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Robert H. Holmes: the first African-American NYPD officer to be killed in the line of duty: August 6, 1917: Gunshot during gun battle with burglar in Harlem: Guard Ezra Hoskins [136] Connecticut Department of Correction: May 1, 1833: Assault [90] Edwin Hosli Sr. New Orleans Police Department: December 31, 1972: Gunshot by Mark Essex while ...
The paper moved from a garage in the Rockville section of Vernon to its present location in Manchester in 1974. The Rockville Journal dates back over 105 years. Elizabeth S. Ellis, the founder's partner, oversaw paper's expansion during her tenure as publisher from 1970 until her death in 2020. As a female-in-charge, she was a rarity in ...
David L. Holmes (August 28, 1932 – April 29, 2023) was an American church historian. He was Walter G. Mason Professor of Religious Studies at the College of William and Mary . He was married to Carolyn Coggin Holmes, executive director of James Monroe's Highland from 1975 to 2012.
Pope John Paul II was the subject of three premature obituaries.. A prematurely reported obituary is an obituary of someone who was still alive at the time of publication. . Examples include that of inventor and philanthropist Alfred Nobel, whose premature obituary condemning him as a "merchant of death" for creating military explosives may have prompted him to create the Nobel Prize; [1 ...
Jerome Caminada (1844 – March 1914) was a 19th-century police officer in Manchester, England. Caminada served with the police between 1868 and 1899, and has been called Manchester's Sherlock Holmes. [1] In 1897 he became the city's first CID superintendent.
Joseph Warren Holmes was born on April 1, 1824, in Mystic, Connecticut [1] [4] Joseph Warren Holmes's father was Jeremiah Holmes. [3] Jeremiah Holmes was a part of the War of 1812 and at the time was well respected in Mystic, Connecticut.
The Case Brothers Historic District is located in southeastern Manchester, isolated to some degree from the rest of the city by Interstate 384 to the northwest, and from other development by the rough terrain of Case Mountain to the south. The district includes a brick and wood-frame mill complex, dams and bridges built by the Case Brothers ...
Manchester has parts of three interstate highways (I-84, I-384, and I-291) and Route 6 and Route 44 together constitute Manchester's principal east/west arterial. Connecticut Route 30 is an east/west arterial in the northern section of town. Connecticut Route 83 is Manchester's principal north/south arterial