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Lake George Panorama in HDR.
I couldnt have went up there at such a better time. A storm had just went by and when we got up to the summit, the blue skies came out and i was able to see everything. You can even see where its raining, in the middle.
The Australian football family enjoyed their night of nights at Sheraton on the Park this evening.
The news that most people want to know is that Brett Holman is named International Player of the Year at the annual Black Tie Australian Football Awards.
Of course big names and WAG's (wives and girlfriends) were there. FFA Chairman Frank Lowy was "happy just to be here" and highly respected journalist and mad soccer fan, George Negas, was always going to be a lock.
The Aussie forward, who currently performs in the Netherlands' Eredivisie with AZ Alkmaar, bested fellow nominees Matt McKay, Carl Valeri, Luke Wilkshire and Mile Jedinak to snatch the award.
Holman got the nod by Australia's Football Media Association for his consistency throughout the Socceroos 15 matches in the 2010-2011 voting window.
Matt McKay got named the Professional Footballers Association (PFA) Footballer of the Year.
"Brett Holman was the run away favourite of members of the FMA for this year's award," FMA President Steve Dettre announced.
"Brett showed his value as an international player at last year’s World Cup, responding to some of his critics in the best way possible - by doing the business on the pitch," Dettre stressed.
"His form continued throughout 2010-2011, starting with the first game in the voting year when the Socceroos met Slovenia in Ljubljana last August."
"The view of FMA members is that, in 2010-2011, Holman has been instrumental in bringing a more fluent style of play to the national team and Australia looks more threatening in attack when he is in full flight," Dettre said.
The prestigous Harry Kewell Medal, awarded to Australia's best Under-23 player, was snatched by Robbie Kruse of Fortuna Düsseldorf.
And ladies (and some gents we suspect) will be interested to learn that Elise Kellonnd-Knight nabbed the PFA's Women's Footballer of the Year award.
The Socceroos all looked sharp in their suits, and most enjoyed a beverage or three before the red carpet, and during the ballroom presentation... wouldn't you! The ladies of the game also scrubbed up beautifully.
A special thank you to George Negus for your words of wisdom to our media team regarding Australian youth who play the great game of soccer. I'll be passing along your sound advise to my 14 year old son who plays the game at elite school level. You looked great on the red carpet too.
Australian Football is all the better from their big night, and we promise to keep and eye and ear open for more on and off field action from the usually media shy Socceroos and friends.
Score: Socceroos 1, naysayers of Australian Football - Nil. Game over.
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A bottle of Smokey George from Brauerei Rittmayer Hallerndorf in Hallerndorf, Bavaria, at Hütt'n in Nürnberg.
Rittmayer Smokey George is a 5% abv smoked beer, but instead of German smoked malts the brewers traveled to Scotland where they got their hands on some peat-smoked malt intended for Scottish whisky - making this a unique German-Scottish rauchbier!
The beer poured a clear, reddish amber color with a bubbly beige head. It sported a wonderful smoked aroma, with notes of bacon and bonfire. And mild caramel. Very nice! Mouthfeel was medium heavy with a soft texture. Flavor started out with that bonfire smoked character, balanced by a good malt sweetness and some ripe fruit notes. The smoke lingered in the long aftertaste.
Now, this is what I call a smoked beer! Very tasty and reasonably balanced. I like it very much.
BERTHON, GEORGE THEODORE, painter; b. 3 May 1806 in Vienna, son of René-Théodore Berthon and Frances-Desirée Maugenet; m. first 1840, probably in France, Marie-Zélie Boisseau (d. 18 July 1847 in Toronto), and they had one daughter; m. secondly 14 Aug. 1850 Clare Elizabeth de La Haye in Toronto, and they had six sons and five daughters; d. there 18 Jan. 1892.
George Theodore Berthon was born at the “royal palace” in Vienna, where his father, René, court painter to Napoleon and a former student of Jacques-Louis David’s, was executing a commission for the emperor. The Berthon family returned to Paris that year, René resuming his activity as peintre ordinaire at the French court.
The younger Berthon is thought to have received his formal art training from his father. As a resident of Paris, he also had the opportunity to study the work of the old masters and the best contemporary French artists. At age 21 he immigrated to England, possibly to study medicine. He is believed to have lived initially in the home of the Tory politician and art collector Robert Peel, where he taught Peel’s elder daughter drawing and French in exchange for English lessons. Although his supposed medical studies remain only conjecture, it is known that Berthon was active as a painter, exhibiting portraits at the Royal Academy of Arts (1835–37) and the British Institution (1837–38). During this period he would also have been exposed to the work of the foremost exponents of the British portrait tradition, such as Romney, Lawrence, and Reynolds.
