After graduating from the University of Nebraska at Lincoln, Edgerton married Esther May Garrett in 1928.

* 1928 – Clifford Lincoln, Canadian politician

Sandburg also wrote Abraham Lincoln: The Prairie Years, a two-volume biography in 1926, The American Songbag ( 1927 ), and a book of poems called Good Morning, America ( 1928 ) in Elmhurst.

In 1915, the " Colorado Loop " was removed, and in 1928, a realignment relocated the Lincoln Highway through the northern tip of West Virginia.

The final ( 1928 – 1930 ) alignment of the Lincoln Highway corresponds roughly to the following roads:

( Note: In Pennsylvania and Ohio, there have been many new 4-lane bypasses constructed on U. S. Route 30, so to follow the 1928 route of the Lincoln Highway, at times it is necessary to travel the old U. S. Route 30 alignments which travel through the center of the cities and towns along the route.

( Note: In 1928, Lincoln Highway travelers crossed the San Francisco Bay via a ferry from the Berkeley Pier to the Hyde Street Pier in San Francisco.

The last major promotional activity of the LHA took place on September 1, 1928, when at 1: 00 p. m. groups of Boy Scouts placed approximately 2, 400 concrete markers at sites along the route to officially mark and dedicate it to the memory of Abraham Lincoln.

Upon the advent of the federal numbered highway system in 1928, the Lincoln Highway through Ontario became U. S. Route 30.

In 1928, the federal government renamed Lincoln Highway to US 30.

* The life of Abraham Lincoln 1900 1903 1909 1917 1920 1924 1928

They include Welterweight Boxing Champion Storer College ( 1925 – 27 ); High Jump champion, Howard University Inter-Scholastic Games ( 1926 ); Gold Medalist in Cross Country, Storer College ( 1927 ); Back-stroke Swimming Champion and No. 3 swimmer in Freestyle Relay team, Howard University ( 1928 ); Captain, Lincoln University Soccer Team ( 1930 ); Winner Two Miles Run, Central Inter-Collegiate Athletic Association Championships at Hampton Institute Virginia ( 1931 ); Bronze Medalist, Richmond Cross Country Marathon ( 1931 ); Gold Medalist in the 1, 000 yard run, One Mile Run and Three Mile Run, Catedonian Games in Brooklyn, NY ( 1932 ); Silver Trophy winner in the Half Mile race, and Silver Cup winner in the One Mile Race, Democratic Field Day Championships, New Haven, Connecticut ( 1933 ); Runner-up ( with G. K. Dorgu ) at the Lagos Tennis Men ’ s Double Championships ( Division B 1938 ); anchor man for the ZAC team which won the 50 yards Freestyle Relay at the Lagos Swimming Championships ( 1939 ).

He was a Third-class Clerk, Treasury Department, Lagos ( 1921 – 1924 ); Recruit, Gold Coast Police Force ( Jul .- September 1924 ); Solicitor Clerk to the late Mr. Justice Graham Paul at Calabar ( Jan .- Aug. 1925 ); Instructor in Political Science, Lincoln University ( 1931 – 34 ); University Correspondent for the Baltimore Afro-American ( 1928 – 34 ); General and Sports Correspondent for the Philadelphia Tribune ( 1928 – 34 ); Editor-in Chief of the West African Pilot ( 1937 – 45 ); Correspondent for the Associated Negro Press ( 1944 – 47 ); Correspondent for Reuters ( 1944 – 46 ); Managing Director of Zik ’ s Press Limited printers and publishers of the West African Pilot ( Lagos ), Eastern Guardian ( Port Harcourt ), Nigerian Spokesman ( Onitsha ), Southern Nigeria Defender ( Ibadan ), Daily Comet ( Kano ), and Eastern Sentinel ( Enugu ); Managing Director of Comet Press Limited ( 1945 – 53 ); Chairman of West African Pilot Limited and the Associated Newspapers of Nigeria Limited and six other limited liability companies ( 1952 – 53 ); Chairman, Nigerian Real Estate Corporation Limited ( 1952 – 53 ); etc.

As her career as a blues singer waned, mostly she sustained herself by performing in cabaret revues, and starring in musical revues such as New York Revue ( 1928 ) and Next Door Neighbors ( 1928 ) at the Lincoln Theatre in Harlem.

