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    Sciences. Meigs was the 13th and last child of Jonathan Meigs and Elizabeth Hamlin Meigs. His older brother was Return J. Meigs, Sr., whose son (Josiah's nephew)...
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    Meigs. Their 13 children included his brother Josiah Meigs. His father was a hatter. As a young man, Meigs entered a mercantile business. He married Joanna...
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    Surveyor General of the Northwest Territory, exchanging positions with Josiah Meigs so that he might spend more time near his home in Chillicothe. Tiffin...
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    who is the 22nd President of the University of Georgia. He is also the Josiah Meigs Professor of Legal Studies at the University of Georgia's Terry College...
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  • American politician Josiah McCracken (1874–1962), American football player Josiah McElheny (born 1966), American artist Josiah Meigs (1757–1822), American...
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    College, the University of Georgia's initial college, opened to students. Josiah Meigs was hired to succeed Baldwin as first acting president and oversee the...
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    third rail. It was invented in the US by Josiah Vincent Meigs (also known as Joe Meigs or Joe Vincent Meigs), of Lowell, Massachusetts, and was demonstrated...
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    the Confederacy. Meigs was born in Augusta, Georgia, in May 1816. He was the son of Dr. Charles Delucena Meigs and Mary Montgomery Meigs. His father was...
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  • Meigs is a surname. Notable people with the name include: Arthur Ingersoll Meigs (1882–1956), American architect Charles Delucena Meigs (1792–1869), American...
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  • UGA Bulletin UGA Graduate School degrees, searchable by school Various Josiah Meigs Distinguished Teaching Professorship Award Winners from the College of...
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    offices Preceded by Josiah Meigs Commissioner of the General Land Office 1822–1823 Succeeded by George Graham Preceded by Return Meigs United States Postmaster...
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    physicians. Meigs was born February 19, 1792, in St. George, Bermuda, the fifth of ten children of Josiah Meigs and Clara Benjamin Meigs. In 1794, he...
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  • Sybilla Beckmann is a Josiah Meigs Distinguished Teaching Professor of Mathematics, Emeritus, at the University of Georgia and a recipient of the Association...
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    president. The installation was named Fort Meigs in honor of Ohio's fourth governor, Return Jonathan Meigs. Fort Meigs was constructed on a bluff above the...
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    New Haven, Connecticut, the son of Josiah Meigs and Clara (Benjamin) Meigs, Meigs attended the common schools. He was graduated from Yale College in 1799...
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  • Berry Saye Professor of American Government and Constitutional Law and a Josiah Meigs Distinguished Teaching Professor at the University of Georgia School...
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  • is an American philosopher and Distinguished Research Professor and Josiah Meigs Distinguished Teaching Professor at University of Georgia. He is a former...
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  • September 18, 1968, in Buffalo, New York) is an American economist and the Josiah Meigs Distinguished Teaching Professor of economics at the University of Georgia's...
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    Jersey (now Princeton University) in 1799. He married Clara Meigs, daughter of Josiah Meigs, in 1801. One of his sons, John Forsyth, Jr., later became...
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    Commissioners of the United States General Land Office   Edward Tiffin Josiah Meigs John McLean George Graham Elijah Hayward Ethan Allen Brown James Whitcomb...
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  • chose his former student and fellow professor at Yale, Josiah Meigs, as his replacement. Meigs became the school's president, as well as the first and...
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    November 3, 1803 – November 24, 1812 Preceded by Rufus Putnam Succeeded by Josiah Meigs Personal details Born (1759-05-23)May 23, 1759 New Haven, Connecticut...
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    Commissioners of the United States General Land Office   Edward Tiffin Josiah Meigs John McLean George Graham Elijah Hayward Ethan Allen Brown James Whitcomb...
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  • 16 February 1815. "Letter of February 1820 from Charles Carroll to Josiah Meigs" [Territorial Papers - Louisiana-Missouri Territory 1815-1821, Volume...
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  • the Richard B. Russell Professor of political science, as well as the Josiah Meigs Distinguished Teaching Professor, at the University of Georgia School...
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  • from the University of California at Riverside in 1969. He has won the Josiah Meigs Prize, the highest teaching honor at the University of Georgia in addition...
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  • Democratic National Committee, former Chairman of the Board Josiah Meigs – original member Return J. Meigs Jr. – former Governor of Ohio, former US Senator, original...
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  • McWilliams MD (), Physician, Surgeon in Navy. Joseph Mechlin (), unknown. Josiah Meigs (1757–1822), Surveyor-general of the United States, one of original founders...
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  • Connecticut Hall at Yale University, the alma mater of UGA's first president, Josiah Meigs. The UGA building is now known as Old College. In 1807, Jett and John...
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    October 27, 1939) is a scholar of Southern literature and culture and a Josiah Meigs Professor Emeritus in the University of Georgia’s department of English...
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