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William Lowell Putnam III [1] (October 25, 1924 – December 20, 2014) was an alpinist, author and retired broadcasting executive.He was Trustee Emeritus of the Lowell Observatory, a private astronomical research facility.
Ruth Putnam (18 July 1856, Yonkers, New York – 12 February 1931, Geneva, Switzerland) was an author, suffragist, and alumni trustee of Cornell University. [1]One of eleven children of the publisher George Palmer Putnam and his wife Victorine Haven Putnam, she received her bachelor's degree in 1878 from Cornell University (in 1873 Emma Sheffield Eastman had been the first woman to graduate ...
Putnam also cited Americans' growing distrust in their government. Putnam accepted the possibility that this lack of trust could be attributed to "the long litany of political tragedies and scandals since the 1960s", [1] but believed that this explanation was limited when viewing it alongside other "trends in civic engagement of a wider sort". [1]
In this patent Putnam states being from New York but formally from Cleveland, Ohio. The Putnam Lightning stopper saw widespread use as a means to hold externally inserted corks into blob top [clarification needed] soda bottles. On September 10, 1878 a patent (#207,982) was issued for an “Improvement in Bottle Stoppers and Bottle Fasteners ...
In 1955, Putnam wrote her senior thesis at Vassar College, "A Proposed Student Conservation Corps". The idea, modeled after the federal Civilian Conservation Corps program (1933–42), was to take the burden of labor-intensive jobs such as entrance fee collecting or trail work from the National Park Service and shift to the proposed SCC.
Putnam County is a county located in the central portion of the U.S. state of Georgia.As of the 2020 census, the population was 22,047. [1] The county seat is Eatonton. [2]Since the early 21st century, the county has had a housing boom.
To save the boat and his family from harm, Sylvester Ploof moored his boat to the dock at Henry Putnam's vacation home on Birch Island. [1] [2] After doing so, Putnam's caretaker, Albert Williams, unmoored the Ploof boat, allowing it to be dashed against the shore, destroying the boat and its contents. [1] The Ploof family was injured, too.
Bertha Haven Putnam (1872 – February 26, 1960) was an American historian, specialising on the judicial and administrative history of medieval England. Putnam grew up in Philadelphia, the daughter of George Haven Putnam , author and publisher, and son of the publisher George Palmer Putnam .