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Jeptha H. Wade II was also a founder of the Cleveland Museum of Art, which houses two paintings [1] [10] by Jeptha Wade I. A grandchild of Jeptha Homer Wade II was Jeptha Homer Wade III (December 26, 1924 – August 8, 2008), son of George Garretson and Irene Love Wade, who was a prominent Boston attorney assisting in the formation of the ...
In his play Jephthas sive votum – Jeptha or the Vow, the Scottish scholar and dramatist George Buchanan (1506–1582) called Jephthah's daughter "Iphis", obviously alluding to Iphigenia, [34] [35] and Handel's 1751 oratorio, Jephtha, based on Buchanan's play, uses the same name.
Wade Memorial Chapel is a Neoclassical chapel and receiving vault located at Lake View Cemetery in Cleveland, Ohio, in the United States.It was donated to the cemetery by Jeptha Wade II in memory of his grandfather, cemetery and Western Union co-founder Jeptha Wade.
The List of painters in the Art Institute of Chicago is a list of the artists indexed in the Art Institute of Chicago website whose works in their collection were painted. The museum's collections are spread throughout eight buildings in Chicago, and not all works are on display.
Journalist and editor Lived and died in Chicago Hermann Raster: May 6, 1827: Jul 24, 1891: Journalist and politician; editor of the Illinois Staats-Zeitung (1867–1891) Lived in Chicago, buried in Graceland Cemetery [101] [102] Mike Resnick: Mar 5, 1942: Jan 9, 2020: Author Dean Richards: Mar 31, 1954: Film critic Born in Chicago Mike Royko ...
The Illinois Historic Preservation Agency (IHPA) was created by State law in July 1985. What was the agency's oldest bureau, the Illinois State Historical Library, was created in 1889, but the origins of the agency could be said to date back to the state's involvement in building and caring for the Lincoln Tomb in Springfield, Illinois, in 1865.
The Public Universal Friend [a] (born Jemima Wilkinson; November 29, 1752 – July 1, 1819) was an American preacher born in Cumberland, Rhode Island, to Quaker parents. . After suffering a severe illness in 1776, the Friend claimed to have died and been reanimated as a genderless evangelist named the Public Universal Friend, and afterward shunned both birth name and gendered pro
The area takes its name from Joseph Sheffield, who established an area for farmers to bring livestock and produce to prepare for shipping on Chicago, Rock Island railroad founded by Jospeh Sheffield a New Haven, Connecticut resident at the site in the late 1840’s.