The islands belonged to the Pallavicini-Rusconi family of Genoa until 1874, when they were bought by the Florio family of Palermo.

* Somerset Maugham ( 1874 – 1965 ) bought a house, the Villa Mauresque, in Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat in 1928, and, except for the years of World War II, spent much of his time there until his death.

In 1874 Ainsworth and Brooks bought the elevator and 3 years later added a steam powered feedmill.

Hamilton Stone bought the plat and with associates began operations in 1874, building a depot and hotel.

" Squire Jim " Westmoreland bought his home in 1874 when he came to Woodruff to establish a mercantile business.

In 1874 Ferdinand de Rothschild bought a site near the Tramway's Waddesdon station to use as a site for his planned country mansion of Waddesdon Manor.

In 1874, Baron Ferdinand de Rothschild bought a large estate in the area and built the mansion of Waddesdon Manor on a hill-top above the village.

In 1874 Heinrich Hirschsprung bought his first painting from Krøyer, establishing a long-standing patronage.

It was eventually renamed The Perth Gazette and was published by Arthur Shenton, until 26 June 1874, when it was bought by a syndicate who renamed it The Western Australian Times and increased production to two editions a week.

In April 1874, Wotonga House was auctioned and bought for 10, 100 pounds by Mr Thomas Cadell, a Sydney merchant and member of the New South Wales Legislative Council from 1881 to 1896.

* Sir Samuel White Baker, explorer, big-game hunter, writer and abolitionist, bought the Sandford Orleigh estate in 1874, and died there in 1893.

In 1874 the mill was bought by Adelbert Wellington Brownlow Cust, 3rd Earl Brownlow who owned the nearby Ashridge Estate.

He bought paintings at exhibitions and directly from artists ' studios, sometimes he bought the whole series: in 1874 he acquired V. V.

In 1874, Charles Maclay bought of the Rancho Ex-Mission San Fernando land grant including the northern half of the San Fernando Valley north of the city of Los Angeles.

In 1874, Burroughs bought a farm in West Park, NY ( now part of the Town of Esopus ) where he built his Riverby estate.

The East Somerset Railway was bought by the Great Western Railway on 2 December 1874.

Nevada Senator John P. Jones bought a half interest in Baker's property in 1874.

In the 1860s a pipe from the Domain Springs was constructed but in 1874 the city bought William Motions ' mill and 120 acres ( 486, 000 m² ) of land including the spring.

A supporter of the anti-President Grant Liberal Republicans, Thomson was ousted from the paper after Carpenter and other pro-Grant Republicans bought the Sentinel in 1874.

Upon his death in 1874 Firkovich's collection was bought by the Russian National Library.

Both directly and through a newspaper that he had recently bought a stake in, Barlee agitated for responsible government, and in 1874 the Legislative Council passed a resolution calling for the constitutional change.

His 1873 painting " Chasm of the Colorado " was bought by the United States Congress in 1874 and hung in the lobby of the Senate.

In 1874, Custis Lee, heir under his grandfather's will passing the estate in trust to his mother, sued the United States claiming ownership of Arlington.

The town was laid out in 1874 by real estate developer R. G.

* Esperanza — 511 Town Hill Road — A country estate, first built in a Greek Revival style in 1835, then expanded in a Colonial revival style between 1874 and 1893

Only after 1874, when the estate was parcelled out, there was room for growth.

Casey had purchased the Nathanial Conklin estate in 1874 and he wanted a rail depot and post office located closer than the LIRR Deer Park depot that had opened in 1853.

Her father had died in 1874, leaving her the bulk of his estate.

Armstrong was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1874, and moved to St. James, Watonwan County, Minnesota, where he engaged in banking and in real estate.

The Kaufmans lived in “ La Tourelle ”, a French Norman estate designed by celebrated Pittsburgh architect Benno Janssen ( 1874 – 1964 ) in the stylish Fox Chapel suburb in 1923 for Edgar J. Kaufmann.

The Rhind lectures began in 1874 after the death of Alexander Rhind who left the residue of his estate to endow a lectureship in the Society and there have now been over 130 lectures and many have become the published textbook for a generation.

In 1874, the estate passed to a distant Fox cousin, Henry Fox-Strangways, 5th Earl of Ilchester.

In 1874, Clarke's son, William, built a mansion, which resides on an estate named " Rupertswood ", after his own son, Rupert.

In 1874, Latham commissioned Carleton Watkins to photograph the huge estate and produce two presentation albums of mammoth plate prints.

The club leased the estate from Naylor in 1869 and in 1874 acquired the land outright for £ 27, 500.

In 1874, real estate tycoon Louis Menage ( b. 1850 ) began plotting new subdivisions along Minneapolis ' southern boundaries.

Cricketer Albert Relf ( 1874 – 1937 ) was born here, The Who frontman Roger Daltrey maintains a Holmshurst Manor country estate and Lakedown fishery near Burwash Common, Robert Smith, singer and founding member of rock band The Cure is a resident.

The first large-scale Higher Life meetings took place from July 17 – 23, 1874, at the Broadlands estate of Lord and Lady Mount Temple.

Carl Graham Fisher ( 1874 – 1939 ) of Indiana, an American automotive and real estate entrepreneur.

In 1874 the estate passed to Clay's eldest son, also Henry Clay, who lived there until his death in 1921 aged 96.

Set on a midsummer night of 1874, on the estate of a Count in Sweden, the young woman of the title, attempting to escape an existence cramped by social mores and have a little fun, dances at the servants ' annual midsummer party, where she is drawn to a senior servant, a footman named Jean, who is particularly well-traveled, well-mannered and well-read.

In 1874, Grant married Ida Marie Honoré ( 1854 – 1930 ), the daughter of Henry Hamilton Honoré, who made his fortune in Chicago real estate.