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Dwight "Bo" Ramsay, a prominent Lafayette oil and gas businessman and philanthropist, has died. He was 94. Dwight 'Bo' Ramsay, prominent Lafayette businessman and philanthropist, dies at 94
In 1834, upon Lafayette's death, American President Andrew Jackson ordered that Lafayette be accorded the same funeral honors as John Adams and George Washington. Therefore, 24-gun salutes were fired from military posts and ships, each shot representing a U.S. state.
Their home was the headquarters of Americans in Paris. Benjamin Franklin , John and Sarah Livingston Jay , and John and Abigail Adams [ 4 ] met there every Monday, where they dined with the La Fayette family and with the liberal nobility , including Stanislas Marie Adélaïde, comte de Clermont-Tonnerre , Madame de Staël , André Morellet ...
Ray Authement (born 1928), president of the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, 1974–2008; Jamie Baldridge (born 1975), visual artist, writer; Carl W. Bauer (1933–2013), member of both houses of the Louisiana State Legislature; lobbyist for the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, 1990–2010; Henri Willis Bendel, fashion designer and ...
The fief La Fayette was raised to a marquisate by Letters patent in about 1690. [1]Brigadier des armées René-Armand Count and Marquis de La Fayette (1659–1694), son of Madame de La Fayette (1634–1693), and François Motier, comte de La Fayette (1616–1683), died on 12 September 1694 of an illness in Landau during the Nine Years' War.
La Fayette (named after Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette, pronounced locally "Lay - fay - et") is a village in Stark County, Illinois. It is located south of Kewanee off Route 78 on Route 17|IL-17 (Madison Street). The population was 223 at the 2010 census, down from 227 in 2000. It is part of the Peoria, Illinois Metropolitan ...
The following notable deaths in the United States occurred in 2024.Names are reported under the date of death, in alphabetical order as set out in WP:NAMESORT.A typical entry reports information in the following sequence: Name, age, country of citizenship at birth and subsequent nationality (if applicable), what subject was noted for, year of birth (if known), and reference.
Jeanmard designated Saint John's Church in Lafayette as the cathedral. [2] In March 1923, a crowd in Lafayette was on the verge of starting a race riot after being incited by the Ku Klux Klan. Jeanmard persuaded the people to return home. [4] [5] In 1924, Jeanmard opened St. Mary's Orphanage in Lafayette. [6]