Retiring to his beloved Mount Vernon, he returned to preside over the Federal Convention, and was the only man in history to be unanimously elected President.

Vernon was serviceable on the botanical field trips, but he could arrange no schedule with the cooks, and he was glad when the trips dropped off, and the botanists began to motor out by themselves.

The merit of the pie, Vernon believed, was due more to its making than to the waning heat of the oven.

Miss Glenda Kay Meredith of Denton was her sister's maid of honor, and Vernon Lewelleyn of San Angelo was best man.

* About 50 people in Vernon, Florida collected insurance claims for loss-of-limb accidents in the late 1950s and early 1960s ; this was more than two-thirds of all such claims in the United States during that time.

Here Vernon and Irene Castle were important, and so was a generation of English dancers in the 1920s, including Josephine Bradley and Victor Silvester.

The house was situated near the main road between the towns of Vernon and Gasny at Giverny.

In 2003, Nicholas Liverpool was elected and sworn in as president, succeeding Vernon Shaw.

Early critics, such as Robert Louis Stevenson admired it saying that the footprint scene in Crusoe was one of the four greatest in English literature and most unforgettable ; more prosaically, Dr. Wesley Vernon has seen the origins of forensic podiatry in this episode.

My arguments perverted some others, particularly Collins and Ralph ; but each of them having afterwards wrong'd me greatly without the least compunction, and recollecting Keith's conduct towards me ( who was another freethinker ) and my own towards Vernon and Miss Read, which at times gave me great trouble, I began to suspect that this doctrine, tho ' it might be true, was not very useful.

Thomas ' obituary in the Times was written by fellow poet and long-time friend, Vernon Watkins.

Vernon was nicknamed " Nub City " because its residents participated in a particularly gruesome form of insurance fraud in which they deliberately amputated a limb in order to collect the insurance money.

White was born in Mount Vernon, New York, the youngest child of Samuel Tilly White, a piano manufacturer, and Jessie Hart.

Washington's retirement to Mount Vernon was short-lived.

Most Americans assumed he was rich because of the well-known " glorified façade of wealth and grandeur " at Mount Vernon.

On December 18, 1799, a funeral was held at Mount Vernon, where his body was interred.

Southern opposition to the plan defeated the measure because they felt it was best to have his body remain at Mount Vernon.

In the words of Pentecostal scholar Vernon L. Purdy, " Because sin leads to human suffering, it was only natural for the Early Church to understand the ministry of Christ as the alleviation of human suffering, since he was God's answer to sin ...

Steiner states that the sole original source to claim that he did join a church – in Hudson, New York – is Vernon B. Hampton, in Religious Background of the White House ( Boston: Christopher Publishing House, 1932 ), the basis of which Steiner was unable to verify.

This 1930 edition also had songs in it by Vernon Duke and Ira Gershwin, by E. Y. Harburg and Duke, and by Harry Myers.

John Vernon had had all the patronage he cared for -- he had prospered, but he could not retire from horsedom.

The tallyho had cost Vernon $2,300.

The Australian touring party had been severely weakened by a dispute between the board and players that caused Clem Hill, Victor Trumper, Warwick Armstrong, Tibby Cotter, Sammy Carter and Vernon Ransford to be omitted.

Despite his Conn Smythe Trophy in the 1997 playoffs, Mike Vernon had been replaced as the regular Wings goaltender during the season with the younger Chris Osgood.

By 1775, Washington had doubled the size of Mount Vernon to, and had increased its slave population to over 100.

By that time, the portion of the town of Eastchester immediately north of the transferred portion had seceded from the town of Eastchester ( 1892 ) to become the City of Mount Vernon so that the Town of Eastchester had no border with New York City.

Even in October 1739 Vernon had sent his first Lieutenant Percival along with two Spanish Fraternity on the ship, with the excuse to deliver a letter to Blas de Lezo and another who at that time was the governor of Cartagena, Don Pedro Hidalgo.

After the score that had been subjected to the defenses of Cartagena by British forces in March, Vernon decided to return to the control of 13 warships and bombard with intent to take the place.

Edward Vernon was then made the mistake of giving the victory achieved and sent an email to Jamaica communicating that had managed to take the city.

Vernon remained in the Caribbean until October 1742, before heading back to Britain and Chaloner Ogle taking command of a very sickly fleet that had less than half its sailors fit for duty.

When Vernon had been joined by Sir Chaloner Ogle with massive naval reinforcements and a strong body of troops, an attack was made on Cartagena in what is now Colombia ( 9 March – 24 April 1741 ).

* Katoomba Court House: by the 1890s, Katoomba had grown enough to need its own court house, which was duly designed by the Government Architect, Walter Liberty Vernon, and built in 1897.

He was among many other survivors of the Ahlem labor camp who tracked down U. S. Army veteran Vernon Tott, who was among the 84th Division which rescued survivors from the camp and had taken and kept photographs of at least 16 of the survivors in storage until 2003.

