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Prides Crossing, Beverly, Massachusetts
Prides Crossing is a neighborhood of the city of Beverly, Massachusetts in the North Shore region. It is bordered to the east by Beverly Farms, and to the west by the Beverly Cove areas of Beverly. History The name is associated with John Pride – supposedly a nephew of Thomas Pride – who was granted land in the area in 1636. In the late 1800s and early 1900s grand mansions were built as summer "cottages' for wealthy business magnates. Henry Clay Frick, who made his fortune in steel (Carnegie Steel) was among the best known of these summer residents. He built "Eagle Rock", located between Hale Street and the Atlantic Ocean. Edward Carelton Swift, at one time the owner of the largest meat packing operation in the U.S. built a mansion, "Swiftmoor" on Paine Avenue in Prides Crossing. Eleonora "Eleo" Sears, a flamboyant female socialite and world class tennis player, owned a residence that still exists where Paine Avenue and West Beach meet. Wealthy residents were known to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Prides Crossing Confections In Former Station Building, May 2013
Prides are a Scotland, Scottish Independent music, indie band formed in Glasgow in 2013 and made up of Stewart Brock (lead vocals, keys), Callum Wiseman (guitar, keys, vocals), and Lewis Gardiner (drums, production). They released their debut album ''The Way Back Up'' on 10 July 2015. Career The band performed at the 2014 Commonwealth Games 2014 Commonwealth Games closing ceremony, closing ceremony in Glasgow with the track "Messiah" on 3 August 2014. The band are managed by Ally McCrae and signed to Twin Music Inc. Their song "Out of the Blue" is featured in ''FIFA 15''. Members * Stewart Brock – lead vocals, keys * Callum Wiseman - guitar, keys, vocals [No Longer a Member] * Lewis Gardiner - drums, production [No Longer a Member] Discography Albums * ''The Way Back Up'' (2015) #24 UK * ''A Mind Like the Tide, Pt. 1 (EP)'' (2017) * ''A Mind Like the Tide, Pt. 1 (Acoustic EP)'' (2017) * ''A Mind Like the Tide, Pt. 2 (EP)'' (2018) * ''A Mind Like the Tide, Pt. 2 (Acoust ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Loeb III
William Loeb III (December 26, 1905 – September 13, 1981) was an American newspaper publisher. He is remembered for his unyieldingly conservative political views, which helped made the ''Manchester Union Leader'' of Manchester, New Hampshire, one of the best-known small papers in the country. The newspaper also benefited from nationwide attention every four years during the New Hampshire presidential primary. Loeb was publisher of the ''Union Leader'' from 1946 until his death, a period of 35 years. Biography Early years Loeb was born on December 26, 1905, in Washington, D.C., the son of Catharine/Katherine Wilhelmina (Dorr) and William Loeb Jr. (1866–1937). His parents were both of German descent. His father was executive secretary to Theodore Roosevelt, and a nationally known figure in his own day. Loeb's paternal grandfather, also named William Loeb, was a German immigrant. Loeb's siblings were Louisa Loeb-Neudorf, Amelia Olive Loeb and Lillian May Loeb. The younger Loeb a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Swift & Company
JBS USA Holdings, Inc. is a meat processing company and a wholly owned subsidiary of the Brazilian multinational JBS S.A. The subsidiary was created when JBS entered the U.S. market in 2007 with its purchase of Swift & Company. JBS USA is based in Greeley, Colorado. Its competitors include Hormel Foods, Cargill, Smithfield Foods, National Beef, and Tyson Foods. History Swift & Company Swift & Company operations can be traced back to 1855, when 16-year-old Gustavus Franklin Swift founded a butchering operation in Eastham, Massachusetts. Its early origins on Cape Cod led later to locations in Brighton (in Massachusetts), and Albany, and Buffalo, New York. In 1875, Swift and Company was incorporated in Chicago. Swift and Armour and Company acquired a two-thirds controlling interest in the Fort Worth Stockyards in 1902. That same year, an antitrust lawsuit was filed against Swift for conspiring with other companies to control the meatpacking industry. The companies attempt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Sears (tennis)
