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Frederick Hastings Rindge (1857-1905) was a Californian businessman, philanthropist, and writer, and major benefactor to his home town of Cambridge, Massachusetts. State nickname: The Golden State Other U.S. States Capital Sacramento Largest city Los Angeles Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger (R) Official languages English Area 410,000 km² (3rd) - Land 404,298 km² - Water 20,047 km² (4. ...
City Hall - Cambridge MA Cambridge is a city in the Greater Boston area of Massachusetts, United States. ...
Rindge was born in Cambridge in 1857, the only surviving son of the six children of Clarissa (Harrington) and Samuel Baker Rindge. He grew up in the "Rindge mansion," still standing at the corner of Dana and Harvard Streets in Cambridge, entered Harvard College in 1875 and graduated in 1890, then spent several years traveling through Europe and America, including a brief period as a Colorado sheep rancher. In 1883 he inherited his father's estate, then worth nearly $3 million. Today Harvard College is the undergraduate portion of Harvard University. ...
In 1887, Mayor William Eustis Russell of Cambridge, a Harvard friend, requested Rindge's help in funding a new public library. Rindge responded in July 1887 with and offer of land and full funding for Cambridge's library. Later that year he enlarged his offer to the three additional buildings: a new city hall (now the Cambridge City Hall, a Manual Training School (now Cambridge Rindge and Latin School), and a proposed high school (not built). Today Rindge is commemorated in Cambridge through the high school, Rindge Avenue, Rindgefield Road, and Rindge Towers, a public housing project. William Eustis Russell (1857 - 1896) was a U.S. political figure. ...
Name Cambridge Ringe and Latin Address 459 Broadway Town Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138 Established See Article Community Urban Type Public Secondary Religion Secular Students Coeducational Grades 9 to 12 Accreditation New England Association of Schools and Colleges (NEASC) District Cambridge Public School District Nickname CRLS or Rindge Mascot Falcon Colors Black...
Also in 1887 Rindge married 22 year old Rhoda May Knight of Michigan, and they moved to 1941 W. 25th Street and then 2263 Harvard Boulevard in Los Angeles, California; both are now historic monuments. There they had three children: Samuel Knight Rindge, Frederick Hastings Rindge, Jr., and Rhoda Agatha Rindge. In 1892 Rindge purchased the 13,330 acre (54 km²) Spanish Land Grant named "Rancho Topanga Malibu Simi Sequit" or "Malibu Rancho", in Malibu, California, for the reputed figure of $300,000. He later expanded it to 17,000 acres (69 km²) as Rindge Ranch. The Rindges also had a vacation home in Marblehead, Massachusetts. The City of Los Angeles (from Spanish Los Ãngeles , meaning the angels), also known as L.A., is the second-largest city in the United States in terms of population, as well as one of the worlds most important economic, cultural, and entertainment centers. ...
Malibu � uma cidade situada em ocidental [ [ condado, Calif�rnia de Los Angeles ] ]. Como [ [ 2000 ] ] do census, a cidade teve uma popula��o total de 12. ...
Marblehead, founded in 1629, is a town located in Essex County, Massachusetts. ...
Rindge founded the Conservative Life Insurance Company (now Pacific Life), and was a vice-president of Union Oil Company, a director of the Los Angeles Edison Electric Company (later Southern California Edison Company), and President of the Harvard Club of Los Angeles. His investments included land near Stockton, California and real estate holdings in the San Fernando Valley, Los Angeles, and the state of Sinaloa, Mexico. The Unocal Corporation (NYSE: UCL), based in El Segundo, California, was founded in 1890 as the Union Oil Company of California. ...
City nickname: Californias Sunshine Seaport County: San Joaquin Area code: 209 ZIP code: 952xx Area: - Total - Water 144. ...
San Fernando Valley The San Fernando Valley is an urbanized valley in southern California, lying mostly within the city limits of Los Angeles. ...
This article is about the largest city in California. ...
Sinaloa is the name of a city, a municipality and a state in Mexico. ...
Selected works
- Happy Days in Southern California (1898)
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