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Houston Direct Navigation Company was founded on October 9, 1866, by William Marsh Rice, Thomas M. Bagby, John H. Sterrett, and several others. [1] [5] Businesses receiving and shipping goods from Houston were paying high fees for moving freight through Galveston, Texas.
Service Corporation International is an American provider of funeral goods and services as well as cemetery property and services. It is headquartered in Neartown, Houston, Texas, and operates secondary corporate offices in Jefferson, Louisiana (near New Orleans). [5] [6] SCI operates more than 1500 funeral homes and 400 cemeteries. [1]
Houston Navigation Company did not survive the war, so he ran his own packet service in 1865 and 1866. In October 1866, William Marsh Rice, the City of Houston, and many investors from the previous firm organized the Houston Direct Navigation Company. They tapped Sterrett as the new company's fleet superintendent and appointed him as one of the ...
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Houston, Texas Collided with a METRORail train while bicycling. [107] Diogo Correa de Oliveira: 1983 2021 38 years Brazilian footballer motorcycle Maringá, Brazil Eddie Costa: 1930 1962 31 years American jazz musician car New York City Russell Coughlin: 1960 2016 56 years Welsh footballer car Carlisle, Cumbria, England, United Kingdom
Melanie Ham has died. The DIY YouTuber with more than 800,000 subscribers died on Jan. 12 after a battle with cancer, her husband, Robert Ham, announced earlier this month. She was 36."It is with ...
A helicopter crashed in Houston, Sunday, killing all four people on board including a child.. The crash happened near Engelke Street and North Ennis Street just before 8 p.m. when a helicopter ...
The Memorial area of Houston, Texas is located west of Downtown, northwest of Uptown, and south of Spring Branch.The Memorial Super Neighborhood, as defined by the City of Houston, is bounded by Buffalo Bayou to the south, Barker Reservoir to the west, Westview to the north, and the Memorial Villages (Spring Valley Village, Piney Point Village, Bunker Hill Village, Hedwig Village, Hilshire ...