From 1920 Eisenhower served with an unprecedented succession of generals – Fox Conner, John J. Pershing, Douglas MacArthur and George Marshall.

George Fox ( July 1624 – 13 January 1691 ) was an English Dissenter and a founder of the Religious Society of Friends, commonly known as the Quakers or Friends.

Memorial to Fox's birthplace, situated on George Fox Lane in Fenny Drayton, England

George Fox was born in the strongly puritan village of Drayton-in-the-Clay, Leicestershire, England ( now known as Fenny Drayton ), 15 miles ( 24 km ) west-south-west of Leicester.

George Fox knew people who were " professors " ( followers of the standard religion ), but by the age of nineteen he had begun to look down on their behaviour, in particular their drinking of alcohol.

In prison George Fox continued writing and preaching, feeling that imprisonment brought him into contact with people who needed his help — the jailers as well as his fellow prisoners.

19th-century engraving of George Fox, based on a painting of unknown date

This stone in Queens, New York, located across from the John Bowne House commemorates the place where George Fox preached a sermon on 7 June 1672.

Following extensive travels around the various American colonies, George Fox returned to England in June 1673 confident that his movement was firmly established there.

Two days after preaching, as usual, at the Gracechurch Street Meeting House in London, George Fox died between 9 and 10 p. m. on 13 January 1691.

The name of George Fox is often invoked by traditionalist Friends who dislike modern liberal attitudes to the Society's Christian origins.

Walt Whitman, who was raised by parents inspired by Quaker thought, later wrote: " George Fox stands for something too — a thought — the thought that wakes in silent hours — perhaps the deepest, most eternal thought latent in the human soul.

George Fox University in Oregon, founded as Pacific College in 1891, was renamed for him in 1949.

George Fox – An Autobiography, an annotated and slightly abridged text, is also available in print ( e. g. Friends United Press, 2006 ; ISBN 0-913408-24-7 ) and online ( ).

The Journal of George Fox.

Voice of the Lord: A Biography of George Fox ( Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press ).

First Among Friends: George Fox and the Creation of Quakerism ( Oxford University Press ; ISBN 0-19-510117-0 ).

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A Popular Life of George Fox ( London: Charles Gilpin ).

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A three-dimensional exhibit depicting `` A Century Of Naval Medicine '' was formally presented to The Director by George S. Squibb, great-grandson of the founder of E. R. Squibb and Sons, for permanent display in the Museum.

He worked with George L. Stout, the founder and first editor of Technical Studies.

The Dalhousie seal is based on the heraldic achievement of the Clan Ramsay of Scotland, largely because the founder of the university, the George Ramsay, 9th Earl of Dalhousie was the head of the clan.

John Locke, George Berkeley, and David Hume were the primary exponents of empiricism in the 18th century Enlightenment, with Locke being the person who is normally known as the founder of empiricism as such.

Other influential conservationists of the Progressive Era included George Bird Grinnell ( a prominent sportsmen who founded the Boone and Crockett Club ), the Izaak Walton League and John Muir, the founder of the Sierra Club in 1892.

In 1919, Hubble was offered a staff position in California by George Ellery Hale, the founder and director of the Carnegie Institution's Mount Wilson Observatory, near Pasadena, California, where he remained on the staff until his death.

Fair Isle was bought by the National Trust for Scotland in 1954 from George Waterston, the founder of the bird observatory.

His father was Albert the Brave of Saxony, founder of the Albertine line of the Wettin family, his mother was Sidonie, daughter of George Podiebrad, King of Bohemia.

The grave of Princess Yourievsky ( 1878-1959 ) who was a member of the ill-fated Russian Royal family and who lived in North Hayling for many years, may be found in St. Peter's churchyard ; and the grave of Scotsman George Glas Sandeman, nephew of the founder of Sandeman Port and second head of that company, is prominently featured in the north-east part of St. Mary's graveyard.

Johann Georg Rapp ( November 1, 1757 – August 7, 1847 ), also known as George Rapp, was the founder of the religious sect called Harmonists, Harmonites, Rappites, or the Harmony Society.

The Kuomintang founder Sun Yat-sen, was heavily influenced by the economic ideas of Henry George, who believed that the rents extracted from natural monopolies or the usage of land belonged to the public.

Caron married George Hormel III, a grandson of the founder of Hormel ( a meat-packing company ) in September 1951.

A plaque of George Eastman, founder of Eastman Kodak, in Building 6.

* 1821 – George Williams, English founder of the YMCA ( d. 1905 )

George B. Armstrong, manager of the Chicago Post Office, is generally credited with being the founder of the concept of en route mail sorting aboard trains which became the Railway Mail Service.

* George Safford Parker, founder of the Parker Pen Company, 1882

Fluxus founder George Maciunas, a friend of Ono's during the 1960s, admired her work and promoted it with enthusiasm.

* July – George Fox, English founder of the Quakers ( d. 1691 )

* March 14 – George Eastman, founder of Kodak, commits suicide.

* March 10 – George Müller, Prussian evangelist and founder of the Ashley Down orphanage ( b. 1805 )

* January 13 – George Fox, English founder of the Society of Friends ( b. 1624 )

* George Calvert, 1st Baron Baltimore of England ( 1579 – 1632 ), nobleman, Member of Parliament, Secretary of State, and English colonizer of the North America ( most notably the founder of the Province of Avalon in Newfoundland and future founder of Maryland )

* September 27 – George Müller, Prussian evangelist and founder of the Ashley Down orphanage ( d. 1898 )