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The partners invested in a 31.5-acre (12.7 ha) site along the Allegheny River at Franklin, Pennsylvania in late 1863 for drilling. [63] By early 1864, they had a producing 1,900-foot (579 m) deep oil well named Wilhelmina for Mears' wife, yielding 25 barrels (4 kL) of crude oil daily, then considered a good yield.
Stephen Born (né Simon Buttermilch; 28 December 1824 – 4 May 1898) was a German typesetter [1] and revolutionary. As a founder of the General German Workers' Brotherhood, he created the first national trade union organization in the German workers' movement. He was born in Lissa, Prussian Province of Posen (Leszno, Poland) in 1824 and moved ...
Thomas Cornell is an ancestor to a number of prominent and notorious Americans: Ezra Cornell, founder of Cornell University; William Ellery, signer of the Declaration of Independence; Ezekiel Cornell, a Revolutionary War general who represented Rhode Island in the U.S. Continental Congress from 1780 to 1782; [4] Bill Gates; Presidents Jimmy Carter and Richard Nixon; First Ladies Elizabeth ...
Rebecca Wight was a student, of Iranian-Puerto Rican heritage, who was working on her Master's Degree in business administration and Claudia Brenner was a Jewish, Manhattan-born architecture student; they had been partners for two years, having met while both were students at Virginia Tech. [1]
George W. Thomas Jr. was the second of thirteen children born to Fanny (née Bradley) and George W. Thomas. He was born in Plum Bayou Township, just outside the Delta town of Pine Bluff, Arkansas. [2] [4] In the late 1890s the family moved to Houston, Texas, where George W. Thomas Sr. became a deacon at the Shiloh Baptist Church. [2]
George Wythe (/ w ɪ θ /; 1726 – June 8, 1806) [1] [2] was an American academic, scholar, and judge who was one of the Founding Fathers of the United States.The first of the seven signatories of the United States Declaration of Independence from Virginia, Wythe served as one of Virginia's representatives to the Continental Congress and the Philadelphia Convention and served on a committee ...
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Stephen D. Richards [c] (March 18, 1856 – April 26, 1879), known by the nicknames The Nebraska Fiend [4] [10] and The Ohio Monster, [11] was an American serial killer who confessed to committing a total of nine to eleven murders in Nebraska and Iowa between 1876 and 1878. Richards was born in West Virginia (then part of Virginia) in 1856.