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Albert C. Simmonds Jr.
Albert Carleton Simmonds Jr. (August 15, 1902 – June 21, 1963) was an American banker. Early life Simmonds was born on June 21, 1963, at Simmesport in Avoyelles Parish, Louisiana. He was the eldest child of Albert Carleton Simmonds (1871–1930) and Nonie Adela ( Butler) Simmonds (1875–1963). His paternal grandparents were Henry Simmonds and Mary Eliza ( Reily) Simmonds. His maternal grandparents were Confederate soldier Thomas Callaham Butler and, his first wife, Jane ( Robinette) Butler. After graduating from Bolton High School in Alexandria, Louisiana in 1917, Simmonds attended Vanderbilt University, graduating in 1922. He taught history for a year at the high school in Thomasville, Georgia before attending Harvard University, where he graduated with a Master of Business Administration in 1925. Career After Harvard, Simmonds joined the Texas and Pacific Railway Company in New York City. In 1930, he joined the Bank of New York and after subsequent stints as assistant trea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Presidents Of The Bank Of New York
The following is a list of presidents of Bank of New York from inception in 1784 until its 2007 merger with Mellon Financial. History The Bank of New York was formed following a June 1784 meeting at a coffee house on Franklin Square (Manhattan), St. George's Square. The bank operated without a charter for seven years. The bank opened on June 9, 1784, with Alexander McDougall as the first president and William Seton as Cashier. Its first offices were in the old Walton Mansion in New York City. In 1787, it moved to a site on Hanover Square (Manhattan), Hanover Square that the New York Cotton Exchange later moved into. The bank provided the United States government its first loan in 1789. The loan was orchestrated by Alexander Hamilton, then United States Secretary of the Treasury, Secretary of the Treasury, and it paid the salaries of United States Congress members and President of the United States, President George Washington. The Bank of New York was the first company to be trad ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The New York Times
''The New York Times'' (''NYT'') is an American daily newspaper based in New York City. ''The New York Times'' covers domestic, national, and international news, and publishes opinion pieces, investigative reports, and reviews. As one of the longest-running newspapers in the United States, the ''Times'' serves as one of the country's Newspaper of record, newspapers of record. , ''The New York Times'' had 9.13 million total and 8.83 million online subscribers, both by significant margins the List of newspapers in the United States, highest numbers for any newspaper in the United States; the total also included 296,330 print subscribers, making the ''Times'' the second-largest newspaper by print circulation in the United States, following ''The Wall Street Journal'', also based in New York City. ''The New York Times'' is published by the New York Times Company; since 1896, the company has been chaired by the Ochs-Sulzberger family, whose current chairman and the paper's publ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles F
Charles is a masculine given name predominantly found in English language, English and French language, French speaking countries. It is from the French form ''Charles'' of the Proto-Germanic, Proto-Germanic name (in runic alphabet) or ''*karilaz'' (in Latin alphabet), whose meaning was "free man". The Old English descendant of this word was ''Churl, Ċearl'' or ''Ċeorl'', as the name of King Cearl of Mercia, that disappeared after the Norman conquest of England. The name was notably borne by Charlemagne (Charles the Great), and was at the time Latinisation of names, Latinized as ''Karolus'' (as in ''Vita Karoli Magni''), later also as ''Carolus (other), Carolus''. Etymology The name's etymology is a Common Germanic noun ''*karilaz'' meaning "free man", which survives in English as wikt:churl, churl (< Old English ''ċeorl''), which developed its deprecating sense in the Middle English period. Some Germanic languages, for example Dutch language, Dutch and German ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Huntington, New York
Huntington is one of ten Administrative divisions of New York#Town, towns in Suffolk County, New York, Suffolk County, New York (state), New York, United States. The town's population was 204,127 at the time of the 2020 census, making it the 11th most populous city/town in the state. Founded in 1653, the Town of Huntington is located on the North Shore (Long Island), North Shore of Long Island in northwestern Suffolk County, with the Long Island Sound to its north and Nassau County, New York, Nassau County adjacent to the west. It is part of the New York metropolitan area. History In 1653, three men from Oyster Bay, New York, Oyster Bay – Richard Holbrook, Robert Williams, and Daniel Whitehead – purchased a parcel of land from the Matinecock (tribe), Matinecock tribe. This parcel has since come to be known as the "First Purchase" and included land bordered by Cold Spring Harbor, New York, Cold Spring Harbor on the west, Northport, New York, Northport Harbor on the east, w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rye, New York
Rye is a city in Westchester County, New York, United States, within the New York metropolitan area, New York City metropolitan area. It received its charter as a city in 1942, making it the most recent such charter in the state. Its area of 5.85 square miles has a population density of 2,729.76/sq mi. Rye is notable for its waterfront, and two National Historic Landmarks: the Boston Post Road Historic District (Rye, New York), Boston Post Road Historic District, designated in 1993 and the only National Historic Landmark District in Westchester County, which includes the Jay Estate, the childhood home and final resting place of John Jay, a Founding Fathers of the United States, Founding Father and the first Chief Justice of the United States, Chief Justice of the United States, and Playland (New York), Playland, a historic amusement park designated in 1987, which features one of the oldest wooden roller coasters in the Northeastern United States, Northeast, the Dragon Coaster ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Greenwood Union Cemetery
