He had developed a series of local residential subdivisions in the area up until his 1931 death, In 1942, the county road commission named Wilson Avenue in his honor to comply with a state law requiring roads that benefitted from state funds to have proper names.

The Civil War devastated the county financially, and it wouldn't recover until the railroads gave farmers a new avenue to market their crops and the emergence of a timber industry.

This was a powerful and financially rewarding position in that it supervised elections and chose the grand jurors who set the county tax rate.

A VFD may be financially supported by taxes raised in a city, town, county, fire district, or other governmental entity, as well as corporate and other private donations, federal grants, and other assistance from auxiliary members, or firefighters ' associations.

A benefit season is a method of financially rewarding professional cricketers that is used by English county cricket teams to compensate long serving players.

Until recently, players with less service might sometimes be given a " Testimonial " season or match: the difference appears to have been largely semantic, but for almost half a century one of the less financially sound English first-class county clubs, Derbyshire, made a point of not awarding benefits, but giving testimonials instead.

An inquest was held, and after a good deal of testimony about the anonymous notes, the county coroner estimated that the shooting had been done from a distance of 300 yards.

Moreover, the entire state Democratic hierarchy, from Gov. Brown on down to the county chairmen, also participates in this huge operation.

Most counties also have maps available from the county engineer showing roads and other features and from the assessor's office showing ownerships of land.

If you can't tell, get help from your county agricultural agent or other local specialist.

Both these types, and those in between, are in existence by reason of a legislative interest in libraries that began at Albany as early as 1950, with the creation by the legislature of county library systems financed by county governments with matching funds from the state.

In the northern part of this plateau, west of Jackson county, there are about of level highlands from above sea level.

The campaign was sure to be a struggle ; the Whigs nominated their " Eagle Orator " Gustavus Henry, and Johnson wasted no time in calling him to task for his " Henry-mandering " of the First District, as their debates made their way across the state from one county seat to the next.

To ascend the throne, he abdicated from the county of Boulogne and later ( 1253 ) divorced Matilda.

In his tenth year, upon Bertrand's death ( 1112 ), he succeeded to the county of Toulouse and marquisate of Provence, but Toulouse was taken from him by William IX, count of Poitiers, in 1114, who claimed it by right of his wife Philippa of Toulouse, daughter of William IV of Toulouse.

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.

His father, Béla Sr., considered himself thoroughly Hungarian, because on his father's side the Bartók family was a Hungarian lower noble family, originating from Borsod county ( Móser 2006a, 44 ; Bartók 1981, 13 ), though his mother was from a Roman Catholic Serbian family ( Bayley 2001, 16 ).

From 1265, two burgesses from each borough were summoned to the Parliament of England, alongside two knights from each county.

The metropolitan boroughs possessed slightly more autonomy from the metropolitan county councils than the shire county districts did from their county councils.

* Counting rhymes and other songs for counting in traditional music from county of Nice, France.

It is alleged that its chief of staff is a Limerick man and that a number of other key members are from that county.

Cadillac became the county seat after the so-called " Battle of Manton ," in which a show of force was involved in enforcing a controversial decision to move the county seat from Manton, Michigan.

Residents generally supported the Confederacy during the Civil War, as the Confederate flag flew over the county courthouse for many years following the end of the Civil War.

Although Union ships imposed a blockade on the port of Bayport, runners enjoyed a great deal of success — enough to lead the Union in June 1864 to order some 150 – 250 troops to destroy Confederate stockpiles in the county.

However Baine County was established on December 7, 1866, named for General David W. Baine of the Confederate Army, with its county seat at Gadsden.

This began with a Confederate train robbery of a Union gold shipment during the American Civil War, then moved to a post-war Texas county thoroughly controlled by a rich, arrogant rancher.

The county was a frequent site of conflict during the civil war, as Union and Confederate lines moved back and forth along the Shenandoah valley.

There were seven companies of soldiers recruited from the county: five for the Confederate Army and two for the Union Army.

During the Civil War, the county contributed to the Confederate cause raising two infantry companies, the Nottoway Rifle Guards, and Capt.

" The Virginia Central Railroad ran through the county linking the Shenandoah Valley to the Confederate capital at Richmond.

Unlike most of Virginia, during the Civil War, the county was not under Confederate control, but held by the forces of the United States government.

The county is named for Clinton M. Winkler, a Colonel in the Confederate Army.

The county is named for two brothers: John C. and William F. Upton, both Colonels in the Confederate army.

The county was established by the state legislature on March 13, 1874, and named for Thomas Green, a Confederate brigadier general.

The county is named for Benjamin Franklin Terry, a colonel in the Confederate Army.

The county is named for Stonewall Jackson, a general of the Confederate States Army.

The county was originally named Buchanan County, after U. S. President James Buchanan, but was renamed in 1861 for Alexander H. Stephens, the vice president of the Confederate States of America.

Outside the building the Dick Taylor Camp of Confederate veterans erected a monument to honor the county ’ s dead in the American Civil War.

Lochlin Johnson Farrar raised the first Confederate company from the county.

Camp Henderson became the new county seat and the settlement was renamed Cleburne in honor of Confederate General Patrick Cleburne.

The proposed name was later changed to honor Texas leader and Confederate Genearal John Gregg, and the county seat was determined by popular election.

* 1862 Fifty-four Gillespie county men join the Confederate Army.

From 1861 to 1871, this county was known as Davis County, after Jefferson Davis, the president of the Confederate States of America.

The county produced six men who served in the American Civil War as Confederate generals: Joseph Brevard Kershaw ( 1822-1894 ), James Chesnut ( 1815-1885 ), James Cantey ( 1818-1873 ), Zack Cantey Deas ( 1819-1882 ), John Bordenave Villepigue ( 1830-1862 ), and John Doby Kennedy ( 1840-1896 ).

McCarthy held the county during the subsequent Irish Confederate Wars and his forces were some of the last to surrender to the Cromwellian conquest of Ireland in 1652.

During the Civil War, Morgan's Raid ( a Confederate cavalry campaign from Kentucky ) passed through the northern part of the county during the summer of 1863.