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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.
The hillside was excavated 25 feet (7.6 m) down to bedrock, [7] and the foundations and crypt level finished in late December 1898. [2] Completing the interior took much longer then expected, [2] and the chapel was not finished until 1901. [8] [9] Jeptha Wade II placed no limit on the cost of construction. [2]
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
Born in Chicago H. G. Haugan: Nov 7, 1840: Jan 29, 1921: Railroad executive Helge Alexander Haugan: Oct 26, 1847: May 17, 1909: Banking executive Anton C. Hesing: Jan 6, 1823: Mar 31, 1895: Owner of the Chicago-based Illinois Staats-Zeitung; Cook County Sheriff 1860–1862 Lived and died in Chicago Gurdon Saltonstall Hubbard: Aug 22, 1802: Sep ...
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.
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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 ...