The last record of Berthon in England is his participation in the 1838 exhibition of the British Institution. Details of his subsequent whereabouts are sketchy until he advertised his services as a portraitist “from London” in Toronto’s British Colonist on 1 Jan. 1845 and later in other local newspapers, notices that indicate he had settled there. (Secondary accounts which date his arrival as early as 1840 or state that he had painted “in Canada” from 1837 to 1841 before returning to England and then settling in Toronto cannot be verified.) Berthon’s move might have been suggested by Peel or perhaps by the German-British painter Hoppner Francis Meyer, who had been active in Toronto and Quebec at various times throughout the 1830s and early 1840s and who was later based in London. Regardless of the circumstances surrounding his decision, Berthon was evidently ready to accept the challenge of a new environment. According to tradition, he promoted himself and gained access to Toronto’s tory-dominated social circles on the basis of letters of introduction from Peel. Indeed, by April his wife was conducting a salon for young ladies in the couple’s William (Simcoe) Street home. This enterprise was patronized by the wives of several prominent members of the “family compact,” including Eliza Boulton, wife of Henry John*, and Emma Robinson, wife of John Beverley*.
Berthon’s sophisticated European training quickly attracted the attention of local art patrons, most of them with tory affiliations, and important portrait commissions were soon acquired. His earliest pictures included likenesses painted in 1845 of such noted Torontonians as Bishop John Strachan* and Chief Justice John Beverley Robinson. He also executed a variety of productions for the Boulton and Robinson families, the best known being two works now in the Art Gallery of Ontario: the full-length portrait done in 1846 of William Henry Boulton* and the elegant and stylish Three Robinson sisters (Augusta Anne, Louisa Matilda, and Emily Mary). The latter painting, a gift to Emma Robinson, their mother, was commissioned in secret by Augusta’s husband, James McGill Strachan*, and by George William Allan and John Henry Lefroy*, who were soon to marry Louisa and Emily. It was presented on 16 April 1846 after Mrs Robinson’s return home from the wedding. The Boulton portrait, one of the foremost examples of the grand manner tradition in Canadian portraiture, is characterized, as are Berthon’s smaller bust and half-length likenesses, by tight brushwork, crisp delineation of forms, and fresh, clear colour – hallmarks of French neo-classicism exemplified in the work of such artists as David, with whose style Berthon would certainly have been familiar.
In 1847 Berthon submitted three portraits to the first exhibition of the Toronto Society of Arts [see John George Howard*], the second attempt on the part of local artists and architects to promote the visual arts by means of annual exhibitions. A series of lengthy commentaries on the event appeared in the British Colonist; its critic, however, made no mention of Berthon’s contributions, preferring instead to tout the merits of such “native Canadians” as Peter March and Paul Kane*. Berthon’s nationality caused a similar problem in 1848 when a controversy arose over a prospective commission to paint the “official” portrait of the former speaker of the Legislative Assembly, Sir Allan Napier MacNab*. While George Anthony Barber*, editor of the Toronto Herald, came out in support of Berthon, describing him as a “most accomplished artist,” the British Colonist, a reform paper owned by Hugh Scobie*, took a firm nationalist stance, stating that the commission, highly coveted, should go to the Canadian-born March. The portrait was eventually painted by the French Canadian artist Théophile Hamel*. Despite these initial obstacles Berthon continued to be patronized steadily by the local élite, who were by now even more aware of his evident professionalism. In 1848, for example, he completed a group portrait of the chief justices of Upper Canada for the Legislative Council. He received this commission on the basis of a recommendation from Robinson, who stated that he did not “suppose that a person could be found in Canada so likely to give satisfaction.” Berthon did not, however, participate in the second, and final, exhibition of the Toronto Society of Arts, held in 1848, possibly because of the MacNab controversy and because Berthon’s rival, Peter March, was the society’s secretary for that year.
Berthon is known to have visited the United States in 1852. Returning to Toronto the same year, he resumed his portrait work. During this decade, and for the remainder of his career, Berthon’s clientele expanded beyond the confines of the tory establishment to include all groups in the community, most notably the growing numbers of prosperous merchants and bankers. In 1856 the Law Society of Upper Canada commissioned a portrait of one of its chief justices, marking the beginning of what would develop into a lengthy term of patronage on the part of this group. Later subjects painted for the society included William Henry Draper* and John Douglas Armour.