Richard Dudley Sears (October 26, 1861 – April 8, 1943) was an American tennis player, who won the US National Championships singles in its first seven years, from 1881 to 1887, and the doubles for six years from 1882 to 1887, after which he retired from tennis. Early life He was the son of Frederic Richard Sears and Albertina Homer Shelton. His brothers Philip and Herbert were also tennis players. Tennis career Sears learned to play tennis in 1879. Sears played his first tournament and won his first title at the Beacon Park Open held at Beacon Park in Boston in October 1880. He was undefeated in the U.S. Championships, he won the first of his seven consecutive titles in 1881 while still a student at Harvard. In those days, the previous year's winner had an automatic place in the final. Starting in the 1881 first round, he went on an 18-match unbeaten streak that took him through the 1887 championships, after which he retired from the game. Not until 1921 was his 18-match ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lafayette Escadrille
The La Fayette Escadrille () was the name of the French Air Force unit escadrille N 124 during the First World War (1914–1918). This escadrille of the History of the Armée de l'Air (1909–1942)#World War I (1914–1918), ''Aéronautique Militaire'' was composed largely of American volunteer pilots flying fighter aircraft, fighters. It was named in honor of the Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette, Marquis de Lafayette, French hero of the American Revolutionary War. In September 1917, the escadrille was transferred to the United States Army under the designation 103rd Aero Squadron. In 1921, the French Air Force recreated a N124 unit who claimed lineage from the war-time La Fayette escadrille and is now part of the Escadron de Chasse 2/4 La Fayette, escadron 2/4 La Fayette. History Dr. Edmund L. Gros, M.D. (1869-1942), Edmund L. Gros, a founder of the American Hospital of Paris and organizer of the AFS Intercultural Programs#WWI, American Ambulance Field Service, and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Norman Prince
Norman Prince (August 31, 1887 – October 15, 1916) was an American aviator and leading founder of France's Lafayette Escadrille. Biography He was born on August 31, 1887, in Beverly, Massachusetts. He was son of Frederick Henry Prince. Prince attended the Groton School, graduated Harvard College, ''cum laude'' in 1908 and Harvard Law School in 1911. Prince, under the alias 'George Manor' to conceal his flight training from his father, was the 55th American to be licensed to fly an airplane by the Aero Club of America. He passed his test on August 28, 1911, at Squantum, Massachusetts, flying a Burgess with a Wright motor. Prince was practicing law in Chicago when he joined a group to build and race a plane in the Gordon Bennett Cup Race. They hired Starling Burgess to build their plane in his boat yard in Marblehead, Massachusetts, in 1912. In 1910, Norman's family had bought an estate in Pau, France, known as "Villa Ste Helene". The estate, with its house, still ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Henry Moore (judge)
William Henry ("Judge") Moore (October 28, 1848 – January 11, 1923) was an American attorney and financier. He organized and promoted or sat as a director for several steel companies that were merged with among others the Carnegie Steel Company to create United States Steel. He and his brother James Hobart Moore helped create the Diamond Match Company, National Biscuit Company, First National Bank, the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad, the American Can Company, the Lehigh Valley Railroad, the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad, the Continental Fire Insurance Company, the Western Union Telegraph Company, the American Cotton Oil Company, and Bankers Trust. Moore was an avid and expert horseman. Biography He was born on October 20, 1848. Moore's father, Nathaniel Ford Moore, was a prominent banker and merchant in Utica, New York. His mother, Rachel Arvilla Beckwith, was a daughter of George Beckwith, also a banker, a mid-18th century graduate of Yale College, and a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Loring (judge)
William Caleb Loring (August 24, 1851 – September 8, 1930) was an American lawyer who served as a justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court from September 7, 1899, to September 16, 1919, appointed by Governor Roger Wolcott. Biography Born in Beverly, Massachusetts, to Caleb William and Elizabeth Smith (Peabody) Loring, he attended a private school and graduated from Harvard College in 1872, where he was a rower on the university crew team."Justice Loring Dies In Home At Age of 79", ''Fitchburg Sentinel'' (September 8, 1930), p. 1, 5. Continuing at Harvard, he received an A.M. in 1875. He became an Assistant Attorney General of Massachusetts on December 1, 1875, serving in that position until July 1878, when he resigned to become a partner in the law firm of Ropes & Gray (thereafter called Ropes, Gray and Loring until his departure). In this capacity, he served as general solicitor and later general counsel of the New York and New England Railroad, from 1882 to 18 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Katharine Peabody Loring
