Help


[permalink] [id link]
+
Page "Benjamin Chew" ¶ 6
from Wikipedia
Edit
Promote Demote Fragment Fix

Some Related Sentences

Chew and moved
“ Led by Mrs. Washington, Mrs. Morris, andthe dazzling Mrs. Bingham ,’ as Abigail Adams called her, the city embarked on a lavish program of public and private entertainment patterned on English and French models .” Mrs. Adams reports being presently surprised by “ an agreeable society and friendliness kept up with all the principal families, who appear to live in great harmony, and we are met at all the parties nearly the same company .” After the death of their parents, Henrietta, Maria, and Catherine Chew vacated their house on South Third Street, and moved to a family-owned property on Walnut Street.
These new residents were moved to Chew Stoke when the lake was created in the 1950s.
Tiong Hiew King, an entrepreneur from Sarawak was moved by the dedication of management team led by CC Liew ( present Managing Director ) acquired Sin Chew Daily.

Chew and Philadelphia
Barringer and his partner, the mathematician and physicist Benjamin Chew Tilghman, documented evidence for the impact theory in papers presented to the U. S. Geological Survey in 1906 and published in the Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia.
Shenango's largest land owner was a Philadelphia lawyer named Benjamin Chew.
Benjamin Chew ( November 19, 1722 – January 20, 1810 ) was a fifth-generation American, a Quaker-born legal scholar, a prominent and successful Philadelphia lawyer, head of the Pennsylvania Judiciary System under both Colony and Commonwealth, and Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the Province of Pennsylvania.
" Chew lived and practiced law in Philadelphia four blocks from Independence Hall, and provided pro bono his knowledge of substantive law to America's Founding Fathers during the creation of the United States Constitution and Bill of Rights.
From 1754 to 1771, Chew and his family lived on Front Street in Philadelphia.
The Chew family ’ s house on Third Street was situated between Spruce and Walnut Streets, next door to the house of Philadelphia Mayor Samuel Powel and his wife, Elizabeth Willing Powel, who was one of George Washington ’ s closest confidantes.
Benjamin Chew's summer retreat Cliveden ( Benjamin Chew House ) | Cliveden in Germantown, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania | Germantown, Pennsylvania.
To protect his family from the diseases that plagued Philadelphia, Chew chose Mennonite master builder, Jacob Knor, to build a summer retreat which he called Cliveden ; the house later came to be known as the Chew house.
After his release from parole in May 1778, Chew decided to move his family to Whitehall, their estate in Delaware, to buffer them from the political turbulence of Philadelphia.
Benjamin Chew was Speaker of the Lower House for the Delaware counties ( 1753 – 1758 ); Attorney General and member of the Council of Pennsylvania ( 1754 – 1769 ); Recorder of Philadelphia City ( 1755 – 1774 ); Master of Rolls ( 1755 – 1774 ); Provincial Councillor of Pennsylvania ( 1755 ); Commissioner of Philadelphia ( 1761 ); Register-General of Wills ( 1765 – 1777 ); Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania ( 1774 – 1777 ); and Judge and President of the High Court of Errors and Appeals ( 1791 – 1808 ).
" From 1755 to 1769 Chew served as Attorney General of Pennsylvania and as the Recorder of Philadelphia, earning a reputation that was second to none.
On August 4, 1777, when General Howe and the British army were nearing Philadelphia, the Executive Council of the new government “ issued a warrant for ( Chew ’ s ) arrest on grounds of protecting the public safety.
When the warrant was served two days later at his home in Philadelphia, Chew demanded to know ‘ by what authority and for what cause ’ he was charged.
In 1757, Chew was elected a trustee of The Academy and College of Philadelphia ( the origins of the University of Pennsylvania ) and continued as such until 1791.
" After an extended illness, Chew died at Cliveden on January 20, 1810, and is buried at St. Peter's Churchyard, Philadelphia.
* Chew Avenue in Philadelphia was named in his honor.
* Legends of the Philadelphia Bar: Benjamin Chew
Richard Allen was born into slavery on February 14, 1760 to Benjamin Chew, a wealthy merchant of Philadelphia.
There is a late colonial-era mansion named after Cliveden in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, better known as the Chew Mansion of note in the 1777 Battle of Germantown.
Andrew graduated from the City College of Philadelphia ( later the University of Pennsylvania ) in 1759, read law under Benjamin Chew, and then went to London to complete a legal education at the Inner Temple.
President Jackson appointed Benjamin Chew Howard of Baltimore, and Richard Rush of Philadelphia to serve on a commission to arbitrate the dispute but could not persuade Mason to back down.

