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Selasa, 27 Desember 2011

REUBEN NOBLE FROM McGREGOR, IOWA

REUBEN NOBLE was born on the 14th of April, 1821, in Adams County, Mississippi, where his father was a planter.  The father was opposed to human slavery and in 1833 removed to Illinois to rear his family in a free State.  When the son was eighteen years of age he began to study law and was admitted to the bar at twenty-one.  In 1843 he came to Iowa, making his home at Garnavillo, in Clayton County.  In 1854 he was elected as a free soil Whig to the Legislature and upon the organization of the House was chosen Speaker, serving in the regular and extra sessions of 1854-5-6.  At the first Republican Stare Convention of 1856 Reuben Noble was placed at the head of the ticket for presidential elector.  Four years later he was a delegate to the National Convention which nominated Abraham Lincoln for President. To full story please visit http://iagenweb.org/history/hoi/hointoobios.htm#nobler

Selasa, 07 Juni 2011

YACOB LUGT


Yocob Lught is a military secondhand, successful entrepreneur and owner of Hotel  Des Indes, Netherland Indie. He buy that hotel at the price of f 177 thousand date 1 March 1888. When Dutch experience of the economic crisis, Lught also go broke and have to deliver its properties to NV Hotel des Indes of 26 April 1898. As reward from transfer of capital to N.V for the price of f 300 thousand, he get 10 share class-C for the price of f 100. share f 1000 asked by Lught in the form of cash. Then he disappear.

(Source : Ensiklopedia Jakarta, Budaya dan Warisan, Jakarta.go.id)