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Wolcott School District
Wolcott may refer to: Places in the United States *Wolcott, Colorado *Wolcott, Connecticut *Wolcott, Indiana *Wolcott, Kansas *Wolcott, New York * Wolcott (village), New York *Wolcott, Vermont * Wolcott Junction, Wyoming * Fort Wolcott (Rhode Island) People *Alexander S. Wolcott, Connecticut inventor *Alexander Wolcott, Connecticut politician *Edward O. Wolcott, Colorado Senator *Frank Wolcott, Union Army officer, rancher, and old west law man and outlaw *F. S. Wolcott, American owner of the Rabbit's Foot traveling vaudeville company * George Norton Wolcott, American entomologist *Jackie Wolcott, American diplomat *James Wolcott, American writer and critic *Jesse P. Wolcott, U.S. Representative from Michigan *Josiah O. Wolcott, U.S. Senator from Delaware * Marion Post Wolcott, U.S. photographer for the Farm Security Administration * Oliver Wolcott, one of the signers of the United States Declaration of Independence *Oliver Wolcott Jr., 2nd United States Secretary of the Treasury an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wolcott, Colorado
Wolcott is an unincorporated town, a post office, and a census-designated place (CDP) located in and governed by Eagle County, Colorado, United States. The CDP is a part of the Edwards, CO Micropolitan Statistical Area. The Wolcott post office has the ZIP Code 81655 ( post office boxes). At the United States Census 2010, the population of the Wolcott CDP was 15, while the population of the 81655 ZIP Code Tabulation Area was 65 including adjacent areas. History The Wolcott Post Office has been in operation since 1889. The community was named after Edward O. Wolcott, a United States Senator from Colorado. Geography Wolcott is located in central Eagle County in the valley of the Eagle River, a west-flowing tributary of the Colorado River. U.S. Route 6 passes through the community, following the river, while Interstate 70 forms the southern edge of the CDP, with access from Exit 157. I-70 and US-6 each lead east to Edwards and west to Eagle, the county seat. Colorado State Highw ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frank Wolcott
Frank Wolcott (1840–1910) was an officer in the Union Army, a law man and a rancher. Biography Early life Wolcott was born December 13, 1840 in Canandaigua, New York. He served in the Union Army in the Civil War, and was promoted to the rank of major before being discharged in 1866. He then attempted to work for the U.S. Land Office in Kentucky, but left for Wyoming only a few years later for a position as a U.S. Marshal. Johnson County War In Wyoming, Wolcott purchased a ranch near Deer Creek and joined the Wyoming Stock Growers Association. Working for the WSGA he became involved in the Johnson County War. Leading a small band of Regulators that terrorized and killed small ranchers who were obstructing the WSGA's goal of greater consolidation and an end to free ranging. These ranchers were accused of cattle rustling. The book ''History of Wyoming'' by T. A. Larson credits this plan directly to Wolcott, other sources disagree and trace the "lynching bee" to WSGA boar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roger Wolcott (Massachusetts Politician)
Roger Wolcott (July 13, 1847 – December 21, 1900) was a Republican lawyer and politician from Massachusetts. He was Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts from 1893 to 1897, becoming Acting Governor in 1896 upon the death of Governor Frederic T. Greenhalge. He was elected governor in his own right in 1897, serving until 1900. He was a leading figure in the Young Republican Club, which revitalized the Massachusetts Republican Party in the 1890s. Early years Roger Wolcott was born in Boston, Massachusetts on July 13, 1847. He was the son of Joshua Huntington Wolcott (1804-1891) and Cornelia (Frothingham) Wolcott, and was descended from Connecticut Founding Father Oliver Wolcott. His father was a successful businessman, having long been associated with the textile firm of A. & A. Lawrence. Roger Wolcott was first educated at a private school in Boston. After his older brother was killed in the American Civil War, the family traveled to Europe, visiting England, Switzerland ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oliver Wolcott Jr
