C. Ruggles Smith was the son of Dr. John Hall Smith, founder of Middlesex University, who had died in 1944.

Madison Avenue was not part of the original New York City street grid established in the Commissioners ' Plan of 1811, and was carved between Park Avenue ( formerly Fourth ) and Fifth Avenue in 1836, due to the effort of lawyer and real estate developer Samuel B. Ruggles, a graduate of Yale University who had previously purchased and developed New York's Gramercy Park in 1831, who was in part responsible for the development of Union Square, and who also named Lexington Avenue.

Eventually Ruggles had to work to support himself as his family's financial situation worsened.

The selection of Ruggles as a delegate had been engineered by Massachusetts Governor Francis Bernard in the hopes of limiting the effectiveness of the congress.

James Otis pointed out that the Massachusetts assembly had authorized its delegation to sign any jointly agreed documents, and that Ruggles ' suggestion undermined the purpose of the congress to present a united front.

) Ruggles and Thomas McKean had an angry exchange over the matter, resulting in Ruggles challenging McKean to a duel.

Given that Ruggles had no experience with the genre – his best-known films at that point were the Academy Award-winning Western epic Cimarron ( 1931 ) and the Mae West comedy I'm No Angel ( 1933 ), both more than a decade old – and his Hollywood career was on a downslide, he was an odd choice indeed.

Ironically, Ruggles had been hired to helm it because as an American, it was thought, he was better equipped to handle a musical — despite the fact that nothing in his past had prepared him to work in the genre.

During his tenure in Congress, Ruggles had served as chairman of the Committee on Patents and Patent Office ( 25th Congress ), and in 1836 framed the bill for the reorganization of the United States Patent Office.

Ruggles was wealthy ; he and his wife Margaret George Ruggles had children and lived in the largest house on the town's Main Street.

The daughter of a prominent Colonial American lawyer, justice and military officer, Bathsheba Ruggles had an arranged marriage to a wealthy farmer, Joshua Spooner, prior to her father's banishment from Massachusetts in 1774, due to his British Loyalist stance.

Bathsheba Ruggles Spooner was the daughter of Brigadier General Timothy Ruggles, a lawyer who had served as chief justice of the Court of Common Pleas in Worcester, Massachusetts, from 1762 to 1764, and founder and most eminent citizen of the town of Hardwick, Massachusetts.

Currier had three wives: Christina Wilson whom he married in 1846 and who died in 1858 ; Anne " Annie " Elizabeth Crosby ; and Hannah Wright, daughter of Ruggles Wright, whom he married in 1868.

The first land purchase in the township was recorded on June 20, 1833 by Eli Ruggles of Brookfield, Connecticut, while accompanied by his brother-in-law, Amos Williams, and Nathaniel Noble, an acquaintance who lived nearby in Dexter.

The legislation approved, and, as the owner of most of the land along the route of the new street, Ruggles was assessed for the majority of its cost.

Clive Ruggles says that Heinrich Nissen, working in the mid-nineteenth century was arguably the first archaeoastronomer.

After refusing at first, Ruggles remarked, " it was against his conscience.

" McKean then disputed his use of the word " conscience " so loudly and so long that a challenge was given by Ruggles and accepted in the presence of the congress.

Wilson was born in Staunton, Virginia on December 28, 1856 as the third of four children of Joseph Ruggles Wilson ( 1822 – 1903 ) and Jessie Janet Woodrow ( 1826 – 1888 ).

Ruggles of Red Gap was serialized beginning December 26, 1914 in The Saturday Evening Post and became a best selling novel in 1915 by Harry Leon Wilson, adapted for the Broadway stage as a musical the same year, and made into a movie several times, most famously in 1935.

Ruggles of Red Gap was adapted as a radio play on the July 10, 1939 episode of Lux Radio Theater, the December 17, 1945 episode of The Screen Guild Theater and the June 8, 1946 episode of Academy Award Theater, all with Charles Laughton and Charlie Ruggles reprising their film parts.

Then came The Barretts of Wimpole Street ( 1934 ) as Norma Shearer's character's malevolent father ( although Laughton was only three years older than Shearer ); Les Misérables ( 1935 ) as Inspector Javert ; one of his most famous screen roles in Mutiny on the Bounty ( 1935 ) as Captain William Bligh, co-starring with Clark Gable as Fletcher Christian ; and Ruggles of Red Gap ( 1935 ) as the very English butler transported to early 1900s America.

Stars featured in the film included Charlotte Henry as Alice, W. C. Fields as Humpty Dumpty, Edna May Oliver as the Red Queen, Cary Grant as the Mock Turtle ( Grant's star was still on the ascent at the time ), Gary Cooper as the White Knight, Edward Everett Horton as The Hatter, Charles Ruggles as The March Hare, and Baby LeRoy as The Joker.