The Greenwood Union Cemetery is a cemetery in Rye and Harrison in Westchester County, New York. History The first cemetery on this site was established in 1837 and it was known as "Union Cemetery of Rye". James Parker and David Brooks of Rye donated of land to Christ's Church, Rye, with plots to be reserved for the ministers of the three churches of Rye and their families. Two strips on the eastern and western sides of the grounds were to be used as a public cemetery. In January 1855, the trustees of the Methodist Episcopal Church, Rye bought an additional contiguous to the cemetery, and, between 1864 and 1868, they added more than . The total land was then . Methodist Episcopal Church operated the cemetery from 1855 until 1902, when it transferred management to a Rural Cemetery Corporation organized under the Rural Cemetery Act of 1847. This arrangement continued from 1902 to 1984, under the leadership of successive generations of the Cowan family, but in 1984 the responsibil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wyatt Company
Watson Wyatt Worldwide, Inc. was a global consulting firm that merged in January 2010 with Towers Perrin to form Towers Watson. The firm's services included managing the cost and effectiveness of employee benefit programs; developing attraction, retention and reward strategies; advising pension plan sponsors and other institutions on optimal investment strategies; providing strategic and financial advice to insurance and financial service companies; and delivering related technology, outsourcing and data services. Its principal operating subsidiary, Watson Wyatt & Company, was a human capital consulting firm with operations in the Americas, Europe and Asia Pacific. Its corporate offices were in Arlington, Virginia. History Reuben Watson formed the UK actuarial firm R. Watson & Sons in 1878. In 1943, Birchard Wyatt established The Wyatt Company as an actuarial consulting firm. In 1995, the two firms formed a global alliance under the brand Watson Wyatt Worldwide. The U.S.-bas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yale University
Yale University is a Private university, private Ivy League research university in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Founded in 1701, Yale is the List of Colonial Colleges, third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States, and one of the nine colonial colleges chartered before the American Revolution. Yale was established as the Collegiate School in 1701 by Congregationalism in the United States, Congregationalist clergy of the Connecticut Colony. Originally restricted to instructing ministers in theology and sacred languages, the school's curriculum expanded, incorporating humanities and sciences by the time of the American Revolution. In the 19th century, the college expanded into graduate and professional instruction, awarding the first Doctor of Philosophy, PhD in the United States in 1861 and organizing as a university in 1887. Yale's faculty and student populations grew rapidly after 1890 due to the expansion of the physical campus and its scientif ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harrison, New York
Harrison is a Administrative divisions of New York#Town, town and Administrative divisions of New York (state), village in Westchester County, New York, Westchester County, New York (state), New York, United States. It is a suburb of New York City, located northeast of Manhattan. The population was 28,218 at the 2020 census. History 17th century Harrison was established in 1696 by a patent granted by the British government to John Harrison and three others, who had a year earlier bargained with local Native Americans to purchase an area of land above Westchester Path, an old trail that led from Manhattan to Port Chester, New York, Port Chester and below Rye Lake. Local custom holds that Harrison was given 24 hours to ride his horse around the area he could claim, and the horse could not swim or did not want to get its feet wet, but this is folklore. In fact, the land below Westchester Path and along Long Island Sound had already been purchased and partly developed by the settle ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hubbard Woods Station
Hubbard Woods is a station on Metra's Union Pacific North Line located in Winnetka, Illinois. Hubbard Woods is located at 1065 Gage Street. Hubbard Woods is away from Ogilvie Transportation Center in Chicago, the southern terminus of the Union Pacific North Line. Trains continue as far north as Kenosha, Wisconsin. In Metra's zone-based fare system, Hubbard Woods is in Zone 3. As of 2018, Hubbard Woods is the 120th busiest of Metra's 236 non-downtown stations, with an average of 396 weekday boardings. Hubbard Woods consists of a station and two side platforms which serve two tracks, with northbound trains using the west platform and southbound trains use the east platform. The station is located at street level and is open from 5:15 A.M. to 1:00 P.M. The platforms at Hubbard Woods are located in a below-grade depression. The platforms are accessible from Scott Avenue as well as a pedestrian bridge adjacent to the station house. Parking is available at Hubbard Woods. As of Februa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chicago, Illinois
Chicago is the List of municipalities in Illinois, most populous city in the U.S. state of Illinois and in the Midwestern United States. With a population of 2,746,388, as of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, it is the List of United States cities by population, third-most populous city in the United States after New York City and Los Angeles. As the county seat, seat of Cook County, Illinois, Cook County, the List of the most populous counties in the United States, second-most populous county in the U.S., Chicago is the center of the Chicago metropolitan area, often colloquially called "Chicagoland" and home to 9.6 million residents. Located on the shore of Lake Michigan, Chicago was incorporated as a city in 1837 near a Chicago Portage, portage between the Great Lakes and the Mississippi River, Mississippi River watershed. It grew rapidly in the mid-19th century. In 1871, the Great Chicago Fire destroyed several square miles and left more than 100,000 homeless, but ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