Oliver Wolcott Jr. (January 11, 1760 – June 1, 1833) was an American politician and judge. He was the second United States Secretary of the Treasury, a judge of the United States Circuit Court for the Second Circuit, and the 24th Governor of Connecticut. His life spanned from working in Connecticut, followed by the U.S. federal government in the Department of Treasury, before returning to Connecticut where he spent his life before his death. Throughout his time in politics, Wolcott's political views shifted from Federalist, to Toleration, and finally Jacksonian. Oliver Wolcott Jr. is the son to Oliver Wolcott Sr., part of the Griswold-Wolcott family. Early life left, Bureau of Engraving and Printing portrait of Wolcott as Secretary of the Treasury Born on January 11, 1760, in Litchfield, Connecticut Colony, British America, Wolcott served in the Continental Army from 1777 to 1779, during the American Revolutionary War, then graduated from Yale University in 1778, where h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oliver Wolcott
Oliver Wolcott Sr. (November 20, 1726 December 1, 1797) was an American Founding Father and politician. He was a signer of the United States Declaration of Independence and the Articles of Confederation as a representative of Connecticut, and the nineteenth governor of Connecticut. Wolcott was a major general for the Connecticut militia in the Revolutionary War serving under George Washington. Early life Wolcott was born in Windsor, Connecticut, the youngest of 10 children born to colonial Governor Roger Wolcott and Sarah Drake Wolcott. His elder brother was Erastus Wolcott. He attended Yale College, graduating in 1747 as the top scholar in his class. Upon graduation, New York Governor George Clinton granted Wolcott a captain's commission to raise a militia company to fight in the French and Indian Wars ( King George's War (1744–1748)). Captain Wolcott served on the northern frontier defending the Canadian border against the French until the Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marion Post Wolcott
Marion Post Wolcott (June 7, 1910 – November 24, 1990) was an American photographer who worked for the Farm Security Administration during the Great Depression documenting poverty, the Jim Crow South, and deprivation. Early life Marion Post was born in Montclair, New Jersey on June 7, 1910, to Marion ( Hoyt; known as "Nan") and Walter Post, a physician.Francine Prose, "Introduction" in She grew up in the family home in Bloomfield, New Jersey, Bloomfield, the younger of two daughters in the Post family. Her parents divorced when she was thirteen and she was sent to boarding school, spending time at home with her mother in Greenwich Village when not at school. Here she met many artists and musicians and became interested in dance. She studied at The New School. Post trained as a teacher, and went to work in a small town in Massachusetts. Here she saw the reality of the Depression and the problems of the poor. When the school closed she went to Europe to study with her sister ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Josiah O
Josiah ( or ) or Yoshiyahu; la, Iosias was the 16th king of Judah (–609 BCE) who, according to the Hebrew Bible, instituted major religious reforms by removing official worship of gods other than Yahweh. Josiah is credited by most biblical scholars with having established or compiled important Hebrew scriptures during the "Deuteronomic reform" which probably occurred during his rule. Josiah became king of the Kingdom of Judah at the age of eight, after the assassination of his father, King Amon. Josiah reigned for 31 years, from 641/640 to 610/609 BCE. Josiah is known only from biblical texts; no reference to him exists in other surviving texts of the period from Egypt or Babylon, and no clear archaeological evidence, such as inscriptions bearing his name, has ever been found. Nevertheless, most scholars believe that he existed historically and that the absence of documents is due to few documents of any sort surviving from this period, and to Jerusalem having been occupied, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jesse P
Jesse may refer to: People and fictional characters * Jesse (biblical figure), father of David in the Bible. * Jesse (given name), including a list of people and fictional characters * Jesse (surname), a list of people Music * ''Jesse'' (album), a 2003 album by Jesse Powell * "Jesse", a 1973 song by Roberta Flack - see Roberta Flack discography * "Jesse", a song from the album ''Valotte'' by Julian Lennon * "Jesse", a song from the album ''The People Tree'' by Mother Earth * "Jesse" (Carly Simon song), a 1980 song * "Jesse", a song from the album ''The Drift'' by Scott Walker * "Jesse", a song from the album '' If I Were Your Woman'' by Stephanie Mills Other * ''Jesse'' (film), a 1988 American television film * ''Jesse'' (TV series), a sitcom starring Christina Applegate * ''Jesse'' (novel), a 1994 novel by Gary Soto * ''Jesse'' (picture book), a 1988 children's book by Tim Winton * Jesse, West Virginia, an unincorporated community * Jesse Hall, University of Missouri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Wolcott
