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Wendell Phillips Garrison
Wendell Phillips Garrison (June 4, 1840 – February 27, 1907) was an American editor and author. Early life Garrison was born on June 4, 1840, at Cambridgeport, Massachusetts. He was the third son of the abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison and Helen Eliza ( Benson) Garrison. Among his three siblings were brother William Lloyd Garrison Jr. (a prominent advocate of the single tax) and sister Helen Frances Garrison (a suffragette who married railroad tycoon Henry Villard). He graduated from Harvard in 1861 and his father's abolitionist newspaper, '' The Liberator'', ended in 1865, after passage of the Thirteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. Very much a successor was ''The Nation'', which began in 1865 and of which he was Literary Editor, but backed up by his father's vast network of contacts. Career As a young man, Garrison had adopted pacifist and anti-imperialist beliefs. He had assisted E. L. Godkin in establishing the magazine. Henry Villard, who merged '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cambridgeport, Massachusetts
Cambridgeport is one of the neighborhoods of Cambridge, Massachusetts. It is bounded by Massachusetts Avenue, the Charles River, the Grand Junction Railroad, and River Street. The neighborhood contains predominantly residential homes, many of the triple decker style common in New England. Central Square (Cambridge), Central Square, at the northernmost part of Cambridgeport, is an active commercial district and transportation hub, and University Park at MIT, University Park is a collection of renovated or recently constructed office and apartment buildings. The neighborhood also includes Fort Washington (Massachusetts), Fort Washington Park, several Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MIT buildings, and Magazine Beach. The neighborhood is Area 5 of Cambridge. History Once part of a more expansive marshland area associated with the Charles River basin, today many of the area's names are associated with its early history. Over time the area has become a center of municipal go ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anti-imperialism
Anti-imperialism in political science and international relations is opposition to imperialism or neocolonialism. Anti-imperialist sentiment typically manifests as a political principle in independence struggles against intervention or influence from a global superpower, as well as in opposition to colonial rule. Anti-imperialism can also arise from a specific economic theory, such as in the Leninist interpretation of imperialism (Vladimir Lenin's theory of surplus value being exported to less developed nations in search of higher profits, eventually leading to imperialism), which is derived from Lenin's 1917 work '' Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism''. People who categorize themselves as anti-imperialists often state that they are opposed to colonialism, colonial empires, hegemony, imperialism and the territorial expansion of a country beyond its established borders. The phrase gained a wide currency after the Second World War and at the onset of the Cold War as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Caldecot Chubb
Thomas Caldecot Chubb (14 November 1834 – 10 August 1887) was an English-born American founder of Chubb & Son. Early life Chubb was born on 14 November 1834 in London. He was a son of John and Sarah Chubb of St Pancras, Soper Lane, London. Career In 1882 Chubb and his son, Percy, opened a marine underwriting business in the seaport district of New York City. They collected $1,000 each from 100 prominent merchants to start their venture, initially focusing on insuring ships and cargoes. After his death in 1887, Percy took over as head of the firm and his youngest son, Hendon, became a partner in 1895. Percy also founded Federal Insurance Company. His eldest son, Sidney, was also a partner until retiring in 1921 and moving to California, then Paris. After Percy's death in 1930, Hendon became senior partner, serving in that role until his retirement in 1959. Personal life In 1855, Chubb married Victoria Edds (1833–1917), a daughter of William Edds. Together, they were the paren ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hendon Chubb
Hendon Chubb (March 19, 1874 – September 3, 1960) was an American insurance executive who established the Chubb Fellowship at Yale. Early life Chubb was born in Brooklyn, New York on March 19, 1874. He was the youngest son of Thomas Caldecot Chubb and Victoria Edds (1833–1917), a daughter of William Edds. His parents were both born in England and emigrated to the United States. His older siblings included Sidney Caldecot Chubb (who married Mary Eugenia Ely), Percy Chubb (who married Helen Low), and Mabel Ada Victoria Chubb (who married Dr. Robert Holmes Greene). His paternal grandparents were John and Sarah Chubb of St Pancras, Soper Lane, London. He was educated at Dearborn Morgan School in Orange, New Jersey before graduating from the Sheffield Scientific School at Yale University in 1895. Career In 1882, his father elder brother, Percy, opened a marine underwriting business in the seaport district of New York City. They collected $1,000 each from 100 prominent merchants ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frederic Wait Lord
Frederic Wait Lord (July 3, 1871 – December 31, 1951) was an American energy executive and author. Early life Lord was born on July 3, 1871, in Brooklyn, New York. He was a son of Joseph Lord (1832–1880) and Mary Ann ( Archer) Lord (1840–1925). Among his siblings were Dr. Sidney Archer Lord, Ernest Archer Lord, and Genevieve ( Lord) Frothingham (wife of Edgar Vietor Frothingham). Lord was educated at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, serving as captain of its track team in 1893. Career Although entered in the 110 high metres hurdles, he did not compete at the 1896 Athens Olympics. Lord established the Lord Electric Company in Boston, Massachusetts in 1895. The company was "known throughout the United States for its important electrical work in great projects such as La Guardia Field and Idlewild." He served as president of Lord Electric, as well as Lord Manufacturing Co. and Lord Construction Co., until his retirement in 1948. The company later expanded to Puer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
West Orange, New Jersey
