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See also:LONG See also:ISLAND See also:CITY , formerly a city of Queens See also:county, New See also:York, U.S.A., and since the 1st of See also:January 1898 the first See also:- WARD
- WARD, ADOLPHUS WILLIAM (1837- )
- WARD, ARTEMUS
- WARD, EDWARD MATTHEW (1816-1879)
- WARD, ELIZABETH STUART PHELPS (1844-1911)
- WARD, JAMES (1769--1859)
- WARD, JAMES (1843– )
- WARD, JOHN QUINCY ADAMS (1830-1910)
- WARD, LESTER FRANK (1841– )
- WARD, MARY AUGUSTA [MRS HUMPHRY WARD]
- WARD, WILLIAM (1766-1826)
- WARD, WILLIAM GEORGE (1812-1882)
ward of the See also:- BOROUGH (A.S. nominative burh, dative byrig, which produces some of the place-names ending in bury, a sheltered or fortified place, the camp of refuge of a tribe, the stronghold of a chieftain; cf. Ger. Burg, Fr. bor, bore, bourg)
- BOROUGH [BURROUGH, BURROWE, BORROWS], STEVEN (1525–1584)
Borough of Queens, New York City. Pop. (188o) 17,129, (1890) 30,506, (1900) 48,272, of whom 15,899 were See also:foreign-See also:born. It has a See also:river front, on See also:East river and Long Island See also:Sound, of
10 m., and is the eastern terminal and the headquarters of the Long Island railway, having a large Y.M.C.A. See also:building (the See also:gift of Mrs See also:- RUSSELL (FAMILY)
- RUSSELL, ISRAEL COOK (1852- )
- RUSSELL, JOHN (1745-1806)
- RUSSELL, JOHN (d. 1494)
- RUSSELL, JOHN RUSSELL, 1ST EARL (1792-1878)
- RUSSELL, JOHN SCOTT (1808–1882)
- RUSSELL, LORD WILLIAM (1639–1683)
- RUSSELL, SIR WILLIAM HOWARD
- RUSSELL, THOMAS (1762-1788)
- RUSSELL, WILLIAM CLARK (1844– )
Russell See also:Sage) for employees of this railway. Among manufactures are chemicals, pottery, See also:varnish, See also:silk, &c., and there are oil-storage warehouses. Most of the borough offices of
Queens borough are in Long Island City, which was formerly
the county-seat of Queens county. The first See also:settlement within
the limits of what subsequently became Long Island City was
made in 164o by a Dutch blacksmith, Hendrick Harmensen,
who soon afterward was murdered by an See also:Indian. Other settlers,
both Dutch and See also:English, soon followed, and established detached
villages, which became known as See also:Hunter's Point, Blissville,
See also:Astoria, Ravenswood, Dutch Kills, See also:Middleton and Steinway.
In 1853 this See also:group of villages, by that See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time virtually one See also:corn. munity, was called Long Island City, and it was formally incorporated under that name in 187o. In 1871–1872 the city was laid out by a See also:commission of which See also:General W. B. See also:Franklin was See also:president. See also:Political convictions, economic considerations and fear combined to make the residents in this region largely loyalist in their attitude during the See also:War of See also:Independence. From 1776 to 1783 See also:British troops occupied See also:Newtown, a See also:village to the S.E. In January 1776 the See also:committee on the See also:state of New York in See also:Congress reported a See also:resolution that "Whereas a See also:majority of the inhabitants of Queens county, in the See also:colony of New York, being incapable of resolving to live and See also:die See also:free men, . . . all such persons as voted against sending deputies to the See also:present See also:convention in New York . . . be put out of the See also:protection of the See also:United Colonies," &c., an See also:action which led to the See also:arrest and imprisonment of many of the accused persons.
See J. S. Kelsey, See also:History of Long Island City (Long Island City, 1896).
End of Article: LONG ISLAND CITY
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