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Charles J. Margiotti

(1891-1956)

Prominent lawyer, business executive, and civic and political leader, Margiotti was appointed Pennsylvania Attorney General, 1935-1938, by Governor George Earle. He was among the first Italian Americans to hold such a post in the US. He was the Republican candidate ...

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Mrs. J.D. Chapman

In Memory of

Mrs. J.D. Chapman

First President of Woman's Missionary Union

Auxiliary to South Carolina Baptist Convention

1902-1907 1913-1930

Dedicated Christian Missions Leader

of Vision and Ability

Honored by Name of WMU State Mission Offering

Her Watchword: "Be Ye Steadfast."

Marker can be reached from White Street.

Courtesy ...

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Stonewall Jackson

The

Virginia Military

Institute

will be heard from

today.

General Jackson

at Chancellorsville

May 3, 1863

[ Lower Marker: ]

The 1990 restoration of the Jackson statue

was made possible by the descendants of

William Bradford Ryland, Class of 1924,

Alexander Fleet Ryland, Class of 1897,

and

Josiah Ryland, Class of 1859,

who studied under ...

Capt. Frederick Way, Jr.

1901-1992

Riverman, author, historian, America's foremost authority on inland waterways. Captain Way lived close to this spot, on River Avenue. Reared in Edgeworth on land settled by the Way family before 1800, he was the first president of the Sewickley Valley ...

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CNJ #5 Steam Derrick

Idler Gondola #9208

This steam-powered wrecking crane was part of a small fleet of cars designed solely to maintain the railway - to remove wrecks and to lay, replace, and resurface the track.

The Central Railroad of New Jersey #5 steam derrick ...

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Jefferson School

The name Jefferson School has a long association

with African American education in Charlottesville.

It was first used in the 1860s in a Freedmen's

Bureau school and then for a public grade school

by 1894. Jefferson High School opened here in

1926 as the city’s ...

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Lieutenant-Colonel John Butler 1725-1796

Born in New London, Connecticut, Butler settled in the Mohawk Valley, New York, in 1742. Commissioned in the British Indian Department in 1755, he served in the Seven Years War. At the outbreak of the American Revolution , he was ...

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The J.E. Rouse Dormitory

Erected 1962-63

Named in honor of

Dr. John Edward Rouse

Baptist Leader, Friend of Youth

Champion of Education

President of Anderson College 1957-73

This dormitory is named to honor him

in grateful recognition of

his contribution and leadership

of Anderson College.

Marker is on Kingsley Road, on the right when ...

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Joseph-Geneviere, Comte de Puisaye

Soldier, politician, diplomatist and colonizer, de Puisaye was born at Mortagne-en-Perche, France, about 1755 and enlisted in the French Army at 18. Elected to the States General in 1789, he supported reform but, alarmed by the course of the Revolution, ...

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Dr. Philip Jaisohn, 1864-1951

First Korean American

Dr. Philip Jaisohn was a pioneer of independence, democracy and public awakening for the Korean people. After the failed 1884 reformation movement, he was exiled to the United States, where he became the first Korean-born to become an ...

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