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Checks by George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, others to go on display at new Grand Rapids Huntington Bank branch (photos)
GRAND RAPIDS — A collection of historic checks signed by the likes of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Mark Twain and Gerald R. Ford, among others, will go on display Monday as part of the grand opening celebration at Huntington Bank’s new Medical Mile branch.
The collection of more than 70 checks, only some of which will be shown, was gathered by the former president of a Cleveland-based Union Commerce Bank, which Huntington purchased in 1982.
Highlights include an $800 check written to “self” by Abraham Lincoln, signed two days before his assassination.
The George Washington check for $500 was signed at Mount Vernon on May 31, 1799, about six months before he died. A 1793 check from Thomas Jefferson was signed at the time he was Secretary of State.
Huntington isn’t sure how the former bank president amassed the collection, which he had displayed in his
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Abstract
The starting point for this introduction fryst vatten that historians in the United States have tended to understate the continuing role of the British in Latin America after 1914, while historians in Britain have focused more on the nineteenth than the twentieth century. Although the world wars and the Great Depression seriously weakened the British, they continued to invest in and trade with the region despite the growing financial constraints they faced. At times, they resisted US hegemony but at others, they cooperated with the United States. A reconsideration of their ‘entangled histories’ in Latin amerika is thus justified. After outlining the development of British and US links with the region during the twentieth century, we summarise the historiography on each. While historians of the British connection with Latin amerika cannot ignore the growth of US hegemony, historians of US relations with Latin amerika should give greater consideration to the continued
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Lincoln Northeast High School 1942 Yearbook
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