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The Brooklyn Exponent was started on September 1, 1881 by Charles Clough. [1] It was a five-column quarto, and independent on all public questions. It aimed to give a fair mention of local happenings, together with general international news.
Ethlyn T. Clough (August 21, 1858 – 1936) was an American newspaper publisher and editor. At the end of the 19th-century, five women in Michigan owned, edited, and personally managed their own newspapers, one of whom was Clough.
Molloy suffered a stroke and an attack of pneumonia on November 15, 1956. [4] He died eleven days later at his residence in Brooklyn, aged 72. [4]Molloy was originally interred at the Seminary of the Immaculate Conception in Huntington, NY until 2016, when he was re-interred at the Cathedral College of the Immaculate Conception in Douglaston, NY.
In 1995 Thompson accepted a position as an Assistant U.S. Attorney under Zachary W. Carter, in the United States Attorney's Office in Brooklyn. During his tenure, he worked with Loretta Lynch as a member of the federal prosecution team in the 1997 trial of former New York City police officer Justin Volpe , who was accused of sodomizing Abner ...
Frank Bailey (January 5, 1865 – August 26, 1953) was a Brooklyn-based financier and philanthropist.He was married to Marie Louise Eastman. They maintained a city residence in Brooklyn, and a country residence in Locust Valley (near Lattingtown on Long Island), which they purchased in 1911 and jokingly named 'Munnysunk'.
Gabriel Laderman (December 26, 1929 [1] – March 10, 2011 [2]) was a New York painter and an early and important exponent of the Figurative revival of the 1950s and 1960s. [ 3 ] He studied with a number of leading American painters, including Hans Hofmann , Willem de Kooning , and Mark Rothko .
Clyde Leroy Sukeforth (November 30, 1901 – September 3, 2000), nicknamed "Sukey", was an American baseball catcher, coach, scout and manager.He was best known for scouting and signing Jackie Robinson, the first black player in the modern era of Major League Baseball (MLB), to the Brooklyn Dodgers, after Robinson was scouted by Tom Greenwade in the Negro leagues.
The infirmities of age rendering necessary a retirement from all labor, he removed in 1868 to Brooklyn, N. Y., to spend his closing years, and died in that city, December 5, 1875. In 1838 he received the degree of Doctor of Divinity from Amherst College .