When Robert was 17 in 1824, Fitzhugh wrote to the Secretary of War, John C. Calhoun, urging that Robert be given an appointment to the United States Military Academy at West Point.

The duo worked with Bill Fitzhugh in late 2008 and wrote a book titled The Adventures of Slim and Howdy.

General William Henry Fitzhugh Lee, son of Robert E. Lee, once wrote of Evans:

She also wrote Suzuki Beane ( 1961 with illustrator Louise Fitzhugh.

John Hay, who would become a close confidant of President Lincoln and later U. S. Secretary of State, remembered Brown University as the place “ where I used to eat Hasheesh and dream dreams .” And a classmate recalls that after reading Ludlow ’ s book, Hay “ must needs experiment with hasheesh a little, and see if it was such a marvelous stimulant to the imagination as Fitzhugh Ludlow affirmed.

Fitzhugh, along with a number of southern writers, used the term to differentiate Southerners from Northerners, based on the dichotomy that Southerners were supposedly descendents of Normans / Cavaliers whereas Northerners were descendents of Anglo-Saxons / Puritans.

In 1873, Charles C. Fitzhugh, Jr., a Bay City pioneer, and his wife, Jane, purchased land and built a home on property bounded by Washington, Saginaw, Ninth and Tenth Streets, which later became the location for City Hall.

Fitzhugh dealt on a large scale in wild lands and farms, being an agent for over of land in Bay County.

An army of the Confederate States of America under General Fitzhugh Lee attacked and shelled the borough during the Battle of Carlisle on July 1, 1863, part of the Gettysburg Campaign of the American Civil War.

thumbThe first school in Melissa was built on land purchased in 1882 by trustees James Graves, John Gibson, and George Fitzhugh, who were early settlers of the area.

In 1894, Belhaven College was chartered by Dr. Lewis Fitzhugh as the " Belhaven College for Young Ladies " in a house on Boyd Street in Jackson, Mississippi.

Stuart at Yellow Tavern on May 11 and beat Maj. Gen. Fitzhugh Lee at Meadow Bridge on May 12, the raid never seriously threatened Richmond and it left Grant without cavalry intelligence for Spotsylvania and North Anna.

* Louise Fitzhugh ( 1928 – 1974 ) author, lived on East 85th Street, between East End and York Avenues.

Two of the directors of the Hagerstown Bank, Colonel William Fitzhugh and Major Charles Carroll were, like Rochester, wealthy landowners interested in acquiring land in the new " frontier " of the U. S. In 1800, Fitzhugh and Carroll convinced Rochester to travel with them on a prospecting visit to the frontier lands of New York State, and specifically to the lands along the upper portion of the Genesee River.

Fitzhugh and Carroll acquired land along the river on their trip, but Rochester, sensing the opportunity to develop a town, chose a tract along Canaseragea Creek near the hamlet of Dansville.

He was released back to the Union Army in exchange for captive Confederate General William Henry Fitzhugh Lee ( son of General Robert E. Lee ) on February 25, 1864.

This play was based on the novel " Nobody's Family is Going to Change " by Louise Fitzhugh.

* Bruce Fitzhugh ( Living Sacrifice ) & Stephanie Pierce – vocals on " Lies "

The band evolved into a metalcore style beginning with Reborn ( 1997 ) under Solid State Records with the original guitarist Bruce Fitzhugh on vocals.

It is a " best of " album, containing three " newly written and recorded songs by Lance Garvin, Rocky Gray and Bruce Fitzhugh ", two songs from each Living Sacrifice album, plus " Enthroned ," a 1998 cover of a song originally released on 1992's Nonexistent.

In 2007, Bruce Fitzhugh was featured on the song " Sixteen ", on Demon Hunter's fourth album Storm The Gates Of Hell.

On the same day at the Dallas, Texas date of the " Stronger Than Hell " tour, Bruce Fitzhugh announced that the band is working on a new CD which they hoped to release in 2009.

A character (" Lady Fitzhugh ") based on Mrs. Lindsay was played by actress Dame Sybil Thorndike in the 1959 film, Shake Hands with the Devil, which starred James Cagney, Don Murray and Michael Redgrave.

