The Kennedy family is an American political family that has long been prominent in American politics,public service,entertainment,and business. In 1884,35 years after the family's arrival from Ireland,Patrick Joseph "P. J." Kennedy became the first Kennedy elected to public office,serving in the Massachusetts state legislature until 1895. At least one Kennedy family member served in federal elective office from 1947,when P. J. Kennedy's grandson John F. Kennedy became a member of Congress from Massachusetts,until 2011,when Patrick J. Kennedy II retired as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Rhode Island.
Redding is a town in Fairfield County,Connecticut,United States. The population was 8,765 at the 2020 census.
Weston is a town in Fairfield County,Connecticut,United States. The population was 10,354 at the 2020 census with the highest median household income in Connecticut. The town is served by Route 57 and Route 53,both of which run through the town center. About 19% of the town's workforce commutes to New York City,about 45 miles (72 km) to the southwest.
Wilton is a town in Fairfield County,Connecticut,United States. As of the 2020 census,the town population was 18,503. In 2017,it was the sixth-wealthiest town per capita in Connecticut,the wealthiest U.S. state per capita.
Thomas Hooker was a prominent English colonial leader and Congregational minister,who founded the Connecticut Colony after dissenting with Puritan leaders in Massachusetts. He was known as an outstanding speaker and an advocate of universal Christian suffrage.
American Impressionism was a style of painting related to European Impressionism and practiced by American artists in the United States from the mid-nineteenth century through the beginning of the twentieth. The style is characterized by loose brushwork and vivid colors with a wide array of subject matters but focusing on landscapes and upper-class domestic life.
The Connecticut Colony or Colony of Connecticut,originally known as the Connecticut River Colony or simply the River Colony,was an English colony in New England which later became Connecticut. It was organized on March 3,1636 as a settlement for a Puritan congregation,and the English permanently gained control of the region in 1637 after struggles with the Dutch. The colony was later the scene of a bloody war between the colonists and Pequot Indians known as the Pequot War. Connecticut Colony played a significant role in the establishment of self-government in the New World with its refusal to surrender local authority to the Dominion of New England,an event known as the Charter Oak incident which occurred at Jeremy Adams' inn and tavern.
Edward Moore Kennedy Jr. is an American lawyer and politician. He is a partner at Epstein Becker &Green,a firm headquartered in New York City,and previously represented Connecticut's 12th State Senate district in the Connecticut State Senate from 2015 to 2019. He is a son of Senator Edward M. "Ted" Kennedy from Massachusetts and nephew of President John F. Kennedy and Senator Robert F. Kennedy.
Edward Winslow was a Separatist and New England political leader who traveled on the Mayflower in 1620. He was one of several senior leaders on the ship and also later at Plymouth Colony. Both Edward Winslow and his brother,Gilbert Winslow signed the Mayflower Compact. In Plymouth he served in a number of governmental positions such as assistant governor,three times was governor and also was the colony's agent in London. In early 1621 he had been one of several key leaders on whom Governor Bradford depended after the death of John Carver. He was the author of several important pamphlets,including Good Newes from New England and co-wrote with William Bradford the historic Mourt's Relation,which ends with an account of the First Thanksgiving and the abundance of the New World. In 1655 he died of fever while on an English naval expedition in the Caribbean against the Spanish.
The Saugatuck River is a 23.7-mile-long (38.1 km) river in southwestern Connecticut in the United States. It drains part of suburban and rural Fairfield County west of Bridgeport,emptying into Long Island Sound.
The United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts is the federal district court whose territorial jurisdiction is the Commonwealth of Massachusetts,United States. The first court session was held in Boston in 1789. The second term was held in Salem in 1790 and court session locations alternated between the two cities until 1813. That year,Boston became the court's permanent home. A western division was opened in Springfield in 1979 and a central division was opened in Worcester in 1987. The court's main building is the John Joseph Moakley Federal Courthouse on Fan Pier in South Boston.
Edward Weston was an English-born American chemist and engineer noted for his achievements in electroplating and his development of the electrochemical cell,named the Weston cell,for the voltage standard. Weston was a competitor of Thomas Edison in the early days of electricity generation and distribution.
Paul Stephen Loverde is an American prelate of the Catholic Church. Loverde served as bishop of the Diocese of Arlington in Northern Virginia from 1998 to 2016.
John Edward Sheridan was a Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.
Theodore Brett Weston was an American photographer.
Ebenezer Huntington was an officer in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War,and afterwards United States Representative from Connecticut.
The Saugatuck Reservoir is a reservoir in Fairfield County,Connecticut,United States,that straddles the border between the towns of Redding,Weston,and Easton. Its completion is marked by the creation of the Samuel P. Senior dam of the Saugatuck River in January 1942,and provides water to several of the nearby towns. The reservoir is surrounded by the Centennial Watershed State Forest and a small section of the Trout Brook Valley State Park Reserve on the southeast end of the reservoir. The Saugatuck Reservoir utilizes an uncontrolled spillway adjacent to the Samuel P. Senior dam that effectively limits the maximum water level. There is also a concrete levee positioned on the southeastern side of the reservoir that prevents water from flooding Trout Brook Valley.
Joseph Valentine Stripp was an American professional baseball third baseman. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Cincinnati Reds,Brooklyn Dodgers,St. Louis Cardinals,and Boston Bees between 1928 and 1938. Stripp hit .300 or better 6 times,with a career best .324 with the Reds in 1931.
Edward Aloysius McGurkin,M.M. was an American-born Catholic missionary and bishop. As a member of the Catholic Foreign Mission Society of America (Maryknoll),he was assigned to missions in Manchuria and Tanzania. He served as the Bishop of Shinyanga from 1956-1975.
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