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Ebenezer Syme was elected to the Victorian Legislative Assembly shortly after buying The Age, and his brother David Syme soon came to dominate the paper, editorially and managerially.
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The venture was not initially a success, and in June 1856 the Cookes sold the paper to Ebenezer Syme, a Scottish-born businessman, and James McEwan, an ironmonger and founder of McEwans & Co, for 2, 000 pounds at auction.
* Ebenezer Syme ( 1826 – 1860 ), a Scottish-Australian journalist, proprietor and manager of The Age
Ebenezer and was
In Chicago, he was an active member of his local Ebenezer Baptist Church, where he studied the trombone and the violin, becoming proficient enough on the latter for the musical director to invite him to join the orchestra, with which he performed until the age of 18.
It was settled between 1725 and 1727 by Captain Ebenezer Eastman and others from Haverhill, Massachusetts.
Punch, or the London Charivari was a British weekly magazine of humour and satire established in 1841 by Henry Mayhew and engraver Ebenezer Landells.
Punch was founded on 17 July 1841 by Henry Mayhew and engraver Ebenezer Landells, on an initial investment of £ 25.
Munroe's method of making pencils was painstakingly slow, and in the neighbouring town of Acton, a pencil mill owner named Ebenezer Wood set out to automate the process at his own pencil mill located at Nashoba Brook along the old Davis Road.
The People's Political Party ( PPP ), founded in 1952 by Ebenezer Joshua, was the first major political party in St. Vincent.
Burch and Ebenezer Radburn, his turnkey, severely beat Northup to stop him from saying he was a free man.
The first president was Ebenezer Fitch.
He was replaced by the less likeable, Ebenezer Smith.
Central to the creation of the Football Association and modern football was Ebenezer Cobb Morley.
The Bryce Canyon area was settled by Mormon pioneers in the 1850s and was named after Ebenezer Bryce, who homesteaded in the area in 1874.
A large group of conformal maps for relating solutions of Maxwell ’ s equations was identified by Ebenezer Cunningham ( 1908 ) and Harry Bateman ( 1910 ).
Daniel Webster was born on January 18, 1782, to Ebenezer and Abigail Webster ( née Eastman ) in Salisbury, New Hampshire, the present-day city of Franklin.
Bacup is home to the long Elgin Street which held the record as the shortest street in the world until November 2006, when it was surpassed by Ebenezer Place, in the Scottish Highlands.
Barnes was also home to Ebenezer Cobb Morley, who in 1862 was a founding member of the Football Association.
Disney began to engross himself in books about city planning, such as Ebenezer Howard's " Garden Cities of To-morrow ", and all that was needed to pull off something of that magnitude.
The Ebenezer Hayden House ( third from the river ) was the initial hip-roof house in the lower valley, and the current Episcopal Church Rectory ( the Richard Hayden Dwelling ) was the first brick house in the lower valley.
Ellington's sole representative to the voting on the adoption of the United States Constitution by Connecticut was Ebenezer Nash.
* Ebenezer Stoddard ( 1785 – 1847 ), a United States Representative from Connecticut and Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut, was born in Union.
West Lebanon was laid out and platted in the fall of 1830 by Ebenezer Purviance, John G. Jemison and Andrew Fleming, and consisted of 64 lots.
As recently as December 25, 2006, many listeners told the National Public Radio program Talk of the Nation that Mister Magoo was their favorite Ebenezer Scrooge.
In 1794 after the American Revolutionary War, the first European-American settlement was attempted by Archibald Prater, John Williams, Ebenezer Hanna, Clayton Cook, but they were driven out by Native Americans who had long inhabited the territory.
Ebenezer and elected
Ebenezer Gregory was elected moderator and the first town officers chosen, as far as can be determined from the minutes of the meeting, were school directors-Dr. Uriah M. Gregory, William Gorsline and Samuel Delamater.
Ebenezer Gregory was elected poundmaster and fifty-eight overseers of highways were chosen After the transaction of some further business the following additional officers were chosen:
Thus, when John Houstoun was elected governor in January 1778, Treutlen dropped out of statewide politics and returned to Ebenezer to see what he could do to help the community and people that had provided him with so much during his three decades in America.
Late in 1781, Treutlen re-entered statewide politics as Ebenezer ’ s elected representative to the Georgia Assembly.
Bustamante was unanimously elected as leader of the party, while Ashford Sinanan ( Trinidad ), Victor Bryan ( Trinidad ) and Ebenezer Joshua ( St. Vincent ) were chosen as first, second and third deputy leaders, respectively.
It was provided that there be annually elected a committee of five persons, a " town clerk, a path-master, and three fence-viewers, " and that Abraham Jacob Lansingh, or his heirs forever, should be one of the committee ; At the first town meeting Ebenezer Marvin was elected moderator and Thomas S. Diamond clerk.
