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Ezra W. Taft
Ezra W. Taft (August 26, 1800 – February 8, 1885) was a politician from Dedham, Massachusetts. He represented the Massachusetts House of Representatives' 1st Norfolk district in the Great and General Court. Taft was born to Frederick and Abigail Wood Taft in Uxbridge, Massachusetts on August 26, 1800. Early in life he commenced that business activity which became characteristic of the man. He moved to Dedham in 1815 and went to work with Frederick A Taft who started the Mother Brook#Fifth privilege, Dedham Manufacturing Company. He remained in Dedham until 1820. In that year, then only twenty years of age, he went to the neighboring town of Walpole, Massachusetts, Walpole where he hired a little mill and made forty thousand yards of negro cloth for the Southern trade. In 1823, he went to Dover, New Hampshire and assisted in starting the Cocheco Mill, one of the largest cotton mills in New England. He remained three years as overseer. In 1826, he returned to Dedham and took the a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ezra W
Ezra (; he, עֶזְרָא, '; fl. 480–440 BCE), also called Ezra the Scribe (, ') and Ezra the Priest in the Book of Ezra, was a Jewish scribe (''sofer'') and priest (''kohen''). In Greco-Latin Ezra is called Esdras ( grc-gre, Ἔσδρας). According to the Hebrew Bible he was a descendant of Sraya, the last High Priest to serve in the First Temple, and a close relative of Joshua, the first High Priest of the Second Temple. He returned from Babylonian exile and reintroduced the Torah in Jerusalem. According to 1 Esdras, a Greek translation of the Book of Ezra still in use in Eastern Orthodoxy, he was also a High Priest. Rabbinic tradition holds that he was an ordinary member of the priesthood. Several traditions have developed over his place of burial. One tradition says that he is buried in al-Uzayr near Basra (Iraq), while another tradition alleges that he is buried in Tadif near Aleppo, in northern Syria. His name may be an abbreviation of ', " Yah helps". In t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