Years later, Barrymore's son John had the body reinterred at Philadelphia's Mount Vernon Cemetery.

The PCL has had a long tradition on the West Coast, with teams with evocative names such as the Hollywood Stars, Los Angeles Angels, Mission Reds ( representing San Francisco's Mission District ), Oakland Oaks, Portland Beavers, Sacramento Solons, Salt Lake Bees, San Diego Padres, San Francisco Seals, Seattle Rainiers, Spokane Indians, Vernon Tigers ( later the Tacoma Tigers ), Vancouver Canadians, and the Hawaii Islanders.

Wall had been with the Marion Herald before he started The Vernon Courier which was in 1886.

Spain and the World was an anarchist publication founded in 1936 by Vernon Richards with former Freedom writers, which had effectively ceased publication in 1932.

" The author adds that Presley's father Vernon " had a swimming pool in his bedroom ", that there " was a jukebox next to the swimming pool, containing Elvis ' favorite records " and that the singer himself " would spend hours in his bedroom, watching his property on a closed-circuit television.

This seemed to support literary critics like Van Wyck Brooks and Vernon Parrington who had condemned James's expatriation and criticised his work as effeminate and deracinated ; Leon Edel used it as the premise of his influential biography which held the field for many years.

Raymond Vernon reports that residents of East St. Louis have been driving across the Mississippi, through the heart of downtown St. Louis and out to the western suburbs for major shopping, simply because parking is easier at the big branches than it is in the heart of town.

Some of this endeavor has been led by Gunduz Caginalp ( Professor of Mathematics and Editor of Journal of Behavioral Finance during 2001-2004 ) and collaborators including Vernon Smith ( 2002 Nobel Laureate in Economics ), David Porter, Don Balenovich, Vladimira Ilieva, Ahmet Duran ).

Since the death of Vernon Green, in 2000, the group has been " reconstituted " by several musicians and singers who backed up, and / or recorded with Green prior to his death.

Its route follows essentially the earlier route of US 51 in southernmost Illinois ( US 51 has been diverted to I-57 where I-57 has always been close to old US 51 between Future City and Dongola ) before taking a northeastward diagonal to Illinois 37, which remains intact as a town-to-town through route, past its interchange with Interstate 24 ( the northwestern terminus of Interstate 24 ) near Pulleys Mill and a short duplex with Interstate 64 near Mount Vernon north to Effingham, where it has a short concurrence with Interstate 70.

Other stories, though folklore, are: 1 ) that it was named after a race horse owned by Joe Moore, one of the members of the committee chosen to name the parish, who claimed that by naming the parish after his fast horse the committee would insure the growth of the parish to be as fast as his horse: 2 ) that it was named after a popular teacher who had been an officer in the Royal Navy, only mentioned as " Mr. Vernon ".

The Old First National Bank Building in downtown Leesville, Louisiana | Leesville, LA, now the new Courthouse Annex building. Leesville has been the parish seat of Vernon since the parish was created, though it wasn't incorporated until February 15, 1900.

Many homes in the Vernon Hill and Grafton Hill neighborhoods have been restored to their original appearance inside and out.

Since the late 19th century, Grafton Hill and Vernon Hill have been points of entry for immigrants from all over the world: Irish, Italians, Lithuanians, Poles, Syrians, Lebanese, Indians, Puerto Ricans, French Canadians, and more recently, Albanians and Brazilians.

Incorporated as a city in 1889, it has been consolidated with the town of Vernon since 1965.

There are a number of historic sites in Mount Vernon including The Posey County Courthouse Square, Downtown Historic District, Welborn Historic District and the William Gonnermann House all of which have been placed on the National Register of Historic Places.

Frank A. Howard, a Hornbeck visionary and former Vernon Parish Sheriff, has been representing the 24th district in the Louisiana House of Representatives since his election in 2007.

Hornbeck is a part of the Vernon Parish School District headquartered in Leesville and has been home to Hornbeck High School, the only public school in the community, since 1898.

It is not known how Vernon Township got its name, but author Ronald J. Dupont, Jr., posits that the township could have been named after:

Remnants of the ship have been salvaged, and are on display at Richard Caswell Park on West Vernon Ave. A climate-controlled museum is currently under construction on downtown Queen Street, with plans to move the hulk there to prevent further deterioration of the original ship's remains.

Mount Vernon has been assigned the ZIP code 57363 and the FIPS place code 44100.

Since this city was founded, the downtown area of Mount Vernon bordering the Skagit River has been plagued by flooding, especially during times of heavy rain.

Weiss was fired following the End of Silence tour ; he was replaced by jazz and funk bassist Melvin Gibbs, who'd been highly recommended by guitarist Vernon Reid ; Cain and Gibbs had also both played in different versions of guitarist Marc Ribot's band.

Vernon had been Lawrence's commanding officer in the British Royal Navy, and Lawrence greatly admired him.