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The house was built circa 1895 by the Proviso Land Association for Joseph P. O. Sullivan. The Proviso Land Association was the second land developer to invest in Maywood, after the Maywood Company; most homes built by the Association have been demolished, making the Sullivan House a rare example of their work.
Proviso Township is one of 29 townships in Cook County, Illinois, United States. As of the 2020 census, its population was 151,209. [ 1 ] It was organized in 1850 and originally named "Taylor", but shortly afterward its name was changed to make reference to the Wilmot Proviso , a contemporary piece of legislation intended to stop the spread of ...
Proviso Township High Schools District 209 that comprises Proviso East High School; Proviso West High School; Proviso Mathematics and Science Academy; Wilmot Proviso, an American law to ban slavery in annexed territory from Mexico proposed by David Wilmot in the 1840s; Lockean proviso, a feature of John Locke's labour theory of property
Taylor was a cotton planter who is believed to have owned, at minimum, 81 slaves when he became president. [1] Taylor's slave ownership was a campaign issue in 1848, with opponents asserting that he would oppose the Wilmot Proviso and abolition because he owned 200-some slaves on two plantations in Mississippi and Louisiana and had recently invested heavily in "negroes" with purchases at the ...
Douglas Carlyle Cameron (born March 22, 1957) is an American engineer, inventor, and investor. He is a senior managing director for the U.S.-China Green Fund. [1] He is on the board of the Foundation for Food and Agriculture Research (FFAR) [2] and is a technical and business advisor to organizations including the VTT (Finland), [3] and the Center for Bioenergy Innovation (USA).
Proviso West High School (PWHS) is a public high school located in Hillside, Illinois, United States. It is a part of Proviso Township High Schools District 209 , and was opened in 1958. Its sister schools are Proviso East High School and Proviso Mathematics and Science Academy .
The Wilmot Proviso was an unsuccessful 1846 proposal in the United States Congress to ban slavery in territory acquired from Mexico in the Mexican–American War. [1] The conflict over the Wilmot Proviso was one of the major events leading to the American Civil War .
Guidehouse, Inc. is an American consulting firm for businesses and government entities. It is the successor to PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP ’s public sector business and it was acquired in 2018 by Veritas.