C. Ruggles Smith, desperate for a way to save something of Middlesex University, learned of a New York committee headed by Goldstein that was seeking a campus to establish a Jewish-sponsored secular university, and approached Goldstein with a proposal to give the Middlesex campus and charter to Goldstein's committee, in the hope that his committee might " possess the apparent ability to reestablish the School of Medicine on an approved basis.

Spanish soldiers forced MacGregor's withdrawal, but their attempt to regain complete control was foiled by American irregulars organized by Ruggles Hubbard and former Pennsylvania congressman Jared Irwin.

* Benjamin Ruggles Woodbridge ( 1739 – 1819 ) was a doctor, a colonel of the Massachusetts militia during the American Revolutionary War, and a member of the Massachusetts legislature.

For a decade ( 1907 – 1917 ) Winona was home to pioneer American composer Carl Ruggles.

Carl ( Charles Sprague ) Ruggles was born in East Marion, Massachusetts, on March 11, 1876.

Errol was granted by Governor John Wentworth to Timothy Ruggles and others in 1774, the name taken from Scotland's James Hay, 15th Earl of Erroll.

Timothy Ruggles in particular was Bernard's man, and was elected chairman of the Congress.

It was directed by Wesley Ruggles.

His earliest works show the influence of Webern, Ruggles and Varèse, whereas his music from 1961-64 was largely computer music, arguably the earliest significant body of such work in existence.

Charles " Carl " Sprague Ruggles ( March 11, 1876 – October 24, 1971 ) was an American composer of the American Five group.

Ruggles was a proposed stop on the MBTA's planned Urban Ring Project.

As Ruggles attempts to adjust to this rough new community, he learns to live life on his own terms, achieving a fulfilling independence as a result.

He sat at the piano and moved his fingers around, listened hard to the sounds ... shouting out some of the lines .” According to Ruggles himself, he never learned any music theory ; either way he never analyzed other composers ' pieces.

The screenplay by Sig Herzig, Val Guest, and Elliot Paul, based on a story by director Wesley Ruggles, revolves around comedian Jerry Sanford ( Sid Field ), who arrives in London believing he has been hired as the star of a major stage production, when in fact he's merely an understudy.

Museum of Fine Arts first appeared on system maps in 1990 as Museum ( sometimes Museum / Ruggles ), and small asphalt platforms were installed north of Museum Road around that time.

In 1831 Samuel B. Ruggles, a developer and advocate of open space, proposed the idea for the park due to the northward growth of Manhattan.

Ruggles also brought about the creation by the state legislature of Lexington Avenue and Irving Place, two new north-south roads laid out between Third and Fourth Avenues and feeding into his development at the top and bottom of the park.

It is perhaps the need to balance the social and scientific aspects of archaeoastronomy which led Clive Ruggles to describe it as: "... field with academic work of high quality at one end but uncontrolled speculation bordering on lunacy at the other.

One-time friend Lou Harrison dissociated himself from Ruggles after the 1949 performance of Angels because of the older composer's racism, noting specifically a luncheon at Pennsylvania Station in New York at which Ruggles shouted anti-black and anti-semitic slurs.

Following President Ford's remarks, two lanterns were lit by Robert Newman Ruggles and Robert Newman Sheet, descendants of Robert Newman, who, as sexton of the Old North Church in 1775, lit the two lanterns which signaled the movement of British troops.

He was the headline character in the TV series The Ruggles, a family comedy in which he played a character also called Charlie Ruggles, and The World of Mr. Sweeney.

To the south is the Mission Hill, part of the formerly independent city of Roxbury, which continues as the border extends along Ward, Parker, and Ruggles Streets, and the Southwest Corridor.

Ruggles named the southern section, below 20th Street, which opened in 1833, after his friend Washington Irving.

After the death of David Ruggles in 1849, Charles Munde learned " of the opportunity to take up his favorite method ", which led him to pick up where Ruggles left off, thence to the naming of Florence, and accordingly, the name of the Florence Water Cure, also called the Munde Water Cure.

Ruggles station opened on May 4, 1987 and was built as part of an Orange Line realignment project which relocated the former Washington Street Elevated Orange Line service into the Southwest Corridor.

Smith Dairy, which made the switch that same year for its Ruggles line of ice cream, cited other reasons.

It describes Kate Ruggles ' summer holiday at the Dew Drop Inn in the fictional village of Upper Cassington, which is probably meant to be in Sussex.

Warren Tufts ( December 12, 1925-June 7, 1982 ), born Chester Tufts, was an American comic strip and comic book artist-writer best known for his syndicated Western adventure strip Casey Ruggles which ran from 1949 to 1954.