Chew and continued
Chew continued the family practice of investing in land in the American colonies until the end of his life, expanding their holdings in Pennsylvania, Maryland, Delaware, and New Jersey.
Chew also continued to participate in the meetings of the Tammany Society, to honor Tamanend, the Lenni-Lenape Chieftain who first negotiated peace agreements with William Penn.
It also continued to expand its property throughout the 1970s and 1980s, buying land along Chew Avenue, along with the Belfield Estate in 1984, and to the south of main-campus, the orphanage run by the Sisters of St.

Chew and legal
Chew was well known for his precision and brevity in making legal arguments as well as his excellent memory, judgment, and knowledge of statutory law.
Chew represented the Penn family in their legal matters for the next six decades.
His understanding of English legal history, and especially the Charter of Liberties, enhanced by his later studies at London ’ s Middle Temple, fostered Chew ’ s enduring commitment to the civil liberties that are guaranteed by the First Amendment to the United States Constitution, especially the right to free speech.
“ Although Benjamin Chew was not a participant in the Constitutional Convention of 1787 … he and his family were part of the city's new social circle that included the Washingtons, the John Adams, the William Binghams, and the Robert Morrises … In large measure this was because Chew's legal perspicacity offered expertise needed by the new government .”
Chew joined SIA in 1972 and held senior assignments for Administration, covering finance, treasury, corporate planning, human resources, legal and corporate affairs in Tokyo, Rome, Sydney, Los Angeles and London.

Chew and responsibilities
Chew Magna has its own parish council, which has some responsibility for local issues, and is part of the Chew Valley North Ward, which is represented by one councillor on the Bath and North East Somerset Unitary Authority, which has wider responsibilities for services such as education, refuse, tourism, etc.

Chew and both
Richard Rush of Pennsylvania, a representative of President Jackson who helped to present a compromise to both governors. On April 3, 1835, Jackson sent two representatives from Washington, D. C., Richard Rush of Pennsylvania and Benjamin Chew Howard of Maryland, to Toledo to arbitrate the conflict and present a compromise to both governments.
Chew greatly increased both wealth and property holdings when he married Elizabeth Oswald ; they held numerous slaves to care for the properties and cultivate their commodity crops.
By the time he was 29, Chew held a number of offices, both elected and appointed, in the Delaware and Pennsylvanian colonial governments.
Prior to the American Revolution, Chew was friends with both George Washington and John Adams, and was a strong advocate for the colonies.
Instead, for his own safety, they decided to allow both Chew and Governor John Penn to be paroled at Elizabeth Chew ’ s house, " Solitude ," at the Union Forge Ironworks in New Jersey.
Lisa included provisions for both Rosalie and Christopher in his will, along with his children by his first wife Polly Chew.
Work on diplomatic messages benefited from additional technical personnel and new analysts — among them Samuel Chew, who had focused on Japan, and linguist Meredith Gardner, who had worked on both German and Japanese messages.
Interestingly, after looking at the world history of environmental degradation from very different methods, both sociologists Sing Chew and Mark D. Whitaker came to similar conclusions and are proponents of ( different forms of ) bioregionalism.
The Chew siblings are frustrated by the situation until their father inspires Kiat Kun to share his shoes with his sister, trading off between classes so they can both attend school.
The final scene in the film shows the Chew siblings standing before a long muddy path, which symbolises the uncertainly faced by both the newly independent nation in 1965 and the country in transition in 2003.
data for 1971 – 2001 is available from BANES The 2001 Census gives detailed information about the Chew Valley North ward, which includes both Chew Magna and Chew Stoke.

0.494 seconds.