Throughout his career Berthon’s participation in public exhibitions was minimal, the writer of his obituary being moved to note that his was “a name well known to artists, although to the public he was little known.” Indeed, his official, academy-inspired art would have seemed incongruous at the Upper Canada Provincial Exhibition, a venue better suited to the smaller landscapes and genre pieces by such artists as Paul Kane, Daniel Fowler, and Robert Whale*. He might also have been discouraged by the lukewarm reception of the paintings he had put on display in 1847. Perhaps the most likely reason for his absence from the public arena was the fact that he had a regular clientele and thus never felt the need to promote his work too vigorously.
Berthon did contribute portraits to the annual exhibitions of the Ontario Society of Artists [see John Arthur Fraser] in 1875 and 1877 and he was made a life member in 1891; however, in competition as he was against the prevailing taste for landscape, he continued to encounter critical disparagement of his pictures for both their size and their formal nature. Recognition on an international level occurred in 1876, when Berthon’s An early visitor received a gold medal at the Philadelphia Centennial International Exhibition, obviously a more challenging forum for a French-trained artist. (The painting’s current location is unknown.)
Although Berthon’s renown was such that he was named a charter member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts [see John Douglas Sutherland Campbell*] in 1880, his failure ultimately to submit the required diploma picture, perhaps because his creative energies were then being diverted in another, more lucrative direction, caused his nomination to expire. That year he had been invited by John Beverley Robinson to execute a series of portraits of former lieutenant governors to hang in the recently completed Government House. Working from sources such as engravings, photographs, miniatures, oils, and water-colours, Berthon produced over twenty posthumous portraits of noted figures in Canadian history, including Sir Francis Bond Head*, Sir Isaac Brock*, and Sir Frederick Philipse Robinson. The entire project, rooted in the tradition of “halls of fame” and “portrait galleries,” was later extended to include portraits by Berthon of the governors general of the Province of Canada.
Berthon continued to paint until just a few days before his death, from a bronchial infection, at his Toronto home. On 30 March 1892 his private collection of paintings, which included a portrait of Napoleon by his father, an original Watteau, and various copies after old masters, was offered for sale.
Berthon is known to have painted the occasional landscape and genre subject, usually at the request of a client, and appears to have supplemented his income by teaching privately now and again. He is also thought to have designed the iron gates in the fence at Osgoode Hall, intended to prevent cattle from straying onto the property. His reputation, however, rests solely on his work as a portraitist. For most of his career his style was based on such neo-classical precepts as strong draftsmanship, controlled brushwork, and clarity of local colour, combined with an evident commitment to realism. Towards the end of his life, like most Canadian artists who had become acquainted with pleinairisme and Impressionism, he adopted a looser, more fluid brushstroke and a softer palette. By this time there were other artists active in the field of establishment portraiture in Toronto, including Robert Harris*, John Wycliffe Lowes Forster*, and Edmund Wyly Grier*.
As Toronto’s foremost exponent of the portrait tradition during the Victorian era, Berthon produced a body of work that serves as an important historical record and as a prime example of the grand-manner style in Canadian portraiture. His long and prolific career reflects the continuing growth and prosperity of Ontario, the rise of Toronto as an influential urban centre – politically, economically, and culturally – and the significance of public and private patronage in the promotion of the visual arts.
George Orwell (* 25. Juni 1903 in Motihari, Bihar, Britisch-Indien als Eric Arthur Blair; † 21. Januar 1950 in London) war ein britischer Schriftsteller, Essayist und Journalist. Durch 1984 wurde Orwell weltbekannt und zählt heute mit seinem Gesamtwerk zu den bedeutendsten Schriftstellern der englischen Literatur. Orwell benutzte zeitweise auch das weitere Pseudonym H. Lewis Always.
A statue of George Stephenson overlooking The Great Hall at The National Railway Museum, York.
This statue of "The Father of the Railways" once looked over The Great Hall at London Euston station and is the work of Edward Hodges Baily.
Governor Moore visits Georges Creek Florist by Anthony DePanise at 60 Main Street, Lonaconing, MD 21539
On facebook: ANDREAS STADEL PHOTODESIGN
Mr. Bremen 2010/11 (durch die MGO)
Strobist info:
- Overhead light 500ws, 250ws camera right
The George Eastman Museum is located in Rochester, New York, on the estate of George Eastman, the pioneer of popular photography and motion picture film. Founded in 1947 as an independent nonprofit institution, it is the world’s oldest photography museum and one of the oldest film archives. The museum holds unparalleled collections—encompassing several million objects—in the fields of photography, cinema, and photographic and cinematographic technology, and photographically illustrated books. The institution is also a longtime leader in film preservation and photographic conservation.
