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W. Butler Duncan
William Butler Duncan (17 March 1830 – 12 June 1912) was a Scottish-American banker and railroad executive. Early life Duncan was born in Edinburgh on 17 March 1830, a son of Sarah (née Butler) Duncan (1806–1888) and Alexander Duncan (1805–1889) of Parkhill Arbroath, Scotland, who married in 1827. Among his siblings were Jessie Scott Duncan, Samuel Butler Duncan and Mary Cryder Duncan, who all died young; David Duncan (who married Fanny Bloodgood); Adele Granger Duncan (who married Robert Hamilton Stubber of Moyne, Ireland); Alexander Lauderdale Duncan of Knossington Grange, Leicestershire, England (who married Louisa Elizabeth Hunt); and Sally Duncan (who married Sir Robert Hay, 8th Baronet of Smithfield and Haystoun). His father came to America as a young man and graduated from Yale University in 1827. After his younger brother David died in 1873 and his wife in 1874, Duncan adopted their young son, William Butler Duncan II (1862–1933). The younger Duncan was a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Presidents Of The Saint Andrew's Society Of The State Of New York
The Saint Andrew's Society of the State of New York The Saint Andrew's Society of the State of New York is the oldest Charitable organization, charitable institution in the state of New York (state), New York and is focused on helping Scots in the New York community. History The organization was ..., founded in 1756, is a charitable organization focused on helping Scots in the New York community. History The Society is led by a President, First Vice President, Second Vice President and Managers. List of presidents References ;Notes ;Sources External links History of Saint Andrew's Society of the State of New York, 1756-1906 by George Austin Morrison. by D. MacDougall, 1917. * {{Official website, https://standrewsny.org/ Organizations based in New York City Organizations established in 1756 Lineage societies Scottish-American history Ethnic fraternal orders in the United States Presidents of the Saint Andrew's Society of the State of New York ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sir Robert Hay, 8th Baronet
Sir Robert Hay, 8th Baronet of Smithfield and Haystoun DL JP (8 May 1825 – 30 May 1885) was a Scottish baronet. Early life Hay was born on 8 May 1825. He was the son of Sir Adam Hay, 7th Baronet and Henrietta Callender Grant. His father served as MP for Lanark Burghs from 1826 to 1830. Among his surviving siblings were Dorothea Hay (wife of Henry Scudamore-Stanhope, 9th Earl of Chesterfield) and Louisa Grace Hay (second wife of Brig.-Gen. James Wolfe Murray, son of James Wolfe Murray, Lord Cringletie). His father, the second surviving son of Sir John Hay, 5th Baronet and Hon. Mary Elizabeth Forbes (a daughter of James Forbes, 16th Lord Forbes), succeeded to the baronetcy after the death of his brother, Sir John Hay, 6th Baronet, MP for Peeblesshire. His maternal grandparents were William Grant and Dorothea Dalrymple. His aunt, Louisa Grant, was the wife of the Hon. William Keith-Falconer (younger son of the 6th Earl of Kintore). Career Upon the death of his father on 18 Ja ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Metropolitan Museum Of Art
The Metropolitan Museum of Art of New York City, colloquially "the Met", is the largest art museum in the Americas. Its permanent collection contains over two million works, divided among 17 curatorial departments. The main building at 1000 Fifth Avenue, along the Museum Mile on the eastern edge of Central Park on Manhattan's Upper East Side, is by area one of the world's largest art museums. The first portion of the approximately building was built in 1880. A much smaller second location, The Cloisters at Fort Tryon Park in Upper Manhattan, contains an extensive collection of art, architecture, and artifacts from medieval Europe. The Metropolitan Museum of Art was founded in 1870 with its mission to bring art and art education to the American people. The museum's permanent collection consists of works of art from classical antiquity and ancient Egypt, paintings, and sculptures from nearly all the European masters, and an extensive collection of American and modern ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
National Academy Of Design
