George Washington Brackenridge (January 14, 1832 – December 28, 1920) was a philanthropist and the longest-serving Regent for the University of Texas....
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River near the King William neighborhood. It was named for George Washington Brackenridge. The original three-story brick structure was demolished and...
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Brackenridge is a Scottish surname with origins in southern Lanarkshire, Scotland. Notable people with the surname include: George Washington Brackenridge...
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Brackenridge Park also refers to the district of the city where the park is located. It was created in 1899 from land donated to the city by George Washington...
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George Washington Brackenridge donated over 100 acres of land to the city to create Brackenridge Park, the park in which the present day Brackenridge...
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mother later moved into the San Antonio home of her brother George Washington Brackenridge. He appointed her director of the San Antonio National Bank...
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Texas was developed on land donated to the city in 1899 by George Washington Brackenridge, president of the San Antonio Water Works Company. The ground...
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was also the uncle of famed businessman and philanthropist George Washington Brackenridge of San Antonio, Texas. Thornton was a member of a pioneering...
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now known as the San Antonio Zoo began in 1914 when Colonel George Washington Brackenridge, one of the city's leading citizens, placed bison, deer, monkeys...
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1973 the Brackenridge Field Laboratory has been a subject of controversy due to the high value of the land. In 1910, George Washington Brackenridge donated...
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Hugh Henry Brackenridge (1748 – June 25, 1816) was an American writer, lawyer, judge, and justice of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania. A frontier citizen...
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Marian Brackenridge (April 16, 1903, Buffalo, New York – March 17, 1999, Sonoma, California) was an American sculptor known for her portrait busts, bas-reliefs...
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The Brackenridge Park Bridge is a historic iron Lenticular truss bridge located in San Antonio, Texas. The bridge was built in 1890 and remains open for...
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closing arguments. John's son George Washington Brackenridge was a philanthropist in San Antonio, Texas. The Brackenridge family lived on the site of the...
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restaurateur Kimberly S. Bowers (born 1965), business executive George Washington Brackenridge (1832–1920), banker, business executive, philanthropist, social...
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still-surviving Halff house (1908), and for a villa for Col. George Washington Brackenridge that was later torn down. He also designed the David J. and...
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Waggener, Regent George Washington Littlefield, and regent George Washington Brackenridge, a Union sympathizer. In 1890, Brackenridge donated $18,000 for...
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college football at Washington State. Brackenridge was also a member of the New York Jets and Jacksonville Jaguars. Brackenridge signed a free agent contract...
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stone portion of the monument. He sculpted three distinct statues of George Washington. The first, commissioned by Americans living in Mexico to commemorate...
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Whiskey Rebellion (category Presidency of George Washington)
Bingham, Hugh Henry Brackenridge, Aaron Burr, and Philip Freneau. In 2011, the Whiskey Rebellion Festival was started in Washington, Pennsylvania. This...
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Westcott, Reed (n.d.). "Hugh Henry Brackenridge, Digital Encyclopedia of George Washington". George Washington's Mount Vernon (mountvernon.org). Retrieved...
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Recollections of Persons and Places in the West by Henry M. Brackenridge, 1834, in which Brackenridge recalled hearing the song from its author, a blind poet...
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Late War between the United States and Great Britain By Henry Marie Brackenridge, p.249, Philadelphia (1836). Retrieved Jan 15 2010 The Huntington Library...
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Roger Morigi (section Washington National Cathedral)
(1956), Marian Brackenridge, sculptor, Washington National Cathedral. Saint Andrew (1956), Marian Brackenridge, sculptor, Washington National Cathedral...
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foremost portraitists. His best-known work is an unfinished portrait of George Washington, begun in 1796, which is usually referred to as the Athenaeum Portrait...
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University of Pittsburgh. Retrieved 12 May 2016. Brackenridge, Hugh Henry (26 April 1796). "Hugh Henry Brackenridge to Alexander Addison" (PDF). University of...
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Harry L. Carrico (category George Washington University alumni)
public schools and received his undergraduate and law degrees from George Washington University. Carrico began his legal career as an associate in the...
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John Quiñones (category Brackenridge High School alumni)
Quiñones and Maria (Garcia). He is of Mexican descent. While attending Brackenridge High School in San Antonio, Quiñones was selected to take part in a federal...
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the Congress of the Confederation. Under the leadership of General George Washington, the Continental Army and Navy defeated the British military, securing...
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1,953 — 53,999 72.0% Wolverhampton North East WMD WM Con Lab Sureena Brackenridge 14,282 42.9% 16.3% 14,282 8,860 7,721 1,002 1,424 — 33,289 47.8% Wolverhampton...
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