George Denis Patrick Carlin (May 12, 1937 – June 22, 2008) was a Grammy-winning American stand-up comedian, actor, and author.
Carlin was especially noted for his political and black humor and his observations on language, psychology, and religion along with many taboo subjects. Carlin and his "Seven Dirty Words" comedy routine were central to the 1978 U.S. Supreme Court case F.C.C. v. Pacifica Foundation, in which a narrow 5-4 decision by the justices affirmed the government's right to regulate Carlin's act on the public airwaves.
Carlin's most recent stand-up routines focused on the flaws in modern-day America. He often took on contemporary political issues in the United States and satirized the excesses of American culture.
He placed second on the Comedy Central cable television network list of the 10 greatest stand-up comedians, ahead of Bruce and behind Richard Pryor. He was a frequent performer and guest host on The Tonight Show during the three-decade Johnny Carson era, and was also the first person to host Saturday Night Live.
Caption: Manitoba music professor and choral director, George Wiebe and the A-12 Male Chorus.
Citation: Mennonite World Conference. Twelfth Mennonite World Conference, 1990, Winnipeg, Canada. Slides by T. Klassen; Script by John Dyck. X-9 Box 52 Folder 4 Slide 88. Mennonite Church USA Archives - Goshen. Goshen, Indiana.
A 360º panorama of George Street near the intersection with Dalhousie Street in the ByTown area of Ottawa, assembled using AutoStitch.
Company E, 21st Missouri Infantry
Photo and obituary donated by Amy Jensen Great -Great -Great Grand daughter of George W. Fulton.
Kinsley Banner Graphic
24-Jan-1890
AT REST
Major George W. Fulton died at 7:30 on Saturday evening of last week
“The Lord’s will must be obeyed”
Major George W. Fulton, Mayor of this city, died at his residence on North Colony Avenue Saturday evening, January 18th, 1890 at 7:30 o’clock. The cause of death was from a complication of diseases of the liver, kidneys and bowels. He had been suffering since last July, but until a short time ago his physician and all friends entertained hopes of recovery.
The funeral was conducted by the Masonic Lodge, services were held at the Congregational church Monday afternoon at 2 o’clock, which were very impressive and largely attended by Masons and friends of the family. The G.A.R. also participated in the march to the cemetery.
The following brief biography was read by Rev. Wilson:
BIOGRAPHY
The subject of the following sketch is of German extraction, his great-grandfather coming to this country and settling in Virginia and, during the Revolution being a soldier in the colonial army. His son David, was born in Virginia and settled in Pennsylvania, and served in the war of 1812. Levi Fulton, the father of our subject, was a native of Pennsylvania, and in 1832 moved to Perry county, Ohio, and afterword to Knox county, Missouri, where he died in 1867.
Major George W. Fulton was the eldest of four children, and was a native of Fayette county, Pennsylvania, being born November 23rd, 1821. He was educated in the common schools of Pennsylvania and Ohio up to his sixteenth year, when he attended three terms of the Academy at Athens, Ohio, and then returned to his labors on his father’s farm until he became of age. He then served, first as an apprentice and afterward as a journeyman, at the carpenter’s and joiner’s trade, finally entering the mercantile profession, and, at the expiration of two years, moved to Keokuk, Iowa, then to Hannibal, Missouri, then to Louisville, Kentucky, and thence to Edina, Knox county, Missouri, where he continued the mercantile business, and also engaged in building and contracting. In 1861 he took an active part in organizing the Home Guards, and was elected captain of one of the companies. Disposing of his business he enlisted in Company E, 21st Regiment Missouri Volunteer Infantry, was elected captain, and, in the Army of the Tennessee, participated in the battle at Pittsburg Landing, the series of engagements culminating at the capture of Corinth. Marching to Memphis his company was in the engagement against Forrest, after which they went to the relief of General Banks in the Red River Campaign.
Returning from thence to Missouri the regiment fought against Price in his raid of 1864, and in the summer of that year he was commissioned Major. On his return home from the army he was elected sheriff and collector of Knox county, re-elected in 1866, and held the position for two years, meanwhile resuming his former profession as merchant and also becoming extensively engaged in shipping grain, wood and stock. He likewise owned and operated the Edina flouring mills.
