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Cornelius Staley (October 22, 1808 – March 13, 1883) was an American politician and judge from Maryland. He served as a member of the Maryland House of Delegates , representing Frederick County from 1841 to 1842.
Within Maryland the county is the default unit of local government. Under Maryland law, counties exercise powers reserved in most other states at the municipal or state levels. [4] Many of the state's most populous and economically important communities, such as Bethesda, Silver Spring, Columbia, and Towson are unincorporated and receive their ...
The following is a list of the 3,143 counties and county-equivalents in the 50 states and District of Columbia sorted by U.S. state, plus an additional 100 county-equivalents in the U.S. territories sorted by territory.
[7] [8] John Brown served as postmaster until 1863, when he was succeeded by his son, Cornelius, who (with a break in 1886–89) served until February 1894. [9] Cornelius's son, George T. Brown, was appointed to the post in February 1898 and held it for over 40 years. [9] St. Luke's Episcopal Church. Two churches were founded in Brownsville.
Carl's Corner is a town in Hill County, Texas, United States. The population was 201 at the 2020 census. The town was founded by, and named after, Carl Cornelius, a local truck stop owner and long-time friend of Willie Nelson. Cornelius founded the town for the purpose of legalizing alcohol sales in the otherwise mostly-dry county.
County executives head nine of the 23 counties of Maryland: Anne Arundel, Baltimore, Cecil, Frederick, Harford, Howard, Montgomery, Prince George's, and Wicomico.All of these counties have chartered governments and county councils; while Dorchester and Talbot counties also have chartered governments, they do not have executives.
Greer County, formed in 1860. Separated from Texas by U.S. Supreme Court ruling in United States v. the State of Texas, 162 U.S. 1 (1896) and is now part of southwestern Oklahoma. Perdido County, formed in 1824 and forgotten during the upheavals of the 1840s. Perdido was reportedly abolished in 1858 and again in 1871.
Generally believed to have been named after Judge Benjamin C. Franklin, the first appointed justice in the Republic of Texas: Frederick County: Maryland: Frederick Calvert, 6th Baron Baltimore, the final proprietor of the Maryland colony: Frederick County: Virginia: Prince Frederick Lewis of Wales, the eldest son of King George II of Great Britain