He chaired the Department of Political Science at Howard University from 1928 until 1950 ; taught at Harvard University from 1950 to 1952 ; served as a member of the New York City Board of Education ( 1958 – 1964 ), as a member of the Board of Overseers of Harvard University ( 1960 – 1965 ), as a member of the Board of the Institute of International Education, and as a trustee of Oberlin College, Lincoln University, and New Lincoln School.

He was the younger brother of U. S. Representative George Shannon " Doc " Long and Governor and U. S. Senator Huey Pierce Long, Jr. Long's younger sister was Lucille Long Hunt ( 1898 – 1985 ) of Ruston, the seat of Lincoln Parish in north Louisiana and the mother of future Louisiana Public Service Commissioner John S. Hunt, III ( 1928 – 2001 ), of Monroe.

In 1928, Lincoln National Bank merged with Lincoln Trust Company ( formerly known as Strauss Brothers Commercial Bank ) to become Lincoln National Bank and Trust.

He was one of the commissioners appointed to build the state capitol 1874 ; in 1867 appointed clerk of Westchester County, but resigned after a short service ; made immigration commissioner by New York Legislature in 1870, but declined to serve ; member of boundary commission of the state of New York in 1875 ; had also been commissioner of quarantine and president of Court of Claims of New York City and commissioner of taxes and assessments for the city and county of New York ; defeated for Lieutenant Governor of New York on the Liberal Republican-Democratic ticket in 1872 ; candidate for U. S. Senator from New York in 1881, but withdrew after the 41st ballot ; declined nomination as a senator in 1885 ; but elected to the U. S. Senate in 1899, and re-elected in 1905, and served from March 4, 1899, to March 4, 1911 ; stumped the state of New York for John C. Frémont in 1856 and for Abraham Lincoln in 1860 ; delegate-at-large to Republican National conventions 1888-1904 and delegate to all following conventions, including 1928, being elected the day before he died ; made the nomination speeches for Harrison in 1892, Governor Morton in 1896, and Fairbanks in 1904 ; at the convention in 1888 received ninety-nine votes for the presidential nomination, and in 1892 declined an appointment as Secretary of State in Harrison's cabinet ; Adjutant of the 18th Regiment, New York National Guard, which served in the American Civil War, and later Colonel and Judge Advocate of the 5th Division, on the staff of Major General James W. Husted of the New York Guard, trustee of Peekskill Military Academy ; president of New York State Society of the Sons of the American Revolution, of the Pilgrims Society from 1918 until his death, of the St. Nicholas Society, and of the Union League for seven years ( member since 1868 and elected honorary life member at the close of his presidency ); an officer of the French Légion d ' honneur ; vice president of New York Chamber of Commerce 1904-08 ( member since 1885 ).

At a meeting in Lincoln, Nebraska, on May 19, 1928, six of the seven state schools ( excluding Oklahoma A & M ) organized a separate conference.

In 1928, just before the onset of the Great Depression, Illinois State Highway 74 ( later Illinois Route 26 ) was rerouted through the eastern part of Orangeville, bypassing the downtown business district.

In 1928, the route became U. S. Highway 81.

Following the 1927 New Jersey State Highway renumbering, the new NJ 2 ( later NJ 17 ), was built in 1928, skirting the southeast edge of the borough, between the residential area and the New Jersey Meadowlands.

In 1928, the trail was renamed US Highway 31W.

It faded in importance as new and more direct routes into the city were constructed, namely the extensions of Jefferson Highway ( 1928 ) and Airline Highway ( 1940 ) into South Claiborne Avenue and Tulane Avenue, respectively.

* Founding the Highway Engineering school and teaching there from 1928

Until it was named the Hume Highway in 1928 it was known as the " Great South Road " in NSW and " Sydney Road " in Victoria.

The first 35 km of the highway was known as Liverpool Road until August 1928, when it was renamed as part of the Hume or Great Southern Highway, as part of the creation of the NSW highway system.

Melbourne International Airport began in 1928 when a Pitcairn Aircraft landed on a cow pasture strip north of Kissimmee Highway.

( Note that the section of road that is called " Jefferson Highway " between Shrewsbury Road and the New Orleans city limits at South Claiborne Avenue was NOT part of the original route as it did not exist until 1928.

