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    John Kirby Allen (1810 – August 15, 1838) was a co-founder of the city of Houston and a former member of the Republic of Texas House of Representatives...
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  • John Allen may refer to: John Allen (historian) (1771–1843), Scottish historian and political writer John Allen (bookseller) (1789–1829), English bookseller...
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    Augustus Chapman Allen (July 4, 1806 – January 11, 1864), along with his younger brother, John Kirby Allen, founded the City of Houston in the U.S. state...
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  • John Kirby (attorney) (1939–2019), American lawyer and namesake of Nintendo character Kirby John Kirby Allen (1810–1838), American pioneer Jack Kirby...
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    founded in 1836 and incorporated in 1837, its founders—John Kirby Allen and Augustus Chapman Allen—divided it into political geographic districts called...
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    where it becomes Kirby Drive. Originally known as Buffalo Parkway, it was later named after John Kirby Allen and Augustus Chapman Allen, the founders of...
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    independence from Mexico, two New York real estate developers, John Kirby Allen and Augustus Chapman Allen, purchased 6,642 acres (26.88 km2) of coastal prairie...
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    When John Kirby Allen and Augustus Chapman Allen bought land for the town site of Houston, they had been investing some of Charlotte Allen's inheritance...
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    Augustus Chapman Allen and John Kirby Allen. It depicts a 4-4-0 locomotive, although it was before any railroad reached Houston. According to John Lienhard,...
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    United States Senate in 1857. Rusk was born in Pendleton, South Carolina, to John Rusk, a stonemason, and Sterritt Rusk. After being admitted to the bar in...
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  • first time to make a competing claim. In 1836, Augustus Chapman Allen and John Kirby Allen approached the Harrises to make a bid on the Harrisburg site,...
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    New York. John Kirby Allen (1810–1838), co-founder of Houston, Texas; Texas state legislator, and backer of the Texas Revolution. John Allen was partner...
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    co-hosted with Allen Funt from 1961 through 1966. Kirby was born on August 24, 1911, in Covington, Kentucky, to father Homer C. Kirby and mother Alma...
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  • Antonio López de Santa Anna. In the summer of 1836, John Kirby Allen and Augustus Chapman Allen sought town sites in the Galveston Bay region. After...
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    citizens of the Republic of Texas including co-founder of Houston John Kirby Allen and veterans of the Texas Revolution. Consequently, the cemetery contains...
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    2011. Retrieved August 31, 2012. Per the research of Allen descendant, Ralph Dittman, John Kirby Allen was born in Canaseraga Village, Madison County, New...
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    in 1837, the original developers of Houston, Augustus Chapman Allen and John Kirby Allen, employed the Laura to demonstrate that Buffalo Bayou was a navigable...
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  • the city of Houston was founded by brothers Augustus Chapman Allen and John Kirby Allen. The name had perceived ambiguity, however, as it is also the...
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  • founded by Augustus Chapman Allen and John Kirby Allen. 1862 – American Civil War: Battle of Richmond: Confederates under Edmund Kirby Smith rout Union forces...
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  • Little. Kirby was born in New York City on April 28, 1949. His father was actor Bruce Kirby (born Bruno Giovanni Quidaciolu). His brother John Kirby is an...
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    department in Texas. Houston was founded by brothers Augustus and John Kirby Allen in 1836 and incorporated as a city the next year, 1837. As the capital...
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    Houston was established in 1837, the city's founders—John Kirby Allen and Augustus Chapman Allen—divided it into political geographic districts called...
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    sold in 2014 and renamed simply The Rice. When Augustus Chapman Allen and John Kirby Allen commissioned the first survey of Houston in the fall of 1836,...
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    real estate promoters who had arrived in Texas in 1832, John Kirby Allen and Augustus Chapman Allen, were seeking a new town site within the Galveston Bay...
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    investors, John Kirby Allen and Augustus Chapman Allen, purchased 6,642 acres (2,688 ha) of land from Thomas F.L. Parrot and his wife, Elizabeth (John Austin's...
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  • the eastern half of the John Austin Survey to the Allen brothers. August 30, 1836 - Augustus Chapman Allen and John Kirby Allen place their first advertisement...
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    HBO released Kirby Dick's and Amy Ziering's four-part documentary Allen v. Farrow, which explores the sexual abuse allegations against Allen. The series...
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    May Williams, and the co-founders of Houston, Augustus Chapman Allen and John Kirby Allen. Henson (1976), p. 111. Henry Gannett (1905). The Origin of Certain...
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    Sylvia Jane Kirby (December 9, 1956), known mononymously as Sylvia, is an American country music and country pop singer and songwriter. Her biggest hit...
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    had a draft of seven feet and seven inches. Augustus Chapman Allen and John Kirby Allen—the original developers of Houston—commissioned Constitution for...
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