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Louisa Mary "Louise" Cresswell born Louisa Mary Hogge aka The Lady Farmer (31 May 1830 – 2 July 1916) was a British farmer and autobiographer. She had a farm in England and later lived in Texas. She is known for her autobiography which records an eighteen-year dispute with her English farm's landlord Edward, Prince of Wales
William Nichol Cresswell was born in Shoreditch, London. [1] After studies with several British painters (possibly E. W. Cook [2] and William Clarkson Stanfield), he emigrated in 1848 to Canada West, where he settled with his family in Tuckersmith Township (later Seaforth, Ontario) in Huron County on a remote farm. [3]
In 1831, the first title-band vignette for The Liberator depicted a slave auction under a horse market sign, a whipping post set up in front of the U.S. Capitol, and an Indian treaty discarded in the mud and forgotten [475] Reuben Ragland, Petersburg, Va. [256] John Rainey, Richmond, Va. and Louisiana [476] John Rath, Smith Co., Tenn. [477]
His son Frank Morrison was later the owner but never resided there. Instead the house was let to a series of tenants, at one time being an agricultural college for gentlemen. In 1910 the Morrison family tried to sell the estate, unsuccessfully at first with a speculator Cresswell briefly owning it until it was reoffered at auction in 1911. [2]
Addison John Baker-Cresswell, of Cresswell Hall, provided the site and dressed stone for the construction of a boathouse, which cost £154-11s-4d. A major benefactor was Mr Thomas Hackwood of Sydenham, who requested the boat be named Old Potter. Thomas Brown (Big Tom) was appointed Coxswain. [4] A new lifeboat would be provided to Cresswell in ...
The Sotheby’s auction included 1,400 of the singer’s possessions, including a Yahama grand piano and a silver Tiffany & Co. mustache comb, which went for $189,000. The items were first held in ...
One effect of this was to bring slave auctions to an end, as any slave could avoid sale by simply offering to join the U.S. Army. [1] In 1863 Crisfield was defeated in local elections by the abolitionist candidate John Creswell, amid allegations of vote-rigging by the army. [1] After being defeated at the polls, Crisfield resumed the practice ...
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