Word: coast
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...funds prevented him from entering. He established himself as a commission merchant in Boston, and in 1841 was appointed Principal Appraiser of the port of Boston. This position he hied until 1853, when he was appointed Appraiser General at San Francisco, where he was head of the whole Pacific coast department. In 1871 he retired from public life. He was all his life a generous and active philanthrophist. To his native town of Dresden, Me., he gave over $12,000 for the promotion of its religious, educational and charitable interests...
Leland Stanford, Jr., University will have the only summer school on the Pacific coast this summer...
Leland Stanford, Jr., University will this year open a summer school, the first of its kind on the Pacific coast...
...Wrenn, '95, won both the tournament finals and the gulf coast champion, ship Saturday, defeating Hobart in the finals and A. E. Wright in the championship match...
...Such a canal would be of national importance and hence should be a national undertaking. - (a) Political advantages. - (1) The canal would unite more closely our Pacific and Atlantic coasts. - (2) It would furnish a strategic point for naval operations: J. F. I. CXXXIV, 128. - (b) Commercial advantages. - (1) It would develop the Pacific coast. - (2) It would stimulate our commerce by opening new markets in South America and Japan; Warner Miller, Forum XII 714; Judge Estee in "Proceedings of Nicaragua Canal Convention...