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James Geddes (born 1831)
James Geddes may refer to: *James Geddes (engineer) (1763–1838), American engineer, surveyor, New York State legislator and U.S. Congressman * James Geddes (Louisville and Nashville Railroad), namesake of James Geddes Engine Company No. 6, Nashville, Tennessee *James Davidson Geddes (c. 1844–1895), Canadian accountant, rancher and politician *James Lorraine Geddes James Lorraine Geddes (March 19, 1827 – February 21, 1887) was a soldier in India, a brigade commander in the Western Theater of the American Civil War, college administrator and professor, and military songwriter. Biography Geddes was b ... (1827–1887), British Army and Union Army soldier * James Young Geddes (1850–1913), Scottish poet * Jim Geddes (born 1949), American Major League Baseball pitcher {{hndis, Geddes, James ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Geddes (engineer)
James Geddes (July 22, 1763 – August 19, 1838) was born in Carlisle in the Province of Pennsylvania and was a prominent engineer, surveyor, New York State legislator and U.S. Congressman who was instrumental in the planning of the Erie Canal and other canals in the United States. He was also at the forefront of development of the salt industry at Onondaga Lake near Syracuse, New York beginning in 1794. Biography The son of a Scottish farmer, Geddes eventually settled in 1794 at the head of Onondaga Lake in what was to become Onondaga County, New York, where he investigated the brine springs and set up a salt works at Geddesburgh, now Solvay. He acquired lands from the State of New York which had been formerly owned by the Onondaga tribe and became an adopted member of the Onondagas in resolution of a salt-making dispute, being given the name Don-da-dah-gwah. Geddes first surveyed and laid out the village of Geddes with approximately twenty lots on either side of West Ge ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Geddes (Louisville And Nashville Railroad)
James Geddes may refer to: *James Geddes (engineer) (1763–1838), American engineer, surveyor, New York State legislator and U.S. Congressman * James Geddes (Louisville and Nashville Railroad), namesake of James Geddes Engine Company No. 6, Nashville, Tennessee *James Davidson Geddes (c. 1844–1895), Canadian accountant, rancher and politician *James Lorraine Geddes James Lorraine Geddes (March 19, 1827 – February 21, 1887) was a soldier in India, a brigade commander in the Western Theater of the American Civil War, college administrator and professor, and military songwriter. Biography Geddes was b ... (1827–1887), British Army and Union Army soldier * James Young Geddes (1850–1913), Scottish poet * Jim Geddes (born 1949), American Major League Baseball pitcher {{hndis, Geddes, James ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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James is a common English language surname and given name: *James (name), the typically masculine first name James * James (surname), various people with the last name James James or James City may also refer to: People * King James (other), various kings named James * Saint James (other) * James (musician) * James, brother of Jesus Places Canada * James Bay, a large body of water * James, Ontario United Kingdom * James College, a college of the University of York United States * James, Georgia, an unincorporated community * James, Iowa, an unincorporated community * James City, North Carolina * James City County, Virginia ** James City (Virginia Company) ** James City Shire * James City, Pennsylvania * St. James City, Florida Arts, entertainment, and media * ''James'' (2005 film), a Bollywood film * ''James'' (2008 film), an Irish short film * ''James'' (2022 film), an Indian Kannada-language film * James the Red Engine, a character in ''Thomas the Tank En ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Davidson Geddes
James Davidson Geddes (c. 1844 – March 30, 1895) was a Canadian accountant, rancher and politician who served a term in the Northwest Territories Legislature. Early life Geddes, originally from the United States, lived in Galt, Ontario and worked as an accountant for the Merchants Bank. He married his wife, Eliza Fanning at the Trinity Church in Galt on June 12, 1866. He moved out west in 1882 to the District of Alberta in the Northwest Territories. His ranch was established on land where the Ghost River intersects the Bow River The Bow River is a river in Alberta, Canada. It begins within the Canadian Rocky Mountains and winds through the Alberta foothills onto the prairies, where it meets the Oldman River, the two then forming the South Saskatchewan River. These w ... and in 1885 he had 200 head of cattle. The land is now part of Ghost Reservoir Provincial Park. Political career Geddes ran for public office to a seat on the North-West Legislative Council in a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Lorraine Geddes
James Lorraine Geddes (March 19, 1827 – February 21, 1887) was a soldier in India, a brigade commander in the Western Theater of the American Civil War, college administrator and professor, and military songwriter. Biography Geddes was born in Edinburgh, Scotland. In his boyhood he was taken to Canada, but in 1843 he returned to Scotland. He then studied at Calcutta in the British military academy, entered the British Army in the Royal Horse Artillery, and after distinguishing himself in the Punjab campaign in the First Anglo-Afghan War, particularly at the Khyber Pass. He returned to Canada and was commissioned a colonel in a regiment of cavalry. He married New York native Margaret Moore on October 14, 1856, in Yarmouth, Nova Scotia. In 1857 he resigned from the army and moved to the United States, settling in Vinton, Iowa, where he taught school. In the American Civil War, Geddes served in the Union army, enlisting as a private in the 8th Iowa Infantry. He was promoted ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Young Geddes
James Young Geddes (18501913) was a Scottish poet. Born in Dundee, he spent much of his youth and later life in Alyth Alyth () ( gd, Ailt) is a town in Perth and Kinross, Scotland, northeast of Blairgowrie and about northwest of Dundee. In 2016 the town had an estimated population of 2,400. First mentioned by name in a 12th-century royal charter of Willia ..., where he worked as a local correspondent for the Dundee Advertiser. He later served as chairman of Alyth Town Council. In the 1880s, he was president of Dundee Burns Club. Collections * ''The New Jerusalem'' (1879) * ''The Spectre Clock of Alyth'' (1886) * ''To the Valhalla'' (1891) References 1850 births 1913 deaths 19th-century Scottish writers 19th-century Scottish poets Scottish literature {{Scotland-poet-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