James Wolcott (born December 10, 1952) is an American journalist, known for his critique of contemporary media. Wolcott is the cultural critic for '' Vanity Fair'' and contributes to ''The New Yorker''. He had his own blog on ''Vanity Fair'' magazine's main site which was awarded a Webby Award in 2007. Background and education Wolcott was born in Baltimore, Maryland, and raised in a suburban setting. He attended Maryland's Frostburg State College for two years. From there, he moved to New York City, to work at ''The Village Voice,'' first in the circulation department answering phone complaints, then as a receptionist. He is married to Laura Jacobs, a contributing editor at ''Vanity Fair''. He began practicing the Transcendental Meditation technique in 2007. Career Since arriving in New York, Wolcott has been a columnist on media and pop culture for such publications as ''Esquire'', '' Harper's Magazine'', ''The New Yorker'', ''The New York Review of Books'', and ''New York M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jackie Wolcott
Jackie Wolcott Sanders is an American diplomat. Early life Wolcott grew up in Martin, Ottawa County, Ohio. She graduated from Genoa Area High School in 1972, and went on to study at Bowling Green State University. Career Wolcott has had a diplomatic career, working in national security and foreign policy. Wolcott was appointed as United States Ambassador to the United Nations International Organizations in Vienna in October 2018, after being confirmed by the United States Senate The United States Senate is the upper chamber of the United States Congress, with the House of Representatives being the lower chamber. Together they compose the national bicameral legislature of the United States. The composition and pow ... on September 24, 2018. She completed her assignment and permanently departed her post at USUNVIE on Monday, January 18, 2021, two days before the inauguration of President Joe Biden. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Wolcott, Jackie Living people Ame ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Norton Wolcott
George Norton Wolcott (12 July 1889 – 20 October 1965) was an American entomologist who was a specialist on the insects of the Caribbean region, particularly Puerto Rico, where he was involved in the study and control of insect pests in sugarcane cultivation. He pioneered the use of augmented releases of insect egg parasitoids in the genus ''Trichogramma'' to control lepidopteran pests in sugarcane. Wolcott was born to David Clinton Wolcott and Marion Delia Benedict in Utica, New York. His father was a lawyer, and his mother was a talented watercolour artist. His brother and sister took to architecture, while he followed an early interest in insects. He studied at the Utica Free Academy and graduated from the New York State College of Agriculture around 1907–09, followed by an MS in agriculture in 1915. He received a Ph.D. from Cornell University in 1925. He worked in the Department of Agriculture in Texas before moving to Puerto Rico and working with the Sugar Producers Assoc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edward O
Edward is an English given name A given name (also known as a forename or first name) is the part of a personal name quoted in that identifies a person, potentially with a middle name as well, and differentiates that person from the other members of a group (typically a fa .... It is derived from the Anglo-Saxon name ''Ēadweard'', composed of the elements '' ēad'' "wealth, fortune; prosperous" and ''wikt:weard#Old English, weard'' "guardian, protector”. History The name Edward was very popular in Anglo-Saxon England, but the rule of the House of Normandy, Norman and House of Plantagenet, Plantagenet dynasties had effectively ended its use amongst the upper classes. The popularity of the name was revived when Henry III of England, Henry III named his firstborn son, the future Edward I of England, Edward I, as part of his efforts to promote a cult around Edward the Confessor, for whom Henry had a deep admiration. Variant forms The name has been adopted in the Iberian P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