Fitzhugh and his wife, Ann Bolling Randolph Fitzhugh ( 1747 – 1805 ), built Chatham Manor on property across the Rappahannock River from Fredericksburg, Virginia, completing it in 1771 after 3 years of construction.

William Fitzhugh and George Washington visited one another frequently until Washington's death in 1799, with Washington mentioning Fitzhugh in his diary and the two serving together on the Pohick Church vestry.

Anne Lee's family was often succored by a relative, William Henry Fitzhugh, who owned the Oronoco Street house and allowed the Lees to stay at his home in Fairfax County, Ravensworth.

Category: Fitzhugh family of Virginia

Category: Fitzhugh family of Virginia

" Fitzhugh Genealogy ", website about the history and genealogy of the Fitzhugh family

Category: Fitzhugh family of Virginia

The killer was a Harvard-educated musician named Fitzhugh Coyle Goldsborough, a violinist in the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra who came from a prominent Maryland family.

" The house was built in 1795 by John Potts, Jr. After William Fitzhugh's death, it then passed to William Henry Fitzhugh, his only son, and was rented to the Lee family.

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Fitzhugh took up residence in a " rickety old mansion " known for a vast collection of bats in its attic that he inherited through his wife's family.

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After his mother died in 1873, Rooney inherited Ravensworth Plantation, the old Fitzhugh family property ( near present-day Springfield ) in Fairfax County with of land.

Category: Fitzhugh family of Virginia

Category: Fitzhugh family of Virginia

Elements of Allen's Lost in Space series recur in Land of the Giants, notably the relationship between the foolish, greedy traitor, an on-the-run bank robber named Alexander B. Fitzhugh ( Kurt Kasznar ), and the young boy Barry Lockridge ( portrayed by Stefan Arngrim ); paralleling the relationship in Lost in Space between Doctor Zachary Smith and the young Will Robinson.

Yet his diary for this time and place says " No land visible " and Crocker Land was in 1914 found to be non-existent by Donald MacMillan and Fitzhugh Green.

Suzuki Beane ( 1961 ), by Sandra Scoppettone with Louise Fitzhugh illustrations, was a Bleecker Street beatnik spoof of Kay Thompson's Eloise series ( 1956 – 59 ).

The estate passed to Custis ' and his wife's ( Mary Lee Fitzhugh Custis ) only surviving adult child Mary Anna Custis Lee who was married to Robert E. Lee, a West Point graduate and United States Army officer.

By 1860 Virginian author George Fitzhugh was using the " challenging phrase “ master race ”, which soon came to mean considerably more than the ordinary master-slave relationship ".

It was suggested by one of the original settlers of Cooke County, Colonel William Fitzhugh, that the town be named after General Edmund Pendleton Gaines.

It was a final humiliation for Pickett, because he was two miles away from his troops at the time of the attack, enjoying a shad bake with generals Fitzhugh Lee

" Taylor later explained to Fitzhugh Lee that it was addressed in this way because Pickett was relieved of his division command, not dismissed from the Army, and the report covered a time in which he was in command.

Despite an advance of the cavalry commanded by Fitzhugh Lee, the Confederate Army was checked by the arrival of Union cavalry commanded by Gen. Philip Sheridan and two divisions of infantry.

Fitzhugh served as president until his death in 1904, upon which his heirs sold the college to Dr. J. R. Preston, who operated the school until it was again destroyed by a fire in 1910.

Taylor's approach, defending the preservation of slavery under the circumstances and apprehensions of his day, was used to support later and more emphatic defenses of slavery by writers, such as John C. Calhoun, Edmund Ruffin, and George Fitzhugh, who extended the argument by claiming the institution to be a " positive good.

Francis Lovell's wife, Anne Fitzhugh, was granted an annuity of £ 20 in 1489.

Former Virginia Governor Fitzhugh Lee, a nephew of General Robert E. Lee and the most popular man in Virginia, was named its president.

Another major setback was the death of Fitzhugh Lee in 1905 while traveling in New England to drum up trade for the celebration.

Before this it was referred to as Fitzhugh.

The railway siding at the location of the future townsite was established by Grand Trunk Pacific Railway in 1911 and originally named Fitzhugh after a Grand Trunk vice president ( along the Grand Trunk's " alphabet " line ).