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    John Warner Barber (February 2, 1798 – June 22, 1885) was an American engraver and historian whose books of state, national, and local history featured...
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    protagonist's wife and child stand in tears. The lithograph is based on John Warner Barber's 1826 work The Drunkard's Progress, or The Direct Road to Poverty...
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    accounts give 1758 as the year the Battle of the Frogs took place (John Warner Barber wrote in the 1836 book Connecticut Historic Collections that the incident...
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  • Hours of Sebring The John Warner School, a school located in Hoddesdon, England John Warner & Sons, a UK metalworks John Warner Barber (1798–1885), American...
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  • technology John T. Barber, Cornish bard and poet hailing from St. Ives John Warner Barber (1798–1885), American artist and author of popular histories John William...
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  • Weathersfield, Connecticut, to Mattabesett. Nineteenth-century historian John Warner Barber wrote: The lands in this township were obtained from the Indians in...
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    pistols. The Rhinebeck panorama was acquired by the Museum of London in 1998. John Jacob Astor IV (1864–1912), millionaire businessman, real estate builder...
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    opposed to Adams, including Vice President John C. Calhoun, Senator Thomas Hart Benton, and Senator John Randolph. Seeking to solidify his standing in...
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    American Roman Catholic bishop, was born in Penn Yan. Dutch Hoag, racing driver John Imbrie, paleoceanographer and MacArthur Fellow, known for proving the theory...
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    org. http://www.stephenrkatz.com/articles Historical Collections; John Warner Barber; Dorr; 1841. Foner, Philip Sheldon; Foner, Philip Sheldon (January...
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    2021. "History And Antiquities of Every Town In Massachusetts" by John Warner Barber, 1848. South Hadley town website - Historical milestones Archived...
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    John Punderson was recorded as the last living in the city in 1904. The book on the history and antiquities of New Haven he and John Warner Barber published...
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    Cook Ayer (1818–1878), patent medicine businessman and industrialist Anna Warner Bailey (1758–1851), popular revolutionary hero Ambrose Burfoot (born 1946)...
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  • American abolitionist J. Warner Wallace (born 1961), American detective James Warner Bellah (1899–1976), American author John Warner Barber (1798–1885), American...
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    South View of Mohegan Chapel, Monhegan in Montville, a sketch by John Warner Barber for his Historical Collections of Connecticut (1836). According to...
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    Western View of Potsdam, New York (circa 1856–1860) by John Warner Barber...
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    Van Buren's birthplace by John Warner Barber...
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    house in town. In 1690, the Five Mile River settlement was started when John Reed and his son built a sawmill where today's Old Kings Highway crosses...
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    Connecticut and U.S. senator Roxana Robinson (born 1946), novelist and biographer John Sedgwick (1813–1864), Union Army general killed by a sniper at the Battle...
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    discovered with feet trapped in the ground in September 1808. According to John Warner Barber, Bishop's death occurred in 1810 in Ridgefield. This is recorded in...
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    plantation period". Retrieved November 20, 2011. Historical Collections; John Warner Barber; Dorr; 1841; P. 313. "Map of history of political boundaries c1775"...
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    "Pine Tree Chiefs", Haudenosaunee Confederacy, accessed 20 May 2014 John Warner Barber, Henry Howe, Historical Collections of the State of New York, "Account...
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    the school could not have been more than 43 years old. Unbeknownst to John Barber (the writer of this book), he got to see it only four years before its...
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    approximately 4,600 full-time employees as of 2021. The Health Center also houses John Dempsey Hospital. The hospital provides the only full-service emergency department...
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  • ISBN 978-0-333-23111-1. John Warner Barber (1836). Connecticut. p. 418. ISBN 9780722249598. Alexander Allardyce. Memoir of Admiral Lord Keith. p. 1. Burke, John; Burke...
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    Library at Yale University "A chronology of the trials", Amistad Ctr John Warner Barber (1798–1885), "A History of the Amistad Captives", 1841, e-text, University...
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    steps beyond paying wages for the benefit of their employees, such as the Warner Brothers Corset Company which built the Seaside Institute as a social and...
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    National Register of Historic Places listings in New London County, Connecticut John Zukowsky, "Monumental American Obelisks: Centennial Vistas," The Art Bulletin...
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    architecture design magazine. "Philip Johnson, Marcel Breuer, Landis Gores, John M. Johansen and Eliot Noyes – known as the Harvard Five – began creating...
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    Brinton, historian James J. Casey, politician James P. Glynn, congressman John Groppo, businessman and politician David Halberstam, journalist and author...
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