Capturing them, he decided against hanging them ( apparently yielding to established law procedures in place of vigilante justice ), and sending his foreman back by boat, he took the thieves back overland for trial in Dickinson, guarding them forty hours without sleep and reading Tolstoy to keep himself awake.

In 1948 BD faced new leadership as Fairleigh S. Dickinson, Jr. and Henry P. Becton, sons of the founders, took over the company.

His stepson Robert Dickinson took over the shop in New Westminster and served as mayor of that city.

A railroad strike soon after Dickinson took office interrupted postal service in the nation.

In a collection of his works first published in 1801, John Dickinson took credit for writing the Declaration.

During World War II, Dickinson State Teachers College was one of 131 colleges and universities nationally that took part in the V-12 Navy College Training Program which offered students a path to a Navy commission.

Christy took some liberties in composing his scene: John Dickinson, whose signature was added by proxy, is included, and three men who were present but did not sign are not shown.

The Republicans took one open seat in Massachusetts, while the Democrats took open seats in Michigan and New Hampshire and defeated incumbents Daniel O. Hastings ( R-DE ), Lester J. Dickinson ( R-IA ), W. Warren Barbour ( R-NJ ), Jesse H. Metcalf ( R-RI ), and Robert D. Carey ( R-WY ).

Mr. J. C. Dickinson, who seems to have been the first to escape, took his family in a wagon to Fort Ridgely, where nobody believed that there had been an attack.

He graduated from Dickinson College in 1839, taught and preached in New York City for a few months, and in 1840 took charge of the Methodist Episcopal church at Asbury, New Jersey, and removed in the next year to North Carolina, where he was General Agent for the American Bible Society.

Andre took part in a worldwide contest for replacing Bruce Dickinson in Iron Maiden and was in the Top 3 finalists alongside James LaBrie and eventual winner, Blaze Bayley.

The Dickinson Dormitory tower in Orchard Hill served as a backup until a re-roofing project took it down in 2011 ; it is still licensed as a backup facility and will be rebuilt.

The Cornville post office was established May 11, 1887 and Samuel Dickinson was postmaster until 1907 and it is therefore likely was the one who made application for the name " Cornville " for whatever reason.

Dickinson sold the mill to James M. Kidd in 1845, who platted the village as Kiddville and a post office reopened there with that name in February 1855.

The former John Dickinson Stationery mills site, straddling the canal at Apsley, was redeveloped with two Retail parks, a Sainsbury's supermarket, 3 low rise office blocks, housing, a mooring basin, and a hotel.

Upon leaving office as Mayor of Detroit in January 2002, Archer was appointed as chairman of Detroit-based law firm Dickinson Wright, and the board of directors of Compuware.

Dickinson was, however, appointed by President Lincoln United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York in 1865 which position he held until his death in office the next year.

The International Style office tower was built by Peter Dickinson, Ross, Fish, Duschenes and Barrett and was the city's tallest building from 1962 to 1963.

Founded by South Fraser Broadcasting and controlled by Michael Dickinson, it shares studio and office space with sister station CISL AM 650.

The committee met repeatedly, and chairman John Dickinson presented their results to the Congress on July 12, 1776.

General limitations about the structure and philosophy of CITES include: by design and intent it focuses on trade at the species level and does not address habitat loss, ecosystem approaches to conservation, or poverty ; it seeks to prevent unsustainable use rather than promote sustainable use ( which generally conflicts with the Convention on Biological Diversity ), although this has been changing ( see Nile Crocodile, African elephant, South African white rhino case studies in Hutton and Dickinson 2000 ).

* An Epicure in the Terrible ( Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1991 ), edited by David E. Schultz and S. T. Joshi is an anthology of 13 essays on Lovecraft ( excluding Joshi's lengthy introduction ) on the centennial of Lovecraft's birth.

* Carla Bruni sings the poem ' If You Were Coming In The Fall ', by Emily Dickinson on her album No Promises.

The machine was mounted in a tiny white plastic case, with a one-piece blue membrane keyboard on the front ; it owed its distinctive appearance to industrial designer Rick Dickinson.

The first edition was published in 1939, set and printed in Great Britain by William Brendon & Son, Ltd., at the Mayflower Press, Plymouth, in Walbaum type, twelve point, leaded, on a toned opaque-wove paper made by John Dickinson, and bound by James Burn.

A classic reference which has generally entered modern language is the concept that " Hope springs eternal " taken from Alexander Pope's Essay on Man, the phrase reading " Hope springs eternal in the human breast, Man never is, but always to be blest :" Another popular reference, " Hope is the thing with feathers ," is from a poem by Emily Dickinson.

Cody Dickinson, a member of hill country blues bands the North Mississippi Allstars and Country Hill Revue plays an electrified washboard on a self written track ; ' Psychedelic Sex Machine '.

* " The Alchemist " By Iron Maiden ( including Bruce Dickinson ) on the 2010 album, The Final Frontier

However, in 1876, Alamo survivor Susannah Dickinson said that Travis sent three men out shortly after dark on March 3, probably a response to the arrival of Mexican reinforcements.

The College at Florham, a campus of Fairleigh Dickinson University, is located on the border of these three towns.

* Clarke Historical Library, Central Michigan University, Bibliography on Dickinson County.

In the film, fraternity brothers from Delta house of the fictional Faber College ( based on Dartmouth College ) take a road trip to the fictional Emily Dickinson College ( Mount Holyoke College )-- in real life, Mount Holyoke and Dartmouth are unofficial brother-sister schools.

The Grove Hill area has numerous sites on the National Register of Historic Places including the Alston-Cobb House, Bush House, John A. Coate House, Cobb House, Dickinson House, Fort Sinquefield, and the Grove Hill Courthouse Square Historic District.

Great houses, such as the Dickinson Mansion on North Main Street in Essex Village, to the mansions of A. W. Comstock ( currently the Copper Beech Inn ) and R. H. Comstock in Ivoryton, may stand in sharp contrast to the smaller capes in Centerbrook and the factory dwellings in Ivoryton, but they are all equally important in telling us of our past.

Dickinson County Courthouse and Jail, listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

In 1922, the two-story Dickinson Block burned ; this was Verndale's largest brick store and it was located on the SE corner of Farwell Street and 1st Ave. S.

A portion of Fairleigh Dickinson University's College at Florham is located in Madison on the former Vanderbilt estate.

* Nimmonsburg – A hamlet in the southern part of town bordering the Town of Dickinson and located on Interstate 81 south of Hinman's Corners

The former Chenango Canal ( 1834 – 1876 ) passed through the town with a current village of Port Dickinson a port on the canal.

* Port Dickinson – The Village of Port Dickinson is on the east bank of the Chenango River.

The Towns of Kirkwood and Dickinson are on the south side.