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    William Chesebrough (c.1594–1667) was a farmer and trader in the colonies of Massachusetts and Connecticut. He was one of the four co-founders of Stonington...
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    Pond's (redirect from Chesebrough-Ponds)
    in use by the Pond's brand. In 1987, the Chesebrough Manufacturing Company, popularly known as "Chesebrough-Ponds", was acquired by Anglo-Dutch company...
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  • close friend William Chesebrough stood as a witness. Serving jurors/peers: William Rocknell, William Balsten, William Phelps, John Page, William Gallant,...
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  • Chesebrough Manufacturing Company (/ˈtʃiːzbroʊ/) was an oil company, founded in 1859, which produced petroleum jelly under the brand names "Vaseline"...
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  • camps it will continue to own—Camp Pico Blanco, Camp Hi-Sierra, and Chesebrough Scout Reservation. In September 2012, the combined councils announced...
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    the 2020 census. The first European colonists to arrive include William Chesebrough and Walter Palmer in Wequetequock, Thomas Minor in Quiambaug, and...
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    the founders of Woburn, Massachusetts William Hawthorne, Ancestor of Author Nathaniel Hawthorne William Chesebrough (1595-1667) Founder & Prominent Citizen...
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    Woburn and was a founding father of Woburn, Massachusetts Bay Colony. William Chesebrough (1595–1667) Founder & Prominent Citizen of Stonington, CT, Farmer...
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  • also one of four founders of Stonington, Connecticut, along with William Chesebrough, Thomas Miner, and Walter Palmer. He first appears in the historical...
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    (which previously owned Conoco), and Unilever (which presently owns Chesebrough and Vaseline). Among Standard Oil's largest non-petroleum descendants...
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  • organized, consisting of nine selectmen and several other officers. William Chesebrough was elected Constable. The following May, the Boston Gaol was built...
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    reference to the name Vaseline was by Chesebrough in his U.S. patent (U.S. Patent 127,568) in 1872. "I, Robert Chesebrough, have invented a new and useful product...
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    William Avery Rockefeller Jr. (May 31, 1841 – June 24, 1922) was an American businessman and financier. Rockefeller was a co-founder of Standard Oil along...
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    hastened healing, the workers used the jelly on cuts and burns. Robert Chesebrough, a young chemist whose previous work of distilling fuel from the oil...
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  • battle of words, but occasionally adversaries used physical force. William Chesebrough, a sixty-six-year-old resident of Southertowne, testified that "about...
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  • Retrieved 27 March 2020. Wildey, Anna Chesebrough (1903). Genealogy of the Descendants of William Chesebrough of Boston, Rehoboth, Mass. Higginson Book...
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    Edith Saunders Chesebrough Van Antwerp (September 12, 1881 – September 8, 1949) was an American amateur golfer. She won the NCGA Women's Amateur Championship...
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  • including short stories, juvenile literature, and novels. Born "Caroline Chesebrough", but known by her preferred spelling of "Caroline Chesebro'", she was...
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    Catlin. Nicholas William Stuyvesant (1805–1871), who married Catherine Augusta Chesebrough (1807–1876), an aunt of Robert Chesebrough. Gerard Stuyvesant...
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    Henry Huttleston Rogers Successor companies Atlantic Buckeye Partners Chesebrough ConocoPhillips Union Tank Car Vacuum Oil The Ohio Oil Co. (Marathon)...
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    March 14, 2012. Retrieved February 13, 2019. Taranto & Leo 2004, p. 264. Chesebrough 1994, pp. 76, 79, 106, 110. Fornieri, Joseph R.; Gabbard, Sara Vaughn...
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    collection was centered around the “Weejuns” penny loafer. In 1978, Chesebrough-Ponds Inc (Greenwich, Connecticut) purchased G.H. Bass & Co.; they sold...
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  • Perry family. He was named for Oliver Hazard Perry. He was the uncle of William Payne Whitney and Harry Payne Whitney. He was also the uncle of Congresswoman...
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    became successful. In 1864, Stephen Harkness formed a partnership with William Halsey Doan (grandson of one of the original settlers of Cleveland, Ohio)...
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    Henry Huttleston Rogers Successor companies Atlantic Buckeye Partners Chesebrough ConocoPhillips Union Tank Car Vacuum Oil The Ohio Oil Co. (Marathon)...
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  • Standard bought the company that invented and produced Vaseline, the Chesebrough Manufacturing Co., which was a Standard company only from 1908 until...
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  • Atlas. 5 March 2024. Retrieved 11 May 2024. Rosen, David; Oh, Yongtaek; Chesebrough, Christine; Zhang, Fengqing (Zoe); Kounios, John (April 2024). "Creative...
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    from the original on March 11, 2021. Retrieved March 18, 2021. David B. Chesebrough (1998). Frederick Douglass: Oratory from Slavery. Greenwood Publishing...
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    partnership with Henry Flagler and the Rockefeller brothers, John and William. Jabez Bostwick served as the Secretary-Treasurer of the Standard Oil Trust...
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    charades. At one séance Pearl met Robert Augustus Chesebrough, whose wife had died in 1887. Chesebrough, who had made his wealth from the invention and...
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