The House of Belmont Founder August Belmont
A century after his birth in Alzey Germany, August Belmont rises from apprentice to Rothschild banking in Frankfort to head American interests for Rothschilds in New York. He built a banking house, spread influence in Democratic politics, and founded a dynasty still expanding by his descendants.
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August Belmont
Belmont
Alzey
Germany
Schonburg
Rhenish Palatinate
Anna Belmont
August
Ludwig Bamberger
Bismarck
New Empire
Rothschild
Frankfort
Naples
Havana
Rothschilds
New York
Rothechilds
House of Belmont
Austria
The
Hague
Democratic National Committee
August Belmont I
Caroline Slidell Perry
August Belmont Company
Perry Belmont
Admiral Mayo A Fleet Leader From Vermont Born Sixty Years Ago
Rear Admiral Henry Thomas Mayo of the U S Navy, famed for demanding a Tampico salute from Huerta authorities, was born in Vermont sixty years ago. He rose from Annapolis graduate to vice admiral, advancing through commands including Mare Island and the Connecticut, and helped precipitate Huerta's downfall after the Tampico incident.
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Henry Thomas Mayo
United States Navy
Huerta
Tampico
Vermont
Atlantic Fleet
Admiral Mayo
Annapolis Naval Academy
Tennessee
Alabama
Cherbourg
United States
Mayo
Navy
Washington
Spain
Mare Island Navy Yard
Wilson
Daniels
Fletcher
Connecticut
Synthetic Philosophy and Herbert Spencer Century Reflections
The article notes Herbert Spencer’s death on December 8 1903 marking 13 years since his passing. It surveys his birth in 1820 and a planned eleven volume synthetic philosophy begun in 1859, his lifelong retreat from honors, and he died at 83 after a strenuous, decades long effort on life mind society and morals.
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Herbert Spencer
Spencer
Newtown Grange Members Attend Fairfield County Meeting
The Glover and Mitchell families from Pootatuck grange attended the Fairfield County Pomona grange annual meeting in Bridgeport on Wednesday. The column covers a funeral service for Mary Kilbride, local social visits, road survey updates, a farm and dairy league delegation, and community notices from Newtown including a highway resurvey and local club events.
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Newtown
W. B. Glover
Wallace Mitchell
Pootatuckgrange
Fairfield County
Pomona Grange
Bridgeport
Mary Scanlon Kilbride
St. Rose's Church
Father Sinnott
Genevieve Brown
Robert
Paul Collins
Passaic
N. J
Edward Carmody
Hartford
John Carmody
Sandy Hook
Frank Corbett
James Brown
Elizabeth
Kilbride
Catherine
Mary Lynch
Washington, Conn
Patrick Lynch
Berkshire
Susan J. Scudder
Equal Franchise League
Alice Grace
P. H. Gannon
Church Hill
B. J. Botsford
Mary Hawley
State Highway Commissioner's Office
Housatonic River
Thomas Harrison
C. E
Pootatuck
Southbury Street
Danbury
W. C. Johnson
John Murray
David H. Glover
South Center
Charles F. Beardsley
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