Katharine Peabody Loring Royal Red Cross, RRC (May 21, 1849 – August 16, 1943) was an American educator. She was head of the history department at the Society to Encourage Studies at Home, the first correspondence school in the United States, where she developed a lifelong companionship with well-known Diary, diarist Alice James. She was also a trustee of the Beverly, Massachusetts, Beverly Public Library in Beverly, Massachusetts, and president of the Beverly Historical Society from 1918 to 1941. Early life Katharine Peabody Loring was born in Beverly, Massachusetts, on May 21, 1849, to Caleb William Loring, president of the Plymouth Cordage Company, and Elizabeth Peabody. Her name was occasionally misspelled as Katherine in many letters. The Loring family were descendants of Thomas Loring, who came to Hingham, Massachusetts from Devonshire, England, and they were influential in Massachusetts. Her grandfather Charles Greely Loring (lawyer), Charles Greely Loring was a landow ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Greely Loring (lawyer)
Charles Greely Loring Sr. (May 2, 1794 – October 8, 1867) was an American lawyer based in Boston. He also served one term in the Massachusetts Senate. Biography Early life Loring was born in 1794 in Boston, Massachusetts, a descendant of Thomas Loring, an early settler of the area who arrived from England in 1634. He was educated at Boston Latin School, then graduated from Harvard College in 1812, where he was a member of Phi Beta Kappa. He then attended Litchfield Law School in Connecticut and was admitted to the bar of Suffolk County, Massachusetts, in 1815. Professional career After working in the offices of Charles Jackson, Loring established his own law practice. He was practicing in Boston by 1816, first with an unrelated partner until 1819, and later with his brother Francis Caleb Loring and his son Caleb William Loring. In 1851, Loring served, along with Robert Rantoul Jr. and Samuel Edmund Sewall, as defense counsel for Thomas Sims, an African American from Geor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Greely Loring (general)
Charles Greely Loring Jr. (December 26, 1828 – August 18, 1902) was an American military officer who attained the rank of brevet major general in the Union Army during the Civil War. He later served as curator and director of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Biography Early years Loring was born in Boston in 1828. His father, also named Charles Greely Loring, was a lawyer who served one term in the Massachusetts Senate. The younger Loring was educated at Boston Latin School and then attended Harvard, where he received an undergraduate degree in 1848 and a Master of Arts degree in 1851. Over the next decade, he traveled internationally including visits to Scotland, Spain, Egypt, the Sinai Peninsula, Arabia Petraea, Palestine, Constantinople, Greece, and Paris. He had at least two bouts of unspecified serious illness, and spent time attending to his family's summer home and farm in Beverly, Massachusetts. Military service Following the First Battle of Bull Run in July 186 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Greely Loring (architect)
Charles Greely Loring III (October 23, 1881 – September 3, 1966) was an American architect based in Boston. Biography Loring's father, also named Charles Greely Loring, was a Union Army general during the Civil War. The younger Loring graduated from Harvard in 1903 and from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1906, where he was a member of Chi Phi. After briefly working for Guy Lowell, Loring studied at Beaux-Arts de Paris, passing the entrance exam in February 1907. He subsequently worked as an architect, first for Cass Gilbert in New York City, then at a firm he co-founded in Boston in 1912, Loring & Leland. Loring & Leland were architects of the Francis Buttrick Library in Waltham, Massachusetts, which is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Loring was also member of St. Botolph Club, a private social club in Boston. The Loring & Leland partnership ended in 1919. In 1915, Loring married Katharine A. Page, the daughter of Walter Hines Page, then th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
