Among the first Anglo settlers of the area was Chauncey A. Bacon, an architect and Civil War veteran from New Britain, Connecticut, who in 1876 purchased in present day Ormond-By-The-Sea and named it the Number Nine Plantation.

Upon Webster's death in 1843, the unsold books and all rights to the copyright and name " Webster " were purchased by brothers George and Charles Merriam, who then hired Webster's son-in-law Chauncey A. Goodrich, a professor at Yale College, to oversee revisions.

The land for the crematorium was purchased in 1900, costing £ 6, 000, and the crematorium was opened in 1902 by Sir Henry Thompson.

Rodin is represented by over 20 works in the museum collection, making it one of the largest collections of the sculptor's work outside France ; these were gifted to the museum by the sculptor in 1914, as acknowledgement of Britain's support of France in World War I, although the statue of St John the Baptist had been purchased in 1902 by public subscription.

John D. Patterson purchased additional land, and upon his death on March 7, 1902, a total of were willed to Thomas W. Patterson and William W. Patterson, his estate executors, and other heirs.

By 1902, the Baltimore & Potomac was purchased by the powerful Pennsylvania Railroad.

The arrangement with the mill continued until 1902 when the village purchased a 12-horse power gasoline engine and established a new well at the new fire engine house a short distance north of Third and Main Streets.

The Water Commission purchased the lane in 1902 and developed wells for much needed water to a growing community.

In 1902, Thomas Jefferson Hooks formed the LaBlanca Agricultural Company, which purchased ( 93 km² ) in Hidalgo County.

In May 1902 he helped to form the La Blanca Agricultural Company, which purchased fronting the river two miles ( 3 km ) east and two miles ( 3 km ) west of the site of present Donna and extending north eighteen miles ( 29 km ).

Conolly's son Maurice Marcus McCausland ( 1872-1938 ) lived through both the best and worst of times at Drenagh as in 1902, through the Irish Land Acts, the Government compulsorily purchased 75 % of the estate.

In 1902, Reuss, along with Franz Hartmann and Henry Klein, purchased the right to perform the Rite of Memphis and Mizraim of Freemasonry, the authority of which was confirmed in 1904 and again in 1905.

A London Shakespeare League was founded in 1902 to develop a Shakespeare National Theatre and – with the impending tri-centenary in 1916 of his death – in 1913 purchased land for a theatre in Bloomsbury.

Journalist Clarence Barron purchased control of the company for US $ 130, 000 in 1902 ; circulation was then around 7, 000 but climbed to 50, 000 by the end of the 1920s.

CF & I was purchased by John D. Rockefeller in 1902, and nine years later he turned his controlling interest in the company to his son, John D. Rockefeller, Jr., who managed the company from his offices at 26 Broadway in New York.

In 1891, Page and Landeck Lumber Company purchased a tract of hardwood timberlands near Crandon, and by 1902, the company built a huge sawmill ( later named the Keith & Hiles Lumber Mill ) near Clear Lake on Crandon's north side.

*, originally SS Arizona, was purchased by the United States Department of War, then transferred to the Navy in 1902, and used as a transport until 1925.

( In 1902 the Field Museum of Natural History purchased a large and varied collection of more than 1, 900 Tlingit objects.

The church was built on the site of a small manor with two annexes that was purchased in 1902 by the sect's founder Feliksa Kozłowska.

Logan built the Brookdale Lodge on the site of the Grover Lumber Mill in the 1890s, purchased the Brookdale Town Site in 1902, put in a wagon road and had a cottage built in 1905, and had lots laid out in 1907.

HMCS Royal Roads was located on a property originally purchased by James Dunsmuir in 1902.

By that time Laflin & Rand had taken over the American Powder Company to protect their investment, and Laflin & Rand had been purchased by DuPont in 1902.

In 1902 MacAlaster & Wiggin purchased the x-ray tube business of Swett & Lewis.

The hotel was enlarged and improved in 1884 and 1892 and in 1902 the BNCR purchased the freehold outright from the Earl of Antrim.

The Council purchased a strip of land at the southernmost tip to erect a statue of Queen Victoria in 1902.

He purchased it in 1902, and made it his home, even paying for a new road to be built to the nearest main road.

The Farnsworth House and its wooded site was purchased at auction for US $ 7. 5 million by preservation groups in 2004 and is now owned and operated by the National Trust for Historic Preservation as a public museum.

They also purchased and operated a restaurant, and established a sand and gravel business.

It is owned and operated by Rupert Murdoch's News Limited, who purchased HWT in 1987.

Augusta Gein operated a small grocery store and eventually purchased a farm on the outskirts of the small town of Plainfield, Wisconsin, which then became the Gein family's permanent home.

* Royal New Zealand Air Force purchased three ex-United Airlines aircraft in 1981, with two operated by No. 40 Squadron RNZAF and the third placed into storage and later broken up.

It reads " We purchased ' Tower House ' in 1953 and have operated from here ever since.

The mill was purchased by John Hermann Dolle in 1853 and operated by the Dolle family until 1936 when it was sold to Terry Bollinger.

By 1971, when the line was purchased by the conglomerate Trafalgar House, Cunard operated cargo and passenger ships, hotels and resorts.

The southern extension connecting Corydon was purchased by the Corydon Scenic Railroad Company in 1989 and operated as a tourist attraction until 2003 when it was closed because of financial difficulties, ending passenger service in the county.

A seat can be purchased on one airline but is actually operated by a cooperating airline under a different flight number or code.

The Copper Queen operated in Douglas from 1904 until 1931, when the Phelps Dodge Corporation purchased the Calumet and Arizona Company and took over their smelter.

A tire manufacturing plant was built in 1962 by the Armstrong Rubber Co., which operated it until that company was purchased by the Italian manufacturer Pirelli, which eventually closed the factory in 2001.

In 1820, Charles Alex Barre purchased numerous acres along the bayou side from Sieur Jacques Guillaume Courtableau where the Barre family operated a goods handling business.

Mr. Slagle erected a store of his own, and Mr. James operated the original store until he sold it to his brother, Randolph, then he purchased the Frances Womack Store at the north end of Main Street.

Zulauf operated this mill until 1919 when the Gilchrist Bros purchased it.

The company operated under the Irwin Industrial name beginning in 2002 when it was purchased by Newell Rubbermaid.

In 1895, the town was renamed " Fullerton " in honor of local businessman James W. Fuller Jr., who had purchased the railroad car wheel factory of Frederick & Company in 1865 and operated it as McKee, Fuller & Co. and later the Lehigh Car, Wheel & Axle Works.

Since the earliest days Smethport operated and serviced its transmission lines and purchased electricity from outside providers.

They operated the colliery from 1868 to 1873, when it was purchased by Repplier, Gordon & Company.

Woodside Mills operated the plants until 1956, when the company was purchased by Dan River Mills of Virginia.

Nell and Kate also purchased a large tugboat in order to tow logs to a lumbermill on Lake Shannon and operated a fishing-boat franchise.

During World War II, several aircraft plants were operated in the area, and the Kraft Foods company purchased a vacant one after the war for its own use.

The Cincinnati Traction Company purchased it in 1901 and operated the zoo for 16 years.

After efforts to free him, Nim was purchased by the Black Beauty Ranch, operated by The Fund for Animals, the group led by Cleveland Amory, in Texas.