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Andrew J. Provost
Andrew Jackson Provost (April 2, 1834 – April 22, 1925) was an American lawyer and politician from New York. Life Provost was born on April 2, 1834, in New York City, the son of David Provost, who served as justice of the peace for over 20 years, and Elizabeth Hendrickson. Provost attended Williston Seminary, graduating from there in 1851. He then studied law under Cram & Cornell of New York City from 1852 to 1855. He was admitted to the bar in 1855 and became the senior partner of the law firm Provost, Fisher & Daily in Williamsburg. One of his partners was assemblyman George H. Fisher. Provost served in the New York State Assembly, representing the Kings County 1st District, in 1861 (as a Democrat) and 1862 (as a Union Democrat). He was a member of the Brooklyn Board of Education from 1864 to 1868, a justice of the peace and police justice in Queens County from 1870 to 1878, school commissioner of Queens County from 1874 to 1878, and president of the board of education of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New York City
New York, often called New York City (NYC), is the most populous city in the United States, located at the southern tip of New York State on one of the world's largest natural harbors. The city comprises five boroughs, each coextensive with a respective county. The city is the geographical and demographic center of both the Northeast megalopolis and the New York metropolitan area, the largest metropolitan area in the United States by both population and urban area. New York is a global center of finance and commerce, culture, technology, entertainment and media, academics, and scientific output, the arts and fashion, and, as home to the headquarters of the United Nations, international diplomacy. With an estimated population in 2024 of 8,478,072 distributed over , the city is the most densely populated major city in the United States. New York City has more than double the population of Los Angeles, the nation's second-most populous city. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Center For Brooklyn History
The Center for Brooklyn History (CBH, formerly known as the Brooklyn Historical Society) is a museum, library, and educational center founded in 1863 that preserves and encourages the study of Brooklyn's 400-year history. The center's Romanesque Revival building, located at Pierrepont and Clinton Streets in Brooklyn Heights, was designed by George B. Post and built in 1878–1881 by David H. King Jr., is a National Historic Landmark and part of New York City's Brooklyn Heights Historic District. The CBH houses materials relating to the history of Brooklyn and its people, and hosts exhibitions which draw over 9,000 members a year. In addition to general programming, the CBH serves over 70,000 public school students and teachers annually by providing exhibit tours, educational programs and curricula, and making its professional staff available for instruction and consultation. History The Center for Brooklyn History was founded in 1863 by Henry Pierrepont (1808–1888) as the Lon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
People From Williamsburg, Brooklyn
The term "the people" refers to the public or Common people, common mass of people of a polity. As such it is a concept of human rights law, international law as well as constitutional law, particularly used for claims of popular sovereignty. In contrast, a people is any plurality of Person, persons considered as a whole. Used in politics and law, the term "a people" refers to the collective or community of an ethnic group or nation. Concepts Legal Chapter One, Article One of the Charter of the United Nations states that "peoples" have the right to self-determination. Though the mere status as peoples and the right to self-determination, as for example in the case of Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, Indigenous peoples (''peoples'', as in all groups of indigenous people, not merely all indigenous persons as in ''indigenous people''), does not automatically provide for independence, independent sovereignty and therefore secession. Indeed, judge Ivor Jennings i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Williston Northampton School Alumni
Williston may refer to: People *Williston (surname) Places ;United States * Williston, Florida, a city in Levy County * Williston, Kentucky, former name of Murray, Kentucky * Williston, Maryland, a town in Caroline County * Williston, New York a hamlet in Erie County * Williston, North Dakota, a city in Williams County * Williston, Ohio, a town in Ottawa County * Williston, South Carolina, a town in Barnwell County * Williston, Tennessee, a city in Fayette County * Williston, Vermont, a town in Chittenden County * Williston (Orange, Virginia), a historic home and farm complex in Orange County, Virginia * Williston Highlands, Florida, a census-designated place in Levy County * Williston Park, New York, a village in Nassau County ;South Africa * Williston, Northern Cape, a town in the Northern Cape Province ;Canada * Williston Lake, the largest man-made lake in North America, located in the Peace River Country of northern British Columbia Schools * Williston Northampton School ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1925 Deaths
Events January * January 1 – The Syrian Federation is officially dissolved, the State of Aleppo and the State of Damascus having been replaced by the State of Syria (1925–1930), State of Syria. * January 3 – Benito Mussolini makes a pivotal speech in the Italian Chamber of Deputies (Italy), Chamber of Deputies which will be regarded by historians as the beginning of his dictatorship. * January 5 – Nellie Tayloe Ross becomes the first female governor (Wyoming) in the United States. Twelve days later, Ma Ferguson becomes first female governor of Texas. * January 25 – Hjalmar Branting resigns as Prime Minister of Sweden because of ill health, and is replaced by the minister of trade, Rickard Sandler. * January 27–February 1 – The 1925 serum run to Nome (the "Great Race of Mercy") relays diphtheria antitoxin by dog sled across the U.S. Territory of Alaska to combat an epidemic. February * February 25 – Art Gillham records (for Columbia Re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1834 Births
Events January–March * January 1 – Zollverein (Germany): Customs charges are abolished at borders within its member states. * January 3 – The government of Mexico imprisons Stephen F. Austin in Mexico City. * January – The Wilmington and Raleigh Railroad is chartered in Wilmington, North Carolina. * February 3 – Wake Forest University is founded as the Wake Forest Manual Labor Institute in Wake Forest, North Carolina. * February 12 – Freed American slaves from Maryland form a settlement in Cape Palmas, it is named the Republic of Maryland. * February 13 – Robert Owen organizes the Grand National Consolidated Trades Union in the United Kingdom. * March 6 – York, Upper Canada, is incorporated as Toronto. * March 11 – The United States Survey of the Coast is transferred to the Department of the Navy. * March 14 – John Herschel discovers the open cluster of stars now known as NGC 3603, observing from the Cape of Good Hope. * March 28 – Andrew J ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Paulding (New York Politician)
John Paulding (October 16, 1758 – February 18, 1818) was an American militiaman from the state of New York during the American Revolution. In 1780, he was one of three men who captured Major John André, a British spy associated with the treason of Continental general and commandant of West Point Benedict Arnold. Andre was convicted and hanged.Cray, pp. 371-397Raymond, pp. 11-17 American Revolution In 1780, while visiting his future wife, Sarah Tidd, Paulding was detained by a group of Loyalists led by his future brother-in-law. He was imprisoned in the sugar house prisons in New York City, but escaped by jumping from a window. Paulding went to the livery stable of a friend and acquired a coat of a Hessian soldier, which he wore to evade notice. As part of an armed patrol in Westchester County, with fellow militiamen David Williams and Isaac Van Wart,Cray, pp. 371-397Raymond, pp. 11-17 Paulding detained British Major John André, who had left Benedict Arnold after discussin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