In 1872 he disposed of his entire business and removed to Rice county, Kansas, when the country was but thinly settled, where he began operations in farming and stock raising, in which he was very successful. In 1878 he erected the Anchor Steam Flouring Mills at a cost of $20,000, in Kinsley, where he has since resided.
Mr. Fulton was married May 2, 1847, to Miss Hannah Sycks, daughter of John and Mary Sycks, of Greene county, Pennsylvania, by whom he had twelve children, eight of whom are now living and named respectively: John A., Francis E., Phoeba S., Dora A., George W. Jr., Margaret W., U.S. Grant and Charles L. All married except the three latter named boys.
After reading the above, Rev. Wilson made a few remarks concerning the deceased, the points were: Mr. Fultonh was 68 years, 1 month and 26 days old when he died; twice elected mayor of this city; he was a Mason in good standing; a member of the G.A.R; you will miss him from your midst; there is a vacant seat in these organizations; there is a vacant chair in the home; who will miss him most; the wife will miss him in her counsel; the children will miss father on returning home.
Though not a member of any church Mr. Fulton was a close student of the Bible, and died as he had lived, and when appraised of the fact that death was inevitable he remarked, “The Lord’s Will Must be Obeyed.” Through his long suffering and illness he never complained or found fault with his lot, but bore it all patiently and with Christian resignation.
At the city election held in this city last April Mr. Fulton was elected mayor by a fair majority, although one of the strongest men of the opposition headed the ticket. In private life Mr. Fulton was a pleasant, affable gentleman, and those who have worked for and under him remember his upright, moral character. He expected faithfulness from his employees, and in return made every promise good. In a private way the Major was a friend to the poor, but did not wish to make any show of his charities by subscribing funds when his name would be published to the world, but in secret, when none but the recipient would know, he helped many.
Kinsley will miss the deceased in both her public and private enterprises. As an official he was always prompt and conscientious in the discharges of his duties, and as a private citizen he was always in the front rank with those who were interested in the welfare of the city.
GEORGE W. FULTON, proprietor of the Anchor Steam Flouring Mills, of Kinsley. These mills were erected in the spring of 1878 at a cost of $20,000, the size of which is 30x50 feet, three stories high; engine room 23x30 feet, one story. Forty horse-power engine; capacity, 300 bushels of wheat every twenty-four hours. He employs five men in the business. He first came to Rice County, Kansas in 1873, and farmed until he came to Kinsley. He was born in Fayette County, Pa., November 23, 1821. His parents moved with their family to Perry County, Ohio, in 1833, where he was raised as a farmer. He enlisted in the spring of 1861 in Company E, Twenty-first Regiment Missouri Volunteer Infantry. He was afterward commissioned to raising a company, and after completing the full quota was made captain of the same. He was a conspicuous Union man. He was assigned to the Twenty-first Missouri Regiment, and was soon promoted to Major. He was a participant in the battles of Shiloh, Tupelo, siege of Corinth and battle of Corinth, and many skirmishes, and finally resigned in November, 1864. He had the promotion of Lieutenant-Colonel of the regiment but declined on account of being elected Sheriff of Knox County, Mo. In the fall of 1864, after serving one term, he was re-elected to the same office. He afterward followed the milling and mercantile business until he came to Kansas. He was married in 1847 to Miss Hannah Sycks, of Perry County, Ohio. They have eight children, John A., Francis E., Phoeba S., Dora A., George W. Jr., Margaret W., U. S. Grant and Charles L. He is a member of the Masonic Order and is a Republican.
The Engineering Magazine
April 1911
George W. Perkins
1905-1981
Steel Great Lakes bulk freighter
Built at Superior WI by Superior Shipbuilding Co., Hull 512
Launched June 26, 1905
With Elbert H. Gary, William E. Corey and Henry C. Frick longest vessel on the Great Lakes (until J. Pierpont Morgan and Henry H. Rogers of 1906 — superseded Augustus B. Wolvin of 1904)
569’ LOA, 549’ LBP, 56’ beam, 31’ depth
1 deck, arch cargo hold construction, hatches @ 12’, coal-fired boilers, triple expansion engine, 1800 IHP
Enrolled at Marquette MI July 3, 1905 (#1)
558.2 x 56.0 x 26.5, 6406 GT, 4922 NT US 202166 to:
Superior Shipbuilding Co.
Reenrolled at Duluth MN July 8, 1905 (#2) to:
Pittsburgh Steamship Co., Cleveland OH, Harry Coulby, Mgr. (home port Duluth MN)
Entered service July 1905
Rebuilt 1943 at Conneaut OH. Hatches to 24’ centers with hatch crane.
