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The name of Fairfield was first proposed for this county, but was changed on the passage of the bill to Butler, in honor of Captain William Butler.
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Norwalk Council # 075, headquartered in Norwalk, Connecticut, wasounded in 1917 and changed its name to Central Fairfield Counicl in 1933.
The name was later changed to the city in which the President of U. S. Steel lived, Fairfield, Connecticut.
Roger Ludlow, framer of the Fundamental Orders, purchased the land presently Fairfield, and established the name.
He bought a large tract of land from the Pequannocke sachems ,-afterwards greatly enlarged by other purchases to the westward ,- and recalling the attractive region beyond ( Uncoa ), which he had personally seen on the second Pequot expedition, he also “ set down ” there, having purchased the territory embraced in the present town of Fairfield, to which he gave its name.
According to Fairfield County and state records from the time Redding was formed, the original name of the town was Reading, after the town in Berkshire, England.
During the first half of the 20th century gang leaders Carl, Earl and Bernie Shelton made Fairfield a household name.
In 1771, his nephew, Governor John Wentworth, gave it the name Fairfield, after Fairfield, Connecticut.
The name Fairfield refers to its original settlers, all of them émigrés from Fairfield, Connecticut.
Fairfield Township was known as Caldwell Township until it abandoned its original name in 1963 in an effort to avoid confusion of mail distribution in the various Caldwells.
In 1963, Caldwell Township changed its name to Fairfield in order to avoid being confused with Caldwell Borough.
At this point, all that remained of the original Caldwell Township was a large piece of undeveloped land in the northwestern-most part of Essex County ; eventually, in the early 1950s, Caldwell Township changed its name to Fairfield in order to avoid being confused with Caldwell Borough.
Since the citizens of Upper Fairfield Township where against the division in the first place, they were less than pleased with the name of their new township.
The citizens asked the court that the named be changed and the Pennsylvania General Assembly ordered that Pollock Township's name be changed to Upper Fairfield Township on January 29, 1853.
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For a blood-chilling ring of terror to the very sound of his name was the tool he needed for the job he'd promised to do.
My lovely caller -- Joyce Holland was her name -- had previously done three filmed commercials for zing, and this evening, the fourth, a super production, had been filmed at the home of Louis Thor.
Bill Doolin's ambition, it appeared, was to carve out his name with bullets alongside those of Jesse James and Billy the Kid, and Bill Tilghman had sworn he would stop him.
The difference came down to this: The Southern States insisted that the United States was, in last analysis, what its name implied -- a Union of States.
I was having lunch not long ago ( apologies to N. V. Peale ) with three distinguished historians ( one specializing in the European Middle Ages, one in American history, and one in the Far East ), and I asked them if they could name instances where the general mores had been radically changed with `` deliberate speed, majestic instancy '' ( Francis Thompson's words for the Hound Of Heaven's Pursuit ) by judicial fiat.
Neither was Henrietta hoydenish like Jo, who frankly wished she were a boy and had deliberately shortened her name, which, like Henrietta's, was the feminine form of a boy's name.
It seems to me now, in a long backward glance, that many of the Hetman's conceits and odd actions -- together with his grim posture when brandishing the hatchet in the name of Mr. Hearst -- were keyed with the tragedy which was to close over him one day.
An accompanying sympathetic letter explained that inside the envelope was a name for Mrs. Coolidge's first granddaughter.
Pike was stunned by the first blast against his character, which was published in the March 4th issue of The Gazette under the name `` Vale ''.
Under Fosdick the first executive officer of the CTCA was Richard Byrd, whose name in later years was to become synonymous with activities at the polar antipodes.
I had had my name taken out of the telephone book, and this was partly because of a convict who had been discharged from Sing Sing and who called me night after night.
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