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Abe Hummel. The senior partner in the firm was William F. Howe (1828 – September 2, 1902), a corpulent UK-born and later naturalized American trial lawyer who had served 18 months in jail in Britain for false representation, [1] and who was strongly suspected of possessing a more extensive criminal background.
He became a naturalised American on 19 September 1863 in New York where he founded Howe and Hummel with Abraham Hummel (1849-January 21, 1926). Howe handled most of the firm's criminal work, participating in more than 600 murder trials in the course of his fifty-year career and winning a large but unstated proportion of them. He was noted for ...
The Staten Island Peace Conference was a brief informal diplomatic conference held between representatives of the British Crown and its rebellious North American colonies in the hope of bringing a rapid end to the nascent American Revolution.
In 1894 he eliminated contracting from his practice and was thereafter exclusively an architect. In 1901 he formed the partnership of J. E. Tourtellotte & Company with Charles F. Hummel, a German-born architect who had been working in Boise since 1895. Hummel became a named partner in 1910 when the firm was reorganized as Tourtellotte & Hummel.
In 1892 Christopher W. Moore built the first large house on Warm Springs Avenue. Moore owned the Boise Artesian Hot and Cold Water Company, and his house was the first residence in the United States to be heated by geothermal means. Other prominent Boise residents built homes on the avenue, and many depended on Moore's water company for heat. [3]
Luce, Forward, Hamilton & Scripps LLP or Luce Forward, founded in 1873, was a law firm headquartered in San Diego, California.On March 6, 2012, it combined its practices with McKenna Long & Aldridge, with the combined firm taking the name McKenna Long & Aldridge LLP.
1898: 43: regulations, artillery 72: Firing Regulations for Small Arms: 1898.. Small Arms 77: Manual for courts-martial and of procedure under military law. Revised in the judge-advocate general's office, and published by authority of the secretary of war, for use in the army of the United States: 1898: 171: Manual 80
The Philadelphia campaign (1777–1778) was a British military campaign during the American Revolutionary War designed to gain control of Philadelphia, the Revolutionary-era capital where the Second Continental Congress convened, formed the Continental Army, and appointed George Washington as its commander in 1775, and later authored and unanimously adopted the Declaration of Independence the ...