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The Frank E. Campbell Funeral Chapel is a funeral home located on Madison Avenue at 81st Street in Manhattan. Founded in 1898 as Frank E. Campbell Burial and Cremation Company, the company is now owned by Service Corporation International. Frank E. Campbell is known for handling many celebrity deaths and funerals including those of John Lennon ...
George Junius Stinney Jr. (October 21, 1929 – June 16, 1944) was an African American boy who, at the age of 14, was convicted and then executed in a proceeding later vacated as an unfair trial for the murders of two young white girls in March 1944 – Betty June Binnicker, age 11, and Mary Emma Thames, age 8 – in his hometown of Alcolu, South Carolina.
In 1985 Loewen Group went public and, in 1987, the company expanded into the United States. In the years that followed, Loewen rapidly expanded his company, purchasing hundreds of small independent funeral homes. By the mid-90s, the company had 15,000 employees and operated 1,115 funeral homes and was the world's second-largest funeral chain.
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (/ r ɛ n s ə ˈ l ɪər /; RPI) is a private research university in Troy, New York, with an additional campus in Hartford, Connecticut.A third campus in Groton, Connecticut, closed in 2018.
In 1800, the Benevolent Society of Troy to Assist Indigent Women and Children was founded in Troy, New York. The Society opened the Troy Orphan Asylum in 1833. The name was changed to Vanderheyden Hall in 1942, and today the organization is known as simply "Vanderheyden." Across the river in Watervliet, the Fairview Home for Friendless Children ...
The Record (also known as The Troy Record) is a broadsheet daily newspaper once published in Troy, New York. The paper has been published regularly since 1896. [2] It covers all of New York's Capital Region and specifically the city of Troy. On September 1, 2005, The Record changed from a traditional broadsheet layout to a tabloid format ...
Central Troy Historic District. / 42.72750°N 73.69083°W / 42.72750; -73.69083. The Central Troy Historic District is an irregularly shaped, 96-acre (39 ha) area of downtown Troy, New York, United States. It has been described as "one of the most perfectly preserved 19th-century downtowns in the [country]" [3] with nearly 700 ...
Branch Insurance, a startup offering bundled home and auto insurance, has raised $50 million in a Series B funding round led by Anthemis Group. Acrew, Cherry Creek Holdings and existing backers ...