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    Cyrus West Field (November 30, 1819 – July 12, 1892) was an American businessman and financier who, along with other entrepreneurs, created the Atlantic...
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  • Field after Cyrus W. Field, a Chicago businessman who had visited recently on a special train. Difficult grades exist in both directions from Field,...
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    Spurgin (MP-14) (1943) Col. Charles W. Bundy (MP-15) (1943) Col. George Ricker (MP-16) (1943) Note [A]Cyrus W. Field was a Signal Corps ship closely associated...
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    $5,000 pension granted by Congress (equivalent to $157,862 in 2023), Cyrus W. Field saw to the creation of a donation drive for her and her children that...
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    Cyrus II of Persia (Old Persian: 𐎤𐎢𐎽𐎢𐏁 Kūruš; c. 600–530 BC), commonly known as Cyrus the Great, was the founder of the Achaemenid Persian Empire...
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    Ardsley Park came from Diane Druin Gravlee, great-great-granddaughter of Cyrus W. Field. "FACT SHEET- Saw Mill River at Elmsford and Greenburgh > New York District...
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  • Marsellaise. Das erste Wort über den Ozean (The First Word Across the Ocean). Cyrus W. Field establishes the first Trans-Oceanic cable. Die Flucht zu Gott (The Flight...
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    Places in 2006. The monument was constructed in 1879 by millionaire Cyrus W. Field. It was dedicated on October 2, 1879. It was quite controversial when...
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    named in 1884 after Cyrus West Field, an American merchant who had laid the first Atlantic cable, 1858, a second in 1866; Mr. Field was visiting the Canadian...
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  • Cyrus Field Willard (August 17, 1858 – January 17, 1942) was an American journalist, political activist, and theosophist. Deeply influenced by the writing...
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    December 1946) Gen. E. O. C. Ord Gen. John M. Schofield Cable ships Cyrus W. Field and Joseph Henry were associated with mine cable work and next generation...
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    Meeting of Merchants at the Chamber of Commerce—Interesting Addresses by Cyrus W. Field, Peter Cooper, E.E. Morgan, the Mayor, A.A. Low and others—Subscriptions...
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    Wisconsin Historical Society holds Cyrus McCormick's papers. The Cyrus McCormick Farm, operated by other family members after Cyrus and Leander moved to Chicago...
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    David J. Brewer (category Field family)
    justice of the U.S. Supreme Court), Cyrus W. Field (who developed the trans-Atlantic cable), and Henry M. Field (a clergyman).: 1–2 : 1515–1516  The...
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  • Radcliffe Publishing. p. 11. ISBN 978-1-85775-750-7. Sawyer, L. A. and Mitchell, W. H. The Liberty Ships: The History of the "Emergency" Type Cargo Ships Constructed...
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    cable across the Atlantic Ocean, the first such telecommunications link. Cyrus Field, American businessman and financier, set his sights on laying the first...
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    1853 he went to New York City, where in 1854 he became associated with Cyrus W. Field. On the organization of the New York, Newfoundland, and London Telegraph...
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  • Miley Cyrus & Her Dead Petz is the fifth studio album by American singer-songwriter Miley Cyrus. It was originally released independently on August 30...
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    Untermyer Park. The village of Ardsley takes its name from the estate of Cyrus W. Field, who owned 780 acres (3.2 km2) of land lying between Broadway (Dobbs...
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    order before the end of the year. This receivership was over by 1886. Cyrus W. Field had become a major figure behind the NY&NE by 1886 but after the state...
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    Washington Platner. He also became associated with telegraph entrepreneur Cyrus W. Field. They grew the business throughout the 1837 crisis and became leaders...
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    Schell, though he still made contributions to the paper. In late 1881 Cyrus West Field acquired the Express (which had a coveted New York Associated Press...
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  • Fieldia (named after American businessman and financier Cyrus W. Field) is a genus of worms known from the Cambrian Burgess Shale, and assigned to the...
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    31. After serving with Field Company A, Truesdell departed Fort Omaha in November 1912 to assume command of USAMP Cyrus W. Field, an army cable laying...
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    lived in Irvington's Half Moon apartment complex in his later life; Cyrus W. Field, who laid the first transatlantic telegraph cable, who once owned 800...
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    The Tomb of Cyrus the Great (Persian: آرامگاه کوروش بزرگ, Ârâmgâh-e Kuroš-e Bozorg) is the final resting place of Cyrus the Great, the founder of the...
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    and Albert W. Bee, Sr. was elected as a director. At 10 pm on October 26, 1861, this message from San Francisco was received by Cyrus W. Field in New York...
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    inventor Stephen D. Field, nephew of pioneer Cyrus W. Field, and founder of the first electric railroad operated as a business. Field also challenged Thomas...
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  • praised its production and originality but were divided on Cyrus' provocative image. It became Cyrus' fifth number-one album on the US Billboard 200, and was...
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    with Senator Elizur Smith, his brother, and telegraph entrepreneur Cyrus W. Field, who founded the Atlantic Telegraph Company. The venture was in Russell...
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