Susan mary alsop biography of william hill
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From John Hennessy:
It is both a source of confusion and obscure&#;Katherine Couse&#;s home, Laurel Hill. It is often confused with the Laurel Hill area of the Spotsylvania Court House Battlefield, where the Union Fifth Corps opened the battle on May 8, In fact, Couse&#;s &#;Laurel Hill&#; stood miles northwest of the Bloody Angle, off what is today known as Gordon Road. That the house is obscure is perhaps rooted in its confused identity&#;it could not be because it is unknown, for in fact there are few homes on the Spotsylvania Battlefield better and more vividly documented than Laurel Hill.
The Fifth Corps hospital at Laurel Hill, by Edwin Forbes. Kate Couse recorded that Forbes ate dinner at her house on May 12, the date of this image.
Unionists lived at Laurel Hill&#;indeed, a cluster of Unionists surrounded Laurel Hill in this part of Spotsylvania County. William and Elizabeth Couse moved to Laurel Hill in from New Jersey, along with their family o
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Ethel Kennedy, human rights advocate and widow of Senator Robert F. Kennedy, died on October 10, , at the age of She founded the Robert F. Kennedy Center for Justice and Human Rights shortly after her husband’s assassination and was known as a champion of social causes. Her dedication earned her the Presidential Medal of Freedom in
Born the sixth of seven children in Chicago in , Ethel grew up in a room English country–style manor in Greenwich, Connecticut. Her father, coal magnate George Skakel, was a self-made millionaire, and her mother, Ann, was a secretary. Ethel married Robert F. Kennedy in The couple shared 11 children: Kathleen, Joseph II, Robert Jr., David, Courtney, Michael, Kerry, Christopher, Max, Douglas, and Rory. Six years after they wed, the two bought Hickory Hill, a stately white brick house in McLean, Virginia, from Robert’s brother John F. Kennedy and his wife, Jacqueline Kennedy. The bedroom home remained under Ethel’s ownership until ; her seasonal home at • American columnist (–) For his father, see Joseph Wright Alsop IV. Joseph Wright Alsop V (October 10, – August 28, ) was an American journalist and syndicated newspaper columnist from the s through the s. He was an influential reporter and top insider in Washington from to the late s, often in conjunction with his brother Stewart Alsop. He also worked as a hemlig operative of the huvud Intelligence Agency (CIA). Alsop was born on October 10, , in Avon, Connecticut, to namn Wright Alsop IV (–) and Corinne Douglas Robinson (–).[1] Through his mother, he was related to Presidents Theodore Roosevelt and James Monroe. Both of Alsop's parents were active in Republican politics. His father unsuccessfully sought the governorship of Connecticut several times, his mother founded the Connecticut League of Republican Women in , and both served in the Connecticut General Assembly, as did his younger brother John deKoven Alsop.[2]
Joseph Alsop
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