Remeasured to 556.2 x 56.2 x 26.5, 6553 GT, 5452 NT
Fleet reincorporated 1949 in Delaware (home port to Wilmington DE)
Fleet merged July 1951 into parent United States Steel Corporation (home port to New York NY)
Sold 1964 to Redwood Enterprises Ltd., Hamilton ON, Westdale Shipping Ltd., Mgr. (home port to Hamilton Bermuda) and renamed Westdale (2)
Enrolled British at 556.8 x 56.2 x 26.3, 7584 GT, 5440 NT Br 317133
Enrollment transferred to Canada 1966 Can 317133 (home port to Hamilton ON)
Transferred 1969 to International Cruising Co.
Transferred 1971 to Reoch Transports Ltd.
Boilers converted to oil firing 1973
Transferred 1976 to Dale Transports Ltd.
Sold 1977 to Pierson Steamships Ltd. (the Soo River Co.), Mississauga ON, Westdale Shipping Ltd., Mgr. and renamed H. C. Heimbecker.
Suffered cracked boiler late Oct 1981 downbound with grain for Owen Sound ON. Continued voyage, unloaded cargo at Owen Sound and cleared Oct 29 for Ashtabula OH (stopping at Goderich ON to send ashore the body of a crew member who died aboard ship). Traded to Triad Salvage Co., Ashtabula for str. Maxine, which they had just acquired at auction. Scrapped at Ashtabula.
See history in Detroit Marine Historian Dec 1981 (#222)
Also in Great Lakes Ships We Remember II p. 263
-Vessel Histories of Sterling Berry
Mounted on the wall in the porch
"An Incendiary Bomb
Scores of these were dropped on Clyst St George on the night of August 31st 1940 destroying several houses in the village and the rectory stables. One dropped inside the church organ
setting fire to the church that was completely burnt out." www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/84SXd8svhe The present building was rebuilt & consecrated anew in July 1952 www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/T1Su17E4t3
= Church of St George, Clyst St George, Devon
Picture with thanks - copyright Robin Drayton CCL www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1309389
Company C, 24th Massachusetts Infantry
History of Allen and Woodson Counties, Kansas: embellished with portraits of well known people of these counties, with biographies of our representative citizens, cuts of public buildings and a map of each county / Edited and Compiled by L. Wallace Duncan and Chas. F. Scott. Iola Registers, Printers and Binders, Iola, Kan.: 1901
GEORGE MENTZER.
The veteran scildier who risked his life in defense of the flag, all things else being equal, takes high rank as a citizen. This may be partly because of the quality of the patriatism of the American public, but there is another reason for the pre-eminence of the veteran. The man who has the form of character to win distinction as a faithful defender of his country possesses the resourceful perserverance so necessary to success in olher fields, and this is abundantly verified in the life of George Mentzer,. wlio loyally followed the starry banner during the Civil war and is now one of the enterprising and properous agriculturists of Woodson county, where he has ma,hj his home since 1869.
A native of Stowe, Massachusetts, he was born June 12. 1838, and is son of Phillip A. and Orinda (Miles) Mentzer. The father, a native of Germany, died in .Massachusetts in 1844, and his widow was buried by the side of her hiishami oii the old home place in the Bay state. Tliey had
ten children, but only three are now living: Rufus, of Et. Morgan, Colorado; Mrs. Sarah A. Green, of Boston. Massachusetts, and George of this review.
The last named was reared in his native village until sixteen years of age, when he emigrated to Illinois and became a farm hand, being employed in that capacity for about two years. He then went to Chicago, where he secured a situation as clerk in a grocery store, aha acting as assistant in a butchering establishment. Upon leaving the city he returned to Massachusetts to visit his mother and while there he learned the trade of a comb maker, the combs being manufactured from the horns of cattle. He also improved his literary education by attending school. He was still in his native state when the Civil war broke out and there he enlisted as a member of company C. Twenty-fourth Massaehusetts infantry, which was sent to Annapolis and on to North Carolina and thence to South Carolina, being discharged in front of Petersburg, Virginia. iVmong the important engagements in which he participated were the battles of Roanoke Island, Newberne. White Hall Goldsboro. Kingston. Bermuda Hundred and Petersburg. He did duty in front of the Rebel fort which was blown up by a Pennsylvania regiment. In all of his three years' service he was never wounded, but was always found at his post of duty faithfully defending the starry banner— the emblem of an undivided union.
