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Alexander Lafayette Chew
Alexander Lafayette Chew (October 4, 1824 – November 19, 1911) was an American banker. Early life Chew was born on October 4, 1824, in New Orleans, Louisiana, where his father served as collector of the port of New Orleans. He was one of six children of Beverly Chew (1773–1851) and Maria Theodora ( Duer) Chew (1789–1837). Three of his siblings married into the Kennedy family of Louisiana and his eldest sister, Lucy Ann Chew, married their cousin, U.S. Representative William Duer (U.S. Congressman), William Duer. During the Marquis de Lafayette's 1824 Visit of the Marquis de Lafayette to the United States, visit to the United States, his father hosted the French statesman at their New Orleans home. Young Alexander was born shortly thereafter and Lafayette became godfather of the boy, giving the family an "ornate silver teapot inscribed with the infant's name." His paternal grandparents were Ann ( Fox) Chew and Col. John Chew Jr. (1740–1799), who served in the Continental Ar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New Orleans, Louisiana
New Orleans (commonly known as NOLA or The Big Easy among other nicknames) is a Consolidated city-county, consolidated city-parish located along the Mississippi River in the U.S. state of Louisiana. With a population of 383,997 at the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, it is the List of municipalities in Louisiana, most populous city in Louisiana and the French Louisiana region, the second-most populous in the Deep South, and the twelfth-most populous in the Southeastern United States. The city is coextensive with Orleans Parish, Louisiana, Orleans Parish. New Orleans serves as a major port and a commercial hub for the broader Gulf Coast of the United States, Gulf Coast region. The New Orleans metropolitan area has a population of approximately 1 million, making it the most populous metropolitan area in Louisiana and the List of metropolitan statistical areas, 59th-most populous in the United States. New Orleans is world-renowned for Music of New Orleans, its distincti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
United States Senator
The United States Senate consists of 100 members, two from each of the 50 U.S. state, states. This list includes all senators serving in the 119th United States Congress. Party affiliation Independent Senators Angus King of Maine and Bernie Sanders of Vermont Senate Democratic Caucus, caucus with the Democratic Party. Leadership Presiding officers Majority leadership (Republican) Minority leadership (Democratic) List of senators See also * Seniority in the United States Senate * List of current members of the United States House of Representatives * List of members of the United States Congress by longevity of service * List of United States Senate committees * List of United States congressional joint committees * Religious affiliation in the United States Senate * Shadow congressperson Notes References {{US Order of Precedence 117th United States Congress, ** 21st-century United States government officials, Senate Lists of current office-holders ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Democrat And Chronicle
The ''Democrat and Chronicle'' is a daily newspaper serving the greater Rochester, New York, area. Headquartered at 245 East Main Street in downtown Rochester, the ''Democrat and Chronicle'' operates under the ownership of Gannett. The paper's production facility is in Rockaway, New Jersey. Since the ''Times-Union'' merger in 1997, the ''Democrat and Chronicle'' is Rochester's only daily circulated newspaper. History Founded in 1833 as ''The Balance'', the paper eventually became known as the ''Daily Democrat''. The ''Daily Democrat'' merged with another local paper, the ''Chronicle'', in 1870, to become known as the ''Democrat and Chronicle''. The paper was purchased by Gannett in 1928. Prior to 1959, the newspaper was headquartered at 59-61 E. Main Street, on Rochester's Main Street Bridge. From 1928 to 1985, the ''Democrat and Chronicle'' was Gannett's flagship paper. In 1959, the newspaper relocated to Gannett's headquarters in the Gannett Building at 55 Exchange Boulevar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arthur Cleveland Coxe
Arthur Cleveland Coxe (May 10, 1818 – July 20, 1896) was the second Episcopal bishop of Western New York. He used Cleveland as his given name and is often referred to as A. Cleveland Coxe. Biography He was the son of the Reverend Samuel Hanson Cox and Abiah Hyde Cox ''née'' ''Cleveland'', but changed the spelling of the family name. He was born at Mendham, New Jersey, May 10, 1818. On his mother's side he was a grandson of the Rev. Aaron Cleveland, an early poet of Connecticut. His parents moved to New York in 1820, and he received his education there. Coxe was prepared for college under the private tuition of Professor George Bush. He entered the University of the City of New York, and graduated in 1838. During his freshman year he wrote a poem, ''The Progress of Ambition'', and in 1837 published ''Advent, a Mystery'', a poem after the manner of the religious dramas of the Middle Ages. In 1838 appeared ''Athwold, a Romaunt'', and ''Saint Jonathan, the Lay of the Scald' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Episcopal Diocese Of Western New York
The Episcopal Diocese of Western New York is the diocese of the Episcopal Church in the United States of America with jurisdiction over the counties of Cattaraugus County, New York, Cattaraugus, Chautauqua County, New York, Chautauqua, Erie County, New York, Erie, Genesee County, New York, Genesee, Niagara County, New York, Niagara, Orleans County, New York, Orleans and Wyoming County, New York, Wyoming in western New York (state), New York. It is in Province 2 of the Episcopal Church in the United States of America, Province 2 and its cathedral, St. Paul's Cathedral (Buffalo), St. Paul's Cathedral, is in Buffalo, New York, Buffalo. The diocesan offices are in Tonawanda, New York. Current bishop Sean W. Rowe served as bishop provisional of Western New York until he became Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church. The diocesan convention elected him to this role on October 26, 2018, when it and the convention of the Episcopal Diocese of Northwestern Pennsylvania voted to share a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Job Pierson