West Orange is a suburban Township (New Jersey), township in Essex County, New Jersey, Essex County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. As of the 2020 United States census, the township's population was 48,843, an increase of 2,636 (+5.7%) from the 2010 United States census, 2010 census count of 46,207, which in turn reflected an increase of 1,264 (+2.8%) from the 44,943 counted in the 2000 United States census, 2000 census. West Orange is both an Inner ring suburb, inner-ring suburb of New Jersey's largest city, Newark, New Jersey, Newark, and a bedroom community, commuter suburb of New York City; it is approximately west of Manhattan. West Orange was home to the inventor Thomas Edison, who also maintained a laboratory and workshop in town. History West Orange was originally part of the Native Americans in the United States, Native American Hackensack people, Hackensack clan's territory, for over 10,000 years. The Hackensack were a phratry of the Unami tribe of the Lenape, Len ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Llewellyn Park
Llewellyn Park is a historic gated community and census-designated place (CDP) located within West Orange in Essex County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. Llewellyn Park is thought to be the country's first planned residential community, and the site of the first large-scale naturalization of crocus, narcissus, and jonquils. The community features 175 homes on and is located west of New York City. Llewellyn Park was one of the first gated communities in the United States, where the natural environment was both carefully cultivated and allowed to remain undisturbed.Yi, Karen"High-end doesn’t even begin to describe this super-private gated community" NJ Advance Media for NJ.com, August 8, 2019. Accessed May 18, 2023. "It’s considered one of the first gated communities in the country. The 425-acres of Llewellyn Park in West Orange is sprawling with opulent homes, many styled after English manors, and flush with matured trees and thousands of daffodils." The landscapi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
McKim, Mead & White
McKim, Mead & White was an American architectural firm based in New York City. The firm came to define architectural practice, urbanism, and the ideals of the American Renaissance in ''fin de siècle'' New York. The firm's founding partners, Charles Follen McKim (1847–1909), William Rutherford Mead (1846–1928), and Stanford White (1853–1906), were giants in the architecture of their time, and remain important as innovators and leaders in the development of modern architecture worldwide. They formed a school of classically trained, technologically skilled designers who practiced well into the mid-20th century. According to Robert A. M. Stern, only Frank Lloyd Wright was more important to the identity and character of modern American architecture. The firm's New York City buildings include Manhattan's former Pennsylvania Station (1910–1963), Pennsylvania Station, the Brooklyn Museum, and the main campus of Columbia University. Elsewhere in New York (state), New York state ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Follen McKim
Charles Follen McKim (August 24, 1847 – September 14, 1909) was an American Beaux-Arts architect of the late 19th century. Along with William Rutherford Mead and Stanford White, he provided the architectural expertise as a member of the partnership McKim, Mead & White. Life and career McKim was born in Chester County, Pennsylvania. His parents were James Miller McKim, a Presbyterian minister, and Sarah Speakman McKim. They were active abolitionists and he was named after Charles Follen, another abolitionist and a Unitarian minister. After attending Harvard University, he studied architecture at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris before joining the office of Henry Hobson Richardson in 1870. McKim formed his own firm in partnership with William Rutherford Mead, joined in 1877 by fellow Richardson protégé Stanford White. For ten years, the firm became primarily known for their open-plan informal summer houses. McKim became best known as an exponent of Beaux-Arts a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Miller McKim
James Miller McKim (November 10, 1810 – June 13, 1874) was an American Presbyterian minister and abolitionist. He was the father of the architect Charles Follen McKim. Biography McKim was born in Carlisle, Pennsylvania on November 10, 1810. He was educated at Dickinson College and Princeton Theological Seminary. - anTheological Seminary and Slavery Reportp.84 In 1835, he was ordained as pastor of a Presbyterian church in Womelsdorf, Pennsylvania. A few years before, the perusal of a copy of Garrison's '' Thoughts on African Colonization'' had inspired him to become an abolitionist. He was a member of the convention that formed the American Anti-slavery Society; in October 1836, he left the pulpit to lecture on behalf of the cause of emancipation. He delivered addresses throughout the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. In 1840, he moved to Philadelphia to work for the Pennsylvania Anti-Slavery Society as lecturer, organizer, and corresponding secretary. That same year, he marr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Voyage Of The Beagle
''The Voyage of the Beagle'' is the title most commonly given to the book written by Charles Darwin and published in 1839 as his ''Journal and Remarks'', bringing him considerable fame and respect. This was the third volume of ''The Narrative of the Voyages of H.M. Ships Adventure and Beagle'', the other volumes of which were written or edited by the commanders of the ships. ''Journal and Remarks'' covers Darwin's part in the second survey expedition of the ship HMS ''Beagle''. Due to the popularity of Darwin's account, the publisher reissued it later in 1839 as Darwin's ''Journal of Researches'', and the revised second edition published in 1845 used this title. A republication of the book in 1905 introduced the title ''The Voyage of the "Beagle"'', by which it is now best known. ''Beagle'' sailed from Plymouth Sound on 27 December 1831 under the command of Captain Robert FitzRoy. While the expedition was originally planned to last two years, it lasted almost five—''Beagl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Darwin
Charles Robert Darwin ( ; 12 February 1809 – 19 April 1882) was an English Natural history#Before 1900, naturalist, geologist, and biologist, widely known for his contributions to evolutionary biology. His proposition that all species of life have descended from a Common descent, common ancestor is now generally accepted and considered a fundamental scientific concept. In a joint presentation with Alfred Russel Wallace, he introduced his scientific theory that this Phylogenetics, branching pattern of evolution resulted from a process he called natural selection, in which the struggle for existence has a similar effect to the artificial selection involved in selective breeding.. Darwin has been described as one of the most influential figures in human history and was honoured by Burials and memorials in Westminster Abbey, burial in Westminster Abbey. Darwin's early interest in nature led him to neglect his medical education at the University of Edinburgh Medical Schoo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