The National Academy of Design is an honorary association of American artists, founded in New York City in 1825 by Samuel Morse, Asher Durand, Thomas Cole, Martin E. Thompson, Charles Cushing Wright, Ithiel Town, and others "to promote the fine arts in America through instruction and exhibition." Membership is limited to 450 American artists and architects, who are elected by their peers on the basis of recognized excellence. History The original founders of the National Academy of Design were students of the American Academy of the Fine Arts. However, by 1825 the students of the American Academy felt a lack of support for teaching from the academy, its board composed of merchants, lawyers, and physicians, and from its unsympathetic president, the painter John Trumbull. Samuel Morse and other students set about forming "the drawing association", to meet several times each week for the study of the art of design. Still, the association was viewed as a dependent organization ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Butler Hospital
Butler Hospital is a private, non-profit, psychiatric and substance abuse hospital for adolescents, adults, and seniors, located at 345 Blackstone Boulevard in Providence, Rhode Island. The hospital is affiliated with the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, and is the flagship for Brown University's renowned department of psychiatry. Butler Hospital was a founding member, along with Women & Infants Hospital and Kent Hospital, of the Care New England health system in 1996. History The facility was founded in 1844 as Rhode Island's first exclusively mental health hospital. Industrialist Cyrus Butler donated heavily to the hospital, and it was named in his honor. Local Yankee philanthropist Nicholas Brown, Jr. also bequeathed a large amount of money to construct a mental health hospital which was used to fund the early hospital. Butler Hospital's Gothic Revival complex was built beginning with its founding in 1844, and includes a 1731 farmhouse that stood on the proper ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Atlantic Telegraph Company
The Atlantic Telegraph Company was a company formed on 6 November 1856 to undertake and exploit a commercial telegraph cable across the Atlantic ocean, the first such telecommunications link. History Cyrus Field, American businessman and financier, set his sights on laying the first transatlantic underwater telegraph cable after having been contacted by Frederic Newton Gisborne who attempted to connect St. Johns, Newfoundland to New York City, but failed due to lack of funding. After inquiring about the feasibility of a transatlantic underwater cable to Lieutenant Matthew Fontaine Maury of the U.S. Navy, Field formed an agreement with the Englishmen John Watkins Brett and Charles Tilston Bright to create the Atlantic Telegraph Company. It was incorporated in December, 1856 with £350,000 capital, raised principally in London, Liverpool, Manchester, and Glasgow. The board of directors was composed of eighteen members from the United Kingdom, nine from the United States, and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Southern Railway (U
Southern Railway or Southern Railroad may refer to: Argentina * Buenos Aires Great Southern Railway, Argentina * Southern Fuegian Railway, Tierra del Fuego, Argentina Australia * Main Southern railway line, New South Wales, Australia * Southern railway line, Queensland, Australia Austria * Austrian Southern Railway * Southern Railway (Austria) Canada * Canada Southern Railway, part of the New York Central Railroad * Canadian Pacific Railway * New Brunswick Southern Railway, part of the Canadian Pacific Railway * Quebec Southern Railway * Southern Manitoba Railway * Southern Prairie Railway, a tourist railway in Ogema, Saskatchewan * Southern Railway of British Columbia India * Southern Mahratta Railway, a railway company in British India founded in 1882 * Southern Punjab Railway, India * Southern Railway zone, India United Kingdom * Southern (Govia Thameslink Railway) * Southern Railway (UK), 1923–47 United States * Alabama Great Southern Railroad * Alton and Southern Ra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mobile And Ohio Railroad
The Mobile and Ohio Railroad was a railroad in the Southern U.S. The M&O was chartered in January and February 1848 by the states of Alabama, Kentucky, Mississippi, and Tennessee. It was planned to span the distance between the seaport of Mobile, Alabama and the Ohio River near Cairo, Illinois. On September 13, 1940 it was merged with the Gulf, Mobile and Northern Railroad to form the Gulf, Mobile and Ohio Railroad. At the end of 1925 M&O operated of road and of track; that year it reported 1785 million ton-miles of revenue freight and 49 million passenger-miles. History The Mobile and Ohio Railroad was conceived after hard times in Mobile following the Panic of 1837. The port was not generating the business that it had before the panic and businessmen and citizens in the city were inspired with a plan for a railroad to restore commerce to the city. The first section of track opened for service in 1852 between Mobile and Citronelle, Alabama and was constructed in gauge. T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The New York Times
