperor.

When Magnus Maximus usurped the supreme power in Gaul, and was meditating a descent upon Italy, Valentinian sent Ambrose to dissuade him from the undertaking, and the embassy was successful.

In 386 Justina and Valentinian received the Arian bishop Auxentius, and Ambrose was again ordered to hand over a church in Milan for Arian usage.

Ambrose and his congregation barricaded themselves inside the church, and the imperial order was rescinded.

Theodosius was threatened with excommunication by Ambrose for the massacre of 7, 000 persons at Thessalonica in 390, after the murder of the Roman governor there by rioters.

In 392, after the death of Valentinian II and the acclamation of Eugenius, Ambrose supplicated the emperor for the pardon of those who had supported Eugenius after Theodosius was eventually victorious.

Sir Ambrose Shea, KCMG ( 17 September 1815 – 30 July 1905 ), from Newfoundland was a political and business figure in Colonial Newfoundland and later served as Governor of the Bahamas.

Conway was first cousin to Senator Ambrose Hundley Sevier and Governor Henry Massey Rector.

Conway was the brother of Arkansas Governor Elias Nelson Conway, brother of Congressman Henry Wharton Conway, first cousin of Senator Ambrose Hundley Sevier and Governor Henry Massey Rector.

" Whereas Mr Edmund Scarburgh, Mr Thomas Johnson, Mr Richard Vaughan, Captain John Dollinge, John Robinson, Toby Norton, Richard Baily, Ambrose Dixon, Richard Hill, Jenkin Price And divers others Inhabitants and free men in the Upper parte of the parish in the Countie of Northampton Did in a Hostile manner ( contrary to the knowne Lawes of Virginia And the League made with the Indians ) upon the 28th day of Aprill last past Rayse a partie of men to the number of fiftie persons with Armes and ammunicon And upon the aforesaid daie marched amonge the Indians with a Resolucon to take or kill the Queene of Pocamoke, shott att Indians, slashed and cut read, Took Indyans prisoner, And bound one of them with a Chayne, which said Accons caused the Indyans To Invade the Countie, to the great danger of our Lives and Estate, It is therefore ordered That the Sherriff shall forthwith Arrest the Bodies of all the abovesaid parties And such other ( upon inquiry ) as hee shall have notice of ( which went out against the indyans upon their Designe ) To the Number of 50 persons and that hee keepe them in his custodie until they enter into bonds to make their personal appearance at James Citty to answer the premisses before the Governor and Council upon th XXIth day of this Instant Moneth ( att the suite of our Sovereign King ).

* Sir Anthony Browne ( d. 1548 ), son of Sir Anthony ( or Ambrose ) Browne, Standard Bearer of England and Governor of Queenborough Castle

* Ambrose Burnside ( Governor of Rhode Island and United States Senator )

As soon as he learned of the defeat at Corydon, Governor Morton sent a series of telegrams to Maj. Gen. Ambrose Burnside, commander of the Army of the Ohio, first requesting then demanding the return of two Indiana regiments recently sent to the defense of Louisville, Kentucky.

With the growth of Italian immigration came the growth in the influence of the Roman Catholic Church such that the Parish of Our Lady, Help of Christians, was founded in the downtown area of St. Louis in 1900 to serve primarily recent Sicilian immigrants, while the Parish of St. Ambrose was founded in what later came to be known as the Hill in 1903 to serve primarily the recent northern Italian immigrants.

Late Antique Mosaic of Saint Ambrose (~ 337-397 ) in Sant ' Ambrogio church, Milan, Lombardy, Italy, possibly an actual portrait made in his lifetime

These chapels are known as the " Chapels of the Tongues ", and they are devoted to St. Ansgar, patron of Denmark, who is venerated as an apostle to the Scandinavian countries ; St. Boniface, apostle of the Germans ; St. Columba, patron of Ireland and Scotland ; St. Savior ( Holy Savior ), devoted to immigrants from the east, especially Africa and Asia ; St. Martin of Tours, patron of the French ; St. Ambrose, patron of Italy ; and St. James, patron of Spain.

A detail from the full-scale plaster model of the Saint Ambrose statue by Adolfo Wildt ( 1868 – 1931 ), standing under the arcades of the Main Courtyad of the University of Milan, Italy.

Manuscripts, Nero A. II, in the British Museum ), written about the middle of the eighth century, probably by an Irish monk in France, is found perhaps the earliest attribution of the Milan use to St. Ambrose, though it quotes the authority of St. Augustine, probably alluding to the passage already mentioned: " Est et alius cursus quem refert beatus augustinus episcopus quod beatus ambrosius propter hereticorum ordinem dissimilem composuit quem in italia antea de cantabatur " ( There is yet another Cursus which the blessed Bishop Augustine says that the blessed Ambrose composed because of the existence of a different use of the heretics, which previously used to be sung in Italy ).

