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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.
Jephtha (HWV 70) is an oratorio (1751) by George Frideric Handel with an English language libretto by the Rev. Thomas Morell, based on the story of Jephtha in Judges (Chapter 11) and Jephthes, sive Votum (Jeptha, or the Vow) (1554) by George Buchanan.
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
Attorney General of Illinois Born in Chicago Michael Madigan: Apr 19, 1942: 67th and 69th Speaker of Illinois House of Representatives Born in Chicago Joseph Medill: Apr 6, 1823: Mar 16, 1899: Newspaper editor, mayor of Chicago: John Gould Moyer: Jul 12, 1893: Jan 21, 1976: 31st governor of American Samoa: Born in Chicago Eliot Ness: Apr 19 ...
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.
John Herbert Foster (1796–1874) was an American physician, landowner, and early settler of Chicago who arrived in there in approximately 1835. [2] [3] He served as a member of both the Chicago Board of Education and the Illinois State Board of Education. [2] He served as the president of the Chicago Board of Education in 1861 and 1862. [3] [1 ...
He was a founding member of the Chicago Board of Trade. From 1844 to 1845, Chapin served a single term as Chicago alderman from the 1st ward. [3] In 1846, Chapin ran for mayor of Chicago as a Whig against Democratic nominee Charles Follansbee and Liberty Party nominee Philo Carpenter, winning the office with just over 55% of the vote. [5]