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  2. Battle of Bunker Hill - Wikipedia

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    It also prompted Putnam's son Daniel Putnam to defend his father using a letter of thanks written by George Washington, and statements from Colonel John Trumbull and Judge Thomas Grosvenor in Putnam's defense. [94] Historian Harold Murdock wrote that Dearborn's account "abounds in absurd misstatements and amazing flights of imagination."

  3. Killings of Russell and Shirley Dermond - Wikipedia

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    Russell Joseph Dermond, a native of Hackensack, New Jersey, served in the United States Navy during World War II. [2] He married Shirley Wilcox on December 15, 1950. They went on to have four children and nine grandchildren. After working in the fast food industry, including owning several Hardee's locations in Atlanta, Russell retired in 1994.

  4. Joseph Duncan (politician) - Wikipedia

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    Joseph Duncan (February 22, 1794 – January 15, 1844) was an Illinois politician. He served as the sixth Governor of Illinois from 1834 to 1838, the only Whig to ever govern the state. Before becoming governor he served four terms in the United States House of Representatives as a Democrat .

  5. No Laughing Matter (book) - Wikipedia

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    No Laughing Matter is a 1986 book co-authored by Joseph Heller and Speed Vogel. The book covers Heller's struggle with Guillain–Barré syndrome from 1981 to 1982, as well as the experience of Vogel, Heller's longtime friend, helping with Heller's rehabilitation and serving as his public face during that time. Heller and Vogel wrote ...

  6. Rufus Putnam - Wikipedia

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    Rufus Putnam (April 9, 1738 – May 4, 1824) was an American military officer who fought during the French and Indian War and the American Revolutionary War.As an organizer of the Ohio Company of Associates, he was instrumental in the initial colonization by the United States of former Native American, English, and French lands in the Northwest Territory in present-day Ohio following the war.

  7. Cady-Copp House - Wikipedia

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    The Putnam Heights area was settled in 1708. Its first minister was dismissed in 1741, and a second was appointed in 1750. Sometime between these two dates, the Cady-Copp House was built by Joseph Cady for his daughter Damaris, who was marrying the Perley Howe, the second minister. After he died, she remarried the next minister.

  8. Salem Witch Trials (film) - Wikipedia

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    Salem Witch Trials is a 2003 American-Canadian historical drama miniseries directed by Joseph Sargent and starring Kirstie Alley and Alan Bates. It is a dramatization of the Salem witch trials . [ 1 ] [ 2 ]

  9. Boston Brahmin - Wikipedia

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    Joseph Putnam Bradlee (1783–1838), Commander of the New England Guards, chairman of the State Central Committee, Director and then President of the Boston City Council. Samuel Bradlee Jr., lieutenant colonel during the American Revolutionary War.