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The crew included several sons and grandsons of prominent men: Commander James T. Gerry, youngest son of Elbridge Gerry, formerly Vice President of the United States, Lieutenant John Quincy Adams, grandson of the second president and nephew of the sixth, and Midshipman Bennet Israel Riley, son of Brevet General Bennet C. Riley, the former ...
The Board of Missions began financially supporting the mission in 1865. Holly also served as consul for Liberia at Port-au-Prince from 1864 until 1874. In that year Holly both received a D.D. from Howard University , Washington, D.C., and was consecrated as missionary bishop of Haiti by the American Church Missionary Society, an Evangelical ...
This is a list of notable Haitian people. It includes people who were born in Haiti or possess Haitian citizenship, who are notable in Haiti and abroad. Due to Haitian nationality laws, dual citizenship is now permitted by the Constitution of Haiti, therefore people of Haitian ancestry born outside of the country are not included in this list, unless they have renounced their foreign ...
A squadron of French ships arrives in Haiti to deliver the news of Charles X's ordinance of 17 April to President Boyer 1831: 22 September: The city of Pétion-Ville, a suburb of Port-au-Prince named for Alexandre Pétion, is founded by Boyer 1838: Haiti's remaining debt to France, 120 million francs, is reduced to 60 million francs 1842: 7 May
Ambassador of the United States to Haiti Anbasadè de la Etazini an Ayiti; ... Termination of mission Notes Benjamin F. Whidden: Commissioner/Consul General July 12, 1862
Johnson was born in 1871 in Jacksonville, Florida, the son of James Johnson, a mulatto headwaiter and Helen Louise Dillet, a native of Nassau in the Bahamas.His maternal great-grandmother, Hester Argo, had escaped from Saint-Domingue (today Haiti) during the revolutionary upheaval in 1802, along with her three young children, including James' grandfather Stephen Dillet (1797–1880).
Alice Garoute (1874 – 30 October 1950) was a Haitian suffragist and advocate for women's rights in Haiti, including those of rural women.On her deathbed in 1950, Alice Garoute asked that flowers be placed on her grave the day Haitian women would finally be able to vote. [1]
By 1840, Haiti had ceased to export sugar entirely, although large amounts continued to be grown for local consumption as taffia-a raw rum. However, Haiti continued to export coffee, which required little cultivation and grew semi-wild. The 1842 Cap-Haïtien earthquake destroyed the city, and the Sans-Souci Palace, killing 10,000 people.