He preferred to be called Sumner after his famous relative Charles Sumner, a leading Senator from Massachusetts during the Civil War and Reconstruction.

In 1880, the French government awarded Bell the Volta Prize of 50, 000 francs ( approximately US $ 10, 000 at that time, about $ in current dollars ) for the invention of the telephone, which he used to found the Volta Laboratory, along with Sumner Tainter and Bell's cousin Chichester Bell.

He was soon transferred to the newly formed 1st Cavalry Regiment ( 1855 ) at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas Territory, where he became regimental quartermaster and commissary officer under the command of Col. Edwin V. Sumner.

Many more died during the next four years on the encampment at Fort Sumner.

Carleton had underestimated the number of Navajo that would arrive at Sumner, and also had ordered insufficient provisions, a factor that Carson deplored.

In particular, Gilbert, Morris, and Sumner could be seen playing keyboards at times, while Hook played electronic drums variously.

It starred Dustin Hoffman as David Sumner, a timid American mathematician ( his wife at one point attempts to erase Einstein's field equations from his blackboard ) who leaves the chaos of college anti-war protests to live with his young wife Amy ( Susan George ) in her native village in Cornwall, England.

Construction began in 1914 under the leadership of Charles Sumner Frost and took two years, at a total cost of $ 4. 5 million.

It was invented jointly by Alexander Graham Bell and his assistant Charles Sumner Tainter on February 19, 1880, at Bell's laboratory at 1325 L Street in Washington, D. C.

The Indian agent at Fort Laramie negotiated with the Cheyenne to reduce hostilities, but the Secretary of War ordered the 1st Cavalry Regiment ( 1855 ) to carry out a punitive expedition under the command of Colonel Edwin V. Sumner.

In 1880 Alexander Graham Bell and his assistant Charles Sumner Tainter created the Photophone, at Bell's newly established Volta Laboratory in Washington, DC.

The trail began at Young County, Texas and passed along the Pecos River, Fort Sumner, New Mexico, and Colorado before ending in Cheyenne, Wyoming.

From 1882 through 1884 disastrous floods and overflows of the river forced the people of Sumner to go by boat to Webb ( which was at the time called Hood ) for their supplies.

He taught for six months at Jamaica Plain High School on Sumner Hill in Boston, and then joined the Army.

Blake was born at 319 Forrest Street in Baltimore, Maryland to former slaves John Sumner Blake ( 1838 – 1917 ) and Emily " Emma " Johnstone ( 1861 – 1917 ).

Sumner broke up the fort at Santa Fe for this purpose, creating the first military post in what is now Arizona.

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The Paris Manufacturing Company, which was started modestly by Henry Franklin Morton in 1861 at West Sumner, grew into an important manufacturer.

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Singer-bassist Sting ( Gordon Sumner ) and guitarist Henry Padovani began rehearsing with Copeland in January 1977, and they recorded the first Police single " Fall Out " the following month.

The species was first described in 1906 as Stropharia cubensis by Franklin Sumner Earle in Cuba.

In 1885, Camp Baldhead ( later known as Camp Dudley ), the first residential camp in North America, was established by A. Sanford and Sumner F. Dudley, both of whom worked for the YMCA.

YMCA camping began in 1885 when Camp Bell Witch ( later known as Camp Dudley ) was established by G A. Sanford and Sumner F. Dudley on Orange Lake in New Jersey as the first residential camp in North America.

Charleston was the first county seat, and Sumner was organized later in 1872.

Located in a pine covered valley in the San Gabriel Mountains, the area was first developed as cattle ranches in the 19th century by Nathan and Truman Swarthout, then later the main ranch, owned by Sumner Wright was broken up into residential and commercial lots and by the 1920s a community took roots.

A settlement named " Sumnerville " laid out by L. C. Sumner in 1873 and located approximately one half mile ( 1 km ) east of Six Lakes was the first village platted in the township.

Sumner was incorporated in 1900 and was named after its founder and first mayor, Joseph Burton Sumner.

The first public high school in Sumner county was originally started as a seminary in 1874.

He gave antislavery men important posts in Congress for the first time, and cooperated with investigations of both the Kansas conflict and the caning of Senator Charles Sumner.

The first European to carry out work in Sumner is believed to be Charles Crawford, a whaleboat owner, who transported materials from Port Cooper, now Lyttelton, under contract to build the headquarter and storeroom for Captain Thomas.

The Day family was the first to settle permanently in Sumner followed by Edward Dobson and his family.

Sumner had its first shop early in 1870, and its proprietor, S. E.

Sumner Bay is the first bay on the northern side of Banks Peninsula and faces Pegasus Bay and the Pacific Ocean.

The world's first wireless telephone conversation occurred in 1880, when Alexander Graham Bell and Charles Sumner Tainter invented and patented the photophone, a telephone that conducted audio conversations wirelessly over modulated light beams ( which are narrow projections of electromagnetic waves ).

* While being a U. S. protectorate from 1905 to 1941, the Dominican Republic had first various native regimes, then US military Governors 29 November 1916 – 24 July 1922, and just before it again had the first of its own Presidents on 21 October 1922, a single U. S. High Commissioner, Sumner Welles, who served from 1922 – 1924.

Bolan is still cited by many guitar-centric bands as a huge influence ( Joy Division / New Order's Bernard Sumner has said that the first single he owned was " Ride a White Swan ".

Primarily known as the band's lead guitarist ( his main guitars were a Gibson SG and a Shergold Custom Masquerader ), Sumner also played keyboards for synth parts and made his first vocal appearance on record singing the chorus of " They Walked In Line " on the Warsaw album.

On 2 July 2009, Bernard Sumner confirmed that single " Sink or Swim " would be released on 28 September 2009 and would be the first off their album Never Cry Another Tear.

For the first few sessions, Sumner did not promote any of his controversial causes.

On August 26, 1852, Sumner, despite strenuous efforts to dissuade him, delivered his first major speech, titled with a popular abolitionist motto: " Freedom National ; Slavery Sectional ".