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    The Tilden Trust was a fund established in the will of Samuel J. Tilden upon his death on August 4, 1886. The will, dated April 23, 1884, provided for...
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    Samuel Jones Tilden (February 9, 1814 – August 4, 1886) was an American politician who served as the 25th governor of New York and was the Democratic nominee...
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    candidate. The 1876 Democratic National Convention nominated Governor Samuel J. Tilden of New York on the second ballot. The election was among the most contentious...
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    Foundation decided to merge the Lenox Library's collection with the Tilden Trust and Astor Library to create the New York Public Library. In 1895, the...
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    1895, the Lenox Library was consolidated with the Astor Library and the Tilden Trust to form the New York Public Library. The collection of Bibles, including...
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    make do with fewer funds. Green successfully proposed consolidating the Tilden Trust with the Astor and Lenox Libraries, leading eventually to the construction...
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    Chartwell (category Philip Tilden buildings)
    opening, and the Trust plans to make them accessible by 2020. Neither the original Victorian house with its extensions, nor Tilden's reconstruction, created...
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    art of the Lenox Library was consolidated with the Astor Library and Tilden Trust to form the collection of the newly created New York Public Library (NYPL)...
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    The Electoral Commission, sometimes referred to as the Hayes-Tilden or Tilden-Hayes Electoral Commission, was a temporary body created by the United States...
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  • joined the Tilden Trust. He was the Mayor of Plainfield, New Jersey from 1881 to 1882. From 1895 to 1903 he was president of the Atlantic Trust Company....
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    became Park Avenue. When the library was consolidated with Astor and Tilden trusts to form the New York Public Library, a unique block-long stretch of...
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    bequest. When the Lenox Library merged with the Astor Library and the Tilden Trust in 1895 to form The New York Public Library, the Drexel Collection was...
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  • against bias" so that they must not discriminate against people. Mark W. Tilden is a robotics physicist who was a pioneer in developing simple robotics...
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    artwork of the Lenox Library were donated along with the contents of the Tilden Trust and Astor Library to form the New York Public Library. The New York Public...
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    eventually a full librarian at Lenox, and later, upon the merging of the Tilden trust, Astor and Lenox libraries he was appointed 'Lenox Librarian.' He became...
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    Tilden, the governor of New York. Tilden was considered a formidable adversary who, like Hayes, had a reputation for honesty. Also like Hayes, Tilden...
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  • College of Science. Whiteley's research, working with Professor Sir William Tilden, helped her achieve earning a doctorate degree (D.Sc.) in 1902 from the...
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    in 1880, his library's finances began to suffer. In 1895, the Samuel Tilden Trust provided the funds for the creation of a public library in New York,...
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    The Freedman's Saving and Trust Company, known as the Freedman's Savings Bank, was a private savings bank chartered by the U.S. Congress on March 3, 1865...
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    York. He served this position until 1889. He was also a trustee of the Tilden Trust. Walker never married. He joined the New York City Bar Association in...
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    2009 Pacific West Region Freeman Tilden Award, National Parks Conservation Association. 2009 National Freeman Tilden Award, National Parks Conservation...
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    endowments and the Tilden Trust, were merged to create the "new corporation" called the "New York Public Library, Astor, Lennox and Tilden Foundation". Lydenberg...
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    August 13, 2019. Retrieved August 13, 2019. "On the Old Reservoir Site.; Tilden Trust's Suggestion to Use the City Hall for a Library". The New York Times....
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    reported that the highest surface elevation in Michigan was the top of the Tilden Mine waste pile in Marquette County near Ishpeming. At the time, the top...
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  • and played competitive tennis under the instruction of professional Bill Tilden. He graduated magna cum laude from Yale Law School in 1931. At Yale, he...
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    Republican nominee, Rutherford B. Hayes, over the Democratic nominee, Samuel J. Tilden. Hayes won the state by a narrow margin of 3.54%. After the election, Republican...
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    untouched in a trust for several years, until John Bigelow, a New York attorney, and Andrew Haswell Green, both trustees of the Tilden fortune, came up...
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    Hayes, and Bigelow then acted as one of Tilden's estate trust executors. He carried out Tilden's wishes, over several years, to develop, design, and establish...
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    party was dominated by pro-business Bourbon Democrats led by Samuel J. Tilden and Grover Cleveland, who represented mercantile, banking, and railroad...
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    1876 Electoral Commission charged with resolving the disputed Hayes v. Tilden presidential election; he was widely expected to serve as the deciding member...
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