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    Charles Storrs (January 24, 1822 – September 1, 1884) and Augustus Storrs (June 4, 1817 – March 3, 1892) were American business partners and brothers who...
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    Storrs was named for Charles and Augustus Storrs, two brothers who founded the University of Connecticut (originally called the Storrs Agricultural College)...
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  • American educator and clubwoman Elizabeth Storrs Mead (1832–1917), American educator Charles and Augustus Storrs, business partners and brothers who founded...
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  • championships. UConn was founded in 1881 as the Storrs Agricultural School. It was named after Charles and Augustus Storrs, brothers who donated the land for the...
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  • Samuel Storrs, who emigrated from Nottinghamshire to Connecticut in 1663. He was a distant cousin of Charles and Augustus Storrs, after whom Storrs, Connecticut...
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    Connecticut (UConn). The Historic District is located Storrs in the town of Mansfield, Connecticut, flanking Storrs Road (Connecticut Route 195). The principal...
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    James B. Olcott (category American landscape and garden designers)
    Brewer and George A. Bowen) that was convened by the Connecticut General Assembly to review an offer by Charles and Augustus Storrs to donate land and money...
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    10,000 members. In 1881, Charles and Augustus Storrs donated 180 acres of land in Mansfield for the creation of the Storrs Agricultural School, the site...
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    trees in pursuit of silk production. Later in the 19th century, Charles and Augustus Storrs, two of its leading residents, gave land to the state for the...
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    state. In addition, brothers Charles and Augustus Storrs of Mansfield, Connecticut, donated 170 acres of farmland, $6,000, and several barns to create the...
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    Solomon Mead (category Heads of universities and colleges in the United States)
    donated land and money from Charles and Augustus Storrs. In August 1881, the school's trustees appointed Mead principal and professor of agriculture. He...
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    President Charles Backus Storrs of Western Reserve College. In 1832, Fayette became the first African American to enroll at a university in Ohio and west of...
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    Edwina Whitney (category People from Storrs, Connecticut)
    orphanage shut down in 1875 and was sold in 1878 to a neighbor, Augustus Storrs. In 1881, Storrs donated the buildings and fifty acres of land to the State...
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    Spencer, Charles (2005). Blenheim: Battle for Europe. Phoenix. ISBN 0-304-36704-4.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) Storrs, Christopher...
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  • to become U.S. Minister to Spain. Charles B. Benedict Democratic 31st March 4, 1877 – March 3, 1879 Attica ? Augustus W. Bennet Republican 29th January...
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    War of the Spanish Succession (category Wars of succession involving the states and peoples of Africa)
    great power conflict fought between 1701 and 1714. The immediate cause was the death of the childless Charles II of Spain in November 1700, which led to...
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    Prince Ernest Augustus, Duke of Cumberland. Eventually, Thyra married Ernest Augustus, which gave her the desired opportunity to have children. Together, Thyra and...
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    Adolf Augustus Berle Jr. (/ˈbɜːrli/; January 29, 1895 – February 17, 1971) was an American lawyer, educator, writer, and diplomat. He was the author of...
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    presidential election. Representative Ellsworth resigned. Representative Storrs resigned to become an associate judge of the Connecticut Supreme Court....
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  • Navy and Governor of Rhode Island, father of Lincoln Chafee: 168, 171  Josiah Augustus Spaulding (1947), lawyer, partner Bingham Dana & Gould Charles S....
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  • in June 2015, directing and starring as Javert in a staged concert of the show at the Connecticut Repertory Theatre, Storrs, Connecticut. Mann earned...
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  • Christendom and Of Other Religious Bodies Examined in the Light of Scripture. Saint Louis, MO: Concordia Publishing House. p. 29., Graebner, Augustus Lawrence...
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    Charles Austin Beard (November 27, 1874 – September 1, 1948) was an American historian and professor, who wrote primarily during the first half of the...
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  • (1848–1933), painter Augustus Saint-Gaudens (1848–1907), sculptor Louis Comfort Tiffany (1848–1933), artist and designer Charles Henry Francis Turner...
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    Henry Adams (category Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences)
    summers in Paris and winters in Washington, D.C., where he commissioned the Adams Memorial designed by sculptor Augustus Saint-Gaudens and architect Stanford...
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    sailor Charles G. Morris, survived the war). In 1913, the Connecticut General Assembly appropriated $60,000 for an auditorium and armory in Storrs. Opened...
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  • acting Governor (1927) James Crawford Maxwell, Governor (1927–1932) Ronald Storrs, Governor (1932–1935) Hubert Winthrop Young, Governor (1935–1938) John Alexander...
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    Frederick the Great (category German Calvinist and Reformed Christians)
    his closest sibling. He also had three younger brothers, including Augustus William and Henry. The new king wished for his children to be educated not as...
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  • The role of sadism and masochism in fiction has attracted serious scholarly attention. Anthony Storr has commented that the volume of sadomasochist pornography...
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  • 2013. Retrieved August 12, 2014. Masouri, John. "Augustus Pablo & Various Artists – The Definitive Augustus Pablo". elrockers.org. Archived from the original...
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