When the war was ended Mr. Mentzer returned to Massachusetts and spent the succeeding winter in Boston, after which he turned his attention to farming. He then again made his way to Illinois, where, prior to the war. he had aided in establishing the first hotel in Kewaunee. He remained a resident of Henry county and was engaged in the butchering business until 1869, when he came to Wondson county, Kansas, settling on section six. Center township, where he has fince made his home, his labors being given to the improvement of his farm. He now has a rich tract of land, the alluvial soil yielding good harvests for the work bestowed upon it.
In Henry county, Illinois. Mr. Mentzer was vmited in marriage to Miss Emeline Minnick. a daughter of John Minnick, a Pennsylvania German, who had a family of five daughters and one son. The wedding of Mr. and Mrs. Mentzer was celehrated on the 1st of January, 1867. and they are now the parents of eight children, as follows : Charles 0., who married Nettie Wells: John F., who married Anna AVells : Susie May: Henry A.: Phillip E., who is now a student of the State Agricultural College of Kanisas: Ernest E. : Clara E. and Clarence A. Although the Mentzer family
have usually been Republicans, George Mentzer cast his first presidential vote for the Democratic nominee in 1860. and is now a Prohibitionist. He believes most firmly in the abolishment of the liquor traffic through acts of legislation, and he is the type of citizens who support all measures to advance the moral welfare of the community.
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George KISS (1830-1882)
Extract from Australian Men of Mark, 1888-9
"SKETCH is given in this notice of the career of a successful colonist, drawn from the old yeoman farmer class of England, whose name was for years a household word amongst breeders of horses and stock in New South Wales. It is the story of a man who made his prosperity by hard work and ceaseless activity, and it conveys an idea of what the typical emigrant or settler in these colonies was expected to be, to command success and be of use in the land of his adoption.
George Kiss was born in Warwickshire, England, in 1830. His father was a well-to-do farmer in that county, and having received a good business education, he passed through a sound practical farmer's training under his father's eye, and afterwards entered formally on that pursuit. While so engaged he had the good fortune to meet with a returned colonist in the person of the late Mr. Fairfax, the founder of the Sydney Morning Herald newspaper, and from him he received such a promising account of the colony of New South Wales, and its resources and opportunities, that he began seriously to entertain the idea of emigration thither.
In the meantime he married - in 1850 - Miss Toward, an engaging young Scottish lady, and daughter of a Glasgow merchant. Shortly afterwards he again met Mr. Fairfax on that gentleman's second visit home, and the question of emigration was again discussed. Since their first conversation on the subject gold had been discovered in New South Wales and Victoria, and the fame of the colonies spread throughout the English-speaking world. But Mr. Fairfax wisely advised his young friend to forego the first-formed project of gold-seeking, for something safer, and recommended him to take with him some hackney carriages and open livery stables in Sydney. The suggestion was not received favourably at first by the spirited young yeoman, but wiser counsels in the end prevailed, and Mr. Fairfax assisted him to select the kind of carriages specially suited to Australian wants.
Mr. Kiss and his devoted young wife reached Sydney in 1852, and he at once began business in Surry Hills. He was the first to introduce to general use in the colony that comfortable and convenient mode of conveyance, the hansom cab. His business supplied a want, and Mr. Kiss prospered until, when Mr. Burt's well-known livery stables and horse bazaar in Pitt-street were sold, he became the purchaser, and in a few years attained a large and lucrative connection. His extensive sales were attended with so much success that his name as a salesman became widely known in stock circles throughout the colonies.
In the issue of the old Sydney Empire for 2nd May 1871 may be found a long account of Mr. Kiss's first sale of thoroughbred yearlings, in which ample testimony is borne to the auctioneer's popularity and success. From this his onward career was a most successful one. In 1875 he was elected one of the Aldermen of the Borough of Randwick, and shortly afterwards became Mayor. In 1879 the corporation of that municipality presented Mr. Kiss with an elaborate address, and tendered him a banquet on the occasion of his approaching visit to England. The leading paper in his native country greeted his visit with a glowing account of his colonial career, urging others to follow in his footsteps.
On returning to Sydney he quietly pursued his private business, and carried out his intention of making his house and grounds at " Ventnor," Randwick, one of the most attractive residences about Sydney. But as soon as his work was done, and before he had time to enjoy its fruits, he was carried off by illness, in the fifty-second year of his age. The Warwick paper before alluded to published an appreciative notice of the deceased, as an old resident of the county, and quoted at length from the Sydney Morning Herald in testimony of his successor as a colonist. We give the extract in full :-"
" Death of an Old Warwick Resident.
