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Glensheen, the Historic Congdon Estate is a 20,000 [2] square foot mansion in Duluth, Minnesota, United States, operated by the University of Minnesota Duluth as a historic house museum. Glensheen sits on 12 acres of waterfront property on Lake Superior , has 39 rooms and is built in the Jacobean architectural tradition, inspired by the Beaux ...
Chester Congdon was born in Rochester, New York, on June 12, 1853, as the son of Sylvester Laurentius and Laura Jane (née Adgate) Congdon. On his paternal side, Chester was the sixth in descent from James Congdon, a Quaker from England who settled in Rhode Island in the first half of the 17th century. All his paternal ancestors were English ...
The Glensheen murders were the murders of Elisabeth Mannering Congdon and her night nurse Velma Pietila on June 27, 1977, in Duluth, Minnesota, USA, at the Glensheen Historic Estate. [ 1 ] The motive was initially thought to be robbery, but soon the authorities began to suspect Congdon's son-in-law Roger Caldwell and adopted daughter Marjorie ...
Nov. 13—HIGH POINT — The Earl and Kathryn Congdon Family Foundation announced a new annual grant program Monday that is intended to help charities that serve the Greater High Point area expand.
Lee Walter Congdon (born 1939), writer and historian; Lisa Congdon (born 1968), American author and illustrator; Shirley Congdon (born 1961), English educator and nurse; Thomas Congdon (1931–2008), American book editor; Tim Congdon (born 1951), British economist; William Congdon (1912–1998), New York artist Hiram Congdon House
Old Dominion Freight Line, Inc. traces its origins to 1934 when husband and wife Earl Congdon Sr. and Lillian Congdon (née Herbert) founded the company with a single straight truck running between Richmond and Norfolk, Virginia. [7] [8] The name is a reference to a common nickname for the Commonwealth of Virginia, the "Old Dominion."
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Henry Martyn Congdon FAIA (May 10, 1834 – February 28, 1922) [1] was an American architect and designer. The son of an Episcopal priest who was a founder of the New York Ecclesiological Society, [2] he was born in Brooklyn, New York. In 1854, he graduated from Columbia College, where he was a member of Psi Upsilon.