The Gloucester Presbyterian Church, which was built in 1928 and stood on the west side of Highway 31 near Sieveright Road was demolished in 1990.

It was converted to streetcar operation in 1890, and the Twin City Rapid Transit Company ( TCRT ) extended the route to Diamond Lake Road in 1911, 58th Street in 1928, and 62nd Street ( now Minnesota State Highway 62 ) in 1947.

The highway was declared on 8 August 1928 and named North Western Highway.

The Highway was named in 1928 to commemorate John Oxley who was the first European to explore much of inland New South Wales in 1818.

When the NSW main road system was reorganised in August 1928, the Great Northern Road was gazetted as part of state highway 9, the Great Northern Highway.

The section of the Great Western Road as far west as Mount Victoria is with very few deviations still in use today as part of the Great Western Highway ( it was designated as a state highway when administration of the NSW main road system was reorganised in 1928 ).

-Parramatta Road ( officially renamed Great Western Highway in 1928 )

( Still another song in `` Strike Up The Band '' -- `` I've Got A Crush On You '' -- was retrieved from a 1928 failure, `` Treasure Girl ''.

The first Academy Awards ceremony was held on May 16, 1929, at the Hotel Roosevelt in Hollywood to honor the outstanding film achievements of the 1927 / 1928 film season.

The original Oscar mold was cast in 1928 at the C. W.

Andy Warhol ( August 6, 1928 – February 22, 1987 ) was an American artist who was a leading figure in the visual art movement known as pop art.

Andy Warhol ( né Andrej Varchola, Jr .) was born on August 6, 1928 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Winnie-the-Pooh was published in 1926, followed by The House at Pooh Corner in 1928.

A single Test was held at the Brisbane Exhibition Ground in 1928 – 29.

Iuliu Maniu ( 1873 – 1953 ) was prime minister with an agrarian cabinet from 1928 to 1930, but the Great Depression made proposed reforms impossible.

The stadium " Tivoli ", opened in 1928, served as the venue for the team's home games and was well known for its incomparable atmosphere throughout the whole of the second division.

After this initial chemotherapeutic compound proved effective, others pursued similar lines of inquiry, but it was not until in 1928 that Alexander Fleming observed antibiosis against bacteria by a fungus of the genus Penicillium.

The Africa Alphabet ( also International African Alphabet or IAI alphabet ) was developed in 1928 under the lead of Diedrich Westermann.

He was the third of the four children of farmer Hugh Fleming ( 1816 – 1888 ) from his second marriage to Grace Stirling Morton ( 1848 – 1928 ), the daughter of a neighbouring farmer.

In 1918 he returned to St Mary's Hospital, where he was elected Professor of Bacteriology of the University of London in 1928.

" When I woke up just after dawn on September 28, 1928, I certainly didn't plan to revolutionise all medicine by discovering the world's first antibiotic, or bacteria killer ," Fleming would later say, " But I suppose that was exactly what I did.

Their work was published in 1928 after Carnegie's death in Hill's book The Law of Success ( ISBN 0-87980-447-5 ) and in 1937, Think and Grow Rich ( ISBN 1-59330-200-2 ).

In 1924 he was elected to the Bavarian state parliament for another party, in which he served as vice-president until 1928.

The novel was first published in November and December 1928 in the German newspaper Vossische Zeitung and in book form in late January 1929.

In 1928, the club logo was introduced with the head of the Greek hero Ajax.

Alexis Korner ( 19 April 1928 — 1 January 1984 ) was a blues musician and radio broadcaster, who has sometimes been referred to as " a Founding Father of British Blues ".

James Avery Hopwood ( May 28, 1882-July 1, 1928 ), was the most successful playwright of the Jazz Age, having four plays running simultaneously on Broadway in 1920.

Angus was historically a county ( known officially as Forfarshire from the 18th century until 1928, when it reverted to its ancient name ) until 1975 when it became a district of the Tayside Region.

An important period for the journal was 1928 – 1958 with Solomon Lefschetz as editor.

The school existed in three German cities ( Weimar from 1919 to 1925, Dessau from 1925 to 1932 and Berlin from 1932 to 1933 ), under three different architect-directors: Walter Gropius from 1919 to 1928, Hannes Meyer from 1928 to 1930 and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe from 1930 until 1933, when the school was closed by its own leadership under pressure from the Nazi regime.