Word: ticonderoga
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...daybreak, with service ammunition, to check the accuracy of the tpographical operations by which the guns were pointed at their respective targets. The rigors of field service were profusely illustrated on the night of July 30-31st when the Harvard-Yale Battery marched, by truck convey, to Fort Ticonderoga and bivouaced for the night beside the old stone ramparts. It was the first night spent in the open with only pup-tents overhead. Mother Nature celebrated the occasion with a generous baptism of cloudbursts, first from the east, then from the west, and some claim that it rained...
...veteran of the French & Indian Wars, who mortgaged his farm in order to send his promising son to college at Yale. The Revolution did not interrupt Noah's education: what soldiering he did was a holiday task. One summer he marched with his father and two brothers to Ticonderoga to help repel Burgoyne's invasion, was too late to see any fighting. After his graduation his father gave him an eight-dollar Continental bill (worth about two in silver) and sent him out to make his own way. He taught school, studied law, sashayed into Hartford society-where...
...engage in business. But last week Bishop Joseph H. Conroy of Ogdensburg, N. Y. felt justified in stretching the letter of the law to permit one of his priests to become a bank president. Belgian-born, Rev. Cyril Stevens, 65, has for 21 years been pastor of small Ticonderoga's only Catholic church, St. Mary's. When Ticonderoga's National Bank looked shaky during the Bank Holiday of 1933, Father Stevens it was-his church being a stockholder and large depositor-who singlehanded saved the bank. The small, dynamic priest buttonholed Ticonderogans, bluntly demanded or cleverly cajoled...
...back'' style to provide air and light. He designed the Seaboard National Bank in New York (Seaboard Pres ident Samuel Bayne is his father-in-law), the Magnolia Petroleum Building in Dallas, Tex. Other important Bossom commissions in the U. S. included the restoration of Fort Ticonderoga for ex-Congress man Herbert C. Pell. In Britain he is a member of the London County Council and chairman of the Committee of the Royal Society of Arts for the Preservation of Ancient Cottages. The Bossoms may plant Genesis, obviously unsuitable for an Ancient Cottage, in their own garden...
...friend who lived, I believe, at Madison, Wis. whose grandfather was with Ethan Allen at the time referred to. Mr. Todd told me that he had often heard his grandfather say that what Ethan Allen really said when he demanded the surrender of Fort Ticonderoga was, "Come out of there, you damned old rats...