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Cornelius Atherton (1737–1809), was an iron manufacturer, an inventor and an active gunmaker for patriot cause during the American Revolutionary War. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] He became closely involved in the first large scale production of "American Steel". [ 4 ]
The alternate history story P.'s Correspondence (1846) by Nathaniel Hawthorne, considered the first such story ever published in English, includes the notice "Whittier, a fiery Quaker youth, to whom the muse had perversely assigned a battle-trumpet, got himself lynched, in South Carolina". The date of that event in Hawthorne's invented timeline ...
Atherton had a very active public life having power and taking part in the law making, enforcing and interpreting affairs of the colony. Subsequent to his acceptance as a freeman, in 1638, he was frequently selectman [17] or treasurer, [3] and for several years a member of the Court of Assistants which gave him a say in the appointment of governors as well as judicial power in criminal and ...
As a rule, each outline stood for one word only, and was exceedingly legible as a consequence. Because of its exactness, uniformity and interchangeability, the notes of one Chandler writer could easily read by any one knowing the system. [4] Atherton wanted to establish a uniform shorthand in the public schools, and constantly worked toward ...
He was born in Wilkes–Barre, Pennsylvania. [5] He was the son of Melanie Parke and Thomas Henry Atherton, an attorney. [6] [1] His father was born Thomas A. Henry, but changed his name to Thomas H. Atherton in 1870 by legislative enactment, to honor his maternal uncle who paid for him to attend Princeton University.
He was the son of Col. Peter Atherton and Experience Wright. [6] He was named after his grandfather; Joshua Atherton (b. May 13, 1656, d. 1721) a soldier in King Philip's War, under Captain Daniel Henchman (1623-1685) of Boston, who settled at Still River, Massachusetts in 1687, then part of Lancaster, Massachusetts and became a farmer and a tanner.
America Online CEO Stephen M. Case, left, and Time Warner CEO Gerald M. Levin listen to senators' opening statements during a hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee on the merger of the two ...
Atherton took part in the expedition to Castile in 1385 in the name of Richard II, becoming a regular in the ducal household in the 1390's at Leicester Castle. [14] To denote loyalty, Atherton would have worn a Lancaster livery collar or chain of office, known as the Collar of Esses. By this time both his father and father-in-law had died which ...