Frederick Valdemar Erastus Peterson ( July 18, 1903 – October 17, 1983 ), also known as Val Peterson, was an American politician who served as the 26th Governor of Nebraska from 1947 to 1953 ; as director of the Federal Civil Defense Administration from 1953 – 1957 ; as U. S. ambassador to Denmark 1957 – 1961 ; and as U. S. ambassador Finland, 1969 – 1973.

About the time he was consolidating his holdings into Erastus Corning & Co., he was also investing in banks and insurance companies.

* Mr. Lincoln and New York: Erastus Corning ( also contains text of Lincoln's 1863 letter )

Another early home, built for Erastus Brown, father of John and Adalbert, also remains at 3812 N. Pulaski Road although greatly altered.

Erastus Corning, also of Albany ) to make extensive importations of Cotswold sheep from the flock of William Hewer of Northleach, Gloucestershire, England.

His great-grandson Erastus Corning 2nd, who served as Mayor of Albany for 41 years and who died in 1983, is also buried in the family plot.

Fay settled in Australia and Ira Erastus lived in America until the two reunited in 1895 and toured with a show that failed.

* Erastus of Corinth, Corinth's " director of public works " ( Romans verse 16: 23 ), disciple of Paul ( 2 Timothy 4: 20 )

He then read law with General Erastus Root of Delhi, New York ; and upon being admitted to the bar formed a partnership with his preceptor which lasted until 1812.

After being there a year he went to St. Louis where he replaced Erastus Snow as the regional church leader and editor of the

The county was named for Erastus " Deaf " Smith ( 1787 – 1837 ), a partially deaf scout and soldier who served in the Texas Revolution.

Cody brought his " Wild West Show " to an area of Mariners Harbor called Erastina ( named for Staten Island promoter Erastus Wiman ) for two seasons from June to October in 1886 and again in 1887.

Prefacing the paragraph quoted, L. John Nuttall records in his private journal for Wednesday 7 February 1877 that after serving that day in the St. George Temple and after taking his evening meal, he attended a meeting with President Brigham Young, Wilford Woodruff, Erastus Snow, Brigham Young Jr, I. G.

In 1866 six months after the end of the American Civil War, leaders of the northern American Missionary Association ( AMA ): John Ogden, Reverend Erastus Milo Cravath, field secretary ; and Reverend Edward Parmelee Smith founded the Fisk Free Colored School, for education of freedmen.

Weyer's appeal for clemency for those accused of the crime of witchcraft was opposed later in the sixteenth century by the Swiss physician Thomas Erastus and the French legal theorist Jean Bodin.

A publicity campaign engineered largely by Erastus Brainerd told the world of the Portland's " ton of gold ," started the Klondike gold rush, and established Seattle as its supply center and the jumping-off point for transportation to and from Alaska and the gold fields of the Yukon.

* The Colgate Health Center, historically known as the " Edward Whitman House ," was built c. 1850 for Erastus and Grace ( Cowles ) Gay, purchased by Elizabeth V. Keep in 1916, and left to the school upon her death.

Thomas Erastus ( September 7, 1524 – December 31, 1583 ) was a Swiss physician and theologian best known for a posthumously published work in which he argued that the sins of Christians should be punished by the state, and not by the church withholding the sacraments.

In the fall of 1878, Erastus Snow, an LDS Apostle, visited and joined with Flake naming the town Snowflake: " Snow for me and Flake for you.

Erastina was the first rail station built here in 1886 and named for Erastus Wiman, the promoter who helped the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad to enter New York via Staten Island.

His great-grandson, Erastus Corning II, was mayor of Albany for over 40 years, from 1941 to 1983.

Weed did this largely as a favor to his friend Erastus Corning, though Corning was a Democrat and had not supported Seward's gubernatorial bid or Taylor's quest for the presidency.

Erastus " Deaf " Smith ( April 19, 1787 – November 30, 1837 ) was an American frontiersman noted for his part in the Texas Revolution and the army of the Republic of Texas.

The Erastus Corning Tower, the tallest building in Albany and the tallest in the state outside New York City, is named for him, as is the " Corning Preserve ", a nature trail and fishing site on the western banks of the Hudson River in Albany.

* Erastus Corning resigns from his executive post for the New York Central.

4 years after Ward started attending school, his parents, Lester Frank and one of his older bothers, Erastus, traveled to Iowa in a covered wagon for a new life on the frontier.

In response to a public letter issued at a meeting of angry Democrats in Albany, Lincoln's " Letter to Erastus Corning et al.

Just one year later, at an 1897 public hearing on the topic of land preservation in Albany, New York State ’ s capital, Staten Island farmer Erastus Winan stated that “ a wilderness of such beauty pervaded this region that no expenditure could improve upon .”

In 1835 Erastus Beebe set out with two brothers and several other people to create a new city out of a wilderness area in Michigan.

* Erastus Corning ( 1794 – 1872 ), born in the city

During the 56 years to come, he would remain behind the scenes, yet had undeniable power in the political life of Albany, determining patronage and essentially ruling the city during the administrations of mayors William Hackett, John Boyd Thacher II and most notably Erastus Corning 2nd.

Image: Deaf Smith in museum in Hereford IMG 4856. JPG | Erastus " Deaf " Smith as he appears at the Deaf Smith County Museum

Four years later, William sold this same tract of land in Old Village to his brother Erastus at over a 400 percent profit.

Two years later, Erastus sold it back to his brother William at a profit.

( After Olmsted left Tosomock Farm, Erastus Winan bought it, renaming it " The Woods of Arden ", which stands today at 4515 Hylan Blvd., near Woods of Arden.

Erastus was born of poor parents, probably at Baden ( later part of the Canton of Aargau ) in Switzerland.

Both labels then headquartered at his Bronze Peacock club at 2809 Erastus Street in Houston, focusing on R & B and gospel music.

* Biography of Erastus Corning 2nd at Albany County Hall of Records

Gen. John B. Floyd, commanding Confederate forces in the Kanawha Valley, crossed the Gauley River to attack Col. Erastus Tyler's 7th Ohio Regiment encamped at Kessler's Cross Lanes.

Gen. John B. Floyd crossed the Gauley River and surprised the 7th Ohio Infantry under Col. Erastus Tyler at Kessler's Cross Lanes.

Regardless, Dr. Erastus Otis Haven, Syracuse University chancellor and former president of the University of Michigan and Northwestern University maintained that women should receive the advantages of higher education and enrolled his daughter, Frances, at Syracuse.