Edward Roche (politician)
Edward Roche (April 10, 1754 – April 6, 1821) was an American merchant who served in both houses of the Delaware General Assembly, as a delegate to the Delaware state Constitutional convention (political meeting), constitutional convention, and in the American Revolutionary War. Biography Roche was born in County Cork, County Cork, Ireland on 10 April 1754 to Lawrence Roche and Mary Manning. He left Ireland at age 14 and arrived in Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania where he reportedly became an apprentice with a local merchant. On April 1, 1782, he married Eliza Brinckle in Red Lion Hundred, Red Lion Hundred, Delaware; the couple would go on to have nine children. Following his apprenticeship, Roche launched his own business in New Castle, Delaware at the age of 21. Shortly afterwards, the Revolutionary War broke out. Roche, inspired by the writings of the Founding Fathers of the United States, Founding Fathers and other early Americans calling for independence, joined ...
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Silhouette Of Edward Roche (1754-1821)
A silhouette ( , ) is the image of a person, animal, object or scene represented as a solid shape of a single colour, usually black, with its edges matching the outline of the subject. The interior of a silhouette is featureless, and the silhouette is usually presented on a light background, usually white, or none at all. The silhouette differs from an line art, outline, which depicts the edge of an object in a linear form, while a silhouette appears as a solid shape. Silhouette images may be created in any visual artistic medium, but were first used to describe pieces of cut paper, which were then stuck to a backing in a contrasting colour, and often framed. Cutting portraits, generally in profile, from black card became popular in the mid-18th century, though the term ''silhouette'' was seldom used until the early decades of the 19th century, and the tradition has continued under this name into the 21st century. They represented a cheap but effective alternative to the portrai ...
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