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Timothy E. Quill is an American physician specialising in palliative care at the University of Rochester Medical Center in Rochester, New York. He is also a board member of the Death with Dignity National Center in Portland, Oregon. Quill was the lead plaintiff in a case that eventually reached the Supreme Court of the United States in 1997 ...
Adolph J. Rodenbeck, mayor of Rochester, New York State Assemblyman, Court of Claims Judge, and New York Supreme Court Justice; Eliakim Sherrill, politician and brigade commander in Union Army during Civil War [117] Louise Slaughter, U.S. Representative, chairperson of House Rules Committee [118] Ellicott R. Stillman, Wisconsin State ...
Pope John Paul II was the subject of three premature obituaries.. A prematurely reported obituary is an obituary of someone who was still alive at the time of publication. . Examples include that of inventor and philanthropist Alfred Nobel, whose premature obituary condemning him as a "merchant of death" for creating military explosives may have prompted him to create the Nobel Prize; [1 ...
The Rochester Advertiser began in 1826 with publisher Luther Tucker. It was acquired by the Rochester Union which was bought by Frank Gannett. In 1918 Gannett merged it with Evening Times to form the Times-Union. Ten years later Gannett purchased the 100-year-old Democrat and Chronicle, the paper with which the Times-Union ultimately merged in ...
The retrial of a man accused of the 1984 murder of a Rochester teenager will start Monday morning after a mistrial in an earlier attempt because of possible juror misconduct.. Timothy Williams is ...
ROCHESTER — East High teammates consoled Zymier Jackson as he sobbed through pregame warmups while preparing to play at Edison Tech. Zymier's father, Kenny Jackson, died Tuesday. Kenny starred ...
Mount Hope Cemetery is a municipal cemetery in Rochester, New York, United States.Founded in 1838, it is the burial site of Susan B. Anthony and Frederick Douglass.Situated on 196 acres (79 ha) of land adjacent to the University of Rochester on Mount Hope Avenue, the cemetery is the permanent resting place of over 350,000 people.
Holy Sepulchre Cemetery [1] is a Roman Catholic cemetery in Rochester, New York. Its original parcel was purchased in 1871 under Rochester’s first bishop, the Most Reverend Bernard J. McQuaid. The cemetery’s charter was granted by the State of New York in 1872 and a Board of Trustees was formed with Bishop McQuaid serving as its chairman.