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    Samuel Peters Jarvis (November 15, 1792 – September 6, 1857) was a Canadian government official in the nineteenth century. He was the Chief Superintendent...
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    Jarvis Island (/ˈdʒɑːrvɪs/; formerly known as Bunker Island or Bunker's Shoal) is an uninhabited 4.5 km2 (1.7 sq mi) coral island located in the South...
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  • Captain Samuel Jarvis (c. 1698–1779) was a British-American soldier in Connecticut. Jarvis was born in Connecticut in about 1698 to William Jarvis (British)...
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    So, Thomas Jarvis was lieutenant governor of Albemarle during the government of Philip Ludwell, between 1691 and 1697, and Samuel Jarvis led the militia...
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    Samuel Jarvis Peters (July 1801 – 11 August 1855) was an American businessman and education activist. He is notable for his support of public education...
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  • U.S. Representative from Kansas Samuel Jarvis Peters (1801–1855), American businessman and education activist Samuel Peters (Louisiana politician) (1835–1873)...
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  • Samuel Raymond Jarvis (1790 – 1851) was an army officer who served as High Sheriff of Hampshire. Jarvis was born in 1790, the son of another Samuel Jarvis...
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  • footballer Ryan Jarvis, English footballer Samuel Jarvis (1792–1857), Chief Superintendent of Indian Affairs for Upper Canada Sarah Jarvis (born 1962), English...
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    Deane 1705–1712 Benjamin Short 1712–1760 William Selby and Samuel Jarvis 1760–1773 Samuel Jarvis 1773–1784 George Cooper 1784–1799 George Cooper 1799–1843...
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    Jarvis Branson Cocker (born 19 September 1963) is an English musician. As the founder, frontman, lyricist and only consistent member of the band Pulp,...
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    Jarvis Street is a north-south thoroughfare in downtown Toronto, Ontario, Canada, passing through some of the oldest developed areas in the city. Its alignment...
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  • offending the rioters. It is not known who planned the riot, although Samuel Jarvis, a government official, later claimed he organized the event. On the...
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    Elizabeth Jarvis Colt (born Elizabeth Hart Jarvis, October 5, 1826 – August 23, 1905) was the widow and heir of firearms manufacturer Samuel Colt, founder...
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  • still a teenager when he died in 1817, died in a duel with Samuel Jarvis. Both Ridout and Jarvis were from the small circle of privileged insiders called...
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    Ontario, Canada. Jarvis was born in Stamford, Connecticut, to Samuel Jarvis, who was the town's clerk, and Martha Seymour. William Jarvis joined John Graves...
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    company's history dates back to 1886, when William Augustine Foote and Samuel Jarvis initially approached Jackson, Michigan officials and asked them to support...
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  • from 1804 to 1809. He was born in Stamford, Connecticut, the son of Samuel Jarvis and Martha Seymour, and was employed as a silversmiths at the start...
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    governors included: George B. Mulligan, Thomas W. Chinn, Balie Peyton, Samuel Jarvis Peters, Thomas J. Wells, George B. Ogden (President of New Orleans Canal...
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    and Jarvis families in the 1830s, and the attraction of the fictitious central figure, Colin Jarvis ('younger brother' of the historical Samuel Jarvis) to...
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    consecrated in 1816. It was built in what contemporaries such as the Rev. Samuel Jarvis labeled as the "Gothick style". It is the first example of a thoroughly...
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  • as David Willson, Booth Savage as Edward Kennedy, Richard Donat as Samuel Jarvis, Andrew Gillies as Francis Bond Head, Cedric Smith as William Lyon Mackenzie...
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    with the Upper Canadian militia. During the Rebellions of 1837, Samuel Peters Jarvis raised a new Queen's Rangers out of the York Militia to fight the...
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    25, 1783, and elected Samuel Seabury as the first bishop of the Episcopal Church, serving as secretary of the meeting. Jarvis was consecrated second...
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  • merchant Samuel Jarvis (1720–1780), Stamford, Connecticut official forced out of office due to his Loyalism; father of William Jarvis William Jarvis (1756–1817)...
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    cemetery contains many fine and historic tombs, among them those of Samuel Jarvis Peters, father of the New Orleans public school system, and General...
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    Machine Samuel Lount Film and Samuel Lount's History. The feature film is about the injustice of the system under the Family Compact's rule. "Mr. Jarvis, do...
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    founded in 1886 as Jackson Electric Light Works by William A. Foote, Samuel Jarvis, of Lansing, and his brother James B. Foote, who was originally tasked...
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    Charles Alfred Jarvis VC (29 March 1881 – 19 November 1948) was a Scottish recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for...
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    Jarvis Collegiate Institute is a high school in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is named after Jarvis Street where it is located. It is a part of the Toronto...
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    Exchange Passage. The street was commissioned by the banker and merchant Samuel Jarvis Peters, who thought to build an exchange closer to Canal Street. It...
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