In our obituary of this week we have to record the death, on the 13th August last, of Mr. George Kiss, third son of the late Mr. Thomas Kiss, of Hampton Lodge, and brother of Mr. John Kiss, of Hampton-street. The deceased left Warwick about thirty years ago, and with his young wife went to seek his fortune in our great Australian colony. How far he succeeded the following from the Sydney Morning Herald of 15th August last (1882) will show :- Mr. George Kiss, who died on Sunday, at his residence, 'Ventnor,' Randwick, was one who had made himself by his business capacity and untiring energy a prominent position in Sydney. He was a native of Warwick, and soon after his arrival in the colony laid the foundation of the business with which his name is associated.
He took a lively interest in municipal matters, and displayed so much ability and administrative power that for two years he enjoyed the position of Mayor of Randwick, and at the time of his death was an Alderman of that borough. Mr. Kiss, in failing health, came over here last year to try what effect a change of climate would have upon his impaired health. A banquet was given him before setting out by his neighbours and friends, and hopes expressed for his recovery and safe return. He remained in Warwick all the summer months, and returned much improved, but his health again gave way, and he died in the bosom of his family in the fifty-third year of his age, and deservedly respected and esteemed by all who knew him."
Australian Men of Mark 1889, vol.2
Centre Georges Pompidou (French pronunciation: [sɑ̃tʁ ʒɔʁʒ pɔ̃pidu]; commonly shortened to Centre Pompidou; also known as the Pompidou Centre in English) is a complex in the Beaubourg area of the 4th arrondissement of Paris, near Les Halles, rue Montorgueil and the Marais. It was designed in the style of high-tech architecture.
George Eliot Triptych by n4t4
Spray paint on wooden boards
The original central piece, the portrait of Mary Ann Evans, was done as a one day demonstration piece created in Ropewalk Shopping Centre, in Nuneaton for an event run, a few years ago, by the local art group, Art Alert. I was pleased when I found out that the piece had been donated to the hospital and was, until recently, on display in the maternity wing.
The Arts Co-ordinator at the Hospital approached me about making the piece into a triptych by painting two additional panels, and moving the work for display into the George Eliot Training & Education Centre.
I have tried to keep a nostalgic look to the work and, as requested, I have incorporated a little bit of Nuneaton’s hospital history (taken from Nuneaton Hospitals ‘The First Hundred Years’ written by Dr Jennifer Burton and Dr John Bland) this also shows how, over the years, the hospital has become a big part of the communities it serves.
I have used a lot of gold because I wanted to play with the idea of the triptych and its classical use in religious church icon painting. The gold also makes use of the natural reflective light coming through the big window to the left of the artwork, as the light hits the wall very directly the stencils are layered up using different golds in order that different patterns will emerge as the sunlight moves throughout the day.
My intent was to create a sense of nostalgia, narrative and some of the hope and belief behind the history; an image that works in the space and stands up to repeat viewing.
In the first panel at the bottom is the "college for the poor" the workhouse, the place for the old and infirm that offered some form of health service. George Eliot would have been aware of this formidable building because her father was the church warden for the Coton area of Nuneaton. She recalls the college in "Scenes of Clerical Life".
Above is a portrait of Dr Edward Noel Nason, the driving force behind the establishment of a hospital in Nuneaton. Above him is the Nuneaton General Hospital that opened in 1893 along Manor Park Road, which became the Manor Hospital that closed a hundred years later and services were transferred up to the George Eliot Hospital site.
The central piece is a portrait of Mary Ann Evans, or George Eliot. She wrote with a keen eye for detail and had a great knack of observing and recounting; a lot of her material was based around people and places of Nuneaton. There is a reference to "Mill on the Floss" in the bottom of the panel. Mary Ann Evans was a brilliant thinker, writer, feminist and, in her time, a strong rational voice for social and health care reform.
The last panel, at the top is the 1933 General Hospital Nurses Badge, the year the first student nurses in Nuneaton became qualified. Beneath the Nurses Badge is a portrait of Alice Nason wife of Edward, she was responsible for much of the initial setting up of the hospital, she also ran the Nuneaton Maternity Committee. Below that is the old clock face and rooftops from Nuneaton town centre, herons can be seen flying past every now and again as they follow the river Anker through the town.
I really enjoyed painting this piece, the Arts Co-ordinator was very helpful both with assisting with my research and providing materials and space, my two nights of painting away in a hidden part of the hospital was ideal for getting my creativity flowing.