Job Pierson (September 23, 1791 – April 9, 1860) was an American lawyer and politician who served two terms as a U.S. Representative from New York from 1831 to 1835. Biography Born in East Hampton, New York, Pierson attended the common schools. He graduated from Williams College in 1811. He studied law in Salem and Schaghticoke. He was admitted to the bar in 1815 and commenced practice in Rensselaer County. He served as district attorney from 1824 to 1833. Congress Pierson was elected as a Jacksonian to the Twenty-second and Twenty-third Congresses (March 4, 1831 – March 3, 1835). After an unsuccessful campaign for reelection to the Twenty-fourth Congress in 1834, he resumed the practice of law. He served as Surrogate of Rensselaer County from 1835 to 1840 and was a delegate to the Democratic National Conventions in 1848, 1852, and 1856. Death Pierson died in Troy, New York and was interred in Oakwood Cemetery. Notes and references * External links Job Pierso ... [...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] |
Beverly Chew II
Beverly or Beverley may refer to: Places Australia *Beverley, South Australia, a suburb of Adelaide *Beverley, Western Australia, a town *Shire of Beverley, Western Australia Canada *Beverly, Alberta, a town that amalgamated with the City of Edmonton in 1961 *Beverley, Saskatchewan United Kingdom *Beverley, a market town, and the county town of the East Riding of Yorkshire, England **Beverley railway station **Beverley Beck **Beverley Racecourse **Beverley Rural District **Beverley (UK Parliament constituency) **East Yorkshire Borough of Beverley *Beverley Brook, a minor tributary of the River Thames in south west London United States *Beverly, Chicago, Illinois, a community area *Beverly, Georgia, an unincorporated community *Beverly, Kansas, a city *Beverly, Kentucky *Beverly, Massachusetts, a city ** Beverly Depot (MBTA station) * Beverly, Missouri, an unincorporated community *Beverly, Nebraska, an unincorporated community *Beverly, New Jersey, a city *Beverly, Ohio, a v ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Phineas Prouty
Phineas Prouty (November 8, 1827 – July 2, 1891) was a wealthy American merchant from Geneva, New York. Early life Prouty was born on November 8, 1827, in Geneva, New York. He was the youngest of four children born to Phineas Prouty (1788–1862) and Margaret Matilda ( Van Vranken) Prouty (1795–1830). His father had been born in New Hampshire but grew up in Newport, Vermont, before moving to Schenectady, where his older brother had a hardware business, serving in the War of 1812, and settling in Geneva by 1815, opening a copper, tin, and sheet iron factory. One sister, Harriet Prouty, was the wife of New York State Comptroller Thomas Hillhouse, and another, Sarah Augusta Prouty, was the wife of banker Alexander Lafayette Chew. Prouty was trained in law and was admitted to the bar, but never actively practiced. Career In the 1850s, Prouty took over his father's hardware business although he did not enjoy the merchant business. In April 1864, after his father's death, Prouty an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New York State Comptroller
The New York state comptroller is an elected constitutional officer of the U.S. state of New York and head of the New York state government's Department of Audit and Control. Sixty-one individuals have held the office of State Comptroller since statehood. The incumbent is Thomas DiNapoli, a Democrat. Powers and duties The state comptroller is in effect New York's chief fiscal officer. Article V, Section 1, of the New York Constitution requires the state comptroller "to audit all vouchers before payment and all official accounts", "to audit the accrual and collection of all revenues and receipts", and "to prescribe such methods of accounting as are necessary for the performance of the foregoing duties". Furthermore, the State Constitution vests the safekeeping and protection of all state funds in the state comptroller, stating: " e payment of any money of the state, or of any money under its control, or the refund of any money paid to the state, except upon audit by the com ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New York State Treasurer
The New York State Treasurer was a state cabinet officer in the State of New York (state), New York between 1776 and 1926. During the re-organization of the state government under Governor Al Smith, the office was abolished and its responsibilities transferred to the new Department of Audit and Control headed to the New York State Comptroller. Department of Audit and Control, at NY Archives History In 1776, the New York Provincial Congress appointed Peter Van Brugh Livingston Treasurer to disburse the monies raised and issued in the revolutionary operations of the day. After the establishment of the state government, the Treasurer was appointed by special act of the New York State Legislature for short periods. Under the New York State Constitut ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Raines
Thomas Raines (August 13, 1842 – August 12, 1924) was an American lawyer and politician. Life He was born on August 13, 1842, in Canandaigua, Ontario County, New York, the son of Rev. John Raines (1818–1877) and Mary (Remington) Raines (1815–1889). He was educated in Canandaigua and began his career as a store clerk in Lyons. At age 21, he became active in finance as one of the organizers of a new bank in Geneva. In 1867, he settled in Rochester and became Cashier of the "Farmers' and Mechanics' National Bank." He was New York State Treasurer from 1872 to 1875. He was elected at the New York state election, 1871 on the Republican ticket, became a Liberal Republican in 1872, and was re-elected at the New York state election, 1873 on the Democratic ticket. In May 1874, he suffered a nervous breakdown. He was described in contemporary news accounts as a "raving lunatic", being "stark mad", and suffering from "religious frenzy". He was declared incapacitated, and sent to t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