* Awarded " Merit of St. Ambrose " ( Italy )

In his speech to the city on St Ambrose of 2010 he reaffirmed that not all the immigrants in Italy are criminals.

Raphael Cilento was born in Jamestown, South Australia in 1893, son of Raphael Ambrose Cilento, a stationmaster ( whose father Salvatore had emigrated from Naples, Italy in 1855 ), and Frances Ellen Elizabeth, née West.

We know that St. Eusebius introduced it at Vercelli in Italy, and St. Ambrose at Milan.

She maintained a long struggle against Ambrose, leader of the Nicene faction in Italy.

* Autpert Ambrose ( c. 730 – 784 ), Frankish Benedictine monk who became abbot of San Vicenzo, Italy

Bishop Ambrose, on the other hand, claims that the death of Valentinian II was a result over a dispute between him and Arbogast involving diplomacy and who would lead the armies into Italy in an attempt to defend it from invading forces from the Balkans.

It wasn't until the early 20th century that the rectifying property of such a device was utilized, most notably by John Ambrose Fleming, who used the diode tube to detect ( demodulate ) radio signals.

* Ambrose retires to Milan ( residence of Theodosius I ) and refusing to celebrate a mass in the emperor's presence, until he repents for ordering the massacre in Thessalonica.

Ambrose H. Sevier ( J ), until June 15, 1836

He died young in 1554, and having been attainted along with his father in August 1553, the title became extinct until it was revived in 1561 for his younger brother Ambrose, the third Earl.

St. Ambrose filled the church with Catholics and kept them there night and day until the peril was past.

From the time of St. Ambrose, whose hymns are well-known and whose liturgical allusions may certainly be explained as referring to a rite which possessed the characteristics of that which is called by his name, until the period of Charlemagne ( circ AD 800 ), there is a gap in the history of the Milanese Rite.

Planetary member Ambrose Chase ( can create a " selective physics-distortion field ") was also a member of the field team until apparently killed.

A. J. Tomlinson's son, Milton Ambrose Tomlinson, succeeded him as General Overseer in 1943, and served until age-related disability prompted his retirement in 1990.

The Church of God was led by Ambrose J. Tomlinson ( 1865-1943 ) until his death.

* Benny Ambrose lived alone on Ottertrack Lake until his death in 1982, leaving Dorothy Molter as the last remaining full time resident.

This group believes very explicitly that the " Great Apostasy " began in AD 325 with the Council of Nicaea and continued until June 13, 1903, when Bishop Ambrose Jessup Tomlinson restored the Church, and that in the interim there was no actual theocratic governmental formed ( as Jesus formed it ) Church of God upon the earth, but that born-again people were abundant and continued to be " saved " or " born again " according to the Bible.

His son Robert Foley II succeeded him in this contract, but was replaced by Ambrose Crowley, whose family retained the contract for all the dockyards except Portsmouth until the 1780s.

De Passionibus Mulierum Curandorum was first published around 1100 AD and was a prominent text until a major revision by Louise Bourgoise, a midwife whose husband worked as assistant Ambrose Paré in the early 1600s.

In 1941 he succeeded Dayton C. Miller as the Ambrose Swasey Professor of Physics at Case, a position he held until his retirement in 1976.

At the crossroads a few miles below South Mills, elements of Col. Ambrose R. Wright's command delayed the Federals until dark.

Unlike the rest of the Ambrose family, he wasn't introduced until the second episode, when Shirley suggested that Desmond go to the bank and get a loan to do up the shop.

Although the official order designating its number was not issued until July 22, 1862, the IX Corps organization dates from the expedition to North Carolina in February, 1862, under Ambrose E. Burnside and to the operations about Hilton Head, South Carolina, because the troops engaged in these movements were the only ones used in the formation of the corps.

However, Ambrose had to wait until part way through the 2006 season to begin.

In November it rejoined the Army of the Potomac, now under Ambrose Burnside, then on its way to Fredericksburg, and arriving at Falmouth on November 24, encamped there until the battle of December 13.

Assumption High School ( a private Catholic high school in Davenport ) and Saint Ambrose College called the field home until 1987, when both schools began playing at Brady Street Stadium.

Following public outcry it was decided that she ( and Benny Ambrose on Ottertrack Lake ) could stay until 1975.

It wasn't until 2004 that a Ford driver won the event, with Marcos Ambrose successful that year.