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Patrick Henry (May 29, 1736 [ O.S. May 18, 1736] – June 6, 1799) was an American politician, planter and orator who declared to the Second Virginia Convention (1775): "Give me liberty, or give me death!" A Founding Father, he served as the first and sixth post-colonial Governor of Virginia, from 1776 to 1779 and from 1784 to 1786.
Alma mater. University of Cambridge. Henry Fawcett, close up of Fawcett Memorial in Victoria Embankment Gardens, London. Fawcett's name on the Reformers Monument, Kensal Green Cemetery. Henry Fawcett (26 August 1833 – 6 November 1884) was a British academic, statesman and economist.
Sculptor. Signature. Richard Henry Park (also Richard Hamilton Park; February 17, 1838—November 7, 1902) was an American sculptor who worked in marble and bronze. He was commissioned to do work by the wealthy of the nineteenth century. He did a marble bust of John Plankinton, an astute businessman who founded the meat industry in Wisconsin ...
The regiment was originally designated 12th Tennessee Volunteer Cavalry, but was changed by order of Governor Andrew Johnson on December 31, 1863. Service [ edit ] The 13th Tennessee Cavalry was organized at Strawberry Plains , Gallatin and Nashville , Tennessee , and mustered in for a three-year enlistment under the command of Colonel John K ...
Henry Isaac Rowntree (1838–1883) was the founder of Rowntree's, one of the United Kingdom's largest confectionery businesses. Career [ edit ] Having served his apprenticeship in his father's shop at The Pavement in York , and following his father's death in 1860, Henry Rowntree went to work for the Tuke family at their shop in Walmgate .
Opened. 1975. Links. Website. henrymayo .com. Henry Mayo Newhall Hospital (commonly referred to as Henry Mayo Hospital) is a 357-bed not-for-profit community hospital and trauma center in Valencia, Santa Clarita, California. It was founded in 1975. [1] Named after businessman Henry Mayo Newhall, the hospital recently opened a new patient tower ...
Volunteer Park is a 48.3-acre (19.5 ha) park in the Capitol Hill neighborhood of Seattle, Washington, United States. History [ edit ] Volunteer Park was acquired by the city of Seattle in 1876 from J.M. Colman at a cost of $2,000.
Henry Hastings Sibley (February 20, 1811 – February 18, 1891) was a fur trader with the American Fur Company, the first U.S. Congressional representative for Minnesota Territory, the first governor of the state of Minnesota, and a U.S. military leader in the Dakota War of 1862 and a subsequent expedition into Dakota Territory in 1863.