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    Samuel Rhoads Franklin (August 24, 1825 – February 24, 1909) was a rear admiral in the United States Navy. He participated in the important Battle of Hampton...
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  • Samuel Rhoads (1711 – April 7, 1784) was an American architect who served as the 59th mayor of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Rhoads was born in Philadelphia...
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  • Admiral Franklin may refer to: John Franklin (1786–1847), British Royal Navy rear admiral Samuel Rhoads Franklin (1825–1909), U.S. Navy rear admiral Peter...
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    nephew of Walter S. Franklin III, and the great nephew of Major General William B. Franklin and Rear Admiral Samuel Rhoads Franklin. He was educated at...
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    also served in the Navy. A daughter, Marion, married Rear Admiral Samuel Rhoads Franklin. Sands' eldest brother, Lewis Hook Sands (born 1805), was a colonel...
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    the United States Army William Tecumseh Sherman, and Rear Admiral Samuel Rhoads Franklin all lived there for a time. It is well-documented that President...
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    Civil War, and post-bellum was a civil engineer. Their second child was Samuel Rhoads, a rear admiral in the U. S. Navy, before, during, and after the Civil...
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    Julius Sterling Morton, Navy Secretary John Davis Long, Rear Admiral Samuel Rhoads Franklin, Louisiana Representative E. John Ellis, New York Representatives...
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    Samuel Rhoads, was a member of the First Continental Congress from Pennsylvania. Future President James Buchanan, then a Senator, appointed Franklin to...
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    by Lt. Samuel Rhoads Franklin. About this time, the ship chanced upon a group of runaway slaves and offered them refuge on board. When Franklin asked one...
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    Naval History and Heritage Command. 2010. Retrieved 11 August 2012. "USS Franklin". Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships. Navy Department, Naval History...
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    Helen Brooke Taussig 1987: Otto Neugebauer and Samuel Noah Kramer 1988: Sune Bergström and Jonathan Rhoads 1989: John Archibald Wheeler 1990: James Bennett...
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    the leading families in Philadelphia, its permanence was secured, and Samuel Rhoads was appointed architect of the new building. Thomas Stretch was among...
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    Samuel Selden Miles (March 11, 1739 – December 29, 1805) was an American military officer and politician, as well as a wealthy and influential businessman...
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  • Samuel, James, John, and two sisters. He married Mary Rhoads (1738-1779), the daughter of Samuel Rhoads, the mayor of Philadelphia. Kilmeade 2013, p. 228...
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  • following Confederate States Army units and commanders fought in the Battle of Franklin on November 30, 1864. The Union order of battle is shown separately. Gen...
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    Pennypacker, Samuel School Penrose School Pollock, Robert B. School Potter-Thomas School Powel, Samuel School Rhawnhurst School Rhoads, James School...
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    Sam Houston (redirect from Samuel Houston)
    Jefferson Rusk as secretary of war, Smith as secretary of the treasury, Samuel Rhoads Fisher as secretary of the navy, James Collinsworth as attorney general...
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    Party diary entries Statement of Daniel Rhoads regarding the relief of the Donner Party, 1846, by Daniel Rhoads, a member of the first rescue party The...
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  • Pepper 1952 - Francis Bosworth 1951 - Franklin H. Price 1950 - Fiske Kimball 1949 - Frederick H. Allen 1947 - Samuel S. Fels 1946 - Maurice B. Fagan & Marjorie...
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    became close friends with Benjamin Franklin through his law studies in the late 1740s. His association with Franklin and his father-in-law's relationship...
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  • were also rebranded as Hecht's. In 1990, Hecht's acquired four Miller & Rhoads stores in Virginia. That same year, the May company acquired the Thalhimers...
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    Well), and the Beatles (The Persuasions sing the Beatles). Herbert "Toubo" Rhoad, one of the original members of the Persuasions, died in 1988 while on tour...
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    Willing T. Lawrence (II) J. Lawrence I. Jones S. Shoemaker Gibson Fisher Rhoads Powel Pre-Act of Consolidation (1789–1854) Powel Miles Barclay Clarkson...
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    John Franklin Street (born October 15, 1943) is an American politician and lawyer who served as the 97th Mayor of the City of Philadelphia. He was first...
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    Charles Franklin Warwick (February 14, 1852 – April 4, 1913) was an American author, lawyer, and Republican politician who served as mayor of Philadelphia...
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    Valentine 1913–1921 Cato Sells 1921–1929 Charles H. Burke 1929–1933 Charles J. Rhoads 1933–1945 John Collier 1945–1948 William A. Brophy 1948–1949 William R....
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  • Impacts and Influences, p.29 British Political Facts 1900-1968, p.284 Samuel Rhoads and Enoch Lewis, Friends' Review, p.603 William Turner Coggeshall, The...
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  • McWhinney (d.) Sten Orrenius Frank Oski (d.) Michael I. Posner Jonathan E. Rhoads (d.) Michael Rutter Rudi Schmid (d.) Benno C. Schmidt Sr. (d.) Robert William...
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    property insurance company in the United States. It was organized by Benjamin Franklin in 1752 and incorporated in 1768. The Contributionship's building, at 212...
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