Ebenezer and Victorian
On Christmas Eve 1843, while all of Victorian England is in the merry spirit of Christmas, Ebenezer Scrooge ( Scrooge McDuck ) thinks only of the money he has made and of making more ( apparently, he charges people 80 % interest, compounded daily ).
Edina, a late Victorian mansion built on a grand scale in Birrell Street by Ebenezer Vickery for himself and his family, was completed in about 1884.
The district included Ebenezer Baptist Church, the MLK grave site, the MLK birthplace, shotgun row houses, Victorian houses, the Alexander Hamilton House, the Atlanta Baptist Preparatory Institute site, Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic Colored Mission, Fire Station No. 6, and the " Triangle Building " at the intersection of Old Wheat St. and Auburn Avenue.
Ebenezer Butterick invented the commercially produced graded home sewing pattern in 1863 ( based on grading systems used by Victorian tailors ), originally selling hand-drawn patterns for men's and boys ' clothing.
Ebenezer and Assembly
* Ebenezer Allen, soldier, pioneer, and member of the Vermont General Assembly ; founder of Poultney.
Some time before this, at the General Assembly of 1722, a group of men, including Ebenezer, had been rebuked and admonished for defending the doctrines contained in the book The Marrow of Modern Divinity.
He served as Commissioner and Surveyor of Roads, and several terms in the 1770s as Ebenezer ’ s representative in the Georgia Commons House of Assembly.
At the Assembly in 1721 twelve men, including Boston, Hog and Ralph and Ebenezer Erskine, submitted a " Representation and Petition ", arguing that in condemning The Marrow the Assembly had condemned propositions which were scriptural, and other expressions which were plainly taught both by many orthodox divines and in the doctrinal standards of the Church of Scotland.
Ebenezer and after
* Ebenezer Floppen Slopper's Wonderful Water slides in Oakbrook Terrace, Illinois closes down after an incident on one of the slides.
The story tells of sour and stingy Ebenezer Scrooge's ideological, ethical, and emotional transformation after the supernatural visits of Jacob Marley and the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present, and Yet to Come.
The tale begins on a " cold, bleak, biting " Christmas Eve in 1843 exactly seven years after the death of Ebenezer Scrooge's business partner, Jacob Marley.
The town's municipal building is located in the old Butterick School, which was named after Ebenezer Butterick's daughter, Mary Ellen.
The village was originally named Warrenville in 1848 after Ebenezer Warren, the first postmaster in the township.
Ebenezer Chapel, near the southwest border, was coincidentally named after a nearby resident, and was a small settlement originally known as " Hayti " at one time.
It is named after Ebenezer Bacon, an early settler, but was previously called " Fiddletown " and " Popes Corners.
The latter Edmund became the de facto archetype ; nearly all subsequent Blackadders in the series were modelled after Edmund, Lord Blackadder, the exceptions being MacAdder, who appeared as a cameo in the finale of Blackadder the Third, and Ebenezer Blackadder, who initially began as the nicest man in England to the point of naivete but who gradually fell back into the standard persona.
Their meeting places sometimes have Bible names, e. g., " Ebenezer ," " Hebron ," " Shiloh " and " Bethel "; sometimes they are named after the street on which they are found, e. g. Curzon Street Gospel Hall, Derby ; sometimes after the locality, e. g. Ballynagarrick Gospel Hall.
It was settled in 1766 by Jacob Eaton and Colonel Ebenezer Smith, then regranted in 1768 by Governor John Wentworth and named after Sir William Meredith, 3rd Baronet, a member of Parliament who opposed taxation on the colonies.
* Walden Cliffs – A lakeside hamlet in the southwest corner of the town named after Ebenezer Walden, a prominent WNY citizen and once Mayor of Buffalo, NY.
* Sanborn-A hamlet originally called South Pekin, it was renamed after Ebenezer Sanborn in 1866.
Born in Atlanta, Georgia and named after the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama, where his father was pastor before moving to the Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, Georgia.
The town was named after James Ebenezer Bicheno, the British Colonial Secretary for Van Diemen's Land 1843 – 51.
A loop line to Ebenezer for coal was built in 1990, leaving the Rosewood line just after Thagoona railway station.
For a time the Oatka was called Allan's Creek after the area's first settler, Ebenezer " Indian " Allan.
Shortly after concluding the purchase, Phelps and Gorham gave a 100 acre ( 0. 4 km² ) lot within the Mill Yard Tract at the Upper Falls of the Genesee to Ebenezer " Indian " Allen, on condition he build a grist mill and sawmill there by summer 1789 ( the " 100 Acre Tract ").
On Thanksgiving Day in 1926, after eight years of courtship, he married Alberta in the Ebenezer Church.
King Sr. became leader of the Ebenezer Baptist Church in March 1931 after the death of Williams.
Landmarks in this neighbourhood include Ebenezer Villa ( retirement home ) and Crerar Park, also named after him.
The area consists of a development, fashioned after a traditional English village, that is one of America's oldest planned communities and the most prominent American example of Ebenezer Howard's Garden city movement.
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