''The New York Times'' (''the Times'', ''NYT'', or the Gray Lady) is a daily newspaper based in New York City with a worldwide readership reported in 2020 to comprise a declining 840,000 paid print subscribers, and a growing 6 million paid digital subscribers. It also is a producer of popular podcasts such as '' The Daily''. Founded in 1851 by Henry Jarvis Raymond and George Jones, it was initially published by Raymond, Jones & Company. The ''Times'' has won 132 Pulitzer Prizes, the most of any newspaper, and has long been regarded as a national " newspaper of record". For print it is ranked 18th in the world by circulation and 3rd in the U.S. The paper is owned by the New York Times Company, which is publicly traded. It has been governed by the Sulzberger family since 1896, through a dual-class share structure after its shares became publicly traded. A. G. Sulzberger, the paper's publisher and the company's chairman, is the fifth generation of the family to head the pa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Peabody And Company
J.S. Morgan & Co. was a merchant banking firm based in London and New York City founded by Junius Spencer Morgan, father of J. P. Morgan. History The business had originally been started by the American merchant George Peabody conducting business on his own account when he took up residence in London in 1838. The business was formally incorporated as George Peabody & Co. in 1851. Peabody's American agent was the New York bank, Duncan, Sherman & Company. J. S. Morgan & Co. Upon Peabody's retirement in 1864, control was assumed by Morgan who had joined the firm as a partner in 1854. As a consequence the firm was re-styled J. S. Morgan & Co. The firm's New York agency was later to become J.P. Morgan & Co. (under the leadership of Junius' son J. Pierpont Morgan, who had apprenticed as a cashier at Duncan, Sherman & Co.) a predecessor firm of JPMorgan Chase. A distant relative of Peabody, Massachusetts banker and merchant Samuel Endicott Peabody, became a partner in the firm around 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Duncan, Sherman & Company
Duncan, Sherman & Company was a New York City banking firm, founded in 1852, that went bankrupt in 1875. History Duncan, Sherman & Company was established in 1852 by Scottish immigrant Alexander Duncan, Watts Sherman (the former cashier and general manager of the Albany City Bank) and William Butler Duncan Sr. (Alexander Duncan's son). After incorporating, the firm purchased a lot at 11 Pine Street, on the corner of Nassau Street, and hired New York City architect Alexander Saeltzer to design the Duncan, Sherman Company building. In 1866, the firm's office suffered a fire which destroyed "some old books and duplicate letters" but did not do much damage otherwise. When the original partnership expired on July 1, 1862, Alexander Duncan withdrew from the firm but left his capital in the firm which he assigned to his two sons, W. Butler Duncan and David Duncan. Upon the death of Watts Sherman in 1865, Francis H. Green and William Watts Sherman, Watts Sherman's son who had trained ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Spanish–American War
, partof = the Philippine Revolution, the decolonization of the Americas, and the Cuban War of Independence , image = Collage infobox for Spanish-American War.jpg , image_size = 300px , caption = (clockwise from top left) , date = April 21 – August 13, 1898() , place = , casus = , result = American victory *Treaty of Paris (1898), Treaty of Paris of 1898 *Founding of the First Philippine Republic and beginning of the Philippine–American War * German–Spanish Treaty (1899), Spain sells to Germany the last colonies in the Pacific in 1899 and end of the Spanish Empire in Spanish colonization of the Americas, America and Asia. , territory = Spain relinquishes sovereignty over Cuba; cedes Puerto Rico, Guam and the Philippine Islands to the United States. $20 million paid to Spain by the United States for infrastructure owned by Spain. , combatant1 = United State ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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